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P.A.B. No. 8 PROFESSIONAL AUDITOR’S BULLETIN From L. RON HUBBARD Via Hubbard Communications Office 4 Marylebone High Street, London W.1 _____________________________________________________________________ [1953, ca. late August] VIEWPOINT PROCESSING A few weeks ago I was able to tell the various schools of the HAS in an Associate Newsletter not to bother with or work with their extremely tough cases for a little while since I had to hand a process which easily remedied their difficulties. I discovered Viewpoint Processing about the same time as The Factors, but wished to make completely certain of the results to be obtained by Viewpoint Processing and to go on for a few months investigating the possibilities that there might be another even more easily workable process by which the difficult case or any case could be resolved. To give you an entire list of the processes developed and examined and applied for the purposes of test would be a lengthy and at this time unprofitable task. I should, however, for the use of future investigators, give you some outline of the processes developed and investigated. In addition to the developments which you see in the various books and articles I have written on the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology, and which delineate many processes, and in addition to lectures I have made on my investigations and applications in the field of the human mind, I have tested in excess at this date of ten thousand mental combinations of computations, various types of nothingness, facsimiles, postulates, force, perception and other factors designed to alter, enhance or nullify mental conditions. In addition to this purely thought investigation a great many mechanical aids, biochemical combinations of substances, various diets and regimens have either been tested or developed and tested in an effort to resolve endocrine and purely structural problems attendant upon mental and physical deficiencies in an effort to locate in structure a sweepingly simple answer. All of these efforts pointed toward and assisted in the development of the technology and methodology of SOP 8, Short 8, Six Steps for Self-Auditing (SSSA) and techniques evolved directly from the data given as The Factors, the five Pre-Logics and the Axioms and Logics as given in the Handbook for Preclears. Investigation forced one toward the conclusions which follow: The problems of structure and bacteria are best resolved first by a direct address to the mind; second (but first in the case of emergency surgery) mechanical rearrangement of structure; and third, diet and regimen within the tolerances of the body; fourth, the administration of biochemical substances of a preventive, supplementary or curative nature, but only in the presence of obvious and well established acute or chronic illnesses or deficiencies. From the standpoint of technique, it could be said that those techniques which most apply creation and observation produce the best and most rapid effects. Those techniques which employ nullification or eradication are substantially less effective, and those techniques which employ evaluation for the patient or which cause him to combat or shun one phenomenon or another are directly harmful. Techniques which stress viewpoint creativeness, space and action are far superior to techniques which stress ideas or objects. Techniques which bring about anaten in any form or which stress somatics are not in the long run workable above a very low level. Any Copyright(©) 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard. All Rights Reserved. technique which introverts is inferior to a technique which extroverts the attention. The goal of processing could be said to be the restoration of the highest possible level of freedom of attention for the purposes of creation and observation. Emergency mental conditions alone excuse the running of engrams, the use of concepts, matched and double terminals; but such a practice should be altered to unlimited techniques after no more than half an hour. Certainty Processing is apparently the only exception to this rule, but here the ingredient of certainty alone on past, present and future excuses the use of nullification. Some hundreds of tests applying viewpoint attention and other matters to Certainty Processing demonstrate it to be an emergency technique to be employed only to that level where observational creative techniques can be used. The remedying of scarcity and abundance in terms of Creative Processing as represented by SOP 8 (Step IV) is senior to, by far, Double Terminaling, Matched Terminaling and running concepts or Postulate Processing in any form. Restoration of the patient’s ability to evaluate and an eradication of invalidation by restoring his confidence through direct observation are excellent techniques. Auditing failure evidently comes about by the unwillingness on the part of the auditor to have other people “look.” Auditing difficulties are found to lie more generally with the auditor than with the preclear. It could be said generally that an auditor is not in a position to audit unless he can comfortably out of a clear conscience permit other people to observe. The auditor’s own fear of discovery of data in his own life is found to impede the progress of preclears markedly and is the basic reason for auditor fixation upon nullification techniques rather than observational techniques. There are in the process of test four mechanical aids for the treatment of the psychotic which may or may not obviate auditing. Nevertheless such mechanical aids would have to be applied by an auditor. Pending the final testing of these mechanical aids, the auditor is invited to let alone for the time the problem of the psychotic and psychotic patients. But if he does feel called upon to treat the psychotic, his attention is invited to Step VII of SOP 8. It is highly probable that this step, succeeded by as much of the remainder of SOP 8 as can be assimilated, is the only mental treatment in existence for the remedy of psychosis or severe neurosis which will deliver good results without danger of worsening the psychosis. A long investigation of shock treatment by an unbiased investigator financed by myself has resulted in the incontrovertible conclusion that shock treatment of any kind, whether by use of noise, gas, electricity or physical blows, not only worsens but confirms mental derangement and is used in this civilization at this time solely because the level of acceptance of the psychiatrist is a psychotic person, which level of acceptance will not permit a raising of that person into the level of sanity. The use of surgery and shock upon the mentally deranged is bluntly criminal. The recommended battery of techniques for the betterment of the preclear as of this date is as follows: Viewpoint Processing SSSA Certainty Processing SOP 8 Short 8 Formula H SOP 8L Viewpoint Processing is contained in this issue of the PAB. SSSA has been covered in PAB No. 7. Certainty Processing is contained in Appendix 2 for SOP 8 [PAB No. 3]. SOP8 and Short8 are contained in Issue 16-G of the Journal of Scientology. Formula H [PAB No. 9] and SOP 8L will be covered in later PABs. Although viewpoints may be handled in many ways and are best handled purely from observation, there is that case which is intensely occluded which cannot at the beginning of auditing observe well as a body if at all as a thetan. This is either the occluded or the delusory case. If the case is delusive, its entrance is via Step VII of SOP 8. If the case is merely occluded the obvious and immediate entrance to the case is Viewpoint Processing. The blackness on the case is indicative of a scarcity of viewpoints, a necessity for safeguarding and protective “screens,” a defensive and propitiative attitude towards existence, too much loss of allies and goods, too much loss of space, and finally and most importantly, loss of those who have evaluated for the preclear. The sudden departure of the person who has evaluated for the preclear results in loss of that viewpoint which the preclear unwittingly had assumed. That one person evaluates for another solely in the most common concourse of communication is not aberrative, but where evaluation has taken on an extreme aspect as in the case of a mother, father, husband or wife, then the preclear has come to assume that if the person evaluates for him, the person is looking and listening and feeling for him as well. The loss, by any cause, of the evaluating personality causes the preclear to believe that he has lost his source of perception. There is no radical difference, and only a gradient scale, between “observing for” and “thinking for.” “Thinking for” is much lower than “looking for” the preclear. Direct observation is infinitely superior to thought which seeks to know before looking. Thought could be said to be the manifestation of evolving a low-level certainty of observation from a number of past observations. The combination of past observations to derive a future observation could be said to be the process of thinking itself. Thus we find the occluded case very often very brilliant, very sane and very reasonable but inhibited in observation. The brilliant occluded case has achieved the almost impossible level of being able to know through past experience without looking at all. This could be said to be the generation of a theory: the combining of past experience to predict future experience, the role and function of a theory. Where the ability to think is combined with the ability to observe directly, one has a genius. The case which can observe but thinks poorly or shallowly is known to us as the wide-open case. The case which cannot observe but thinks obsessively is known to us as the psychotic. This does not mean that there are not combinations of wide-open and occluded cases, and it does not mean that all wide-open cases cannot think, nor does it mean that all occluded cases cannot observe. I have here presented only the two extreme aspects of “all observation without thinking” and “all thinking without observation.” All manifestations of thought break down into relative positions in space. A person is happy when contra-survival things are far from him and pro-survival things are near to him and unhappy when contra-survival things are close to him and prosurvival things are far from him. In other words, all manifestations of thought and all difficulties of thought find as their basic the five Pre-Logics, the substance of which is that theta locates things in time and space and creates time and space in which to locate things and creates things to be located in time and space. It will be found that the spatial concepts and observations of the difficult occluded case are at fault: things are too near to him or too far from him; things are in improper relation one to another. The use of Step VII of SOP 8 upon an occluded case, even where the case is not even vaguely “insane,” all can produce this startling result, for this step remedies relative position in space of various objects. This is mentioned in passing because the occluded case who comes to the auditor is usually merely worried or wants to be better and the auditor overlooks the fact that here is a very powerful mind holding well in check and compensating for lack of reality on spatial position. It will be found immediately that this case has been from early childhood extremely concerned one way or another by spatial position. This denotes a former dependency upon one person or another for the MEST universe itself to keep objects located relative to one another in space, and dependence upon the judgment of another as to whether things are near or far. It will be found immediately that somewhere in the current lifetime background of this preclear there was a person who was extremely concerned about the nearness or farness of things and who was obsessed on the subject of distances. A quick relief of this condition is the discovery with an E-Meter of the identity of this person and then the application of Viewpoint Processing, using that person as the one who has most evaluated for the preclear. The E-Meter, not the preclear, will be able to locate this person. Although the occluded case will always inform one with great rapidity that he cannot get mock-ups, his statement is quite relative and is based upon his desire to defeat the auditor. It will be found that the case can get some vague impression in one fashion or another sufficient to work the case. The occluded case is afraid of sight. He will be found to recoil from a momentary bright mock-up or a facsimile. These frighten him. In Para-Scientology it has been discovered that a cycle of Can’t-See, Can-See, has taken place somewhere in this occluded case’s past. It has been offered that a person was blind in a lifetime and on death, of course, recovered suddenly his state of vision. So long as he was blind he was alive, the moment he could see he was also dead, so to see means to die. This has solved some of the blindness cases in Scientology. It will also be noted that the occluded case, when asked to exteriorize or when he exteriorizes for the first time, will feel a considerable amount of grief. In Para-Scientology this has been traced to past lives and the death (for exteriorization is an approximation of death). It does not particularly matter whether the sadness of the occluded case, on the thought of exteriorizing, is occasioned by “past deaths” or whether his fear of perceiving is traceable to sudden visions of a body, now dead, to the end of believing that seeing makes him dead. These are matters for Para-Scientology and they only feed the occluded case’s circuit which compels him to look always for a prior cause, a reason. Indeed, his search for a reason is what marries him so thoroughly to a body, for a body always has reasons, reasons for everything. How far can you get from observations? A reason. The occluded case has to know before he can go, has to compute what he will see before he looks. He is the best customer for the map-maker. The dear old Royal Auto Club with its wonderful fund of knowledge about touring, its beautiful travel directions, yet is an example of having to know before we can go. The RAC can tell you the number of pebbles on any road in Tibet, much less France. It is the best and most efficient club of its kind in the world. Just so, we do not object to this trait of the occluded case—to have to study books and maps before he can move—but the occluded case himself at length concludes that he isn’t too happy even when he gets there. His longing for adventure is thwarted by his thirst for knowing before he is. He has to know, for example, all about the conditions of being a clear before he is audited. Then he approximates in auditing what he has now computed a clear should do. And his case stands still. Why? Because it isn’t being audited—his circuits (calculators) are. On concepts and nullification techniques in general his improvement is very, very slow, for he is processing something while the auditor is processing him—and the auditor is not processing the preclear, but, via the preclear, a circuit. The answer to this is blunt: “Look! Don’t think! Look!” It will be found that the occluded case never looks at a thing. He looks at something besides a thing. He is “steered off” that which he would observe by charge. Ask him for an observation—you will get an indirect reply, a reason, an explanation, a description—and if he is in “bad shape” you will get an answer, not to your question, but to something else. By this alone you can tell an occluded case. A case pretending to be wide-open is actually occluded if it behaves thus. Many a “wide-open” case with “clear recalls” actually can’t see anything or is seeing nothing but delusion. The positive key is, how direct is the communication with this person? Another characteristic of the occluded case is that he “has been betrayed.” Any case that talks much about betrayal is an occluded case, even if he represents himself otherwise. The occluded case is sometimes a criminal, sometimes intensely honest. In a search for truth, he has interpreted truth as “agreement exactly with the past.” This is honesty. It is also being MEST itself. So if you cannot get a case to lie to you, know that it is occluded. If you cannot get a case to act without a reason, it is occluded. If a case claims to be doing one thing and is actually doing another, if its actions are hidden behind a mask of TRUTH (if it is really a liar) you have a spun occluded case that has entered delusion. This person is crazy. And dangerous to the auditor and his reputation. The only safe way to audit is with an E-Meter. Only then can an auditor know the preclear is doing what the auditor says. Spend twenty hours of auditing an occluded case if you will, without an E-Meter, come to the end of the period, as you will, without any marked benefit to the case, assume then that the technique didn’t work (and you will), but don’t expect any sympathy from me if you don’t always use an E-Meter. If the preclear is running as you direct there is always a needle response, particularly on the new Mathison 54—no occluded case can get by one—but they can get by an auditor for the whole being if the occluded case is geared to defend and defeat other motion while yet emanating motion. There is a type of occluded case, very low in reasoning ability, which may have given rise to the “vampire” idea—the personality which absorbs the life and lives on the life of others. This case, of course, is near-psychotic (you must understand that occlusion and psychosis are not synonymous). It has a peculiar trick which identifies it—it ignites and extinguishes matches. I remark on this type because it typifies in a peculiar way what the occluded case is doing: THE OCCLUDED CASE IS DOING ALL POSSIBLE TO STOP OR ABSORB MOTION. Here we have the gradient scale of cases: Clear viewpoint (Cleared On) Viewpoint of facsimiles Viewpoint partially occluded (the average case) Viewpoint entirely occluded Viewpoint partially occluded, partially delusive Viewpoint of delusive facsimiles (the dub-in case) It is a shock to the occluded preclear to find out what he is doing—for he is using every facsimile or ridge he can muster to absorb around him light, sound, feeling, motion, distance, and viewpoints. He is rigging himself up as a sponge for all motion that is forbidden or destructive. When you start to process this man, you will be astonished to find he is holding to him (with no responsibility) waterfalls to deaden sound, stove lids to stop fire, mats to deaden impacts. He is a walking soft-armor tank. In a light stage he is heavily built. When he is thin, he has begun to retreat from his armor plate. He has followed this scale downward: 40.0 Cause (Emanating) 30.0 Mainly Cause, sometimes Effect 20.0 Half Cause, half Effect 4.0 More Effect than Cause (High Toned Man) 2.0 Mainly Effect, destructive Cause down 0.0 All Effect Note: 4.0 was and is the goal of Dianetics. 30.0 to 40.0 is the goal of Scientology. This goal of Dianetics was so difficult or impossible to attain by my early auditors that I returned entirely to investigation in October of 1950. I had considerably overestimated the capabilities of auditors and seriously underestimated the difficulty of some cases. Whatever process you use on an occluded case, you will find the above holds true. And of course it continues to hold true down into delusion. To make this case recover by wiping out engrams or postulates is bluntly impossible, for the case has mimicry of gravity and is grasping to it every incoming impact. It is remarkable that the delusive or dub-in case is best told by its pretending to have facsimiles (a complete corruption of an intolerable past) and yet manifesting the other manifestations of a completely occluded case. There aren’t many of these delusive cases around; auditors in the old days commonly mistook these cases for near-clears, and thought to bring them up to a state of clear by auditing out engrams. Of course, the preclear could manufacture and believe (automaticity of engram manufacture) more engrams than could ever be eradicated by auditing and the case would simply stay on the same level or would even get worse. The auditor had failed to apply the small tests offered in Book One to distinguish a dub-in case. The wide-open case (delusive but clear recalls of non-factual material) is distinguished, then, by having the same manifestations in life as the occluded case, which is to say, a fear of and protest against sound, a general protest against life, a defensive and defeating attitude. But this case is in far worse condition than the occluded case and this condition is most easily noticed by endocrine disorders. This is denoted by sterility, untimely fat on the back of the ankles (startlingly common in the current civilization) and perceptic difficulties. In auditing this delusive case, it will be found that sonic and visio go off and the case becomes an occluded case before it rises far enough up the tone scale to have (and not need) proper facsimiles, or a good memory of past events. If the auditor thinks the occluded case is difficult, he should realize that this wide-open case is death and destruction to all around it, for the case is capable actually of nothing but destructive action and desires no other mental state in those around it than a complete apathy. The occluded case quite commonly supposes himself to be badly off; the delusive case rarely, if ever, believes there is anything wrong with him or her. The occluded case is high toned for homo sapiens and is therefore far more common amongst the leaders of society than even auditors suppose. In Viewpoint Processing we are looking for the person in the preclear’s past who did not enjoy certain positions on the tone scale. You must know that love, hate, enjoyment and admiration are not positions on the tone scale. You will not find them on any tone scale that has been released by me for they are attitudes toward emotion or characteristics of energy rather than emotion. Emotions are a set band of reactions. Any person who can be freely emotional and enjoy a “good cry,” or even enjoy being apathetic, also can hate “having a good cry,” and so it is as well with love and admiration. In what the Russians laughingly call a civilization (and you would be shocked at how far that is from anything Europe or America thinks is civilized) practically the only enjoyed emotions are apathy, grief and fear. The remaining emotions in that culture are all but unknown. This holds true on the tone scale, in spite of the fact that these emotions are actually enjoyed. In the old days the Russians thought nothing was more fun than for everybody to go into the barn and burn it down. They have not much changed. In Germany the most enjoyed emotion is hate amongst the Junkers class. They hate up and down the entire emotional band with an abandon which brings out the sporadic excursions they take down into France. Love, if you have ever noticed, does not much care where it sits on the tone scale, as we find a young man deeply in love starving himself to death (a characteristic of apathy) and a young girl in love in a dreamy enthusiasm which makes her bloom. We find love used in Christianity about twelve feet below 0.0 and in New York precisely at 2.5 on the tone scale. Admiration is a particle which unites and resolves like the universal solvent all types of energy, particularly force. Hate coheses and hardens energy. Love is the human manifestation of admiration. All this so you will know why it is that an occluded case sticks at being an occluded case while another case does not. The reason is in the people who have evaluated for the preclear. One of these has taught the preclear arduously to dislike (hate) all manner of things, has taught the preclear that many things are bad (it’s so bad over there you’ll have to look back at me). Another has taught the preclear that he must love everything. The predominant teaching is “Do not enjoy,” “Do not be happy” (happiness being a state of admiration of things). The cycle, then, of the preclear who has been taught to hate things is that he begins to resist them and eventually piles up energy against them to such a degree that he makes an actual deposit, which is an occlusion and which has on his side of it complete blackness and on the reverse side of it the piled-up facsimiles of that thing which he is resisting. This screen, then, has a hunger for the thing which it was resisting, and if this screen is fed whatever it was set up to resist, it will dissolve. This accounts, in part, for the step of Expanded Gita. As a test, I fed the screen of one preclear the loathsome item which it had been set up to resist for thirteen hours before the screen resolved. In processing it is far better to pick up the evaluation which began the screens than it is to set out on the adventure of trying to dissolve the screens. However, if you want to see a cleared MEST body it is probable that you will have to feed these screens on Expanded Gita, wasting and accepting in brackets for, perhaps, a hundred hours. This solves the actual hunger which depresses the acceptance level of the preclear down to the things which he is resisting. The best trick the MEST universe has is to teach somebody he must not enjoy something, that that thing is bad and therefore he must resist it. Once this cycle of resistance is started, the preclear edges down toward the bottom. In auditing Viewpoint Processing, then, with the preclear on the E-Meter, one should take an assessment of all the people with whom he has been surrounded to discover which one of those people enjoyed things the least and hated things the most, and which one of those people insisted that the preclear love everything. It will be found that both of these will probably wind up with a stuck needle when discovered, for the preclear winds up hating the individual who insisted upon love for everything. The sudden loss of a sexual partner runs the cycle from love to hate with rapidity and leaves the preclear hung at that portion of the track where he lost the person. By resisting the loss he resists the person, and if the person has done anything to engender hate, we will find the preclear in a strange state of hating love. If he has to resist all love and affection, then, the chances of his getting enough particles of admiration to make life enjoyable to him are nil. This person is probably earlier in the preclear’s life than marriage. What we are trying to do here, then, is not to run out all the engrams in the bank, but to release and free the viewpoints which are being resisted. This is somewhat like opening a safe. It was difficult to learn the proper combination; the proper combination consists of breaking down the resistance of the preclear to that viewpoint which loved everything and which evaluated for the preclear and tried to get him to love everything. It will be found that this person has departed from the life of the preclear and the preclear will probably tell you with a sudden realization, yes, his emotions shut off just about that time. The screen which has been set up to resist this person may be based on an earlier screen, so one should take a second look and find out if there was somebody else who loved everything who is resisted by the preclear. It will generally be found that there are one or more earlier screens than the first one the auditor will discover. Having found this screen, it is necessary then to have the preclear, whether he can see his mock-ups clearly or not, mock up in abundance the person being resisted in the attitudes of “looking for the preclear” and of “pointing things out to the preclear to be loved.”* Another variation of this process employs a principle which is very old to us— Cause and Effect. The actual computational difficulty with this case is that the case is seeking to be an Effect rather than to be a Cause. The case will tell you that it has been betrayed. This is, in essence, saying “I have been the effect of a bad action”; it is an apology for failure. It will tell you during one session that such-and-such was cause, during the next session that so-and-so was cause, during the session following that that somebody else was cause, during the session following that the engrams so-and-so were the cause, and will actually, when it is very badly off, write you very long notes concerning computations as to what was cause. All of these computations break down into the category of “Something else is cause other than myself.” This is what the auditor is trying to remedy, for unless this cause can assume the role of causation, the case cannot emanate energy sufficient to remove the bank or to move around the spaces in which his engrams are contained—for his problem in being unable to move his engrams around is the problem of being unable to handle space. If he could handle engrams and could handle space, it would be a very simple matter for him to pick up all these black screens and hang them on some building and forget about them. But so long as he is saying that something else is cause other than himself, he will not handle space, he will not handle energy and, truth told, he backs away from objects. And this level of case tends to accept very poor and out-of-repair objects, energies and spaces. This case and cases below this level will dramatize the poor man’s outlook and will accept enMEST rather than MEST. Thus it is very simple to get this case to run anything which will place the cause somewhere in his environment rather than in himself. The case actually wants to be an effect so as to receive sensation. This accounts in part for the absorption screens which are found in its vicinity. The desire-enforcement-inhibition curve runs down from wanting to be an effect through having to be an effect to trying to inhibit being an effect. When it gets down to inhibiting being an effect, it begins to fight the entire environment. *This preclear can give the auditor a rough “go,” for the auditor is trying, by the evaluation of the preclear, to point out the fact that the preclear should be in contact with other human beings, should get better, should like the world and should enjoy life. The auditor, in other words, whether he says so or not, represents to the preclear the road toward love and happiness. Thus the preclear puts up his first and most immediate screen straight at the auditor. This makes it very difficult for the auditor to audit, but it makes it very easy to discover the person involved on the E-Meter when the engram is immediately presented to hand to be run. On a much broader scale, amusingly, the state of my own reputation at the hands of some people suffers from the same cycle. I am pointing out that life can be better. The full flood of unreasoning hate, then, can be and is poured out by many persons in my direction. It would be upsetting to me if I had not been experiencing savageness from neurotics for many, many years, and if I did not understand the principles on which this was operating. When I did not understand the principles on which it was operating and had not seen it in basic operation and had not resolved cases by it, it was very upsetting to me to have my reputation so kicked around. —LRH In more than one occluded case I have found the assumption to be the basic cause. Although this is part of Para-Scientology it is interesting that the auditor encounters it so often. The occluded case has stolen the baby. Papa, mama, no one else, must realize this. And at length the case itself will not realize it. The occluded case quite often is found stuck in birth. But it is stuck at the assumption point, where the thetan has taken over the baby, rather than the obstetrical end. Now and then some auditor starts to run a birth and finds a black hand reaching in for the baby. This is not the doctor’s hand: the doctors do not reach in very often: this is the assumption. It will be found that the preclear will immediately steer away from this and, indeed, some preclears will fight it so hard that it cannot be run. Those preclears who fight this very hard are those preclears who have had families who did not appreciate them. The family was thought by the preclear to be saying continually, “See what you have done; we do not want you,” and so on. This makes the preclear try to disavow his responsibility in having taken over the child. Wasting babies has a marked effect upon such a case. Using the motive of cause and effect in Viewpoint Processing, one runs the preclear in vast quantities saying to the environment “You are cause,” saying to people “You are cause,” saying to his engram bank “You are cause,” and runs vast quantities of people saying to the preclear “You are cause” and people saying to other people “You are cause”; then large numbers of the preclear saying “I am an effect,” large numbers of people saying to the preclear “I am an effect” and large numbers of people saying to large numbers of people “I am an effect.” The wording of the thought can be varied in the last: “You have betrayed me—an informer— it is your fault” or “You are to blame.” One preclear on whom this was run after a couple of minutes sat up on the couch with a startled look on his face and said, “You know, it isn’t saying that to me.” When I asked him what he meant he informed me that although he had not before realized it, he considered that every wall and every tree was saying to him, “You are to blame for this.” His case took an immediate upsurge. Assigning cause and declaring effect is very high echelon processing and is a primary variation of Viewpoint Processing. It should be realized that all the foregoing material consists of variations of Viewpoint Processing which is in itself susceptible to many combinations and uses. VIEWPOINT PROCESSING This process seeks to resolve the problems set up by the evaluation of one being for another. It resolves in particular dependence upon people, objects, bodies and special systems of communication. Expanded Gita resolves scarcities. Viewpoint Processing resolves dependencies. A being tends to close terminals with anything on which he depends, and attempts to widen terminals on things on which he dare not depend. Upset and disillusionment about life becomes an obsessive desire for independence which in a body is, of course, impossible. The concept “I must be the only one” demonstrates the terrible urge not to be dependent upon anything. However, life works in two directions. A person who is trying to be “the only one” at the same time will be trying to make other beings dependent upon him. Thus the dependency of other beings upon him will eventually bring him downscale no matter how hard he tries to be the only one. “The only one” is a resistive computation and in a body is impossible to carry out and so results in a dwindling spiral. To be “the only one,” in other words to be entirely independent, in the lower tones the individual resists all evaluation for himself and evaluates for others. This in the higher tones is a native characteristic of life, but, just as any other characteristic of life can be debased and exaggerated, so it is in the lower tones. All life seeks to be independent; it is only when it becomes obsessively independent that difficulty results. In a democracy, for instance, the general feeling that all must be equal is fought against so that one finds in a democracy an excessively large number of people maintaining “computational” independence. A body is grossly dependent upon other life forms and other MEST combinations for its existence. It is quite impossible for a body eating every day to be independent. The analytical mind in close position to this body and believing itself dependent upon the body eventually, of course, begins to believe that it itself is the body and thus we get the buried and mysterious loss of identity on the part of the thetan, who is, in essence, the analytical mind to the body. One runs Viewpoint Processing on all dynamics. In particular the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th dynamics must not be neglected. In sanitariums the briefest observation demonstrates that the 8th dynamic is most prominently the aberrative dynamic, for here we have the idea that God inhabits all space, thus making it impossible for the preclear to have any space of his own. The preclear must either have no space or must be himself God. To solve the God problem, one simply rigs up large spaces in abundance “full of God” and more large spaces “full of preclear” until the preclear can have large spaces of both. It is interesting that in preclears whose families were connected with the Church, the problem of space is most acute. This process is done by mock-ups of a very large order and of no particular distinctness. Although any computation can be run, the following computations will prove effective: Cause, Effect, enjoy things, hate things, look, don’t look, motion, no motion, sound, sight, feeling, work, pain, no-sound, no-sight, no-feeling, no-work, no pain, babies, no-babies, spirits, no-spirits, Christ, no-Christ, God, no-God. The technique is run in this fashion: Brackets are used. One has the preclear put up a number of people or objects as himself putting them up, then has him put up people or objects as though somebody else were putting them up; then has others putting them up for others, all in quantity. One should use those things of which the preclear is certain. In other words, where you have a case which has a great deal of black silence on it and constricted space, you should run cubes of blackness which is silent, the preclear putting them up for others, another putting them up for the preclear, and others putting them up for others. The object here is a great many items put up rather than one set put up and held. One should put up many sets and should not hold them. If all he can put up are black cubes or patches of blackness, then he should put these up with the thought in each one such as “Cause.” It must be kept in mind that what one is doing with this process is resolving some of the evaluations which have been done for the preclear to the end of resolving a scarcity of viewpoints. The reason one keeps putting up very large numbers of points which are evidently thinking toward a direction is, in essence, the remedying of a scarcity of viewpoints. One takes it at the level of accepting less desirable viewpoints, and it will be found that more desirable viewpoints are much more easily wasted by the preclear, so that the process can be varied by having these viewpoints, as mocked up, 0 waste large amounts of desirable things, such as babies. These viewpoints as mocked up will waste things that are desirable in torrents. We at once remedy the scarcity of viewpoints and the evaluation which those viewpoints have done. Thus one mocks up hundreds of thousands of grandfathers, pointing this way or that, or saying things are too distant, or saying simply, “You are the cause”; and one mocks up thousands of the preclear having him evaluating for others. Don’t-depend-on-me and depend-on-me is a key button, but all the buttons included in Step IV of SOP 8 can be used in this process. The primary requisite of the viewpoint is that it has position relative to points. A change of viewpoint necessitates on the actual level a change of positions rather than a change of idea. The change of position is primary; the change of idea is secondary. Evaluation is the shifting of viewpoints or the effort to do so. On an actual rather than a thought level, this would necessitate transplantation from one spatial position to another spatial position. Shifting a baby from one side of the room to another side of the room is, in essence, evaluating for him, for it demonstrates to him a new point of view and new points to view. Dropping a curtain before one would be, in essence, evaluating for him. Locking a person in a closet or forcing a child to stay or sleep in a dark room would be forcefully evaluating for him. A child best accepts his mother’s viewpoint if his mother has been that person who most changed his position in space and who furnished for him locomotion. Not in quite the same order, an automobile or an aeroplane evaluates for one by shifting his spatial position from one point to another. Fixation upon vehicles of transportation is very noticeable in people and the loss of a vehicle is bound to be damaging to perception, for the vehicle furnished not only a point from which to view but changed that point. Thus distance is definitely involved, both in viewpoints and in evaluation. You will find preclears “stuck on the track” in places where their position in space was forcefully changed or interrupted. This could be said to be a forceful evaluation. All problems of thought reduce to spatial relationships, quantity, velocity or characteristics of energy, and these interacting bring about time. Gaps in time such as in unconsciousness are a loss of viewpoint and are dependent upon others to view during the period, thus all evaluation for an individual brings about a restimulation of unconsciousness—those periods when a person lay unconscious, not knowing where he was, completely dependent for the safeguarding of his possessions upon others about him or completely at the mercy of those others. The first being safeguarded is restimulated by protective evaluation such as “If you do soand-so you will get hurt,” and the latter is restimulated by betrayal; because periods of unconsciousness contain within them pain and discomfort, protective evaluation and betrayal restimulate alike somatics, and could be said to bring about psychosomatic illness. Where the preclear has had about him someone who told him what he did while he was asleep, he is likely to get that person confused with a doctor or nurse according to sex, in some operation, thus bringing the operation into constant restimulation. This is resolved simply by mocking up in brackets this evaluating person evaluating to the preclear and being evaluated to by the preclear. Mocking up hordes of doctors and nurses will restimulate the somatics of operations. This is best resolved, if it becomes very acute, by simply feeding the preclear a great many operations much worse than the one he has and placing these in future; for he is running in the case of any operation which restimulates “It must not happen again.” The entire sub-zero tone scale is of great use in Viewpoint Processing. Ownership could be said to be that area being covered and protected by the preclear. As he goes on in life, this area will narrow down to just his own body and then to just a portion of his own body. This is because he has been driven back, step by step, conviction by conviction, to the point where he does not believe he can protect anything. He gets to the point where he apparently does not want a viewpoint but wants instead battlements, ramparts, caves, and any other place in which he might be able to hide. He tries to make his engram bank into such a fortress. In this case it is very good to give him tremendous numbers of protective viewpoints; stone walls, doors, caves, and thus satisfy his “hunger” for a place in which he himself cannot be viewed. He will gradually come up on this to a point where he is cautiously willing to view something. I have had a preclear give tremendous sighs of relief at being permitted for an hour to insert in the darkness about him barricades of various sorts. A preclear who is very occluded does not think himself strong enough or does not sufficiently trust himself to offer very much protection to anything. Thus he cannot take responsibility for items around him and will be found not to be taking responsibility for several areas of the body. The preclear will be found to have, if occluded, an enormous desire to view the future and will be found to have had in his past association which pretended to evaluate the future for him. Spirits are the commonest; thus one must not neglect the 7th and 8th dynamics. The time factor of the viewpoint is tremendously interesting. The occluded preclear does not view the present. From the present he started viewing the future, and from the future started viewing the past. What he calls knowledge is the certainty of impact which has happened to him in the past and which he is certain is going to happen to him in the future. He knows that this is going to happen again. He knows in ratio to the violence of the impact. Thus seeking knowledge, he finds impact. If you ask him to run simply “It is in the present” he will rapidly discover that much of the blackness he is looking at is believed by himself to be in the future. In this case a special point of Viewpoint Processing is used wherein quantities of horrible and terrible events are placed in the future. As this is done, it will be found quite ordinarily that he begins to move on the time track and may quite suddenly get with these future mockups brilliantly clear forms and adequate space. In other words, we give him a viewpoint of the future in its most terrible and drastic form (he is, remember, not actually interested in the past: he is interested in the future and knows that such horrible things have happened and will happen again that he cannot adventure further in time). It will be found additionally that he is expecting a great many people to appear in the future. The preclear is quite startled when Certainty Processing is used to find out that he actually believes certain people are present. This knowledge is suppressed, and Certainty Processing brings it to light. In Viewpoint Processing one gives numbers of people to the preclear coming to him from the future, particularly enemies he has known in the past. It is peculiar to the occluded case that he believes himself, quite often, under arrest; therefore one should give him a great many police and uniformed people calling him here and taking him there; and one should also give him large quantities of schoolrooms and jails—there being very little difference between them in the preclear’s mind. He will become quite upset in this process unless he is also permitted to waste motion in wide spaces. The school and the courtroom have much in common in that they dispose of spatial positions with no recourse on the part of the preclear, and evaluate for him also on a thought level. Books can, say, “do the looking” for one. This is one of the best reasons why science stagnated and why science becomes increasingly complex instead of increasingly simple. All the scientists are very busy looking in the books of other scientists instead of at the material universe and their own universes. To remedy this one can have the preclear get enormous stacks of books with the idea that they are looking for him. In the case of fiction, the books also feel and hear for the preclear; and more than one preclear’s sonic is lost in the silence of the written word. In that a viewpoint does not only look but also perceives along other channels, it will be found that the preclear who has very little perception is actually expecting a totality of non-perception in the future. He believes that death is such a totality. He is holding on to incidents in the past which tell him that he will lose all perception in the future and this, in itself, shuts off his own perception. To remedy this, one should get in the future being deaf, being blind, being solidly stuck in coffins, and in general, having no viewpoint. Invalidation is basically non-attention. Attention itself is quite important, for attention is necessary before an effect can be created. Thus the attention of the preclear will be found to be fixed or dispersed and not entirely under his control, which would account for the phenomenon of occlusion. The preclear cannot unfix his attention from things which he expects to happen. The auditor actually shifts his attention by having these things happen in the future in mock-up form and in tremendous quantities. One need not be too particular to discover what the preclear is afraid will happen; one only need take various possible disasters, all of them summing to a loss of viewpoint. That thing which is most feared is that thing with which the preclear will close terminals. He actually creates those things which he fears. Viewpoint Processing can be combined, of course, with Certainty Processing. It will be found that Viewpoint Processing is very effective but that it does not even vaguely supplant observation. Certainty Processing and Viewpoint Processing should be used in conjunction with such a process as SSSA, using it between the six steps. It is, like all concept, postulate, matched or double terminal processing, a propitiation of the circuits. _____________________________________ Now I have given you this rather expansive look at Viewpoint Processing so that you would understand what we are trying to do to run the computation amongst all computations, the center central of all thinking, which can be run on an occluded case. It is one thing to have, you must realize, the center of all thinkingness and quite another thing to have it in a form which can be run. I am giving you here following the form in which it can be run. The technique with which it is run is Viewpoint Processing. In other words, we have here three things in conjunction. We have the center centerness of all thinking; we have the form in which it can be run, which is to say, the words which express the thought which will run on the case, no matter how occluded that case is; and we have the technique with which it is run. These are three separate items. The center centralness of all thinking is, of course, change of position in space. If you recall your Axioms you will understand that this is known to us as time, it is also known to us as motion. A particle moves from one position to another position and this change requires a certain amount of what we arbitrarily call time. The change cannot take place instantaneously, otherwise the particle would be in both positions at the same time. At the International Congress of Dianeticists and Scientologists [ September 30—October 4, 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], this matter of spatial position will be given at length and probably as you receive this will already have been given, in which event the tapes most likely will be in the possession of your nearest Associate. The change of position of spaces is an operation in which the preclear must be able; if he is not able to change the position of his own spaces, then he cannot change the position of his facsimiles. The inability to change these spaces means an inability to “keep up with time” and sticks the individual in the engram. The two most prevalent viewpoints to impress one with how bad something is are that one must change his position in space and that one must not change his position in space. Indeed, a communications system is dependent upon not changing one’s position in space. Thus attention tends to fix one in space. The dwindling spiral of the MEST universe is the desire to remain fixed in space. This eventually immobilizes a person. Perception, action, doingness, sensation, sonic, hearing and even happiness depend upon an ability to change in space. Money, security and communications systems themselves tend to fix a person in space. All this twist to thinkingness comes about from motion itself. An explosion is not enjoyable to the person in the center of it. Thus one attempts not to disperse, which is to say, change position all over space. An impact seeks to fix a person in space. People dramatize the dispersal by insisting that everyone move around in space, as in the case of an enthusiasm dramatization (which, by the way, most people bent on security do not like) or that, in the case of the impact, people stay where they are and not move. Because impacts are more common than explosions it could be said that the engrams dictate a dwindling spiral with greater and greater fixation upon being “well fixed,” to use the colloquial term which best fits the master engram of them all. In the Axioms you saw where thought is preceded by motion. This is quite true. Obsessive thoughts are preceded by too much motion in too little time. This, indeed, produces the sensation of pain. Along with this we have, of course, the insistence that one must not change spaces. Here in the MEST universe we have only one space actually, but to have a time track one must continually make space. One confuses MEST universe space with his own ability to make and put space into the past and so becomes extremely tangled the moment he decides not to have a great deal of mobility. This is seen in the young man who gets married and has to “settle down.” The 1.5 is obsessed with the idea of people staying in one place, remaining fixed, not moving. This, of course, is death. You have also noted the franticness which comes over some people when they have lost some material object. It has disappeared into space, which is to say, it cannot be located or it cannot be fixed in space, much less changed in its spatial position. It is then, without observation, evidently changing its spatial position. This is the action of a hidden influence and is quite frightening to the individual. All religion uses this fear in order to evaluate for people. With Viewpoint Processing, one mocks up hordes of spirits, gods, people declaring first that everything is lost in space, then that everything must be fixed in space, then that everything must be changed in space, then that the spaces must be changed and then that spaces must be fixed. One does this and intersperses it with minutes of nothingness; the last is necessary to run out the suppression the preclear has put on these viewpoints. One runs it as well in brackets. One has hordes of the preclear in various forms and aspects declaring that nothing can be found in space, that everything must be fixed in space, that everything must be changed in space, that spaces must be changed, that spaces must be fixed. One does not bother with the reasons why the spaces must be changed; the body has lots of reasons for everything. They are entirely unimportant. The biggest bugaboo your preclear has is that he has to have a reason to do something. If he has enough reasons, he’ll be good and dead. One does not, when he is running this process, permit the preclear to go wandering off and running people with other ideas than this simple one, change in space. Once in a while he will want to re-phrase the same idea and that is, of course, quite permissible. Getting two spots out in front of the occluded case which are saying, “Do not change in space” is quite effective and will quite likely produce considerable somatics of tiredness, for that is the main excuse for not changing in space: one is too tired to go. Your occluded case, then, breaks down to one of two kinds: one will get mockups which will persist and not go away, the other will get mock-ups which vanish instantly. The former is stuck in an impact engram, the latter is stuck in an explosion engram. The phenomenon of seeking to know is actually a search for a certainty. The greatest certainty is the certainty of impact. Thus, when one goes toward a great certainty without this knowledge and these techniques one tends to go downhill toward engrams which contain an impact and which, of course, remain more and more fixed in space. Thus you have the scholar who becomes more and more immobile and, indeed, you have that operation of the State known as “education” wherein the State delivers into the mind of the child in sixteen years of sitting still in classrooms knowledge which could be delivered in a compact form in two or three years at the most. It is, in short, a control operation. In running this, one will find the phenomenon of black and white turning up. If he is running lots of people with “must not change in space” and the field of vision remains black, then he should be running “must change in space,” at which moment it will be seen that the field lights up. Sometimes “must change in space” and “must not change in space” alike do not light up the dark field; at this, one should run “lost in space” or “lost in the darkness,” at which time the field will probably light up. This can be watched on the E-Meter. Whenever the field goes entirely dark the E-Meter sticks; in addition, the energy involved in the material is not running out when the needle is stuck. So long as the needle is gradually rising, the auditor can be sure that the field is fairly white before the preclear. When somatics flick on the needle, when it gives small jumps or sticks, it is time to reverse the concept. When all concepts tend to make the needle stick, simply give the preclear in brackets a moment or two of nothingness until the needle is again free. We will call this Triple Process of the right button with the right phrasing with the right mechanical process “Change Processing” for further reference. If you cannot now finish off your occluded cases with a few hours of auditing, I disown all of you. ________________________________ This is the third of the series of the Professional Auditor’s Bulletins which delineate techniques to assist the auditor’s own case and to give him data he may use upon his preclears. Viewpoint Processing may be self-audited within reason if the individual thoroughly makes up his mind to use it as an intermediate step between the steps of Process SSSA as delineated in PAB No. 7. Otherwise it will leave him wallowing in his circuits, not that this, for many an occluded auditor, would be anything new. Author’s Note: This paper was written in Seville, Spain, in what the Spaniards laughingly call a civilization. They have electricity of varying voltages which is off for many hours of the day, water which only comes out of the faucets between eleven and one, a mailman who, surprisingly enough, delivers packets. Of course the castanets and beautiful nights make up for all this and nobody worries about anything and it all somehow gets done manana, but it doesn’t particularly add to the quality of technical papers which get dictated, when there happens to be electricity, from notes which the maid overlooked destroying in her clean-up. Understand, then, that this paper is very informal. It is sent through to you now as it is because the information is three years overdue already. LRH LRH TAPE LECTURES 3-23 September 1953 5309C03 5309C23 LECTURE LECTURE Training Auditors G.E. Track, Exteriorization