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SAINT HILL SERVICE FACSIMILE HANDLING 18 September 1963
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SAINT HILL SERVICE FACSIMILE HANDLING
A lecture given on
Well, now, this is the . . . ?
Audience: 18th.
The 18th of. . . ?
Audience: September.
September. What planet?
Audience: Earth. A.D. 13.
A.D. 13. And solar system.
Now, today I'm going to talk to you about the service facsimile and the state of the PC and a
Saint Hiller method of moving in with a service facsimile and straightening up a case.
Now, you have to know where the stops are on the organ before you can play an organ. This
helps a great deal. You have to know where the keyboard is, and with the new electronic
organs you have to know where the switch is and a few things of that particular character.
So just sailing in on a case with great nonchalance, you see, and not turning on the switch of
the E-Meter, and not finding out anything about the case's PT, and having no safeguards of
any kind whatsoever-and not knowing what you're doing anyway-might be rather
adventurous, might be rather adventurous. In fact, I think every psychiatrist that has been
along this ground is very adventurous. Never was so much done by those who knew so little.
This situation, however, stems from lack of technology and lack of know-how. Now, this
know-how situation with regard to the mind is very, very hard to arrive at. There are so many
suppositions that . . . just walking through a forest of favorite beliefs. And when you realize
that every case and every practitioner in the field of the mind would be concentrated on one
aspect of existence and then dedicated to not observing existence except through that one
evaluation of existence, you see at once the tremendous limitations imposed upon the
discovery of anything about the mind, and then, secondarily, getting any application of any
truth known. Do you see that this, then, would be a self-defeating proposition?
Not only are we given a vast panorama of data, any one of which can be a favorite aberration
(not a truth but an aberration, don't you see?) in this vast forest, but then we ask people who
themselves are concentrated upon favorite data, you see substituting for themselves to handle
this situation-and you get a difficulty; you get randomity right there.
Now, let's compound the randomity and realize that knowledge about the mind means
freedom for life and beings in this universe. Once you recognize that as a principle, you will
see that anyone who is dedicated to total enslavement or the dwindling spiral or caving
anyone in and caving everyone in, and so forth, are immediately not in favor of total
knowledge of the human mind, but quite on the contrary are in favor of great ignorance.
And there's two ways of accomplishing that ignorance. One is simply a denial of information,
which is practiced but sometimes cannot be fully enforced. For instance, the Catholic church
for many, many centuries made a great thing out of "ignorance i9 wisdom," you see?
Everybody had to be good and stupid and so forth, and whether you're Catholic or not you'd
have to admit that that was the modus operandi of the existing church over a period of about,
oh, I think it must have been eight hundred years or something like this: it's almost their total
devotion was to ignorance.
Well, it doesn't go just that far. That sooner or later gets interrupted. But there's something
that can be substituted for total ignorance, and that is false data. And false data is probably a
much more effective means of denying freedom.
One of the ways of going about false data, for instance: The fellow wants to get out of the
woods and there are two trails. And one trail lies much deeper into the woods and the other
trail goes out on to the plain. And all you have to do is put up a sign at the crossroads and
point to that trail which goes deeper into the woods and say, "This way lies freedom," you
see, and you've promptly trapped a lot of people.
And that is such an easy action that when it is added to the fact that everybody is sort of
mired down in their favorite fixated data, this can become quite a vicious morass. The trick is,
then, to find the exact mechanics, the exact, precise mechanics which apply to all minds.
Now, the moment you have found the exact, precise mechanics which apply to all minds, you
can then get a broad agreement on the situation, because they override the minor data on
which the people are fixated. In other words, they also would have this broader perimeter of
data and they'd recognize the truth in the broader perimeter of data.
But the moment that you move even a sixteenth of a millimeter sideways off of what is
generally applicable to all minds, you're again into the particularities and opinions. So
therefore, if you had a broad sphere of knowledge which was true, and these were all high
generalities and everybody would agree with them, frankly it'd be very easy to bankrupt and
upset that whole operation by taking it, and by false relay-you see, bad instruction and bad
relay of this material, and dropping out a datum here and a vital datum there, and substituting
something or other-you eventually could then again effect a sort of a slavery out of that
In other words, even if you arrive at the technology, you still have the task of safeguarding
the technology because, once more, it can easily turn and become a false technology.
These are the various ramifications that Scientology has had to deal with over a period of
many years. And the solution to the difficulty is results, because once the technology is
applicable so that results occur by reason of its application, then, of course, you don't get any
arguments with these. You don't get the intrusion of a great deal of criss crosses.
So the whole contest has been not for the achievement of certain truths- we have had many
of these for years-but a workability so that we attain an application of those truths toward a
rapid release of attention from favorite and fixated data. And in that wise, then, the truth is
carried out by a demonstration that if it is used a greater freedom is attained.
And we have to look at how long is the attention span of a preclear. Well, in actual fact, as far
as Scientologists are concerned, their attention span, their willingness to go along and try in
this direction, is terrific. But the casualties which occur along the lines occur because the
body of knowledge has not arrived in an individual in the release of his attention from his
favorite data. Do you see that?
This fellow is sure that all horses sleep in beds. Now, it isn't only that he has this as a fixed
datum; he also has this as a total datum. And any data that toes not contribute to horses
sleeping in beds he will discard. You see, it's not just that he's got this one idea. He's got this
idea which then bends all ideas toward this idea. And the truth of any existing situation is
whether or not it fits this idee fixe. His idea of separating truth from falsehood is whether or
not it fits his idee fixe. Now, if the thing is false, it doesn't fit his idee fixe and therefore
should be thrown away. And if it is true, it does fit his idee fixe and therefore should be
retained. All of which is rather interesting, because if his idee fixe were "horses sleeping in
beds," he would only listen to mental technology that affected horses or beds.
Therefore-therefore, the early discovery, and the long dormancy, arising in a greater use and
application of the service facsimile means a great deal to Scientology. Means a very great
deal to Scientology because you're now dealing with the one reason you can't get across a
general truth to a preclear. You're not trying to teach this preclear anything but you're trying
to show this preclear that by reason of what you are doing you get a release of attention so
that the world looks brighter, and he can look further and he feels better and more powerful.
Now, if you do not attain this in a session with any given PC over-sometimes it can be a
very long period of time-but if you do not eventually attain this, you will eventually lose
your PC. Sometimes it lasts only an hour and sometimes it would last for several years.
Now, the degree that the PC will sit there patiently has direct ratio to how fixed his idea is.
Now, the PC who will sit there for years waiting for a greater truth does not have his attention
so involved with an idee fixe, you see, that he cannot absorb the greater application of the
material which he is presented with to process. And he will get perimeter benefits even
though his idee fixe is not touched. He gets these perimeter benefits solely and totally
because he is not that fixed! Do you see? He's just not that fixed.
Now we take this bloke who says that horses sleep in beds, and that is the total modus
operandi of life. We have to look at the totality which this can become. This is the eighth,
seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, first dynamic, see? All sex is answered by the fact
that horses sleep in bed. The way to run a family is to have horses sleep in beds, you see?
God is actually a horse sleeping in a bed, see? This has really got to be a fixed datum.
Now, to the degree the datum is fixed, he is not able to explore the perimeter of his ideas and
therefore cannot see a greater truth. In other words, he's more entrapped and more
imprisoned than the next one. Now, that is what is known as very bad mental condition: It's
how fixed this one idea is.
Now, when you're dealing with neurosis, you have somebody who has an idee fixe which
only occasionally arises to wreck his life, and he can see a little more beyond that. But when
you have psychosis, you have only the idee fixe only. Just as I just told you: God is a horse
sleeping in bed, see. You'll find the institutions are full of these blokes.
Now, that's it. Now, that scares you when you start thinking about the fact that you, of
course, have a service facsimile that is an idee fixe and so forth.
All right. It's degree, then. It's degree. Your attention isn't so pinned down by that that you
can't examine a greater truth, or you wouldn't be sitting here this very minute, so
immediately you're lifted out of the ranks of the insane and the neurotic. See? Just by
definition. That proves itself quite self-evident.
Now, you can see some wider idea. But let's take Mamie Glutz or some body, the cashier at
the local service station, and we try to explain to her- we try to explain to her-that beings
are beings and that each one of them has a mind. Let's just go that far, see?
Now, if she's got a very furious idee fixe of one kind or another, such as "all men are alike,"
see, this doesn't fit. So therefore, you become false. To her, you are false, do you see? Then
any datum which you utter on the broad perimeter of life, if it doesn't add up to "all men are
alike," is a false datum. You could have an elephant stand in the middle of the room, and say
"That's an elephant." Well, it's not a man, so therefore it's a false datum, don't you see? So
that you're indicating that an elephant is standing in the middle of the road-and there is an
elephant there-you are indicating a false datum to her. And therefore you are saying
something foolish.
She knows this. How does she know this? Well, she knows this because, naturally, "all men
are alike."
One fine day you happen to tell her, "A lot of men are aberrated In fact, most all men have
aberrations of one kind or another." You're in there cooking; you're now true. This one
accidental datum goes by and latches on to this service facsimile, see? Just one. Now you
spake truth. And perhaps from there on, everything you utter, she will say, "That is true." But
once more, it's without evaluation or inspection.
Now, get the degree, then, the degree of fixation upon an all-resolving datum and then you
have the degree of enslavement of the individual. These things actually are not degrees of
knowledge or ignorance but simply degrees of freedom or slavery. It is secondary-entirely
secondary-that truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood. It's whether or not it leads to
freedom or slavery that establishes your final amount of truth, because fixation is only upon
falsehood. You can never get fixated on truth. That's quite a fascinating thing.
Truth is an all-freeing mechanism. If it is not all-freeing, then the truth to some degree must
be limited-either limited in its conception or limited in its reception limited in its
application. So that you can say that anything you were worried about must have a falsehood
connected with it. There is always a lie connected with anything that you are having a hard
time with.
You go out and you can't start your car. And you fool around with it and fool around with it
and fool around with it, trying to start the car. And you finally realize that it must be the
carburetor. So you have the carburetor fixed. And you still can't start your car. Obviously you
conceived a falsehood about the car. It couldn't have been the carburetor because after you
fixed the carburetor the car still didn't run. This is easily demonstrated in the field of
mechanics you see, because things run or don't run. So there was a connection with your
analysis of what is wrong with the car.
Now you say, "Well, it's probably the spark," and you fix the spark in some way and the car
runs. Therefore, that must have been the truth.
Well, we can't observe, to that degree, people running or not running. Their motors don't purr
or stop, and they appear to be all right when they're not and they appear to be not all right
when they are. And very often an auditor has been very embarrassed at the end of session to
sort of start apologizing for what a terrible session it's been and get the whole load in his face
on the subject of taking away the PC's gains: "Why, I had a fine session! It's a marvelous
session! Found out a lot of things! Had a terrific time!" you see, and so forth. Far as the
auditor's observation was concerned, the PC was sitting there quite glumly and hadn't had
much of a session.
All right, another way: An auditor is looking at the PC, and the PC is smiling sweetly and so
forth, and so forth. And actually the PC is practically spun in by the session, don't you see?
Now, you can make that observation of the PC a modus-well, a cause here.
Let's look at how far we have come in this direction. You are actually now in a position to
determine, without the faintest difficulty, whether it was a good session or a bad session for
the PC without asking the PC. Now, that's rather terrific. This doesn't look like much, don't
you see? But that's pretty terrific.
If the PC got an acceptable amount of tone arm action in the session, the PC by session end
might have even been roughed up by something but still would have had a gain and will be
fine the next day. But the PC who did not get tone arm action in the session will not feel good
at session end, no matter what they say, and the next day will probably feel terrible. One
session, no TA action: PC bad off.
Now, that doesn't look like much. That doesn't look like much That looks like a datum which
you now know and which you're living by and auditing by and it just doesn't look like much.
Actually, there was more wisdom in that discovery than there has been in the former fifty
thousand years of thinking man, because it immediately and directly took out of the realm of
inspection, worsening or improvement as a result of treatment. There's no opinion about it
now. We don't have to depend on the auditor's opinion or the' PC's opinion. There's no
dependency on that at all. Did you get tone arm action of an adequate amount? All right, then
that PC is going to feel good at the end of session and the PC is going to feel better the next
day. You didn't get an adequate amount of tone arm action: The PC is not going to feel good
at the end of session and not going to feel better the next day, no matter what the PC says.
Now, once in a blue moon you can turn off a somatic and the PC feels nice about the somatic
going off, without getting a great deal of tone arm action- without getting a great deal of
tone arm action. But you watch that PC during the next forty-eight hours and exactly the
same result will occur. I mean, we haven't stepped sideways from the basic data involved in
it at all.
Now, that's interesting. That's interesting. Therefore, just on that little grounds alone, we
must know something about the mind and be able to do something about the mind which is in
excess of what has been done about the mind. Look at the tininess of what I am giving you
here, you see? That's hardly anything, you see? But that truth will hold up-that truth will
hold up. You say, "Well, it's a mechanical truth, it's an application truth, it's this kind of a
truth." But nevertheless it'll hold up.
As you go along and audit, you will find out that that truth holds up. In fact, you're finding it
out right now. You've sat there over a stuck tone arm for two and a half hours, you've looked
at the end of session and the PC has been going groan and creak, and it hasn't been going too
well. And if you cared to look at the PC a few hours later, you'd find the PC sort of caving in,
in various spots. PC [will] be nattery to you in the next session and that sort of thing. By the
time you've gone three sessions without any tone arm action, you will start wishing you had
never started auditing this PC in the first place, because the reactions are going to be rather
extreme. In other words, this will follow out a general observation.
So therefore, we must be dealing, where we're dealing with the PC, in certain principles of
action. Those principles of action are also very elementary. They fall back immediately upon
the idee fixe: the stable datum and the confusion. And it must mean that all confusion's are
there, and therefore all masses are there? because they are held in abeyance so far as
observation is concerned, ant will never as-is, by a stable datum. A stable datum, then,
prevents observation of the environment or these masses and therefore accumulates masses.
A stable datum is a dam erected across the river, and with that stable datum firmly in place no
water is going to flow.
Now, what is wrong with the mind? Well, it must be that a stable datum was adopted in lieu
of inspection. A person ceased to inspect. For some reason or other he fell back from
inspecting, fell back from living, fell back from being anywhere and just let everything go to
pieces. Oh, he says, "Well, I'll put this stable datum there and the devil with it all. To hell
with it. I'm . . ." He either said, "I'm incompetent" or "I'm bored with it" or "I want to be
elsewhere," or something of the sort. He said something. But he still put a datum there to
substitute for his own observation and his own coping with life and the situation at large.
And at that moment he started to get an accumulation of confusion. Because you can write "I
eat pie" on a piece of paper and put it in the middle of a bake shop and it won't do a thing: It
won't bake any pies, it won't buy any pies, it won't sell any pies, it won't do a thing. You can
put "bake shop" over the door so that people will know that's where the bake shop is, and
start handing out pies and selling pies and doing things like that, and you have handled a
confusion just to that degree. But the moment you put "bake shop" in the middle of the place
and take the baker out, you haven't got a bake shop. See, it's pretty obvious.
Well, when the thetan did a bunk and left an idea where he was, after that no confusion gets
as-ised, but on the contrary, rather develops at a high rate of speed. You get more and more
confusion's and less and less as-ising. And eventually this develops what we call mass-
mental mass.
Once you shake up that stable datum-whether you find the exact stable datum or not-once
you shake it up by finding a cousin datum to it or finding something in its perimeter, you
have taken some bricks out of the dam that is lying across the river, and water is going to start
to flow down that river. And as it flows it tends to wipe away more and more stable data. And
true, as in any hydraulic works, you're going to get more flow and more widening of the hole
the flow is going through, the more flow there is. You've got to start the flow flowing.
Now, how does the stable datum become so fixed? It becomes fixed by the very thing it's
supposed to confront. It gets fixed by the confusion it's supposed to handle and doesn't. And
the more it is in place to hold back the confusion, the more confusion batters at it, so the more
accumulation of confusion you get around the vicinity of this stable datum.
It's something like twirling a bowl of taffy or something like that-twirling a fork in it.
You're just going to get more and more taffy on the fork, don't you see? Because it is there.
If it weren't there, you weren't going to get any.
Now, it might be there to remedy the confusion: actually it accumulates confusion's. And you
get more and more accumulation of confusion and therefore more and more mass, and more
and more this; and more and more that, and more and more eradication, and less and less
ability to inspect and communicate on the part of the individual. And finally the whole house
gets full of these things. And the guy has got no place to move anymore and he sore of sits
there and he himself is one of these things. And you can't find the PC because he's just
another stable datum. He knows, see, and so on.
And man: man has gone the route. Man talks about the brain when he talks about the mind.
And if you want a commentary-if you want a commentary on a state of mental
technology-just look for the degree that the thinkingness or beingness of the man is
considered to be mass. And the more a being is considered to be mass, the lower the
technology extant will be found to be. Why? They're just dramatizing the stable datum and
the confusion.
So you look for modern science. Modern science says, "Man's an animal -ha-ha." See?
"Man is an animal. And it's-he's a brain, and electronic impulses go this way and that way
and that causes thought."
What have you got here? What have you got here? You've got a brain substituted for the
being. And if all mental technology believes that, what kind of condition must those
practitioners be in? They're in the condition which you see them in today. That's pretty grim.
They're hard people to have anything to do with.
Now, you wonder why they are hard to train. And they are hard to train. And one of these
fine days you'll be training them. Just remember that their whole orientation has already
added up to a tremendous confusion which has used a brain as a stable datum.
So you'd run a process like "Tell me all about the brain." "What decisions have you made
about the brain?" And you're going to get tone arm action. And all the charge of the former
confusion's which have been stopped by false data is going to flow by on your E Meter tone
arm. And the next thing you know, they have enough inspection ability to learn. And that's
why they're hard to teach. That's all. Because all the knowledge you're handing them, they
do this with it: You say, "Now, there is the idea of flows. And when a flow flows too long in
one direction it tends to get stuck."
And this is the way they receive this datum: "Uh . . . let's see, a flow flows too long. . . brain.
They're talking about blood. Uh . . . this is a discussion, then, of the causes of coronary
thrombosis." So they write down "Coronary thrombosis, diagnosis of." Get the idea?
What's holding this . . . ? Well, how come? How come there's no inspection? Well, because
they're even depending on their own brains to do their inspection for them. You imagine a
thetan getting so lazy that the brain is going to inspect everything for him.
Well now, this, then, is actually just putting your attention on the limitations of beings to the
recognition of truth or falsehood. And that recognition is limited in direct ratio to the amount
of fixation upon a stable datum. And that's the degree of limitation. Very important principle.
How then can an individual who is totally boundaried and bound in and totally fixated-ant
he himself is a stable datum by this time; he's no longer a living being-how can he be
expected to get anywhere? What can you do for him?
Well, you think, well, let's see, there's two approaches here. You could take a datum of
enormous magnitude and you could hold a gun on him and you say, `If you don't believe this
new stable datum, we will shoot you." I'm not now talking about an unused method, see?
You say, "Heil Hitler, or you'll at once be talking to the Schutzstaffel" see? That's a
substitution of a datum for understanding. He'll be talking to the Schutzstaffel, promptly.
Patriotism rises on every hand. See, everybody says "Heil Hitler" all the time, and eventually
the nation goes down in defeat. Why does it become defeated? Well, there's nobody there
stopping any confusion or handling anything at all except a stable datum known as "Heil
Hitler."
Mussolini's empire went the route. One of his boys was always expected to call Rome if he
had to make a decision. Now, when the Allies first went into Sicily they had to appoint some
of these blokes back into civil positions. First they appointed a whole new batch and found
out they'd appointed the Mafia into total control of everything. And they had to reverse this
and get some of the old Fascist officials. And they said th ! only thing wrong with them was
they couldn't think for themselves. They always had to call Rome to know what to do with a
piece of paper or something of the sort, and the lines were real busy. But that empire too went
down to defeat.
So this method of holding the pistol or the sword or the fist and saying "accept this stable
datum or else," and so forth, has a level of workability. And it is used, but normally ends up
in greater slavery and certainly less effectiveness. It can be counted on to wind up with less
effectiveness-less IQ.
Now, we made a study in Johannesburg, inadvertently, but made a study down there of a
bunch of papers that came through from school children. And we had one school that was
tested from one end to the other down there in the test department. It was quite interesting to
see the deterioration of the IQ of the child. I think the highest IQ that we measured in
Johannesburg was a seven-year-old boy, if I remember rightly. I may have this data wrong.
But he had an IQ of about 200. And that was about the highest IQ we had around there.
So, but studying the school at large as they had progressed from class to class to class to
class, you saw a deterioration of their IQ. Well, that was an interesting commentary on the
school, because the school was never asked to inspect anything, never asked to understand
anything. But they had to accept this as a datum, never inspect it in any way, shape or form,
and let it stand as a substitute for themselves. Of course, you got a deterioration of IQ. Right?
Now, there'd be a whole new level of education if you said to somebody, "Look this over
very, very carefully and decide what is true about it and what is false about it and what is
workable and what is unworkable." That's a whole new zone and area of education, and a
very interesting zone and area of education. But you see at once what limits it; With
everybody fixated on his own special idea by which he's going to tell rightness from
wrongness, that, as a totality, can't exist. But it's another idea, you see?
Now, this would be another method of going about this: And that would be to free up
people's ideas so their perimeter of inspection increased, and having increased, let them
inspect the data which lies before them. Therefore, you have a sort of a cross of these two
schools of thought. You lead them up with a certain disciplined action that finally shows
them their idee fixe- inadvertently, not even intentionally, but just leads them right straight
to that. That then, knocked out of the way, shows them a greater perimeter of understanding,
and you could lead them forward continuously to higher and higher levels of understanding
and to total freedom. Because remember that the individual is trapped to the degree that his
ideas are fixed.
You're actually leading any person who is not Clear, then, out of a morass of entrapment, not
out of a morass of ignorance. And he's trapped to the degree that his ideas are fixed.
Therefore, it is of the greatest importance to you to find, first and fastest, the idea on which he
is the fixedest. That's very important, then. And that would give you the speed of processing.
That determines the speed that processing is done at. It's how fast can you find the idee fixe
and free the individual for a broader perimeter of inspection.
Exteriorization, even the state of OT, depends upon bringing about greater states of freedom,
not greater states of wisdom. This is an important differentiation, because the wisdom will
take place anyway. But by concentrating on the wisdom you are all too prone to fall over into
the idea of the implanted stable datum. But if you think of it in terms of freeing his attention,
you then lead to freeing the being.
The only thing that can trap a thetan is his attention. That is all that can trap a being-stone
walls do not, definitely.
You have a situation here where an individual is totally untrappable: completely and utterly
untrappable by anyone except himself. What traps a being is his unwillingness to confront
things which are not interesting to him, or to back out of situations in which he has lost
interest, or to move off and go his way but still, somehow or another, be responsible for
where he was and what combinations lead to this situation.
Well, we are studying, now, how does an individual fix his attention and then substitute for
himself or for thinkingness or for something else, some inanimate postulate? Joe was here,
you see? Here he is as a thetan, able to contest, confront and handle any of the confusion's in
his direction, see? And actively doing so.
Now, he says, "I have an unconscious mind that does all that."
How has he trapped himself?
He says, "This is an unawareness area which is going to handle these confusion's."
Steen-trillion-squillion years afterwards, Sigmund Freud comes along and finds the
unconscious mind. Well, actually, the unconscious mind would be that totality of stable data
which are holding back that totality of confusion which the individual is no longer aware of
but is still doing.
Well, so much for freedom and slavery. That's all it amounts to: it's freedom and slavery-of
the individual's fixed attention and so forth.
Now, of course, the individual can go to extreme and extraordinary limits. They say, "Well,
you are the auditor and I'm depending on you utterly as my auditor to free me. And therefore
my idea is fixed on you, so therefore I ought to be able to go off and self-audit myself, and so
forth, because it's very bad to have my attention fixed on you as an auditor" Well, that's
strictly ding, ding, ding, here comes the wagon. You're not part of his stable data. You're part
of his environment. There's a slight difference. You are freeing his attention, not entrapping
it. There's a difference.
Now, how does all that add up in our modern swing and quick look around on technology? I
have just given you all the important data. I haven't given you the ramifications of this data
or how it becomes fixed in this and how a thetan exactly does it. I haven't given you any of
the mechanics of the situation. But I actually have given you the fundamental rationale which
brings about aberration. And actually they're-you can name a lot of parts to all this, but
you've got it right here in just what I've just got through telling you. There's actually no
more in the essence of the broad theory to the subject than just what I have told you. There's
really no more to it.
Now, the technology of how you free up somebody's attention; the exact method of how it is
entrapped; the exact comparisons that trap it; the exact things he does to form these
entrapments and that sort of thing: That's a broader field of technology. But it nevertheless
has a total dependency on the data which I've just now given you.
And when you are looking for the PC's service facsimile, therefore you are looking for that
thing in present time on which his ideas are most fixated-his attention is most fixated in
present time. That is what you're looking for when you have a service facsimile. If you find
any cousins, sisters, aunts of the service facsimile kicking around and knock those out-any
other stable data that are around-you're going to get tone arm flow. There's going to be
flow and it's going to express itself on that tone arm.
"Horses sleep in beds": you inadvertently hit on "bedside tables." Oh, you get lots of flow,
because "bedside tables" is part of the bed, don't you see? And you get flow, flow, flow,
flow, flow-"bedside tables," you see? You don't ever expect that it's connected with beds,
much less suspect it's connected with horses.
But you've got your paws on "bedside tables." Therefore, you're finding something which is
at least a first cousin to his service facsimile.
Service facsimile by definition is the last oppterm or terminal that the individual has or is
forming-has formed or is forming. It's the last pair of RIs in combination-it's that pair that
makes it-last pair of RIs formed up at the top of the last GPM postulated. That's exactly
what the service facsimile is. It isn't anything else. But you're going to find a lot of cousins
sitting around in there. Of course, he's busy getting this one together, see? Who opposes
horses sleeping in beds, you see? "A horse master," you see? So he's busy being a horse
master, or something like this, and that's his beingness and stable datum for life, you see?
And what he is opposing is horses sleeping in beds, but horses sleeping in beds he believes . .
. You can get some kind of a ramification out of that. I'm not now trying to give you a neat
picture of these last two items. That's beside the point, but just take it that they're there, see?
Now, sitting around in their vicinity you've got all kinds of things: you've got a horse
master's hat, you see, so you've got a hat; you've got a whip; you've got boots; and you've
got bed-or you've got posts, you see; or you've got sheets; or you see, you've got all of
these little additional items, see? There are tremendous numbers of items scattered around
here, completely aside, you see, from a horse master and a bed and a horse, see? There is
much more stuff. You get your hands on any one of those little things and you're going to get
some tone arm action.
Tone arm action actually depends on your getting your paws on one of those things. You can
call any one of them, for just practical purposes, you can call them, "Well, I found a service
fac," or something like that. I don't care whether you call it or not. That's not neat. That's not
neat. You won't know whether it's a service fac or not until you've found the actual GPM
and found its two top items. And then you'll know what the service fac really was. And your
face is going to get somewhat red, see? It's "horses sleep in beds," you see, and it's
something about horses in beds, you see? And man, you had it all figured out that it was
bedside tables and had to do with the second dynamic, you know? You had it taped. Didn't
have anything to do with the second dynamic at all. It had to do with the fifth dynamic. Quite
amusing. You'll nearly always find yourself that far off when you're just entering from the
top with R3SC. So just expect to be. You'll be on the safe side.
The chances of your actually finding the service facsimile itself in a combination of two items
is not merely rare-it's impossible. So get that well. It's impossible-can't be done. It
requires the illumination of knowing they are part of that bank before they are recognizable to
the PC. PC just won't recognize them, that's all. Even if you found them, the PC would reject
them because they don't identify with the goal. You don't have the combination of the last
goal (closest to PI, you see), and those two RIs and their relationship to that goal. And then,
you've got to get those three things before you get a total "Hey! What do you know!" See?
And then you get it, see? But before that, you could have actually had it on the list and it
wouldn't have meant anything to the PC.
So you're not going to find the PC's service facsimile. Do you understand? But go ahead, try
like mad, because it's on that route that you're going to find the last GPM.
Every one of these little goof ball things like "the bedside table," "a bedside lamp," "a
chamber pot that sits under the bed"-any one of these things . . . You find these things, you
know, and he adds them all up and that fits over there and they don't fit any such place, but
that's all right. He adds them all up. And you get tone arm action, tone arm action. You list
for the thing. And he won't get any real relationship of how this relates with that. But he'll
get some action. It does mean something in his environment does have something to do with
By the way, tremendous subjects come into this. Somebody suddenly going to cognite that
we're dealing with, also, Freudian fetishism. This is Freudian fetishism. Some narrow
perimeter of this would be fetishes. You know, the guy is absolutely fixated on getting ahold
of women's dancing pumps, you know? He has closets full of them, you see? All of this sort
of thing. That's a Freudian fetish. They went through all sorts of wild things along this
particular direction. But they're simply objects associated, on some distant perimeter, with
the service facsimile. And, of course, a person seldom is that fixated on any object. It actually
is not common to all cases. But you will find these things around and it's rather fun to look at
them. You'll find grandfather's pipe, or something like that, you see? Oh, you get lots of
action on the thing, you see? Terrific, you see? `c had an ally, and he'll figure it all out and
he's got it all taped, and that sort of thing. And he won't have anything to do with it. When
you finally get the service facsimile, service facsimile maybe has something about pipes in it,
you know, "steam pipes" or something, not anything about smoking pipes
But you got too close an identification, see? So all of these things get identified into the
bundle because he is incapable of inspecting them very freely; they cross-associate and you
can bleed charge.
Now, what has got the PC so restimulated that you can't get tone arm action? The two top
RIs of the last GPM formed or being formed. That's what's got him so restimulated; that's
what makes his present time so miserable. And that's what charges up his tone arm so it
won't move. It even cross-influences into auditing restimulation, because his auditing is
being monitored by these two top RIs.
So, when you get down to the-the final chips are in, you haven't got any choice but to find
the PC's goal. Not the PC's backtrack goal "to be a giant," you see? That's a very nice goal,
and we appreciate that he had that goal, but that happens to be trillions-seventy ago. You
can't even write trillions-seventy on this wall. You couldn't. Just writing along with normal-
sized figures, just writing and writing and writing, you couldn't write them on this wall.
That's a lot of time. And that's not present time!
You can, however, go skipping; by goal-oppose, goal-oppose, goal-oppose, goal-oppose, you
can bring it on up to PT, see? When you get it up to PT, why, you'll see it ticking as the PI
goal. And it ticks "yes"-you knows Ouija-boards your meter. "Is this the present-time
GPM?" you see? "Is this the goal you've last formed? This the goal closest to present time?"
Tick, you see? All right, and whatever the goal says, "Is this a right goal?" Tick. "This a
wrong goal?" No read. "Is it a wrongly worded goal?" No read. "Right goal?" Tick. "Present
time goal?" Tick.
Then you look it over yourself and find out whether or not you think so. Like, it could be the
goal "to be big," you see, or something like this. And that's a present-time goal? Ha-ha-ha-ha.
Look! Self-evident: The fellow's here on earth. That isn't his present-time goal-self-evident.
And he probably would have made some part of it if he had, don't you see? It may look too
high-toned a goal to you, in which case you do another goal-oppose on it. And the worst that
will happen to you-the very worst that will happen to you-is that you just run into greater
and greater quantities of tone arm action. You're doing a goal-oppose, but it is the present-
time goal, so you're peeling off the lower goals off of it.
Well, you'll eventually see you'll just run into more and more tone arm action, so you just
ask it on the meter, "Is this the present-time goal?" And you get a nice read, now, see? And
there it is, and you list for its top oppterm, you know? "Who or what would be the latest item
formed or the latest idea formed concerning this goal `to catch catfish'?"-whatever it is. List
it out, get a reasonable list, not 189 pages, listing the guy back and forth, up and through and
back and forth through his GPM, and back and forth through his GPM, and back and forth
through his GPM, eye sockets getting darker ant darker and face getting blacker and blacker,
and back and forth through his GPM . . . "Well, we actually haven't run all the tone arm
action out of it yet, we've only got 189 pages of listing...."
No, I'm afraid that isn't quite the sensible way to go about it. You're listing to find the top
oppterm. However you find the top oppterm is how you find the top oppterm, see? You want
the top oppterm-you don't want a list. And when you do this reasonable length of list, you
know, and you got a clean needle listing to clean needle is very excellent-and you got a
clean needle, why, there you've got it. And you null it down and you see one of them goes
click, of one kind or another, nice little slash or a surge or something. Let the PC cognite on it
for a while, prepcheck it and you'll see the most gorgeous rocket read you ever saw, and you
needn't have seen a second, momentary, even-for-an-instant rocket read the whole way. And
that's a discovery.
Now, the way you've been finding goals is you get the goal and you lay it out and you
prepcheck it, and if it doesn't rocket-read it isn't the goal, and so forth. And you have to
prepcheck it until it rocket-reads, and this thing is falling off the pin, and so forth.
Hey, what if this goal is "to be God," trillions-hundred. And you're prepchecking some PC at
trillions-hundred while his top RI is "auditing": What do you think is liable to happen? The
RI, the service fac in which he is sitting and that he's frozen in right here in present time, is
"auditing." And that's an oppterm. And the terminal is "a screamer" or "an ARC-breaky PC."
Found that on a list the other day, and the auditor tried to sell it to me as a terminal. It turned
out to be an oppterm, fortunately.
But look-a-here: There he is up here in PT with all that restimulation, see, in his environment
and everything else falling in on his head. Those RIs are all ready to pull in. You take him
back to trillions-a-hundred to prepcheck a goal? You going to get there? You going to see an
RR? You're going to see an ARC-breaky PC. Going to be a little bit too much strain, isn't it?
So what's this add up to? This adds up to the difficulties in finding PC's goals was getting
PC's goals to rocket read. That was the difficulty in finding PC's goals, not getting the PC to
volunteer what his goal was, because PCs are always giving you a big sell on what their goal
is. See, that's easy. You say to somebody . . . so forth and so on. You can finally get
something to read in this direction, see? But to get it to rocket read, to get it all polished up
and laid out and that sort of thing, that was our trouble.
Well, you can do this whole operation without any prepchecking and bring it off with only
ticks up to the point where you have prepchecked the top oppterm. And your first rocket read
is after you've prepchecked-after you've given the PC the top oppterm and prepchecked
it-and then, and only then, do you see your first rocket read. And it'll be gorgeous. You
don't even have his GPM rocket-reading; you don't even have the goal rocket-reading; you're
not doing anything with it at all. That's the way to find a service fac. Slippery. Sneaky.
Now, I'll give you the exact way you go about this, because I've left you rather stonied and it
is not quite complete. But I haven't told you all the steps either! Now, the first thing you do is
to find what you fondly hope is, and which the PC implicitly believes is, his service
facsimile, which gives you enough tone arm action to act as an anchor to windward. This is
Saint Hill method of finding-it's not just finding somebody's service facsimile, but actually
clearing the whole case to OT. Here's the way you go about it, see?
You just hunt and punch around enough till you know you've got your paws on something
that will bring about excellent tone arm action. And then you don't use it. Well, what do you
want it for? Well, just for this reason: If you run a session totally without tone arm action,
your PC is going to be pretty miserable and he's not going to get any gain from auditing and
his morale is going to go down, he's going to feel bad the next day, and you're going to get
into a no-auditing situation with great rapidity, see? So we take this-this thing called a
service fac; we hunt and punch around until we find something that can produce tone arm
action, We know it can. All we've got to do is prepcheck it or run right-wrong on it or
domination. The PC is trying to cognite on it, you know, and that sort of thing, and trying to
run this thing desperately and get tone arm action and all that sort of thing. And you
politely-you've found it, see? And for some reason or other you don't do anything with it.
It's going to produce tone arm action, though.
Now, therefore, you can afford half of your next session, if not two thirds of it, to flounder
around where the GPMs are growing, with no tone arm action at all. And if you haven't
gotten any tone arm action in the first half or two thirds of the session, and you haven't really
got anyplace or got your hands on anything and you made a few bum steers, you can still
cheerily, cheerily, cheerily say to the PC, "All right, now we're going to run your service
facsimile."
"Why the hell weren't you doing it earlier?"
"Well, that's right. That's all right. It's all right," and so on, see?
So, pocketa, pocketa, pocketa, pocketa, pocketa; get some TA action, TA action, TA action;
the PC comes out of it feeling fine. He's got some auditing, right?
Next session he comes back in expecting to run "peanut boilers" or whatever it was; you start
looking for GPMs, see? Half the session, two thirds of the session goes by and you still
haven't produced adequate tone arm action, you still got a service facsimile to run, see? So he
gets a session, doesn't he? Everything's fine his morale is staying up and everything is fine.
The next session-if you're going this long (you've just been a complete knuckle head up to
this point, see?)-you do your other list, and you've ruled out a few things now, and what
you've tried isn't so good, and so forth.
Now, this one, about a third of the way through the session, you've found the goal "to be
wonderful." And it went tick! And you said to the PC, "Is that your actual goal or is that an
implant GPM?" And your search-out found it to tick every time you said "Is that an actual
goal of yours?"
Well, we're not going to get that thing to rocket-read, because that is way back down the
track. But we're going to go "What goal would oppose `to be wonderful'?" And we're going
to complete a list and we're going to find a goal and we're going to use this goal we find-it
just ticked (the goal we find); just nice, healthy tick left in on the list, see? And we're going
to ask about this goal. "This goal: Is that an actual GPM?" Don't you see? Going to go
through the same routine as though we'd just found it, see, originally. "Is that an actual
GPM? Is that," you know, "your own GPM?" and so forth. And "Is it . . . ?" so forth. And "Is
it a present-time goal?" And of course, naturally, it isn't, most of the time.
You got it all straight-don't prepcheck it or anything silly like that because we don't want it
live, see? Now let's roll up our sleeves and do a new goal-oppose list, see, and it was "to be a
schnook," see? So we say, "What goal would oppose `to be a schnook'?" see? And we get
"To be an evil being," or something like this, don't you see? That's pretty high-toned for
present time. Do the same thing with it, sort it all out, don't you see? And we finally move
him up. We don't care if we moved him through twenty of these things, see? We found this
little tab out. There was one goal that he claimed was his goal, see, and we could get a tick
every time we said "Is that your goal personally-not an implant goal?" He's always very
interested in it.
You guys are very lucky. For instance, I can look right over here: Guy over there's got a goal
"to understand," see? I can look over here; I know what goal you've got; just watching your
records, you understand? You know, because absorbed attention whenever you hit those
implant goals, you know, boy! That ran, you know, boy, that was a good one. Got a big send
out of this implant goal. Hell, naturally you got a big send out of the implant goal. It was your
own goal, except that was the implant lock on it.
See, so you're rich. So anyway, you just take that goal-take that goal and say, "Is that your
actual goal?" Tick, see? And so on. And do a goal-oppose list and move that thing by goal-
oppose list only, you see, up to PT. And you finally get something. "Is this your PT goal?"
You're very suspicious of that because sometimes you can be three goals away from the PT
GPM, and it will still read "It's your PT goal." We just haven't discovered that other.
There's reasons for this, too, and I can give you the clue of what happens. When you've got
the PT goal and you do a goal-oppose list against it, you don't t land the guy up in the future
with Buck Rogers, see?
So you just do your goal-oppose, your goal-oppose-a reasonable length of list, see? And
you just list your needle clean, null the thing down-it ought to null easily-and you get your
goal-oppose list item. And you've got a new goal; go through the same business with that.
You could occasionally, you know, mess it up. You didn't get the right goal or you fell into
an implant goal. But you'll sort all that out on a meter. So you just make sure that you got the
PC's own goal and it's closer to PT than the goal you had last time, see?
All right. Now, when you finally get his PT goal you can still be suspicious of it and list
"What goal would oppose it?" See? "To drown myself," see? That's a nice PT goal, see? "To
drown myself." That's pretty real for PT. All right. (Now, I don't say that' ~ be anybody's
actual goal; that's why I'm paraphrasing it.) All right. So we list "What goal would oppose
it?" and we can't make it. We can't do anything with this list because we keep developing
more and more tone arm action.
We're not now developing less and less tone arm action, the way you do on a normal goal-
oppose list, you see, if you're not up there. You're going to produce more and more tone arm
action. This needle is going to get floppier and floppier and looser and looser. The PC isn't
going to ARC break, mostly because you're listing toward what his ideas would be sometime
in the future, don't you see? But you're actually unburdening this goal. And when you start
running the PI goal, you just start running into more and more TA action, and more and more
TA action, so you know better than to continue that list. When I'm saying "more and more
TA action," I mean TA action-not .25 divisions every hour, or something like that. I'm
talking about TA action, you know? You know, TA action. You know, it's action. You
know? You know, action! Good action! Hot. And you start running and you find the further
you run the hotter it gets. Yeah, you know you must be listing a goal-oppose against the Pr
goal, because there isn't anything there to list against, and all you can do is run out the Pr
You can also sometimes produce a blowdown: When you've picked up the PC's goal, you list
against it, produce more tone arm action, you sometimes can produce a tremendous amount
of blowdown by saying "Are there several of your own goals on this list?" Ppssssewwww!
See? You just picked up his goal out of thin air and started listing-it was the PT goal. Well,
of course, you list backtrack goals off the thing. You won't find one of them. See, you'll just
keep listing them. And you'll find out a lot of them will start reading little bits. And the TA
action is the thing to keep your eye on, though. You just-by listing against the Pr goal,
"What would oppose that goal?"-you just get more and more TA action, see? Becomes a
fruitless task trying to find another goal.
Now you're real safe. The meter says that it's the Pr goal, and the list and everything says the
PI goal. Everybody knows it's the Pr goal. All right. You want to list for the top oppterm. By
this time, you no longer need this other service facsimile to windward, because you're
producing so much TA action that you won't be able to record it anyway.
So the thing to do is to list for that top oppterm and get yourself a nice list for the top
oppterm. Now, it isn't, probably, the top oppterm-the thing is truncated. So you really don't
know and the PC doesn't know if he's started to oppose the goal yet or not. You can ask that
on the meter and clarify it for the PC: "Have you started to oppose this goal yet? Or are you
still on the side of trying to execute it?" One or the other will read, and you can tell the PC so
he's got some kind of an idea of what to list for. But even that isn't totally reliable. But you
could help a PC out to that degree.
You merely want the latest opposition terminal formed for this GPM or for this goal "to catch
catfish" or "to drown myself" or whatever it is, see? And just have him list the thing.
All right, so we list this and you get one. You null it down. You got to list it to clean needle-
that's the main trick. And you list it down, you get a nice, clean needle and you null it. Don't
have two rocket-reading items on the list. All the listing directions apply here.
But I wouldn't worry too much about this or worry too much about whether it's the top
oppterm, because-you know, I mean, don't beat the guy to death for fifteen sessions trying
to find out if it's the top oppterm when it obviously is getting a hell of a lot of TA action-
"Well, don't cognite yet. We don't know it's the top oppterm. Yes, shut up, now. Be very
careful.
We don't know whether it's . . ." so on and so on. When you actually hit the top oppterm the
needle tends to go mad. I mean, if you hit the top oppterm and it went tick and you got no
tone arm action, no cognition, I would think at that moment you probably didn't have the top
oppterm.
This is the way to look at it. You know, the expected manifestation is that he's going to get a
lot of action out of this thing.
All right, there you are, you've got the top oppterm now, and there it is. Let the PC cognite
on them. One of the tricks of 3M2 is, after you've given the PC his item, you sit still. That's
one of the tricks. You sit still and let him cognite for awhile. When he kind of slows down on
this whole thing, you put in your Prepcheck buttons-big mid ruts, just big mid ruds on this
thing. Get as far as you can, or get as far as you can without annoying the PC. And call the
item and you're going to see a gorgeous rocket read. And it's probably the first rocket read
you will have seen in the whole operation.
See? Real slippy. That's real fancy. That's cutting corners. That's driving with one hand at
ninety miles an hour with your feet on the top of the windshield. You understand? That's
going around every corner on two wheels. That's making sure of nothing.
Now, I did that whole operation I have just accounted to you-did the whole operation-in
two hours and fifty minutes. I don't expect you to do it in two hours and fifty minutes, but
I'm not talking a theoretical procedure which hasn't been done.
I didn't find the service fac as part of that two hours and fifty minutes. That took me closer to
six hours. Something that would make the tone arm go boom! boom! boom! boom! see? So I
could turn it on-unburdened the case enough so the case could run. But then, every part-
other part of the operation I've told you, and (now listen carefully) the PC on no goals list
had ever put the present-time goal, including the operation I was conducting-had never
put this goal on a goals list and didn't while I was straightening it out and checking it.
This was a goal that I had seen give half a rocket read four months ago. It went . Just
accidentally called it. It was in a channel of implant goals, and couldn't get the implant goal
to run, and yet the thing went POW! see? I saw it do half a fire; couldn't get any close to it.
But ever afterwards, whenever you ticked it-called it-it ticked. Finally just said to the PC
out of thin air, "Is that your own GPM?" Tick! And used it. It turned out to be the PT GPM.
Now, that's what I mean by cutting around corners, because it's definitely against the law to
give a PC a goal. PC had never, at any time, had ever said that was the PC's goal. So that's
definitely against the law, and you shouldn't foist a goal off on the PC. And the only excuse I
would have to do this is the PC did mention it at the time it went tick-you know, did half a
rocket read. PC speculated on it for just an instant, months ago, and it was seen to fire.
So there were several other goals in this category that had been presented up at one time or
another, but none of those ticked as the PC's own goal. You could call those off: "To
disappear," see? "Now, is that your own actual goal?"-the deadest meter you ever saw, you
see? To this, to that, you see? You know, "to be sexual," to be this, to be that, you know?
Other kinds of goals that had from time to time been listed, you see? "Is that your own?" And
all of them flunked the test; none of them would read. And finally I remembered this other
one goal that I had seen read and mentioned that, and it went ping!' And that was it. Never
did see it rocket-read beyond a half-slash four months ago.
So this is done fast and rapidly, just from knowing the PC or from examining the PC's record
very carefully. Now, supposing you inherit a new PC? Well, he's mentioned goals and he's
thought of goals, and you look back through it again. And if you're real clever, you'll always
draw a red-pencil box around any goal or an important datum of this kind so it's easily track-
backable-to. See, that's very, very clever to do that on a PC's auditor reports, or print it big so
that it's indicated well.
But in actual fact, I don't think the PC would have come up with this goal under
interrogation. But there were several other goals, and on careful search I would have got one
of those to read. Because when they were listed, laterly, they tried to do little quarter-inch RR
slashes and they were the PC's actual GPMs.
In other words, here was a lot of points of interest. I'm just giving you the extreme case of an
auditor, four months before, has seen a goal do a half-flash when the PC mentioned it-see,
half a rocket-read. And then the auditor just runs out of chances, just on an indifferent-you
know, just shuffle out a few cards-the auditor says, "Well, I don't know. Let's see, what
goals have I seen, what have I ever seen rocket-read?" And pulls that goal out of the hat and
calls it, says, `Is that your own GPM?" Plang! See? You get the idea? But this is just auditor
observation of what has fired on the PC. Well, that's driving with one hand on the wheel and
your feet on the top of the windshield on a curving road at ninety miles an hour. You
recognize that? Because that's cutting it awful close.
All right, but what did one wind up with? One not only wound up with the PC's service
facsimile, with this exact operation I've given you: not only wound up with the PC's actual
service facsimile but in a position to run the PC all the way to OT. Chugata, chutgata,
chugata, chugata. See, twelve hours hence I will have that bank-the whole first GPM, every
item found in it-all the way down and found back up to the top and cleaned up slick as a
whistle, on the basis of an item every fifteen minutes, which is rather fast auditing but which
can be done. That's one goal down.
But when you hit that one RI, see, that first RI-when you really hit it right on the button-
that makes all the sense there is to make. This accounts
for all the present-time restimulation. This accounts for everything. And if you're only
looking for service facsimiles, that method I have just given you I would very thoroughly
recommend to you. Because it is safe to this degree: Supposing we had picked the wrong
goal? Supposing on our goal-oppose lists we hadn't come anywhere near finding the next
goal up? Supposing the many slips `twixt cup and preclear had occurred? We could still turn
around-put in the mid ruds for the session rather rapidly, turn around, get the PC some tone
arm action before the end of the session. PC would feel good, ready to go again, see? See,
that's all to the good. See? you're working it both ends from the middle.
You finally wind up with it. And it tells you, then, that the reason we have not been able to
find goals on PCs is because of the overburden of the top oppterm and the top terminal.
Accumulating, as they do, all of the debris of present time, they therefore mask the top GPM
or any other GPM we are looking for.
There sits the PC with the roof pulled in. And of course you can't get him to rocket-read like
that on his own actual goals. So his own actual goals have tended to stay a lost commodity.
But we used to find them. Two or three years ago, we used to find them with a tick. Many a
slip `twixt cup and lip, man, but we still were able to find them with ticks. Now, if you find
them and stack them in on an opposition-you know, "What goal would oppose (the goal you
found)?"-and you're moving the guy on up to PT, moving him up to the PT GPM. You
know now what it is. Now you list its top oppterm; you're going to find the PC's service
facsimile. It's going to make all the difference in the world.
And all of that overburden is suddenly going to go btuuhhh-floof ! And so, of course, at that
moment you don't call the goal, even. Just ignore it. You just got the top oppterm. It's going
to rocket-read like mad. Well, anything that improved the rocket read to that degree, you're
certainly on the GPM line. You haven't got anything misworded. There aren't any mistakes
here, man.
So you're going to oppose this thing; you're going to get the next one and you're going to
oppose that; and you're going on to the next and going to oppose; next one, going to oppose;
next one, going to oppose; and go on down to the bottom of the bank. And finally you arrive
at the bottom of it and you're going to clean that up. And you're going to list it right back on
up to top again and you're going to see meter action, meter action, meter action, meter action,
meter action.
Now he has a new problem. He has a new problem-brand-new problem now: He's against
detectives, see-against detectives now. Can't read the newspapers without getting all
restimulated-always coming into session restimulated. Terrible situation, you see? And we
find that we've got a GPM something like that-"to be unlocated," or something, you see?
We're running this and we handle it in the same way.
Of course we've got it now. And by running it properly and running it on down you're going
to be . . .
The only fault you have in actually running GPMs is not following a sensible routine. Over
listing, skipping banks, listing items backwards-these various traps and frailties and follies
that you can run into; skip down over a whole GPM and start running the one below, leaving
a whole GPM in place and then wonder why the PC is coming apart in the auditor's chair and
not notice it.
But look, we have all of our lists-ARC Break Assessments. They're all data-assembly
material now. You know what's going on. We got lots of things to prevent difficulties with,
one way or the other. Used to do long, long, long,
.., .;
long, arduous, arduous, arduous, arduous-oh! terrible, aching, painful lists. A goal-oppose
list of items to find a top oppterm, you see? Oh, my, my, my, my, on and on and on, a PC
caving in. Everybody hated to do one of those things because it was too grim. Actually take
the risk of asking the PC to do a "represent" on the top oppterm, see? "What might it be?" Do
a list, you know? These things have simplified.
Doesn't say that you're not going to make mistakes doing it, see? Doesn't say that, because
mistakes are there to be made. The picture I drew you yesterday is a picture of the bank and
that's exactly what you're running. That way you not only find that datum which prevents
observation in present time at any given instant, you also find the source of the datum, which
is the goal, and all other data related to it, and then all other lower goals on which it appends
and all other actions of whatever kind. When you get to the other end of the line you got an
OT. You're directly on your line.
That's how it is done. The only security measure that you take in it is to make sure that your
goal responds as the PC's goal, and make sure before you start on a bunch of listings and
fumblings around, of one kind or another, make sure-very, very sure-that you got an
anchor to windward: can you produce tone arm action on this PC?
All right. There's a very neat package of clearing. That is based on the exact essentials, the
construction of the human mind and on the truths I've given you in this lecture.
Wish you luck with it.
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Q: Mocking FileReference.data with mockolate? I'm trying to mock FileReference in a flex project I'm working on.
Stubbing out some properties, such as name and size works fine, but data just refuses to work.
Here is code that illustrates the problem:
[Test]
public function FileReferenceMockTest():void {
    var frMock:FileReference = nice(FileReference);
    var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
    stub(frMock).getter("data").returns(bytes);
    stub(frMock).getter("name").returns("filename");
    assertThat(frMock.name, equalTo("filename")); // works
    assertThat(frMock.data, sameInstance(bytes)); // Fails and says that frMock.data is null
}

If I set a breakpoint and check frMock in the debugger it looks like this:
frMock
    [inherited]
        data = null
    creationDate = null
    creator = null
    modificationDate = null
    name = "filename"
    __proxy__ = InterceptorProxyListener
    ...

As you can see, data is treated differently by the mock.
I've been banging my head against this problem for several hours now and could really really use some help figuring this out.
Update:
The code works when run either as a Flex Library Project or a Flex Project (Air). It's when the code is run in a browser plugin that it fails.
A check in the debugger in the library project also shows that the data property is not nested inside [Inherited], but on the same level as the other properties.
Update:
I encountered the same problem with URLLoader, but this time the other way around. Mocking of the URLLoader only works when running the tests in a browser plugin.
Since I'm creating a class to handle local and remote file loading, using either FileReference or URLLoader, depending on input, I'm effectively prevented from unit testing this class completely. :(

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India against trade pact on electronics
India plans to oppose the second instalment of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) information-technology agreement that proposes to do away with import tariffs on consumer durables and electronics items.
Signing the pact could result in a further disadvantage to the domestic electronics manufacturing industry, which lags because the country signed the first version of the agreement in 1996 and companies had little incentive to manufacture in India, officials of the department of electronics and IT and commerce said.
The new pact intends to include more consumer durable products such as air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines under the label of IT products.
"India is resisting such moves,' a government official said, requesting anonymity. "We will not be part of any such agreement."
The cabinet had just cleared the country's electronic policy that provides incentives for promoting indigenous manufacturing.
"If we bring down customs duty on such items to zero at this stage, we will only be shooting ourselves in our foot," the official said.
India's electronics manufacturing industry is suffering today because it signed the first instalment of the international agreement, another government official said, also declining to be named.
The argument in favour of pact is that it reduces prices due to economies of scale besides enabling developing countries to reap the benefits of cheaper technology. However, it also leads to concentration of technology in the hands of a few companies and, therefore, countries, the second official said. "It's an agenda driven by a few companies and we have taken a position to not join it this time."
India's electronics manufacturing industry is projected to grow at an annual pace of 22% to $125 billion (Rs.6.8 trillion) by 2014 and $400 billion by 2020, according to official estimates. However, if local manufacturing is not provided incentives, India's cost of importing electronics may exceed its crude import bill—$300 billion by 2020.
Participants to the agreement have grown to 70, representing about 97% of world trade in information technology products, according to information available on the world trade body's website.
The talks for second instalment began earlier this year.
Each country will propose a set of items that should be included in the pact before a final list is drawn up. An official with a lobby group, who is aware of the country's anti-pact stand, said it could invite pressure from large multinational technology companies, especially from the US, which see India as a huge market. He too requested anonymity.
Developed countries are trying to achieve some of their non-agricultural market access aspirations in the guise of the latest proposal, said Biswajit Dhar, director general at Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a New delhi-based think tank.
While developed countries have been pushing developing countries such as India and China to accept heavy tariff cuts in some of the industrial sectors under the languishing Doha round of trade talks, India has been maintaining that any such tariff reduction has to be voluntary and cannot be forced upon developing countries.
The government last week approved a national electronics policy, which includes incentives for semiconductor fabrication units and industrial clusters for manufacturing electronics. The cabinet had in July also approved a Rs.10,000 crore package of incentives for makers of electronics products and components under the so-called modified special incentive package scheme.
The policy also specifies standards for electronics imports to stop spurious goods from entering the country. A proposal for electronics clusters has also been approved. The government will offer incentives of Rs.50 crore each to 200 clusters set up by manufacturers.
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BASC is challenging a decision by Cheshire Constabulary to change its firearms licensing policy.
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Cheshire has amended its policy in line with changes made by police in Lincolnshire, Kent, Merseyside and Nottinghamshire.
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Mikhail Saakashvili, former Georgian president and former governor of the Ukrainian Odessa region, is surrounded by his supporters at a rally near the Justice Ministry in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2017. Saakashvili was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stripped former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship Wednesday, leaving him effectively stateless.
Saakashvili became a citizen of Ukraine and was appointed governor of Odessa by Poroshenko on May 30, 2015.
Ukraine's State Migration Services posted a statement July 26 mentioning Saakashvili by name and citing laws under which citizenship could be revoked, such as by submitting false documents with a citizenship application. The statement also mentioned unspecified documents recently sent by Georgian authorities.
The immigration service stated that Saakashvili's case, including the newly obtained documents, had been sent to the citizenship commission. According to Ukraine's constitution, the president makes "decisions on losses of Ukrainian citizenship based on the conclusions of the citizenship commission," the statement said.
Anton Garashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said in a post on Facebook that Saakashvili's citizenship application had not indicated any legal proceedings were outstanding against him, in Ukraine or elsewhere. However, at the time he was applying, a Georgian court had issued a warrant for his arrest in absentia; Saakashvili is still wanted in Georgia.
Neither Poroshenko nor Saakashvili responded to media requests for comment.
Saakashvili resigned as governor of Odessa last November after a dispute about the government's alleged failure to take action against corruption. He then established a new party, the Movement of New Forces.
The party said Wednesday on Facebook that it had no information about the revocation of Saakashvili's citizenship.
"If this information is confirmed, it will mean that Petro Poroshenko, in the spirit of his predecessor, has irrevocably gone down the path of unconstitutional action for usurpation and holding on to power at all costs," the party said.
Georgia's ambassador to Ukraine, Gela Dumbadze, confirmed to Rustavi2 television that Poroshenko signed the order to suspend Saakashvili's citizenship.
Saakashvili was president of Georgia from 2004 until 2013. He left Georgia after his term expired and after his National Movement Party lost its parliamentary majority in the 2012 elections, amid accusations of criminal activity, all of which he denied, declaring such charges were politically motivated.
Authorities in Tbilisi revoked Saakashvili's Georgian citizenship in December 2015, an automatic action when a Georgian citizen obtains a passport from a different country.
Georgia is seeking to extradite Saakashvili to face criminal charges arising from his time as president; he has been accused of calling for the use of force against protesters and of ordering a raid on the private television station Imedi. He has denied the charges and accused the current government of political persecution.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks at a press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, July 18, 2017. Poroshenko is on an official visit to Georgia.
During a state visit to Georgia July 18, Poroshenko said he was unaware of any request for Saakashvili's extradition. However, he later clarified his statement, saying instead that the Ukrainian prosecutor's office had refused to extradite Saakashvili because of a lack of documentation.
Last week, before Poroshenko revoked Saakashvili's Ukraine citizenship, Georgia's prosecutor general noted that the former Georgian president's new nationality would be "an obstacle" to his extradition.


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Yesterday (2019)
Food: As the quarantine has taken full effect, my food recommendations are becoming limited. I am going to give easy home recipes from stuff that you might have in the house that are semi-in theme with the film. A classic Beatles album is Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, so we will call this dish 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Dish' (very creative I know) and I am going to make a black bean (so British) mixture that bakes inside a pepper! First you get a large red or green bell pepper and cut the top off, and then clean out the insides so you are left with a pepper shaped bowl. Then, you put Black Beans, avocado and brown rice on the inside. Cook for about 10-15 minutes in the oven on 350 degrees. Take out, top with shredded cheese and sour cream! Voila!
Film: "Yesterday" (2019) is a film that has so much potential, but fails to utilize that potentially so terribly that it was actually frustrating to watch. The concept generally is what if there was a world where The Beatles never existed. However, in a film that is trying to depict the absolutely staggering brilliance of the band, it somehow does the exact opposite. And not intentionally.
I have four main gripes with the film. First, "Yesterday" confuses its approach on whether or not The Beatles would have the same success in the 21st century as they did in the sixties. Next, there are major plot holes that go mostly unacknowledged and end up feeling like a distraction, rather than an accentuation. Further, the writing and choices made to tell this story were goofy. And, lastly, the characters felt wasted.
If "Yesterday" was a film that was trying to show that The Beatles could never have the same momentum today, then, fine. Because that feels true. It was part of a larger cultural movement which spurned on others and with the landscape of interests and the over-stimulation in music and entertainment today, it feels like no band is ever going to be sensationalized the way that bands were in the 1960's. But, that is not what "Yesterday" did. Instead, the film decides that the music of The Beatles was so flawless and undeniably 'good' that any no-name who just picked up a guitar at a local shop and started haphazardly strumming would achieve instant success. The songs performed with modern production design and one man singer-songwriter showmanship to the blind love of millions feels so off it is almost comical. Would "A Hard Day's Night" have the same impact on folk-rock sound if it was made after popular folk bands like Mumford & Sons, instead of being the band that paved the way for those? Would "Back in the USSR" still move fans to tears 30 years after the Iron Curtain fell?
Next, the film introduces other phenomenons that also suddenly ceased to exist, but then refuses to follow up on them. Coca cola, Harry Potter, cigarettes, potentially Oasis… inexplicably gone. Are these all supposed to be tied together? Would the loss of one impact the ability for the other to exist? Why those particular novelties? Why would members of The Beatles exist, but their band never formed? Why did some other people similarly remember the band, but not everyone? The film leaves loads of questions unanswered and unaddressed to a bothersome degree. There is only so much of a plot that an audience should have to accept mindlessly. "Yesterday" consistently gives clues about its alternate universe without intending for them to mean something to such a degree that it is completely distracting.
Finally, Richard Curtis, screenwriter, is a master of charming and uncomplicated films (known for "Love Actually" 2003, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" 1994, and "Notting Hill" 1999). My favorite, "About Time" (2013), however, is an example where he explores a complicated premise, about a man who has the ability to travel in time, but the explanation is entirely unnecessary to the success of the characters and, therefore, the film. For the most part, Curtis thrives in the romantic comedy space when the human stories are at the forefront. Unfortunately, even that aspect of this film falls short. The writing feels cheesy, predictable and fails to even get much of a laugh. There is far too much Ed Sheeran in the film, and he is not a good actor, even while playing himself. The two lead characters are fantastic – Lily James is as delightful as ever and Himesh Patel is an excellent lead. But, their love story is baffling. There is no straight forward reason why they should not be together, but the arc of the film relies on them finally getting together, while much of the dialogue is just them discussing why they can't be together. It is boring and far-reaching for some semblance of conflict. Danny Boyle, conversely, has brought intricate story lines to the screen skillfully (see "Slumdog Millionaire" 2008), but the concepts are fully fleshed out. As a presumed homage to The Beatles experimental music videos and aesthetic, but the transitions look like screensavers and it feels cheesy.
There are plenty of thought-provoking, well-written revisionist history movies and books that speak to the impact that something or someone has on society. To contemplate a world where The Beatles, one of the most influential bands in popular music history, never was is a compelling prompt. But to pretend everything would be exactly the same, except the world would be missing some great tunes, is an affront to the entire concept. It is a shame that Curtis and Boyle didn't just opt for an endearing rom-com with James and Patel and call it a day, but "Yesterday" did not work for me.
2 responses to "Yesterday (2019)"
Kathy Ryan
Loved this review. It was honest and helped me to decide that I wouldn't waste my time on this movie. That is why you are such a good reviewer because they are not all most sees.
ingloriousbaguettes
Yeah sometimes you gotta be harsh but true! Thank you so much for the support as always!!!


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Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit est un recueil de poèmes de Victor Hugo, publié en 1881.

Conditions de rédaction du recueil
Hugo avait formé le projet de ce nouveau recueil dès 1870 : « J'ai une œuvre prête à être lancée à la mer » écrivit-il à son propos en mai de cette année. Le titre n'était pas définitivement choisi ; Hugo notait encore Le Quadrige de l'esprit ou Le Quadrige du songeur, mais le contenu et l'agencement semblait bien déterminé. Il s'agissait du premier projet de Hugo de faire une somme de sa poésie, plus ou moins en parallèle avec ce Toute l'âme également projeté (et qui devint ensuite, mais de manière posthume, Toute la Lyre) et dont Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit étaient peut-être conçus pour être une partie.

Les événements récents, la guerre de 1870, la Commune, l'établissement de la Troisième République, repoussèrent la publication du recueil au profit d'œuvres plus actuelles comme la nouvelle édition des Châtiments, l'Année terrible et l'Histoire d'un crime. Finalement le recueil fut publié le .

Structure
Il est présenté en quatre « livres », qui sont autant de facettes de l'art et de l'inspiration du poète, chacun étant précédé par un poème isolé, suivant un plan qui ne différait pratiquement pas de celui esquissé dix ans plus tôt :

 Livre satirique, sous-titré Le Siècle. Il regroupe quarante-quatre poèmes, écrits entre 1849 et 1875, proche des Châtiments par le propos et la verve.

 Livre dramatique, sous-titré La Femme. Il consiste en fait en deux petites scènes dialoguées, intitulées Les deux trouvailles de Gallus, écrites en 1866, qui furent même représentées indépendamment au théâtre, en 1883 pour l'une et en 1923 pour les deux ensemble.

 Livre lyrique, sous-titré La Destinée. C'est à nouveau un recueil de poèmes divers, au nombre de cinquante-six. Le ton se rapproche cette fois des Contemplations, la plupart des pièces datant d'ailleurs des années 1855-1856.

 Livre épique. Ce dernier livre consiste en un seul poème, immense : La Révolution, un des plus importants de Victor Hugo pour qui la Révolution française était au centre de l'Histoire. Le poème avait été écrit en 1857 et initialement prévu pour la première puis la nouvelle série de la Légende des siècles, avec à ses côtés d'autres textes parus tardivement et séparément comme La Pitié suprême et L'Âne. Les statues des rois de France sortent de leur immobilité éternelle et s'avancent vers l'échafaud sur lequel fut guillotiné leur descendant, et demandent à ce dernier qui l'a exécuté : "C'est vous!", leur répond le malheureux.

Bibliographie

 Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit, notice par Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, Œuvres complètes de Victor Hugo - Poésie III, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1985.
 Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, La Femme couronnée et la femme révoltée, Victor Hugo 3, femmes, Lettres modernes, Minard, 1991.
 Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, Les Deux Trouvailles de Gallus :  La recherche de l'impossible, L'Avant-scène théâtre, , n° 1129.

Recueil de poèmes de Victor Hugo
Poésie du XIXe siècle
Livre paru en 1881

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