Dianetics, Eidetics, E-Therapy & Scientology

November 1, 1952

RATHER AMAZING NEWS has been coming in of late concerning the rapid changes and developments in Dianetics, Eidetics and E-Therapy. This Bulletin will be given over largely to this news and comments on it, but first let me explain why. I believe that one of the primary duties of the HRA is to hunt out any information bearing on Huna or related fields, especially if it is new or so little known that it needs spreading among us. Most HRAs are unable to obtain such information, and few have time to study it and conclude what it may be worth. I, however, here in the middle of things, have information constantly being offered. I have the opportunity to study it and to try to give it a proper evaluation, even if this is frequently impossible. In the Dianetics field, it is my feeling that we will do well to keep careful watch. A large number of earnest enthusiasts are at work there, and all sorts of things are being tried out. New theories are being evolved, and practical testing runs along side-by-side with speculation. It is to be hoped that, sooner or later, some simple and sound methods of draining off the complex may be discovered. As we all know, kahunas believed that the “path” had to be cleared of the several kinds of “sins,” including the complex and the obsession influence. We are fortunate to have several exceptionally active HRAs in the various parts of the Dianetics field, and they have been doing for us the laboratory type of investigations which we have not been able to do for ourselves. What they have to report to us merits careful consideration, no matter whether we agree with their conclusions or not. In any event we owe them a debt of gratitude.

SUGGESTION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED by E-Therapy, I was told by HRA Kitselman recently when he called at the Study. I gather that the method formerly advocated did not produce the results that had been hoped for and so, as in other parts of the Dianetics field, “new techniques” were in order. The main trouble in the use of the E-Therapy method has been to get full contact with the “E” or our Aumakua, and to be able to get it to take over the task of bringing back the right memories at the right time and causing them to give up their content of complexed material – to the end that it may be drained off with appropriate physical actions such as yawning, panting, jerking, flushing and the like.

In the lore of kahunas there was no expectation that the patient would contact his Aumakua before his fixations and “eating companion” obsessions were located and removed sufficiently well that the Aunihipili would feel free to reach out to make contact along the aka cord. More than that, the patient had, as his very first step, to admit his guilts, make amends for hurts done others, and go through a very definite form of conversion or turning away from the hurtful  way of life. Not until this was done, could the kahuna help him to open his path to the Aumakua and obtain help and healing. Jesus, whom we have discovered to be a kahuna of the fist grade, had the same ideas on this approach as did later kahunas.- This has not been a fully recognized necessity as yet in Dianetics, although full recognition is coming inevitably, judging by all the signs.

Through light suggestion, Mr. Kitselman hopes to enable the Aunihipili of the one being helped to make contact with his Aumakua “E” in a much shorter time and in a more complete way. As I understand it, this will be the only use to which suggestion will be put. For some time, despite the effort made in early Dianetics processing to avoid even a touch of suggestion, it has been believed by many that it could not be avoided so long as one person was relaxed to a great extent while his guide was mentally driving him to recall memories which would reveal “engrams.”

The early experiments with the use of the Indian practice of eating the narcotic peyote buttons to release the Aunihipili are being continued with the refined narcotic element, under proper supervision, and tests are being made to learn whether or not this may assist one to get into contact with the “E” more rapidly, or to get instructions in dreams, visions or through symbols from the Aumakua.

Mr. Kitselman is lecturing, demonstrating and traveling. He has plans afoot for a rather expensive and elaborate center at Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, and is working to raise $50,000, which he offers to match with property worth $64,000. It is to be a place where the members can come to rest, to be helped and to spend vacations. As is the case with all the offshoot branches of Dianetics, the work of teaching the new “techniques” as they are evolved, is done in part through lectures recorded on tapes and distributed to the several centers, where they are listened to by those desiring the instruction.

EIDETICS RECOGNIZED SPIRIT OR OBSESSIONAL INFLUENCE some time ago, and I now learn that in Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard’s new brand of Dianetics, the thing at first thought to be impersonal and named “demon circuit,” has been accepted as spirit influence of an obsessional nature, ranging from slight to strong in different pre-clears. This checks with the Huna of Polynesia and of the Garden of Eden and of the New Testament.

In July, HRA Bert Avera, of the Eidetic Foundation in Alabama, gave me the first news I had of this major change in the field. Here are parts of his letter.

“We have been making some very interesting discoveries here at the Foundation, relative to the problem of spirit possession. And these discoveries have had some astonishing repercussions on the astral plane. We have found a number of people who have discarnate entities attached to them and attempting to influence their lives.

“In two cases we have exorcised these entities by having the pre-clear locate the agreement to have them. (Note: agreement is apparently the acceptance of spirits or of any event that may occur, by the Aunihipili, although in Eidetic no distinction is made between conscious and subconscious. In this adoption of the Gestalt brand of psychology, all offshoot schools of the original Dianetics seem to follow the lead of Mr. Hubbard.) There is always an agreement (or tolerance?) or the entity cannot attach itself. The agreements are found in the same way any agreement is found, as described in SIMPLIFIED PROCESSING (Mimeo unit, price $2.) with one addition. It is necessary, or at least advisable, for the pre-clear to erect about himself a shield against counter-emotion and counter-thought (those opposing his own), because these entities will negate strongly against any attempt to get rid of them. If the pre-clear is running with an auditor, the auditor should erect a shield about himself too. If the auditor has any perception on the astral plane, these entities can be seen and heard very clearly while they are being ousted. They frequently plead frantically with the auditor when they realize that they cannot be felt through the pre-clear’s shield.

“Entities such as these are people who have died and have refused to accept responsibility for their death; hence they must maintain for themselves the illusion that they are still alive. They frequently do this by living with incarnate people, generally ones they knew when they themselves were alive. They try to gain and to maintain control over these people. This can be accomplished, as I have said before, only if the incarnate individual desires it. There is ALWAYS A REASON for this type of agreement, and it must be found if the exorcism is to be permanent.

“Also, we have found that there are such things as demons. Real honest-to-goodness demons. They are a life form which has its lowest material existence on the astral plane, just as our lowest material existence is on the physical plane. They do attempt to possess people. When they succeed, they are responsible for a great deal of insanity, since their sole desire toward humans is to harm them and feed on their life force. But, once again, they cannot possess an individual except through his own agreement (acceptance) to be possessed. Frequently, in the case of demons, this is through an individual’s fear of the so-called supernatural. Their greatest weapon against us is our fear of them.

“As a child, an individual may hear ghost stories that lead to the acceptance of the reality (belief firmly established) that the ‘things that go bump in the night’ are capable of doing limitless damage to poor ‘defenseless’ humans. This is a form of agreement that leaves this individual wide open to the attack of any entity intent on doing harm, and there are plenty of these.

“For the past ten days we have had a siege of demons. They have been attacking because the discoveries that are being made here are extremely dangerous to them. The data we have is a definite threat to the continued existence of demons as such. We have killed several of them experimentally – that is, we have destroyed their astral forms.

“I suggest that, if you have any fear of  ‘the horrid things of darkness’ (mentioned in SSBM), you find where you have accepted realities concerning their ability to harm you, and blow them out. While you are doing this, it would be advisable to erect a shield such as I have described. This is easy to do. Just will it to exist and it does. Make certain that it encompasses your entire body. This is a genuine shield, and not merely insensitivity to counter-emotion and counter-thought. In this business it is a good idea to be on guard against any and all sorts of low-toned attacks. (Attacks from entities of evil intent.)”

NOTE: Recently, HRAs George and Helen Sandwith sent in fine photos of Hindus involved in fire-walking, also of their temple and images. I was requested to try to run Biometric tests on individuals, the fire, the images and so on. I tried repeatedly, without success. The pictures seemed dead to me from a psychic contact point of view. Later, they sent in a fine set of photos of native Fijian fire-walkers in action, and I had little trouble making contact with them and getting their readings. (All had the “will” reading straight up-and-down.) It was my conclusion that the Hindus had surrounded themselves and their temple, images and fire with a “shield’ of some sort that kept my George from touching them when he projected an aka finger along the line of the aka threads tied to the photos. There is evident power in such a surrounding shield. In our “Wall of Protection” set up by will and action of mind and prayer, there seems to be something very similar. By-the-by, no man in the service who has been included in our “Wall” group has yet been injured. We build on the Wall twice daily in the TMHG right after offering mana to the Po`e Aumakua and making our request for a world at peace. Work through me in this. I have the names and signatures of them or of a dear one through whom we work if we lack a direct aka thread connection via a signature.

SCIENTOLOGY HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS recently and for a report on this we are indebted to HRA Clem W. Johnson, of Boca Grande, Fla., who has been spending time and money freely to test out the Dianetics-Scientology ideas. Here are parts of a recent letter.

“Speaking of Dianetics – I am not a clear yet! I have had about 150 hours of old style auditing, and must say my health has certainly improved as well as many aberrations that I now realize that I had. But the new system of auditing with the electro psycho-meter offers me hope of becoming a THETA CLEAR in the next few months. It is the first time that Hubbard has come out with a technique that has excited me.

“Scientology has now come to deal with fire-walking, seeing behind walls, instant healing, spirits, Huna, Yoga and all the other known forms of mysticism.

“With the new technique 88 in which Black and White is used, it seems that the present aberrations of life are unimportant and a waste of time. The secret now is to clear the Thetan – our Aumakua, on the WHOLE TRACK of his aberrations, which goes back 70 trillion (70,000,000,000,000) years to the time when he first left the ‘Home Universe.’

“With the use of Black and White, one simply gets a concept of an incident and then proceeds to turn everything white around it. When black encroaches, run it away and turn it to white. When one can KEEP the field white, the incident has been reduced or cleared. This has to be done with the use of the E-meter, but a person can audit himself even, with this case.

“With the old systems of auditing present life engrains, there were only a couple or so people who ever reached what they thought was a state of MEST clear; but they had a habit of sliding back. It is now known that this was because the Thetan was not audited. Now, it is much easier to produce a Theta clear than it used to be to produce even a false or temporary MEST clear.

“Hubbard claims to have proven the new technique on 20 people and on himself, saying that he is, himself, a MEST clear. The latest news from Scientology Journal is that five Theta clears were produced in five days at Phoenix.

“The following information was gleaned from the 20 people who were audited and who ‘lived’ through these incidents. (See the $2.50 mimeo release, “What to Audit,” Scientific Press, Inc., 1405 No. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona – By L. Ron Hubbard.)

“It seems that there are at least two lines of spirits. One is called the ‘Genetic Line,’ and incidents of abrasive nature have happened to this entity during processing through the line from the Photon, Photon Converter – algae – Jellyfish, Weeper – water squirted – Clam, Being Eaten by Birds While a Clam, Sloth, Early Ape, Plithdown Man, Neanderthal Man, Early Civilizations, Before Conception, Conception, Birth, and Present Time.

“It would seem that the Genetic Entity is a double spirit, since it can be, and is, run through the ovum and also the sperm cells before conception. This I know, because I ran that myself.

“The Theta line begins about 70 trillion years ago when there was an incident of BEING REJECTED FROM THE HOME UNIVERSE, SEPARATION FROM UNIVERSAL SUPPLY OF THETA, BODY BUILDER INCIDENT, CAPTURE BY  ARSCLYANS, ELECTRONIC FIGHTS, DEPARTURE FROM DEAR SOULS – with several incidents in dear souls area – ENTRANCE INTO MEST UNIVERSE- upward of 1 trillion years ago. Then there is the city of Arsclycus set of incidents in which the Thetan has a double life track, one body being held in pawn while he goes elsewhere and is born into a MEST body. About 10,000 such lives. Each time he dies, he goes back to the body held in pawn until time to be born into another body. Then there is the incident of the collapse of Arclycus, followed by the effort to get into a new body line. The dates on these incidents are not quite clear but seem to be upward of 1 trillion years ago.

“There are many other incidents – without being standard – down through time until we reach the area in time which varies from person to person, which is called ‘Facsimile No. 1 – or Engram 1.’ They may be anywhere from 35,000 to 200,000 years ago. This would be entrance for the first time into the present body line. Many births and deaths in the present body line have been experienced by the Thetan up to the present time.

“It is very easy to recognize the Aumakua as the Thetan, and it is very simple to recognize the Genetic Entity as the Aunihipili It is also easy to recognize other spirits or entities – or split-off pieces of the mind – in the body. So far I have not been able to put my finger on the Auhane in this system, but perhaps it will be revealed later.

“The demon spirits which Hubbard used to call ‘demon circuits’ are now called ENJECTED ENTITIES. They will bear auditing from now on, and sometimes people get better for a while after auditing them, but it won’t last. After auditing the Thetan, they simply vanish. So now they are ignored. They vanish very rapidly in auditing the Thetan.

Now here is a point. The Thetan is BEST placed is his own body and in his own world. The next best place is about three  feet behind and above the MEST or physical body. The WORST place he can be is INSIDE the MEST body, as then he is very badly aberrated, degenerated and decayed. He comes to think that the MEST body is all there is. He is the control of the MEST body then because the Genetic Entity has turned over most of his control to him, and so all he has to do is to try to keep the body running in some sort of condition until he decides to give up and take a new body. The Thetan knows this and leaves the body before death. The Genetic Entity stays on until quite some time after death, or until the COMPLETE DEATH of all the cells.

“Thus the Thetan carried all of his aberrations with him into a new body which he enters sometime just before birth. The Genetic Entity enters before conception.

“Now in auditing, the only thing one does really is to remove the occlusions and restore memory. Once one remembers his other realities, he is relatively un-aberrated. For instance, once one remembers that he once could defy fire or walk on water, it becomes his reality and there is nothing more to it – he just goes ahead and DOES IT.

“Therefore, Huna, Yoga, Hinduism, Metaphysics and all related subjects – even Christianity – are based on the same thing:

1. Getting rid of sins, recovering memory of incidents
2. Unblocking the Path
3. Working out Karma
4. Faith – dim memory
5. Concentration – bringing back some memories.
6. Going back to 10,000 years ago, and back and on back

“It should be noted that in auditing, the only incidents which amount to anything or have any aberrative power-charge on them are OVERT ACTS. They are acts which you have once done to somebody or something else. THERE IT IS IN A NUTSHELL. Huna says, DON’T HURT ANYONE ELSE – another, your brother, or what not?

“So we really have to thank Mr. Hubbard for proving Huna to be almost 100% perfect. I have always, since Dianetics came out, believed that clearing the mind was all that was needed in Huna to become a kahuna. It should be something attained instantly, not as the result of 4o years of meditation.

“Mr. Hubbard says now that about 80 hours auditing with the E-meter, using the new techniques, will produce a MEST clear and, after that, it does not take long to go to Theta Clear.

“There are now several recognized states of clearness:

1. A 15 or Optimum – not stable
2. NEST clear – cleared of aberrations of this life, and of enough on the Theta or Whole Track, to make one stable
3. A CLEARED THETA CLEAR. One who cannot yet be imagined. So called. One who does not  have to depend upon a MEST body, but who can come and go from it at will. He would have perfect control of any powers that have been contributed to any person on Earth, such as the most fantastic miracles of a Yogi or of Jesus or of anyone.

“The most fantastic stories of fiction, writers cannot describe what the Theta Clear can do, let alone the CLEARED THETA CLEAR. In my case, I am not interested in the latter – just working to become a Theta Clear.

“One has to get a great deal of charge off the incidents of this life before he can even CONTACT his Thetan or Theta Being. A Thetan does not have a MEST body. It is the person, according to Hubbard, NOT the Genetic Entity or the MEST body.

“It is a theory of Scientology that a person cannot conceive of or imagine anything unless he has once experienced the same kind of incident. It is my belief that every story, myth or legend originated from some basic fact, whether related to this world or not. Whether these tales or imaginings are true does not matter, nor does it matter whether or not you believe them to be true. Mr. Hubbard says, however, that it is absolutely necessary that they be audited and run out of a person to clear him.

“To me, it would seem to be fantastic if these incidents (of the past 70 trillion years) were run by only one person, but when more than 20 people have run the same incidents – Well, to me that sounds like the facts were genuine. Be that as it may, the incidents, whatever they may be, must be audited out of one.

“In Bulletin 87 you asked how fire-walking can be done. Very simple. All one has to do is run out his ‘hurts to others’ over his Whole Track, and then find some time when he could or did fire-walk, and see how he did it at that time. That’s all, Brother!

“My E-meter just came yesterday and I have put about four hours into auditing with it – self auditing – and it is simply fascinating to watch the needle show charge on incidents in this life, and then watch the charge or emotion go down and reduce. I tried it today on incidents reduced yesterday, and there is no charge on them now. I can’t even find some of them which have been reduced.

“I’ll let you hear more later. After I am a Theta Clear, I will come over and demonstrate how to become a kahuna.

COMMENT: After much coaxing of the reluctant and doubtful Cigbo, I managed to get him to scratch up the price of the What to Audit book. It has come and so I can review it briefly. In the foreword, Dr. Hubbard writes concerning the new technique …

“This one has really found it. So all I am going to say is, you’ve got it now. Let’s get this show on the road. That isn’t Greek. It’s a call to action.”

In his second foreword he begins by writing, “This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years.” On page 2 he explains why he gave up auditing the  engrains of the present life and went over to addressing himself to the many past lives instead. He writes, “I used (on 20 test cases) the most modern techniques – 1952 – and did a standard auditing addressed to the current lifetime of each one. I obtained mediocre results, partial recoveries, slight betterment in attitude. Then I audited each case addressing only past track, prior to this lifetime: the results were swift and spectacular. Thus I validated, for myself, the reality (belief) that in auditing the whole track, one can obtain excellent results that in auditing the current lifetime, one can obtain slow and mediocre results.    From this series came this conclusion: THE AUDITOR WHO INSISTS ON AUDITING THE CURRENT LIFETIME ONLY, WHEN HE HAS THE WHOLE TRACK TECHNIQUE AVAILABLE, IS WASTING TIME AND EFFORT AND IS, IN FACT, SWINDLING HIS PRECLEAR.”

A rather alarming situation is indicated in his following lines in which he tells of investigating the many auditors who “held back” and did not wish to accept the new ideas which were offered to them. He took several of these auditors through a number of sessions, and reports that, “I found several noteworthy similarities about them; they were so low in tone it was almost impossible to get them to register on the old style Mathison (E-meter), their cases were utterly bogged (down), they generally made a practice of refusing any auditing, their general record with pre-clears was very poor, their own lives were running badly, they not only fought past lives, as they called the ‘whole track,’ but they fought any technique evolved since the summer of 1950 or used later techniques poorly. They would not run any overt acts even in this lifetime; they needed, so far as their cases were concerned, the most careful auditing.” It is to be hoped that these – “a large number of auditors” – were not graduates of the early $500 courses and were not auditing pre-clears when they were, themselves, so lacking.

VERY DISTRESSING NEWS came recently in a form letter from the publishers of ARC LIGHT and PLUS & MINUS. They, HRAs Dee and Bill Swygard, simply announced that, as of September 20th, they were suspending publication and closing their book sale and rental service. Refunds were promised on the balance of subscriptions. They explained that they were closing down “for reasons diametric to those we had for starting them.” One can only wonder whether it became necessary to begin to eat again. 20¢ per copy to make up and send out an eight-page journal to a small list of subscribers, leaves little above expenses. HRA Meade Layne has struggled along for some years getting out ROUND ROBIN, and feeding himself on the side. Cigbo could tell some tall tales about his experiences scratching up enough to get past times of crisis with the HRA Bulletin. My hope is that Dee and Bill may have become auditors equipped with E-meters and 88 technique, and are ready to set up in business at $25 the hour to help produce clears – or something which promises to be as lucrative. On the other hand, I do hope that they did not suddenly gag over the diversified materials offered in the Dianetics field – and just throw up everything.

MORE BAD NEWS is that Secret Science Behind Miracles is now down to a few copies. I tried to get five copies to hoard against “rare book” days and prices, but my publisher, Kosmon Press, could not promise to let me have them until a count was made of the recent orders and the number of copies left in storage at the press in Kingsport, Tenn., where address labels are sent to be pasted on and copies mailed. There is a long chance that a reprint may be made later on, but nothing certain yet. Hold the thought that the reprint will eventually be made. HRA keeps alive by the arrival of new members from the later readers of the book, you know.

MFL