 6211C15 SHSpec-212 Terminals

     There is an item on the bulletin board about Nixon.  We really clobbered
him!  "I hit him because he hit Mary Sue.  [He was] using the U.S. secret
service as sort of a private Gestapo ... all over Washington," which didn't
seem right.

     You will notice that after country A has defeated country B, customs of
country B will show up in A.  Almost anyone will take on the color of his
oppterm.  This is horrible but true!  People tend to think of themselves as
the cowboy in the white hat and the oppterm as the cowboy in the black hat.
However, the only real to tell whether you are dealing with a terminal or an
oppterm is whether it turns on pain or sensation.  Pain shows that it is a
terminal; sensation shows that it is an oppterm.  Some people get tangled up
because they consider themselves to be the guys in the black hat.  If you get
a terminal on the oppterm side or vice versa, the consequence is great
confusion.  Such an item, a combination terminal, turns on pain and
sensation.  This is a deteriorated package.  Mark it in the center of the line
plot.  It's legitimate.  It is a new terminal that has attributes of both
terminal and oppterm, a sort of end of the road, a combination terminal which
is a lock on both the terminal chain and the oppterm chain.

     In national life, you get succeeding generations of politicians
performing as combination terminals.  The U.S. defeats Germany.  Then,
somewhere up the track, there is a tendency towards Democratic Fascism in the
U.S.  It is OK for a democracy to exist, as long as we can also operate a
gestapo.  "It's that sort of thing that I tend to keep an eye on."

     You may not realize it, but you are all members of a secret society:  You
have been for a very long time.  It is the SPG.  You can enlist anyone.  There
are no dues.  Only performance is required.  It is the Society for the
Prevention of Government!  It is interesting that Man hasn't yet realized that
government is the cause of his wars.  A "pure" government attacks an S.P.
government, thus producing a combination terminal.  The "pure" government
henceforth isn't so pure.  Keep this up, and you will get what we have, in the
way of a government.  LRH recently received an invitation to be part of a
group that is supposed to figure out what should be done with governments and
Man and atom bombs.  All the group is doing is meeting, in the hope that
someone will come up with a solution.  All they are doing is to get people in
communication.  They haven't approached governments!

     The reason why government occupies so much of people's attention is that
governments have spokesmen and salesmen, while individuals do not. [Democracy
is highly publicized, but in a democracy] everything is the people's fault, so
the head of the government has no responsibility.  But the people have no real
choice.  This is a real mess.  With salesmen, you get more and more
government.  Individuals become less and less.  The end of this process is
totalitarianism.

     The only reason you collide with government is that you are selling the
idea of the individual.  You see that bettering things by handling the
individual is a workable system, so you push it.  This puts you up against the
government, because it is for the government.  This makes you a revolutionary
in a totalitarian world, whether you intend to revolt or not.

     The perfect reply to a communist is to tell him that you are an
anarchist.  That is the one thing that he cannot handle.  He is claiming that
communism wants to do away with the state, and you force him to say that
government is necessary.  Thus you turn him into a conservative.  Anarchy has
always been rampant in countries just before the communists took over.
Anarchy is the one thing that the communist fears.  He has so many overts on
anarchists that they have almost become sacred to him.  Similarly, the U.S.
government is becoming more and more communistic, e.g.  with its tax laws.
Things won't get straightened out in the political arena.  They will just get
more and more confused.  You can predict the politics of the future by looking
at the opposing sides and combining the least desirable characteristics of
both.  Combination terminals in politics occur because the least admired
characteristics tend to persist.  "That Which is least admired tends to
persist." We are going to get the worst of Russia and the U.S. combined into a
super state, unless we stop it.

     This is also the fate of any individual.  Livingness alone will not lead
to a new, highly desirable state, because the above mechanism will occur.  In
the course of handling cases, you will get a look at the eventual fate of any
individual you process, in the absence of further processing.  Suppose you
could locate the chief terminal and the chief oppterm in an individual,
without in any way relieving them.  You could take the least desirable characteristics of both and get the combination terminal the person would become in a few generations.  Those terminals and oppterms that are near the top will produce a new pair.  But first, they will produce a new single terminal:  the new combination terminal.  As the GPM flies off, you will see that this had been taking place.  The freedom that is there to be freed is fantastic, because all cases are in a very deteriorated state.

     When we first discovered the tremendous power that the basic postulate of
an individual could exert over him, in the course of creating the sections of
the GPM, we tended to see it as something brand new, despite the fact that it
is mentioned in the definition of the first dynamic in Dianetics: The Original
Thesis.["I. The dynamic of self consists of the dynamic thrust to survive as
an individual, to obtain pleasure as an individual, and to avoid pain.  It
covers the general field of food, clothing and shelter, personal ambition, and
general individual purpose." p. 31.  See also Advanced Procedures and Axioms,
p. 42 and p. 270, above.]

     A thetan does various basic things, following the laws governing theta as
formulated in the Axioms.  However, he also splinters off and postulates some
portion or specialization of them.  He tries to go forward with this
specialization as an individual purpose and, trying to effect this purpose,
moves on with a lot of accumulated mass and things like terminals, oppterms,
combination terminals, items, upsets, etc.  Thus the thetan builds up a
section of the GPM.  Then he postulates something else and builds up another
section of the: GPM.  That dwindles out.  It gets blown up thoroughly, and the
thetan gets sort of out of it.  He forgets it utterly.  Then he makes up a new
individual purpose.

     Actually, all these purposes are in controversion to the basic laws of
this universe, theta, and the purposes of thetans.  And if there is any reason
why it builds up mass, it is that it is an alter-is of the Axioms. The thetan
is an individual, already in a games condition with his fellows and the
universe.  Then he decides to be even more individual and makes a basic
postulate.  It is this basic postulate that we are dragging up as a goal.
This postulate is counter to the agreements on the structure of the universe,
as contained in the Axioms, so the thetan is now individuated out to the
degree that he has pitted himself against the whole lot.

     What we are finding out, as we find items, turn on somatics, and clear
the individual, is that he hasn't gotten away with it.  There is the GPM, and
it is killing him.  He can't even execute his individual purpose or goal,
because it fights his own more basic agreements, postulates, etc.  He has
called himself a liar by violating these agreements, e.g. the Axioms, and thus
he has departed into super-individuality.

     As the individual goes forth, postulating a new goal, he is flying in the
teeth of all his former agreements.  So now he gets to a point where he
explodes out of the bank.  Then he postulates a new individuation, a new basic
purpose.  He lives this one out.  When he finally gets out of it, he adds it
to the old stuff that he has accumulated.  Each new purpose gets messed up
faster and faster.  He finds more and more things he can't do and that he can
no longer confront.  Eventually, he won't even explode out of the mass
anymore.  One day he says, "Row come it's all black?" And he won't get out of
the GPM again.

     This is Hell: an oblivion of total pain and sensation.  "What's 'Hell'?
In religions, they'll have some metaphorical method of trying to communicate,
[but] if they were talking about a Hell, this is Hell....  They recognize
there is something waiting for them in the future and they try to shorten it
up ... and say it's the next life and this time you'll die and you'll go to
it.  Well, that's just enthusiasm!"

     The only alternative to this grisly picture is scientology, but people
have been "saved" before, too many times on the track, e.g. by the auto-da-fe
of the Inquisition.  That's why they are decidedly reluctant to be "saved" by
scientology.  Someone who gets mad at scientology and refuses further
processing is a fool.  He isn't aware of his future of total pain and
sensation, which is Hell.  But thetans have a long history of being sold
pie-in-the-sky, so they are likely to be skeptical about what scientology has
to offer.  Someone who has been sold on heaven and hasn't found it, and who
knows that Hell is possible, begins to regard the idea of freedom with some
doubt.  He has been "straightened out" before, and has been cheated.  This
area of betrayal comes up in the course of clearing someone.  The offer of
help restimulates this area, and the PC will fight help all the way, until he
gets reality on what is happening.  The kindest way to handle him is to give
him a fast reality on the fact that you mean business.  Do something for him
subjectively, so that he will realize that he is on some kind of a real road
to truth.

     The PC whose trust level is shot alter-ises commands, doesn't answer,
etc.  The auditor can feel uncomfortable about this.  The healing sciences
haven't helped, with their general ineffectiveness in most things.  No wonder
the PC's trust level is so low! This is the main thing that gets in the way of
dissemination.

     The individual has fought the physical universe and the laws of the
physical universe after agreeing to them.  He now alter-ises them.  Since
those laws concern matter, energy, space, and time, he starts accumulating
MEST.  That is what puts MEST in his bank.  Then he makes an individual
purpose that has nothing to do with these other purposes.  He tries to go up
against these other purposes with this individual purpose.  That causes a lot
of mass to accumulate.  Then he does this again, and again, etc.

     All this is true, but this activity must have been based on a very low
level of confidence and trust anyway.  To have gone to all this trouble, with
all the individuation, etc., the thetan must have had a very low level of
trust and confidence.  He must have thought that what was going on was
detrimental, or he wouldn't have taken all this trouble to individuate from
it.  Most PCs are mad at the physical Universe, to some degree.

     Now here is something I've never told you before, but it follows from the
sixty-four lectures of the 1952 Philadelphia Lectures.  The physical universe
will stay there for the individual until the individual gets back to the first
individuating goal that he made, after agreeing to the Axioms.  At this point,
you would think that the PC would hit total OT, but he won't.  He still has to
handle the Axioms.  You will now have to back up through the Axioms.  The PC,
at this point in processing, would start telling you about the Axioms even if
he had never heard of them.  They are getting ready to blow.

     The individual's agreement to the Axioms, his contribution to the Axioms
to that degree, is in all probability his first basic trust.  You may have to
go back to the Axioms and run them.  Sooner or later the PC will collide with
them, going backward.

     [The purposes that you will run into at first] are all purposes that are
individuations from the basic purpose.  You have to go a long way back to pick
up more than the first dynamic.  Even today, the fellow is generally on an
inversion of the first.  You will find that there are seven dynamics that will
invert on you. You must reverse the inversion process before the PC gets to a
straight first dynamic. He then has to go quite a ways before he gets a sight
of the other dynamics.  That is what you are tackling.

     In every PC, there is a deteriorated trust in everything, not only in his
fellow man, but also in organizations, group activities, and any effort to do
something for him.  He starts to get nervous when you start to do anything for
him because he knows that that has always been dangerous for him.  You are
reversing his experiential track, so he is going back into areas that he
thinks are dangerous, and, thinking these areas are dangerous, he is nervous.
This applies to every PC.  What is important is your skill as an auditor: the
smoothness of your model session, the positiveness of what you are doing, the
fact that you can produce a result in the PC in which he has a reality.  These
things make him realize that you are going in the direction of freedom.  The
PC may be so downscale that when he sees that he is going towards freedom, he
can't have it because it looks too good, and you get into another
wriggle-wraggle.

     You can add to the above phenomenon the idea that if you existed and if
you freed Man and did things for the physical universe, then this person
couldn't execute the first goal you will run into in processing him. (This
"Goal One" is not the first goal that the PC made.  It is the first one you
find.) With this addition, you've got a rockslammer.  His distrust is not
built just on goal one.  It goes earlier and is built on the quicksand that
everybody is made of. To handle him, you have to find the oppterm to what he
is rockslamming on.  Then it tends to blow up.  His "whole viewpoint on the
subject of scientology will shift." [See HCOB 23Nov62 "Urgent -- Routine 2-12,
Opening Procedure by Rockslam, An HPA/RCA Skill".  This bulletin gives R2-12
procedure.  At this point, R2-12 is also known as "3GAXX for Rock Slammers".
Evidently it is a form of 3GAXX that can be done by a lower than class IV
auditor.  Many other bulletins and tapes on R2-12 follow.]

     A soon as your auditing is less than perfect, you rekindle or permit to
remain all the morass of distrust that has been generated down the track, all
the betrayals of promises of heaven, all his experience of Hell.  You can flub
a little, but if you let the case drift too far out without a win and you will
key in the whole background of "There is no heaven," and you will pay the
price.  The individual's reality on Hell is much greater than his reality on
heaven.  Thus, the longer you take to produce a result on a PC, the harder it
is to get the result because of the distrust factor.

     You can't say positively that a person isn't a rockslammer because he may
have to be processed awhile before it shows up.  Some rockslammers are below
being rockslammers at first.  The PC may at first simply be nattery, and then
you have to rely on intuition. There is no absolute test of absolution except
persistent case progress.  Rockslamming relates to the degree of overting in
your direction and his belief that if you did not exist, he could achieve his
basic goal.  Once you discover and he discovers that he is a rockslammer, the
discovery of it tends to pull its teeth.  All you have to do is to list the
oppose list to the thing on which he is rockslamming, and it will blow up in
smoke.  If it's "an auditor", write an opposition list to "an auditor" and get
the first PT package.  A capable auditor should be able to straighten this out
in two or three hours.  You can list a goal against any terminal or oppterm
that rockslams.  Sometimes you will wind up with the person's goal.  If so,
opposition it.

     Unhandled rockslammers will frequently become combination terminals.
Squirrels, for instance, combine scientology with something else because they
realize that they are as crazy as a loon to be attacking it.

