6209C20 SHSpec-192 Geriatrics

     Gerontology never solved geriatrics, but we have.  You should understand
that one of Man's longest searches has been a search for longevity.
Geriatrics is the study of living longer.  LRH's research at Oak Knoll naval
hospital suggested that the mind could change the body more than the body and
physical substances could change the mind.  "You can always get function -- or
thought -- to monitor structure, but you can't always get structure to monitor
thought." Medicos got this messed up because it is usually so obvious when
structure monitors thought.  If you cut a guy's leg off, you generally, but
not always, see his thought change.  But if you don't get rid of the psychic
traumas, you won't change someone's structure or function.  Change the psychic
condition and the structure can change.  These conclusions are very valuable
in the field of geriatrics.

     Metchnikoff studied geriatrics as he felt the years creep up.  He found
that, theoretically, sour milk could extend life indefinitely, but he died
before age seventy.  It is odd that there is all this interest in geriatrics,
given that a thetan is indestructible.  This is actually interest in
preserving the body, which, as it ages, irritates the thetan by restricting
his activity.

     A PC doing well generally looks younger.  One that is doing poorly looks
older.  In the process of doing a dynamic assessment on goals [See previous
tape] , you will see rapid change when you get the dynamic and the item and
the goal.  As a PC gets listed on the goal, he or she looks younger.  If
things go sour, the PC looks older.  We don't know the theoretical age limit
for a body, so we don't know how long a clear should live.  It should be
longer than "normal" anyway.  If you clear somebody around age thirty, you
will probably add thirty to forty years to his life.  If he goes clear at
seventy or eighty, you might add only five or six years.  Probably, the older
they are, the less you could add to the life-span.

     The field of geriatrics has the problem of researchers dying out without
leaving records and dying out before the length of time it takes to produce
results, so the researchers are always getting challenged.  Age is normally
determinable by the condition of certain body parts, functions, and cellular
structures.  If you were to examine someone physiologically, then clear him,
then re-examine him, you would find that the person was physiologically
younger.  This pre-determines that they will live longer.

     People get interested in scientology when you tell them about its
geriatric aspects.  You would think that insurance companies would be
interested in the idea of changing someone's life-expectancy, but they are
not.  They are only interested in figures, which are based on expectancy of
claim payments, all figured out by averages, etc.  Since the risk is spread
out amongst many individuals, they don't care about making individuals live
longer.  They could even be against it, since it could cost them money.

     So you can get a reverse philosophy on this point.  Socialist states and
insurance companies realize that if we weren't kicking off regularly, things
would be in a terrible state.  But most people would be far more interested in
living longer than they would be interested even in being healthy, since being
healthy would cost them a service facsimile.  People wish they could live
longer, even if they don't believe it is possible.

     Just doing a problems intensive would increase a person's life
expectancy.  Most people are fighting living longer, even if they say they
want to.

     LRH's experiments with horticulture, using tomato plants, produced some
tomatoes that were kept in constant temperature and humidity and which were
not injured in any way.  They grew to sixteen feet, grew enormous numbers of
tomatoes, and lived longer.  LRH found that the life span and resistance to
blight of a tomato plant is directly related to the amount of punishment --
the amount of clipping, handling, topping, pruning, etc.  People thought he
was interested in horticulture, but he wasn't.  He was interested in
geriatrics and longevity.  A plant that is abused will become ill and will die
sooner.  Abuse determines:

     1. Longevity

     2. Susceptibility to illness.

If you can delete abuse, e.g. by running engrams, you pick up the
characteristics of not having been abused in the first place, i.e.  health and
longevity.  This would apply equally well to human bodies.  Dianetics also
pointed to this conclusion.  [See Science of Survival, Book II, p. 23.]  In
humans, if you delete -- audit out -- abuse, or the consideration that one has
been abused, you effect the same change in longevity as not having been abused
would have made.

     So in disseminating scientology, you can talk about longevity and
preventing illness.  On a planet that is very fixated on bodies, these are
good avenues of approach.  Dianetics corresponds to deleting abuse from a
person's life, which is equivalent to avoiding abuse in the tomato plants.
Depression gives rise to symptoms just like an illness.  You can, as a
dissemination approach, use "Maybe you are not sick.  Maybe you are just
depressed." You use that instead of "suppressed".  The person will get very
interested.  Then give him a problems intensive.  His "sickness" will
frequently disappear.  You don't tell the person that you will cure anything.
You are only interested in removing the suppressions of life.

     We have to have a bridge from raw meat to clearing, and the bridge has to
have reality in it.  The person must be brought to a reality on the mind and
life.  Say you are running a clinic, giving problems intensives, using
repetitive prepchecking.  People will come out at the other end looking and
feeling younger and no longer sick.  This is an area that we have just
neglected, with our emphasis on clearing.

     In Book III of DMSMH, it says that if you can parallel what the mind is
doing, you can reach the mind and do something for it.  This is a trick to
parallel what a raw meat's mind is doing.  He is thinking, "How sick (or well)
am I? How young (or old) am I?" So "How are you?" means "How sick are you
today?" A common hidden standard is "Do I look, feel, or appear younger?" If
most people are fixated on the body (and they are), you can use this fact to
get in comm with them.  In effect, you are getting a guy in session, according
to the definition of "in session", before you officially get him in session.

     Age is normally hooked onto the body by the thetan himself, using engrams
and secondaries.  The limitation on what thought can do for structure is only
the thetan's consideration.

     The reason you have trouble defining scientology to people is that there
is no datum of comparable magnitude in this universe.  So they always put up a
datum of incomparable magnitude and hang you right away in a suppression and a
disagreement.  "Oh, it's like Christian Science." "No," you say.  Right there
you are hung with a suppression of him.  It puts you into a disagreement.
Never let him choose the datum of comparable magnitude to scientology.  Give
him one -- his ruin, himself, what he owns, his family, his sick mother or
wife, his health, etc.  This is what is really of comparable magnitude to
scientology for him.

