This paper presents Section 41 from the book SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book by The Church of Scientology (1952).
The paragraphs of the original material (in black) are accompanied by brief comments (in color) based on the present understanding. Feedback on these comments is appreciated.
The heading below is linked to the original materials.
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The Dichotomies
While the auditor can do much solely by reducing facsimiles, he soon will find that his preclears are not always able to erase facsimiles easily. He will find occasionally that he often has a difficult time when a particularly heavy facsimile is in restimulation and, do what he will, the auditor may find his preclear’s tone remains unchanged and that the preclear’s attitudes have not evolved to a better high.
Auditing is allowing facsimiles to be assimilated into the mental matrix. But this doesn’t always happen. Hubbard’s reasoning is that the preclear is not self-determined enough.
We now come to “The Governor” mentioned in a lecture in the autumn of 1951. The speed of a preclear is the speed of his production of energy.
The most important step in establishing a preclear’s self-determinism, the main goal of the auditor, is the rehabilitation of the preclear’s ability to produce energy.
To establish a preclears self-determinism, the auditor must rehabilitate the preclear’s ability to produce energy.
A being is, apparently, an energy production source. How does he produce live energy without mechanical means, cellular activity, or food?
The basic principle of energy production by a being has been copied in electronics. It is very simple. A difference of potential of two areas can establish an energy flow of themselves. Carbon batteries, electric generators, and other producers of electrical flows act on the principle that a difference of energy potential in two or more areas can cause an electrical impulse to flow between or amongst them.
Energy production depends on a difference in potential.
The preclear is static and kinetic, meaning he is no-motion and motion. These, interplaying, produce electrical flow.
A preclear as a static can hold two or more energy flows of different wavelengths in proximity and between them obtain a flow.
A preclear can hold a difference of flow between two waves and a static so long (and arduously) that the effect of a discharging condenser can be obtained. This can “explode” a facsimile.
A large difference in potential can “explode” a facsimile.
The preclear flows electrical currents of command at the body. These hit pre-established ridges (areas of dense waves) and cause the body to perceive or act. The preclear takes perception from the body with tractor beams. He holds the body still or braces himself against it by wrapping a tractor (pulling) beam around it while he places a pressor (pushing) beam at his back to command himself into action. (You can almost break a preclear’s spine by asking him to contract his own tractor around his body and yet withhold the pressor against his spine.)
All an auditor really needs to know about this is the elementary method of using a difference of potential. That creates energy.
The only thing wrong with a preclear with an aged MEST body is that he has too many facsimiles of his tractors and pressors handling his own MEST body and the rickety state of the body feeds back “slowness” so that he thinks his energy is low—and until worked with some method such as this, facsimiles do not reduce.
Any difference of potential played one against the other creates energy. Aesthetic waves against a static produce energy. Aesthetic waves against analytical waves produce energy. Analytical waves against emotional waves produce energy. Emotional waves against effort waves produce energy. Effort against matter produces energy.
There is potential difference from static to aesthetic to analytical to emotional to effort to matter.
The last is the method used on Earth in generating electrical current for power. The others are equally valid and produce even higher flows. This is a gradient scale of beingness, from the zero-infinity of theta to the solidity of matter.
The differences of potential most useful are easy to run.
This is, actually, alternating current running. There can be DC running or chain fission running but these are very experimental at this writing.
AC is created by the static holding first one, then the other, of a dichotomy of two differences of potential. A flow is run in one direction with one of the pair, then in the other direction with the other.
Facsimiles may be handled by running flows back and forth between dichotomies.

One asks the preclear to flow agreement, then disagreement. He flows a feeling, a thought (NEVER the phrase!) of “agreement” out or in, in the direction he chooses relative to himself. He lets this flow until it turns smoky grey or white, then black. Then he changes the direction of flow and gets the thought or feeling of “disagreement”. He runs this until it turns grey or white, then black. When this has turned black or dark, he again runs “agreement” in its direction until he gets grey or white, then again black. Now he reverses the flow and flows the thought “disagreement” until he gets grey or white, then blackness. And so on and on.
A flow is run in one direction with one of the pair, then in the other direction with the other. An example would be you send out the feeling of agreement with survive and then you let the feeling of disagreement with succumb come in. There will be a sensation of flow, when it stops let the flow reverse.
It will be noted that at first it may take some little time for a flow to run from black through white to black. As the preclear continues to run, after minutes or many hours, he begins to run faster, then faster and faster, until at last he can keep a flow blazing and crackling.
Continue this way with the flow going back and forth.
A method of aberrating beings was to give them white and black energy sources in their vicinity. These show up on a very low tone occluded case as blazing white and shining white. That is an electronic incident, not his own energy flow. These run blazing white in one direction for minutes or hours before they go black. They then run the other way, blazing white, almost as long.
This is running facsimiles similar to doing the OT TR 0 exercise.
WHEN BLACK PREDOMINATES IN SUCH INCIDENTS THEY DO NOT DIMINISH OR REDUCE. ASK THE PRECLEAR IN SUCH A CASE TO DO WHAT HE “HAS TO DO” TO GET THE INCIDENT ALL WHITE.
When there is no sensation of flow can be established simply consider the dichotomies in a wider context.
As the preclear runs, he finds the speed of the change of flow changes, more and more rapidly until it runs like a vibration. This vibration, theoretically, can increase to a strong current which becomes so great it is well to ground your preclear by using an E-meter or letting him hold a wire in each hand which is connected to a bare water pipe or radiator. Otherwise, his MEST body may be damaged by the flow.
As you run the flows back and forth, the frequency will gradually increase.
Run a dichotomy only against its mate. Run in alternating directions until the flow turns black.
Don’t run a black “flow.” It doesn’t flow or run out.
Do this until the flows have exhausted themselves and the mental matrix is assimilated.
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FINAL COMMENTS
Auditing (meditation) allows facsimiles to be assimilated into the mental matrix. Facsimiles may be handled by running flows back and forth between dichotomies.
A flow is run in one direction with one of the pair, then in the other direction with the other. An example would be you send out the feeling of agreement with survive and then you let in the feeling of disagreement with succumb. There will be a sensation of flow. When this sensation stops let the flow reverse and the sensation will return.
Continue this way with the flow going back and forth. This is running facsimiles similar to doing the OT TR 0 exercise. When no sensation of flow simply consider the dichotomies in a wider context.
Let the frequency of back and forth running of flows increase until the flows have exhausted themselves and the mental matrix is assimilated.
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