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Reference: A History of Man

This paper presents CHAPTER THREE from the book SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book in 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.

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CHAPTER THREE

THE PRESENT LIFE is always of considerable interest to the preclear.

In the first place, he is continuing to live in the environment and society, usually, in which he is being audited. He must still face situations which the auditor will discover. The dramatis personae of this period is, to some extent, still living or their artifacts are yet in plain view.

In the second place, the preclear is still connected to these incidents by the identifying label of his present life name and he is continually called by this label and has it confused with himself.

In the third place, these facsimiles have not been invalidated by the shock of a death and the “helpful hands” of the “between lives” crew and so are normally visible.

Fourthly, in this life we have the combination of the current GENETIC BEING and the current THETA BEING and their struggle to even the harsh roadway of living and their divergence of goals.

A person is faced with situations in his present life, and he is actively engaged with them. The unassimilated impressions that are influencing him are fresh and accessible. He has goals in the present, but he is also beset by goals from his past.

Present life or any life that comes to view should be to some extent, cleared up for the preclear. Lives are, to some degree, units in themselves. This is caused by the fact that each life while the preclear has been “with body” is lived with a different basic team: the GENETIC BEING carries on through the evolutionary line, parallel with the protoplasmic line, generation to generation, usually on the same planet—in this case, EARTH. The THETA BEING comes into the line from various quarters and each time usually enters an entirely different GE line. Any one life then, is lived with a different GE. The preclear is always and always was and always will be the THETA BEING. But the THETA BEING has, life to life, a different GE. The character and quality of the MEST body then is different in each lifetime, the past of the MEST body in each lifetime is different from the viewpoint of the theta being. Thus, the theta being has variation of experience, which is not always, life to life, the same pattern. Thus, when lives come to view, they should be explored and audited as above, a few hours spent in this can materially assist a recovery.

In life, one is obviously limited by a certain physical beingness, while one may visualize and even manufacture different mental beingness. But the important aspect of living is the ability to recognize and resolve anomalies.

The PRESENT LIFE is important out of proportion to the small fraction of total age of the theta being; the auditor will find himself, in most cases, compelled to spend many hours upon it. But he should not audit any heavy incidents in the present lifetime. These have basics which reduce much more swiftly, and these basics are always earlier by many ages.

The time spent on the present life earlier in Dianetics was very great. It required scores or hundreds of hours of auditing to achieve optimum results, and then only with great cunning could the auditor achieve his goal. Swifter techniques made present life much easier to audit, cut down the time required and increased the results, but the same results can be achieved much more swiftly with much less skill and cunning when one audits WHOLE TRACK, meaning the track of the theta being.

The anomalies in the present life take priority, but the heavy incidents in the present lifetime have basics that stretch far back into the past. Better and faster results come from addressing those basics.

Just as “medical science” has accepted PRENATAL EXPERIENCE according to their best heralds, the popular magazines such as CORONET and READER’S DIGEST, prenatals fade into the obscurity of curiosa in Dianetics. Great as the results were which occurred when one audited prenatals, results in the same time are now so incomparably greater in auditing the whole track or even in using TECHNIQUE 80, that one need know very little about prenatals. In the first place, it has been discovered that prenatals happen to the GE, not the theta being. These recordings are so phonograph-record-like because they are wholly in the somatic mind (the GE). They deeply affect the current MEST body structure in many ways, but this structure can be otherwise repaired.

One may address the anomalies in the DNA programming, by going through the route of prenatals; or one my directly address the misconceptions of the theta being. The latter is more productive.

The GENETIC ENTITY apparently enters the protoplasm line some two days or a week prior to conception. There is some evidence that the GE is actually double, one entering on the sperm side, one entering on the ovum side. If the matter were still important, some time could be spent determining this, for the GE answers dually in present time.

The GE continues as the guiding genius throughout prenatal life, building, regulating the heartbeat and attending to complex structural matters. It records every perception present, asleep or awake, conscious or unconscious (in knock-out or drugged sense), to the number of the (about) fifty perceptions present. Just as the doctor quite often hears a baby in a womb cry, just as he can hear its heartbeat with his stethoscope, so can the child hear what is occurring outside his mother. This is a very important datum from the standpoint of PREVENTIVE DIANETICS for by knowing it, one can easily forecast the health and mental poise of a child after birth by making certain that it has a good prenatal existence. Psychotics often DRAMATIZE (re-enact) these prenatal engrams and a trip through a sanatorium will show an auditor many prenatals in full play, running oft like records, ending and starting again endlessly.

But, in many cases, such as, when handling the psychoses, addressing of prenatals may become necessary.

Here is the list of prenatals. They can be any combination of action known to the business of living, but these are the common ones.

Prenatal Incidents

All incidents in any environment are prone to be repeated. Thus, these incidents commonly appear in long chains, many incidents in each, each incident much the same as the last. To audit the chain, one should get the basic on that chain:

COITUS CHAIN, FATHER
COITUS CHAIN, LOVER
CONSTIPATION CHAIN
ORDINARY BOWEL CHAIN
DOUCHE CHAIN
SICKNESS CHAIN, mother’s illness
SICKNESS CHAIN, another member of the family’s illness
WORK CHAIN, mother’s heavy activities at work
EXERCISE CHAIN, mother’s activity in sports or calisthenics
MORNING SICKNESS CHAIN
CONTRACEPTIVE CHAIN
FIGHT CHAIN, family quarrels
FIGHT CHAIN, outside the home
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CHAIN, mother’s high blood pressure
DOCTOR EXAMINATION CHAIN, punching mother
ALCOHOLIC CHAIN, mother’s drinking
ACCIDENT CHAIN, mother’s falls and bumps
ATTEMPTED ABORTION, SURGICAL
ATTEMPTED ABORTION, DOUCHE
ATTEMPTED ABORTION BY PRESSURE
ATTEMPTED ABORTION BY EXERCISE OR JUMPING
COUGH CHAIN, mother’s coughing
COUGH CHAIN, other members of family
HICCOUGH CHAIN
MASTURBATION CHAIN, mother’s masturbation
CRYING CHAIN, mother’s crying

Pre-sperm recordings are quite ordinary. The sperm sequence itself is worthy of note for it is a race of which the sperm is very conscious. His travails in reaching the ovum are many. There is a “visio” which is quite standard, of the race. There is quite often a light, a spark, in this sequence. The sperm reaches the ovum and merges. This merging is another incident, conception.

Pre-ovum sequences are on record but are not common. The rolling of the ovum down the tube is commonly recorded. Conception and the impulses generated answer the conditions for one type of cancer, embryonic. Mitosis is an incident. Cellular division, once or many times, is on common record. Mitosis answers the conditions for the other type of cancer—malignant cell. Cancer has been eradicated by auditing out conception and mitosis.

Many psychoses, and genetic level disease, such as, cancer, may be addressed by auditing prenatal incidents. But a lot of it may be addressed in the future through PREVENTIVE DIANETICS.

The theta being apparently joins the track immediately prior to birth. Its sequence, for itself, is DEATH, BETWEEN-LIVES, BIRTH, all in a few minutes according to some findings, a sequence which is quite aberrative. The theta being’s joining is called the STARTER. The theta being sometimes fights away another theta being, sometimes considers this an overt act. You may audit an entire prenatal bank without getting as much rise in the preclear’s tone as auditing one STARTER for the theta being, after all, is the preclear.

BIRTH is a very aberrative affair and a difficult or complicated birth can aberrate the entire lifetime of the MEST body. But this means that birth should be without conversation, in a darkened and quiet room with high humidity and without draughts, not that you should audit births. In other words, one should know how aberrative birth is, but one should not audit birth as a practice. One “Facsimile One” has as many as eighty-thousand births on it as locks. Birth presents itself to be audited much of the time because Mother, complaining of how difficult the preclear’s birth was, makes it into an overt act. This overt act had birth as a motivator. Thus, preclears are anxious to have their birth engram audited.

When auditing a theta being, one is auditing sentient experience, such as, that of death and birth. Prenatal and birth experience may be audited only when they appear by themselves. I ran out BIRTH on my case when it appeared by itself. See My Introduction to America.

INFANT and CHILDHOOD ILLNESS are important because in them the theta being loses much of the control of the body. The incidents of degradation which precede these, however, are a more important target for the auditor.

Most preclears are stuck somewhere on the present life track. The E-meter will tell the auditor where if the auditor asks in terms of years. It is rarely where the preclear thinks it is. Operations, accidents, illnesses are all more or less routine. The auditor should take them as he is given them by the E-meter or symbols or both, but he should not audit them as such unless he is strongly forced to do so: the incidents on which they depend are so much earlier, so much more aberrative.

For every motivator in the present life there is an overt or a ded. Thus, it behooves the auditor to pay much more attention to using TECHNIQUE 80 [additional data in “Scientology 8-80” by L. Ron Hubbard] than it does to find new and strange present life incidents to audit. It should not require more than a score of hours to clean up the present life until heavy incidents in the past can be audited: this is true for the neurotic and relatively sane only, it is not true for the psychotics: for them it may be necessary to audit prenatals or use other techniques and to spend perhaps hundreds of hours of ARC processing to make them entirely sane and stable.

Present life incidents, by test, cannot quickly resolve any case. Audit present life only until one can audit theta line material with safety.

One may audit present life incidents of INFANT and CHILDHOOD ILLNESS and the incidents of degradation which precede these. One may also audit operations, accidents, illnesses, etc., only if they come up. It doesn’t take long to to clean up the present life in the normal case. One may then focus on the heavy incidents in the past of the theta being, through the route of handling misconceptions.

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Reference: A History of Man

This paper presents CHAPTER TWO from the book SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book in 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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CHAPTER TWO

SEVERAL TARGETS PRESENT THEMSELVES IN A CASE and any one of them can be audited with some profit.

The complexity of the problem of human behavior was a complexity of factors, not an unresolvable mass of twine. Once these factors are each one known and identified. very little trouble is experienced.

THOUGHT, EMOTION, EFFORT, COUNTER-THOUGHT, COUNTER-EMOTION, COUNTER-EFFORT, motivator ATTENTION UNITS, overt ATTENTION UNITS, ded ATTENTION UNITS and their manifestation on the various tone scale charts are the sum and total of factors to be audited out of any one target. Each and every auditing target contains these factors, is audited in the same way has the same basic behavior pattern and succumbs to such auditing. It does not matter what target one is addressing in a case he will not discover wild or unexplained manifestations in HOW he audits that target. Each one in short, is made up of the same woof and warp. Each one is basically theta. Theta behaves and manifests in a constant manner, no matter what form it takes. Thus, the auditor should quiet any apprehension he has that something he is auditing is behaving differently than a standard item. Variables, so far as has been discovered do not exist in theta since the discoveries of Dianetics.

The target of auditing is the anomaly. This anomaly comes in many forms. It affects the thought, the emotion, the effort and the attention of the person. One applies theta to it, which is the “ability to postulate and to become aware.” 

There are several targets for the auditor. If he understands thoroughly what they are, his chances of mistaking one kind of incident for another are much reduced. They are in their order of magnitude, not their importance.

CELLULAR INJURIES comprise the first target. A cell is a living animal all by itself. The most necessary auditing on CELLULAR INJURIES is the emergency assist wherein the auditor repairs an accident, a burn, an incident which has just occurred. The auditor will find that, in auditing a cellular injury which has just occurred, the somatics are very sharp and far more painful than when auditing a standard facsimile. CELLULAR INJURIES are audited no differently than any other kind of incident. However, it must be remarked that individual cells have “past lives”, the easiest manifestation of past lives to check. An auditor can follow a particular cell throughout its own generations within the body and, as part of the evolutionary line, discover many injuries to it. Further, in going back on the evolutionary line and auditing an injury to a single cell, the future positions of that cell are easily located in the body from there to the present, for the future injuries blow off like small sparks of pain when the basic injury is released. The migrations of a single cell throughout the body are very easy to track in this fashion and ordinarily check against standard suppositions in the field of physical biology. The pulp of a tooth, for instance, tracks back, cell by cell, to early engrams; when these are relieved a “toothache” in that tooth becomes almost impossible, no matter how many “nerves” are exposed, a matter which brings about quite a revolution in dentistry. CELLULAR INJURIES do not require any special kind of auditing and they comprise no special kind of injury nor are there psycho-somatics which demand that the cells alone be audited.

All anomalies are important. They vary only in their magnitude. CELLULAR INJURY is an anomaly. It comes about when there is an accident, burn, or an incident which has just occurred. The somatics are very sharp. Individual cells have “past lives,” (DNA programming), which may reveal many injuries to it. You audit out the basic injury to the cell.

GENETIC ENTITY, the “GE”, is the second area of address. This is the entity which carries forward from the earliest formation of the MEST body. It is this entity which has the “genetic line” engrams. It is located more or less in the centre of the body the stomach, but it is actually a composite of all the cellular experience on the line. It has the manifestation of a single identity. It was formerly referred to as the SOMATIC MIND (see DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH). Out of all the past experience of the MEST body it makes up a form, a working carbon-oxygen engine. It has no real personality it is not the “I” of the body. It has a record in many cases, of the entire experience forward until the last life. The GE has the record of past deaths. Auditing it alters physical structure, eradicates physical malformations. But these can be otherwise changed by auditing the theta being. The GE facsimiles include a transfer of somatics from past theta beings, for it is not common for a GE to have the same theta being twice. The GE is the constant and continual workhorse of the theta body. It regulates the heartbeat, takes care of all such responses, acts as a stimulus-response mind to avoid pain and discover pleasure and keeps the body running in general. A GE departs from the body much later than the theta beings abandon one, sees it through the death to the end and only then leaves to join the line once more some two or three days before conception. This is the “mind” of an animal, a dog or a cat or a cow.

GENETIC ENTITY is the DNA programming, which represents all the cellular experience on the genetic line. It serves as the blueprint for the body. It has the manifestation of a single identity located at the center of the body in the stomach. Any anomalies in this programming needs to be resolved. Audit them with subject clearing.

INJECTED ENTITIES are the third class of target. These are actually synthetics. They are ridges that “think”. They form a very complex pattern. They have geographical areas in the body. These areas are standard, preclear to preclear. These areas answer up on an E-meter like actual minds rather than compartments of a mind. The areas are the CENTRE (forehead and down), the RIGHT INSIDE (from the edge of the jaw halfway out to the shoulder), the RIGHT OUTSIDE (from halfway to the shoulder to the point of the shoulder), the LEFT INSIDE (opposite from the right inside), the LEFT OUTSIDE (opposite from the right outside), the STOMACH ENTITY (located in the area of the solar plexus), plus various other entities held in by these basic entities. These entities run off their own past deaths, on other tracks, hold sections of the body paralyzed, bar areas from being audited, withhold information from “I” and do other mischief. They are actually the basis of “demon circuits” (as covered in DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH) and they mirror the personality of persons antipathetic to the preclear. They are entirely stimulus-response. Each one has, from preclear to preclear, the same personality in the same body position. The RIGHT INSIDE, for instance, answers up to the name of “crew chief”. They are male and female. Their source is probably a “softened-up” theta being, and they disappear when electronic incidents are audited. Prior to their disappearance, they can exhibit a wonderful and awesome role in confusing the preclear. The auditor can move the attention of the preclear into one of these and audit it through a death or painful experience and so bring it up to present time. In view of the fact that auditing basic electronic incidents eradicates them, little attention need be paid to them by the auditor beyond knowing that they are there, that they are the “mysterious voices” in the heads of some preclears, that they make critical or commanding remarks to him and serve, in general, as a fine source of aberration. Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons. Here is an inexhaustible source of study and speculation which I leave to another, having located the method of wiping them out without paying any attention to them.

INJECTED ENTITIES have the characteristics of AI (artificial intelligence). They take on personalities formed out of the person’s thoughts. They are associated with geographical areas in the body. These areas are related to major nerve centers. In auditing out these entities a person must apply the discipline of subject clearing very strictly.

THETA BEINGS are the fourth and only really important target for the auditor. The theta being is the “I”, it is WHO the preclear is. If all the entities and beingnesses of the preclear were hydrogen balloons locked up inside him and each had a name and identity, the auditor might be confused and the preclear IS confused as to who “I” is. But if the preclear were suddenly opened and the balloons let loose, the “I” balloon would float free clear and unmistakable and that “I” balloon would be the theta being, it would be who the preclear always thought he was anyway. All others are simply modifiers. The theta being does not get lost. It does not go away; it cannot be stolen. If it went away, the preclear would be with it and be it. The vagueness of personal identity is caused by the confusion of the theta being, not its “inextricable” entanglement with other identities.

The theta being can be confused in itself, it can be hypnotized, it can go to sleep. It can experience emotions. It can think. It can feel pain. It is immortal in that it cannot die—but it could possibly become so burdened with facsimiles that it could not continue along with bodies. It does not need a body to think, make facsimiles, experience emotions, remember or perceive.

The theta being seems natively capable of producing considerable MEST energy. Facsimiles alone inhibit this ability. Whereas it has come to feel, in association with the bad company of genetic entities and the MEST universe, that it is a stimulus-response thing, it is quite capable of generating thought independently of previous effort, counter effort or experience.

The preclear is not guarding or harboring or hiding his theta being—he IS his theta being. A relaxed understanding of this will prevent a considerable confusion on the part of the auditor and preclear. If the preclear is responding rationally, he is the theta being responding.

The THETA BEING is the “I”, it is WHO the person is. The being is modified by these various entities, but that confusion is cleared up in auditing. It is the being who is auditing his beingness. The anomalies exist mainly as fixed considerations. It is not the body, but a fixation on the body, which is a major anomaly. The body itself is an integral part of the being and must be cared for by handling anomalies in it.

As the theta being can be “put to sleep”, it is possible to bring then to the surface a GE or another entity which using the motor controls of the body, can talk or experience. But the individual himself is not usually aware of what happened then. The various strange multi-personality manifestations of the mind are occasioned by valences and their basics, the entities; ordinarily, unless the preclear is obviously insane, these sub-personalities are not distinctly units in themselves but only colour the activities of the theta being.

Hypnotism is the process of bringing into being the GE or other entity by putting the theta being into unconsciousness. Self-hypnosis is the process of the theta being hypnotizing GE or other entity and setting up a compulsive or inhibitive circuit with it.

All this other phenomenon that appears after the theta being is put to sleep does not contribute to auditing. Auditing is the process that increases the awareness of the theta being.

The auditor must know that the existence of a MEST body within the fields of the theta being is incidental and even unfortunate processing which, in the absence of a body, goes much faster.

The theta being is both outside and inside the MEST body. It is not just inside. The only reason it is inside at all is that any field would penetrate the MEST body. The MEST body should not be thought of as a harbor or vessel for the theta being. A better example would be a sliver inserted unwantedly in the thumb where the thumb would be the Theta being, the MEST body the sliver. MEST bodies are good identification tags, they generate exuding emotions, they are fun to operate at times, but they are no end of existence.

A theta being with its alertness restored is capable of remolding the human body within its field, taking off weight here, restoring it there, changing appearance and even height. The body can also be altered by auditing cells or the GE. All in all, bodies are very easy to handle where their condition is concerned. The question is rather, are they practical? The theta being can evidently manufacture bodies or a reasonable facsimile thereof which, while they do not labor, neither do they have to be fed.

Hubbard thinks erroneously that having a body is an anomaly. That is not true. The actual anomaly is having a fixation on the body.

To a society quite mad on the subject of MEST bodies, very aberrated on “care of the body”, the foregoing may seem a trifle strange, and one might think the writer had, to be short, slipped a cable or two in his wits. Indeed, it is very probable that critics may say so. For their reality is entirely outraged by such sudden statements.

But this matter has been under investigation for a year and a half as witness “THETA CLEAR” on the SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL tone-scale chart which I drew in January 1951. It states that the capabilities of a theta clear were unknown. Now they are not so unknown and while there is much to learn about them still, much can be stated concerning them as clear fact. Back of these statements is a two-year public record of making statements which, under grueling investigation by others, turn out to be exactly what they were said to be.

Hubbard was confused on the subject of exteriorization. See The Definition of EXTERIORIZATION.

Before turning away from the above, try SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 and learn again what it is to be truly FREE. An hour’s auditing will prove it.

In 2023, we are now looking at a seventy-year track of Scientology attainments. What appeared a possibility to Hubbard in 1952 remains a possibility still.

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SCIENTOLOGY: A History of Man

BY L. RON HUBBARD
Published in 1952

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. FOREWORD
   1. Comments: Theory Asserted as Factual
2. CHAPTER ONE – How and what to Audit
   1. Comments: The Route to Clear
3. CHAPTER TWO – Cases: Targets of Address
   1. Comments: The Target of Auditing
4. CHAPTER THREE – The Present Life
   1. Comments: The Route to Rapid Results
5. CHAPTER FOUR – The Genetic Line
   1. Comments: The Genetic Line
6. CHAPTER FOUR A – The Theta Being
   1. Comments: The Theta Being
7. CHAPTER FIVE – Capabilities of a Theta Being
   1. Comments: Capabilities of a Theta Being
8. CHAPTER SIX – History of the Theta Line
   1. Comments: History of the Theta Line
9. CHAPTER SEVEN – Type of Incidents on the Theta Line
   1. Comments: Type of Incidents on the Theta Line
10. CHAPTER EIGHT – Specific Incidents on the Theta Line
    1. Comments: Specific Incidents on the Theta Line
11. CHAPTER NINE – Generalized Incidents
    1. Comments: Generalized Incidents
12. CHAPTER TEN – The Transfer
    1. Comments: The Transfer

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