Improving Conditions in Life

Grüezi!!

Welcome to the lecture. I was going to call it "Conditions in Life", but it's really, "IMPROVING Conditions in Life". Because just by telling you the conditions in life, you might get all downtone and disappointed, but if we also tell you how to IMPROVE them, and make things go better, then you can APPLY it.

Now, the interesting thing here is that many of you may have some resistance, or some feeling that this is not really true, about what I’m going to tell you. Or you may have had bad experience with some of it. Well, it’s never been put in such a broad form as you’re going to hear in this lecture. And everyone in the game will find that what they’re worried about does have a condition, and does have a way how to improve it.

Before we say more about that, let us define the word. (writes on board) Okay, that’s the title: "Improving Conditions in Life", and now we’re going to define "Condition". Okay: (writes on board)

CONDITION:

1) A STATE OF AFFAIRS OR A PRESENT SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES.

And number two is:

2) SOMETHING REQUIRED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION OF SOMETHING ELSE.

Now, we’ll give you examples of this, so you really understand what it is. "A state of affairs or a present set of circumstances". Let’s say that you look at the condition of this room, and you notice that it’s painted, and there’s a few cracks in the ceiling tiles here, and places where they’re falling down. You see, little holes there, and the carpet has some little hairs coming out, and so it’s not in PERFECT condition, you see? So you might say: "Well, it’s in a state of, or a condition of, NEEDING MINOR REPAIR." Do you understand? You can see the condition of the room. And if you don’t like the colour of the walls, well, you might say: "Well, that is not a good condition, of..." If you were buying the hotel, you might say: "Well, I don’t like that colour, and that makes a bad condition in here, and I’d rather have it yellow." You understand? So what you’re looking at is the observation of what IS, of what’s existing.

Now, that was a PHYSICAL example. Now, suppose we talk of something a little more, shall we say, not geistig, or spiritual, but not so obvious. You come up to somebody, and you say: "Wie geht’s?" or "How are you doing?" And he says, "Well... okay". Or, "Not so well today". You’re actually asking him to give you what he feels his condition is. Now, that may be a combination of his body health, and where he is in his spiritual health, on the Bridge and so. Or he may be referring to his economic problems. Or, he may be referring to how he’s getting on with his wife or her husband on that day.

Now, we’re talking here about a simple thing you say to people every day. And you can almost start with the answer, and unravel their entire life, or solve it – if you know the technology of how to do it. So you see that when you ask somebody: "How are you?" or "How’s it going?" you’re asking them what is their state of affairs or present set of circumstances. Or, in other words, you’re asking them: "What is your condition?" "Es geht schlecht", or "Es geht gut", or "It goes bad" or "It goes well". Okay? Do you understand that? We’re looking at what is right there in front of you, what do you feel, what is visible. Okay?

Now, number two definition: this is used like the word conditionAL – a condition for something else to happen. We use a lot of that with the word "if" in English. That would be like this. You see, we’ll do it in the negative first. We say: "IF you don’t put the key in the ignition, you won’t be able to start your car." Now, what we’re saying here is that a condition for the car to operate is to turn on the ignition, and you can’t do that without a key, so the key is required for the performance or operation of the car.

You won’t be able to drink the water without opening the bottle. So you know the old joke: they talk about the guys starving on the mountaintop, and they’ve got canned food, but nobody brought a can opener. So they don’t have the thing required to eat. They can’t eat the food because they can’t open the can. So the condition of having that tool to open the can is very important. So, you might say that the can opener is conditional, or the condition required for the cans to be opened so they can eat.

So, so far, do you understand this? As a sequence, so "Condition" had two meanings: one (where’s that pen?) That’s required before I can make a mark here... so we can look at it in terms of, one: this one up here, requires: (writes on board)

1) CONFRONT OF WHAT IS.

It’s a present set of circumstances or state of affairs. You have to look at it, get data on it, WHAT IS IT? The first time I looked at the room, I didn’t see the cracks up there in the ceiling and I didn’t see this in the rug, until I looked at it as WHAT IS ITS CONDITION? And now, aha, there, ah there, there – you see? If you just take a glance, you don’t see it. So, first thing we know is, if you’re going to later on apply to improve conditions in life, you’re going to have to be able to confront.

Now, this one requires, you might say, knowledge. You have to know about the key going in the ignition before the car will start. But the way this is worded, let’s add a little bit to that, and say: (writes on board)

2) KNOWLEDGE OF CORRECT SEQUENCES.

Okay? Knowledge of Correct Sequences. Okay, so those are the abilities that you have to have before you can even get into this subject. Now, therefore, confront and knowledge of correct sequence are two things that every player in the game, or every person living in life, is trying to do all the time... they’re TRYING to do. You know, you always try to put on your sock before you put on your shoe. You don’t see many people going round with the sock on the outside of the shoe.

When you have your car started, you’re supposed to look in the mirrors and see if anyone’s coming before you pull out. You have to confront what is there: is there a car coming, or not? That also comes from Knowing the Correct Sequence. You don’t pull out first and then look. Oh, I have seen people do that. But – remember, they’re not winning at the game of life, or they won’t win very long, doing that. So far, we’re talking about very simple things that you do every day, but you don’t know it, you don’t... I assume you DO know it, but you don’t recognise it as a very important factor in the game of Conditions, and Application of Conditions.

So, let’s see – this is already something everyone is trying to do in the game. Now, suppose they also had the technology to do it 100% correctly, all the time – or very close – 99, or 98, I mean that’s good enough. Think how well they would do? Think how many wins they would have, think how much fun they would have, and how much acceptance they would get in the game!

Let’s look at it from, shall we say, the auditing, or C/Sing, or case viewpoint. What are you really, what are you REALLY, handling, when you begin your auditing and you start to have cognitions and get some of these things handled? What are you doing? You’re handling conditions that have stuck there – and you still have them because you never confronted them, and you didn’t know the correct sequence of what had happened or what was done there so you could say: "Okay, now I understand that I don’t need to hold it there any more."

Now that is why when I train C/Ses, I tell them that you can look at a case as just adding up all the incomplete cycles that a person in the game ever ran into, and making sure they complete them. You see? Now, so let’s look at, if we go into that a little more in detail, because everyone is doing this. All right, we have: (writes on board)

THE CYCLE OF ACTION IN THE GAME

START, HANDLE, COMPLETE

Now, you have heard of the cycle of action as Start, Change, Stop. But there are other cycles of action. There’s big ones like Create, Survive, Destroy, that the people doing the war in the Middle East do. But we’re talking about the normal WINNING cycle in the game. The WINNING cycle. So, you come in the game and you get interested in that, and you want to start something with that, and you want to handle it, and you want to complete it.

Now, you can do that as many times as you like. I think in one of the earlier lectures, I told you about how is it possible that people can enjoy food every time they eat, without getting overrun, or doing it too much, because they do Start, Handle, Complete the food, and then tomorrow they can do the same thing. The same thing might be said about sex. In all the second dynamic relationships, people like to start, handle and complete each sexual action in there. You can do that as many times as you like.

Now, let’s look at the other side of this, and where the case or the problems come from. Okay, so we’ve got: (writes on board)

CAN’T, OR WON’T (i.e. cannot or will not):

START, HANDLE, COMPLETE

So, now let’s look at this. Every one of these can give you a problem that will stick there until you resolve it, or somebody helps you to resolve it. So, somebody fells in love with another person and they go to have sex together, and they can’t start. Or, they have a consideration about it, and they say, no, they WON’T start. Yes, the same with Can’t Handle, or Won’t Handle. Or, Can’t Complete or Won’t Complete. I mean, doctors and psychiatrists make a lot of money on people who can’t do these things in the 2D, or in their life, or whatever. Personal relationships.

The most normal is one of these is that only one combination is necessary to mess up the entire cycle. They start the relationship okay. They do handle some of it and they get a good 2D relationship going. But then one of them wants to complete it – the whole relationship, not just one encounter, but they want to complete the whole relationship sooner than the other person does.

So, let’s say, the first person wants to complete it here (draws time track on board) and the second one wants to carry on and complete it down here somewhere, when they’re dead or something. Now, you have the problem of divorce cases, ARC breaks in the marriage, runaway husbands, abandoned children, all these kinds of problems. Ach!!!!

You can say the same thing about eating. The complete cycle on eating is that the food energy gets to the body, and the waste products go out. Now suppose they can’t complete that cycle. You have lots of doctors making a lot of money! You know, on trying to get people to complete that cycle, you know, eat the right food to get energy to the body and try to get that opened up so it will come on out, you know, especially when they eat a lot of pasta!

I knew one girl, who told me in a moment of closeness, she said: "I must tell you something. I haven’t gone to the bathroom in three months." She ate lots of pasta! And you know, I was trying to make light of it, and make a joke... I said: "Well, my goodness, I’d better get out of the room before you explode!!" We had a big laugh about that. Because you could imagine, you know, there’s Scheisse all over the walls, and everything! But I put her on a diet recommended by Ron, to have a lot of grains, and bran, and things like that, and finally it started to come through. No harsh laxatives or anything, but just the normal cleansing. And as soon as we discontinued, ended, completed the relationship on a mutually agreed basis – we did agree to complete the relationship – and she went up the Bridge in another RON'S Org, and the C/S called me one time afterwards, and said: "Hey, you know that condition, she’s now done it again, she’s not taking the bran and stuff and eating lots of pasta again."

So, what we’re looking at there is with my help, I could get her to complete the cycle on eating. But what she could not do by herself was confront what was there and do the correct sequence. In other words, she was not aware of the condition, or, if she WAS aware of the condition, she was not aware that the handling was the handling. Therefore she could not improve. Okay? Therefore her condition of health, and body health, and a little belly coming on there because the intestines were swelling up with this stuff, was giving her a loss in life.

Okay, so those two things are very important: knowing, or confronting the condition, and knowing the right sequence to handle it. By "sequence", I mean something that you start, you handle it, and you complete it. And you may have to do several sequences to get it all correct.

Let’s take the car again. You can take the key, and you can stick it in the ignition, and you can jiggle it around, to handle it, but it won’t start. You can turn it one click, but it won’t start. So you did start, and you did do a handle, but you didn’t turn it to the third position where it goes r.r.r.r.r.r.r.r.r, to complete the cycle, and get the engine started. (Has trouble with the pen writing on the board.) What’s the matter with this guy? He’s not completing his job. Ah, here he comes. The condition was he got dried out, so I put the cap back on him, you see – that’s handling him, so he doesn’t dry out. When I’m waving it around in the air I’m just drying it out, so I should do that with the cap on, so you see I’ve learned something right there. In other words, otherwise, we have a non-survival, or a bad condition with the pen – it doesn’t work any more. And you get the inclination: "Ah, we should throw it away, it doesn’t work", you see.

Now, what I’m telling you there is, you start, you try to handle, you start, you try to handle, and don’t make it... well, there it did, but the first time it didn’t make it, see, so you put the thing together, and you throw it away. That’s how you complete. Now, that is one of the biggest problems in this game. The non-utilisation, or throwing away, or discarding of things which appear that they don’t work any more, or they’re not useful any more. Look at all the reports you’re getting now on the television and in the press about the environment. I mean, all the pollution and everything. All of that is stuff that was just thrown away without taking care of it, without handling it, without completing the cycle on it. Now, they’re starting to do little handlings on that. You can buy recycled paper. You can buy gas to run your car that is made out of garbage. All the farmers have known for centuries that you take all the waste products of the animals, all the offal, and you use it on the fields for fertiliser. You don’t just throw it away. So, suppose, I mean you could even imagine, that the entire MEST universe might have gone through one of these cycles and it’s just the discards of the garbage of other games. That’s why as spiritual beings or OTs we can’t really get in good communication with it because it’s very very hard to handle when you just throw it away and you don’t use it any more. Because it’s a confused mess. See?

That’s why you can see it there in the use of one of Ron’s earliest demonstrations, remember, the "Mock up a cat" demonstration. He asks the guy, "Do you see the cat?" He says "Yes". And then he says: "Well, who is looking at it?" The guy says, "I am", or "Me". That is how he used to differentiate the person from the body. You see, that was his little trick, he had the guy mock up a cat. Now the thing is, he could also tell the guy, "Okay, you’ve finished with that, now just take a good look at it and realise you made it". And it vanishes. So, he did a complete cycle on it. Now, very interestingly, what do we find in lower level processing, in engrams? We find mental image pictures that are still there. Of moments of pain, unconsciousness, low tones, secondaries – remember under duress, under pain, unconsciousness – so the player, the person in the game, did not confront what it was because of so much pain and unconsciousness, he did not confront what it was, and he didn’t know the correct sequence, so he couldn’t do the cycle on it – he couldn’t start, he couldn’t handle, he couldn’t complete that mock up of that accident.

So, you have to put him in the auditing, to go back, and do it right: "Go to the beginning of the incident. Go through the incident, telling me what you see." Several time, here – finally, he gets all the knowledge out of it, and what was really there, and what the right sequence was, and he goes pffff! And completes it. So what is he doing? He’s confronting an unhandled condition! Now you see why I can see that most of people’s cases are just the incomplete cycles of handling conditions in the life, or in their past. You see? All fits together, doesn’t it?

But, that’s an application in auditing. Now, we want to look at how do you handle this in life? How do you recognise conditions in life, and complete the handling on them? And get an improvement?

Okay, now I come to one of the unconfrontable parts of this lecture. Since I’ve got you all grooved in on the words, and the definitions, and all, it probably won’t hit you so bad this time, because you have knowledge. But this whole subject is called ETHICS. (talks to the pen...) Come on you guy, write that, write that, come on, come on, come on, come on... this guy, he’s blocked out of this – he’s out-ethics. It’s ETHICS! PERSONAL Ethics. It was always MEANT to be personal. And Ethics in relationship to your playing in the game.

Right. What is ethical in the game? It is:

THE COMPLETING OF CYCLES OF ACTION, THE CONFRONTING OF WHAT IS, AND KNOWING THE CORRECT SEQUENCES ACCORDING TO THE RULES AND THE AGREEMENTS OF THE GAME.

If you have a game where everyone has their own first dynamic possessions, and it’s agreed that those are yours and these are mine, and each person has their own things, then if I come over here and take this bag, that’s out-ethics, see? It’s not mine. How mad do you get if someone breaks in your car, when you’re parked in Italy, and they take your radio out? You see what I mean? That’s out-ethics.

You know that, right, I mean you KNOW IT. "Hey, that’s not by the rules of the game. I don’t like that! Ach!" Okay. So, by the way, what IS the correct way to get rid of something if you don’t want it any more? You could SELL the radio. Or you could GIVE it to someone, maybe your child, your kid, who has a new car, but he doesn’t have a radio, and you give him that one, and get another one. But that is an OFFICIAL change, or start, handle and complete cycle, on possession. It’s mine, now it’s yours. Bomp. Here’s the exchange, or it’s a gift – or, a present. So those are in the game already.

These conditions, these rules, are sitting there. Every country has laws about stealing, about taking somebody’s life when they don’t want to lose it! I know in Switzerland that people obey these very well and they make these arrangements here to do everything is a very good, civilised way. But you go to some countries – or some cities – in Europe, and the rest of the world, and immediately your whole attention, and your whole game, is protecting what you want there. You don’t have any fun, and you don’t expand on to other dynamics, and you don’t outflow because you’re just watching your car all the time. Or watching your where you purse is, so that nobody steals it.

You know how Italians enjoy their pasta and their spaghetti dinners. I went into a restaurant there with this friend of mine, one time, in Rome. When I walked in the door, I noticed over here a coat rack, in full view of everyone so that no-one would steal their coat, and over here was a big strong metal rack. I wondered what the hell that was. What was that for, I wondered, and I went and sat down with the guy, just talking. We were there a bit early, and then the restaurant started to fill up. I noticed some of the people coming in, and they were carrying these big heavy things. The most heavy one was usually in the right hand – it was the battery of their car. And they would put that in the rack, you see. They could all see, inside the restaurant.

The other thing was that they usually had their radio out of their car. They didn’t trust that to the rack. They would take it there and out it on the table. That was the only way they could enjoy their spaghetti! And not have to worry about somebody stealing their car, or stealing the radio out of the car. That’s an actual incident! Happened five, ten... ten years ago. That’s amazing! You see what people have to do to protect their own first dynamic possessions. In some places, just so they can enjoy a little bit of a good meal, and maybe conversation with their second dynamic terminal, or something, without worries, without having to collapse back on to the first dynamic.

Now you start to see, when people break the rules in the game, and when they don’t apply the right conditions, or they’re in a lower condition and don’t handle it, they become criminal and the rest of the game starts to get aberrated. You see, aberration is contagious. You see? So, that comes from what we talked about in the Dynamics Lecture – interference in the existing game. People come into the game, or they recruit people in the game, to break the rules – essentially. And to mess up the agreements, and change them around, so everyone’s confused, and so on. Or so that people become at effect of the interference. Therefore they become under control by the interference.

Now, I’ll just give you a small example of that – how it’s done by even the best of people in administrative ways, and by changing your agreements and changing your awareness of what is, your confront, of what IS the game, to something they want. Out of that come many, many, many violations, and breaks, of the rules of the game. We’ll give you several examples here, because I want you to see it on a third dynamic and fourth dynamic basis: (writes on board)

a) 900 – 1200 AD: THE CRUSADES.

The so-called Crusades...

b) FOLLOWED BY THE INQUISITION.

Now, we don’t blame anybody for that, really, but it was the Catholic Church of Rome that did all this. Or somebody there was a real Interference person in the game. Now, what did they do? They gave people the concept of this: (writes on board)

THIS IS THE TRUTH. GOD’S WILL.

Anybody else...

ANY OTHER BELIEF = HERESY.

Now, also, if (the condition)...

IF YOU ARE A HERETIC WE CAN KILL YOU AND TAKE YOUR POSSESSIONS.

Now, they stuck that in the game, and there happened to be another major religion going on at the time called Islam. They had the SAME THING! The same things! Except they even had: (writes on board)

AND WE WHO DO IT...

...this (points to board): kill you and take your possessions – we who do it...

...WILL GO TO PARADISE, OR HEAVEN.

And of course before that you had another postulate put in there, or a belief put in there, that there was two ways you could go: when you die you could go to heaven or you could go to hell, and this was the IMPROVEMENT.

Now, both sides had this belief. They were spreading it around. There was a lot of interference in the game. What happened? Thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people were killed. And all their possessions were taken. And not only that, but after. The Crusades sort of got a little unpopular, or too expensive. There was nothing left to rip off, you see. They then started to do an Inquisition in Europe to make sure that NOBODY said anything against the "truth" – in quotes! And another many thousands of people got killed, and their possessions taken. You imagine living at that time, you didn’t have much chance to expand on your dynamics. Remember how the families protected themselves, the noble families, the business families? They promised always one son or one daughter every generation to go INTO that Church and be part of it so they would be protected. So, it was a form of blackmail, or protectionism. Far away from the regular game of exchange and production and granting beingness and dynamics to another person.

Now after that, came the Dark Ages – 1100-1400 or 1500. Another interesting bunch of lies came into the game: (writes on board)

I'll put in (referring to the previous summary on the board)

THE CHURCH OF ROME, and

ISLAM

They did that one, and now, we have: (writes on board)

c) SPAIN...

Now let’s look at Spain. This was: (writes on board)

...1500-1600.

Now, after America was discovered in 1492, there was a whole bunch of Spanish nobleman, and other people, even church people, that went over to the New World. Now, maybe you don’t study American history, not US of America – but the whole of America, North and South, history, over here – but there was a lot of, shall we say, out of game agreements made and done over in North and South America by the Spanish. The Portugese, to some degree, too. But mainly these guys.

And the church people brought over the same thing. The noblemen worked right along with them. Anybody that would convert to the church religion was given over to the Conquistadors. You know, Pizarro, Cortes, Ponce de Leon, you know, those guys. They would then have free permission from the church, to go in there and kill them all, take all their gold and wipe them out, and give 10% to the church – or whatever percent, 40% or whatever. Besides taking their land, as well.

Now, the Spanish – just taking... looking at the Spanish, because we already know what this one is – they were after two things. The Indians found out this very soon, and they could get the Spanish to move on just by telling them two things. And those two buttons on the Spanish that the Indians found out very soon were: (writes on board)

GOLD, and THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

Do you know that most of America – United States, and all of Mexico, and most of South America, was explored on the basis of Spanish Conquistadors looking for these two things? That’s right. They didn’t go, like today’s explorers, to Antarctica just to find out what’s there. Or climb Mount Everest just because no-one’s done it before. No, all of Spain’s explorations had to do with getting gold or the fountain of youth. They travelled, incredible hardships and thousands of miles across this whole country, North and South America, looking for these things, because the Indians said: "Oh, yeah, it’s over there." They didn’t want to get ripped off any more so they said: "There’s some over there." El Dorado, they called it, the City of Gold. Yeah! Those were the two ways that Spain used those as the rules of their game which allowed them to destroy everybody else’s dynamics.

Now we get: (writes on board)

d) ENGLAND, 1700-1850.

Now, we’re talking about the largest powers in the world at these times. They were other scenarios, but these were the big ones. And these were the datums they were working on, these were the "rules" they were working on. And England worked on this basis for quite a while – it was a little closer to the real game, so they didn’t have too much trouble... (writes on board)

FULL OR PARTIAL SLAVERY, PLUS TRADE.

World, I should say, world trade. Now, you remember the clipper ships, and all the English controlled the sea, and they had all the fast ships, and everything – very fast sailing ships. They would go to these poorer, what we would call third world countries – India, the Far East, and all that. And they would set up their administration on a partial slavery basis: as long as you do what the British want you to do, you’re okay, but if you go against us we’ll kill you. And there was administrative and economic slavery in some places, and then they would take the products that were made there, like the tea from China, and the herbs and spices from India, and opium – don’t forget that – they would put it on their ships and they would come back to Europe and sell it there, and sell it into Spain and all the countries of the New World, and so on. And they also had a trade, a very good trade going, in full slavery, from Africa.

That’s what produced this thing called the – I forget exactly what they called it – but it was some kind of a very profitable sailing triangle they did, and if we take England here (writes on board, drawing the triangle) it was ENGLAND, AFRICA, WEST INDIES. West Indies, the Caribbean. This was great. I mean, just look at the profit margins. The ship would start off from England with nothing in it more than a bunch of chains, down in the ballast, right? And a little bit of money. They go down to Africa, where the Arabs had already collected up a lot of black people out of the middle of Africa to sell them as slaves. So, they would pay them a little bit, and take these slaves off their hands, from the Arabs. Then they would take the slaves over here, to the West Indies, in the chains that they had on the ship, and then they would sell them to the farmers and the plantation owners over in here and all over the southern coast of America, who get very cheap labour. See? They would then use the money they used for the slaves, or some of it, to buy the sugar cane, and the rice, and the different things they made on the plantation. Each time, after this, they made a profit there on the slaves. It didn’t cost as much to buy coffee, and sugar cane, as it did to buy a slave, so they would make a profit on that, you see?

Now they would sail back to England – oh, and cotton, too, cotton was another one, they used a lot of slaves on the cotton – now they sailed back to England, and they sold that cargo of sugar cane which they make into rum. They sell the cotton to the fabric mills in England who make clothing out of it, and since the West Indian guys were bringing them tea, they sold coffee to the rest of Europe. And don’t forget chocolate, too. Anyway, the profit they made there was ENORMOUS. So they had full or partial slavery, partial in the east, full in the Africa, West Indies trade, where they made full profit on the slaves as well. And they go back to England, and England became the most powerful nation in those years, because they were gathering up all this world trade, money and profits. But a lot of people, or some people in those times, didn’t like this, because it AGAIN was not the real game.

So you see the progression here: belief in rip-off, and we can kill you, and then it’s gold and fountain of youth, and they don’t kill quite as many, and then we have: don’t kill them at all, make them slaves and make money on them, and make profit on the trade, make them work there and make money for you.

Now we get to Modern Civilisation. Nice progression here! And it is: (writes on board)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ECONOMIC DURESS, BUT SOME FREEDOM FOR PEOPLE.

See? You notice that most countries have abolished slavery now, Most countries do not like you to go about and kill people, even if you are in the church. They allow people to have their own possessions. They allow you to do that... but! They put economic and administrative duress on you in place of all this stuff. Now some of it is of course, useful. I mean, it is good that they have laws written down against some of these bad things. Everything that is good about this modern civilisation is because it is in line with the real game. But everything that people protest about and don’t like too much is not in line with the original game agreements.

So we can see here, economic duress – non agreed-upon, excessive taxes, for one thing. And you have to have so many papers before you can be a... whatever. Or do... whatever. Or have... whatever. When they becomes too much, people protest. So you notice that the handling of this change of how do you control the world, so to speak, has become more and more on a gentle gradient. So you don’t notice.

Now, this means that inflation can gradually eat away at your money, but it’s only a matter or a percent or so a year. The taxes have to go up, of course, we all know that, but they only go up a little bit every year. Yes, there’s going to be more paperwork required when they have the Common Market in operation, but they'll just put in a little bit here and a little bit there, and then later on, everybody has to do it.

Some countries have already had this in their tradition, like Spain, for instance, after this period – they went into an administrative control of their people in Spain. If you go to get a driver’s licence in Spain, for instance, you have to go round to about four different buildings before you can actually have it. It’s just an example, but it’s an incredibly long and boring experience. Even to get a new licence plate on your car, it takes at least two days of time. People hire others to go and do it for them, and the guy calls them on the telephone when they’re almost at the end of the line so they can come down there and sign the paper. All they care about is the paper, the stamp and the signature, that’s all! They’re not really testing the guy or seeing if he’s honest, or whether he can drive a car or not. They don’t care about that. So again people get protesty about that. It’s not really the right game. There’s no exchange. Oh yeah, you have to pay the government for doing all this, but if you stand in line yourself, you lose two day’s pay! You see? So you feel out-exchange somehow. Or you have to pay another guy to go and stand in line for you. It’s an amazing system! In Germany it’s much faster to do these things.

But, that’s just an example of how administrative duress, and economic duress, can sort of grow, and get obnoxious and not liked. Now, look at your Common Market policies. How did anyone get interested in it in the first place? Because they promised to TAKE AWAY some of the administration and some of the economic duress. They said open borders, free trade, and no long lines for the paperwork when you’re going across and have to show all your papers, or a truck driver has to wait two hours to get his things all checked – or two days! However, this has not occurred. Only in a couple of places, for public relations purposes. You can go to Strasbourg, for instance, and freely move across the border between France and Germany. But that’s where the Common Market European Parliament is in that town. So that’s a nice public relations thing.

But in other places you see the trucks backed up for miles, and they’re sleeping in their trucks, waiting to do all the paperwork coming between Germany and France, just maybe a couple of hundred kilometres away. And remember, those truck drivers are being paid by the day as well. So what is it going to do to the profits of their company? And you may be sure that in 1992 you will hear of a whole list of new things you have to do to be in the Common Market! More paper, more taxes, somebody’s got to support all those politicians, and the bureaucracy. So, somebody’s got to be taxed somewhere. So the idea there was to let the people work, you know, not be slaves, let them work, let them make SOME money, but take the rest away from them. In other words, don’t give them the freedom of choice, of "I pay my own bills". So you have to pay the tax – on a general basis. They say they’re going to build you better roads. But suppose a person is working, and he’s handicapped, and maybe can’t see too well, and he can never drive a car. Well, he has to pay the tax anyway.

Okay, so you have these different things that people protest about, the rules, and about the agreements of how they are controlled. If they would ever come up with a list of "this is what we’re going to spend the money on, and tick in the box whether you want to pay that percent for your roads, for your schools, for your this, for your that, for your that", then they come to WEAPONS OF WAR and you say, no, I don’t want to pay for that. You see, they don’t allow you that choice, You have to pay the tax and they spend it on whatever they want. In America, half of all the tax money from all those two hundred million Americans, HALF of the tax money was going, for many years during the cold war, to weapons. Now, there was no exchange for the taxpayer on any of that.

Okay. What we’re getting an idea of here is: conditions under which you live, on different dynamics. I’m trying to get you to confront those and to understand what the sequence is here, through history, of this control method that is in some ways going along with the game, and in some ways against. And why people feel they cannot do anything about it. Because it is, remember, Start, Handle, Complete. There isn’t any way an individual, by himself, can really do anything to handle and complete the cycle on it, even if he starts.

I mean, you’ve seen that in the UFO lecture I gave, because there were a couple of guys in America that started to expose all the government’s connection with alien races. They were protesting that first of all, it was being kept a secret, and second of all, a lot of tax money was being spent on making underground bases for the aliens. It was supposed to be a democracy, a free country; we were supposed to know what our money’s going for... and they were keeping it a secret. And if you recall, the guy who was one of the main speakers in that, William Cooper, he said that they had tried to assassinate him two or three times already, and they had sent around things saying he was crazy, and all that kind of stuff. They had tried to contain him, and actually, do what one of the earlier control scenarios was – just kill him! In other words, he was a modern-day heretic.

Now probably, one of the biggest modern-day heretics there ever was, was L. Ron Hubbard! Because he started breaking down all of the lies that were being used to control people, like the belief that they were a body, that they couldn’t improve, that your intelligence could never improve – these are all scientific FACTS, you see! And that you only live once – you see, that makes a guy try to get out of it what he can, and he knows he’d better not make any trouble for the government or they kill him, you know... so all these things went right into the face of these control scenarios that are STILL GOING ON TODAY. They're going on on a very hidden level, and sometimes the OPPOSITE of the truth is being taught to you in science, and taught to you in schools, so that you believe it from when you're very young all the way through your life.

Now, these are conditions. They are existing circumstances, in the game right now. You’re lucky to be living in Switzerland, because it has probably one of the better ratios of game truth to lies. But, as we will continue after dinner, I want to tell you: it doesn’t have to be a matter of luck. It is not just luck whether things go bad, or whether things go better. It has to do exactly with, either knowingly or unknowingly, doing the RIGHT HANDLING for the condition that IS THERE.

Now, the purpose of the rest of the lecture after dinner will be to get you to understand what the conditions are, how to recognise them, and how to KNOWINGLY do the right thing to handle, and improve. The right thing to know what the condition is, and then to do the right thing KNOWINGLY to handle and improve and complete that condition, so you improve in the game.

Okay? Are you ready to do a little handling on your dinner? Yes? Very good! Okay, that’s it for this portion of lecture. Thank you. (Applause...)

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Okay, welcome to Part Two of Improving Conditions In Life. Good.

Now, here is a surprising datum to most of you. You may have heard about policy letters written by L. Ron Hubbard, about Ethics Conditions. And many of you who had association in the Church may have had those conditions misapplied to you. In other words, maybe they didn’t work for you. Or you felt by-passed charge. Couldn’t complete the cycle. Didn’t help you confront and find the actual sequence to handle what you were having trouble with. Well, one of the reasons for that is that the use of conditions is an individual ability, and it’s an individual undertaking in the game. So no-one should assign you a condition. That is almost like evaluating for the player. All they should do is help you to FIND the correct one. The one that when applied, does handle and bring to a complete cycle the condition that you’re in. In other words, it helps you improve your life.

Okay, so that’s a very personal thing for each individual in the game. All this assigning business, and saying "you’re this, and you’re that", is usually, in most cases, if not evaluation, it is giving you a wrong item. It’s like, telling you how you should play – but you haven’t really agreed to that rule. Now there is another subject in that area, which IS applicable when a person cannot follow the rules and does not wish to improve, and that is called JUSTICE. That is when a group of people who are supposed to be in the game then decide for the person what should be done. That is usually SUPPOSED to be based on the rules of the game, and for the best survival, or improvement on all the dynamics. And as we discussed earlier, that is reflected in some of the laws in different countries in the planet. As we gave before, you shouldn’t steal from another player in the game, you shouldn’t take away their body or their life, and so on.

In the Free Zone, the only real justice matters that are brought to our attention are things that prevent a person or other people from going up the Bridge. That is really all we have to worry about, because everything else can be handled if the people are permitted to do the Bridge correctly. But that’s justice, and you may say it’s ethical justice, based on what OUR game is. We’re trying to improve players in the game and they come to us to get the auditing processes done so they will realise some of the cycles they have, and to complete them and so on, and that’s called auditing, and that’s what we do. By the way, that’s also a proof that people do want to improve – it’s one of the basic purposes of the game. Because if people didn’t want to improve, then they would be happier, you see. If they’d wanted to not improve, then they would be happier with all these incomplete cycles on them because then they would be certainly winning on not improving.

But we are not talking about that – that is not the subject of this lecture. The subject of this lecture is how can you apply conditions in your own personal way, by your own personal observation – how can you do this in life?

Now, the first thing I have to tell you is, because it can be confusing if you don’t know this... not out-ethics pens again (writes on board with difficulty)... so...

1) CONDITIONS CAN BE APPLIED WHERE YOU HAVE A PURPOSE OR GOAL TOWARD AN IDEAL OR BETTERED SCENE.

Okay? Now, since we know this game has different dynamics in it – and I game a lecture about that, there are at least twelve of them – so they can be applied: (writes on board)

2) ON DYNAMICS.

But you may have more than one goal or purpose on a dynamic. For instance, on your first dynamic you want to save up enough money to buy a new car. You also want to save up enough money to buy a new house. You could apply conditions to each one of those purposes. You could. Yes? Or you could put it all together in one sort of a financial purpose. And work it out of one purpose to make enough finance to afford all this, and this. See? Again, that is YOUR decision, on where you want to apply these, or observe and see the sequence, and apply these conditions. I think by the end of the lecture you will realise that you’d better do that, or you might not GET to the purpose or the goal or the ideal scene you have on any dynamic, or anything.

And the reason for that is simply this: this is the surprising datum. I don’t think it’s been stated exactly this strongly – but I will state it this strongly because I’ve found it out that it is there, and anyone that’s gone past OT 16 knows it is there too, in these games. Now we’re looking at the whole universe here, as being part of one game. There may have been other games before that, where there were other objectives, and other purposes in that game. And there may have been some games PLANNED to happen, which had other purposes and things to understand in it. Remember, I think it in was the Dynamics Lecture, we were talking about what makes you INVOLVED in a game is interest, intelligence, and improvement. Now, those will make a successful game, and, as long as somebody doesn’t come in and hide the basics of the game, you will be able to win. That did happen in this particular one.

Now we have uncovered some of the real basics. Because of doing the Bridge and because of LRH’s work, we have discovered some of the real basics underlying what these games were supposed to accomplish, and what improvement you were supposed to feel. Let’s look at it like this. If you have a business, or a company, you might have an overall purpose for that company. Let’s say, it’s a milk business. You know, you have a dairy, and you want to produce good quality milk for the children of Switzerland, or of this canton. Okay? But in that business, you would also have sub-purposes, such as to have very clean and sanitary tricks to carry the milk in. And either clean the bottles, or produce or make milk cartons that won’t slip down and come apart when the people buy the milk. Of course, you have to have quality control so that nothing dangerous gets into the milk, it’s all very pure, and there’s no impurities in there. And you have to have responsible people in the dairy and on the deliveries, so that they don’t break the bottles, or they don’t put pollution into the milk. All of this goes to make the overall purpose of the dairy.

So you see, you can have an overall purpose and several sub-purposes. That’s very similar to this, and you can have different purposes on dynamics. But, what we’ve found out, is that in all of this, the interest of the player is in improving on whatever these are: (writes on board)

1) IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF PLAY, THETA, LIFE, ETC.

Okay? In each of these games there is an underlying thing that you’re supposed to find, and use. You’re supposed to find it by observing what’s happening in the game, and you’re supposed to understand what the sequence is, and you’re supposed to, in other words, see the condition; and you’re supposed to realise, or cognite, that that is the condition, this is the handling, and that is the successful way to finish, or to complete winning in the game.

It’s almost like the story of pollution on this planet. Think back a hundred years or so, and small communities and people didn’t have scientific measurement, and to them it didn’t really matter if they threw waste material in the stream. It goes downstream and they didn’t think about the other towns downstream, and if they had beginnings of engines and stuff, they didn’t worry about what it did to the air. You see, they were unconnected with the others.

But nowadays, with all the communication and the worldwide measurements of these things, it suddenly becomes very important to do conservation. In other words, not let these pollutants go up into the air in such volume, and to try to conserve some of the waste products. You see what I mean? Just by the progress of this game on this planet, all of a sudden conservation of resources and handling of pollution becomes a very important thing, otherwise it hurts the survival or everyone. What I’m going to tell you is that it’s even more important, because it was one of the agreed upon games basics which is underlying the truth of this particular game. We’re talking here about an agreement that was made that this would be one of the parts of the game, and it would have this importance in it, and we would get to find out what it was all about. And this was agreed to BEFORE the game started. Okay?

So it’s very very basic. And very very important. And underlies all of life. And it’s been confused by all this interference and so on. Now, what is the basic that everybody was supposed to learn in this particular universe game here? And by the way, you couldn’t get out of it, you couldn’t finish with this part of the game until you did find it. You know? It’s like in a game where it’s your turn to do something. In one of these little board games, if you don’t do it, you don’t move, you don’t roll the dice to get another number, you don’t pick up the card, you don’t buy the little house there, whatever, in Monopoly or whatever game, you can’t come off of that place unless you do the next cycle.

What you were supposed to discover in this game, in life – not in auditing, particularly, but in LIFE! – you were supposed to discover the condition. The condition which this game was based on. And the formula of how to improve it to the next condition up, which would be the next part of the game. And if you didn’t do it, or if you got interfered with, you would start going to the previous, the earlier conditions downward. You will understand more of this as we go on.

So I will put to you know, what is the condition that you’re supposed to discover in this game, right now? It’s called – as an orientation, let's give it a "Zero" – it’s called the Condition of Emergency: (writes on board)

0) EMERGENCY

Now, that gives you the feeling of, well, there’s a lot of excitement, there’s a lot of emergency, people move around a lot and they handle things, and what is this condition anyway? It means: THINGS WILL GET WORSE UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. In a data or graph form, it would be something like this: (draws graph on board of a line going down gradually.) It would be a line which is going down slowly. Even if it was level, it would eventually start going down because nothing was done about it. Now let’s look at the graph, so you can understand it in your life: (points to graph of downslope) This is time, going on here, and this is improvement. So you see, as time goes on, improvement is either none, or it goes worse. The downslope.

Now. First, let's look at it in auditing. It means you’re not getting any gains, or it means you start to feel you’re losing your gains. Or if you’re not getting any auditing, it means that life is just starting to overwhelm you a little bit more every year. Or these guys that I talked about, the control groups, on your administration and economics lines, are making sure that every year you have a little bit less and less money for yourself. Or, in the health context, your body is just not as healthy or you’re less active, or you can’t ski any more, every year you have a little bit less ability. You see? You were supposed to discover the reason for all this, and how to handle it.

We know today that science, medicine, government, have either not discovered it, or are deliberately keeping the secret of this from you. People do get old and die. You buy a car, and it gradually gets worse, and you have to junk it. You keep having a little less spending power each year – our money’s not worth so much. Many areas, many areas – there’s more confusion in the world every year. You used to know how everything was very stable, in Switzerland especially, but now there’s different possibilities of the Common Market, or the economic problems, or even terrorists influencing your civilisation. As we said before, it used to be safe to live in the cities and even leave your doors unlocked, and your car parked on the street, but NOW... you might get your radio stolen, you might get your house robbed, you might get mugged on the street by drug addicts. Or if you’re a teacher, you might see that the children of today are watching more and more violence on TV, and they’re starting to try to experiment with drugs and everything, and their mental capacity is going down.

Now all of these are examples, and they do exist right now. So why didn’t anybody see this, and find the formula for this? Well, some people tend to do better in some areas than others, and you do see people overcoming this in certain areas – BUT NOT ALL. Some people have gone to natural medicine, and they feel better – for a while – but they still don’t live much longer. So they didn’t discover the whole. Maybe just accidentally, they did something right. Some people have worked very hard and do two jobs and maybe make some wise investments and come up above the economic scenario – for a while. And some people have kept the old traditions and make sure their children do not associate with the criminal elements, and the drugs, and they do well in school, even better. But if you ask them: "What is the condition you saw, and what is the formula you applied?"... "Well... I just knew I had to do this..." They don’t really know.

To know what it is, you have to know what the real game is. The real game of the dynamics. And the real game of what the players wanted to create on these dynamics, what purposes they had. If they don’t know that, then they MIGHT just try to follow the interference people, and think that they are winning because THEY must have the right formula, and so they COPY them, you see. They figure, "Hey, the guys who sell drugs are making a lot of money, so I’ll sell drugs at night." But they go against the spiritual health and the physical health of the other people they sell the drugs to, which makes them a disagreement or an ARC break with the dynamics here – everybody’s supposed to improve – so they make the money for a while, and they beat the economic scenario. The next thing you know, maybe they’re arrested by the police, even lose their freedom, or even worse, they got in some scenario with other drug dealers, bigger ones, and they get killed because they’re competitors. Or, they find out suddenly that since they’ve been having drugs around all the time, their own children start taking the drugs, and think it’s okay, and they go down the tubes. Or, finally, they themselves start taking the drugs, and then they start experiencing all the different insanities, and mental loss and everything, and they just become psychotic. So that is obviously not the right formula.

Now, what about all these guys who are running the scenarios – did they have the right formula? Well, they still have the problem of the body ageing. They haven’t found that one out yet – they just take another body. They do keep the secret from everybody about changing from one body to another at the end of a life – and that’s the only secret they have, they keep going like that. Now that is definitely a mystery secret in the history of the planet, but it’s always been an off-planet secret of how to control people: you maintain your control lines through several lifetimes. They have little groups of secret societies who do this. And they make very sure that no-one in the earth education system ever hears about this. So they don’t really have the formula, because they’re keeping it a secret, and of course in any game you want the others to win too, or you don’t win on your dynamics.

So, with these examples, what have we noticed that is part of this slowly sliding-down condition? Remember one guy, we found he could beat it and improve his financial condition by working harder, or by getting another extra job, as long it wasn’t selling drugs. Okay, so there is something to do with: (writes on board)

• PRODUCTION.

Now this is not the formula yet, these are just the components of this condition. Remember, the other guy, who went to sell the drugs, and so on, or imitate the criminals, he went out-ethics – not supporting the dynamics, he went out-ethics, all right? – so ethics has something to do with it: (writes on board)

• ETHICS.

Yes... and, also, we know that the teacher or the parents could promote to their children, or talk to their children, and give them the right advice so that they could remain successful in school. So we would look at that as promotional idea, or a communication idea: (writes on board)

• PROMOTE / COMMUNICATE.

And we notice that all of these people were in a state going like this (points to graph of downslope on board), so they had to FIND TIME to do something else to handle it. Do you notice that? They had to CHANGE. They had to find time to do some more things to beat this downtrend. So they had to: (writes on board)

• ECONOMISE...

On time, and on expenditures. Because remember, the money didn’t buy as much, and they had to have time now to teach the children the right way to do things. So economise... (writes on board)

...ON TIME AND FINANCE.

And they also had to change something. They had to do something new that they weren’t doing before: (writes on board)

• CHANGE OPERATION BASIS.

Do something new that is successful. That handles this. Now Ron actually gave us the written down formula based on his analysis of this, which was exactly what I’ve told you here. So the formula is, if you analyse it: (writes on board)

FORMULA:

1) PROMOTE or PRODUCE.

And that means, in the right area. I mean, fit with the dynamics and so on: a good product, more quality, a good communication of what service or product you can provide, or a communication, say, to your children to make sure that they follow the right path. See, Ron gave this in sequence, so that if you do it in the proper sequence, it succeeds easily.

So, let’s take a business, for example. You could find new customers for your business to improve the volume of your sales. You could produce a better quality product that more people like, and you could start making, for instance if this was money (points to graph of downslope), you could start changing this from going down to start bringing it back up again, you see? Or, in many communities like they’re doing today, they could form teachers’ groups to train children on what the harmful use of drugs is, and to try to get them in special classes to understand better why it’s important for them to have an education.

Okay, and the second thing is: you’ve got to have time to do this. If you start doing this right away you realise you've got to drop out some things that you were doing before. But watch out – don’t drop out the things that were at least keeping it this high! You want to economise on time and finance to be able to do this and to be able to sell a better product, or promote or do the things to get out of it. So it’s economising next: (writes on board)

2) ECONOMISE.

And since you’ve put more attention on this, and taken out some other time that was not productive, and put it to number 1 (points to "Promote or Produce"), you have found out you have changed your operating basis. So you have to organise that change: (writes on board)

3) CHANGE BY ORGANISING.

And you must prepare – because there’ll be some more time you need to prepare to deliver more. You need more time to deliver to the children who need the education, you need more time to deliver your product if you’re improving it, you need more time to concentrate on getting new public to buy it. So: (writes on board)

4) PREPARE TO DELIVER MORE.

And the last thing, of course, is that you must stiffen the Ethics, all through this, so that you don’t fall into this trap (points to graph of downslope), or the trap of supporting the infiltrators, or the people who interfered with the game: (writes on board)

5) STIFFEN ETHICS.

Now, this (points to formula steps 1 through to 5) would be the successful sequence of the formula. Whatever you apply it to, you would do these rapidly, one after the other, and then keep them all going, like juggling balls, you see? Now, you can see that if you didn’t do this (points to "Promote or Produce"), if you didn’t promote or produce more, or try to get into communication better, with whatever you were trying to handle, you would economise yourself to death! You would just start saving, not buying this, not doing that, not doing that, and you wouldn’t have anything to do! So you've got to put in this first (points to "Promote or Produce"), and then it automatically economises your time, and shortens down on the other things that weren’t helping you.

You notice that by doing those two things (points to "Promote or Produce" and "Economise"), you’ve already changed your operating basis, and now you’ve have to regularise it and put it in your schedule (points to "Change by Organising"). And you realise that since you’re doing this (points to "Promote or Produce", "Economise", and "Change by Organising") you have to deliver more, because by doing this (points to "Promote or Produce", "Economise", and "Change by Organising") you’re going to increase the volume and quality, and if it’s a product, the sales of the product. And you’re going to have to do this (points to "Stiffen Ethics"), because you might even need to hire more people, and they might want to start selling drugs, or something like that, or putting drugs in the milk, or something like that, so you want to stiffen the Ethics as well.

Now some of you may say: "Well, what about the environmental problem? Wouldn’t that production pollute the atmosphere more? You must apply it to the environment!" Well, if you’re working it against the dynamic basis that everybody wants to win in the game, your production (points to "Promote or Produce") is going to be of a better quality, and also, with more conservation in. You see, the "economise" (points to "Economise") is going to be to also economise – and the operating basis (points to "Change by Organising") is also going to be – on your waste products. In other words, you have to adopt a new viewpoint here: stiffen your Ethics (points to "Stiffen Ethics") on the environment, as well as deliver more (points to "Deliver More"), to actually help more dynamics.

Good. So if we looked at the environment, however, if you are a Green Party person, they’re actually doing this. They’re actually promoting (points to "Promote or Produce") what harm is coming to the environment and what should be done about it. They’re producing whatever products they can (points to "Promote or Produce"). They’re encouraging products of recycling and saving things and making different products out of the waste. They’re trying to tell people: "Don’t throw so much trash into the atmosphere (points to "Economise"), economise on all this pollution." They use very simple methods, like one little boat goes out and tries to stop the big warship that’s going to dump the nuclear waste into the ocean, you know? They go out, they get their pictures taken – good! – and all of you have seen it on television, right? They have a little bit of effort, a little money here and there, and they’ve got these little boats out there and the big boats with the billions of dollars, and all that, get very bad press!

And I know , because they are bring successful, that they must have changed their operating basis (points to "Change by Organising") from just TALKING about it and writing letters to their congressman or their government people to actually DOING something that would be an action, something worth filming, you see? That’s the change. And they prepare, always asking for contributions, and so on, to deliver MORE of this (points to "Deliver More"), and to let people know, and to demonstrate why it’s bad, and so on. And making people think green and buy recycled products, and all that. And all the people in there, they must have really told them: "Let’s keep very strong on these points here, and don’t go off and get bought off by the big companies, or something like that, and tell all these lies to people – let’s just keep together and stiffen our own Ethics (points to "Stiffen Ethics") – and stiffen the Ethics of other people in the environment". Now, they also tried to make you put your Ethics in on that.

So, yes, they did something like this formula (points to formula steps 1 through to 5), probably because they thought it out, or maybe they had to. They probably didn’t know the formula, but they did the right things. And now you’ll find in the last few years the awareness of what the Greens are saying, and what these environmentalists are saying, has not been less, it’s been MORE – right? (points to graph on board, showing how the downslope is corrected to start moving upwards again.) Right? I mean, don’t you hear more about the green and the conservation movement today than you did five years ago? Now, we happen to know some other inside information that ONE, amazingly enough, one of the companies supporting them is the Rockefeller Foundation. They were the same guys that did the Valdez thing, up in Alaska, you know, let all the oil come out on the beach and everything, so you might say: "Hey, what’s going on here? Why are they, those guys, who are just interested in the money, in the bucks off the oil, why are they supporting the Greens?"

Now you’re seeing how the interference works. That’s why you’ve really got to stiffen the Ethics (points to "Stiffen Ethics"), and know the game (points to board). Because the reason nobody discovered this formula, except LRH, was because every group that tried to do the right thing got taken over. Now we just have to see, when the takeover is complete, what are they going to use them for? Because you see, when you take over a group like this, you can use it from the interference side for several things. Back in the old days, as we saw, they used to take them over just to destroy them and rip them off. But today they’re much smarter about that. They may use it to wipe out the competition. In other words, all the companies that they feel are competition to them that are not in with the interference people. In other words, they use their influence with the Greens to get laws passed that are so restrictive and so expensive, that nobody can actually afford to comply with them except the Rockefeller companies. So those companies crash on the stock market, and Rockefeller buys them.

Another reason they could do it is very important. In the politics of Germany in the last few years, and other countries too, the two major parties were within a few percent of each other, were 52 - 48, or both 48, 49 – nobody had the real majority, say. No, that’s too much... both were below 50. Neither had a majority. But the Green Party had two or three percent. So whichever way they were told to go, to vote with this party, or with that party, could make the difference between whether a law is passed or not.

Now, a GREAT way to control the entire future lawmaking of a country, without spending a lot of money to take over the entire political system, is to just control the guys who hold the balance vote! You could decide, if you controlled that small percentage that made the majority of whatever side... you could say, don’t vote with either of them, and neither of them would get their laws in! So you would have the possibility of going for this side, or that side, or neither. Then having both of the major parties coming to you and saying: "How much do you want for the Greens? We will need them for our vote!" Now, you see, those are some of the more clever control scenarios that are being played.

But why was this? It all goes back to when somehow the Greens happened to apply a condition correctly (points to formula steps 1 to 5). A real condition in the game, and it was noticed right away by the interference, and right away they had to get their hands on that. I give you this example, because when YOU apply these conditions, you will also become successful. But you don’t know what yet might happen. This is just the beginning of this scenario on the Greens. You don’t know what may happen in the next few years, and there’s some horrible things that could happen on the lower conditions to them. Okay – we’ll go into that.

Now this (points to "Emergency" and formula steps 1 to 5) is what you were supposed to learn in this universe. At least this one. Because, once you did this, you would also come to the realisation that life was spread throughout the whole universe, that even the planet, even the matter, energy space and time, even the fifth dynamic, animals, plants, things like that, all had a relationship to the whole game. It wasn’t just a game for human beings. They had all the dynamics, and if you were very good at it, you could get to the point where you could get in good communication with your car, and it would last a long, long time. And you have stories not only just from Scientologists, but from people who talk to their plants, and they’re much healthier than other plants. Because they talk to them.

Now, if this is all done correctly (points to formula steps 1 to 5), and this is the real condition that is spotted (points to "Emergency") – because, I want to tell you, not all the conditions are this any more, the game has gone on and got messed up too much – you would move into a state above this, which is called NORMAL, which requires a lot less effort, and things just keep going well.

Now, before we take you on the underground trip, I will show you the Normal one, just so you have a stable point there: (writes on board)

+1) NORMAL OPERATION

If you did that formula right on whatever area you saw that needed it, after a while – and it could take anywhere from several weeks to maybe a year or so – but after a while, by keeping doing that formula exactly as it was laid out, you would arrive into a state of Normal Operation. (draws graph on board of a gradual upslope.)

And (points to graph) improvement, time, it’s always getting better and better and better and better, at least on a nice gradient. In a business you’d be making more and more money each year, you’d be making better and better products, having more and more customers, on an environmental basis the air would be getting cleaner, there would be less pollution, more recycled products. So, you would say, one of the things is that you want that to continue, because it’s easy! Once you’ve got this going now, this new operating basis and the emergency thing all done right! Things are going well! And you don’t want to change that, do you? Your 2D’s going better, your children are doing better in school... oh, man! You don’t want to change that, do you?

Funnily enough, the formula that LRH worked out for this, is: (writes on board)

FORMULA:

1) DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING!

Hahahaha! That’s number one. You know, you have your children operating well in school, and they’re doing better in school, and somebody comes along with a plan of: "Oh, I got this wonderful stuff from America, they're called sleep tapes. They make you learn twice as fast, you just put the headphones on the little kid’s ears, and it gives him all kinds of data all night long, and..." If you did this formula, Emergency, and got the kids doing better in school, you'd better not accept that at all. Just say: "Get the hell out of here, I don’t need that." But, LRH realised a lot of people wouldn’t know why it was not a good idea to take the sleep tapes. So he put in a little handling for that kind of thing too. Somebody that despite all their good intentions, they changed it anyway. (writes on board)

2) INSPECT.

3) IF AREA GOES DOWN, FIND WHY ON THE CHANGE-DATE COINCIDENCE AND HANDLE.

4) IF AREA GOES UP, FIND WHY ON THE CHANGE-DATE COINCIDENCE AND HANDLE.

5) LIGHT ETHICS.

Okay. Now: Don’t change anything! But, life will throw changes at you. So you INSPECT. It may not throw them at you, it may throw them at somebody in your organisation or in the school or something. So you inspect. You keep watching, make sure everything’s going right, you see? Just like a mother looking, a mother hen looking out over the little chicks. Or the farmer looking at the weather, looking at how the condition of his stock is, and his fields. If the area goes down, that means it starts to go back into Emergency. Find why, and it says: "on the change-date coincidence". What that means is, usually look just for what was the time when it started to go down, and you find the change that was put in right there, and handle it! Get it out of there! You see what I mean?

You have the students studying better at school. The brother-in-law of the mayor, of the Burgermeister, happens to run a lighting business. And he convinces the mayor that the mayor ought to pass a law to put these new lights into the school. You see? So on a certain day, or on the weekend, maybe, they come and put all these fluorescent lights where all the children before had their little lamps on the desk. And the mayor says: "Oh, great, modernisation of the school." Except you’re the parent, and you go in there and you wonder why your kid is not learning so much any more. And you find the date-coincidence (points to board) with him starting to do worse in school – they put in these new lights, and now you go and inspect this, and you see that the glare from these fluorescent lights is bouncing off the pages and the children can’t really read, and they miss words, and they don’t study as much any more. But before, they used to adjust their little lamp to where the light was bouncing away from them so it wouldn’t get in their eyes. So you have to form a parents’ committee, you know, and... "Get the lights out of there! And put back the other ones!" By that time half the kids are being fitted with glasses at the optician – and he’s the cousin of the mayor – so to handle this one, you’ve got to elect a new mayor!

But I tell you, sometimes the handling, just to keep the Normal Operation continuing, can get a little severe. Because, remember this: all the time that you’re improving (points to graph of gradual upslope), if you’re doing it on a financial basis, all the time the guys running the government are trying to inflate the money, so you don’t get as much. You have to keep this curve against the inflation curve! (draws dotted line on graph at a slightly steeper gradient than the gradual upslope, and labels it "inflation". The original gradual upslope line is labelled "income".) That is really Emergency right here (points to graph of both lines relative to one another). Because if this is how your money is depreciating in value (points to the steeper line), then you’re actually making less. If you brought this down level (points to the steeper line), this would be down, you see! (points to the gradual upslope line.)

So this is income (points to the gradual upslope line), and that’s inflation (points to the steeper line). Now, this is actually Emergency. So therefore, you have to make that inflation, what is the buying power of your money (points to the gradual upslope line), and make that – your Normal – above that (points to the steeper line). You see? Now that means that, when you see this, you’ve got to apply the Emergency formula again, maybe find the new product, new promotion, a new way to make income, and produce enough more to keep above inflation.

Now, I’ll tell you this: everyone who IS successful either works in opposition to the game, and they won’t be successful long, in not many areas, because they’re going against dynamics. Most of them have terrible health problems – we’ll come to that later, where that comes in the conditions – but everybody else that is successful, HAS somehow realised they had to do that. They may not know why, and they may not know the right formula – it’s just a matter of simple mathematics (points to graph on board) – and I’ll prove to you that that is happening right now in that large canton to the north of you, because most of the Germans there, whether you know it or not, are doing black work on the side. Either the wife does it, or the husband does it when he comes home, or they have a little side business, personal, operating out of the house.

You know how that was proved, several years ago? The government put out a thing to the press and television, if they’re going to make a law so that Germans wouldn’t have to pay the taxes of those who were doing black work, they were going to ask all the Germans who knew of anybody doing black work to report them to the government. But it backfired on them. That was Kohl’s party, and they almost lost their entire government right there, over the weekend. I mean, they cancelled the whole idea on Monday. Officially, on television, and in the news, and everything.

I know why that happened. It’s because they gathered the statistics, and they found out that... Wow! The German economy is 45% BLACK work. So they thought there were 55% of people who were very honest, and doing normal labour, and paying taxes, and over here was 45% black work going on, and they could get the 55% guys to report on the 45% guys. But that’s where they didn't do enough inspection, because 90% of the 55% were the SAME GUYS doing the black work that were doing the honest work. It was really only 10% people ONLY doing black work. So over that weekend, there were incredible letters and everything sent to Bonn, to the Bundestag, saying: "This is just like the Gestapo, we’ve got to report on our friends, and all this stuff. And if you don’t do this, we’re not going to vote for you guys any more," and all... Hahahaha! Boy, they stopped it right away. Because one of the worst things you can do to the Bonn government is accuse them of being just like the Nazis, you know? Oh, they’re really touchy about that! Hahaha! So, you see, you see, that was a scenario that didn’t come off.

So there are people out there, doing some right things. When it came to their personal finance, they knew exactly the button to hit. They actually found the "Why" already (points to step 2 on board). They said they’re acting like the Gestapo, and they handled it right away, so they could keep it Normal. It might not even have been the right Why, but it sure worked! Hahaha! So it was the right Why for that situation – you see what I mean? I mean, they could have carried that right forward into, "Why do you tax us so much anyway? That’s why we do the black work, it’s because you over-tax us!" They didn’t say that. In other words, they hadn’t seen the whole scenario of the gradual increase of the taxes every year and all this and different things, but they did see that instant thing and they said "Ach, that’s just like the Gestapo!" and Bam! That scared them. So you understand that! How to keep it Normal. Hahaha!

Okay. Now, the other side of that is, the area could go UP! In other words, it could have just automatically gone up like this, while you did the Emergency formula. You’ve been watching everything, and now, listen, it just starts going up higher than the inflation rate, and even better (points to graph). Well, you’ve got to find why again – date-coincidence – and reinforce it! (points to step 3 on board.) You see? Maybe the milk you're selling suddenly got very popular in Zurich, and all of a sudden they’re ordering all this milk from the canton you’re in, to go to Zurich, because it’s better than the milk they have there. And people even started to drive all the way to your canton to buy it and they told their friends about it, you see, word of mouth, they told their friends and helped you promote! And you didn’t even know it. You see, that helps do the Emergency formula for you, and you were getting help on that and you didn’t even know it.

All of a sudden your income goes way up (points to graph). You have to find why, and reinforce it. So you get one of your salesmen to go around, and say, "Hey, do you stock this milk? All of the Zurich people are buying it!" "What? I didn’t know that!" So he orders it, too. You see? Or in the case of the school, maybe some other parents heard about it: "Hey, that’s a good school over there, I want to put my children over there, because they’re actually learning something!" Because they found that every day their little girl was getting help from one of the other girls that was in that good school, and that’s how she was getting better in her school, because she was getting help from the other little girl. So the next thing you know, it starts spreading, you see? IMPROVEMENT goes up (points to graph). Faster and faster.

Now, in this condition, however, since it is fairly stable and it’s going up anyway, you have LIGHT ETHICS (points to step 4 on board). Something must be being done right by most everybody in your club, your group, your... whatever, or yourself – therefore don’t try to hammer it down, just... EASY. Right? Instead of firing a guy for breaking milk bottles in your factory, you just tell him, "Look, come in here a minute, the more bottles you break, the harder it is for us to make a profit, and we’re going to have to cut your salary, do you understand? So here, wear some rubber gloves with the little things on them so you don’t drop the bottles any more." I mean, simple. Simple things like that. You hat them, more or less, but with a little bit of Ethics presence so that they don’t do it again. Okay? So that’s Normal.

Now, I want to tell you that the great number of businesses in the world do not apply the Emergency formula correctly. You remember, here we had Promote or Produce, and then Economise (points to Emergency formula on board). Do some more. It says here: Promote, or Produce more. Here it is, "Prepare to Deliver More" (points to board). They do just the opposite. Not quite the opposite. They do number two, and they do this less.

All the management experts I’ve ever heard of, they go in and say: "Oh, the company’s failing, so let’s economise. Cut down five of the plants, fire twenty-five of the employees – or two hundred and fifty thousand of the employees – and let’s cut down our production and build it back up later, you know." And they always fail! They end up being bankrupt or something like that... I mean, it’s a ridiculous formula! Very good for the big insiders, though, because they usually end up buying the company at a very cheap rate on the stock market.

Well, now that you know what Normal is, we’ll go higher than that, all the way up to the top, later on, but I want to start bringing you down now to start seeing where some of these guys have got to in the game. (writes on board)

-1) DANGER

Okay, Danger. It’s more than just an emergency, it’s really... Danger (draws graph of steep downslope). Improvement, time... a STEEP DROP. You know, it’s the kind of thing which always shocks people: "Oh God, I lost my job today!" You know. Or: "I made some bad investments on the stock market, and I just lost a hundred thousand Swiss Francs or something". Or, in a higher business sense, Donald Trump, you know: "I couldn’t pay my million dollars interest a day any more, you know, and now they’re going to bankrupt me." Hahaha! Whoa! That’s very serious. And that happens a lot in this game, I tell you! How many businesses go bankrupt every year? Woo! A lot! And how many organisations make a severe mistake, either in investing in the wrong thing, taking the wrong technology, taking the wrong product to sell, and all that? And they go pffft... out.

So, let’s see, where are we? We’re going backwards here (leafing through the paper in the board). Ah, here. Okay, so now! In this case, there’s something very seriously wrong. So, Ron told us the first thing to do is: (writes on board)

FORMULA:

1) BY-PASS AND HANDLE THE SITUATION...

By-pass and handle the situation – directly. Now, realise at this point, you were doing well, or you got whatever it was you were doing, going well. Therefore, you were part of whatever was keeping it going. You were there all the time, to make it go right, and maybe you got to Normal and you let other people do more things, or maybe in Emergency you needed some more people to help you. (writes on board)

Now, we call that Phase One and Phase Two. Phase One is when you’re doing the work yourself, and most of the handling, and you’re sort of directing them right there on the scene. You know, like you train a baby. Phase One. You’re there all the time. You don’t trust anybody, almost.

Above Danger, you’re in Phase Two, which means you can give somebody something to do and they’ll do it. See? Pretty much they’ll do it. You see what I mean – so the Phase Two shifts to a Phase One right here at Danger. It’s the same thing if the ship you’re on is sinking, or something. On any good ship, they’ll certainly get the captain out there and he will give direct orders to everybody right away. In other words, the juniors, the people on the ship, will recognise the danger and go: "Captain, we need the Captain here right away because he’s got to by-pass us all and handle it, we don’t know how to deal with this!" But, in a land organisation, they don’t usually see it that way. And you’ll see reported some businesses going really badly, in the stock market or something, and the directors are going to some bank somewhere to talk about a loan, I mean, they’re NOT EVEN THERE!

Now, the other part of this is very important, because you have to handle THE situation – not just anything (points to step 1 on board). Remember what we talked about... sequences? You know, you have a condition, and you have sequences. Well, the same thing must have happened here (points to graph of steep downslope) – a sequence came up, that messed up your whole production, or your income, or your child’s work in school, or the environment, or something. THAT is the situation (points to step 1 on board). Whether it’s the broken machine that’s now cracking all the milk bottles before they go out, or whether it’s a disgruntled or disappointed or ARC broken employee that’s going around telling everybody you put all these chemical additives in your milk. Maybe it’s a competitor! Maybe the Zurich milk company is coming around to all the stores in Zurich and saying "Hey, you know, those guys out in that canton, you know, they put cowshit in the milk." So all the stores stopped ordering your milk, you see.

So you do have to apply a little logic there to find out what IS the real situation. You have to go through your entire cycle of what you built there, and the entire production line, the entire sequence of what you did, to find out where it went wrong! You see? It’d be the same thing if we were here and we didn’t get a video of this lecture. You’d have to go back to the camera, through the camera operator, through all the electric wires, find out where the hell did it stop? What went wrong with it? We could find the exact point by playing what tape we have, and finding out where it stopped. Right? We could do that.

Okay. So that’s what it means. BY-PASS (points to step 1 on board) – in other words, don’t accept anybody else’s explanation. Go down there and look for yourself and see where the hell this thing is going wrong. But, if you’re not the top guy, if you’re not the boss, you’re an employee and you see something really going badly, you should report it IMMEDIATELY to the top guy and say: "Hey, look, something’s going really badly here, it’s in Danger." Okay, so BY-PASS AND HANDLE THE SITUATION, and we can add here (writes on board)

...AND ANY DANGER IN IT.

You see, that occurs in normal business in a lot of countries, because of strikes. Suddenly all the employees just stop working, and of course the income of the place and the production goes fooooom! – right down. Boy, you'd better find the real reason for that. And handle it. You might find that the union has been taken over by the Mafioso or something, you know, and they said: "Let’s get this guy under control. Don’t work in this place any more." Well, boy, you better handle it with the right Ethics because, if you don’t go to the police now, you’ll be under those guys’ direction for the rest of your life. That’s why the next part is: (writes on board)

2) APPLY JUSTICE.

There are many companies that got under the control of the Mafia, or the big insiders and all that, because they never applied justice at the right time when they first showed up on their lines. Okay? So you do have to do something. It’s more than just Ethics, it’s JUSTICE. (writes on board)

3) RE-ORGANISE AREA OF DANGER.

You organise the area of danger. In other words, with the machine that was breaking the milk bottles, you've either got to repair it or get a new one, very very quickly. And the justice may have to be applied on the guy who was supposed to maintain it, and didn’t. Or on the company that supplied it, who didn’t live up to their guarantee, or whatever.

And, the last step is: (writes on board)

4) GET IN FIRM POLICY TO PREVENT A RE-OCCURRENCE OF THIS DANGER.

You see, if you don’t do THAT, it could all happen again. Once you get it built up again, it could happen AGAIN. So you might have to hire a new guy who has the job of Qual Inspector. He goes around and makes sure the machines are good every day and he checks that all the parts are working, and so on. He just does that. And you figured out that the salary you pay him is much less than the money you lost (points to graph of steep downslope) by having this danger.

Okay? So this is one way that policy can come into your organisation (points to step 4 on board). See, you have an organisation, and you put some policy in, at the start, with the purpose of it being to give good quality milk to the canton. Another policy might be to have clean hygienic workers and equipment. Actually, that’s a purpose, but you write it as a policy. You say: "All workers will wash their hands every day, take a shower, wear clean clothes, you know, all that, and the bottles will be washed very well." Those are the policies you lay out to make that purpose. See, all the trucks will be cleaned out every day before they’re used.

You see, those are policies. You just put in what you’re going to do, but these are policies that come in because of things that happened and you don’t want to happen again (points to step 4 on board). Now, we have, in the Free Zone, we have policies of both types. They’re given in the Tech Briefings 1, 2 and 3, and in the book Teegeeack, if you want to know more policies of what we do in the Free Zone. And those were very well evaluated, and found because of situations that occurred in the earlier Church (points to step 1: "By-pass and Handle the Situation and any Danger in it"). We didn’t want those to repeat.

Okay. So, that is a Danger condition, and how you’ve got to handle it. Now, there’s one other example I want to give you. It’s where you don’t actually run the organisation yourself. You run into Danger in another organisation. In other words, you’re trying to get some purpose done in one of your dynamics, and make it successful or improve yourself. You’ve all had this experience, I’m sure, in trying to get some paperwork done or some "okay to do something" from the administrative side or the bureaucratic side of a government, and the guy you’re dealing with in the bureaucracy just stops you. He just tries to stop you, he won’t give you the stamp, or the paper, or tell you how to do it, or anything. In fact, they usually tell you: "No, you can’t do that." But you need that paper, so that you can drive your truck, or your car, or do your business, so it’s cutting right across your policy or your purpose.

Now, the same thing applies. The first step is exactly the same (points to step 1: "By-pass and Handle the Situation and any Danger in it"). DON’T WASTE TIME WITH THIS GUY. BY-PASS HIM. You either go to another clerk, or you go to the higher guy in the organisation, his senior, or you go to the higher one than that – I mean, you just keep going. Until you can handle the situation (points to step 1). Notice the reversed flow here. This guy is stopping you down IN the organisation, and before you were the senior and you had to come DOWN in there and handle it. Right? But now, you’re just a CUSTOMER. You’re just a public, at the BOTTOM of the organisation. So you’re right down at the bottom. You have to start by-passing UPWARDS.

Now you see, not enough people do that. They just say: "Oh. All right, I'll come back later." Now, that’s one way to by-pass, you can start going up the organisation to this senior, to that senior, to that senior, till you finally have to write a letter to the president of the whole company, or even to the leader of the whole country! Now that’s a Phase One on you being down at the bottom of the danger, and trying to get an org to do something, but there’s a Phase Two on it, too. So you can get your OWN little organisation together, that can do a more effective by-pass if you get stopped in by-passing the organisation yourself! That can be done by the game of getting a lawyer to help work with you. Who can go in and handle that. Or, a judge or a person in the law, who can force that bureaucracy to do what they’re supposed to do.

There are such things. I have used them in America under LRH’s direction, and they work fantastically. However, the laws regarding that are usually hidden from the public so they never know about them! They may have this law in every country, I don’t know. In America it’s called the Writ of Mandamus. Mandamus – which is a Latin word, and it means "mandatory or obligatory obligation". It is a purpose of that law to make a government official, or a bureaucracy, do its job. And believe me, I had to go to a Law Library to find that law. LRH said, "There should be a law about that, go and find it." It’s a great law in America, because all you have to do is take your complaint to a judge.

See, you’re having trouble with the Bureau of Records, or something. They keep records on all the properties and titles, and all that. And they won’t give you data that you’re entitled to have about this property you want to buy, or something. So all you have to do is have a proper Writ of Mandamus drawn up by your lawyer, and give it to the judge. The local judge. And the judge is required by law, if he sees one of these – and he won’t see many because they hide this from the public, this law, by the way – to make an official order on your behalf to the Bureau of Records to do its job within 48 hours, or the persons responsible will lose their status.

In bureaucracies, you know, they work so many years and they get extra pay and extra status and extra pay, extra status, a very Markabian system, but you know, they move up in pay and rise in status the longer they stay in the bureaucracy. Yeah! Let me tell you, when that writ hits those guys, they move FAST! I mean, two things, status and money, Oh my God, they don’t want to lose that. They're the nicest people you ever want to see when you walk in the next day. But remember, those kinds of laws are probably put in there by some well-meaning players in the game in the past of your country, but they're probably well-hidden. Mmhm. That's one way. And you could of course use influence. You could find a person that knows a politician that can put influence on the bureaucracy – for instance.

Now, of course, in some countries you get less and less successful at this where you have a dictatorship – it gets hard to do this. There you have to kn