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Greetings, my fellow playmates!

    May this note find you all happy, healthy, and excited, as the daily (and
nightly) miracle of existence unfolds itself solely for your benefit,
interest, and pleasure.  And that's one way to look at existence.  I
recommend that viewpoint, because it has a lot of Havingness connected with
it, and just about everything that has to do with winning or losing is in
some way connected with havingness; and just about everything that could be
right or wrong with someone has to do with havingness.  And the flows and
movements of life have a lot to do with having or not having.

    Well, it wouldn't be hard to write at least a small book about all the
possibilities inherent in an understanding of Havingness and the many
technological approaches to repairing it and remedying it for one or more
dynamics.  But what someone really has on their mind tonight has more to do
with Dianetics and its statement in Book I and Standard Operating Procedure
One, which was putting the technology of Book I into practice.

    I became an HDA (Hubbard Dianetic Auditor) in 1952, and was trained by
someone who was an early graduate of the first Dianetic Course given in
Elizabeth, New Jersey.  About 24 years later, around 1975, I was the
proprietor of a Scientology Mission in a little town near Stanford
University, about 45 miles south and east of the city of San Francisco,
called Palo Alto.  Well, around that time, I had gotten inspired with the
idea of proving or showing that every one of L. Ron Hubbard's technologies
could be demonstrated, and so I thought it would be an awful lot of fun to do
a 1950-style HDA course with a bunch of people, with no E-meters or any of
the technology or organizational appurtences present.

    With some help from a friend, we worked up a checksheet for a Book I
Course, and with a stroke of good luck were able to locate and purchase quite
a few of the lectures that Ron gave in 1950 regarding Dianetics and SOP 1. 
And in 1975, a look at what was going on in Scientology would reveal that
nothing like a real Book I 1950-style auditor training course was being given
anywhere.

    Well, we advertised the course for a few weeks, maybe even a month, and
when I would do my Sunday sermon at the old Mission I started talking about
the 1950 reality, the 1950 Hubbard, the 1950 enthusiasm, and the 1950 feeling
about what we were going to do to and for the people of Planet Earth; and
later, to my amazement and pleasure, a fairly large number of people decided
they wanted to do the course, which had a pretty modest price tag attached to
it -- I think it was the same price that the 1950 course cost.  I had decided
to put the TRs on the checksheet, even though they weren't available in 1950,
because a well-run TRs course will inevitably produce lots of case gain for
people and get their tone level up so that they're fun to be around.

    Since we couldn't talk Ron into coming and lecturing and/or supervising
the course, it fell to me (naturally) to give supplementary talks and
lectures beyond the tape-recorded lectures by Ron, and also at least a couple
of evenings a week to get all the students gathered around while I
demonstrated Book I auditing on one of their fellow students.

    We gave everybody at the start of the course a battery of tests, the APA
or the OCA, IQ, aptitude, etc., and since most of the students were old
enough to have families and even work, the course met in the evening, I think
from about 7 to about 10, five evenings a week -- and away we went!

    Well, to make a long story a little bit longer, the course was a
tremendous success; and one of the things we had people doing was using this
material whenever they could on family and friends to get in as much
practical as possible.  Before too long, news of it spread far and wide and
got as far as Clearwater, Florida, where what was known as the Flag Land Base
was, and I received from the then-Commodore Staff Aide for technology all
over the world (abbreviated as CS-4) a very curt note saying something like
"It has come to my attention that you are giving a course with a
non-authorized checksheet that includes auditing, and that you are NOT using
E-meters!"   The next sentence from this person I will always treasure,
because the words in it were a classic example of what Ron had referred to in
a bulletin called a technical degrade.  This young lady, who went on to
become the wife of David Mayo, said to me, regarding my Book I Auditors
Course, "We don't use that tech anymore."

    Well, I was sitting in my large executive chair in my office when I read
that letter, and I immediately fell to the floor and laughed so long and so
hard that one or two staff members became worried and thought they might have
to get my custom-tailored straitjacket out of a nearby closet and put me in
it.  As soon as I could, I instructed my secretary to have that letter framed
and put up on the wall.  Meantime, I wrote CS-4 a nice letter and enclosed a
copy of the bulletin regarding technical degrades, 'cause when Ron wrote that
HCOB or policy letter, he knew that all the tech from 1950 up worked if you
knew how to do it.  Suffice it to say, I did not hear again from CS-4, and we
blithely continued on our way.

    The course went very well, as previously mentioned, including an
occasional psychotic break -- in fact, one night one of our students was
found walking down the main street in the area, called El Camino, without any
clothes on.  It seemed that her auditor had left her somewhat out of present
time.  Happenings like that were not completely uncommon back in 1950; in
fact, they were't totally without precedent in 1960 or '70.  But anyhow and
all kidding aside, when the course was over and we tested everybody and had a
graduation party, it was for me one of the most exciting moments as a career
Dianeticist, because looking at the faces of these people and seeing how
alive and excited and enthusiastic they were about Dianetic technology and
how confident they were at its usage, and how well-tuned their ears had
become to the engrammic phraseology that is so apparent in daily language --
well, it defies even for me adequate words for description.

    Every one of them had to not only read Book I in various sections
throughout the checksheet, but had to pass written and practical examinations
regarding it; so by the time we were finished, they could walk the walk and
talk the talk when it came to Dianetics.  The tests revealed outstanding
changes for practically everyone, so much so that I made up a packet of
everything that was done to make the course and all of the results of
testing, etc. etc., and some time later, when I was visiting Flag, got it
into the hands of L. Ron Hubbard via something called the Redball Express;  I
then got a personal letter from the Old Man with highest commendations for
proving once again that Dianetics really did work.

    Well, a final paragraph of this memoir is that we then created an
interneship for all these new Dianetic auditors, which included the
all-and-everything of the book _Science of Survival_ and honed their skills
to such a fine degree that some years later I was still getting letters from
these people describing amazing wins that they were having using the earliest
form of Dianetic technology.

    My amanuensis just woke me up and said, "It's time to end this, P.
Clarence; let's go to bed."  I am saying, "OK -- good night.  All the best."
    -- Phil


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