6305C16 SHSpec-265 The Time Track

     [Some of the data in this tape is contained in HCOB 15May63 "The Time
Track and Engram Rum ing by Chains: Bulletin I" and HCOB 8Jun63" ... Bulletin
II -- Handling the Time Track".]

     One basic tenet has never changed: you have never successfully audited
anything but the time track.  There is nothing to audit but the time track.
There is no grand key to the release of things but the time track.  Locks,
valences, machinery, etc., are all phenomena of the time track.

     The time track is the continuous record of time of the individual, from
the first moment he began to experience, on through until now, an interrupted
three-D fifty-two perception movie.  Things happen to that movie.  It gets
grouped and becomes unavailable to the PC for various reasons, e.g. his
inability to confront the fact that it can get grouped, etc. All that auditing
ever does is to straighten out the time track, make it available, and as-is
it.  The track gets collapsed and looped by chains, which consist of related
incidents, until you get a solid wad of experience which is unavailable to the
PC and thus has command value over him.  There are only two classes of things
involved in the time track:

    1. The mechanical things.  The matter, energy, space,
       and time that is the time track.

    2. The significance of it.

People who can't confront the track at all, e.g. psychologists and
psychiatrists, conceive it to consist of thought only.  The time track is not
imaginary and shouldn't be treated as imaginary.  It has mass.

     In the physical universe, a brick wall is the product of various people
and forces.  Where it all come from needn't be investigated, for practical
purposes.  The time track has remained undiscovered and undescribed by mental
health practitioners, because they have lacked the confront to get past
certain mechanisms that make it unavailable.

     Nothing is holy, to a scientologist.  There is nothing that should not be
investigated.  Nothing is unavailable, although psychiatrists think so.  They
don't know that the time track is real.  They have fallen for the first trick
that the time track employs to make itself unavailable:  the idea that there
is "nothing in the mind but thought".  That is a trick of debarment.  The
consideration is, "Anybody who says that he is looking at a brick building in
the mind ... isn't looking as a brick building, and it must therefore be
imaginary, so therefore he is living in the field of illusion or delusion, so
therefore he must be slightly mad...."  "Insane people must be mad because they
are seeing things," says the psychiatrist.  Then he compounds the insanity by
saying, "No, you are not seeing these things." He makes the time track less
available.

     "The direction of sanity lies in the capability of confronting the time
track and the PT environment." For any individual, "existence consists of the
physical universe, PT and everything that is in it at this exact, precise PT
instant, and the time track, which consists of everything that has been, and
that is the total isness, as far as this thing called 'reality' is concerned."

     Archeology studies "a suppositional reality", but it is not outlawed for
that reason.  You can take some ruin and say, "What has it been?" But that is
not the isness.  It is a suppositional reality, subject to error.  However,
archeology is not outlawed as a science for that reason.  Furthermore, all
futures are suppositional.  If they are suppositional enough, they come true.
LRH used to tell fortunes by looking at a person's facsimiles and mocking
something up.  The future is always enforceable with altitude and authority.
This is just a trick method of making a postulate stick.  It is still a
suppositional reality.  There is isness, and there is suppositional isness.
"The time track often gives people the feeling that the 'was' can return." It
can be quite solid, when there is extra awareness jammed into a particular
moment.

     You also have to look at a borderline phenomenon:  creating.  Someone
says he will build a building, and he does.  His saying he will nearly puts it
there.  But a creation is a suppositional reality until it is actually
created, at which point it becomes an isness, and remains an isness for
whatever period of time it endures.

     Part of the thought of reality is the adjudication of whether it is good,
bad, or whatever.  Thought is not separate from reality.  It is woven solidly
into reality and is part of the isness of reality.  One can establish the
isness of a reality at time by asking about it.  Some people can't even
confront that.  [Here, LRH recounts an anecdote about the CIA or the police
following students and PCs around for weeks, as they ran "Union Station", an
outdoor objective process. (Command was, "You invent a way of destroying that
(indicated person)." See HCOB 6Feb58 "HGC Clear Procedure Outline of February
6".  The process was done to take over destructive automaticities.) They were
trying to find out what the scientologists were doing without ever taking the
trouble to ask.] "It never occurred to them to establish an isness....  They
couldn't even view the thought in the isness." This is even worse than only
being able to view the thought in the isness.  So there is a descending
gradient of ability to confront an isness:

     1. Able to confront or view an isness.

     2. Able to confront or view only the thought in an isness.

     3. Unable to confront or view the thought in an isness, or even to ask
        about it.

     Opinions are.  There are thoughts and opinions abroad in the world that
we may not agree with, but which are part of the isness.  A wrought iron fence
is a thought woven into the physical universe, as, to some degree, is all
else.  When someone creates something in the physical universe, part of its
isness is the expression of his thought.  Thought is expressed by the
formation of the MEST.  So thought is, to some degree, part of the physical
universe.  Likewise, the time track is composed of matter, energy, space,
time, and thought.  So both the physical universe and the time track are
composed of MEST and thought.  Added onto these are many complexities such as
suppositional isnesses, befores and afters, purposes, and aesthetics.

     "The degree that [an individual] is on a suppositional kick measures
directly his confrontingness." How much suppositional isness is added to
actual isness? A critic says, "The artist should have...." The "should have"
measures the amount of non-confront the critic is doing.  This is also true of
PCs, who typically say, "Well, it looks as if there might have been...  there
could possibly have been ... a wreck of some kind here at one time or
another.  Maybe.  I think it was an airplane." (It turns out that it was a
building.)  The PC is very suppositional.  He doesn't give the isness of it.

     Someone who criticizes anything is doing a supposition about how
something should be.  They are not confronting the isness.  "The time track
straightens out and erases in direct ratio to the amount of isness confronted
by the PC, and that is how sane and capable [he] gets.  [It is] measured
directly by the amount of isness the individual is [able to] confront."

     In view of the fact that he PC's track is in terrible condition, there
are two factors at work:

     1. The PC's own feelings of incompetence.

     2. The unrecognizableness of the track.

These combine to give you a cat's breakfast.  An extreme form of this problem
is seen in the PC who supposes all sorts of horrible things, who thinks it is
so uncomfortable that he doesn't even show up for session.

     A thetan's state is not really pinned mechanically by anything.  He is
not made less of a thetan or more by MEST.  But when you surround him as
intimately as the time track does with a tremendous amount of suppositional
unconfrontability, he is enforced into a state of low morale, where he doesn't
think that he can do anything.  And the isness, then, is that he can't.  The
PC supposes that the time track is not confrontable, that the auditor is not
going to be able to do anything for it, that he won't be able to handle it,
etc.  "All the time he's supposing, he's not confronting." He knows what will
happen.  He has had all these unconfrontable experiences, and his attention is
still fixed on something, and he knows he mustn't take his attention off of
it.  He also knows that if he doesn't take his attention off of it, he will go
to pieces.  Then he has forgotten that he has his attention on it.  He feels
degraded by all this.  In addition, the state of his track is horrible.  It is
scrambled, shredded, snarled up.  The thetan, in the middle of it all, is
convinced that if he moves or looks at any of it, something horrible will
happen.  All of it has command value over him.  Yet, at the same time, it is
valuable to him.  It has become his havingness.  "It's all the old tin cans
he's got.  It's all his knowingness....  He's like somebody who has become
totally dependent on the record department, and then the record department has
been bombed.  He can't even find out his own name, rank, and serial number
without [it]." That dependency and the why of it is also in the record
department.

     The great savants who have remained ignorant of the time track have just
Q and A'd with its unconsciousness by remaining unconscious of it and
unwilling to approach its pain.  The time track is unavailable to the being,
so the savant supposes that it is unavailable to him.  But the auditor mustn't
do this Q and A.

     "The only real tragedy of life, I suppose, is that absolute
unconsciousness and absolute unknowingness are unobtainable." The fact that a
thetan can't remember, at first, what happened in an engram doesn't mean that
he was unconscious at the time.  If absolute unconsciousness and unknowingness
were possible, we would probably be all right.

     Don't underestimate the violence that is there on the time track, and
don't force the PC into it.  But if you get the earliest moment of the
earliest GPM, it runs like hot butter, even though there's as much charge on
it as there is on a later one.  The difficulty you hit with the later one is
that it has the charge of all the earlier ones, in addition to its own, so it
is far harder for the PC to confront.

     It is important not to give the PC loses, early on.  You should know the
mechanics of engrams and the time track.  Be sure your commands mean what you
intend them to mean.  "Through the incident" does not mean "through the
incident to the end," and if you just say, "Move to the end," the PC won't go
through the incident.  The bank follows the "You think you are there, so you
are there" mechanism of the thetan, so the difference between "to" and
"through" is very important.  Use "to" in scouting and "through" in running
engrams, and don't mix them up.

     LRH found that some PCs can't run GPM's until they have run an early
engram.  Also, if you can run the overt engram that relates to these GPM's, as
an engram, a fantastic amount of charge will come off the implants themselves,
and they will run like hot butter.

     Here is a datum:  That particular implanting outfit was located down
towards the center of this galaxy and was founded 52,863,010, 654,079 years
ago.  It was destroyed 38,932,690,862,933 years ago by the 79th wing of the
43rd Battle Squadron of the Galactic Fleet.  It was a wildcat activity.  They
used to drag Magellanic clouds out of the center hub of the galaxy, let them
follow lines of force and come over a system, and then send planes in with
speakers. The place would be caved in for thousands of years as a result of
radioactive clouds.  You are not likely to find any implant earlier then or
even near 52 trillion years ago, or closer to PT than 35.9 trillion years
ago.  Any other kind of implant is a different kind or a dramatization of it
someplace else.  The Helatrobus implanter had the dream of everyone in the
universe being good.  They used the Ice Cube.  [See A History of Man, pp.
64-5.] This is the implant that really keyed in the time track.

