

ARC BREAKS

A lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on 11 July 1963

SHSBC-283 renumbered 313 11 Jul 63 ARC Breaks

[Clearsound version. Not checked against the old reels.]


All right, this is 11 July, and AD 13, Saint Hill Special
Briefing Course. Haven't a thing to talk to you about, you
know everything there is to know. And that would be all
right except you know some things also that aren't true! My
mission is trying to point out the essentials.

All right. A lot of things I could talk to you about. But
the thing you're going to have the most trouble with is ARC
breaks. So I better start telling you something about ARC
breaks.

You have just received an HCOB concerning assessment for
ARC break and, frankly, that's a rather marvelous piece of
stuff. You get so you can wheel and deal with those ARC
break lists, why, you're right in there kicking. The only
difficulties with these ARC break lists - the only real
difficulties with them - is the fact they're always assessed
on a dirty needle. And although you want a clean needle for
all listing and assessment, the auditor should be banished
to Siberia, or the American Psychiatric Association, who
tries to clean up the needle'before he gets the ARC break
straightened out.

I can see it now. Somebody's going to do this! I just know
somebody's going to do this! They're going to - they're
going to see that the needle is dirty, and they're going to
have their ARC break assessment list in front of them and
they're going to say, "How in the name of common sense can
I possibly assess this because the needle is dirty," and
then spend the next ten or fifteen minutes trying to clean
up the needle so they can do the ARC break assessment. Now,
I know that is very sarcastic of me and very unbelieving of
me and all that sort of thing, but the truth of the matter
is they would be missing this interesting point: All dirty
needles are ARC breaks and the only thing that will clean
up an ARC break is the list.

So, what you're doing there, you're faced with the
problem - you're faced with the problem of having to shoot
down this bird in flight, this ARC break, this black crow,
with a gun that's got four ripples in the barrel. You see,
it's difficult. And that's what is difficult about ARC
break assessments. There really isn't anything else is
difficult about it.

But even this isn't difficult if you very, very sharply and
definitely follow the rule of instant read. And that will
save you a lot of eyestrain and myopia and worry. Now, this
makes an auditor who can do an ARC break assessment
accurately, every time, a paragon amongst auditors. And
that is why it's the most marvelous training process there
could possibly be.

We say - we got a - I'll give you - I'll give you an idea,
see. We got a nice clean needle, there it is, flowing cleanly,
flowing cleanly. We say, "Recall an ARC break" and it goes
bzzzt-bzzz-bzzz-dzzt-dzzt-bzz-bbzz-bzz, starts to fall the
other way, bzzz, bzzz-bbzzzz. See, we've said, in essence.
"Turn on a dirty needle." There is no reason for you to
worry about it, because that's in essence what you've
said. Let's put it this way. This is metaphorical, but
nevertheless, might stay in your minds a little bit better.
It's, "What makes life rough?" See? It's ARC breaks! If you
didn't have any ARC breaks anyplace, why, life would be
very smooth, wouldn't it? Well, the way to not have ARC
breaks, by the way, is to be in a total coma or be able to
handle the environment! Now, therefore, the whole idea of
running ARC breaks is smoothing out rough needles. Got the
idea? If you got rid of somebody's ARC breaks, you would
have a smooth needle. Let me put it this way - you
understand it much better.

Now, if there were no ARC breaks on the person's track,
then a button going out would not cause a dirty needle. So,
there is another echelon, shallower, on the subject of
lists, than lists, and that's buttons. Let's take a look at
Suppress. How come you can get a kick out of the button
"Suppress"? Well, it is sitting on a series of ARC breaks.
A chain of engrams is actually a chain of ARC breaks. See,
there's the combinations of matter, energy, space, time and
thought. The combinations of these and a thetan's reaction
to them in their combinations. His reaction to one or
another combination of matter, energy, space, time and
significance, see? And then you have the matter, energy,
space, time and significance.

Let's divide that up very sharply. There are two things at
work here, one which we'll carelessly call the thetan's
reaction, and the other which we will group as a whole
class of its own: matter, energy, space, time and
significance. Now, you see, you could have matter, energy,
space - I think... Who was it - I don't know - Delacroix, he's
a painter; Deschamps, he's a prize fighter. Who - who was it
that invented that... Descartes! Yes! Yes, yes! I can
remember some of the people on this planet, heh-heh! Yeah,
he - he had a bunch of junk going - excuse me! It was some
philosophical rendition where if a tree fell in the forest,
and there was nobody there - maybe this was Locke or Hume - 
the tree fell in the forest and nobody heard it, would it 
have made a sound?

Well, this - this is a bunch of nonsense, you see? In other
words, this is an entirely different school of thought.
This is a school of thought of, "Is existence?" see? "Is
existence? And if you're not there, does it exist?" I wrote
a story one time, maybe you read it, named Fear. And as the
guy walks down the street, he knows they're taking the
scenery down behind him and putting it up in front of him.
And he knows there is no other scenery except the scenery
which exists for him. Well, I'm afraid that's - that
philosophy is the same order of magnitude, see. If a tree
falls in the forest and nobody is there, does it make a sound?

Well, in other words, something has to be observed in order
to be. Well, that isn't true at all. Nothing has to be
observed in order to be - you can just forget about that.
For all practical purposes, if you ever get entangled in on
it - I probably shouldn't ever have mentioned it! I might
now have tangled you in something you might not otherwise
have ever confronted! But it's a basis of this: If. there's
some matter, energy, space and time lying out on the lawn
out there, then it is simply there, isn't it? And you're
here and it's there! All right, that's fine, that's fine,
that's two different orders of action. You're not looking
on it, or otherwise.

Now, for a reaction to exist, you have to look at it, know
about it, hear about it, confront or not confront it in
some gradient of some kind or another, see. Now, that's
what I mean when I say, "Your reaction to matter, energy,
space, time." A thetan's reaction to matter, energy, space,
time and significance, see. So you've got the reaction here
and you've got the matter, energy, space, time and
significance over here. And we don't - we're not even
slightly involved with the question of whether or not it
doesn't exist if we don't look at it and all of this sort
of stuff. You get into the goal "To experience"; "In order
to experience it, it has to be there." The truth of the
matter is, do you know that you can't - it can be that you
just don't know about something and it goes to pieces and
you still don't know about it and you see, you've never
seen it, never had any experience with it, never confronted
it or anything else, and you then don't have any reaction
to it. You neither have a notknowing reaction or a knowing
reaction to it. You don't have any reaction to it at all.
Because as far as you were concerned it didn't exist. So,
the relationship between the thetan's reaction and matter,
energy, space, time and significance as a package, you see,
is communication.

And to be affected by something, one must communicate with
it or not communicatewith it, knowingly. You can actually
shed a tremendous amount of philosophic balderdash if you
just lay it out along those crude lines. There's an
automobile accident taking place four miles from here, let
us say, at this moment. If we don't communicate with it, we
don't see the remains of the accident, we don't know the
people involved in it, we don't know that it has occurred,
we don't even read about it in the paper, see, there is no
interaction. We are not in some esoteric fashion influenced
by this automobile accident. It requires a communication to
be influenced by the automobile accident.

But! But! Remember, if we knew the automobile accident was
going to take place and we carefully didn't know it was
going to take place, that, no matter how obliquely or how
well forgotten, is still a communication. It's this type of
communication that gets a thetan in trouble. You see, he's
been there and he didn't communicate, and - carefully! And
he made a picture of it, or put up a wall against it or
protested it or something like that, and he's got this
picture and then doesn't want to confront the picture
either because it's - the significance in the picture now
has been added to by his reaction. And his reaction was
that he didn't want to communicate with it.

So, a thetan's reaction becomes part of all observed or
carefully not-observed matter, energy, space, time and
significance. In other words, the reaction factor adds to
the matter, energy, space, time and significance; and this,
then, with the new significance of the thetan's reaction
time, made into a mental image picture, becomes the time
track. So the matter, energy, space, time and significance
has added into it the thetan's reaction. See? So, past is
different than present, in that the picture of the past has
had added into it the thetan's reaction to it. You follow that?

So you see, past is different than present time. Now, in
the future, we add hope or hopelessness. So, therefore, the
future also has in it a reaction to it. But in view of the
fact that it's not often made up into pictures - although
sometimes it is. They're just whole-cloth dream-ups, you
see, they're not pressures against the physical universe,
or actual pictures. But, you know, you can - you can
cause somebody to run future track. You want to horrify
some pc sometime, scatter him out of a GPM. See, GPMs tend
to remain as present time, you know; that's their best
forte. They get you all mixed up because they seem to be in
present time and you see, the dichotomy has destroyed
their time factor and made an instantaneousness and made
them drift on the time track instead of staying anchored
down where they should be on the time track, you see. And
of course, a thetan thinks it's right there. And you can't
get a date on something. I don't advise you to do this,
because it's upsetting to the pc, but I'm just telling you
a phenomenon. This is not a practical or a workable thing,
perhaps, but you might like to do something with it, just
to give you an interesting thing.

You can't get a read on this facsimile and you know doggone
well it's there, ask if it was tomorrow or yesterday. It
shakes it out of present time and you all of a sudden get a
read on it. In spite of the fact the pc usually ARC breaks.

Now, that, of course, is a past which seems to be the
present and requires a reaction to it in the present, but
has already got a reaction in it. So a thetan takes his
reaction out of this and wears it in present time and you
have the factor of restimulation of reaction. You got a
restimulation, then, of what he has already reacted to. So
his reactions of the past become his reactions of the present.

If you want to have a time, sometime ... I won't take up
your time right now, but maybe - and box this thing around
one way or the other, because of course it becomes very
complicated. When you have audited an engram, the reaction
to the engram in the session becomes part of the session
time track, even though the facsimile itself has been
erased off the main time track and you still have a little,
tiny cross-reaction. It hasn't got any teeth in it to
amount to anything, but you've got this little, tiny shadow
of an incident, riding in PT, at that session moment. And I
use this occasionally, by trying to find out what was the
needle reaction at a certain period of an auditing session.
All I have to do is momentarily return the pc to that exact
instant of the auditing session and there's just enough
needle reaction left to give me one kick. It will give me
one small kick.

It doesn't really represent charge. All it represents is
the action pattern of the observed present. You might even
be able to get another rocket read out of a Helatrobus
Implant series, out of PT; but boy, would you have to sweat
at it. And it wouldn't have the force or power, you see, of
the original rocket read at all, but you could actually get
it to react on the meter if you really worked it over and
got the pc at that exact moment when the meter is reacting.
In other words, at any given instant of the time track, you
can rekindle any given instant - or any given reaction. The
time track has reaction added to it, as making it different, 
then, than present time.

Present time really doesn't have reaction in it, except as
it borrows it off the time track, or it is added to present
time by the thetan. Let's take the luckless fellow who is
looking for happiness. And never puts any happiness into
his reaction to present time. Heh! Look that one over for a
moment, see! Now, the only reactions to matter, energy,
space, time and significance that exists on the whole track
is the thetan's reaction to, added to the matter, energy,
space, time and significance as a mental image picture. So
now he goes back on the track, trying to be happy about
something, but if he, of course, did not have the reaction
of happiness to the matter, energy, space, time and
significance at the time it occurred, he will then have
only an unhappy reaction. This is quite - this is quite
horrible!

You could actually - very funny - very funny experiment with
the mind, see? You could lay out twenty-four hours, or
twelve hours, or eight hours or something, in which you are
going to put a happy reaction into everything.

And you go out and see the garbage pail and you say, "Oh,
how happy I am," you see, "about the garbage pail!" Rain's
coming down, "Oh, beautiful rain!" I mean just - just with
malice aforethought, you know. Bark your shins, "Oh,
wonderful pain!" you know. Just rack yourself up a few
hours of this, see? And then, as the few days go by, why
get somebody to audit you through it, you see. And you'll
have the most idiotic feeling of happiness, you see. How
happy! "I was certainly happy that day!" Quite remarkable.

Now, we've agreed that certain things should be reacted to
in certain ways. There's certain things we are supposed to
be horrified about, we're supposed to be happy about, and
one of the things that almost breaks your back sometimes,
trying to live and exist and be cheerful in present time,
is a "things you're supposed to be happy about" is pushed
in your lap, see, by your fellows or life, only you don't
happen to be happy about these things and you never have
been happy about this, but you're supposed to be happy
about this thing, you see? And actually your reaction is
quite horrible, do you see. And, you know, a birthday
present, or something like this, when you're - something,
and...."Oh, thank you!" You know? You're building up a
ridge between your past reaction to the clown that they
gave you for your birthday present, you see, or birthdays
in general, or the fact that you're really getting on and
you don't like to think about it; various things of that
character, you see. And you build up a ridge between your
present, forced reaction, for social purposes, you see, and
your past reaction to such things, and it makes you feel
wog, grog, what - what's - what's going on?

So, this can become very involved. The thetan's reaction to
matter, energy, space, time and significance then enters
into upper-echelon complications which are simply the back
and forth interplay of favorable and unfavorable reactions,
don't you see. All complicated by the "now-I'm-supposed-to"
reactions. This gets quite confusing after a while. And the
reality of the situation goes by the boards. It just gets
to be too strenuous to get this many reactions through your
noggin, so you just say, "Well, it's all unreal." And you
put it behind you and you want nothing more to do with it
and then it can chew on the back of your neck without any
interruption from there on.

Well you say, "Well, I would feel all right if we just
didn't keep stirring up these engrams." And so forth. Well,
I don't know that you would or wouldn't. Because they're
all there, ready to be stirred up, and if you're not going
to stir them up, life's going to. And what do you want to
do, leave it on total automatic? So you can square away
these things and take care of them and you can handle this
various situation. But sometimes these reactions rather get
in your hair. And the only errors that can be made in an
auditing session which are upsetting at all, actually, are
wrong date, wrong duration. Those are very upsetting, very
upsetting.

They tend to louse a case up. I don't know anything else
that louses a case up. Well, now let's talk about this
smooth needle. None of - none of the immediate past is in
restimulation, see. Needle's smooth, so forth. Talking
about 2H now, see. Nothing - nothing's in restimulation,
there's no miscommunication going on here, there's no
reaction to the reality, you see, of the matter, energy,
space, time and significance contained and recorded in the
bank, you see, and this needle's sweeping, beautifully,
everything's going along, and you say, "Recall an ARC
break." Well, you're asking for a moment of miscommunication 
of some kind or another. By definition, an ARC break is 
affinity, reality and communication gone wog. So of course, 
that expresses itself in a dirty needle.

Well, it normally became an ARC break because it bypassed
some charge which was restimulated. It restimulated some
charge and this became unknown to the individual and he
attributed the reasons for the ARC break to something else
and introduced a lie into the situation and then went on
feeling bad about it because the lie gave it persistence.
The only way you get persistence is with a lie. Unless you
just postulate "It will persist." All right. Let's look at
this phenomena again here, now. The reaction of the thetan
can be phrased as his concept of affinity, with regard to
something, whether his I'm-supposed-to-be or natively
postulated right on the spot; his reaction - his reaction on
the subject of reality; and his reaction is, of course, a
form of communication. And the reaction is about, you see,
is about reality, and results in a feeling of affinity or
misaffinity of some kind or another. There's how you get
the bridge between thetan at point A and matter, energy,
space, time and significance over here at point B. And the
reaction which takes place between these two things is
expressed in terms of affinity, reality and communication
concerning the matter, energy, space, time and significance
which he is confronting, monitored by past affinity,
reality and communication concerning similar matter,
energy, space, time and significances of the past. You got
that? Complex!

Actually very simple. It's simple as long as you can retain
a somewhat detached outlook. You get involved in the middle
of the battle and there's so many swords clashing against
so many shields and helmets, there's so many hoofs
belonging to so many different horses involved in all this,
and arrows intended for elsewhere landing nowheres, or in
you and so forth, you don't have time to retain a detached
attitude. You tend to put it on a total reaction. Total
reaction.

But that is caused by a condensation of time. So that what
we really get the brunt of, in this universe, is an
insufficiency of time. Now, you get an insufficiency of
time by staying on the time track. You think that's an
idiotic statement; it's just very, very factual. You start
protesting time. Somebody incarcerates you, and gives you
a couple of hundred years in the jug. And you're sitting
there, jog, jog; and instead of using it to clean up your
engrams or something.like this, why, there you are with too
much time on your hands. Oooh! That's your consideration!
Your reaction to the time in the jug is actually unwanted
location. You don't want that location. And you blame it on
time. And you confuse location and time and blame time. So
the basic lie on the track is, of course, to confuse time
and location. And curse location because of time or time
because of location. And you get these two things mixed up,
and you've had it.

Now, the truth of the matter is, very few years ago,
actually, practically yesterday - a few trillion trillion
years ago, in actual fact - you probably didn't stick on the
time track. Now, the further back you go, the less accurate
you were with positioning yourself in present time. Now, I
shouldn't use the word "accurate." The less - the less you
were fixed into present time. You were slippery on the
subject. You would slide around, without thinking about it.
And you could, at will; go yesterday and go tomorrow. See,
time is a very artificial consideration. We see this
sometimes in science fiction where somebody has mastered a
time machine. There aren't any time machines, except an OT
He's a time machine. And he actually can't carry stuff back
into the past or restore it in the future without simply
creating it again in the past and creating it in the
future. Of course, I don't know that the past isn't there,
in some instances, if it's been fixed to stay there. But this 
is a very interesting consideration. You didn't necessarily 
find yourself totally surrounded by the environment of 
present time! You could went yesterday; and that of course 
was a very short jump. More likely it was a hundred years. 
You go back a hundred years for a short nap.

This was very useful. This was very useful. You could slip
around all over the place. You wouldn't necessarily find
MEST there; but - you began to be cursed and to curse this
proposition, because nobody was sufficiently fixed and you
couldn't stay in communication with people very easily, who
kept sliding a hundred years ago! And a certain impatience
would generate one way or the other. But that impatience
was not destructive and ordinary living was not
destructive; it had to be quite cataclysmic. Somebody had
to louse up time and louse up location before living became
unbearable. You know, there had to be such things as jails
and protested time and couldn't-get-out-of's, and miserable
circumstances and all of this sort of thing, before you
started getting wound up in a circle. And the only thing
that was capable of doing this, by the way, was implants.
GPM implants - about the only thing that could louse this
thing up. You would probably be like that today if you
didn't have a few of these implants. All right.

Now, the point... I mean you would have lasted through,
processing or no processing. This can get into disrepute
very easily. You go yesterday, you see. You see them
building a new courthouse, see. So you throw yourself back
down the time track one way or the other and choose the
location where they're going to build a courthouse, dig a
hole in the ground and roof it over with a very thin coat
of shale. They build so much weight in the future, on this
spot - you see, they build just so much weight in that
courthouse and it eventually falls in. You're not even
there the day it falls in. You got an alibi.

Well, nonsense of this sort of thing proposes itself, but
in actual fact - in actual fact, you didn't have too much
trouble with time. And you could slip around on the subject
of time very easily. If you have fixed time, you get a
fixed reaction. You get a. presence of self and the matter,
energy, space and time which necessitates a reaction.
You've got to have a reaction, now. This is an enforced
reaction. You - there is no way of escaping a reaction. You
can't drift back a thousand years. Just sit this one out.

Now, you slip back a thousand years because you dare not
confront something, you find yourself popping up those
thousand years in a hurry, because you got a reason why.
You got a no-confront going, of some kind or another. But
anyway, to be very uninvolved about the situation, here you
are with a very thin, fixed present time. And of course you
have very little time. And it is the absence of time, or
the presence of time - that's the unwanted absence, unwanted
presence of time - which gives problems. The source of all
problems is time. If you want to take apart somebody's
problems on a very esoteric level, you just start scouting
time down. You start taking his time apart on the subject
of his problems. This is quite amusing. You say, "Tell me a
problem you have had," see? "Well, so and so and so and so
and so and so."

And you say, "All right. Now, what time was awry there?
Where was there too much time? Where was there too little
time?" And - now, don't mistake me - this is not a one-way
road to glory, because it has a tendency to become a little
bit limited and is slightly esoteric. And it's the quality
of reaction, you see, is ARC. But I'm just showing you here
that you could just choose one of these points, the most
important one of matter, energy, space and time and significance 
and you can just change that time. Reactions to that time, as 
a point - which you normally wouldn't - wouldn't explore at all.

On the single subject of problems, you know, "Tell me a
problem you've had."

"So and so.

"All right, how was the time awry? What was the matter with
time at that point?" "Well, I didn't have enough time," or
"I had too much time." This is the normal reaction. You
could do some shredding of the bank. You could knock the
guy around in the bank. You would tend to move him on the
time track. You could do some interesting things and he
sure wouldn't have the problems that he had, you see? And
one of the problems you have with study, for instance, is
insufficient time. One of the problems I have with teaching
you is insufficient time. Time is made insufficient by the
economic status of the thing or the dear loved ones who
keep pestering you. And you - we wouldn't have any problem
at all with any student, you see, if it just weren't for
these two factors. They're very simple factors, the factors
of economics and the factor of familial or organizational
relationships, you see.

These factors kicked out would only then be monitored by
the factor, well, you can get old! You know, sitting around
in a body. I didn't mean any particular student! But the
point - the point I'm making here, is that problems, the
peculiar thing called a problem, is quite different than a
reaction. And the peculiar thing called a problem is
adjusted by simply an adjustment of just this one little
part of matter, energy, space, time and significance. Just
adjust the time and you do something. Now, oddly enough,
you can also adjust problems by location. Less effectively,
but you can still adjust them by location. Location is a
part of matter, energy, space and time, because by space
and energy or mass, we, of course have it understood that
it is someplace, or is going through a certain location in
space. So we say you could adjust that by that. Well,
spotting spots in space - just that, all by itself, produces
some remarkable reactions because it's handling just this
one little thing called location. And that, bf course, will
handle some of these problems.

Now, if somebody goes out here and runs into a tree with a
car, about your fastest process - not necessarily the best
process, but the process which would go all the way down
and fit his case level at the moment, which could be quite
low - would just run Reach and Withdraw on the tree. Go out
and find the actual tree! See, that spot in space, see? And
go Reach and Withdraw on the tree and then go find the car,
wherever it is, and run Reach and Withdraw on the car, and
Reach and Withdraw on the tree, and Reach and Withdraw on
the car. I don't care if the car is up in the garage
someplace. Flatten it with the car, you see, flatten it
with the tree, touch all the ground around there and so
forth, and then you say, "Well, what's the time factors
involved?" "Well, if we hadn't been going so fast, we
wouldn't have hit so hard!" That's the obvious factor. All
impact is based on a scarcity of time. There's too much
happening in too little time. Now, every time you as a
thetan have rendered some horrendous and damaging impact,
you of course have scrunched these things up. That's not
necessarily aberrative, in its - there's nothing you do, 
by the way, that is very aberrative over a period of time.
You've committed overts and damaged people and you'll
commit overts against the greater good of the greater
number of dynamics and then you will consider that you
don't deserve to go anyplace or be up, but that's holding
yourself in the own - in your own trap. In just the normal
course of, well, there's a war, and you shot some soldiers 
and you got shot at, you lost a couple of buddies, and your 
wife turned into a barfly. Something like this, you know; 
normal course of existence of the war. And so forth. That's 
about as aberrative as blowing your nose, see.

That's nothing, see. Nothing. You lose three or four
boyfriends and that sort of thing, that's nothing, see. Not
on the long line of aberration. Because none of that is
sufficient to stand forever in space, or completely shut
off the whole line, you see.

You have to get some very interestingly complicated
mechanisms making these facsimiles of people stay in
present time, bothering them all the time, with them
reacting against them all the time, to build up a
tremendous lot of reactions, which then becomes the
personality of the individual. See, that trick had to be
introduced to it. There's only that trick, by the way.
That's why you can run engrams today and why you suddenly
got engrams today, because that's the chief engram. That's
what makes engrams unrunnable. That's why we couldn't run
engrams, you see. Well, we can handle that, why, we can run
engrams and we can clear up the track.

All right. Now, let's get back to this thing called a
reaction. Your reaction to matter, energy, space and time
is couched in numerous ways. But where those reactions tend
to not communicate or tend to obsessively communicate, you
rough up energy. Energy gets roughed up and then it stays
in the picture and so forth. In other words, the energy is
flowing at one foot per second and you get in a hurry and
you make it flow at three feet per second, but it isn't
really flowing that way; or you prevent it from flowing at
one foot per second and make it flow one inch per second.
In other words, the normal course of flows is interrupted
because of the existence of a problem or an obsession to be
at it or a feeling you've got to get away from it or, you
know, it's bad or it's this or it's that. And all of these
things result in the fact that you bypass charge.

Charge is there, so you go into this thing, crunch! And you
restimulate some charge. Or you try to get away from - 
zzrrmmm! And so forth. Well, what's dictating this? It's 
former reactions. What gets kindled there is a former
reaction of some kind or another. And that former reaction
throws into restimulation some earlier engrams, some
earlier ARC breaks, some earlier this, some earlier that,
see? You get how this - how this works? In other words, you
confront matter, energy, space, time and significance in a
certain way and there will be a picture of similar matter,
energy, space, time and significance confronted in a
certain way, which is reactivated by your reaction to the
present matter, energy, space, time and significance.

In other words, you take package B and you react to - well,
you - one of you girls sees a mouse on the floor, see?
Here's one of the things drives women mad! That's because
it's an I'm-supposed-to, see? And you see a mouse on the
floor and reaction to the mouse is, "Yaaoww!" See? All
right. Now, the last mouse you saw before this, you see,
your reaction was duplicate. You went, "Yaaoww!" And with
the mouse before that, that you saw, see, your reaction to
that was, "Yaaoww!" So, you've got three "Yaaowws." Now,
those former ones - those former ones, you understand, are
in picture forni and the present one is in - matter, energy,
space and time form. See? But the others are copies of this
same thing, so your reaction here rekindles the reaction
then, so you get that picture pulled in; now that reaction
intensifies this reaction.

It's like hooking two locomotives up, to where one was only 
pulling before, see? Now, because you never scented the second
locomotive, you wonder, "Why did I 'Yaaoww' so hard here?"
Becomes inexplicable. It's a missed charge. See that?

Now, the auditor comes along and he says, "The reason why
you went 'Yaaoww' here is because formerly you
went,'Yaaoww.' " And the person says, "Oh. Oh, yes! Yes,
of course!"

We - we don't even really have to spot when we formerly went
"Yaaoww," because what we've done is just kick off not the
facsimile, we handled the reaction factor of the facsimile.
Got it?

We just handled one little piece of this. We handled that
piece most intimate to the thetan, which was his reaction,
his ARC. So, when we handle that, that as-ises fast, so the
other charge drops out and you cease to have bypassed
charge. Follow this? You be - you better get a good grip on
this, I can see some of you a little floundering on this.
I've given you a lot of data here, all of a sudden.

Now, the only thing - the only thing that caused a
restimulation of yesterday's charge was the fact that you
reacted the same way today that you reacted yesterday. The
devil with the situation. The reaction was the same. So
when the reaction was the same, you pulled in yesterday's
situation; unwittingly pulled in yesterday's situation and
didn't even know it. It's because the reaction was the
same. You're not even vaguely interested in running out
yesterday's association as a facsimile. You're just
interested in clipping out of it, tsk, this one little
piece of it which is reaction. You just want to do a
reaction-ectomy. Because your reaction today restimulated
your reaction in the yesterday incident, see?

Now you say to the guy, "Well, the reason you reacted to a
mouse today was because you reacted to a mouse same way
yesterday." "Oh, similar incident yesterday. Oh, yes! Of
course!"

He doesn't even know about it. All of a sudden he feels all
right. It's a very strange phenomenon, unless you understand 
what you're kicking out. All you're doing is you're saying, 
"Reaction today - reaction yesterday." You've actually matched 
terminals, two things, and they go bzzt See, you're handling 
reactions.

Now,this is quite different than handling the facsimile.
Now, let's go back and go all over this thing again. Very
short, sweet, simple. You got a thetan at point A, and you
got matter, energy, space, time and significance at point
B. And the reaction, or the interaction between these two
things, I should say, is the thetan's reaction to the
matter, energy, space, time and significance at point B.
See? You understand? The reaction to it. And that reaction
to it is expressed, in our language, in ARC. His ARC with
regard to it.

Eighty-nine cars pile up in a horrendous pier on the
freeway. See? I think it's the real reason they have
freeways - they can pile up more cars on them more suddenly!
And here you have a facsimile of eighty-nine cars piled up
on each other. Now boy, there is - there's matter, energy,
space, time and significance! Eighty-nine cars piled up on
the freeway, crunch! See? Now, there's another thing here,
and that is a thetan's reaction to this. Didn't matter
whether he was part of it or observed it or read it in the
paper or something like this, you understand. His reaction
is a different thing. Now, your - your quarrel with many
things that are wrong in the world, and my quarrel with
many things that are wrong with the world, is because our
reactions are quite different to the other peoples' reactions 
to the same thing. Now, you understand, it's just eighty-nine 
cars piled up on the freeway! Now that, in present time, is. 
And as it becomes yesterday, is a facsimile of what had been, 
you see? Now, that is a thing. That's a facsimile.

Now, we're not talking about taking apart - this is running
engrams, see - we're not talking about taking apart these
eighty-nine cars piled up on the freeway. That's not what
we're talking about. See, we're just talking about the
guy's reaction to it. And that's all you handle on an ARC
break. You get yourself so involved with these eighty-nine
cars piled up on the freeway as matter, energy, space, time
and significance, that you never can sort out the guy's
reaction to it. You say, "Oh, well, you've got an ARC break
because you were driving down the street, and you saw two
cars almost hit. And you started cursing the police
department or the highway department or drivers. Oh, yes,
now, is that - did that restimulate an earlier-similar
incident?" And he says, "Don't know..." But your meter
says, "Tsk!" Earlier-similar incident. You say, "It
restimulated an earlier-similar incident." And he says,
"Oh?" All of a sudden he doesn't have an ARC break. He
doesn't quite understand why or how or anything else. See,
pure magic!

All right, now, if you didn't understand that you were just
supposed to handle his reaction, you're liable to be doing
this: "Well, let's see, similar incident, huh? 
Earlier-similar incident - when was this earlier-similar
incident?" Let's handle the time of the earlier-similar
incident. Ohhhh! "All right, when was this earlier-similar
incident, huh?" "Nineteen forty-eight." "Oh! In 1948. Well,
what was it that happened in 1948?" "Oh, eighty-nine cars
on the freeway piled up." "Which car were you in?"

You're running R3R, man. It isn't that you can't run it,
but, you're now in for a long, arduous job, because this is
basic on automobile accidents for this thetan? Nineteen
forty-eight? Ohah-ha-ha-ha! I can see it now, on that
monocycle, eighty-nine trillion years ago, engaged on his
eight-billionth personal, private accident! You got a long
chain, see? And you're going to cut into it at the end and
cure an ARC break? No, you're not going to do anything at
all. What you want to handle is his reaction!

Here's the way to handle it, see: You say, "Oh, you're down
the street, and you had an ARC break with other drivers
and you had an awful argument. Is that right? All right,
was it a this? Was it a that? Was it a this? Was it a that?
Was ..." You know, you're trying to sort out, "In the
incident itself, was anything missed?" You see. "Was
it - any affinity in the incident missed? Any reality?
Communication?" So on and so on. And, "Earlier communication 
break? An earlier incident restimulated?" Pang! You say, 
"Well, it's always an earlier incident restimulated." Well, 
it doesn't always show up that way, see? And you say, "Well, 
it was an earlier incident restimulated. You had an earlier 
incident of a similar kind restimulated there on the street 
when you had that upset." "Huh! Huh! Oh, what do you know!" 
It's all right with him. The needle quiets out.

Sometimes the eager beaver says, "What was it? What was
it?" Perfectly all right. Let him do it. "What was it? What
was it?" Let him do it! Don't help him out!

He says, "Oh, let's see, earlier incident, earlier incident, 
earlier..." "Oh!" he says, "it's that eighty-nine-car pileup 
on the freeway! Yeeaass! Oh, yeah, I was upset the same way!"

And you say, "Thank you very much. Recall an ARC break."
Because if you do another thing, you're walking - not on eggs - 
much thinner and crisper than that! All you have to do is direct 
his attention, direct his interest, and he passes over from
point A, and now, straight over to B and jumps in without
the benefit of swimming trunks or anything else. He's just
in and gone! You understand?

The way to get somebody in an incident - you don't use this
technique anymore - is just ask him for the largest object
in the incident. Pc's mentioned a house recently. You say,
"All right, the house. What kind of a house was it?" There
he is! He's right in the incident. You can push him over
there, using matter, energy, space, time and significance.
Well, actually, you can peel these things off by doing a
reaction-ectomy with ARC.

You understand those mechanics, you'll see them work out.
You'll see them work out in yourself. You'll recognize
eventually that the only time you fail to put your finger
on it is when you didn't have the requisite item on your
ARC break list. Your ARC break list is insufficiently complete.

Let's do some ARC breaks in auditing. "All right. Recall an
auditing ARC break, in the last month." All right, you've
got what? How many processes? How many process might have
been done? Let's look them over. How many lists would you
have to run on this ARC break? Or you'd have to say, "All
right, what process were you doing? In that ARC break you
just recalled, what process were you doing? What was being
done on you as a process? All right, very good. Your
item - or the reason for the ARC break - is on that list."
See, because you've got a listing ARC break, you got a
session ARC break, listing ARC breaks, engram running ARC
breaks, you see, and implant ARC break lists; you've got
all these lists! Because there's a number of combinations
that can cause - and these are empirically worked out, not
just intellectually, see? And you normally will find these
things. The only thing I would add to both 3N and R3R
because auditors are switching between them unintelligibly
some day - times, is on each one, "Wrong date, wrong
duration, earlier wrong date, earlier wrong duration." And
I put those four questions on both the 3N and the R3R ARC
break lists. That's a correction of the lists. I put those
on just to make awful sure! Because people do an awful lot
of illegal dating, I'm beginning to find out, and
durationing and so forth, while running 3N. They do an
awful lot of it, see. It isn't necessary at all and yet
they do it, and so they make a mistake in it, and then
everything goes blooey on it, and then they do a 3N ARC
break assessment form, and of course, the wrong date, wrong
duration are on the R3R assessment form, so they don't find
the cause for the ARC break.

Now, all ARC breaks become because of - I've left you adrift
here, some way or another. You recognize that any pat
procedure would have its ARC break list, which would give
all types of charge that might get bypassed. Because these
are just lists of charge, that might get bypassed. Possibly
it's bypassable charge. And that's all an ARC break list
is. And when you go and make one up, as you may well do,
one fine day, you make up an ARC break list - all you'll
have to do - you find yourself sitting someplace without any
materials, you see. You haven't got any lists with you and
so forth. You can sit down and make them up, by just
figuring out, "Well, what's all the kinds of charge I might
bypass in this particular procedure?" Or, "What are all the
types of charge I might bypass in a session?" And then, of
course, we remember that it's the - it's current in the
session, or earlier in some other session, or earlier
someplace else, so we always say - we've got the item that
might get bypassed. And then we've got the same item with
"earlier" in front of it, see? See, it's always double.
See? The wrong date. We always, of course, then follow it 
up by saying, "Was an earlier wrong date found?" You see? 
Because we might have just kicked in yesterday's session 
and unwittingly had a wrong date in yesterday's session - 
not suspected it until today.

Now, the trouble with ARC breaks is they never rekindle
until they're keyed in. And an ARC break is always a
key-in. It is never the fact. It is always the follow-up
from the fact. So, you would almost always get missed
withhold to read on an ARC break list. Inevitably, missed
withhold is going to read. Because that's, of course, the
common denominator of all ARC breaks and it requires a
missed withhold to key in the ARC break. So you sometimes
find, grandly and gorgeously, missed withhold, and tell the
pc it's a missed withhold, and the ARC break doesn't diminish.

No, the missed withhold, you see, just keyed in the thing.
And if I had my way about it, in actual fact, I would omit
"missed withhold," because it might be a trap. It requires
a missed withhold, and you're liable to find the "missed
withhold," and tell the pc it's it, while having a date a
trillion years wrong in an incident.

See, the missed withhold keyed it. Therefore, he's so
fixated on the key-in that he does - you don't get the other
on the list. And you say, "Well, is there a wrong date in
this session?" And it's null. Everything's null. "Do you
have a missed withhold?" See? Bang! "Yes, oh yes, I so on
and so on - you said so-and-so and you did me in, you dog!"
See? And that's a funny reaction to an ARC break. That
isn't the curative reaction. You'll very often say, "Well,
we found a wrong goal." You'll say very innocently, solving
your ARC break, you see, "We found a wrong goal."

"Goddammit, I told you that goal was ... !"

No, you didn't find it! Tsk, tsk, tsk! Not the right
bypassed charge! You found the key-in, and you very often
find the key-in, which just simply keys the bypassed charge
in again! You sometimes will see this happen. You give this
list, right on out, down the line, and you say, "Well, I've
got a - we found a wrong goal on you, see? Found a wrong
goal." "Ohhh yes! I said that goal was wrong! Goddamn
yaaayaaayaa" Don't be upset. You didn't do a wrong
assessment, you've just found the key-in. Now let's go back
and do another assessment and find the bypassed charge.
First thing you do with something like that is to find out,
let's see, am I assessing the right list? That's an awful
good thing to ask yourself, because you're liable to get
kind of rattled in the middle of an ARC break as an
auditor, see? You all of a sudden find with horror, no
you're not. You thought you were doing 3N but you just
remembered that early in the session you dated and
durationed an engram. You dated and durationed something
early in the session. Oh, that's - you've run some R3R. Ah,
let's get that R3R list out. Don't do the 3N one again and
work yourself to death, you already did that. Have some
confidence in your own assessing! Nothing read, so it isn't
on it. Get another list! Get another list, and you go down
the line. "Well, we restimulated finding a wrong goal, in
an earlier session, on you." "Oh? Hmmmm. No kidding! That's
why I was so ARC broke last month! Yeah. that's why I was
mad at Charlie! Yeah, that - that's the wrong goal! 'To be 
a titwillow,' that's the wrong goal!"

You didn't even tell him what one it is, and he brightens
up all the way along the line and he goes along just fine,
you see, everything is fine now! Get the idea?

You understand the mechanics of the thing, you can handle
it. There are various types of charge that you can bypass. 
What do you mean by bypass a charge? Well, kick it without 
revealing it. Set up a reaction between point A and B without 
disclosing it to the pc or yourself! And when a violent 
reaction exists between point A and point B, in a session, 
which is totally unknown to both the auditor and the pc, it 
will continue to be a violent reaction until the reaction is 
spotted. You don't have to spot the incident, you have to 
spot the reaction.

Now, what you want to do is get rid of that reaction just
by assessing it out and indicating it. You don't have to be
fancy about it.

Now, one of the things which you make a mistake on, on ARC
breaks, is this. It's very short and very simple. And
something I hope you'll remember. It only requires that you
locate and indicate the bypassed charge. And if you are
called upon, because the ARC break didn't clear up, to go
further into it and date the incident and get the pc to
remember it and some Straightwire and get it all patched up
and get it all glued together somehow or another and go to
a lot of work after that assessment, you didn't find the
bypassed charge. You got that? And any time you're sitting
there and say, "Well," the pc said, "well, I didn't see
it - did you say it's the wrong goal - do you suppose it's
this goal we're working on right now? I don't think it's
this goal we're working on right now. Doesn't seem to be
this goal we're working on. I just suppose - suppose - well,
it may - may be an earlier goal and so forth. Well what -
wha- what's the - what's the date of this bypassed goal?
Wha - what's - what's the date of this goal that we've
missed? What's - what's the - what's the date - wha - wha - 
what's the date of this goal we've missed?"

You say, "Well, aaa - wuuwawuuuuwa - all right, I try to find
the - find the goal I mean - uhhh - to find the date of the ..."
Knock it off, man! The pc - that the pc has to do something
else now means you didn't find the bypassed charge! Maybe
it isn't on the list you're using. Ever think of that?

You see, you'll be doing 3N and you get a session ARC
break. And you do a 3N assessment, thinking the error is
totally in 3N - as it usually is - but you say, "Well,
there's a, little tick here on, uh, missed withhold. You
had a missed withold. Well, wh - wha - what was the missed
withhold? When did we miss this with - withhold?"

"What-what-what-where-where? Say wait - what - whoa. Uh,
what - what missed withhold? Well, why didn't you catch it
earlier in the session, I don't have any mis - ! You keep
nagging me, nagging me and nagging me with these mid ruds
but-wha-why and so..."

Well, why spend any time on it? Let's get - let's get
another sheet and assess it. Let's add to our list. Let's
do something. Because this is invariably wrong in the
presence of that reaction: is you have not identified the
bypassed charge! That's all. If you don't know that, you'll
discard this system, because you'll get loses. You'll say,
"Well, it cures up most ARC breaks." No, it cures all ARC
breaks, providing you can identify the bypassed charge.

If it didn't cure the ARC break, either it isn't
comprehensibly on the list - see, the pc didn't understand
it when it was read - or it isn't on the list which you are
using. Now, I've seen two instances of this, very recently,
very skilled auditing, and the ARC break was not cured, but
was totally available, simply because it was forgotten, the
little piece of another thing was run in this session,
besides what was being run in this session, but the ARC
break assessment was made on the main thing being run in
the session. But the ARC break bypassed charge was on those
three minutes of other process, which both auditor and pc
had completely forgotten.

You feel like a perfect jackass sometimes on this, because
three or four days after you've had - rough three or four
days, and you accidentally pick up the right sheet or you 
add something to your list, and you're doing another 
assessment on the same pc, and you all of a sudden find 
ever since Tuesday, we have had a wrong goal. But we're not 
running goals. How could we have had a wrong goal since 
Tuesday? We're not running anything but engrams. How could 
it be? Yet, there it is. Go into it sometime. Session goal.

I know it doesn't sound very strenuous. But he set a
session goal "to not be afraid." That was all it took.
Heh-heh! Yet you haven't been running 3N. But there was a
goal. These things are sometimes very wild. You're not
running R3R, you're running 3N. And you're not dating
anything, and you're not - you can date, but you weren't
dating anything, and you'd just been going on and
everything's been perfectly happy, and... Pc nattery and
nothing getting done and the RR disappearing and
accidentally you trigger something and you decide that you
better do this 3R3 assessment form. And you find out you've
had a wrong duration! You've had a wrong duration. And the
wrong duration has been sitting right there. But what's the
wrong duration? Oh, well, the week before - the week before,
in the very area you're running, you tried to find how
long this implant series had required. And you'd gotten
four hundred and sixty-seven trillion trillion years. And
it was a wrong duration. Since it only happened
particularly forty-three trillion years ago! No. You see?
And you said, "Well, we just kind of can't make it out,"
you said to yourself, but you kind of never bothered to
tell the pc and so forth. Well, this might lay doggo. For a
whole week the pc felt fine and everything was going along
fine! And then all of a sudden, bbrowww! See? Some
session ARC break, a missed withhold in the session keyed
this other one. And there that other one was, lying around
your neck like a casket, see?

You feel like a perfect blithering idiot sometimes on these
things. Sessions later you suddenly collide with one, you
know, and it's been there all the time. Pc's been hard to
audit, you've industriously assessed everything you could
think of, you did your very, very best. And it'll have some
weird little curve on it of some kind or another, that
really isn't a curve at all, it's staring you right in the
face. And it should have been right there all the time, you
should have recognized it, the pc should have recognized
it, everybody should have seen it, but you didn't. They're
sneakers, some of these things, real sneakers. And it cuts
right down to the wrong date, wrong duration, wrong
incident. You find out, much to your horror, that you've
been running five implant serieses, simultaneously. Five
implant serieses, simultaneously.

The poor pc has been going, the first two items out of
implant three series, you see, and the next two items out
of implant five. And the next two items out of implant one.
And of course, this makes the other items restimulated in
each one of the other implants. Makes you feel kind of
green, sometimes, you look at it. And yet it was apparently
all running all right, and you said, "All right, is this
just one series?" And he coughed at the moment, or
something, you know. And you never worried about it when
you went over it. And then all of a sudden you're - or you're
running a series which is misdated by God knows how long.
You've got a whole GPM and it took place a hundred years
ago. And you say, "How the hell did it get up this close to
present time? What the hell's this all about?" Well, some
wildcat area someplace or another, and they just never got
the word that it's passe, you use psychiatry now. And
they're still at it, eager beaver, and they're putting in
"to be dead," do you know? "To be dead, to be dead, to be
dead," you know. And so forth - and you said, "Oh, look at
this! Look at this, boy! 'To be dead.' Pow! Man, man!
He's right there at the beginning of the Helatrobus
Implants." Says, "All right, let's get this, let's get this,
all right. To be dead - all right, that's fine. Now let's get 
dead! Nix dead! Well, nix dead doesn't fire. Well, let's 
random list on this. Let's random list. No dead, not dead - 
fires! Oh, well, all right. Nix dead - doesn't fire. Oh..."

You sweat yourself green. Try to get in there, you see. All
right, well you finally manage to persuade him to get nix
dead to fire, you've said it often enough or some such. And
you say, "All right, now let's get absolutably dead.
Absolutably dead. There's your line plot right there, there
it is, there it is. Absolutably dead - doesn't fire, doesn't
fire. Nix absolutably dead, that doesn't fire. Aw, I guess
he can't run GPMs."

"Well, let's come off of this goal, let's get onto some
other things here, let's try you out on assessment R3R."

Halfway through your assessment on R3R, all of a sudden
puts "death" down on the line, or something like that. And
blows his head off! See? A volcano never erupted as fast or
as furiously or as inexplicably. And you say, "What the
hell happened?" And you get out a listing - because you're
listing, see - and you get out a listing ARC break list, and
you say, "All right. All right. I chopped a communication
of yours in the session." 

"All right! All right! But you shouldn't do it!" he says.

"I guess ARC break assessing doesn't work!" No. No, the ARC
break was when you were doing 3N. It's on another list.
Heh! And like, one day, you're plowing along, you suddenly
have occasion to do a 3N assessment, and you find a wrong
goal. Find a wrong date! 3N. Wrong date! What the hell
could it be? Wrong date? You just keep missing, and all of
a sudden he says, "I get the idea it's had something to do
with 'Death'. " And you said, "'To be dead?' Well, what - is
it the wrong date of that? Is that it?" You're trying to
follow through and understand this thing. "Well, what is
the date of that?" "Eighteen sixty-two!"

Wasn't a GPM, it was a doctor and a hospital corpsman in
the Civil War arguing over the top of the corpse! And you
thought you were running a GPM! They rocket read! So that
was it!

That gives you some idea. Now there's where you tangle up.
You just don't use the right list for the right action. But
if you do find the bypassed charge, you've got it and it's
on - the bulk of them are on lists. And you can locate them,
and so forth. And if they don't take care of the whole ARC
break, right now, you haven't found what it is. Now, that's
the one thing I want to impress you with, because
otherwise, you're just going to tear yourselves wrong side
out trying - because the pc now will want to remember, and
the pc will want this and the pc will want that and the pc
will want it dated and so forth. Well, what's all this
reaction? It's just you haven't found the bypassed charge,
that's all. And you've found some cousin to it someplace or
another, and you've just keyed in something else. Follow it?

No, ARC breaks consist of bypassed charge, they always go
out of line the moment you get the reaction, which the
reaction, of course, is the pc's regard toward an incident,
or his reaction to an incident. When you get that spotted,
when you get what kind of a reaction it was, in a general
classification to what, your ARC break blows up. If your
ARC break doesn't blow up, you haven't found the bypassed
charge. And the reaction between A and B therefore is not
explained. 

Okay? Well, I wish you lots of luck with it.

Thank you.

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