6107C04 SHSpec-27X Problems and Solutions

     Only LRH could get a simplicity on auditing problems.  Usually when one
tries to look at them, he just gets confused.  The only mistake psychiatry
made about psychosis was to try to understand it, since it's basically
incomprehensible -- that's its whale character.  Then they have to use heroic
measures, which fail and leave them no place to turn.  The common denominator
of psychosis is problems, of course.  When the problems can't be associated
with the solutions any longer, you get solutions to no-problems, which is
psychosis.  When a psychosis has been objectively described, there's a missing
datum: what problems is this behavior a solution to?  [Cf.  R.D. Laing and J.
Haley] The lack of this datum makes the psychosis incomprehensible.  You
cannot cure A psychosis by addressing the psychosis, or, more generally, you
can't cure an aberration by addressing the aberration.  This is because in so
doing, you are running the still in the middle of the motion, the stable datum
in the middle of the confusion, the solution.  You're trying to cure the
solution and not looking at the confusion.  You are looking at the cure, which
won't move out unless you get the motion off it.  The whirlpool wouldn't whirl
without the motionless center, but the center is motionless only because it
has motion around it.  You should take the whirlpool off the motionless piece,
not the other way around.  Here you have confusion and the stable datum,
motion and no motion, sound and silence, absolute location and change.  If you
try to get the motionless points out, all you get is new motionless points.
All that is wrong with a thetan is what is wrong at the lower and of the
scale.  At the highest level, a thetan can be motionless; At the lowest level,
he has to be.  It's a matter of determinism.  At the lower levels,
motionlessness is not determined by postulate, but by the mechanics of
motion.  If you want to see someone stiffen and go still, stand a fellow up,
shake your hands in front of his face; produce a lot of motion, and say,
"There's the motion!" At this point, the fellow will sort of freeze, as he
becomes a stable datum.  But this doesn't work well as a demonstration,
because the observers will Also all go still in a sort of stupidity.  They
won't confront the motion; they'll put a barrier up against it and become
still, so the motion will duplicate them, and they will butter themselves all
over the universe and become agitated.  Auditing motionlessness just makes
more motionlessness in the bank.  Stillnesses identify more rapidly than
motion.  In psychosis, the person is being stillness.  The worst example of
this is catatonia.  There can't be such a thing as an"average" individual;
there can only be someone who is trying to be a lot of other individuals and
is therefore buttered all over the universe in terms of beingness.  He'll be
obsessively a still; the next step down is going round the bend.  The
operations this universe uses to try to make one assume the Average are so
numerous that one accents then as normal.  Insanity is the adoption of a
solution to the exclusion of all other solutions in the absence of a problem.

     If a person confronts no problems, takes no responsibility for them, and
goes into being a solution, all problems go on automatic; they just go on all
around him.  There can be a million problems, but there's only one solution:
him.  A psychiatrist is being an obsessive solution also.  He never really
cures anything; he just persists with his ineffective solutions, which just
hold the problem in place.  He isn't aware that psychosis is a problem.  He's
handling people who are being obsessive solutions, so he becomes one too.  The psychiatrist is the society's solution, just as his solution is shock treatment.  Psychotics don't realize others have problems or that they're being problems to others.  Psychiatry's research has been a search for solutions, but they hate solutions and they don't recognize the problem.

     Man has made the mistake all along the track of not realizing that if
there's a solution, there must have been a problem.  Look at the "ten"
commandments.  Actually there's 162 -- pages of them.  These are moral codes.
And "moral codes are a series of solutions to problems which are neither
confronted nor analyzed." Almost all the bible's commandments are prompted by
the obsessive crimes of the time.  Several are solutions to VD.  That was a
problem that descended on them that they knew nothing about, so they looked
for solutions.  They already had various areas of no-sex; they had already
prevented true ethicality by inventing immorality with a bunch of new morals.
A lot of religions, also, encourage facing motionlessness, e.g. by getting you
to turn inward, contemplate the stillness within, meditate, face Mecca, etc.
This is the basic operation of the track.

     "I believe it's perfectly all right to do anything you want to to people
as long as you don't say it's something else or try to convince people you're
doing something else ... as long as other people are not ... completely
ploughed under by it." The greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics
gives a lot of lattitude.  The main crime is the entering in of a not-know.
That's the only real evil there is.

     When a person reaches a stage of being an obsessive solution, with total
not-know on what he's being a solution to, or when one is to being terribly
still, he doesn't know what motion he's being still to counteract; obsessive
stillness enters.  The bug factor here is the not-know in all this.  Where you
have someone solving problems, you don't have an evil.  It's OK to solve
problems.  But an individual who has put all problems on automatic can't solve
problems, except with some fantastic liability of cave-in, terror stomach,
etc.  He doesn't dare solve a problem.  There are gradients of this.  There
are people who can salve a minor problem but not a major one.  They'll try to
protect you from a problem by preventing you from solving a problem by feeding
you extraneous data.  This is not to confuse you; it's to protect you.  [E.g.
the pedant who doesn't want to make a mistake and doesn't want you to make a
mistake either.]

     When you see someone sitting in the middle of a catastrophe, one of two
things is happening.  Either the stuff is avalanching in faster than he can
cope with it but he's trying to cope, or he doesn't even know it's a
catastrophe; he doesn't even see all the papers all over the floor and the
account book being used far a doormat.  That's the condition of the thetan
sitting in his bank.  He feels he's got it all straight and the trouble is all
over there.  Since, you can't see the clutter, you say, "Well, he's behaving
oddly.  But that's not the situation; he's confronting "no-ly".  It is all
not-ised.

     When you run something in an orderly fashion, you will at once get
something done.  In the first place, you're giving the PC an orderliness to
confront, and he finds out there's some motion that can be confronted.  Where
you have individuals who are totally insane, you have no confront of problems,
so Routine 1A won't work.  It doesn't go as far south as the CCH's.  But it
works on most people, including the guy who thinks he's is such good shape
that he doesn't need any auditing.  If you run problems on him, he'll go,
"Hm.... Ridges?  Where did this come from?" The bank starts going solid;
somatics turn on.  He'll see there were some problems around.  Their masses
start showing up.

     This is the first time we've had a good cure for this type of mass.  It
bypasses the liability of curing it.  We're enough on top of the mechanisms of
existence to pull the Overt-Motivator sequence without falling athwart of its
consequences.  Similarly with the problem-solution sequence.  You can thus
solve all the PC's problems without squashing him, unlike psychiatry, which
also tried to solve all of his problems.