6312C10 SHSpec-328 Scientology 0

     It works out this way: Having completed scientology research all the way
to the top, LRH has had to undercut it all, to find a new series of processes
and a new processing theory on which to build the edifice.  That is quite a
trick!  Knowing the upper strata only makes it harder to build the lower
strata, because you see it so clearly that it is hard to see how someone else,
lacking your knowledge, could miss it.  You can know exactly what is wrong
with somebody, but if he knows differently, you can't get him to see your
solution or your view of the problem.

     LRH finally has a Scientology 0 to undercut Scientology I.  It was a
description of the environment and what is wrong with it.  It has nothing to
do with the person's mind at all.  Scientology I is the isness of things, and
it takes care of the mind as well, but Scientology 0 takes care of the
environment.  It is summable up as The Dangerous Environment.  That sums up:

     1. What you are talking about.

     2. The frame of mind of the person talking with you.

     Look around and find something that isn't threatening you or pushing a
PTP on you or trying to exteriorize you.  This will help to pull your
attention out of the threatening environment.  It allows differentiation to
come about instead of identification.

     Many people are professional dangerous environment makers.  The "chaos
merchants" push dangerous environments on people in a sensationalized form.
This includes politicians, newspapermen, policemen, etc.  They spread
confusion and upset and breed fear of the environment.  This is the same thing
that a blackmailer or an extortionist does.  They make the environment seem
more dangerous than it is.  They sell the dangerous environment 100%.  The
avidity of their sell can be used by the scientologist, by means of a sort of
"theta-judo", practiced on them.  Understanding Scientology 0 includes
understanding how to use the enemies of scientology, the chaos merchants.

     Toynbee, working out of libraries, came to a tremendous understanding of
life.  He says that the reason that the Mexican, for example, does not succeed
is that he has insufficient challenge in his environment.  Toynbee has
obviously never talked to any Mexicans. It is a myth that primitive peoples
get apathetic because of insufficient challenge in the environment.  The
challenge of the environment is actually overwhelming to downtrodden peoples,
primitive peoples, etc.  The environment is too dangerous for a fellow to have
ambition.  This is actually true of anyone who lives on earth.  The individual
on this planet, if he has not been able to achieve his destiny, is in an
environment that he finds overwhelming.  His methods of dealing with it are
inadequate, and his existence is as apathetic or as unhappy as his environment
seems to him to be overwhelming.  Get those principles down, and you will have
Scientology 0.

     A lot of people spend their time worrying the people around them to
death.  They spread confusion and upset, while wondering why their victims
don't get ahead.  These are small-scale chaos merchants, compared with
newspapers, but they are more intimate.

Doctors get paid, not by the number of people who are well, but by the number
who are sick.  The police would go broke if the prisons didn't make more and
better criminals.  Police chiefs would be unimportant if they had few police
under them.  Newspaper reporters dream of a "big story", meaning a good
disaster.

     The environment is never as dangerous as it is made to appear.  A
solution to the threat of nuclear war could undoubtedly be found, especially
if there were a profit in it.  But anything that tends to make a calmer
environment meets and makes a ridge with anything that has a vested interested
in the fact and idea of a threatening environment.  The expansion of
scientology will lessen the amount of fear.  It will lower the stress
perceived by people as emanating from the environment.  Scientology would make
for a calmer environment.  It would not be a less interesting environment, but
a calmer one, one that is in less turmoil.  This could permit resurgence of
the individual, because he would be less enturbulated.  You would get a
beneficial spiral, where the threat of the environment would be dying out.
The chaos merchant doesn't like calming influences.  They threaten his
livelihood and survival.  On an individual level, a domestic chaos merchant
gets upset when his or her victim gets calmer, with exposure to scientology.
It is very disconcerting to a chaos merchant to be met with humor, instead of
seriousness.

     The true story of scientology is simple:  A Ph.D. develops a philosophy.
People find it interesting.  People find that it works.  People pass it along
to others.  It grows.  That is what the newspapers are trying to make a story
out of.  From their viewpoint, there is no story, because there is no
conflict.  You can amplify the story and get some statistics, but anything
else is distortion and lies, added on to make the story disturbing and
sensational.  But all disturbance folds up in the face of truth.

     In a universe kept going and continually disturbed by lies, all the basic
facts have been covered up, particularly those relating to life and death.
Many contrary data have existed.  Fundamental questions belong in philosophy,
but philosophy has become so decadent that it is no longer a source of truth.
It is, at best, a limited truth, and in going for truth, you have to go all
the way [see 6211C01 SHSpec-207 "The Road to Truth", pp. 325-329, above].  The
clean blade of truth cannot be stopped.  But if you talk truth, you had better
have your hands on it.  Socrates talked truth but didn't have a good enough
grip on it.

     When you start to introduce scientology to anyone, the first target would
be the environment, not the person's mind.  You could dream up processes,
based on the assumption that the person believes that the environment is too
dangerous for him.  Any relatively sane person will agree with you on that.
We know that it is being made to seem more dangerous than it is.  This is a
key point of Scientology 0.  So the person could be brought to perceive that
this is so by his own perception.  It is also a key point that the person's:

     1. Health,

     2. Sanity,

     3. Activity level,

 and 4. Ambition

are monitored by his concept of the dangerousness of the environment.  From
these factors, we can draw up an improvement program for any person.  We can
therefore improve these things in the individual without reference to his
mind.  We have dealt with this before, under the heading of controlling
environmental restimulation.  We know that to handle his problems terminatedly, we will have to handle the mind.  Nevertheless, we can get very marked and noticeable gains and improvements by handling his environment, since we know that most of the threat that he is worried about is imaginary.

     The therapy could be as simple as, "Don't read the newspaper for two
weeks, and see if you don't feel better." At the end of two weeks, have him
read the newspapers for a week.  Get him to see whether he then feels better
or worse, so that he can decide.

     If he gets too upset or confused, tell him to look around the environment
and find something that isn't a threat to him.  A good havingness process [at
Scientology 0] is finding out what is a threat to a person, and running it as
a negative havingness process.  This is actually very sophisticated.  It could
be used at upper levels, run against some particular fear.  It is an improved
version of "Take a walk and look at things." This is positive education.  The
reason, "Take a walk; look it over," works is that the individual sees that
the environment isn't threatening him to the degree that he thought it was,
when he has inspected it.  So you could use a process like, "Look around you
and find something that isn't going to fall on you." At Scientology 0, you are
trying to get the individual to inspect the environment and find some greater
security in it.

     The general auditing approach would be, "Look around you and find out if
the environment is as threatening as it appears to be," but each person would
have to be handled individually.  You could get a person to look at the papers
on his desk that are threatening him, and find something in them that isn't a
threat.  That is "taking a walk" while he is sitting at his desk.  For a
person who feels that everyone is hostile to him, you could use, "Find
something that people say or do around here that isn't hostile to you," or
"Find one person in the organization that isn't actively hostile to you," or
"Was there anything said today that wasn't immediately and directly hostile to
you?" This could also be played in the direction of exaggeration, but then it
goes up to a higher level, in a mental direction:  "Get the idea of a Chinese
in every corner, shooting at you with Cong hatchets." You could use, "Look
around here and find something that isn't trying to exteriorize you." Etc.

     All this runs on the single auditing command, "Look." There is no effort
to get any itsa about it.  Almost any inspection of the environment is helpful
except a negative one.  If the PC has a secondary; if he has lost an
individual, in an environment where he has been with the person a lot, e.g. in
a love affair, you can use, "Look around here and find something that isn't
reminding you of (the ex-lover)."

     The mechanism here is that the person has identified everything in the
environment with his unrest.  Everything in the environment has become
identified with the threatening things in the environment.  The person's
charge on the environment can be destimulated by indicating things that are
not so threatening, thus getting a person to differentiate.  When
identification becomes differentiation, intelligence and judgment can return.

     An interesting commentary on the character of Man lies in the fact that
if you really want to interest people, at a lecture or P.E. course, you should
give them something that they can use to help others, rather than something
that will help themselves.  Man is basically good, and this is a proof.
Therefore, your supplementary advice should always go on the basis of "Who are
you trying to help to discover that the environment is less dangerous than it
seems?, You had better understand the data well enough, so that you can give it to him well enough, so that he can use it and see a result, and then use it on
himself.  If you do this right, you will often get the cycle:

     1. The person finds out something to help Pete.

     2. It works on Pete.

     3. He decides to try to use it to help himself.

"Take a walk and look at things," is about the mildest advice you could give
someone.  It would be quite effective if he actually did it.  LRH did this,
and found that by putting tension on the beam with which he was looking at
things, he could pull himself forward, without having to walk.  This got
intriguing.  He went skimming his heels on the pavement until he noticed a cop
looking at him.

     The master question is, "What part of the environment isn't threatening?"
This question gets the person to differentiate.  You can also get him to
arrange his life a little.  If you can get a person to just plan a life in
which everything is calmer and less threatening, the life he is living becomes
calmer and less threatening.

     When you move this up into Scientology I and introduce communication
factors and show the person how to communicate with people, he will find that
he can produce an effect on people and that people are less threatening.  If
you keep havingness in mind, as you go up the levels, you never lose the
benefit of having the environment being less threatening, which you started at
Scientology 0.

     All people are trying to:

     1. Get out of the environment,

  or 2. Master the environment, if they can't escape.

Any thetan has these intentions, and has had them all the way up the
universe.  These are the only totally common PTP's of an environment.  The
individual would also like to find something to help his friends.  What you
need is a level of help that requires practically no education at all.  This
would become real to the individual.  Just the concept that he considers the
environment dangerous and would like to find the source of threat is an
enormous piece of wisdom to him, since before you identified it for him, he
was being it.  If you provide a therapy by telling him to stay away from the
things and people, etc., that upset him and find and associate with the things
that aren't a threat, he will make amazing progress.  This pushes a whole new
philosophy under the structure of scientology.