Six Basic Processes

Cause-Distance-Effect

A Basic Course in Scientology

In the fall of 1954 the Phoenix headquarters were ablaze with activity. Just in the last few months, Ron had delivered the 8th American ACC and was simultaneously writing the last chapters of a new book, Dianetics 55!

With Ron’s focus recently shifted toward training auditors, he opened the Hubbard Professional College in Phoenix. This first Professional Course was designed to instill in students a skill and mastery of the six most basic processes in Scientology.

Ron wasted no time in relaying a startling new discovery in this new class: An inability to recall is caused by scarcity of past. Thus this datum: Nobody in the last hundred thousand years had been able to remember at will anything on the time track. And the solution lay in Straightwire.

As part of the curriculum these new auditors were instructed to take to the hospitals, jails and people’s homes to produce real miracles. Astonishing stories ranging from a woman abandoned by doctors recovering from a severe hemorrhage to a four year-old boy having his surgery cancelled as his withered arm was now well were frequent and many.

And as for all the incredible results those auditors produced, the greater miracle was the resultant effect on themselves. As Ron announced:

“Today’s auditor can be secure as to his own case. For we have found that to be well it is a demonstrable fact that one must be able to make others well. It is not enough to only be well and happy oneself. The
confusions and upsets of life are such as to retard anyone’s case. The auditor, succeeding uniformly with cases, becomes better in ability and health than the best preclear on whom he practices. And this is a processing fact.”

• Two-Way Communication—a basic part of every step of a process an auditor does, and how to maintain it in any circumstance;
• The Communication Formula—how Straightwire applies to the Distance part of the communication cycle;
• Communication with a Group—how to put up anchor points to address and thereby get into communication with a group;
• Opening Procedure of 8-C—it unjams the bank by locating the “when” and “where” of present time;
• Opening Procedure by Duplication—how it blows apart the consideration it “must not happen again”;
• Remedy of Havingness—its underlying theory and mechanics in relation to the Know to Mystery Scale;
• Spotting Spots in Space—how it makes a preclear more capable of locating things and increases his ability.

“We can make people well simply by getting them to string a straight line between cause and effect or one point and another point, simply get them to recognize, on a straight distance basis, that another point is either in motion or exists. It should demonstrate to you that a straight line has far greater advantage as far as aliveness and awareness is concerned than a very, very crooked one.”— L. Ron Hubbard

Following Orders

An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Six Basic Processes: Cause-Distance-Effect Professional Course

Well, everybody knows—everybody knows that it’s utter death to follow orders. This is the one thing which must never happen. What you do with orders is resist them; that’s what you do with orders. Change them, convert them, pervert them, make circuits with them, but don’t follow them. Actually, the salvation of any individual is the ability, with a free and clear mind and heart, to follow orders. I knew the happiest professional soldier—there are a lot of people in armies—they always call them “professional privates.” And I knew the happiest professional private you ever wanted to look into.

This guy was a model—was a model; he had a model service record. He’d been a private for sixteen or twenty years and then a war came along and that was just another war to him. He was in the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps has a lot more professional privates than the army. This is no aspersion against an armed service, since I never considered the army an armed service. The professional private, in this particular case, was a very happy man. There was nothing wrong with this boy. He had no ambition to become a private first class and had not had for twenty years—completely out of his reach to realize the idea. He said to himself, “You know, a private first class. Who wants to be a private first class?”

One time somebody played a dirty trick on him, realizing he’d been in the corps for about twelve years and they had made him a first sergeant for a little while. And the only blot on his record—it was a little bit upsetting to him because he’d had to go out and invest in enough whiskey to get drunk enough to beat up a shore patrol in order to get busted back to private again. And he hadn’t enjoyed the drunk because he was not a drinking man.

Now, here is the case of somebody who was not pushing around in life, but actually who was leading a rather happy life. This man was not a model, simply because he was staying still, but he wasn’t trying to get anything done. He was just trying to be what he could be.

Now, this man’s company got a change of captains. And during the war there were a lot of peculiar things that walked in that had belts and things on that were called captains; to say nothing of what walked in that was called a lieutenant.

And when this thing walked in, he started issuing orders in all directions and this professional private was the only one in the company who didn’t go into a high, frantic state of mutiny.

He followed the captain’s orders; did just exactly what the captain said. You know what happened to the captain? He was shipped back to Washington hurriedly. He couldn’t do close-order drilling. See, it was not above this captain to have said, “Well”—he’d been a lawyer or something—and to have said to the company, while it was standing there in close-order formation, it would not have been above him to say, “Squads east or west, as the case may be.”

And this private did everything that he saw on the bulletin board and he did everything that the captain said on the drill field and the captain all of a sudden was recognized by the major, the colonel, the brigadier general and others of even lesser importance in the area, to be nuts. The rest of the company, protesting like mad, covered up for the captain, but didn’t realize they were covering up. They were not obeying the captain’s orders, were they?

You many times discover a preclear who will cover up for the auditor, many times. Actually, if he were really operating, he would simply follow the auditor’s orders. And then even the auditor would see that something was wrong around here. You follow me?

Now, I am giving you a rather strained point here. But when it comes to close-order drill, you will find many a man is issuing a wrong order simply because he cannot bear to actually and actively direct his fellow man.

Domination, control of another, are all push buttons to Man. Actually, it does not demean a person one single bit to follow an order, but on the contrary will demonstrate to him that he can at least follow an order; he can be an effect—same thing, see? Follow an order, be an effect.

If an individual can’t be an effect, he will eventually wind up the effect of this whole universe. So by giving him orders and letting him follow those orders, persuading him to follow those orders—first giving him orders he can follow and then making them tougher on him, calling more and more on his self-determinism and decision, we bring him up to a point where he sees that he does not have to avoid obedience. Because it is the avoidance of obedience, the fear of obedience, which winds Man up a complete slave.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the Cause-Distance-Effect Professional Course

More you will find in the Cause-Distance-Effect Pro Course

• Ron explains exactly why you have a person look at your finger during a Touch Assist.
• Hear about a woman early in Dianetics have a goiter reduce so fast that you could watch it shrink!
• Ron explains what eating and sex have to do with the Know to Mystery scale.
• Find out the only crime a thetan can commit.
• Learn the exact science behind promotion of Scientology by word-of-mouth.
• What is the connection between Henry Ford, the Ford Foundation and Dianetics and Scientology?
• LRH covers what a Theta Body is exactly and how to handle one.
• Find out what the single difference is between a person who exteriorizes easily and a person who doesn’t.

Success from the ACCs:

“The second time through the ACCs is stunning. I’m getting so much more out of these lectures—mainly in terms of application.

“There is such a wonderful volume of basic principles and definitions, and they seem to spark an amazing creativity—just in daily living. There is always another way to apply them or a new way to look at things using them. I realize more and more that there is always-always-always something you can do about anything and that the greater the simplicity you employ—the greater the effect you achieve.

“One of the more amazing things about the ACCs is that despite the number of lectures they contain, the number of words spoken, the number of terms defined or principles illuminated, the ACCs are most basically a study in simplicity.

“When I finally realized that, a whole new and exciting world began to open up for me. I began to see the common denominators which run through all of life and all that life creates or does. I could see the basic threads which hold together all of the apparent complexities and randomities—which normally capture one’s attention.

“It’s like a magician’s trick! Once you see the string and understand the game, you can begin to appreciate it for what it is: A masterful illusion. And then, you can control it (start it, change it or stop it). Not with force, but with ‘the most powerful stuff on earth’—Affinity, Reality and Communication!

“This is one of my very favorite LRH quotes. It’s one I turn to and return to—time and time again:

‘ARC is the most powerful stuff on Earth—of course, it’s life. People would have you believe that bullets and bombs are powerful, they’re not powerful at all. The most powerful thing there is, is ARC. You can just swamp anything with it.’ —LRH, 8th American ACC”

— J.T., Student

Related Materials:

Unification Congress	Postulates & Live Communication	9th American ACC