Lecture: E-Meter Talk And Demo (May 7, 1961)

So we’ve got this thing made. And it’s essentially a very simple regimen. It fortunately, perhaps, for us is one which requires technical perfection. That’s fortunately for us! Because it means no screwball outfit . . but imagine some outfit like the Grand Temple of Ishtar or the Brothers of the Snake, or something, suddenly being able to pick up our technology, if it were terribly, terribly simple, and use it to plow everybody in on Earth. This was one of the points that maybe you weren’t looking at, but I was.

If it came out at the other end too simple all you had to do was say “bligablog” and the guy was . . had a terrific mental effect, you see; or if you said “subba-hubba-hubba-hubbabooboo” or something, and some terrific mental effect occurred in the individual, it was susceptible to being used as Black Dianetics . . if it was too simple.

But we’ve come out the other end of the horn, and we get an actual look at what it really is, and it’s simply this: perfect adherence to the Auditor’s Code. Oh yeah, but your black operations can’t follow the Auditor’s Code.

Look, Freudian psychoanalysis is exactly reverse to the Auditor’s Code the whole way. Everything we say in the Auditor’s Code “plus,” psychoanalysis says “minus.” If you don’t believe it, look it over some time. They do exact reverse to everything that’s in the Auditor’s Code. Well, therefore the Auditor’s Code is not something they’d have any sympathy with, so therefore they’d never follow it, would they? So all right, that puts a barrier across their track.¹

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