6509C09 SHSpec-66 Classification and Gradation

We have twenty people going for clear. We are really getting an assembly
line going. The world is going downhill, but we are reversing the curve. All
the laws passed to hit Mr. Big end up hitting the worker. The effect of the
[East Grinstead City] Council's refusal to permit building as soon as needed
is to make the staff work harder, in very little space. The Maharaja of
Jaipur, who used to own St. Hill, wanted to build forty cottages and a polo
field. The city planners denied him permission, so he sold St. Hill to LRH.
Furthermore, the council never meets. They didn't meet all August, during the
best building weather.

Technical advances now consist of improvements in application of the
existing technology. A technology that cannot be applied is not useful. Some
things aren't even meant to be applied e.g. pure mathematics. LRH, while he
was in college, suggested applying an abstruse form of mathematics to aerial
navigation. He was told that he would be flunked out of college if he
continued. This mathematical principle was later developed, by the Navy, into
Loran. We have had more technology than we have had application. There was a
bug in the application, which was not teaching auditors to recognize F/N's.
So the only thing holding up scientology has been the failure on the part of
auditors, to know or recognize the floating needle. The trouble that we had
with R2-12 was that it is too fast. You have to be on your toes, because your
PC will go release, perhaps before you have finished the first list. Overrun
on K-2-12 can be terrible. Unfortunately, it was done regularly. We overran
our success point by many years, on this process.

The main trouble you have today isn't getting a result. It is
recognizing that you have gotten it. Saint Hill students have had trouble
getting classified for Levels III and IV, because of the problem of auditing
someone up to Grades 3 and 4. People went release before they got to the
processes required for those classification levels.

Tech exists. Now we need to get it applied. We have enough tech. On a
world basis, we need the technology of dissemination supplied. This tech is
in the FSM appointment letter, if you can see it, and it is also released
elsewhere.

We are used to being improved or fixed by being passive and letting
things be done to us. But the individual is what we are interested in as a
final product. It is interesting how long it can sometimes take for the
individual to find himself. Somewhere around Fourth Stage Release [R6EW
E.P.], the individual finds himself with an answer to the question, "Who am I?" -- namely, "I'm me," not as an intellectual knowledge, but as a total connection with self, all the way back. What has disappeared is all the times when the individual has been various identities. The gains he gets can seem microscopic, yet full of impact, as he goes up the line. These gains can get incredibly simple. As things blow and stops get as-ised, the individual feels that he could always have done whatever ability he has just attained. He could have, but he didn't! So any commentary about the ability of a thetan has to come off as an invalidation by understatement. Any assertion of ability is thus an
invalidation. "You could make the wildest statement you could possibly dream
up and then assert that as your own ability. [Eventually] you'd have to get
it off your case as invalidation of self."

Recovery from illness could be related to dissemination. You might have
a pain in the head and not know it until you become aware of it, and it blows,
so that you feel much better. What the PC assigns as a gain is generally a
great understatement of the real gain.

The Route: The Bridge. When you first say to someone, "We will make you
better," they immediately ask, "Better what? A better bank robber? Or is my
lumbosis going to be better?" The difficulty is in trying to communicate what
we are trying to do in scientology to someone who has no inkling that that
sort of thing can happen. Telling someone who thinks that he is a body that
he is himself is very hard. People tell each other that Man is an animal, and
when he dies, he is gone -- dead. This happens, even though they don't
believe it of themselves.

Man has only believed that he is an animal for the past 75-90 years.
Psychology has changed since DMSMH was published. It used to say that Man's
intelligence and condition couldn't be changed. It is therefore difficult to
tell someone on the street that he can get better. You have to show him. You
can use a graph [The Classification and Gradation Chart], showing that there
are these various states, so he sees that there is a place to go. He can get
a reality on the level just above where he is. By visualizing the graph, he
will see which way to go. However, it is unlikely that he will have any
reality on the levels beyond the next level up. Life is improved on a
gradient, not by leaps into OT from DB. If you buy the idea that you could
become OT by inspection, etc., then you are also buying the idea that you
don't have anything to do with life. Because it is you and your awareness
that is improving not the attendant and appendant machinery with which you are
surrounded. We are handling life.

You must give an individual a gradient that is real to him. For
instance, to a sick man, not hurting is real. After you have handled this,
then you could get him to consider sitting up. If you ignore the gradient,
you can advance a person more rapidly than he can tolerate. When you promise
a person that he will made too big a jump in too little time, you set him up
to get a big lose. People on this planet were not issued an instruction book
on themselves. How do you learn about yourself? You learn by studying one
lesson at a time, by getting one improvement at a time. You can advance a
person beyond his tolerance rate, in processing.

The bridge we have is across an actual chasm. The way across is by the
bridge, not off the edge. The Gradation and Classification plan is designed
to prevent people from going into the abyss. The grade chart prevents loses
by providing a gradient. Ethics is the traffic cop. The chart has an elastic
bottom. Some people start from zero; some people start from lower states.
Level -34 is Unexistence. There are states "way below Unexistence on the
awareness scale, but someone in one of these states won't be able to read the
chart.

As a person at a given level on the awareness chart improves, he is
likely to become aware of the next level. But he can't skip levels. His
position on the awareness chart is not a question of his behavior or what he
is dramatizing. It is what he as a being is aware of. "A person ... at
Unexistence, when he improves, becomes aware of disconnection [Level -33].
Misconnection would be an improvement over no existence at all. He gets the
idea that he's disconnected from things. He becomes aware of -- alert to --
the fact that in life, he is actually disconnected." A person at Fixidity
[Level -27] won't find power real, but he will become aware of ridicule or
Glee [Level -26]. Laugh at him, and he'll notice. The Awareness Scale
doesn't show what the guy is dramatizing. It is not his behavior that
counts. It is what he, himself, as a being, is aware of. It is what he's
aware of, not what you are aware of about him. If the person is aware that he
is Introverted [Level -11], he can then and only then become aware of the fact
that he is numb [Numbness = Level -10]. At this level, the individual gets no
reaction from life.

Need of Change [Level -4] is a very high state. "Most homo sapiens
wonder how they can endure the thing they can't change." The one thing
scientology does do for sure is to change conditions. So someone has to be up
to Level -4 before he can become a scientologist. A person who has to be
helped may not be aware of help or the possibility of it. Someone who only
wants to receive help and doesn't want to give it, isn't really up to the Help
level [Level -11. Being aware of help is a six-flow operation. A person who
is unwilling to help others is not up to Help on the Awareness Chart. Someone
moving up the chart through the levels does achieve the awareness at each
level.

Above that, the person has recognition. He sees where he is. His
orientation becomes better. He begins to recognize himself and others for
what they are. He gets up to where he can communicate, then perceive, then
get oriented. You can't find out where you are unless you can perceive where
you are. Then comes understanding, then enlightenment. "Enlightenment never
takes place before understanding." People think it can and modern
universities are dedicated to it. Above that, a guy "gets a return of his
energy, ... an adjustment. He becomes aware of the fact of a body, and that
he is not a body. He [gets to where he can] predict. He goes into action.
He [sees himself as] capable of production. He knows a result when he sees
one. He can review the things of his life and take care of it. He regains
his ability. His own purposes start coming out straight. (He didn't ever
realize he was really running on other people's purposes.) He gets a clearing
of his entire past and other purposes and a realization of himself. And then
he goes into a state where he is capable of power [comprising Conditions,
Existence, and Source -- the top of the Scale of Awareness]. But by the time
he gets into that state, he is, of course, totally responsible and can be
trusted with it. Otherwise, he won't make it."

The grades approximate these steps. The Gradation Chart parallels and
makes possible the attainment of these awareness levels. There are four
states of release up to Grade 6. Then you get clear. This is another state
of release. An OT is capable of operating, with or without a body. He is
himself; he is independent of the universe around him. The only thing that
stands in the way of just getting a person to become of each level, one after
another, is the machines and odds and ends that he has around him and that
have to be dealt with. It is hard for a person to get close to himself [and
confront these things]. You have to know the secret of dealing with these
things.

The actual length of time that it took to find and develop the bridge is
more than fifteen or thirty years. It would be hard for most people to
believe how long it has taken. But, anyhow, it has been done.