6407C28 SHSpec-31 Campaign to Handle Psychosomatic Ills

There will be a small popular textbook on the handling of psychosomatic
illnesses. Healing is nobody's monopoly. If it becomes anyone's monopoly, it
will be the monopoly of those who can produce results. He who can do the job
should be the authority.

There are three [actually four] aspects or types of illness:

1. Predisposition, e.g. rats carrying disease, impure water, etc.

2. Precipitation.

3. Acuteness, i.e. acute illness or injury.

4. Prolongation, i.e." any illness that goes beyond its expected term."

When there is an acute injury or illness, one that exists right now, but
is temporary, then there is a job for a medico.

He is the authority in that field. That is where he is trained. We
should grant him that beingness. If someone gets cholera, he is sick. Get
the medico. Where the medico errs is in trying to take in terrain that is
broader than the sphere of his authority.

There are two other things that happen in illness: The predisposition or
cause of it. The medico is just faintly into this. It is more the province
of the public health officer, who is often an engineer, not an M.D. Efforts
to handle predisposition factors are put on a physical level: TB testing,
industrial health programs, etc. Medicine can't often determine the length of
time involved in predisposition. It begins with an indeterminate point, as
far as medicine or doctors are concerned, with a physical cause, e.g. a germ
or malarial mosquito, or the alcohol that a drunk driver who injured himself
drank before he drove. Such things are what the medico attributes
predisposition to. They are physical things, not mental ones.

The other area of illness is prolongation: the perpetuation of an
illness, the failure to recover speedily, by the expected term of the
illness. Doctors know the expected duration of the acute phase of an
illness. They have no way of estimating the period of predisposition, unless
they can establish a disease contact. Even that is not really accurate, since
a person can be predisposed to a certain illness before contacting germs.
contact with the germ is really precipitation of the illness.

So medicos are only slightly involved in predisposition. They have acute
illness as their exclusive purview, and they are totally ineffective in the
area of prolongation. Prolongation is a fuzzier area, since the treatment of
the illness can contribute to it. The medicos' whole idea of prolongation
is:

1. Treatment not soon enough.

2. Improper treatment.

3. Complications.

But prolongation can only be co trolled to a limited extent by medicine. If
an illness enters the stage of prolongation, with complications setting in,
the medicos tend to go into apathy, just like the patient, because there are
elements in the prolongation of the illness that they can't control. Medicos
understand predisposition by physical means; they understand the acute phase
in physical terms. In scientology, we would say that the cycle of action
would be from the first contact [with the predisposing factor] to the end of
the expected normal term of the illness. The doctor can handle this cycle,
but sometimes complications occur -- because of poor or absent treatment, in
his view. Again it is physical, but the medico tends to be rather apathetic
about it or to go into frantic activity, e.g. repeated operations or "heroic"
measures. "Shock", or postoperative shock, is a physical thing to a doctor.
Usually, he can neither prevent it nor do anything about it. He neglects any
possible mental influence.

When you say "illness" and "healing", the M.D., of course, thinks of a
physical address to these, since this is what he means by these terms.
However, most doctors know that they are up against something else when they
are dealing with psychosomatic illness. If you say, "psychosomatic healing",
this is way out to the doctor. How the doctor somes to recognize the
existence of psychosomatic illness is a puzzler, since this type of illness is
not started by a physical contact. The faults that the doctor finds with
psychosomatic healing are only that:

1. It encroaches on his field.

2. He doesn't understand it.

The psychosomatic healer tends to overreach himself and to enter the field of
physical healing, in which he is not trained, and he tends to inhibit or prohibit treatment of physical illness, when it exists. For example a doctor will, therefore, condemn a chiropractor. He will point out that the chiropractor adjusted the slipped disc of ten patients and of course nine of them felt better. But he did the same thing with the tenth patient, who was really suffering from TB, which, undiagnosed by the ignorant practitioner, subsequently caused the death of the patient. Therefore a chiropractor is dangerous, to the doctor. That is the professional M.D.'s professional objection in its entirety. This argument is neatly handled by us if we send sick patients to an M.D. before we handle them. The M.D. also recognizes that when he gets into the field of psychosomatic illness, he is in a never-never land he knows not of, because it is not purely physical.

An auditor can't do much with someone who is acutely physically ill.
Such a person has too much PTP and not enough ability to as-is. Heavy, acute
illness is a PTP, and you can't audit over a PTP, so don't try. Get the PTP
handled first, by a doctor if necessary. Then the field of prolongation of
illness belongs to scientology. Don't audit over a high temperature. You
could perhaps use a very simple process: reach/withdraw from the pillow,
perhaps, and see if it works. But that's all. The proper approach is to try
to put such a PC in communication at a very low level. If you don't get a
sudden resurgence, leave it. There is no point in trying to complete whatever
action you were on, because the PC is too distracted by his body problem to
as-is what you were on. Prolonged illness is in the field of psychosomatic
healing, i.e. scientology. A touch assist shifts the PC's attention off of
the place where the PC decided to stop the shock wave, and it discharges that
part of the incident. Thus a touch assist allows the incident to run through.
The places where the shock wave did go to can be run out. If you continued
the touch assist, you would put the PC back at the beginning of the incident
again. Then you would have to run the incident out again. [The reason why an
engram persists is that it contains a lie. The PC has tried to stop the
motion, and with the stuck picture, has apparently done so. But actually, the
PC did not stop the incident or the movement of the shock wave through the
body, so it has to be run through to be as-ised.]

So, when accepting a PC for auditing, you would be wise to have him get a
good physical exam first, so that any acute physical illness can be treated
before you start auditing him. However, if the PC has an "untreatable"
illness, there is no point in telling the doctor that you are going to heal
him. You are not talking about the same kind of healing, so you will just get
into a big disagreement. You can get into communication with the doctor on
the basis of his expertise in his area. Get him to write a report on his
findings. Don't appear to challenge him in his field.

When you are in the field of psychosomatics, you are in the field of
prolongation of illness. Your argument with the M.D. takes an interesting
turn, at this point. There is nothing that he can do. You can tell him,
"This is a question of psychosomatic illness. There is probably some mental
condition holding the illness in place." He can agree with you, in
oversimplified terms. You can tell him that it is more complicated than that,
and he will agree. It is something that has exceeded his cycle of action, so
he has to become the effect of it.

If you can do something about psychosomatic illness when the doctor
can't, he will be glad to send those patients to you, because those are the
patients he can do nothing about, which makes him feel like a fraud and gives
him loses. These are the patients whose illnesses go on longer than they
should. You can tell the doctor a simplified version of what you will do, as
one specialist to another. Then you get your result, and the doctor will look
on you with awe.

The M.D. knows that the "psychiatrist is a failure, because (among other
things) he can't handle -- never solved -- the problem of prolongation for the
M.D." If scientology made its position completely clear to the medical
doctor, namely, that we are not interested in trying to heal obvious physical
injury and illness, our view would become much realer to the M.D., and we
would be seen as doing him a service, in handling the "crocks". Just agree to
the truth that a skull fracture, for example, is nothing that psychosomatic
healing should be practiced on -- that there is a purview that belongs
properly and exclusively to the M.D. and surgeon -- and he will stop fighting
you instantly.

Psychosomatic healing actually has an old tradition, older than the
M.D.'s. This includes witch doctoring, "magic", etc. Naturally it is the
oldest tradition. It has truth behind it, because it is the tradition of the
spirit. This is just a small part of scientology, but it is where we belong
in the field of healing.