Here is some background of what was going on in the 60's just before KSW and Ethics.
This is from a transcribed conversation that is called The Unstacking Procedure by Dennis Stephens, November 3, 1992. It can be found here: http://tromhelp.com/Expanding_5/The-Unstacking-Prodecure.pdf
Don't ask the PC to Oppose his goals
"There’s only my own research, many years later I discovered what had happened to these people
and umm... and got the repair out for it. I know the repair, I don’t think it’s generally known
outside my research exactly how to take this situation apart, but the truth of the matter is
that while... what I’m leading up to is this datum that when you muck around with goals and
purposes your... your... Ok, you can ask the preclear for goals and purposes and postulates as
long as you don’t ask him to oppose them.
10:28
Get that very clearly, you're quite safe, any auditor in the world can work with goals and purposes
and intentions as long as he doesn’t ask,“What is the...who or what would oppose that goal...
what would be the opposition goal for that goal?”
Now once you... there you... once you ask that question you walk where angels fear to tread. There is the danger point. There is the line that Ron crossed and ahh... it all went wrong from that point onwards.
10:55
And I didn’t know why it went wrong, none of us knew why it went wrong, and none of had the
repair to put it back right. It was just endless repairs, even the repairs were being repairs .... repair
ed and the repairs that were repairing the repairs were being repaired. It just all fell apart at
that point.
11:13
In fact I would go so far as to say that the ahh... that this was ... one of the main causes of the
decline of Scientology. Ron Hubbard, case wise, took an enormous pounding on this. It hit Ron
very hard indeed, case wise, subjectively, himself. He looked absolutely terrible in 1962 when I was over there.
11:34
I knew he was under enormous restimulation, you could see it. He was bravely struggling on
with his research, the research was killing him. And he was trying everything he knew to get this
subject of goals out right, he never did get it right and case wise he never did recover. He went
downhill casewise. It hit Ron as hard as it hit anyone. Casewise he went downhill badly from
1964 onwards, even though he abandoned work on goals, went on to other things, still he
couldn’t lift that material. He couldn’t lift that restimulation.
12:09
And the datum here is that ahh...unless.... safer you can work with goals and purposes, it’s
quite safe as long as you don’t ask that key question, “what would oppose it?” You can do
anything else with a goal or a purpose. You can put...put the goal, you can mock them up, you
can have other people mock them up, you can ask what purpose would a thing have. What’s the purpose of a cat? What’s the purpose of a dog? What’s the person... purpose of a brick? What’s
the purpose of... of a house? You know?
12:36
What purposes have you had? You can do this goals, you can get him to write long lists of goals
up, I mean the auditors got enormous freedom on this subject but he must not... having got a
purpose or a goal he must not ask what is the... the opposition goal unless he knows exactly
what he is doing? If he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing, doesn’t know the complete anatomy of the subject of goals and purposes in the mind he’ll rapidly worsen his preclear and he won’t know what’s going on. And he won’t be able to repair it.
13:10
The effect is that, if you muck around with goals and... and ... and the opposition to goals and
ask that question, “Who or what would oppose a goal?” and you don’t know... the complete
anatomy of what’s going on,your attempt to use this technology, the attempt to run these
processes and so forth will act as a maj... on the preclears case, as a major Engram. And this is
what happened to the Scientologists on the Briefing Course.
13:39
The auditing was an Engram. If you ever get one of these people that were at the Saint Hill
Briefing Course between 1961 and 1964, the whole of that period when they worked on goals,
you will find, the whole of that area will sit on their case like an engram.
It will respond exactly like an engram. As you come up to it the needle will start to jiggle as you get closer to it the needle will... will... will go into rises, then as you start to talk about the Briefing Course you’ll see the needle rise and you’ll see the tone arm rise. It’s just as if the preclear was approaching a
major engram, major engramic experience which he cannot confront.
14:19
This is what will... one of the things that I spotted myself later after I left the Briefing Course, I
got to work with some of these people, trying to repair, and everyone of them without exception
who was... who’d been at the Briefing Course, soon as you tried to talk to them about it or any
of them wanted to talk to you about it, because they were so upset about it, soon as they started
to talk about the Briefing Course 1961 to 1964 and the auditing that had, up would go their tone
arm and the needle would stick and it was just as if you were talking about a major engram on
their case.
14:50
So that’s the first moral of the story there, it’s a rather grim message, it’s rather grim, Greg, that uhh... you’re limited...there is a limitation on the subject of working with goals and purposes.
Don’t ask that question, “Who or what would oppose a goal or a purpose?”unless you know
exactly what you are doing and that unfortunately it does mean a familiarity with my research."
