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I'm going to try during the succeeding lectures (aside from giving you information and data which supplements the Philadelphia Lectures) to give you examples of processing.

[from audience] Fourteenth. Yeah.

You have in Standard Operating Procedure Number 5 a very fascinating technique that operates in this fashion: The first five steps of it are all done. You just do all of them and then you have a theta clear, you see? And you just do one of them until you can do another one. You go down the five steps — I, II, III, IV, V — until you find the level he can do, then you make him do that level, then you make him do a higher level, and if he doesn't do that well make him do the lower level; and when you finish up you are responsible then for all five steps. And that's very simple then, because in Standard Operating Procedure Issue 5 you then have a whole technique, all by itself. And you just have five steps, you know what the five steps are, and you know the order of those five steps, and you know how those five steps are done.

January fourteenth and this tape is consecutive to the December 9 afternoon lectures, and consecutive to the January 13 lectures.

Now, naturally I couldn't go for a few weeks without embellishing something or changing something or doing something of the sort.

Want to talk to you a little bit right here at first on the subject of group processing and individual processing and something which I think you're going to see considerable of.

It's almost impossible to refrain from doing so. And one reaches a great number of interesting higher-level data at one time or another, But you know, these higher-level data are becoming less and less important to the subject. Good sign, huh? Less and less important.

I haven't had a chance to take this up with your instructor, but I've been doing some experimental work on the subject of Self Analysis and its lists on Creative Processing; and it has been discovered that even when these mock-ups as required in Self Analysis were gotten on a conceptual basis, that they improved the ability of a person to create mock-ups and do Creative Processing.

Every once in a while the whole subject will have completed a circle and we'll be right back more or less where it started, with certain selected data behind it which makes it quite simple.

Now this is very significant, and in addition to that it has demonstrated that the level of operation of a case is uniformly as good as it can mock up. And sometimes a person's mock-ups will be totally As a result of automaticity; that is, you'll hear much more about automaticity. That's a new word; interesting theory and concept. But they're sometimes a result of automaticity to such an extent that a person's mock-ups go out, apparently, before he starts to get mock-ups. In other words they can get pictures, they can get lots of pictures and the pictures aren't much under control and they aren't of what they called for and a lot of other things, but it's all very interesting.

Now, let's take survive. Have we gone above survive? Unfortunately not. We're back to survive again.

And they'll keep on saying "Um-hm, um-hm, um-hm" to an auditor and they'll particularly say "Um-hm, um-hm" with great rapidity and they're obviously getting all sorts of things.

Now, I've added this little datum to the — that at this level we have come back again to survive. And for a while we had departed from it, and all we have hit is just a higher level or concept of survival. We're back to the most basic of fundamentals, which is applying at the highest level we've reached. Good sign, isn't it?

But you say, "All right. Now hold that one for a moment." "Oh, well, I — I'm not — I'm not holding these."

And the material then which gets added to this is relatively of small importance.Now, there are several things have been added in terms of technique; there are a lot of little gimmicks and whatnots, and actually these whatnots are valuable in the degree that they rehabilitate the ability of the person to make a postulate and to live by postulates and not by flows. So what refinements you get are the refinements of getting him up what we already know to be the highest level of beingness, which is in terms of a postulate.

"What do you mean, you're not holding these things? Are you getting what I ask — "

Now, the postulate has just below its level a supposition or an I guess or something of the sort. There's a postulate and then there's agreements and then there's suppositions. Well, suppositions are where fun comes in. A fellow's liable to assume anything so that he can assume something else. And that counteraction and action of assume and counterassume, and that sort of thing, develops eventually into the terrible level of complexity which we know as the MEST universe and the state of the thetan in it.

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure."

So we already know there in Scientology 8-8008 that the highest- level process we have is Postulate Processing, just changing postulates. And we know as well that we have, in terms of livingness, our highest level of livingness — before space, before energy, before objects certainly — is the postulate. A fellow lives by making postulates.

"Well, how long does it last?"

And so an examination of how a postulate deteriorates is very much in order, because Postulate Processing is a very easy thing to do and is so easy that it's very often neglected, and is part of Step I of every operating procedure we've had to date. There are really five of them: 4 lasted a whole afternoon. And I think it came into existence at one o'clock and perished at four o'clock the same afternoon, at which time Standard Operating Procedure Issue 5 was born. But 4 didn't have much change in it, and that was all taken care of in 5 because I got this happy idea of putting the whole — everything you had to do to make a good, stable theta clear into one single operating procedure, you see?

"Well, it lasts for, oh, half a second, something like that."

And then you just did the whole procedure, you just did all five steps. And that's a very easy one for you.

And you say, "Well now, how about getting that next one and hold it?"

But in each case we have had as the highest level of process Postulate Processing — each case. All right. Then changing the postulates of a preclear would be the most effective process of all, wouldn't it? And if you could do just that without processing any space or any energy or any objects or anything of the sort, you'd really be there, because it's the highest level of existence.

"Well, they just change to everything the second I do that."

So what aberrates it? And let's just take a look at it. What aberrates it? You tell this [Step] I, "Step I is the easiest step of all and a great number of people do it first crack out of the box." You say, "Be a couple of feet back of your head" (in some cases you can ask a preclear to be where he wants to be, and he will be someplace else) and he's out of his body. That's what we're essentially trying to do, and then we can handle him from there.

To hell with that, they're not mocking up. All they're doing is looking at a big circuit that feeds them pictures. You get the idea?

Now that's very interesting, because what can we do from him — for him from there? Unfortunately, we do all — in Standard Operating Procedure Number 5, we do all five processes from there. But the first one that we tackle, of course, is changing a few postulates. He gets himself outside, and he finds out he's thinking very slowly. So you say, "What postulate would you have to change to change that?" Maybe he's good enough so that he just goes flip and he's thinking very fast. Or he'll say, "Just a minute, I..." and so on.

Now, a mock-up must be nothing if not persistent. We've got to have a persistency. A person ought to be able to take a mock-up and put it out in front of them and have it stay that way until they say otherwise and not have it do all sorts of weird things. For instance, you ask somebody — here's a poser (this is also on the Philadelphia tapes), but there's a nice poser that is a beauty.

Now, these postulates don't depend upon the past. You actually don't have to change a past postulate: it's good enough to get a new postulate. A fellow who has to address the past is addressing energy. Time depends upon havingness, and havingness depends upon energy and space. Time doesn't exist for a thetan, to the degree that he separates himself from contact with space and energy.

You — some fellow, you say, "All right, now get a man." He gets a man, that's fine.

So therefore it's really only necessary for him to say — if he's in very, very good shape and not influenced by flows at all or space at all in one way or the other, he's in very good shape, all he has to say is "I shall now think fast." Bang! He's thinking fast. He doesn't have to laboriously remember times when he thought he had to think slow. He just thinks fast, that's all.

"All right. What kind of a man you got?"

Now, of course a postulate doesn't have to be articulated, he just gets the idea he's thinking slow, so he thinks fast. That's all there is to it.

"Oh, he's a cute little fellow, and it surprised me a great deal because he jumped in from the right, and so forth, and just now he's grinding horseradish."

Now on any other thing, you'll find preclears in the kind of a state of mind, "Well," he'll say, "I have to understand it."

And you say, "That's fine." They sit there very interestedly and watch this little man.

Well, many an auditor has had a very great shock by taking this complete stranger to Scientology and saying, "All right, now be two feet back of your head," and then listen to a long dissertation on the subject of Scientology. "This is the way it's done, and this is the way it's here, and these are the kind of things that happen to me and..." so on and so on, you see? And the auditor sits there with his jaw open.

"Is that your little man?"

Now this person, by the way, is — appears very wise about it, but he's not oriented in terms of processing. He hasn't got this stuff lined up and evaluated to apply to Homo sapiens. He's up there at a level that everybody knew about all the time anyhow.

"Well, uh... huh! Well, guess so, I — I'm looking at him."

You see, out in the rest of the universe, lots of its locates, there is no mystery on the fact that everybody is a thetan.

And you say, "Well, where did you get the horseradish?" You can also ask this question of any mockup: "Where did the buttons on the coat come from?"

There's a mystery on this level: Thetans get into bodies. They don't know that. Or if they know that, they know it sporadically and the information disappears again. So they know that people think by making postulates; they know that thetans produce energy. They would took at you blankly and say, "What are you trying to teach me? Are you trying to teach me that..." — that like a Homo sapiens, you'd walk up to him and you'd say, "You know, you have to eat to live?" And the fellow would say, "This guy's nuts!"

That's — you tell the fellow, "Now, let's get a man." And he gets a man and you say, "All right. Now what's he look like?"

Now, they every once in a while will recover, then, data on the subject of the very, very upper-level beingness of a thetan. That data, however, is not graduated down to and doesn't merge with what they have to know ordinarily to do anything about a Homo sapiens or actually a thetan that's bad off. In those same areas the idea of processing is a very simple and elementary idea: You give him a shock. Thetan isn't acting right; well, you just knock him around till he does act right, that's all. And if he's having trouble with energy, give him some more energy or control him harder. It's all on a dwindlingspiral basis. They don't know the reverse therapy, because it didn't exist evidently.

"Well, he's got on a green jacket and brass..."

All right. Now, therefore, changing postulates comes as the highest level of process, and the highest level of that is: to change a postulate you just make a new postulate.

You say, "Wait a minute, where'd the brass buttons come from?"

Now, when he's had too much to do with space and energy and he's rather aberrated, he has to find out when he made one postulate, in order to make another postulate. He has to examine all sorts of mechanisms of thinking, has to examine all sorts of understandings, before he can finally change the postulate. And then he can't change the postulate. Well, the only trouble with him is he's snarled up somehow about space and energy.

"I — well, they're just there."

So do you sit there as an auditor and beat your brains out on this case to make him change postulates easily? No, you know automatically that he is all lined up with space in some fashion or another, or he's got energy on the brain, or he's got — he has objects, or he's stuck here or there somewhere in his own past.

"And do you always get him in a green jacket?"

What's the best way to free him? The remaining. steps of the first five are the best way to free him. So you don't beat your brains out any further than that. Just find out: Is he changing postulates by making new postulates, or is he ransacking the past? If he's ransacking the past, to hell with it.

"Oh, no. Matter of fact the jacket is pink now. Now it's blue. Now they're pearl buttons. Now they're orange buttons."

Now, you can work — if he gets out of his body in this Step I, you can work to get him out of his body more thoroughly. That's quite a technique. You might not go in for the remaining steps at all; there are a lot of things you can do. Because Level I also includes Mock-up Processing, and might at this stage include running of cycles and other things. But if you're going to do a lot of mock-ups on a Step I — fine, fine. You only want to do mock-ups on him — when do you stop doing mock-ups on him, or when do you — well, it would just be till he could make a new postulate. It's possible that with a few mock-ups he can just start making new postulates just by stating the postulate. You see, that's very simple then. Well, my gosh, if he's in a state of mind like that, the devil with processing. Kiss him goodbye. He's all set.

In essence, by the way, just as an aside, you had better be very careful in processing to get a preclear to tell you what he's doing and find out what he's doing because they can do the confoundedest things, and you just sit there and you say, "Well, we gave this person eight thousand six hundred and seventy-two hours of Creative Processing, and nothing happened." That by the way is a parody on an obscure character that wrote a book on something or other, and he said he had received personally — I don't know — eighteen hundred hours or something like that. At the time he wrote the manuscript I added up how many hours of processing this was.

Now, your highest operating level that you'll be able to attain then with a preclear evidently is a complete stability on making postulates. If he can make a postulate and the postulate sticks, that's that. Now, if you want to operate any further like that, you start him making postulates which increase his ability to accomplish. That's all. You just make him — put him over the hurdles about moving MEST or so on.

It was very interesting, but he would have had to have been processed about four hours a day, seven days a week, including all holidays, to have added up exactly half that amount. So evidently he had been processed eight hours a day, seven days a week and all holidays since the first day he heard of Dianetics which was six months before anybody else heard of it. But anyway, this demonstrates to you how much processing somebody can absorb, but I think it ought to demonstrate how much many people need.

So your next step — your next step could be a lot of mock-ups and so forth to improve that ability and would then immediately go into moving the body around. You can give him quite a lot.

Anyway, when we go in for mock-ups you will quite often find a person's automaticity; that is to say, these things that flick in and flick out or sometimes even walk in and stand there. Of course he gets ninety-five other mock-ups and it's still standing there. These oddities — this by the way is not a — this is the very odd form of mock-up that the person is getting; the very random, great deal of automatic characteristic to it and so forth.

By the way, I gave a demonstration up at my house the other day on just that. There wasn't anybody present but the preclear and a couple of friends, but the point is that we were doing that. And I don't think the two auditors that were there knew what was happening, because of this: because they didn't catch the immediate significance of the fact that this preclear was knocking her knuckles together with less sensation. That was all I was trying to do, get her out of her body so she couldn't — she could make these hands knock together and, as far as that's concerned, break the fingers off and she wouldn't have felt a thing, including remorse.

You could sometimes expect — you can sometimes have this happen: You can actually have his mockups go out — poom! He can't get anything. He's blank. Black. Nothing. Well, the reason I'm mentioning this is I don't want you to shoot the preclear at that stage or shoot yourself because you've done a bad job of processing. That's to be expected.

Now, what's the test of how thoroughly a preclear's out of the body? I noticed this preclear was using the motor controls as well as an exterior beam. Out of her body, very tough preclear as far as a thetan's concerned. Very tough. But was — every time she would do something with beams, it would also hit the motor controls. Well, this was partially because the thetan's too big.

We used to get wide-open cases that were, to be very technical, strictly fruitcake, and these wide-open cases would often become the most densely occluded case you ever looked at before they'd been processed very long. But after they had been processed a while after that, then they would unocclude again. Only this time, this time they were really getting what they asked for in terms of engrams. Now you see that?

The thetan is kicking back into the motor controls just with a postulate. And — but nevertheless, this also means that there's an awful lot of energy that could call the thetan back in. And we were getting a condition whereby when she'd try this she'd snap back in a little bit, you see? And the best thing, then, to do was simply to get her out of her body more thoroughly. And how did you get her out of her body more thoroughly? Well, you did some mock-ups.

So occlusion is not the bottom. Occlusion, if you only knew it, is right close to the top. But there are segments of occlusion; and a person goes through, as he goes up tone scale, you'll notice him going through stratas of trust and distrust. He goes through terrific distrust and then very trusting: believe, oh, yes; then all of a sudden Poom! he doesn't believe his own name, and then it goes along this way for a little while; and then all of sudden, oh, everything is right, he believes everything; and then all of a sudden Poom!

She was out of her body — there was no question about this — and all over the place and back again and so forth. But when she did the lifting-of-the-body exercises and so on, she still had sensation in the body.

If you want to know — put this to test, use hypnotism. Put somebody you test under hypnotism and as they sink deeper and deeper and deeper into an hypnotic trance you'll find them going into alternate stages of acceptance and then deeper acceptance.

How thoroughly is a thetan out of the body? If you say, if you want an absolute for the word out of the body, you can get a near-absolute just on this alone: Do they have any sensation left in the body when they're no longer in it? And if they haven't got any sensation left in that body when they're out of it, believe me, they're out of it. And when I say "any sensation," I mean any sensation, including fear of sensation. And that's why we say the test is to kick them in the shins and see if they snap back in.

You say, at one stage of it, you say, "Look at all the kangaroos which you have on your coat collar," and the fellow — he doesn't think they are there. And you say "Abracadabra" and pass your hands a few more times and he's got kangaroos on the coat collar. And then he maintains that level of trance for a while, and then you can deepen that level of trance to a point where he will distrust it slightly.

Crude test; effective though.

Now I'm not talking here from a very open and shut so-called factual case history of people being hypnotized; you'll just notice this with preclears. It's not very important and the only reason I'm telling you is so you won't worry about it and as an illustration of what happens sometimes on mock-ups.

Most preclears, you say, "All right. Be two feet back of your head," and then you pick up your foot and get ready to kick them in the shins and, boy, are they back inside, swish!

You've got — a case is a multiple sandwich. Trust, distrust, trust, distrust as you come up the tone scale. You'll know more about this when you get into the anatomy and get very, very good on ARC and its various manifestations as called for in these Philadelphia tapes. ARC is broken down now to a point where it just shouldn't happen to the human race. And you will see that there are ridges there, every so often there's a ridge. You know those as harmonics. Every so often as you go down scale you'll get a harmonic.

So what are they running? They're running care of the body. The devil with the body! They can best manage this body if they can handle this body without any sensation in the body, because that means they have to handle the body by postulate alone and so won't get trapped into using energy anymore around the body. (We're just discussing Step I now a little more expansively and a little better.)

Well, now as we go down scale we get these alternate levels of trust and distrust. Somebody who is in a MEST frame of mind, a lot of identification with everything and so forth, you tell him, "If you took in your right-hand pocket..." I mean he's supposedly sane and all that sort of thing. He's walking down the street and you look down and you tell him, "You look in your right-hand pocket and you will find Buckingham Palace."

So you go through Lifting the Body as an exercise, with particular attention as to whether or not they're using any muscles through the motor-control system as well as beams on the outside of the body. When I say Lifting the Body, of course I'm talking about the exercise "Be outside your body. Now be over your index finger. Now lift your index finger." And you progress right straight on through that until the thetan picks up the body. That's that.

And he — "Oh, no, I won't either," but he'll still start the gesture.

Now, you sometimes have to run mock-ups, and here we get back to survive. This thetan will be attached to and still haunting the interior of this body to the degree that he thinks he has to survive. And if he has any slightest feeling about (quote) "having to survive," he'll keep one foot on home plate. So it's an automatic test, isn't it? That's just one of the little side tests.

Well now, as we bring preclears up the tone scale, they'll go into the wildest manifestations of doubt. You're not asking him to believe anything but they're going to tell you that they doubt. And then next time you see them — believe? Oh, boy, wonderful. Oh yeah, they'd believe anything. And the next time you see them — doubt. Well, don't be too surprised; it isn't as marked as this but don't be too surprised at the gradient scale on mock-ups.

He feels he's got to survive as a thetan. Nonsense! How could he possibly survive as a thetan?

You get this preclear, oh boy, can he get mock-ups! Whap, whap, boppety-boppety-boppety, oh, man, bop-bop, and you say, "Where are the buttons coming from? "

Survival means continued duration in one state or another. And if he has an idea that he has to do something to continue his duration or beingness, he's not out of the body. He's still in the stream called time, and if he's in the stream called time (which is just havingness) he's mixed up with space and he's mixed up with energy. And that means to say, when he makes a postulate it will have some energy in it. So therefore his postulates will have to be changed over from some old, ancient postulate. See, he's got to change the earlier one before he can change this one.

And he says, "Well, I don't know. There are no buttons there now, they're fish."

Earlier be damned! There isn't any earlier for a thetan that's way up the line. He can postulate that he's any place in time, and he'll be there. He doesn't have to have the havingness in order to have time. Time is something he can have or not have, as the case may be. And so is he worried about survival? Believe me, he isn't even vaguely worried about survival if he's really out and so on.

Well anyway, we get on along this, you know, he's just dropping automaticity. Less and less is being done for him and he's doing more and more himself is the truth of the matter.

Test of that is: Can he make a postulate and have it stick? Yep. All right. He's actually existing on his own election of time. He would have to think for a moment to continue in existence in 1953. See, he'd just have to think of it for a moment. Because he is out of space and energy, and when he's out of space and energy he's out of the time stream (there's — time is just havingness).

When he puts a mock-up together he can get very rapid, you see, and he can say, "There's a head, there's a coat, there are the feet, there are the trousers, we put a pocket handkerchief there." Zing-zing-zing and he's got a mock-up. But he knows he put every single item there and he knows that every single item belongs to him. He can do this faster actually than an automatic mock-up can occur. His mind can work with great speed, you've seen nothing like speed of operation until you get outside and then realize that when you're inside the body you have to think. And everybody's thinking goes sort of this way to you: "I wonder... if... I... am... hungry."

All right. Therefore, your thetan who doesn't immediately and instantly make a postulate and make it stick and have this change his behavior and his attitude and his concept of things, well, he's slightly in space. So he's a little bit left in the body. But he's got to get out of that body. And although he's apparently beautifully out of the body, apparently this is all right, and to all intents and purposes and careless observation he's sure out of that body, the truth of the matter is he's not.

Now, this is quite, quite pertinent and something that in case manifestation you should mark down: The automaticity is sometimes very bright and very beautiful and sometimes quite steady, and the difference between automaticity and no automaticity — high scale — is simply that he knows he put it there. High scale he knows he put it there, and in heavy, deep, low tone-scale automaticity he doesn't know where the devil it came from or who it belongs to. Now that's the essential difference.

So there's two tests, one obscure. You can't be sure that he is making a change of postulate by simply making a new postulate. You don't know what he's laboring through, absolutely. You don't know to the last ditch whether this is true or not. But you do know this: when you haul off to kick him in the shins or you make him bang his knuckles together or you pick up a hammer to fracture his skull or something like that, does he dive back in?

You'll sometimes walk in on a preclear who is in a fantastic state of wide-openness with no reality on anything; with this, with that, and so forth. He's in apathy. And if you were to get inside of his head and look through his eyes at the mock-ups which he's getting, you would just be flabbergasted at the answers he's giving you.

Well, if he dives back in, why, he's going to take quite a little processing. And he's in good shape, but I mean he's just going to dive back in, you're going to have to process him some more and he's going to go through fluctuations.

You say, "Now you got a mockup there?"

This is what you see as a fluctuating theta clear. He's not a theta clear, he's an exteriorized thetan. He's going in and out of the body, in and out of the body, in and out of the body. And every once in a while he'll turn up and he's feeling fine, and the next time he turns up he's feeling like hell.

He says, "Yes."

Do you know — do you know that he'd walk across the street and — he would be safely, beautifully, happily a hundred feet up in the air, and his body starts to walk across the street, and a taxi cab heads in toward the body, and he goes back into the body. Oh, no! I mean, how illogical can we get? Why doesn't he pick up the body and put it back on the curb? Or nip the taxi driver? Or shut off the meter or something, anything that will certainly stop a taxi?

You say, "Now is it good and stable?"

So there's your — there's your test, you see? So you can't be sure he will remain as a stable theta clear at all, if he has a tendency to jump back in the body any time the body's menaced, or if he retains feeling in the body while he's out of the body (all these things are the same thing) or if his motor controls twitch when he gives the body a command from the outside. Any one of these things: they're tests, you see?

He says, "Yes."

So to get a stability on the thing you have him lift the body around, you have him lift the body around until he can lift it all over the place, and you have him bang it around a bit. See if he feels anything. If he feels nothing, if he might as well be handling that ashtray: very stable. The chances of his going back into a body and getting on this squirrel cage again are practically zero. He'd have to hit an explosion or find himself in the middle of the darnedest accident or something of the sort before he'd nose-dive. And he wouldn't nose-dive very far.

You say, "Now change it this way. Did it change that way?" "Oh, yes."

He's handling things by postulates. He wants himself to be recognized by people seeing the body. He's still got identification on his mind. Well, that's all right; that's quite allowable. So he wants himself to be identified by somebody seeing the body, so he makes the body talk and he makes the body walk and he makes the body eat and the body goes through its — up, up, and there it goes. That's fine. The body is having a wonderful time.

If you were inside of his head looking at his mockups, you asked him to get a green tree and he got a purple tree and then it turned over on the side and then somebody came along and chopped it down. Somebody planted another tree, and then a couple of dogs ran over the hill and it just all went on like this.

A fellow who has to depend on one body for sensation is goofy. I mean he's just goofy. You want toyou want to enjoy food? Well, go down to the restaurant; you'll find somebody down at the restaurant who likes eating. You don't have to pretend — you don't have to hang around with a body that's got dyspepsia or something. Yeah, crude maybe, it may sound, but that's the truth. Truth is always kind of unacceptable one way or the other.

And when he says "Yes", he's sort of timing it as they go by, so to speak. He's just catching them, one now and then.

Now here's then your Step I: tests of Step I. Well, that's what your goal is, and that's what you're trying to do in Step I. I couldn't probably say this often enough or hard enough or sharp enough.

You say, "Now did you put it behind you?" "Yes." He's also got it in front of him.

You're wondering why a preclear fluctuates; you're wondering what you do next when the fellow's out of the body. Well, what do you want him to do next? You want him to be able to operate a body — his body — from outside, so thoroughly outside that there isn't anything possible under the sun that would snap him back in except his own complete election to do so, and actually no need to go back into the body. And you'd call this that, and that'd be a theta clear. Otherwise he's a theta exterior.

And you say, "Now put it alongside."

If this varies your idea, why, that's probably very logical because I've varied the whole idea. Just on examination of what auditors understand and what they don't understand, we've based these clarifications. Well, that's Step I, then. So everybody would have to go through a Step I.

If you were looking at his mock-ups you'd find out that he had them now right, left, above, below, behind and in front, and that they were all different and they were all going in different directions and they were all changing colors, and there's a flash coming through and he's sitting there, "Sure, sure."

Now let's look at survival with relationship to Step I. He has to survive. Well, this will show up on a mock-up just snap! Here's another test for the same thing. It'd just show up on a mock-up, just wham! There's nothing — I imagine I could probably stand here and run down about fifty tests for Step I, each one of which would be a process.

You know, boy, I haven't mentioned some case manifestations in these lectures, and they really ought to be mentioned. A 1.1 lying on the couch has to be processed with one hand on your gat. He will tell you anything.

Survive. Well, to survive you have to do all sorts of things. In the first place you have to do with space and energy and objects, because survival implies time, which consists of space and energy and objects, and mostly objects regulate time. So here we go.

I took an auditor in professional school of a town in the States one day and we had a case hanging around the operation that was just one of these grim it-shouldn't-happen-to-the-human-race cases. This person was into everything and rumors and gossip and yap-yap. And oh, my goodness, all the upset this person could cause!

We're right there onto the treadmill of economics, all the other things of existence. Unfortunately a thetan is probably going to be onto that treadmill and off of that treadmill and onto that treadmill and off of that treadmill an awful lot, unless somebody gets terribly bright or unless I get bright or something of the sort — and I might do that someday — and figure out the crossroads of this problem.

And I said, "Well, now look, let's make a little test of Dianetics now. Let's see who in the professional class here is pretty good here. All right, we'll take you. And you give him now twenty-five hours of processing and finish up your course that way." At the end of five days I saw this character and there was no change. It's impossible to process somebody for twenty-five hours without changing something.

There is a hooker, you know, in creating your own universe. You've got to be so high tone scale and so terribly self- sufficient that you are perfectly willing to be the only one that enjoys it. Otherwise you're going to go into ARC, and if you go into ARC you're done.

I said, "What gives here?"

So it's the cross between the desirability of having your own universe and the desirability of having an audience. Which one do you want? And there you could be, way up the tone scale and in beautiful shape and building your own universe; everything's going along fine, except there's no audience. You get the idea?

"Well, we just — I just processed him. We ran out his father's death and his mother's gray hair and we ran out this and we ran out..."

So you say, "Well all right now, let's have an audience. All we need is an audience." And the second you do that, why, you're starting down scale again.

Oh, boy! To listen to this auditor, we have done all these things, you see. I got a hold of the case and backed him up against the wall and I said, "Confidentially, how good an auditor is this fellow?" you know, putting it that way because I was wondering what this case was doing.

Evidently the thing to do is to shoot audiences or something. I mean, I mean don't get — don't get into the habit of having the same audience or something of the sort, because you'll get static on the subject and right back onto the economic treadmill. But evidently those two things are in conflict. And really the tremendous advantage that this universe, this MEST universe, has is the fact that there are other people to be interested in you.

"Oh, he's a good auditor, good auditor."

And you, of course, repay the compliment by being interested in other people. And of course that is ARC, and you can't be right and be human.

"Well tell me, did you have any difficulty with some of these things?"

If you don't believe that, try to go for two hours in company and everything you say and do, have it agree with the best possible conduct from a standpoint of the Chart of Attitudes. No, I'm afraid you'd wind up out in the front yard or under a lorry or something of the sort. Because you see, cause, I am, I know, you see — all of these things would be disobeyed and very upset.

"Oh, well, of course I never processed the things he asked for! I — but — I'd just lie there and process what I knew had to be processed out of the case, and so on and..."

You just sit there polite in company, and some fellow says so- and-so and so-and-so, "And I was down to the Winnigee Works the other day. and so forth and that's down on Wump Street."

You get the idea? I mean, here's a preclear lying on a couch and the auditor says, "The somatic strip will..." and that sort of thing and the preclear's off someplace else processing — anything; and the auditor's [sic: preclear] sitting there saying, "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."

You say, "It's Bath Street." He wouldn't like that.

I went back and told the auditor, "We'd better have a couple of more weeks' training, don't you think?" And you know, I bet to this day that fellow has never trusted a preclear. But a 1.1 will do the same thing on mock-ups and it isn't just a 1.1 that will. As you go down scale from that, anything can happen.

I've known a lot — I tell you, the number of murders committed — an inaccurate and unmeasured statistic on the number of murders committed — 82.64 percent of them are committed because people insist on being top chart in a nasty, disagreeable sort of a way.

You have to watch and listen for little things. The note of doubt in his voice:

So, you can't be right and be human. That's the long and short of it. And you can't be human and keep holding on to the ability to hit postulates all the time. So you can expect, if you stay on the treadmill and the track and so forth, to be on and off this survival picture. And I call this to your attention: It's all very interesting, survival is, but it takes work.

"Did you get that?" "Um, yeah."

I've been asked and asked and asked, "What's degradation? What's degradation? What's degradation? What's degradation?" It's using effort. It's having to use effort and not being able to use a postulate. And if you keep this up long enough, you get degradation.

You say, "Well, will you please get it again? "Ummmmmm, yeah."

What is pride? Well, pride is an ability to do things by postulate. And both pride and degradation include the meaning, "in the eyes of others." To operate by postulate in the eyes of others is pride. To have to use effort and labor in the eyes of others is degradation.

"What have you got?" "Well, it's just black!"

So people sort of hang halfway between being prideful and being degraded.

Now, the other one is, "Have you got that now?" "Yes, yes, yes," you see — terrific confidence. He's just trying to drive you off with an idea of confidence, that's all he's doing to you. He's trying to still your inquiry.

You'll have more preclears turning up. Oh, they'll just turn up and they'll say, "I feel so degraded." They might as well be saying, "I have to use effort." And when you talk about effort, you're talking really about MEST-universe-energy effort. Using their own energy isn't classified by definition here as effort.

He's actually ashamed of being this bad off. You say, "Now, all right, let's get a rubber ball."

That's not effort.

He gets rapidly in rotation an elephant, a bathtub, two circus tents, a lion, two girls, remembers a date he had last night — all this runs through.

Actually, there is no effort involved in putting a beam out on something. Something will move just as fast by a postulate as it will by a beam, by the way. These beams, who cares?

You say, "Have you got a rubber ball?" "Yep, yep, sure, sure."

If you're really in good shape, if you're going to move anything, you're going to move it with a postulate just as fast as you will a beam — if you're really in good shape. So having to use effort is a degradation.

Now, once in a while, once in a while a preclear — they always try to drive in your anchor points one way or the other — once in a while a preclear will do this for you. He'll really fix you up. You've given him a nice session, you know you accomplished just what you should have accomplished and then what happens? Something very interesting happens. Comes to you the next day and he says, "Well, I was trying to get a mock-up this morning and I find out I can't get anything; I can't get anything now."

I'll tell you why a lot of your preclears are in bad shape, why they're degraded. They have to use effort, don't use their own energy.

What he's really saying is "Look what you did to me, you dog. You have committed an overt act. Now it is necessary that you process me some more." That's really all he's saying, is "Process me some more." He knows he's feeling better. But the point is that you processed him happily out of a nice level of bright automaticity up into the black clouds of nothing, and then you left him there. Or you processed him well up on automaticity and then sort of skipped it from there on. And he was right next to this and his tone came up just a little bit more and the lights went out. Or he — higher on the scale everything got kind of dark. It didn't go black. It now, now when he gets a mock-up there's little wisps of black smoke or gray smoke drift around on it.

And I'll tell you why a lot of preclears have their pride criticized. It's because they don't know what pride is, and they're just sort of snotty. Because if they were really using pride, if they were really proud — and the people you see who are proud have a degree of ability to make their postulates stick.

He's really up scale. He gets this smoke, but he gets something else that neither he nor you might notice unless you observed it very closely: he gets a stability in the mock-up.

So it's in between these two things that we get survive and succumb. Because the end of using effort, MEST-universe effort, is succumbing.

Now, when you first started processing him, he probably was doing something like this: I — you just say, "Get a dog."

So this fellow can't get out of his body, huh? Well, do you know he can't make other people work either? I wonder what coordination there are between these two data? He has a tough time making other people work. He'll help other people, but he won't make them work.

All right, he gets a dog. "I got a dog, I got a dog, yeah, yeah." You didn't ever ask him "Whose dog is it?"

He would no more take a crew of men out in the hot, blazing sun and make them dig a ditch and then fill it up again for no damn reason at all — he just wouldn't do that, that's all. You suggest it to him one day and you say, "Now look, this is the test to become a member of the Great Lodge of Egomania," or something. And you say, "You take this crew of men out there, and you then have them dig a ditch and then have them fill it up again and report back here."

He'd say, "I don't know." "Well, is it your dog?" "No, no, it's not my dog."

Naaah. You'll probably took out there about ten minutes later and he might have taken them out there, but they'll be sitting in the shade someplace. Or he'll be having an argument with them on something or other, and so on. And he'll finally come back and say, "You know, if you dig a ditch and then fill it back up again, what's the use of digging the ditch in the first place?" He'll have all sorts of fantastic rationalizations on why he shouldn't dig this ditch.

"Where did the dog come from?"

Now that's very interesting to you, because you look at your preclear who doesn't get out of his body, you're looking at why your preclear's aberrated. You — just that. He just won't make himself work. Ha-ha! You thought I was going to say "others," didn't you? What's the difference?

"Well, he — you just asked for a dog. I guess he's your dog. I don't know whose dog he is."

I've given talks on this before. I mentioned it here in Great Britain. The whole — this business of being a commanding general of an army. A preclear running himself runs himself best who runs himself somewhat on the order of an ideal storybook general. (Not a real general; they don't run anything except swivel chairs.) He handles himself with that level of precision and lack of explanation and complete lack of mercy. Has no mercy on himself. Never a single thought about "Did I sleep? Did I eat?" Oh, he sleeps and eats. And if he doesn't, so what?

But you might not have pressed your inquiry to that extent. And you might not have seen his eyes flick — flipping around because he had them closed. So you asked for a dog and he apparently got a dog.

Essentially the mind, that you are as a thetan, is in command of — in terms of brain alone — ten to the twenty-first binary digit of thetans. Oh! Maybe they weren't as big as you were and maybe they are not from the same breed of cat, and maybe they were and maybe they've just deteriorated by having their anchor points driven in and their anchor points driven in and their anchor points driven in.

Now, after five or six hours of processing you tell him to put a dog on the mantelpiece. And he gets a dog and with a little trouble he gets the dog onto the mantelpiece, and if you were to ask him at that time "Have you got a dog on the mantelpiece?"

However they got there — how they got there is simply theory; but an explanation of the whole mind of a body, and what the body is trying to do, and demon circuits, and energy in the body, and aberration in the body, and psychosomatic medicine — just on a theory level now — is answers at 360 degrees of the compass perfectly on the basis that every cell is a breed of thetan, with his anchor points driven in and with him forced to operate along some level of uniform function in an organization called a body.

"Yeah, yep." He's only just moving just a little bit, see? But he won't tell you that. He — "Yes, I got a dog."

And as you process people, if you just keep that in mind, it will become more and more apparent to you, and demon circuits will become — you don't have to ask for any explanation for demon circuits.

If you were to ask him this question, "Is it your dog?" he'll say, "Yeah, yeah, that's my dog."

Somebody the other day said, "They say..."

We have processed this person to a level of certainty. Hm! That is worth more than the gems of the Indies which are after all only MEST. You've actually gotten him to a point where he has some certainty. Now, this certainty is what you're trying to obtain. And that dog that he got the first time that was running all around the room might have been a beautiful green or a beautiful orange or something. I mean, it just — and the room might have been brilliant beyond brilliant and, oh, my — wonderful shape, as far as color was concerned. And this dog that he puts up on the mantelpiece might be a very pale sort of gray.

I told her, "Now tell your hands to get to work."

The difference is that's his dog. So he's way up tone scale.

She gave me a lot of answers of what the hands were saying, and finally she said, "They're saying now, 'She really means it!"' Well sure, you have a sort of a collective mind.

Now, you can expect to have this operation pulled on you: "You processed me and now I can't get anything." Now we have laid down, up until this time, this as more or less a tentative conclusion: that a person had to get a mock-up which was a mock- up which he could see. Now that was just in the definition of mock-ups.

Now, it is perfectly true that these cells — these cells are endowed perhaps all the way up the track by maybe one thetan. But you see, you could subdivide yourself to become a thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand people. You could.

What is a mock-up? A mock-up is something that exists in present time and sits someplace. It is not in the past. It's right here.

You get out there and you say, "All right, now I am me" (you don't care who "me" is) "and I'm me, and I know I'm me, and that's all I know at the moment, but I'm going to make Bill. Now this mock-up is Bill. And this mock-up has this characteristic."

It is made by the preclear, or nearly so. Now that's just definitions of mock-ups.

And if you worked on that mock-up and impressed upon this mock-up that it was alive and then gave it life, it would go on living.

It is beneficial for this person to get a mock-up, even if he's totally blacked out as far as seeing it is concerned.

Because you're not dealing with something that has space or geographical location.

Now, very often you can ask him to get behind this curtain of occlusion and so forth a mock-up, and every once in a while you're giving him a perceptic and you say, 'All right. Can you smell it?

You wonder why every once in a while you process a preclear, and you suddenly find out that he's also alive in Peoria. He's not alive too in Peoria; but what you're doing is getting somebody, one way or the other, who is operating on the same beingness. As it finally figures out, this universe might be composed of just a couple of beings. You might be subdivisions of the same being.

"Oh, yeah, I can always do that."

There might be a dozen. Or there might be so many — so many that we couldn't write the number with the mathematics we now have.

Well, listen, sight just happens to be one perceptic out of a great many. It happens to be the commonest and the most tied to by the preclear because he's interested in energy — manufacturing it himself or having it from the MEST universe, and so he depends a lot on sight.

You see, it doesn't matter much which one of these solutions are there; we don't have to solve that problem. But we do solve the problem on this basis: that every cell is operating more or less individually, and when it subdivides it takes its whole mind and duplicates its whole mind and puts it in the next cell. And if you get down and look real close (I've done this, by the way), what do you know! The confounded cell has got a time track all by itself which curves into the organism track somewhere or other on the line.

But I've known preclears who never saw anything at all, but knew it was true because they could smell it. I mean run engrams that way. Yeah, they knew they had an engram of Grandpa because they could smell his pipe. They couldn't hear or anything, but — no sonic, no visio — but they had this one perceptic. Their perceptic's sort of out of phase, you see.

You want him — take all the toothache — there are two ways to take a toothache out of somebody. Just GITA will cure up any number of toothaches fast. But we'll get this other brand of toothache, and we've got a decaying tooth. Well, just run back — sort of get into the tooth, you might say, and run back the time track of each one of the cells that's hurting. You'll find there's only a dozen cells in there affected, or something like that. Run their time tracks. You'll find out there are relatively few engrams they're really worried about. Knock them out. And what do you know, the tooth will just sit there from there on, and it won't ache. It's all decayed, and it should be pulled, and they — you should then permit the dentist to give you nitrous oxide or chloroform or vitriol or whatever dentists do, and boil the tooth out with hot irons or whatever the new, modern technique is. And you should be able to do that. But the funny part of it is, the confounded tooth will sit there without hurting you even vaguely. And without doing you any damage whatsoever thereafter.

One perceptic after another can be shut off. Perceptics can be occluded one after the other. And so as you pursue mock-ups, so perceptics may shift around on the preclear. And they might be very bad today, and good tomorrow, and just horrible the day after.

Why? You picked up the engrams which were the toothache. And they were when the tooth was a mollusk or when it was this or when it was that, way back down the track someplace. Yeah. It's no trick at all for a thetan to pervade an area and pick up its engrams.

The mock-up parallels the state of case. But what in the mock-up parallels the state of case? Certainty that he created it himself, whatever it is, tests the mock-up. Not how pretty it is, not how well it could be framed, not how clearly he can see it, not if he can smell it — these things are not tests of a mock- up. They're tests of the aesthetic quality of a mockup. They may be tests of whether or not he's enjoying watching these mock-ups, but they're not tests of the mock-up in terms of, Is the case any better? The test there is: How certain is he that the mock-up is there and that it is his? That is the test.

So don't be perplexed sometimes to find yourself running things that are way off of your track, and don't wonder why every once in a while you get confused about whether you ever lived before or not. Because you got ten to the twenty-first power binary digits of neurons, and every one of them has got a time track. So let's not worry about that. We're not including now the tooth cells, and we're not including the fingernail cells, and we're not including the cells of the left heel or the right eyeball.

Now there's quite another thing about mock-ups, is able to handle the mock-up after it is created. And this again is an index of the state of the case but not as good an index as you think it is. Not anywhere near as good an index as you think it is and not anywhere near as good an index as certainty. But it's an index of the case.

Lord knows how many cells are there and how many time tracks they've got. We're just taking neurons. Ten to the twenty-first binary — we could just write and write and write on the wall to get that one, just zeros following zeros following zeros.

Energy is energy, and energy becomes objects; and so an object is a solid piece of energy and the ability to handle energy is the ability to handle an object, and if you're asking him to create objects, objects, objects, he's just doing fine on objects, objects, objects, and then one day you say, 'All right, now let's mock up some air."

Every one of them is essentially a thetan. Whether or not he was ever a big thetan or not, I mean we're not arguing. We don't care one way or the other. This is just what we're talking about: empirical proof. Can you as a thetan cure up an aching tooth by running back its time track and clearing out its engrams? Little simple engrams? There's nothing to it. Grain of sand hit it once. Yeah. Yeah Doesn't hurt anymore.

"Oh, no," he says, "I — phooey, I..."

Can you examine all these time tracks and find a time track there in each case? Sure. Can you use the theory of pulling out and pushing in their anchor points, cell by cell, and cure up a chronic somatic? You bet you can. And you'll find out that every one of those cells has such a horrible disgust for what he's doing, if you start to tamper with him any. You'll find a cell in the intestine, boy, what he thinks about — whee! You see, the one thing above all others that he was worried about was what passes through the intestine. What you're afraid of in this universe, because of reverse flows, one becomes, Horrible, isn't it?

Listen, 20.0 is action and 20.0 is energy. And gases and less solid things are around 20.0. Ask somebody that's well down the scale that's getting very solid mock-ups, ask somebody if he is getting anything like motion in the fluids in the mock-up. That's interesting. He may get motion with a solid object and not get a single motion in the fluid.

You're interrupting the career, evidently, of a thetan who is on his way toward becoming an entity or a body part. I don't care whether it takes him eighty billion years or one lifetime. It just doesn't matter. You don't have to solve that problem; the dickens with the problem. It isn't much of a problem, anyhow. It doesn't matter whether you've got a time track or not. I can see a lot of relief on some people's faces. They evidently go down the track and they say, "What track?"

So what do you process as he comes up the line? You try to get motions in fluids. And let's consider electricity more or less for our own purposes a fluid. It is, sort of. It's — what's a fluid? A fluid is a loose bunch of particles, that's all.

So you get the idea? You get the idea? Here are all these minds, every single one of them with a potentiality of this character, being run by a big thetan. Now evidently, evidently, the evidence is in favor of you — as you — being a somewhat bigger, larger, better-endowed breed of cat than entities or neurons or some other, smaller variety of cell. Just evidence is in favor of that. Doesn't say it has to be that way.

What's an object? An object is a tight bunch of particles. If you want to be very technical, that happens to be the most technical definition that you can give to a gas, fluid or object. It's how far apart the particles are. So it's space, isn't it? So the amount of space per particle. That tells you then that space comes above energy as a process.

Now, so you're into a field right there where, oh boy, we can just guess all over the place. And not one single guess will influence Theta Clearing beyond this one: as long as we treat the fact that the preclear is a thetan who is running a hell of a lot of thetans, if we treat him in that fashion, we can solve the roughest case there is and we can bring a person up scale level. And we don't have to have any fancy explanation for circuits, and we don't have to have any fancy explanation at all for automaticity. These are very simple. This guy's gotten so accustomed as a thetan to having things done, for him that all he says is "Give me a dog," and so he's got another thetan there that is in a sort of a stupid state of obedience, and this other thetan mocks up a dog for him by building a dog. That could explain automaticity.

It's more important for this preclear to sit down and get himself a bunch of space, really, than it is to put something in it. You get how that would be? You'll find these people are getting mock- ups and they're getting mock-ups in anything but their own space. They're getting it in anybody's space, or anything, or anywhere, or a thousand-year-ago space, or future space, or any kind of space you can think of except their own space. You know, it's a trick for some preclears just to get a mock-up sitting right here in this room. And if you ask your preclear once in a while, "Is it here in this room?"

So we're on an analogy or an explanation theory which makes it easier to work. See, we're not interested in the absolute truth of this; we're just interested in what orients the auditor so he can work a mind.

He'll say, "I never thought of that. No. No." "Well, where is it?"

And this is a good orientation point. It explains automaticity and it also explains this: That preclear who won't make other people work, won't make himself work, won't make cells work, and what do you know, the body gets all out of line. They say, "Oh, that's just him talking. Dickens with him. Let's go on and have this toothache, there's no — there's no future in this body anyway. I can remember a time when I was a — I can remember the time when I was sitting in the sun on the beach, and everything was good. Yeah, that's where I am on the track," this cell says.

He'll say, "It's in black space." "Well, where is black space?"

He actually is sort of thinking that way.

"I don't know, but I always get my mock-ups in black space." "Well, where's the black space?"

Now a thetan actually has, evidently, enough horsepower that when he thinks at a body, the thought goes echoing through a large number of cells. Now if he's really good, we find out all of — if we accept this as an analogy and just as a theory, as its workability, we all of a sudden get a better understanding of Technique 80. You put a communication line through to that body part which is affected. You could do better if you said, "You get those cells in line."

"I don't know."

You know that a preclear can actually say to his body, "What the hell's the matter with you? Get to work! "

And you say, "All right. Put an — mock-up right here in this room."

His body sort of has the feeling, "Oh! Yes sir." It's very funny, but his somatics are liable to shut off completely at that instant.

New thing to him. He says, "My goodness, every time I do that I shoot out there about five hundred miles or something." He says, "I put a mock-up here and I go out — swoosh."

Now, some people who have entities, you start talking to this fellow and he's all circuits. He's just circuits by the ton. And he's got these special entity circuits that you read about in What to Audit [A History of Man], these special entities, six sectional parts of the body, and — the Hindu studies this considerably — and you get all of these, and they talk back, and the auditor can talk to them and they talk to something else. And you can selectively E-meter each one of them just by having the preclear's hands on the cans. You can say, "All right, where are you..." They're all psychotic, by the way.

What's happening? He's in a terrific dispersal and you're trying to tie him down to present time and he isn't even vaguely in present time.

Well, maybe these things were a thetan once, and maybe they're on their way down, and maybe they were installed, and maybe they're just ridges that think, and maybe there's lots of things. Well, we will just accept this fact: it's a mind with its points driven in. It tells you immediately that it's a mind that has to be controlled one way or the other by the preclear. And if he doesn't control it, it starts to control him.

Is it beneficial for this preclear to go on getting mock-ups in black space?

And what's the test of this? This preclear that's got aches and pains through these entity areas, and these entities are stuck on the track and so forth, and you just say to your preclear, "All right. Now let's just get yourself under command."

Hm-hm, if that's the best he can do. Don't build — beat him over the head and chew him up just because he's doing this. Don't get angry with him and so forth just because he's getting objects in black space. And don't beat him to death because he can't put them in the — You see, all you're doing is giving him the maximum number of wins that you can give, and the minimum number of loses.

"What do you mean?"

And if he starts getting loses in the way you want him to do a mock-up, his tone will deteriorate. In mock-ups you're really going up scale on attitude. That's the best thing you can say; and part of that Chart of Attitudes is the Chart of Certainty, and part of the Chart of Attitudes is also every other column. So you're coming up on a mock-up to cause. He's now cause. And when you started out he was anything. He sat there and enjoyed the mock-up which was run in by a little man that he couldn't account for and was put down on a stage which wasn't here in present time, and they were anything but what you asked for but, my, was it amusing.

And he says, "Well, just make your body behave. Just tell it to behave, that's all. And tell it to be quiet, and tell all these things to shut up and to feel good and straighten up. Don't explain anything to them. " Because, by the way, when you start explaining to the body, the same thing happens as happens on a ship when you start explaining to the men.

You get the idea? He's an effect. He's just a spectator. He's sort of letting you call the shots and then they happen. He's just not paying any attention really to what's happening.

You have to talk in terms of postulates. You say, "Liberty will be at four o'clock." Of course, you get into trouble when you follow it up and there's a fellow coming down the gangway at two minutes of four, and you have him brought back and put in the brig and denied liberty, or something like that. Then you're using force and energy and all that sort of thing. That means that you're not a tough enough skipper, that's all. Your word didn't stick with one guy in the crew. So there was one guy in the crew who didn't accept what you said.

Now, when I tell you about the movement of a mock-up, moving it from here to there and back again, and so forth, we're talking about the ability to handle energy. Energy has the manifestations of start, change, stop, change, start, change, stop, change.

Well, what's the remedy for that? The remedy for that is to make everybody in the crew accept what you said. And is that remedy "use force"? No, it's not. The remedy is to be up there to make a postulate so high above energy; because you get a postulate above energy: the more a postulate goes out of energy and space into a higher-level postulate, the more it pervades all space.

There's another change in there than the way it's written in Self Analysis. It's start, change, stop, change, start, change, stop, change; in other words, between every start and stop there's a change. You'll find after a person's failed he'll change, and failure is stop. So there's a change there in the middle. Your preclear will get this as he processes mock-ups. He'll find out that whenever you ask him to change, he's running the change between stop and the new start. So you're asking him for deaths all the time. That's what he keeps giving you, or something of the sort — something gruesome. And you can't account for this at first, until you find out all of a sudden that, of course, after a person dies he has to change and become something else before he can start again. And you told him to get another mock-up and that means you've got to change the mock-up, so he doesn't want to change the mock-up because change to him means death. It would be the interim between death and new life. There's another change in there that you'll discover for yourself You don't have to know this particularly, you'll just find it out for yourself. Now, what does energy do?

Now you get the idea? So the body is best commanded, or a ship is best commanded, or anything else is best commanded, from an altitude which is timeless, spaceless, energiless. You see?

Energy starts and changes and stops and changes. And it follows the various laws of motion. And you'll find out, if you take any preclear, that there is probably one law of motion or more that he is utterly incapable of.

Now if that skipper were good enough, he would never have to lay a hand on a man. He would say, "Liberty's at four o'clock." There would just — this would never happen; no man would ever go down the gangway at two minutes before four. He just sort of — he wouldn't — if he was good enough, he wouldn't even post the order. If he was good enough, he wouldn't even be aboard to run the ship. You see what a level that is?

He's maybe incapable of approximating some law or other of Newton's, like interaction or something of the sort. He's just incapable of processing this one thing. It's missing. He got something stopped; well, he can change it somewhat, but he can't start it. Everything is stop, stop, stop, stop, stop; he never gets a start.

All right. And by the way, there are skippers like that; don't think there aren't. They're strangely enough not the rough sea- dog kind of a fellow, they're — nobody minds them. Nobody — they're usually the very aesthetic officer. They have a style.

When you call for something it appears, he doesn't think he created it really. It's just there, and he's got — if you ask him quickly, he has an automatic reaction that it's been there for some time and that it was created in some other way and he's just taking it just now to use it as a mock-up. This is sort of his reaction on the thing, but he can't start anything.

And they're very offhand, they never really josh with the men or talk to the men or something of this sort; they're usually quite pretty to look at. And they do exactly what they please, really, yet they're quite regular in what they do and they just ignore everybody. And that guy, when he has appeared as a king or appeared as something or other, there was nobody ever got punished. If anybody had started to do something wrong, everybody would just have looked at this fellow with his mouth open. "It couldn't be, this fellow must have been completely insane, I guess we'll have to take care of him. Do you know that he went down the gangway at two minutes of four? The guy's insane!"

You say, "All right. Now, let's get a car, and let's put it out on the street and let's get its motor going.

Well now, it isn't that the entities are tougher than you or the preclear, it's just simply that — or the cells aren't tougher, it's just that you aren't operating high enough out of the area of space and energy to make it stick. You've directed your attention in one direction, and your attention is so much on a postulate level that it becomes fantastic how a body works at all. And it should make you feel very strange to think that you could — you could actually be in shape, or some of the body area, the eyes aren't seeing right or something of that sort.

"Oh, its motor's running," he'll say. You say, "No, let's turn the motor off." Oh, he can do that.

Just put your eye on this: How come it — how come it works at all? That's fantastic. You are — you must have quite a bit on the ball, to be colloquial.

"Now start it again."

The legs work and all sorts of things work. Well, why should they? That's an interesting question. But you — this fellow who tells his entities to be still might not experience more than ten or fifteen minutes of such complete, utter stillness. That's what he — what he gets. He gets a stillness. An implicit obedience and a stillness, and the body all of a sudden starts to function and behave perfectly. And it might not do that for more than ten or fifteen minutes before he's back in the same old rut; but if it happens, it'll happen just on that basis. It'll be: gee, he'll be still and peaceful all of a sudden.

You've ruined him. This person's mock-ups will be quite flat by the way because start is three-dimensional and stop is flat. Stop is heading toward 0.

He'll never have — now, once in a while a preclear, he'll never have — if it works at all, he'll never have anything giving him back-chat. One-way communication line from the thetan to the body, in other words, is a desirable state of affairs. And that's what you are trying to consolidate and finish off in Step I. So a Step I isn't likely, then — after you've made him a Step I, isn't likely to have psychosomatics. Why? That body won't disobey him. Wouldn't think of it! It wouldn't occur to anything.

All right. Now, yes, that's also in the Philadelphia tapes; you needn't pay much attention to it. But there's something about energy that he can't do and it'll be so — his most basic laws of energy that he won't be able to obey — or that he must obey. It's been so enforced and he's agreed with it for so long.

You get the disorganization and the randomity in the body: this disorganization on the part of the body is very, very similar to troops in the face ofyou see, it isn't bad conditions, it isn't arduous living, it isn't lack of rations or lack of water or lack of air (within reason) which is hard on a body; it's lack of coordination and cooperation.

All right. Let's take (I want to take up also cycle of action here with you just to punch this point home on these tapes.) — let's take up a little bit more about agree and disagree and have and have-not.

A body can live through anything. In the first place, there's nothing there. That's right! And if there are other minds doing this sort of thing — if you're of a level that's just making a postulate in their direction — why gee, they don't think in any way beyond attending to duty. That's the way it goes. And when your ability to command is proven to you to be upset, when you are — it's proven to you that you are incapable of command or you can't command or your orders will not be carried out, what happens? What's the first thing that starts kicking up? The cells. It's as though they were now willing to listen to somebody else. "We don't have to believe him anymore. He's humph!"

The MEST universe you will find operates in reverse on the thetan. It's as though he had a mirror image. That's because he is essentially within himself one universe operating against another universe. He is capable of greater change but he is less persistent. Yes, he's very volatile, he can go all that sort of thing but the MEST universe is really persistent.

And what do you know! Do you know that they'll obey other people? They'll obey other human beings. Another human being comes around, this human being might just be talking. "Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap. You ought to feel ashamed of yourself! Do you know what your friends say about you?" — other polite remarks. It's as though a couple of cells are sort of listening in. They say, "Winning valence. She's winning. Hm. Let's be her, huh?" And I don't know but what some of them might not migrate.

You get a particle, you get a particle of — a radioactive particle, and it sits there and it puts out waves for ages and ages and ages. The half-life of a piece of uranium is just wonderful. It just goes on and on and on and on, and it keeps right on going. Well, you'll never meet a preclear that'll glow that long.

After all, you've got billions and billions and billions and billions of them.

Now, so here is your little piece of radium, let's say, and it's glowing. Now some preclear in the past, some thetan, is standing there looking at it glowing. Now what happens? It is putting out a wave, a series of particles which are hitting the preclear. Now they're coming in to the preclear, aren't they? They're moving in on him and away from the piece of radium. So this means that he gets the manifestation of the radium wanting to be agreed with. It appears to him as though the radium is trying to make him agree in some fashion. He gets that inflow; he's conscious of this inflow, and he isn't particularly desirous of agreeing with this piece of radium so he starts to glow back. In other words he starts putting out a wave and that flow of particles out from him should hold off the radium — should — and disagree with the radium and actually quench it. Well, to some degree he can do it. He could probably do it with a — little tiny bit. But as he has deteriorated down the track he gets less and less capable of doing it, until one day radium glows or the sun shines and in comes the particle. He agrees with it, that's that. He agrees with it. He has no choice.

You might not be — now supposing you were the winner. Supposing you were the winner, where your mother was concerned. Mama dies.

For instance, there isn't a person in this room that wouldn't agree with the fact that there was daylight today. Well, what do you want to see daylight for? What's so important about daylight? Well, it sure was there. That meant that the sun was putting out photons.

She's thinking about you when she dies. It becomes very interesting in the theory of migration, doesn't it? Hmmmm! All of a sudden we have the troops corrupted. These agent provocateurs come in and you said, "You know, you're sorry for Mama now, aren't you?" It's not that they hold long conversations with each other; they don't.

And you're in terrific agreement on the subject that when the sun comes out there's light. What do you agree on that for? That's not important to you. The fact of the matter is, it's not important to you — but highly aberrative. You ought to be able to go out and see sunlight or not see sunlight as the case may be. Because the fact that it's always there upsets your power of choice.

The old Boston ships used to make the most out of their men. They used to not only make the men work during the whole voyage picking oakum or something of the sort, from one end of the voyage to the other, when they weren't exactly doing hard work hauling on sails or something. They were really thorough. But for fear they'd lose a moment's work, these days at sea, you see, and going to — a year at sea, going to Canton, China, and back again, they'd have the men so seated around the decks that they couldn't talk or make signs to each other. Each with his pile of oakum, working away. Those men, I don't say they were particularly happy, but they sure picked a hell of a lot of oakum!

And you get this nonsensical reaction then about a glowing piece of — well, let's take the sun. It shines, and if you ever saw a sunbather, boy is he agreeing, he's agreeing, he's agreeing. And of course sometimes, sometimes he's getting sunburned and is he disagreeing like mad, only he's just trying to. Fellow who has to walk down a road and no shade and he has to walk down the road five miles — he's got no shirt on — walks down the road for five miles and, although he doesn't like it, he gets the sun on him all the way if the sun's out. Now that's very oversetting to self-determinism, truth if be told.

Now therefore, this is about the level of action of the cell and the entity and so forth. They'll pick a lot of oakum in the face of good, solid, frank, decisive command. And in the face of wishy-washy or slippy or excusive command, hm-mm!

He should be able to at least put out a black cloud and walk along under it. And that's essentially what your occluded case is doing. It's various levels of disagreement or attempted disagreement. And your occluded case is probably disagreeing or trying to disagree like mad. He's still in there fighting; and the case that's subject to automaticity has just succumbed on the whole thing, and they'll just take anything that comes along — sunshine, starshine, radium-shines, anything-shines — they won't try to shut it off. They just let it come in. That's that.

So your test of your survival, then, is the ability to work. What's the ability to work? That's below the ability to play. Playing also, to some degree, takes effort. So let's just cover it by saying effort. But for the purposes that we're trying to explain right now, let's use the word work and that'll be better understood.

Now, of course they can see all sorts of facsimiles too. But then they're able to agree with this much energy, and so forth, and still go mad on the subject. You'd be surprised how thoroughly they obey engrams when they're way down tone scale. Boy, they really obey them! Whee! They walk five feet due north and the engram says, "Walk northwest" — bow! and they're walking northwest. To an occluded case the engram is likely to say "Walk northwest," and he walks a little slower but he keeps on walking north. He's still able to be mean and nasty and cantankerous.

Is a man willing to work himself and others? If he's willing to work them until they drop of exhaustion and then he says, "What is the matter with you, dropping of exhaustion? Now get up and get hold of the shovel! " — if he's willing to do that, he will come out of his head like that (snap!).

Now the mistake we have made so far about occluded cases and wide-open cases is that very often the wide-open case was simply an automatic case. It could see anything that came up. It was in a perpetual state of agreement with the MEST universe. And the occluded case had many, many levels and so did the wide-open case have many levels. Perceptics would go on and off to the point where he agreed and disagreed.

And if he's the sort of a fellow that would work a man until the man fell over and then go over and pick him up and pat him on the head and give him a drink of water and send for the doctor and interrupt the other work, he'll get out of his head like — well, like that....

So this tells you that on the tone scale as you go up the tone scale from 0 on up, you're going through various levels whereby the preclear agrees and disagrees — that's all that says. He favors at various levels of the tone scale agreement with the MEST universe, and he favors at various other levels on the tone scale disagreement with it.

And if he's the sort of a man that would have sat around in the shade saying, "Well, let's see, let's figure out a better way to run that mill," he'll get out of his head much more slowly, if at all.

Just like you get enthusiasm. You never thought of enthusiasm as disagreement, but that's what it is. It's an outflow, and you will find out the fellow is mostly enthusiastic about getting rid of or overcoming or doing something that remedies a situation. So of course he's disagreeing with some situation. And he's outflowing like mad. At antagonism, everybody knows antagonism is a "wonderful state" of disagreement. And even a 1.1 dispersing like mad is disagreeing.

And if he's the guy — if he's the guy that would say, "Let's see, if we organize something or other without too much labor, if we organize some kind of an outfit like a union, that'll keep everybody from working. And these poor fellows that have to work, and God knows how can these..." this guy doesn't get out of his head. You've got — you've got trouble on your hands right now, as an auditor. You have got a direct index, in other words.

Well now, as you go up the line, agreement is the direction of flow, as a person agrees or disagrees, and it's whether the flow is coming in to him or going out. Now that flow actually reverses.

And what's that index? To survive, one has to work. So the degree that one is willing to work is the degree that one survives. And let's take the chart in Book One [see Chapter 3], and we'll find out that way up there at the top of the scale is highest level of survival and that's potential immortality, and we get above that and we've got a thetan. So as he descends into survival we get — he really has to work harder and harder to survive and he dodges more and more to survive, and then he gets down to a point where he won't work to survive and work is horror to him, really horror.

Low on the tone scale people disagree inwards. You every once in a while run into somebody fairly low on the tone scale who is disagreeing like mad by pulling in. Wonderful, isn't it? I mean that's really in reverse. Every time he disagrees he pulls in.

You see, they fixed up guy — you know, I'm not asking anybody these days — we don't even need to have whole track. It's just so interesting. Your preclears every once in a while will run into these darned incidents and if they're pretty well off, why, for heaven's sakes let them run one. It'll put their case back a little bit sometimes. But let them run them; because they're fascinating, some of these incidents they'll get into. But the point is that we don't have to pay any attention to that type of incident. We need it perhaps a little bit in evaluation, try to figure something out; we know that we've got data of this kind. And the professional auditor ought to know it very well indeed. He doesn't have to believe a line of it, doesn't have to worry about it for himself or anybody else.

Well, that means he gets everything in the MEST universe coming in on him and only those things coming in on him which thoroughly upset him.

You start forcing this on a preclear, by the way, who has a vast uncertainty about it, and what have you given him? You've given him a terrible uncertainty. And he can go around worrying about that uncertainty until he's practically dead. "Did I ever live before? I don't remember it." So the dickens with that. Memories of a — data of that character is of no importance anyway.

Now, the next fellow up the line, he agrees inward. And a little higher up the line the fellow reverses again. He disagrees outward, and then he disagrees inward — whichever way you want to plot it, it doesn't matter, see? It goes up by strata and it's a direction of flow.

So How willing is he to work? tells you immediately How willing is he to be commanded? Ha-ha. Isn't that fascinating? Because as he goes on down tone scale he can more and more be handled as MEST. So what do you know? His body starts to handle him low on the tone scale, and his body can reach out and keep him in. And there's thetans all over the place inside that body that say, "Isn't he a nice pet?"

Below 2, for instance, your flow is mainly inward, a fellow can batter very little flow aside; but where you get changes of manifestation the flow has reversed for agreement and disagreement.

I've seen some generals like that. Troops all sloppy and the barracks grounds all upset and the uniforms worn backwards and nobody ever reports for drill and so forth, just horrible condition. Slop all over the parade ground and that sort of thing. But the troops keep him; he's cute. This is the state any kind of a socialist army is liable to get into.

For Homo sapiens normally, flowing in, it's quite sane to flow in to agree if you're using flows. You're not supposed to be using flows, but if you're using flows you flow inward when you disagree. I mean, you let it — I mean, when you agree, pardon me. Agreement is inwards, and disagreement is outwards, and that is a pretty sane level for Homo sapiens. Now, you'll find people below that level on the tone scale are agreeing outwards, and they're disagreeing by pulling in, which is reverse.

By the way, the body then is like a political body. It is commanded from an eminence on certain high principles, ethics and so forth, and it's just commanded from an eminence. Or it's governed on a sort of a democratic sort of a level. And as the body is catered to, the body demands to be catered to. And as a thetan pets and pampers the body, he creates indigence on the part of the cells and they begin to feel sorry for themselves.

Now, what's this all about? This means that if the fellow walked up to a big piece of radium and had the flow coming from the radium, he could either throw up an occlusion of some sort so the particles wouldn't reach him or he could let those particles go right straight on through and be uninfluenced, and that's the safest, toppest bracket there is. Not use of force screens, not combating with energy, not manufacturing energy or anything of the sort at all. Toppest tone scale there is, is it goes on through — uninfluenced by it. He doesn't fight it, he doesn't accept it, he doesn't do anything; it just goes on through.

And their own tracks begin to kick in. Their own tracks begin to kick in, cell by cell by cell by cell. And the first thing you know, he's in terrible shape.

He works on postulates, not on flows. So when we get up the tone scale, we find out that this material that would be coming off the radium would find nothing to hit. And the fellow could stand there for ten billion years and nothing would happen to him at all. But just a little bit down from that the radium hits and he throws up a screen and occludes it from hitting him. He just says, "It won't hit because it's going to hit this screen."

Well, that's an interesting screen. The black particles of it are actually light particles which he's turned black and they're added to by uranium particles which turn black. So he gets a nice, great big soupy mass of black particles out in front of him and he says, "This is just exactly what I ought to be doing, shutting this stuff off." That's very aberrative. Well, that's an occlusion level.

Now we get down below that, the person says, "Radium, radium, ah, radium! Ah, radium! Feel it going through me. Ali, radium. Let's all make an atomic bomb. Ah, radium." You know, completely psychotic. "Wonderful stuff, radium," see?

Well, now supposing we added another natural law of this MEST universe to that pile of radium. We got some radium here and it's flowing at a fellow, and he's trying to hold it off of him, and gravity is working. He's using energy so he has mass himself. He has mass. That means that gravity is going to operate on him. And the gravity is going to seek to pull him in against the radium, because the radium is a mass big enough to have gravity.

So, he's being pulled in against the radium by gravity and the radium particles are coming back against him. Does he have a ghost of a chance of getting off of this thing by using energy? Very faint indeed. Because he will push against it and when he pushes against it, he of course will come closer to it. No reason for that, he just excites his own mass.

Now, when he pushes against the radium he comes closer to it, and when he pulls against the radium he goes further from it but he sticks there. He might not go away from it at all. His effort to get off of this radium, then, by energy is null and void. He'll stay there. And afterwards when he starts to use energy you tell him to go to the right and he'll move to the left. Everything's starting to go in reverse on him. Flows reverse on him. Now, you'll see that.

Now, some fellow that's watched a lot of particles go by has felt the suction of the particle after it's gone by, and he feels a reverse english (you might say) on particles after that. Why?

Because when a particle — when a particle goes that way, the impulse which he has — now receives as a countereffort is a suction which is pulling in the reverse direction. He's watched the particle come back toward him, but he's seen the particle go that way. He gets confused. And all you have to know about this is, you watch a preclear in reverse, you know he's using energy and he's a level of the tone scale which has reversed the energy.

You see, it reverses high on the scale. First they just start using energy straight, then it reverses and they use it backwards, and then that reverses and they are using it straight again, and you're going right on down scale, and it reverses again; they're using it backwards till they get to the bottom and they are energy. They're an object.

Now that's — just don't be alarmed. The only reason I'm stressing this is don't be alarmed if your preclear starts telling you, "When I want to be bad I'm good, and when I want to be good I'm bad. And when I go to the right I go to the left. And this is all very upset...." This doesn't even establish his position on the tone scale. It establishes him to be in a band that he is passing through which reverses energy, that's all. When he pulls, it goes away.

Now, you ask this fellow to get a mock-up out here in front, and you say, "Now move it a little further away from you." And he pushes on it, and it moves closer to him. He pushes on it again, and it moves closer to him.

"Hm!" he says, "this is bad! " He gets very upset.

You say, "All right, now to make it move further away, put a little line on it and give it a twitch."

"Yeah! " he says, "it moves away. What do you know! Ha!" Great relief.

The way you make something move away at that band on the tone scale is to grab it by the collar. It'll leave.

Now, you've had him doing GITA, and he's going along very beautifully, and all of a sudden you start in on the subject of women. And he puts a woman in front of me — front of him and it goes whap! right in his face. And he puts another woman out there and she goes whap! So he decides he will hold the next woman off.

He puts up a woman like this, and she goes in so fast she just sort of disappears. And the more he tries to hold off these mock- ups he's getting here the faster they're moving in, until it just starts up a whirlwind around him. O-o-oh, he can start going down scale like mad.

How do you remedy this? You say, "Put up a woman. Now put a belt on her. Now pull the belt towards you." Zing! And she goes away.

"Put up another woman, pull her towards you slightly," she goes away.

"Wait a minute," he says, "they get out there about twenty feet and stick."

You say, "Reach out and pull them a little bit towards you and they go away."

He says, "So they do. Well," he says, "I can get rid of women."

That's a new level of certainty, and what do you know! He'll decide all his flows in reverse and he's just fine now. He can handle all that. But he passes through this band with great rapidity, and now you put a woman up in front of him and he reaches out with great confidence to grab her by the belt and give her a slight twitch toward himself, and she pulls right on in.

This upsets him for an instant and then he realizes he can handle them straight. He puts up the mock-up, pulls it in, puts up the mock-up, pulls it in. He gets along just famously like this, and he puts a woman up in front of him and he reaches out and grabs hold of the belt to pull her in — she goes away.

Now, he thinks he's back where he started from again. No, no.

He's just hit the upper reversal-of-flow level, that's all. And he'll learn very soon as he mocks up that the way to use mock-ups is not by energy. He'll find out as you process him — and this you should be particular that he does find out — he discovers that the last thing you use is energy. That's terrible stuff, awful stuff.

Now, on the subject then of mock-ups and energy flows, remember these things can go in reverse and remember that energy then, just on this thing that he puts up force screens at various levels on the scale to keep energy particles from coming in, remember then he's got strata of occlusion to go through; and he may come — be coming right on up the tone scale and one day his stuff is good and the next day he thinks it's bad, because he's judging it solely on sight. And if you judged it only on sight you would be in an awfully confused state about whether this case was advancing or not. It's certainty that it advances on.

Now, just a very fast mention here of something that is quite important. You will find out that people have a very hard time — this is particularly true in GITA and I'll try to mention it again, but I might forget it and it's too important to pass over — that one of the main things people have trouble with is getting people to leave from in front of them and they just go into apathy. And very often you will get a case that if you can just get one person to walk away in a mock-up from in front of them, just one person to walk away, the case will jump points on the tone scale. There — this is too important to miss. This is one of those techniques if you took this overall broad material that we have, there are just a few things really that are workable and stressable beyond any workability and stress that I couldn't hammer them home hard enough. I've tried to do that by constant repetition. They are very valuable pieces of information because they lead almost immediately to a heightened tone.

Well now, this little part of GITA, if I don't mention it again, is one of the most valuable things that you can do for various reasons to get somebody to walk away, very often. And there'll be another case rarer that will practically revert and come back to battery and be in beautiful shape just because they got somebody to walk in toward them. The reverse, you see. You just accomplish just that one action and you'll very often get a most singular and startling result.

And the other one is differentiation of mock-ups. I mean just wide differentiation on mock-ups and lots of mock-ups. Boy, you've just got it. You couldn't, you can't possibly overestimate this one. I mean, you haven't got any blank wall to go into now. I'm sorry that you haven't any excuse left!

The case bogs down and is in bad condition and you don't know what to do next in terms of what you'd consider higher, faster techniques and so forth, you've got the technique in Self Analysis. And just because this is a popular little book, my God, don't overlook it. You might — you see, you might overlook this, because it's knowing processing by mock-ups as a professional auditor; you combine those techniques with the lists in Self Analysis, and you can't run into a brick wall. That's all there is to it.

And it's with great relief that I can tell you that — great relief that I can tell you that, because we never had before something where we could say, "Now look, in the last eventuality you do that, and you do that until the case is in good shape and can do something else." We never had a technique that was — you could just say that about it and have it be true. But, we've got it in this. We've got it in Self Analysis — those lists. Because they're so gunshot they'll hit most anything, and if you make him handle these a little bit to the limit of his ability, why, he'll come up scale. And it's good as a group process which we'll say some more about.

Now, there's another item, another item that I'm going to give you, a whole therapy here all in one fell swoop in the last three-quarters of an inch of tape. I mean there's — there are just a few yards there, ten minutes. Okay. This is cycle of action.

Oh, my God, you'll hear cycle of action on the Philadelphia tapes until you are ready to shoot any cyclist you see down the street. Cycle of action, cycle of action.

Cycle of action combined with mock-up produces the doggonedest technique. It's just one of the most interesting techniques and it's spotty. It might produce for you some very excellent results and it might not. But the theory is this: The preclear is trying to carry out some cycle of action in the past which he's been unable to finish.

Where do you find your preclear stuck on the track? You find your preclear stuck on the track at those points where he was — had every chance to succeed and suddenly failed. He was just started on this spiral and he was in beautiful shape. He was the — he was a general or he was something or other and, boy, he was young, he had every chance in the world and his wife left him or ruined his career or something of the sort, and you find him stuck right there — chink, chink.

Well, when that's combined with pain and unconsciousness he'll stick on the track right there. Why? Ever afterwards he's trying to complete his cycle of action and he's trying to modify his actions any way he can think of and he's kind of in apathy.

What's he trying to do? He's trying to finish the cycle of action as a general. Now he's never been a general since, he's never been anywhere near an army since. He was in one once and they court-martialed him because there he was, a buck private in the rear rank, and he kept acting like a general. And this was very sad. And so that was another big failure and he's still plunging at this line. He hits this life, he tries to finish it as a cycle of action, and what is a life? It's a cycle of action. And he's - goes a third of the way through it, he hits a big failure and he doesn't — isn't much interested in finishing this cycle of action so he starts to finish old cycles of action.

So what do you find? You find him in the horrible state of actually keying in with malice aforethought, so he can finish these old cycles of action, all the rough engrams on the track. And they were only rough for this reason: They interrupted a desirable cycle of action.

You can examine every engram in restimulation from that viewpoint and get a true and good, accurate analysis of what it is doing there in restimulation. You can logicize and rationalize all you want to and you won't get as good an explanation as that in terms — because they'll only be in terms of logic and logic is second- rate compared to an overall law which explains all these logical facts.

So we could say the reason he's got this in restimulation is because his wife kept getting hiccups and that restimulated all the dog engrams in the case, and this happened and that happened and something else happened. And we can logicize about it all we want to, and we still won't get down to this one point: The reason it's in restimulation is it's an interrupted cycle of action and he's now trying to finish the cycle of action. And every time he tries to finish this cycle of action he runs into the engram so now he's permanently stuck in the engram. It's just as simple as that.

This fellow's been driving down the street, trying to drive through the telephone pole ever since. And you'll find — you'll ask him to get a visio on an accident someplace on the track and he'll have a still picture and here will be this still picture.

Why is it a still picture? It's an uncompleted cycle of action of some sort. Maybe they're a little cycle of action, maybe they're a big one. So what do you do? You run cycles of action at random with mock-ups, not on anything in particular. You just run a cycle of action on a mock-up.

What's a cycle of action as a life? Conception, birth, childhood, growth, conservation, decay, death. You just run mock-ups that do these. You — he just starts at this side of the room and you run him through a cycle of action on a life. And you just keep running him through another life.

And he'll say, "Wait a minute, I can't get past that point."

And you say, "Well, that's all right, just shoot the guy and go on to the time you..."

"Da — well, I don't know, I can't get past that point." "Well, if you can't get past that point, why, just put a coffin there and knock the mock-up into the coffin. Now move the coffin down to the point where it died." "Yeah, I can do that."

In other words, you just make him finish cycles of action, cycles of action. Any kind of a cycle of action you can think of.

And he has a hobby right now which irrationally is collecting cuspidors. And probably in some barroom one night when he was a great singer or something of the sort, why, he dropped a diamond into the cuspidor and he was trying to pick it out of the cuspidor, or something of the sort, and somebody shot him. Well, we don't care what it is, we just have him run cycles of action.

And what's a cycle of action as a thetan? Well, that's being big and getting smaller. So you have this big beam of light and have it get smaller. The darnedest things will turn up.

Do you run them when they turn up? Do you pay any attention to your preclear when he tells you all about it? He says, "You know the most interesting thing? I — I've just seen it and you — you know I think I was once Enrico Caruso, and — and so forth?"

And you say, "That's very, very fascinating, Go on to the death." And he says, "Well, there's this beautiful funeral."

And you say, "Well, bury him in a vegetable garden."

Get out of agreement with these cycles of action. Just get him so sick of the idea of finishing a cycle of action that he doesn't even want to finish this one, and then process him some more and all of a sudden his interest in life will return.

Now that's processing by cycle of action. It's a technique all by itself, can be done by mock-ups. Do it in disagreement with the MEST universe. Run it backwards. Be born in a coffin and die in an operating — maternity ward or anyway you want to, but finish cycles of action.

Have racing ships start at one end and finish up at another end of a course....