And this is the 28th of January, 1954, afternoon lecture. And this afternoon we’re going to take up what else you can do with, more or less, this same process.

You’ve seen that there is something to, now, this processing “courage.” Courage, of course, processed that way is, evidently, the first entrance below serenity into resistance and it’s resistance itself which brings about the single aberration of restriction. If you want to know what an aberration is, it’s restriction.

Is it the 29th? - could be. Alright, January the 28th, 1954.

And so the first entrance into flows would then be courage, but it happens to be a soluble particle. Courage is not bad, nobody is damning courage, you understand. It’s just the fact that it just takes more than the thetan thinks he has to mock-up, to knock out this system of ridges which are the communication systems of the individual.

Your understanding of this subject should have materially increased. Let's take a preclear and take a look at him, communication wise, and what do we find, what do we find. We find a whole bunch of ridges and masses of energy which lack a proper form but which are composed of communication segments. I don't care if there's eight billion million yards of communication line or which direction it travels, it's composed of segments and segments always go from C to E. You can take any Western Union Telegraph line, you can take any telephone line, you can take anything you want that's a communication line and cut a section out of it and you'll find out that it has a C and it has an E unless it's a two-way conversation line at which time the Cs and Es will reverse, but you still have the same graph.

If you believe you are handling anything else but a communication system, I invite you to put somebody on the E-Meter while you’re running some courage on him and when it goes clonk, you investigate further. And you will find him in a facsimile. And if you will continue to run the courage or handle that as an automaticity, I invite you to run him a little bit further, at which time you will see the E-Meter go clonk again and you will be in another facsimile. And then you run some more courage and you will see the E-Meter go clonk and he’ll be in another facsimile.

So, let's take a look at what this preclear's been trying to do. It started out as a Thetan to be cause, got into a body and became an effect, therefore, his early lines are all causative, his later lines are all effect. The curve of the universe is from create to destroy. That parallels communication line from cause to effect, with create there in the same position as cause, and destroy in the same position as effect, with effect in the same position as destroy, and with cause in the same position as create. In the middle of the communication line you have the persistence of the message.

What are we trying to do? We’re trying to get a straight line from C, thetan, to E, body. Well, there’s a couple ways of doing it: and one of those ways is just to ignore any lines and process on 8-C, which to a large degree simply ignores any lines, neglects them. Or process on the other process which you have there, which is just a straight communication process with a catalyst particle. This is a communication process using a catalyst particle which plows through the lines.

Alright! Let's take a look then and find out this tremendous bundle of connecting links and so forth, communication lines were originally of very simple purpose - and that was simply cause to create an effect. Significance? Yeah, cause to create an effect. Very significant - cause to create an effect, no further. Not to create an effect because of, or into, or on the other side of, or to invert the noodle paddles of. No, no, no significance here at all, it's just cause to create an effect. Then we got a classification good and bad, and this classification, to some degree, was monitored by this: Control consists, consists of the ability to Start, Change and Stop, Start, Change and Stop at the effect point. So, communication was essentially duplication. A fellow started and changed and stopped at the cause point in order to get the effect at the effect point of starting, changing and stopping.

All of a sudden, this will start to make sense to you. I’ve had to teach you about automaticity. You should teach somebody all about automaticity and give him a very clear understanding of automaticity and randomity before you try to teach him anything about Courage Processing, because it turns on so many automaticities. And the main automaticity it turns on is “body out of control,” so you just handle that as you would any other automaticity. It’s a very simple matter: all you have to do is have the preclear mock it up approximating it or be it or be alternately himself and it. Any other method we have of handling automaticity handles this automaticity.

Military people are always going around and saying, (intentionally garbled nonsense).... No, pardon me, that's stated incorrectly. It's hard to be wrong on this one, "He who would, he who would learn to command must first learn to obey", that's what they always say. In other words you got to be both ends of the communication line. If they said, "He who would learn to command had first better learn to obey himself", why it would make good sense because most of the people you find commanding, can't obey themselves and they expect everybody else to obey them but they can't obey themselves, but they don't put anything there to duplicate so you can't duplicate it. So, if you try to duplicate it, why you can't and it's just a mess (chuckle)- in the army.

But this is the kingpin turner-upper of automaticities: Courage Processing. And you can turn up more serious automaticities in less time with this type of processing than anything else I’ve ever run into. Had this one for quite a while, but an auditor who isn’t grounded in randomity, communication, automaticity and a dozen other things, such as from Know down to Sex and so forth, the Tone Scale and so on, he’s liable to get very, very badly adrift.

Anyway, we cause to effect, so therefore we find duplication and communication both in the same bin. Well, communication, when it travels as a particle, of course meets resistance of one kind or another and the duplications are not as perfect as they mightbe, therefore you get a jam on this line. There's always a jam on a comm line. I don't care how slight it is, there must be .. there's some error, some friction, some inability to make a complete duplication and so you get imperfection in the communication line - cause to effect. The effort to get the communication through brings about an, an obsession to control at E. You see, because the thing is impeded, why then they try to control it at E. See, who cares up to that moment, they find out then that there's a resistance in the line, so they'd better overcome the resistance one way or the other. Well this is control. The definition of control is: overcoming the resistance of. That's a definition of control.

Here is a process which is something like flying a very, very hot airplane. If you were to take somebody who was trained on a little Taylorcraft or something of the sort and then shove him into the cockpit of this Courage Processing, it’d take more nerve than he would have. Furthermore, it is not a process which can be generally released, because it takes too much out of the auditor.

Okay! It's alright if there were just one line involved here. If you just had a Thetan connected to a body, for instance, and when the Thetan said jump, the body jumped, but that isn't what happens. The Thetan says jump, he's at a finite point, he isn't buttered all over the bank, he's at a finite point, and he says jump and it runs a little distance and says, "can't jump". He plows through that somehow or another and it goes to another one and says, "jumping is like horses", and then it goes through another comm jump and it says, "one can't be a horse", and then it goes through another comm jump, parallel to that you still got the original message with some sense in it, and you'll say, "jumping is ungentlemanly, so therefore horses are not gentlemen". It goes through another one and it goes round and round and curls through the bank one way or the other and it keeps hitting these resistances because, - essentially what? You're controlling your body through a consecutive series of energy deposits which were laid there every time you did not complete a cycle of control. When a cycle of control is not completed, an energy deposit had a tendency to be left in suspension.

The auditor is sitting there being serene, running the hottest process he could run. He's sitting there being courageous, in the face of a hot process, with all of the courage that he mocks-up and all the serenity he mocks-up and all the calmness he mocks-up just being dragged down to the bottom of the barrel, swoosh, by the preclear. Kind of amusing that you have this degree of action here.

The Thetan, quite normally, puts in these things consecutive with the mest universe time element. Most people's commands are going into the bank at the assumption, there's command. First effort to control. It runs through the bank, unlike conception, straight on up through the various multiple incidents of existence, each one of them filtering and altering the communication somewhat and finally arrives in some sort of a state of control. It becomes very interesting when you regard the engram and when you regard valences. The command which the individual, who is now let us say twenty years of age, puts into the bank as a Thetan, is put into the bank, if he's not in good shape ordinarily, is put into the bank at the assumption point. You see? In other words, the command, the command starts in at assumption and filters all the way through the comm lines, each time being monitored by the experience of the individual as represented by those times when his control of the body was balked.

Now, there’s been some of you walking around in circles saying, “We want action, we want action, we want action, we’ve got to have action, we’ve got to have action.” Well, the amount of climb that a preclear has to take from Homo sap to Operating Thetan has never been any shorter than the distance it has been. It isn’t any shorter at this moment it won’t be any shorter tomorrow. It is the same amount of stuff. Let’s call it eight hundred billion miles of stuff. And just because we invent a new process, this stuff doesn’t get any closer or the communication situation doesn't change. None of the phenomena changes.

These communication lines go in and out to the degree that they're restimulated. We get a tremendously mechanical picture here, so mechanical that it could be drawn with electrical symbols. Here you have these facsimiles and these communication lines that the Thetan is using are going on through all the facsimiles which are in restimulation. When it hits a facsimile where poppa won, the communication goes over and is monitored by winningness poppa. When it was a bannister that won, the communication goes through the bannister. It goes through poppa, the bannister, any ... his tonsillectomy, any incident which is in suspense.

Now, whenever you have a problem with the preclear, it is actually a problem in restriction and that’s all. Totality of the problem is summed up under restriction. You could state it in numbers of ways, but that’s a real close, narrow, fast way. He’s restricted. He can’t receive or reject. He can’t accept or reject. He’s restricted in motion, he’s restricted in action, restricted in space. He has too much space or too little space, too much motion or too little motion.

You see, it's a restimulation and you mock up this communication line and you'll see that it is travelling in the most peculiar paths and going through the most peculiar command deposits and when it comes out at the other end, lord knows what's going to happen.

Now, restriction is the thing this universe specializes in, since it pounds at an individual on a 360-degree sphere with every type of wavelength which it has. Therefore, with this 360-degree sphere we find the preclear getting smaller. We might expect him to eventually wind up running a small pebble or an atom in the pebble, if the universe held good and continued to be a trap. Very likely, this happens. I don’t know, as far as that’s concerned, even whether it’s important or not.

Well, the Thetan gets apathetic about this after a while and he just sort of pulls it in and wonders what's going to come out. He says so and so and so and so and the body has to be very closely watched because something else is liable to happen. He starts to say cat and the body says, "de-de-du cat", - tries to say dog. And so, he's just a police force and he pours his commands in through the bank and then he jumps to the effect point to see that they're carried out, cured. It's the most balled up communication system you ever wanted to see.

But it is important that it requires more darn serenity than a preclear is able to mock-up where he sits in a body and requires more courage than he is able to assemble while sitting there in a body. In fact, the universe requires more than he can deliver while sitting in a body. And it ain’t safe, folks. It just isn’t safe.

Now there is an old technique in one of the earlier SOPs called ridge running. This is an interesting technique to examine, not so therapeutic, but it's examination is terrific. They say, you get the preclear to say walk, tell the body to walk, and you have him observe very closely what the body is doing. If there's any little line that turns white, that's what you want to know, you want him to look and see if there's a little line there that turns white, simply.

Now, you can go on theorizing and saying it’s all very well to talk about exteriorization and so forth-these techniques work on somebody interiorized. Sure, they do. But even the state of Theta Clear isn’t very safe. Fellow can knock back in, simply because he hasn’t ever, anywhere on the track, drilled himself up to an ability to create the necessary quantities of thises and thats necessary to handle existence. Were you able to create, from one corner of this universe to the other, enough serenity-so that it would stay there, you know, not just be soaked up by the whole universe-were you able to create this, this universe would disappear.

Well, you normally will find one, and it runs for a moment or two, or sometimes a minute, - white, while he's pouring the command walk at the body, and then all of a sudden it goes black. And he says, "what happened to that?" So, you say, " well, alright, - now have the body sort of say to you, can't walk", and be alert for what's going on, and all of a sudden he says, "You know", he says, "there's another line coming white, only it's travelling in the opposite direction".

Now, you can think all you want to about blowing it up savagely and suddenly and pulling off its pins and knocking it down one way or the other, but you wouldn’t get very far. Violence only begets more restriction. If you don’t believe this, fire a twelve-gauge shotgun sometime. Put it lightly to your shoulder (don’t bother to press it against your shoulder very much) and hold it rather loosely and pull the trigger. Well, where the bullets landed and where you landed received the same foot-poundage. So, that’s violence. That’s the use of force-force particle.

So, it travels white for a little while, then it goes black. Now you say, "feed the body the command, "walk" again", and this time the line is shorter but there's a new line goes white, and it runs white for a little while, and then you say to him ... it turns black, and then you say to him, "now what command goes back against that?". He'll think for a moment, and he'll say, "it's gotta jump". "Alright" you say, "alright the body's flowing back at you with the statement, - you gotta jump". "Alright", he says, "it goes white again", and that runs out and goes black and then we run the command "walk" at the body again and it goes through for a little while and turns black.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with using force so long as an individual can handle force. You handle force by interiorizing and exteriorizing or by mocking it up or unmocking it. What we’re dealing with, with SOP 8-0, is how to handle this universe rather than, really, how to make a guy happy.

Now we gotta find the next abutment through which this command has to filter. In other words, the command "walk" goes through ridge after ridge, after ridge, after ridge, after ridge, after ridge and each one is an objection. Each one is a resistance to walking. So a Thetan very well might say to a body "walk", and then, "well I don't know if there's much reason to walk, let's take the car". He didn't have any intentions of this but this is the final conclusion he feels he must have arrived at. Well, what made him arrive at this conclusion? Well, a lot of data - no, a lot of ridges because all of those objections sum up to can't walk.

So, let’s look over this problem and realize that we’re dealing with a finite, unchanging, stable problem. The problem now, as stated, is terrifically stable. The MEST universe is a game consisting of barriers. The handling of a form depends upon the control of the form. In order to play the game all the way, you have to handle a form of some sort. If you’re going to get around and handle the form around barriers, you’d sure better know about forms and you sure better know about barriers. That form, every time it’s matched up on the wavelength of this universe, is just going to get pounded and pounded and hammered and hammered and hammered and hammered and caved-in more and more and more. And it’s not going to do any outflowing, all it’s going to do is inflow.

You can take a cripple and run this technique and very often produce a fantastic change in his case because every time the individual walked and it was a mis-command, that is to say, he said "walk" and the body walked and ran into a brick wall. He said "walk" and the body walked and fell down. Every time the individual gave it a command which came out badly, you got something on the line which impeded the command.

Well, then you, handling that form, agreeing with it continually, mocking yourself up continually so that it will act, had certainly better never slip on this one. Your health, as a thetan, depends on your ability to emanate. And the health of the MEST universe depends on its ability to emanate. Where the MEST universe cannot emanate, it dies. It gets down to a final spot and explodes, as plutonium, actually It’s very curious, but it’s rigged so that it can’t get down to a spot where it can’t emanate. There is always a more dense state from which it will, eventually, emanate.

So the communication system, in this case, is a very complex affair which is only complex the way it looks. You mean... you could ... you see, you could draw this tremendously complex communication system - wires in all directions, objections in all directions, thinking machines set up, and monitor posts, and somatics, and enforcements, and boy, you could just draw this up in all directions. It's just the most complex thing you ever wanted to look at, but what it all boiled down to is C to E. Now, he's trying to get a command from C to E, and any part of that line, as I was saying there, you could take C to E, it's just that one command, "now walk" and it runs white. Well, it's working as long as it's running white there, you see. Now, however, when we get to E, the E has received the command alright, "walk", but it restimulates at E, instead of a duplication of the command to get through the relay system, it hits something that it can't go through and so we get the reaction, can't walk. Now that's, that's the first mess up on the line and we have the E point backfiring on the command line. So, we're getting a communication which has become a conversation.

Well life, confronted with this tremendous automaticity can use it only so long as life understands that it is a static, that it is more vital to be able to create a form than it is to preserve one, that one should be able to exteriorize out of and interiorize into anything, that one should be able to fix and unfix his attention and fix and unfix other attentions, at will, and one should be able to dematerialize and rematerialize anything. And if one could do that, this universe holds no qualms. None. And when one can’t do that, it’s a deathtrap.

Now, if you've ever had anything to do with a company of men or a maid and you have tried to order these people, or this person, to do something, you quite often found that it degenerated, instead of a easy operation, which you were trying to do, it degenerated into a conversation. What you're doing is hitting a ridge in another person, "Well, I don't quite understand why", "Well I really can't do that". Shoot these "can't" people in an organization. Just take 'em out and stand them up in front a firing squad, and go out and get something done, because what they are is practically solid backflash. See, their bank is so solidly backlashing that every time you, or they, try to put a command into the bank, it's just a backfire. That's all! Just the impulse of a command going in causes and motivates their behavior.

Now, if you will explain to me just how an individual can do other than go into a dwindling spiral on something which pounds him from 360-degree sphere, continually, and lets him emanate very slightly indeed-the entering wave is going faster than the departing wave; therefore, always, some particles of the wave remain, every time it reflects. And when you see that this is additive mass and that this additive mass principle itself is quite sufficient to bog him down in mass, if you see that, you’ll recognize that that is jail. Jail is merely a dramatization of this.

But what's their behavior? They say "walk" - "Well, let's all go dancing". They tell themselves, "Walk down to the corner" and this immediately comes up as, "Well, I guess I'll have a coke". This ... anything ... no sequitur. But yet, there is a sequitur situation; it's going through multiple experiences and being redefined at each experience ridge. Now, the individual never got into trouble about this until he thought he had to resist something in order to command it. He immediately degenerated into energy. The moment he got into energy to command something, there he went. See? He got into the energy flows and then he could get backfired at. As soon as he started saying "walk" and then paid some attention to why it wasn't walking instead of just walking it, and as soon as he decided that it should behave in a certain fashion without his doing any more about it, he's tried to set up some sort of an automatic motivation machinery, or an automatic operation machinery, or an automatic moving machine, see,to which he can say, "walk" and then it walks. Well, of course, this works for a very short time and then this automaticity start to break down and get into this silly communication set up that you see in a bank. Now I don't care how complex this bank is, it breaks down to this essential: That C to E must be a clean channel - at least somewhere. But the whole bank is composed of Cs to Es.

You’ll find any preclear that doesn’t exteriorize well is, actually, basically terrified of this universe, but he’s wasting courage by being apathetically effortful about it. He is. He’s just going along and trying to ignore it all. And he’ll get through, muddle through somehow, he figures. And as we run this, some of the darnedest manifestations take place. He finds out he can’t touch anything. He doesn’t dare touch anything. He is so afraid of these barriers, of this space and this thing called time, that he’s frozen into an immobility which will not permit him to emanate, because he will not be able to get past the barriers, of course. He knows he can’t emanate, because he knows there are barriers.

Now, how much can you, how much can you by-pass? You never heard somebody trying to train somebody who has already been trained on the subject. You'll have a picnic. Let's take a yeoman. He comes off the U.S.S. Missouri, I think they got her off the mud banks; the yeoman has just come off the Missouri and he has just joined the destroyer and the destroyer has a great deal different type paper work. The yeoman probably handled the Captain's finger nail parings, report of, the ... on the Missouri, and all of a sudden he has to handle muster rolls and all sorts of things. Well, the first thing he'll tell the fellow that he's ..., his officer, his pay officer on the destroyer is, "They didn't do it that way on the Missouri". The Navy is ... The Navy, if it ever loses a ship, it's lost on that motto, As, "we didn't do it that way in the bureau, we didn't do it that way on the Texas, we didn't do it that way"...rrrrrrrrrr..., you see.

Basically this universe is a conviction that there are barriers. A little bit higher, it’s a conviction that there’s a game. Doesn’t matter whether there’s a game or isn’t a game. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a game of barriers or a game of holes. We’re not interested in that, it’s just games can be all sorts of things.

They don't have a sufficiently simple communication system so that it duplicates easily, and as a result, why there, every time you give somebody an order, "well they didn't do it that way on the Chester". The fellow's got a three inch gun, the same three inch gun as he handled on something else, and it's a small gun, and you'd be surprised how many ways there are to handle one piece of equipment about that gun. So the whole navy gets to be a sort of a backfire organization.

An Operating Thetan, by definition, is one who is able to continue in this universe and to handle it as a thetan without a secondary agency called a body. It’s by definition. It is not an absolute state. But the state begins when an individual understands and can perceive what actually is occurring to him as a thetan and that there is a solution to his problem. This is the first rung of the ladder.

The peace time navy, you come in and you snap a command at somebody and he's very snappy about snapping at you but he doesn't go any place. He stands there and all of a sudden we've got this dammed ridge situation going into an effect. It's really nothing simple. I don't know how organizations of that type ever manage to control a ship. They just thaw. But, finally a Commanding Officer will have that crew in line enough so that the majority of the crew is going, in some variation of C to E, and eventually, why, people coming aboard have to fall in line. Well, where we have .... oh, also, very often the entire routine of the ship gets altered just because somebody new reported aboard.

Now, there is a solution to his problem and his problem is, one, “How do I continue to exist in this game and maintain some stability, in terms of restriction, so that I am not continually being more restricted against my own determinism and so that I am put into a state, finally, where I can no longer remedy the restrictions which have been laid upon me. How do I get out of that state? What do I have to do to continue out of that state and still be able to play the game?”

Well, what, what you've got there, is essentially the communication set up of the preclear. He makes a postulate. Lord knows what happens to it. It sails down through all these ridges, hits these automaticities which were set up to do things automatically and here it goes and it winds down through the lines and it becomes really final. Well, what's it winding through? I call this to your attention again. It's winding through facsimiles and engrams. The motto of all facsimiles and engrams is: that you go into them ... white, you might say, and come out dense. It goes from a sort of a no density situation to a total density situation. If you ask somebody to get the idea of starting something, he's liable to get a three dimensional visio and you give him the idea of finishing something, he's liable to get a two dimensional visio.

Well, one can continue to play the game only if one can exteriorize out of anything and interiorize into anything and as long as one does not have any complete dependency upon MEST or mass.

Well, this is anatomy, of a sort, and this anatomy is easily plotted and it works over into the electronic structure of the body. And the electronic structure of the body is a system of anchor points which are located around, and the Thetan puts impulses in the vicinity of these anchor points and moves the anchor points and these move what you see when you look at a body. It's a very simple system. Anchor points are gold balls. They get black and the individual eventually can't see them at all. They get out of place, and then you ask the fellow to exteriorize and he's trying to exteriorize out of warped space. Space isn't right - he's, he's all mixed up. Why? Because he's all dug in on these ridges and automaticities.

Now, in Change of Space Processing, a thetan learns with great rapidity, with great rapidity, that distance is not a barrier. The next thing he learns is that masses are not barriers, simply by you interiorizing him and exteriorizing him, in terms of masses. You know, you put him into large masses and out of large masses and have him go in and out of them and so forth. At first he gets considerable sensation from this, rather unwillingly, and then this sensation drifts away and then he can have the sensation or not, but he can also get in and out of masses with great ease. And he can move himself in and out of masses. All right.

Well, there are solvents that will start through this line and go through this line and wind up at the other end having plowed the line out. Auditing itself, done on this ridge running basis will plow the line out. Not a very good process because it's tremendously limited but done the way that it was written up, and the SOP there, it will occasionally exteriorize somebody who was rather tough to exteriorize.

And let’s take attention. There’s always the problem that his attention may get so fixed upon something that he cannot remove it. He’s afraid of this, that’s why he won’t look. So we have to remedy that and have him fix and unfix his attention and be able to fix and unfix the attentions of others. If he can’t do the latter, you see, he’s not going to win very much in the game, because their intention is to fix and unfix his attention. So he’s up to just middle when he can merely unfix and fix his own attention. He’s got to be twice as high as that.

Well, all you're doing there is trying to get the fellow to get a straight communication. You see that? He's got the bank set up automatically to a point where every time he puts out a little energy, or any time he stirs up some energy, or any time he makes a postulate, it kicks something in and then this something runs up against a ridge. So, you say to the fellow, "Be three feet back of your head". He just waits to be three feet back of his head. "Well, be three feet back of ... (muttering) ...", he's never gonna arrive three feet back of his head unless you want to take it from this angle. Let's hypnotize him. Let's make him a Thetan into a total automaticity. Let's give him narco-synthesis and knock him out cold so that he's total effect and then let's move him around at will. The only trouble with that is, you might exteriorize him and make him sick, and the moment he wakes up he'll interiorize again, and he's just a little worse off than he was before. That's all that's wrong with that system.

Well, we have this particle called courage. How easy is it to process? Process is restimulative to the auditor. It requires that the auditor understand the principles of automaticity and randomity and how they are handled in a preclear. It requires that an auditor has some understanding of gradient scales: knowing where he should enter the case (there is always some level of case where the individual can get courage). And knowing, of course, Scientology in general, because this is the center backbone of Scientology that we’re talking about and it runs off in many directions.

Well, it adds up to the fact, that you occasionally with a preclear, have to start plowing these lines out, one way or the other and your auditing deals with various certainties, and there's two philosophies here you can choose from. One is, let's plow through the lines and the other one is, let's get him to completely neglect the lines. Two philosophies, let's plow through the line and let's get him to neglect the lines. One of them is handling energy, so therefore, it is a junior technique, although it's quite effective. 8C, or, "three places where you are not", "three people you are not" has a very interesting effect upon the individual and making him, to a large degree, drop the lines, but this is not the direction the preclear normally goes.

Well, how does it apply to everything and anything? Very easy to do, to apply it. But he should see that he isn’t dealing with something specialized that has to do with corset stays and won’t apply the second you go into shoelaces. He’s always expecting the “shoelace preclear” to show up, you know? Won’t work on this preclear.

The direction he goes is through the lines, so he keeps expecting something to happen, something to happen, something to happen. He sits there and he waits for something to boot him out, a pressor beam to unfold or anything to happen. Well you can build up, when you, to some degree neglected the lines, you can build up his postulates to a point where he just all of a sudden says, "what do you know, I have to do it". When he realizes that he has to do it to be any place, why the guy's in pretty good shape. Right there, he's in pretty good shape. And, the other one is, let's push him up to the point where when he starts hitting these deposits of energy, why he finds he can go through the lines simply because he's plowed down an awful lot of the ridges.

Well, let’s see how many ways you can use courage. Well, you can use it in the same mode as used in Step IV. And not only can use it, but now that you’ve had a taste of blood, you jolly well better had. Use it in terms of wasting, saving, accepting, desiring and being curious about it, in brackets, and you beat that one to death! You’ve got to put in, probably, on a preclear who doesn’t exteriorize easily, just to get him to exteriorize and stabilize him and so forth, you’ve probably got to put in at least an hour of “wasting courage.”

Now there is a solvent. It's called courage. It plows through these lines because it's the resistance sort of an idea. It's always courage against something. So as your... if your preclear runs courage, he will hit at, and come close to, this: He will start plowing through the engrams of the bank through which his communication lines are going, so he will go into two states, tend to rather, go into two states, and one of these is fear and the other is pain. Of course it goes into pain and it comes out there as fear. You get a dispersal effect because his courage is to keep him from being afraid.

Now, you’ve seen this thing working fairly fast. Well, you better look at it working a lot faster, because it starts working like a hurricane the second you do this. Fellow finally perceives his own chronic emotional state, as a waste of courage, because that’s what he’s doing. And he will suddenly start running this and expecting the emotion to kick back at him and the emotion that he’s going to run out and all these choice emotions that he’s been having come in and fly out and change and so forth and by golly, here he is, stuck with something that’s awfully familiar-it’s him! Only he’s running him as part of a bracket of wasting courage. Fantastic.

So you get a second manifestation when you start doing this, of control. Now, let's get back to what I was saying first - what's this control? Alright, this control is a interesting thing but control requites a continuous, in such a crazy cat arrangement of a communication system, requires a continual suppression of error. So, your preclear is as bad off, as he's trying to suppress error and you run courage for a little while and you'll start to turn up, with him, the uncontrolled motions which he's trying to suppress.

In other words, you can run out the chronic emotional state of the preclear with Step IV, SOP 8, applied to courage.

Well, now here's good auditing. The preclear's feels like he's going to fly apart. You just keep putting it into the bank, not theoretically, you can just go on putting... having him mock up courage and put it into the bank and he'll come out at the other end, but he may feel like he's just about to fly apart at the hinges.

Now, you can also take side panels on it and take nobility and applause or admiration, just for the sake of variation, but I wouldn’t stray much further than that, unless it is to “waste serenity.” But you won’t be wasting any serenity on anybody until you’ve just wasted the dickens out of courage.

Well, the reason why is, you have entered the line and here you go through the communication lines and you've restimulated fear and, of course, this is gone hand in glove with inability to control and an awful lot of mis-directed actions have been restimulated which he has always been trying to suppress. Well, one of the ways to do it is to get him to mock up crazy motions. When he feels he's about to fly apart, get him to mock up crazy motions. Get his body flopping all over the place and you know, mock up the body flopping all over the place, and lying flat on it's back and popping over on to it's face and flipping all over, uncontrolled.

Now, you know how to run a bracket and you know that the preclear has got to be sure that he is wasting it. As he runs brackets in wasting, he does not have to be able to get good mock-ups. All he needs is an impression, but he’s got to be certain that he is wasting it, certain that it is being saved.

There are other unmanageable conditions such as a body which will not move no matter how many postulates you throw at it which is, of course, an apathy ridge. That's catatonic schizophrenia, but the manifestation shows right up on the ridge. Well you can run this courage just so far and then we'll run into, possibly, some sort of suppressed crazy motions or errors of one kind or another. Physical motion, you understand! Control merely consists of Start, Change, and Stop and he can't Start, Change and Stop this thing at will. He said be calm and it flopped all over the place.

Now, all these qualification mechanisms are simply significances kicking in, the qualification mechanisms. The individual says, “Well, now, let’s see. We’ll pour it down a rat hole. No. No, that really wouldn’t be wasting it, because there’s liable to be a rat down there and ...” Now, that tail end there is the qualification, which in itself is uncertainty, because one is going further and further out, further and further away, from certainty. As one departs from C to E, is a communication.

When you can be certain what is the source, why, you’re real certain. And when you’re as certain that there’s a pre-source, a side source, a parallel source and a diathermic source, you had certainly better look further because that’s not certainty. You just better look a little further, you know, and find the parabolic source and the hyperbolic source and this-a-sources and that-a-source. “Is it John that punched me in the nose or was it the fact that his wife scolded him this morning? She is the author of the punch in the nose. No, that wouldn’t be it because the milkman made her mad.” And here we go running off.

Now, you will see auditors doing this with processes. You’ll see them doing this with investigation. Instead of trying to climb one long consistent ladder, you will see them going off into the deeper significances of. And you take almost all of the Homo sapiens at large, if given the slightest opportunity, he merely dives into the deeper significance of and finally winds up with religion. He just abandons the whole thing and says, “Well, it’s all God and God’s everyplace and I’m nothing.” He gives an identity to his enemy.

His enemy is actually his own ignorance. His own ignorance of what? Of himself.

This is January 28, '54, first morning lecture, second half.

Now, as you process this, you make sure that preclear knows he’s wasting it. And then have him get somebody else up there and have this other person waste it, you know? Idea that somebody else is there, a specific person, and that person wastes some courage. And then, we get two other people up there, you have him get two other people or the idea of two other people and have one of these make the other one be courageous in such a way as to waste it. You know, one of them making the other one waste some courage. In other words, be courageous-have Papa and Mama there and Mama making Papa courageous about buttoning his shirt.

The... You'd be surprised in handling an individual, how much pressure he will take off of his body if you run this process. You run courage and serenity in brackets or some other fashion for a little while and you interlard it, of course, with some holding the back ends of the room and looking through walls and so forth but suddenly he begins to quiver, he feels a little nervous and so forth. If you were to, at that time, to have him "Mock the idea up", or "Get the idea" of his body flopping all around uncontrollable. You know, just flopping around in various directions and shuddering and dropping dead and doing other strange things, you would be surprised at the amount of pressure which comes off the case.

Now, as you run this, your preclear will come up and scrape bottom.

What do I mean by pressure? I mean just that! Physical force pressure by which he is trying to hold that body still, and as long as the fellow thinks he has to hold the body still, he doesn't dare step away from it. If he steps away from it, he's afraid all sorts of weird things are going to occur. See that? So, you would jump in there then with this and that, on body flopping around and so on. "Well", he tells you, "this has, this has come right up to the point now", he said, "where it's that, it's that operation, I just know ... it's ... I'm just about to fly into a million pieces, it's terrible", and so on. So you say, "Get the idea of yourself in the doctor's office or an operating room, flopping off the table and your body suddenly, inexplicably getting down and begging for mercy, and jumping out the window, and dying right on the spot, and all these strange things happening - just get the idea of your body doing that". First thing you know, a tremendous amount of pressure comes off of the body. Pressure - just that!

Every once in a while, you have some preclear who tells you he keeps on going down and sooner or later he will reach bottom. Of course, he’s dramatizing some sort of a fall engram. But he just goes on and on and on finding something deeper and something deeper and something more significant about how wrong it all is. And when he gets down to the final point of how wrong it all is, why, of course, he finds that he was wrong. That is the inevitable answer. If one starts to find anything wrong, he will eventually discover that it is he who is wrong. What is wrong about him? What’s really wrong about him is he’s finding something wrong. Anybody who starts on this mad career of trying to find something wrong will eventually find out that it’s himself.

Well, how early does this occur in running this particle, courage, and it's upper particle, serenity? Well it occurs fairly rapidly in an awful lot of cases unable to exteriorize. It doesn't occur rapidly at all on somebody who exteriorizes well because he's not going through such a sequence of communication lines. There's no reason for you to send him through 'em, he exteriorized easily, see. Just don't use this process until he's way, way from the body and then you just have him mock up lots of courage and the particle of nobility, and so forth.

You can even run this in a process: you can have somebody find something wrong with a corner and other things wrong with a corner-he’ll line charge probably before you get him there, but if you kept this up, why, he’d eventually find out that it wasn’t the corner, it was himself. And yet you were just asking him to find things wrong with the corner-fictitious things there. And he’d finally wind up with the fact that it is wrong with himself.

And, by the way, there's a very cute little process which is really much more important to you than the one I'm giving you now. It's, you have the fellow mock up force particles. Way out in space some place, you mock up lots of force particles and then have him flip over and feel courageous about them, feel courageous against them rather, you know, as though they're somebody else's force particles. Then have him be the force particles making people resist and then be people resisting and feeling courageous about the force particles. It is force particles, you see. You just get him to flip back and forth and being this processing in other words.

Well now, the preclear has already run that course. He’s looked at the MEST universe and found everything wrong with the MEST universe and finally it’s wrong with him. You see, that’s why he’s sitting there. He’s found out what’s really wrong is himself. That was his first major discovery.

Well, if you mock up very much serenity around a preclear, or courage, it will get down to fear, right away. Now this tells you something about human behavior. If you mock up, while exteriorized, over the head of some homo sapiens an enormous amount of serenity, you'll probably drive him into a rather frantic state. That's odd, isn't it? In other words, people get frantic and fearful around serene people. So, of course, nobody wants you to be very serene because if you were too serene, you'd key him in. So he's got to feed you bad news, keep you upset, otherwise homo sapiens is a cute little trick.

Well, he’s already run the circuit and the circuit is “everything is wrong but me.” The circuit began, really, with “there’s something wrong with that” and then, “there’s something wrong with that and that because they’re connected with that" and then “there’s something wrong with that and that and that and that and that, because they’re connected with the that.” But I’ve forgotten what the first “that” was, so it must be “everything wrong in that area.” Now it’s “everything wrong all the way around here.” Now it’s “everything wrong above and below and beyond.” And now it’s “everything wrong, everything wrong, everything wrong, it’s all bad, it’s all bad over there, it’s all bad over there, it’s all bad over there, it’s all bad here.” And he’s been through that course and that has been life to him in the last 76 trillion years.

Alright! Serenity is unbearable. Courage is unbearable. Just the exhibition of courage to a sadist actually will drive him into a gibbering fit. He's got to do anything rather than see some courage in front of him. The fellow is terrified, that's the trouble with him.

Now, it is indeed miraculous that you can come along and in a few hours bail him out of this existence where everything is wrong and everything is wrong and everything is wrong. And you can back run that track.

Now, running your preclear, you will find it very difficult in a great many cases, to make them let go. Let go of what? Let go of the body. They know what it'll do if they let go of it. They'll flop all over the place, and jump through the roof, and getdown and beg, and run out in the street and tear all it's clothes off. They know what it'll do. There's only one thing wrong with that. They're holding on to both ends of the communication lines. If they weren't keeping these communication lines suppressed, the communication line wouldn't be alive, and so we get back to validation - livingness processing.

I give you the matter of associative restimulators and restimulators in general, as covered in the First Book. You will find that there is something wrong in the environment, so therefore the individual finds the entire environment wrong, yet he has never spotted the first thing that was wrong with the environment. He just knows there’s a feeling about it.

The fellow is continually bringing to life a communication line which throws him out of control by trying to be courageous and serene in the face of it, and so we get the dwindling particle. The individual has walked around ... pardon me, the dwindling spiral. The individual has walked around for years being courageous about life. Well, let's just, let's just take this process of courage processing and take a look at it now and keep this fellow mocking up courage, mocking up courage, and all of a sudden, he gets afraid, and he's gonna flop all over the place. He's afraid he's gonna jump through the window or do something, oh, strange, or peculiar. You see? Well now, let's take that manifestation and stretch it out over twenty years. This fellow walks around being serene and courageous in the face of everything for twenty years and winds up, at the end of it, shaking with terror. About what? Nothing! - except what he's holding right there.

Well, an individual setting up resistances against the environment will eventually get to the point where the environment is pulling on him. The resistance has inverted, in other words. You see that? He’s resisted until he’s being pulled by his own resistance, he’s being pulled outwards. Well, that’s an inversion. Now, he resists some more in that degree and finally resists to where he is pulled outwards again, by his own inversion. And then he resists some more until he’s poured outwards again-it takes about nine of these things to spin a guy in complete. And you’ll see these unfold in a preclear as you run him and you’ll see these inversions taking place. Pushes and pulls and so forth.

Now time, you see, is the co-motion of particles, and his effort to keep particles apart, which are coming together, and these efforts to keep particles together when they're coming apart, holds time in suspension and this is the mechanism of holding somebody in the past. That's a funny thing we see there about somebody being stuck on the time track, which is, just these efforts to keep bodies from flopping around and going berserk, and so the fellow is hung up in time, and if you could get him to present time, in other words, just let go of the whole package, he would exteriorize with great ease. You could just get him to let go. This is a method of letting go.

He will get a tremendous tension against the room or he’ll get large feelings of pressure out in front of him where there isn’t anything and all sorts of queer manifestations show up. You don’t pay any attention to those manifestations as pressures. What you pay attention to are the automaticities which turn up only when they are automaticities which demonstrate to him he cannot control a form! That’s the only automaticity you pay any attention to in Courage Processing.

It catalyzes the inevitable dwindling spiral, this courage processing, catalyzes the inevitable dwindling spiral of a human being. Now you've taken a look at it. You've seen this thing happen without any explanation from me. It does happen, doesn't it? So this must be somewhat like the anatomy of the bank. This must be somewhere near close to, what is. So, if you're going to speed up this process then you'd better stand by with creative processing and other processes which you know of in order to knock out this stuff as fast as it shows up, and then mock up some more courage. What are you getting there? You're getting, essentially, ridge running.

Any automaticity which turns up could be handled. What’s an automaticity? Some wild manifestation. A bunch of sparks suddenly fly out in front of the preclear. He didn’t determine this was going to be. It’s very surprising, a bunch of sparks flew out. And you could handle that. You could just have him throw some more sparks out and it’d undoubtedly be very revelatory, but you’re not interested in that. You’re only interested in the fact when he gets down to a point of where he feels like he’s going to shake himself to pieces or go appetite over tin cup. That’s when you start paying attention to that automaticity and that’s the automaticity: the automaticity of non-control of a form.

It goes down, courage goes down the communication line, melts away the barriers, and all of a sudden it would, of course, just go right on through and melt away the next tier of barrier too. But, all of a sudden it just becomes impossible for the preclear to restrain himself another instant. You know, he's getting this terrifically tense feeling. Well, that's just ridge running. That's the kick back. The ridge he's trying to control, tells him he's gonna flop all over the place, or he's gonna go straight up through the roof, or he's going to explode.

All of a sudden as you’re running this, he gets the picture of his mother. She dashes in one door and out the other door and flies in through the roof and flops all over the floor. That’s an automaticity of Mother-form. So you handle it. How long do you handle it? Just enough to take the edge off. What are you doing? You’ve just knocked out a ridge of some sort or another, so let’s just knock it out. What knocked it out? Particle flow. So let’s get some more particle flow going.

Early on the track, they're suppressing tremendous explosions. Well, they ... but the explosion isn't there any more. Those mest particles still exist, but those mest particles have now gone into other types of matter or other spaces. What he's got is a picture of the particles. Those particles which he mocked up to control the mest particles, and he's still holding on to the particles which control the explosion, but the explosion isn't there any more. You think you will get an explosion just because you, you suddenly let him to let go of these particles which were to control the explosion? No, you won't get an explosion. He feels kind of silly after this has been processed because there wasn't any explosion there to hold, and there he's hitting the ridges. Those ridges were constructed in various patterns to hold down things like explosions and so forth.

If you don’t handle these automaticities as they come through, a preclear is liable to become very, very, very upset and very, very uncomfortable. This is an auditor failure when an automaticity of form turns up on the subject of control and he lets it go by, because the case will have a tendency to slow down because the case gets afraid that something new and strange may happen. And the auditor merely demonstrates to him that he can handle this, to some degree, and keeps on going. That’s in the interest of morale and also in the interest of mechanics.

Well, if it gets too unbearable with a preclear, do it with creative processing and if he can't get down to creative processing, why just make him flop around for a while, out of control. Now remember that you're dealing with physical effort. The thoughts connected with it are not important. The significances of it are not important. All you're trying to do is to get him to let go of these masses of particles. He's holding particles there which once, once upon a time were trying to suppress other particles. He's holding a facsimile of the mest universe where he, at one last moment of duress, or something of the sort, was trying to prevent mest universe particles from opening or closing and when he prevents this, he uses a particle of his own mock up. He uses particles which he, himself, mocked up. He still got 'em. He's still going through this pattern, still an incomplete cycle of action of some sort or another which he's holding in suspense.

Now, where does this process stop, as far as the body is concerned? Well, I can tell you as I sit here right now, I know many of you are going to overrun the exteriorization point by at least five, ten, fifteen hours. I’ll bet you, sooner or later, somebody here may overrun an exteriorization point for some preclear about twenty-five hours’ worth before he suddenly wakes up to the fact that, “Hey, you know, he could have exteriorized anywhere along this line.”

Well, using cycle of action works just because every one of these effect lines finally wound up with complete motionlessness and absenceness which was death, and that's this universe. So you can catalyze the entire bank in this fashion. Now, you're drunk - drinks to be courageous in the face of life. How long do you think you'd last under a very caved in physical condition, one which is saturated with alcohol. His bank is being poured full of courage in this terrifically susceptible - that bank is, and of course, the stuff wears off and he is twice as terrified as before and so he goes down on a very fast spiral.

Now, the thetan is clamping the body because he’s afraid the body will go out of control. As you run the Courage Processing, these fears of going out of control are edged off. The thetan doesn’t have as hard a grip on the body anymore. He might not really be improving much on his ability to mock-up courage or serenity, he might not be improving terribly. He might have taken a little sag on it. That doesn’t matter. It’s how many beams has he got clamped on this body, how many somatics is he holding in so that he can hold them off? That’s what’s important.

Now, why do your preclears occasionally react to your calmness, with regard to their case, so badly? Well, it's very easy. You just pulled in the lines full, that's all. You've already seen on this EAR-400 * that one human being can actually input energy into another body. See, it doesn't matter, a body is a body. Anybody can put energy into a body, and so you stand there being very serene, or you sit there being very serene, you sit there being very calm and their reaction is, "It's alright for you to be calm, it's me that's coming to pieces". Of course, you're the guy that's doing it.

Now, every time you hit one of these automaticities, some of the fear goes off of the case. And after just so much of it’s gone off, you could say, “Be three feet back of your head” and the fellow would be back there, but he’d be working much better as a certain exterior than interiorized, because what’s the idea of trying to clean up all the GE ridges, too? Because this technique has the liability of pouring too much through the GE ridges. So, hold it down. Get him out as soon as you can.

(* EAR-400 = a variation of the beep meter. The beep meter would sound a beep when a painful area of the body was located with a probe. The beep meter was first used in the 1st ACC of 1953. The EAR-400 replaced the probe with an antenna and the 3rd ACC students experimented with making it beep from the other side of the room by thinking at it - Editor).

You’re just running this, just long enough, so that you can get him out. He might as well be interiorized into a stove. He might as well be interiorized into a book or a block of wood. It doesn’t matter what he’s interiorized into, he happens to be interiorized into a body. That’s incidental beyond this: the block of wood won’t come apart and the body will.

If you avoid this manifestation, you'll avoid an understanding of life. Not understanding is, is that serenity and courage are ... they're not bad you understand, they're a solvent particle, and it just starts knocking to pieces. That's why a person gets courageous, you see, he thinks if he can get sufficiently courageous, why he'll just knock out all past blocks he has toward a certain action - and it's true. If he could mock up enough courage, why he'll just blow the bank. Did you ever get a moment when you suddenly got your nerve up about something and then - boom - you did something tremendous?

I don’t know how many hours it would take to actually start knocking a body apart, but it probably would take a hundred or so. It would take, from my estimates of it, quite a bit of processing to start knocking a body to pieces with Courage Processing. Many a preclear, if he hears this remark, is liable to immediately say, “Well now, better not be used on me, because the body is liable to come apart.” That’s what he’s afraid will happen, you see? The thetan thinks he’s holding the body together. The body is a set of automatic machinery and perceptions which hold together out of its own automatic machinery. The delusion of the thetan is that he’s holding it together. He isn’t. He’s controlling it, he isn’t holding it together.

What you probably did was blow the bank and afterwards you just felt wonderful and you said, "Well, look at that, it's accomplishment that did it". It wasn't accomplishment that did it. It was a tremendous amount of courage which you suddenly got in one piece, and through the bank it went, and you didn't know your own strength, and all that sort of thing.

It’s a horrible thing for a thetan when he finally realizes that every effort he ever made to hold the body together was a negative gain. Every time he tried to hold the body together in some fashion or another, he merely succeeded in aberrating his own communication system. If he wanted to mock-up bodies and remedy the havingness, that’s something else.

Well, where you get an individual holding on in fear that the body will fly out of control, you had certainly better pay some attention with courage and serenity, and then stand right ready with some creative processing to get ... let the body flop around, or suddenly drop dead, or become naked in public, or do something, you know, weird and peculiar, and if you limit this to the body, and if you don't start shooting out on the whole track, pretty well, why you can generally exteriorize the fellow after you've run this for a little while. It's an easy, easy method of exteriorization.

Well, here we have what the thetan can do and can’t do for a form. He can create one, he can cause one to persist and he can destroy one and he can repair one by remedying its mass, by additions or deletions, but he can’t hold them together. He can’t make energy press against energy and get any result at all and he never will be able to.

He is afraid he will not be able to control the body if he gets outside of it. This is the same statement as he's afraid the body's going to flop all around and do peculiar things and run off and leave him and he's never going to be able to get control of it again, and this is the same thing as those ridges which his commands are being opposed by, which are dictating uncontrollable motion to the body, which are saying, "can't walk", "you're gonna go through the roof". So, to let an individual slack off and let go of his body little by little, there's good auditing and there's good exteriorization procedure.

All right.

Now, these people who turn on colds are doing something which should be very, very easy to understand. Possibly not to them, but very easy to understand. They have confronted sound too much, too often, and they are backed up from their own nasal canals and lungs, away from people who are confronting them. They've just backed up, you see, leaving themselves out of communication, and unable to give sufficient life to the nasal passages, so bacteria and any particles of any kind can come in and just irritate the devil out of them. Here you have back old 8-80, get into communication with those parts of the body. Here you have, when you put an individual on one of these probe meters in here, you put this individual on this and you find out most of his body's dead, it doesn't respond, no beap. Well that individual isn't pulling energy to those part of the body where you don't get a beap. Simple!

What can happen to your preclear, as you process, that’s wrong or bad? Mostly havingness, if not totally havingness. Courage Processing destroys or upsets mass. And having destroyed or upset mass in the individual, you get the individual unable to be in the same balance that he was in and so he doesn’t feel as well. And he gets colds and other kinds of things, just because this mass has not been remedied.

Alright! After you've worked him for a while those parts of his body become alive, and he's well to the degree that he can make these things live. Now, when you start running this types of processing, remember that you may be reducing the individual's havingness. You're actually putting into solution a heck of a lot of energy which he thinks he has to have. Well, it doesn't matter what the significance in that energy is, he has to have this energy, and this havingness represents time because it consists of particles being held apart and pulled together and that is time, and therefore, his havingness is liable to be upset by this process. So you stand ready to get him to mock up acceptable faces or something of the sort, to bring his havingness up a little bit. You don't have to pay too much attention to that, just don't let his morale drop out of sight, because courage is actually putting into solution masses of energy which he's holding on to, and energy masses are masses.

Well, how do you know when a mass is going to be remedied or not remedied or when you ought to or shouldn’t or something of the sort? When should you start remedying mass? Well, it’s when the preclear starts to drop down tone, of course. He’s got too much of something or too little of something and it generally is too little of something.

So, havingness processing and an understanding of that would come in while running this process. You will find after you've had somebody mock up courage for a short time that something strange is liable to happen to the kidneys, for instance. You know, all of a sudden they've got pain, they got pain there in the kidneys. They don't feel good. Well, how about just having them put some more kidneys in there. "Mock up an acceptable variety of kidney and stuff it in the area". "Mock up lots of them and stuff 'em in the area". See how you'd do that? Lots of kidneys.

Well, how do you feed him mass? Well, how do you control these automaticities? You can actually control the automaticities and help his mass out at the same time with this kind of a tricky little process: you make him mock-up the body flopping all over the place and then falling dead as a result and then have him pick the mock-up and stick it in himself. That’ll remedy mass.

So you turn on a cold. Give them lots of faces, acceptable faces and have them receive and throw away faces until that cold knocks off. It's very strange to have a cold, or anybody, very many people with colds, any unit. This came out because their havingness was too reduced, and then you went into another process which further reduced havingness, but it's very strange that this would continue very long for the good reason that it's too easy to remedy. It's very easy to remedy. An auditor should be able to remedy it on himself. It doesn't require an auditor, you know to restore your havingness. The next time you want something the auditor is not going to go to the store with you.

You can have fifteen bodies out in front of him all going out of control simultaneously and then smash them all together and make one body which is in control and then shove it into him-remedy mass-so that we have an excellent way of shooting two processes with one command. Instead of letting him run these automaticities out there and forgetting about them, we let him run these automaticities out there and they flop around all over the place and so forth and then we just use what mass he has created. It isn’t we’re trying to conserve mass or anything of the sort. It’s just it’s a little shorter way of going about it.

If you will just continue to mock up noses, and faces, and kidneys, or wherever you got this horrible pain that's turned on after the session, and so forth, just throw a few in there. You'll find out, it'll stop. Forget about it. Now every time you start to run a preclear on this process, of course, you're liable to throw in a restimulation of quite a few things, past deaths and all sorts of things. So therefore, the process is, to some degree, a limited process and it should only be run so long as is necessary to enable the preclear to exteriorize. That's all you're trying to do with him. You're just trying to get him to exteriorize.

All right. Now, where do we have a breakdown in the process? The auditor. The auditor will fail to enter the case at a sufficiently low point where the case can actually feel some courage or get some courage of one kind or another.

Alright! Where else does this go? What else is ... happens here? What's the mechanic involved. Well, the mechanic involved for the Operating Thetan is anytime he starts to throw clouds of serenity around homo sapiens, homo sapiens starts drinking up that serenity just like a sponge. Therefore an Operating Thetan who is operating with a great deal of energy masses in the vicinity of bodies in air, is liable to be snapped in himself, if he is still associating himself with some particle known as serenity.

The auditor may fail to communicate with the preclear to find out what’s happening. The auditor may not pay enough attention to communication lags and their changes. The auditor may have a tremendous piece of restimulation on his own hands if he himself isn’t Clear and so have a tendency to suppress the whole process. And that has been done. He may be so anxious not to get the preclear out of control that the best thing to do is kind of kill the preclear or throw him into apathy or something, so he does.

Now you'll find all up and down the track this interesting theme in your preclear. He touched a body and ..sslk.. in he went. He was going along, he's feeling very serene about the whole thing and in he went. He got a little bit angry at the body which let him get into some kind of a, of a wavelength with it but his serenity level was so much higher, his courage level was so much higher than the body's, and he himself, was carrying around unwittingly, so much courage and serenity in terms of particles, that the second he touched that body, made the connection, the body simply drank it all up and in he went, and this is the interesting manifestation of interiorization. That's the way he went in, so that might as well be the way he comes out. You can test this up on a meter and you can work this on preclears and you'll find out this is all too true.

Well, good auditing, then, would be to follow through with the process, stay in communication with the preclear, discover what the preclear is doing, discover how he is doing it, find out when the automaticities turn up and handle them as they come, and vary the process sufficiently with unlimited processes so that the preclear doesn’t have a tendency to go entirely out of balance. Run some nothing, run this and run that.

You were going along, being very serene, and maybe you just patted a body on the head, after a while you felt bad. Why did you feel bad? Well, any, any serenity or courage particles which you had in the vicinity simply went into the body - boom. Well, the main ... the trouble is not with courage or serenity, the trouble is that you didn't mock up enough of it and didn't create enough of it and didn't replace enough of it when it was taken away, and that's about it.

Well, you have an enormous array of processes. When you start in with 8-C and they go through a nice solid basic process of putting things in walls and so forth (which is very easy to do), mock-up of various emotions, runs through in the handling of automaticity, Beingness Processing, when you make the person be this and be that and pretend he’s this and pretend he’s that. Very effective. You have Creative Processing, where you have the individual mock-up these various things. You have Havingness Processing where you make the individual accept and reject various things. And he’ll exteriorize on practically any of these.

The hood operation that you run into in preclears whereby they feel like they've got this big mass of energy sitting up there like a dunce cap. We'll call it the dunce cap. They got a big mass of energy. They start throwing courage above their - they start throwing courage above their body, and putting it up there and the first thing you know they sort of sense there's some sort of a cap that's sitting over their head, maybe as much as twenty-five feet long. Well, what do you suppose that's composed of? That's where the courage went out and lent effort, and they're still sitting there in this massy stuff. Now when this person exteriorizes, they get to feeling good and they come back in the vicinity of the body, and when they get in the vicinity of the body any feeling goodness that they have, of course, is slurped back into the body again because the body is just that hungry.

But if he’s real bad off, he won’t exteriorize until he has some certainty that he can control a body from outside. And so we get up to Courage Processing and this turns it on but good and this makes him let go. He’ll let go and back out and be certain he’s out of his head.

I ran an interesting experiment last night. It had a, a darn good Theta Clear, practically ... almost ... well, an Operating Thetan, close up there - go down to a bar down here in Phoenix and just start throwing clouds of serenity around the guy and clouds, and clouds, and clouds, and clouds, and clouds of serenity. Boy, that guy, that guy got thirstier for that drink than you could possibly count. Boy, he had to have a drink, that's all. Oh brother! He also got real lonesome and he had to talk to somebody. All that was happening to this person, was just the clouds of serenity were being mocked up around his head. In they were going, in they were going, in they were going, of course, throw anyone down to fear. Now, I don't know what will happen to this homo sapiens, but I would not say that he was worse off, for having had some serenity in his vicinity.

Now, why doesn’t a preclear perceive? What is perception, anyhow? Perception is inverted resistances. He never gets the wave back that he sends out. He can’t control it after it’s gone, he can’t make it reflect off of anything, so he can’t emanate light to make things glow. Everything he throws out gets absorbed.

Now, there's something else which you don't know. This business of sound, and staying on the wavelength of sound so that you can hear people, is itself restimulative about bodies. Sound, rough stuff, merely because out in space, the only time you ever had a sound was when there was a big explosion, because there was nothing as a carrier except electrical particles. So, it meant there had to be a large number of electrical particles present before you got that manifestation, sound, as a Thetan.

Well, he can’t handle wavelengths when he’s doing that. You know, you say, "Turn everything gold” and he can’t turn everything gold and then see it gold. Well, it must be that the environment is soaking up whatever he’s throwing out there to turn things gold. Well, so he’d better shift it around and get off of a stuck wavelength problem.

Well, you get a Thetan down here and you ... on the surface of earth and you tell him walk up a beam. It'll go maybe five feet, ten feet, fifteen feet. Then you get him to see colors. See everything gold, see everything blue, see everything pink, until he gets the idea of shifting off, shifting his wavelength. Now you tell him to shift off the wavelength of air and throw a beam out there. He can throw one out there just like he can in space. It'll connect with a body. It'll connect with almost anything he wants to connect with. It's just off the wavelength of air, that's all, and so he can manufacture an awful amount of energy. So, this manifestation of air as an impotence, an invisible barrier which inhibits you from putting out energy simply depends upon the fact that you are messed up on the subject of: on the wavelength of air. You're stuck on the wavelength of air because you're stuck on the wavelength of sound. See that? So, if you could coax an individual to mock up his serenity off the wavelength of air, it would operate an awful lot faster.

Well, why is it that the eyes see all colors? They see all colors simultaneously because they’re kind of on a stuck band. The light band is stuck and kind of glued together and compressed. It’s fantastic seeing all these colors at the same time. You actually have to take and tune yourself up simultaneously to about twenty wavelengths and that’s quite a band to see on. So you’ll find an Operating Thetan quite routinely sees things as all gold or all green. And if he wants to see everything with all colors and so forth, why, he just simply sort of jams the color band and then he can see everything with all colors and then pull it apart again. Seeing with all colors simultaneously is an automaticity.

There are drills whereby you can get an Operating Thetan to do this, and these drills are simply, "See everything gold", "See everything green", "See everything blue", until you've shifted his wavelength around to a point where he can shift his wavelength with great ease. Also you take an Operating Thetan, you interiorize him and exteriorize from heavy masses until he gets all over this idea of having to have mass. And these two techniques are very necessary in the operation and in handling Theta Clears, doing them on up the line. What this connects with: mocking up a serenity. Mocking up serenity in the face of sound is itself a fascinating process.

Talking into air gives him a fixation on air. Breathing air gives him a fixation on air and he gets stuck on air. If you ask him to send out on the wavelength of air a lightning bolt, it won’t go ten feet. If you ask him to send one out, not on the wavelength of air, it’ll go just as far as it’ll go out in empty space. It’ll, by the way, affect bodies just as neatly, this one that’s not on the wavelength of air. A fellow is right on the surface of Earth and he’s handling energy which is not on the wavelength of air, it’ll affect bodies just as neatly.

Well, you better clean up these people who have these colds because that's real easy to clean up. And, clean 'em up with havingness, clean 'em up with courage in the face of sound and the face of symbols and so on. A cold is a kind of a franticness. It is - it's just franticness. It hasn't anything to do with bacteria, or virus, or anything of the sort. It's being frantic in the face of sound. That's all! They cough in order to get the sound back out. To stop the communications that are hitting them consistently and continually. These people are out of communication with their lungs and faces to some degree, thus we get colds - cleaned up by havingness.

All right. Remedy of havingness. Your preclear has always got too much and too little. He’s in an unbalanced state. If you run a preclear up to a point-you interiorize him and exteriorize him out of things and stuff and stones and that sort of thing, you should check him afterwards for a remedy of any idea that he has that he’s just a concept or something. You know, he hasn’t anything to identify as himself. He becomes unhappy as a result.

Okay! you know how to work this process now? You know how to work this process? Terrifically simple. Mock up the courage until you get the fear. Realize that's no control. Run the no control by creative processing. Go back to running courage. You'll find each time you do this the individual's hold on the body is lessened and slackened and you finally exteriorize him, and then you take an Operating Thetan, you carefully demonstrate this to him with regard to bodies, as your SOP-8O *, you demonstrate what happens when he mocks up courage, when he mocks up serenity in the face of bodies.

How do you remedy havingness? The crudest way to remedy it is to have the fellow, while exteriorized, put eight anchor points around himself and snap them in on himself, then not throw it away, just keep it. And put out eight more anchor points around himself, new ones, and snap those in and eight more and snap those in and eight more and snap those in and eight more and snap those in, until he has a sizable mass. He gets real happy when you do this.

(* SOP-8O or SOP-8OT, the advanced OT rundown which is the subject of the 3rd ACC - Editor)

Okay. Single aberration, of course, is time. Time is a co-action of particles and being the co-action of particles, when one tries to restrain two particles from coming together or from separating-when he is using his own energy to do this-he is, in effect, suspending himself slightly in time. See? So that control and time tic in together because control is essentially handling particles. Competence is simply getting two particles to coincide or not coincide at will. That’s competence. And when you can get these particles handled, you have no trouble with time. Well, if you can’t handle particles, you have trouble with time. Quite obvious, because time is the co-action of particles.

He would suddenly get so used to the manifestation it would no longer be a mystery to him. It doesn't become a great unknown and he'll realize what he is doing to people. He knows then that he ought to shift his emotional band down to covert hate in order to get on a level of the body. If he's gonna knock one around, why, let him hit it on it's own level. He can knock the hell out of it. But you go around and try to be serene and benign around bodies, well you're just going to get chewed up (chuckle).

And where an individual has markedly failed to keep two particles apart or to separate two particles, why, he has to that degree become stuck in time. So this is what is known as being “stuck on the time track” and that is the basic mechanism of being stuck on the time track. The difference being is the individual has approximated particles of his own, which he says are intimately made up by himself, for the control of particles in the MEST universe itself. And a MEST universe particle is a different kind of a particle from the kind he’s mocking-up to control it with. The MEST universe particles are still kicking around. The particles of the Santa Maria are probably scattered to the four ends of nowhere by this time-but they exist. There is probably one in South Carolina and there’s probably some up in Plymouth Harbor and there’s probably some more down on the Gulf Stream, still going through the Gulf Stream. When you find out how many atoms it’d take to build one ship, the disintegration of atoms and molecules would demonstrate to you it has quite a scattering possibility.

Now, some preclear was on a voyage in the Santa Maria and he got scared the day it was going through the Dragon’s Mouths and he tried to hold the Dragon’s Mouths apart and hold the Santa Maria still long enough to get around a certain rock and he’s made a picture of it.

Well, the Santa Maria molecules and the Dragon’s Mouths molecules and all these other molecules have changed by this time. They’re still existing and they’re still somewhere else. And being somewhere else, they’re not in his facsimile, are they? But he’s got a picture of this facsimile, so your E-Meter says he’s stuck in 1492. Yeah, he’s stuck in a pattern of particles that he tried to keep from separating or closing in the date 1492. But what says he’s stuck there? It’s just a picture of it. The actual particles aren’t there anymore. So being stuck on the time track is delusory and a person gets into a delusion, at length, because he thinks everything is stuck and time itself isn't moving.

Well, this comes about when he’s not even vaguely inspecting particles around him. Present time would be the awareness of the position of particles in the instant called now and that would be an individual’s contact with present time. The MEST universe is an automatic present time machine. And when an individual gets out of wild.agreement with this, his disagreement itself puts him out of present time. That’s time, a barrier. Time is a barrier because one can’t go back to 1770. One can’t go up to 8065 A.D.

Well, one can’t go up to and back to these places because 770 and 8000 A.D. are alike introduced abstract arbitraries. It’s of no bearing in reality. There isn’t any such flow of stream with ports on it marked “1720” and “1895” and “8063.” There are no such ports on the time stream.

What there is, is this-man’s inability to understand this has caused him to assign an erroneous value to this and we have people doing time travel. Well, if you want to do some time travel to 1781 or 1776, you will have to find the particles which were there and move them all back into the same position and have Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia and you will have to even recover the particles which have escaped since from the document called the Constitution and you will have to rearrange all these things and put all these particles back where they were at that time. And that would be really 1770, ’76 or whatever it is. That would really be it.

Now, to get the particles up to 8065, you just have to arrange all the particles, catalyze them on their path to a point where they would all be as they would be in 8000. But what do you know, that would be 8000. If all the particles of the year 8000 were arranged as they would be in the year 8000, it would be the year 8000. But not because you said there was a year called 8000, because the particles are now in that pattern. And if you’ve agreed that this is 8000, then you’ve just agreed on something else.

You can also agree on the price of dog food. That doesn’t make the price of dog food an arbitrary factor in your entire existence. But in the case of a continuous agreement upon this arbitrary called time, why, you have finally entered an abstract factor into your existence that’s not understood and is an error. So the individual still holds on to this facsimile which arduously pretends to keep clashing rocks from closing in on the Santa Maria. And the particles aren’t there anymore.

Well now, that itself is aberration and delusion, if you want to put it that way. Well, you’d certainly better dissolve or rearrange, without too much upsetting his mass, these particles that he’s depending on to keep the clashing rocks from wrecking the SantaMaria, because the SantaMaria isn’t here anymore. Those particles are otherwise arranged. And there are many solvents and methods of handling these things. There’s erasure that erases the particles in such a way-that is to say, it erases the significance out of these particle masses. There’s picking up ridges and throwing them away, but that done promiscuously throws out of balance a person’s havingness.

There’s all kinds of ways you can handle these masses of energy. But when it finally boils down to it, you are handling things that were set up to static and resist all effects. They were set up there to be motionless and resist all effects and to keep something from happening or make something happen. And they’re not keeping something from happening or making something happen anymore. And so we have the unnecessary bric-a-brac of the engram bank. The individual likes it because it’s mass, he doesn’t like it because it has significance. He does not need it to remind him of anything. He does not need a picture to remember anything. He cannot have a picture which tells him anything unless he knows what is to go into the picture in the first place.

Now, that should tell you a great deal about aberration. Courage Processing happens to be one very fast way of catalyzing all of this. Well, because it catalyzes it so rapidly, must also mean that it is wrecking havingness with great rapidity. See, it’s ruining time so it must be ruining havingness. It’s shifting it out of balance one way or the other and around and around. Well, that means that this is being done at a speed that you’re not accustomed to seeing it happen as. You don’t realize that every little while, why, you’re going to have to stuff this guy full of mass. If you don’t stuff him full of mock-up mass or something of the sort like that, he’ll do a slump on you. Why will he do a slump? Well, he’s unhappy about it, that’s all. He thinks he has to have mass in order to be happy, and who are you to argue about it?

Everybody seems to have agreed to this one: that people have to have mass in order to be happy. Actually, I can prove to you conclusively that the source of all unhappiness is mass, but I’m afraid I would be repeating the word of any Hindu philosopher.

Well, if you’re looking for happiness, don’t get the other kind of mass, however-MEST universe mass-all stuck around. Every time you get too much mass, you get to be the servant of it, one way or the other. Well, that’s what the Hindus try and talk about. What kind of mass we’re trying to talk about is the kind you mock-up. It’s more important to the thetan to have mock-up mass than to have MEST universe mass. First time I’ve mentioned that, but you sure should take note of it. It’s more important to the thetan to have mock-up mass than MEST universe mass. You think, and have gone along on the supposition, probably, to a large degree, that-well, that Creative Processing was a secondary process. You know, it was second to being able to do it in the MEST universe. Well, that’s not it. Doing it in Creative Processing is a primary process and doing it in the MEST universe is so secondary that it’s not even therapeutic. Having mass.

But of course there’s the other way around: an individual has arranged his mass any time he has failed to get something in the MEST universe, so he’s made his own masses static. He’s made them fixed, rather, rather than static (since that’s a meaningful word in Scientology). He’s made these masses fixed in various patterns and kinds. He’s got masses all right and they’re tremendous masses, but they’re on fixed patterns. Couldn’t have a bicycle when he was five, so he has this picture of a bicycle. The truth of the matter is, a bicycle that he made out of his own energy is more valuable to him than a bicycle which runs on two wheels, as far as mass is concerned.

A thetan without any mass and simply owning the MEST universe, theoretically, would be in very good shape, but he’s not. By test, a thetan is happier with his own mass than he is MEST universe masses. All right.

I recommend you to this process. Let’s get in there and pitch. Step IV, using “courage” and then “serenity.” Now I expect all cases to be completely shattered and exteriorized and in excellent condition, well above Theta Clear, by Monday morning. You know enough to do it. Now let’s do it.

And if you don’t do it, why, I know of an Operating Thetan named Joe I’ll have zap you. [laughter]