All right, this is the second hour, December 15th, afternoon lectures. In this hour we’re taking up even further the information on cases which are Two, Three, Four, Five cases. And we must cover, now, Spacation as a process. This process applies very, very intimately, very, very, closely, and quite precisely to Three down.

This is December 15th, first afternoon lecture, first hour. Today we are going to continue with Standard Operating Procedure and uh… although the last couple of lectures were on Issue 3, uh… today I realized that I had started to give you, really, Standard Operating Procedure Issue 4; since it was at variance with the text you have there. And uh… you see more and more details and data comes in, tougher cases start to crack and the question of „What did they crack on?“ and so on becomes very pertinent.

The Three case establishes by holding a point, whether or not that point can be held stably. If that point can be held stably, then all one does is just carry right on with this technique known as Spacation as given right here, and springs his preclear.

Uh… you don’t have to worry at all about a Step One case or really a Step Two or a Step Three case but brother, when you get down to Step 4, Step 5, Step 6, uh… anything that can be done to chop down the amount of auditing time on this case is a boon to the auditor.

The process known as Spacation has as its first step the establishment of a point, and the maintenance of that point in a constant location in space in the vicinity of the preclear. After the point has been established – and by the way, if it is simply held, even though it flickers, it will rapidly (this is for later stage cases) – even if it flickers, it will rapidly assume a constancy, because all the things making it flicker tend to go right on off the case. And so we have… we have a condition here of „How well can one hold a point.“

So we now have Standard Operating Procedure Issue 5. Now don’t ask me what happened to Issue 4. Issue 4 sort of went by while I was standing up here talking to you. And uh… as far as the lecture material is concerned, which I gave you earlier I kept saying Standard Operating Procedure Issue 3 and uh… wherever I said that, you can put in there „Issue 5“ because Step One is completely unchanged; it’s just exactly as I gave it to you.

Now with a Step Three, he’s got to be able to hold that point, and later on, how well can one hold a point. And how well one can hold one is remedied by, of course, simply holding one. And by exaggerating the things which it tries to do, and then minimizing the things that it tries to do and applying a cycle of action to that point. This point sits there and it starts to shimmer. The preclear can’t stop it from shimmering. Well now, that’s what’s wrong with the preclear. He’s been trying to stop an action. Any time in any process, and this is particularly pertinent to psychosomatics, a preclear has consistently and continued tried not to have the pain of something, has tried to stop a motion, has tried to stop an action; he is on a single flow. And, as we know, a single flow or a single effort will lock.

The Standard Operating Procedure Issue 3 which is in the book is – and don’t underestimate this – an intensely workable procedure. But Standard Operating Procedure Issue 3 simply changed Step One and put Spacation in and Step 5 took the Case 2 right on down the line – from Case 2 down – and rather radically changed the procedure so as to simplify and codify that procedure to make it very easy for the auditor to go on and spring these 5’s. I’ve done enough tests on this later material now, that uh… I’m very confident in handing it over to you.

Of course, then, if a man tries to stop the ringing in his ears for years, or tries to stop the pain in the knee for years, or tries to stop himself from seeing blurredly for years, or tries to stop himself from stuttering for years, or even for months, he has built up one flow that has tended toward stop. And the condition will spring. All you have to do is demonstrate to him that he can start it. And having started it, you then increase it. And having increased it, then you decrease it. And that works with any chronic somatic. –

The facts of the case are that a Step 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are badly out of orientation and are in one of two conditions. They either have so thoroughly fought loss of any kind, fought loss; they’ve so thoroughly fought it, that they are now in a situation where they hold on to anything. And we go just downscale on the DEI cycle just a little bit and we find out that the case below the level who resists all loss is the case who has lost so much that it abandons anything. And we can categorize then any and all cases above and beyond Case One in these two categories and it doesn’t matter whether we have a… an „abandon all“ case or a „hold all“ case; the step is the same for that case.

And if you’re going to address a chronic somatic exactly, you can knock the thing flat very swiftly, simply by exaggerating its condition and then minimizing its condition until the preclear realizes that he is actually in control of it. What he has tried to do is back up from it; he has tried to retreat from it. And his consistency of retreat has established a one-way flow, which, of course, has stuck and has latched him up in a situation where he cannot get rid of his condition. He’s holding on to it desperately.

Now I have to go into this a little more deeply with you. Now fortuitously we have talked a great deal in these ‘lectures about cycles of action. I’ve just beaten cycles of action practically to pieces here. Some of you have thought perhaps these lectures are not… not very thoroughly plotted. Truth of the matter is when you have a plot like this book here you don’t need much plot in the lectures because you’re going over the same material over and over and over from different viewpoints and different angles until an individual can compare it with his own experience thoroughly enough so that by that alone he grasps and owns the subject. And one day you’ll suddenly find yourself in complete ownership of this subject. Nobody’s trying to… to either give it to you, you’re not trying to take it; the point is that it is knowledge and the knowledge must, to become your knowledge, become yours. You are not on a standpoint of being convinced of the truth of this knowledge. That is the wrong tack. To look for proof, to demand proof and that sort of thing is no part of knowledge. That is a very wishy-washy uh… way to get away from knowing anything. A person who is demanding proof and trying to obtain conviction is playing a game of pretense that is above all pretense. Because from the first moment you decided to be, the next instant you asked for conviction that you were. And of course a conviction that you existed, coming exteriorly from yourself, was antipathetic to your best interest. And so we get the first instant of conviction that you were you – that was yours, but then you asked to be convinced that you were and back and forth straight down the interwoven track of aberration and down tone scale, it is simply this play of „Let’s pretend I am convinced“ instead of „Let’s pretend I know.“ That’s of very… you… if you’ve… if you grasped that principle by itself you will understand, perhaps for the first time, what is meant by knowingness.

That fella… fellow who is trying to desert his body for many, many years or even centuries, has tried to desert his bodies and get away from bodies has, of course, set up a one-way condition whereby he’s trying to desert bodies. This is reversed very, very simply solely by making him try to take possession of his body. And he will argue madly, by the way, when you first… the first moment you start to give him… you start to tell him, „Now, all right. Let’s take possession of this body.“

We’re going right on here with Standard Procedure Issue 5. But you have to know these things because this is the condition your 5, 3, 2 case levels are in. They are not in a state of knowingness; they are in a state of convincedness. An entirely different thing, and part of that conviction has come about through the cycle of action known as DEI.

„No, no! No, no!“ He’s got a lot of reasons.

If that has any similarity to God, I’m sorry.

You say, „All right, now let’s take possession of just your right ear – that’s all. That’s all we want – just your right ear.“

True knowingness is a capability to know and to ascertain within oneself, truth. There are many kinds of truths as I’ve talked about before. There is also a theoretical level of pure truth. Some of you know of the earlier lectures of Bin 1, Bin 2, Bin 3; remember those earlier lectures? What was in Bin 3? Man only knew relatively what was in Bin 2 was a route to knowledge and knowingness and what was in Bin 1 was all true – theoretical, absolute – Bin l.

„Oh, no!“

Well, now an individual comes out of Bin 1, and goes through Bin 2 and winds up in Bin 3. When he is in Bin 3 he has travelled the course of aberration in that he has to be convinced. And this being convinced is the handiest little mechanism for aberration of which you’re ever heard. A thoroughly gorgeous piece of nonsense. There’s only one thing you can do, really, and that is, know on the highest level of your own beingness and capability, and the day that you have to ask somebody to convince you that you are you’re practically done from there on.

And you’ll find out that he is stuck on a one-way flow which says, „Get away with a body – get away from it.“

That’s why I say when people come around and tell you that you should prove something to them about this subject, go ahead and prove it. ZAP them, drown them, throw ‘em into birth but don’t bother proving it. If we were operating simply with a conviction or a convincedness, we could talk about anything, I can prove to you completely that black is white and pink is blue. I’m the best handy little jim-dandy convincifier you ever heard of. Any fellow who has been through engineering to prove this and to prove that, is the essence of engineering. And any fellow who has been through writing is doing nothing but setting up ‘convincedness’. The reader is convinced the story is true. The odd part of it is, and all it is, is just a chain of probabilities which are so put together and usually interwoven with aesthetics, that one achieves at the end a belief that something has occurred.

He’s got to be able to use it 100 percent – use it, abuse it, do anything to it – before he’s actually free of it, because as long as the body is antipathetic to him, it controls him. He must be in a complete state of disregard of the body, actually, in order to be a good, solid theta clear.

Of course that’s a pretense. That is a complete pretense. You step off the level of your own knowingness into conviction and you’ll get into the same situation an individual is in who is demanding to be hypnotized, who is demanding to be drugged, who is demanding to be operated on. He’s just trying to say, „Convince me it’s real.“ That’s all he’s interested in. He wants to be told that it’s real. He wants to be convinced because basically, of course, it is not real, and he is dwindling out down the bottom on being convinced instead of knowing; and knowingness could be said to be, itself and within oneself, and at best, a capability for truth – just a capability for truth. It is not data. All the data you run into anyplace, unless it tends to place you back up into a capability where you yourself have knowingness, is false data. Any route that you follow that returns to you your capability of knowingness or returns to the preclear that certainty of knowingness is a road to knowledge. If it contains data, it contains it solely to communicate. So that an individual can perceive, in these steps, the eradication of those barriers which intervene between himself and himself. Between himself and his actual capabilities. And if we have data, it is the data in those barriers and we know it to remove it.

All right. Any time then that an individual is in a condition of backup or stop on anything, you as an auditor have only to reverse and exaggerate the action. Let’s take this point. This point could be a ringing in the ear, a bad knee, bad eyes, anything. You e… follow pretty well the same process. We put it into a cycle of action and then put the cycle of action under the control of the preclear simple. There’s really nothing to it.

Processing in this universe is a process of negative gain. You will very often run into this with a preclear: you will process him very arduously and very arduously and very thoroughly and… and the first thing you know, why, your preclear will be saying, rather dully uh… to you, he… he obviously feels fine now, and he will say to you uh… that, „Really uh… we ought to get down to cases now and… and do something,“ and you look at this fellow and before he would have said, „Do ya… do ya… do ya think it ever… ever any… anything uh… uh… uh… wha will happa.; happa… happen to improve… improve me?“ And he says, „Well I think we’d better get down to cases now, and get my case some improvement.“ You feel like killin’ him! You’d just cheerfully shove him into the nearest Iron Maiden and turn on the spikes and juice. But don’t be upset because you are following a course with him of negative gain. He is gaining by eradication. And of course those things which are gone no longer bother him. And in view of the fact that they no longer bother him, he is now in good condition.

For instance, somebody feels terrific degradation. You just make him feel a lot more degraded. He… he feels like he can’t be proud of himself. Okay. Let’s just exaggerate the condition. Let’s just exaggerate the dickens out of this condition. Let’s get him feeling that he’s old and an old tramp in terrible, ragged clothes and he’s starving and diseased and he’s crawling around… along a… a snow uh… covered countryside and being driven with pitchforks away from every place. And he says, „Well, it can’t be this bad. The dickens with it!“

But this universe vector is „In order to progress you must have,“ and that of course is 180 degree falsehood. You can progress with or without having. But this universe tells you only by having and acquiring and by new possession can you progress. And so you turn the vector around and you start unhaving and of course the fellow gets freer time, more action, more capabilities in space, and a much more desirable ability or capability in all directions, including that of knowingness; and then he says to you, „Having acquired nothing, I feel I should acquire something.“

Exaggerate the condition which is feared.

Up at the top of all this you see is this terrible mania „Acquire,“ „Have,“ „We must be in the time span,“ „We must be timed according to this universe.“

That which one fears one will acquire, because he’s trying to back up from it and his backing up from it, of course, brings it to him. You back up from something in this universe, by its laws of flows… by its laws of flows, this condition will result in his having it.

Well, a conviction must exist before a possession can exist. You must be convinced, one, either out of yourself or from another that you desire something. And then next, you must be convinced by it, by yourself, – or by another that its havingness is actual. And of course it isn’t actual; it’s real. Get the distinction between those two words we’re making?

Now you know those having and agreeing and so forth. Well, if he tries to disagree with something, what does he do? It’ll agree with him and stay with him. Now that’s a horrible condition. I mean, it’s the… the booby trap, the MEST universe size. But that is the condition in which he will find himself.

So all of a sudden here… here nothing existed. Nobody had to desire anything, but could; and now desiring it, two conditions can ensue: One has it, and then has to have it, and then of course mustn’t have it.

So when he’s tried to back up from a condition… back up from a condition – the only way out is through. So if you start him through and he’s willing to live and use this body and do anything with it, all of a sudden he’ll say, „I’m talking about getting out of this body.“ The first throng he’ll be, is he’ll be wondering, „You know, I should wonder that this body doesn’t try to get away from me!“ Then the next thing you know, why, he’ll be walking down the street one day and he’s liable to keep right on walking and he’ll say, „A… a… a… I forgot me body! Just a minute – I’ll go back and pick it up!“ The way out is the way through.

And that cycle, which I will draw to you with even finer detail, is the cycle of your Step 2, Step 3, Step 4, Step 5, Step 6, Step 7. Until Step 7, you can no more alter the possession of a man just by snapping your fingers, than you could cut a rock with a feather. Of course you could cut a rock with a mocked-up feather. But he isn’t going to part with anything. Or, he’s got to part with everything.

Now let’s look at this point: All these conditions are the same as this point condition. You put up this point. All right, the point shimmers, the point wobbles. A lot of facsimiles start pouring out. All the… any one of those conditions I gave you about that point start occurring. How do you remedy it? Well, you let this point shimmer. Only you make it really shimmer. „Now let’s make it shimmer some more.“

So convincedness proceeds from desire and actually mostly exists before desire, but it is not so rough just before desire, in the early stages of the track, but it becomes rough immediately afterwards. Then a fellow has to convince himself that he has to have – and that’s all pretense. He doesn’t have to have anything.

And the fellow says, „I can’t control it to that degree because the second I try to make it shimmer, it starts rushing off and going into random motions all over the room – zing-zing! Boom-boom!“

The story I told you and that is quite popular in Asia about the shirt of a perfectly happy man as the only cure for the princess is, of course, itself a misleading statement, because even though that perfectly happy man did not have a shirt, he had possession, and therefore he was not a perfectly happy man. A person has to be willing to have, and willing to lose before he can completely be. He must be willing to hate and be hated, leave and be left, before he can love. Because all of these things, so long as they contain enforcement and loss as terrible things which mustn’t overtake any man, are therefore debarred to an individual.

And you say, „All right. Each time it comes anywhere close to you, give it a push and change its course – that’s all. Just once in a while, change its course. Let it go very random and then change its course once in a while with a push. It doesn’t matter how random it’s going or how seldom you change it, just once in a while punch it.“ That point’ll tame right down and all of a sudden remain in one place.

You have to be able to want this whole universe, to be hated by this whole universe, to be smashed by this universe and to smash it – you have to be willing to – before you could control it. Really even before you could really desire it. And that desire must be a thing that you can monitor too. You must be able to desire and not desire at will. You think that’s a pretty cool way to look at existence… No, I’m afraid that is a lot hotter than any of these heat engines I see are running just now. It’s very, very warm.

Or let’s say the second that he uh… stops this point, he gets facsimiles of people rushing in from all directions, or doing something of the sort. And they start pushing the point around and they start interfering with him and jumping on the point and riding the point and changing the point to something else and doing it this and doing it that. You just make him get more people and have them change it more often and have him push it in more places, and have it go in a more random situation.

Somebody said I should say more about love and sort of understand something about this thing called love. I told you that the lower part of the track was a mockery of the upper – uh… pardon me, tone scale – was a mockery (lower part of the track too) of the upper part of the tone scale. The upper part of the tone scale was far wider and far stronger than the lower part of the tone scale, but that the lower part of the tone scale was very serious and everything was very real, and the brotherhood of man was something that we must have, and uh… all that. And yet before anybody at the very bottom of that tone scale would form a brotherhood of man he’d slit his mother’s throat. He’s too little theta and too much matter. Too little order and too much confusion. Too little beingness and too much havingness. He’s your „Joe Gotbucks,“ the famous tenement owner.

And if you can’t even… if he can’t even control it to that degree and this condition still occurs, have him, once in a while, slide in somebody new that manhandles it. Just have him slide in a gremlin or slide in a point changer – make him the umpire in all this chaos. And have him slide in this point changer, and have the point changer give it a whip, too. That point will calm right on down into his… skill.

He’s uh… in a very sad state who is in that mockery level. If you don’t think that it’s mockery, you should watch some of these people operate. If ever there was anything like complete contempt and disdain for you to feel anywhere in this universe, you’d find it there. „I am your friend; now turn your back – that’s good. Now just hold still while I adjust your collar button and you feel that steel sliding in between your vertebrae.“ And they always start with that line, „I am your friend.“

Now you have this happen faster, you make him increase it, and then you have him decrease it. Whatever action is going on, make him increase it and then make him decrease it slightly.

You get some little character completely in apathy, just ‘flop,’ pratically catatonic, and so forth. They apparently are so sweet, so needing, so this, so that. Go ahead, commit suicide. ‘cause you’re looking at something that would make a black widow spider appear to be a pet.

And make him occasionally come on to the realization that he is to some slight degree controlling this thing. No matter how arduous this is as a process or how long it takes, you can do it.

Not at that end of the tone scale do you find affection or love. You find these things used for death, not for life. And up the tone scale, however, there is sufficient theta, as compared to the amount of… and sufficient space, compared to the amount of particle present, that the actual capability of theta can pervade and express itself. You’ve got a latitude of action, you also have a latitude of expression. And up there at the top of the scale, you find love as something which is strong enough to practically monitor, or control anything – a warmth of feeling of which homo sapiens sometimes, in sad and nostalgic moments, dreams.

The point… the point insists on expanding, and it goes out and it goes „Waaang-Boom! Waaang-Boom!“ and it’s going out. You make it go „Waaang- waaang, Boom!“ that’s all. Just catch it on the fly and make it do one extra one once in a while.

But it’s that toward which he is yearning, not toward „I’m your friend. Turn your back. There’s the steel.“ And he sees that operation at the bottom of the tone scale and he’s revolted. And he said, „Ah well, there’s no such thing as love; then there’s no such thing as valuable possession, there’s no such thing as any honest or worthwhile emotion. There is no ARC, there never will be any ARC, and it’s all a delusion and I’m better off without me, without the race, without anything.“ And that’s just exactly what that level is trying to do to him, and it accomplishes his purpose the moment it makes him strike his flag and say, „There is no love. There is no beauty. There is nothing.“ After that he’s MEST. He’s very easy to control. You could make a slave out of him, you can do anything to him.

Oh, he’ll say finally, „The dickens with that! I can make it go Waaang-Boom! too. I can also just make it go Boom! Now it’s just sitting there.“ Exaggerate the condition.

But up high on the scale, one can possess and be fond of possessing; one can be strong and be fond of strength; one can love and feel love returned; one can have and take joy of having, and lose and not care if he loses. And the difference between the top of the scale and Step 2, Step 3, Step 4, Step 5, Step 6 and Step 7, is the degree to which the individual has sunk in abandoning any effort to have ARC, affection, possession.

In other words, what am I saying then? I’m just saying, „Apply a cycle of action to it. Start, Increase, Decrease, and Stop. All right, so much for that point. And when I say, „So much for that point,“ I’m also at the same time saying so much for any chronic, somatic or emotional condition which you run into in any preclear. Just apply a cycle of action – increase it and decrease it and stop it and start it.

He’s to a level where he’s afraid to be, afraid to love, afraid to have space, afraid to have time. He’s apathetic about any of… possession that he possibly could have. Because he well knows, even though he continues to want, since he’s still in the time stream, that if he has, he will lose, and if he loses he will die. He’s well educated into this.

„Now make yourself feel worse. Now make yourself feel MUCH worse. Now make yourself feel just GRUESOMELY worse. All right. Now that you’ve done that, make yourself feel a little better.“ Well, that’s easy by this time. „Gonna make yourself feel worse than you did before. Good. You got much worse now?“

So that possession of any sort to him becomes terribly dangerous and he becomes very, very upset at the idea, for instance, of owning a pet. Why? Because the pet might die, and the loss of that pet, if he gave it affection, would be more than he could bear. So he doesn’t own; he doesn’t love; and the reason he doesn’t love, is because if he loved it would become unbearable if he lost the object of his affection. He cannot further lose. Your big D is at the top of the scale, your big E is at the center of the scale, your bing I is at the bottom of the scale. And he’s down to a point where he inhibits all of these things either by trying to hold on to everything or trying to abandon everything. And he’s someplace on that lower scale.

„Yeah.“

And a Step 2 isn’t at any particular level on the scale, or a Step 3, or a Step 4, they are not at particular levels on the scale; they’re all way below, as homo sapiens, 4.0. And as thetans they’re all way way below 0.0. And you’ll find some ‘One’s’ kicking around who are both above zero as a thetan and above 4.0 as homo sapiens, but not necessarily. You may find a ‘One’ who is above zero as a thetan, but as homo sapiens, because he could never quite fit, he was maybe 1.1.

„All right now, decrease the worseness. Now feel cheerful. Oh, you can’t do that? Well, feel cautious then. Oh, you can feel cautious? Good. Now that you feel cautious, now feel degraded. Yeah, feel really degraded. Feel like you couldn’t hit anybody in the whole world, that you wouldn’t even be able to hit a snail in the whole world. That’s right, now you got that feeling? Now fix it so any snail in the world could beat you up with complete impunity. Got that? All right, that’s fine. Now fix it so that there is one small algae, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that you could beat up if you were cautious. Now just get that algae there, and ‘let’s be very cautious and let’s beat him up.“

So you see, let’s not get these values tangled up because they’re easily entangled. Don’t suppose then that you have to unentangle them. Because of course they’re all messed up when you get to the bottom of the scale because they’re mixed up with MEST and MEST is chaos. MEST has no affection; it only has the pretense of affection. You can well remember the morning when your automobile said to you, „I’m sorry I am so cold and I am starting so hard.“ No, it doesn’t have any feeling down at that bottom of the track. But somebody puts some havingness on it. Somebody fixed the fenders good and painted it up brightly and therefore it appears to be something that is terribly attractive and something which an individual personifies. And he said, „My car… My car’s name is Bingo. And Bingo has a personality.“ Who gave it to him? He did. Then one day he loses Bingo. The world’s full of cars. There’s a lot of cars. They can be manufactured – just endless chains of cars. And yet he will sit down and completely sag.

And the fellow says, „Oh, well, some other algae’s liable to do that.“

What’s he… what’s he feeling in terms of loss? The utility of transport? No, he knows basically he really doesn’t need transport. No, he’s losing that which he created to be alive. And as such he feels sorrow at its loss. And the study of all these cases is the study of the chaos resulting from having gone too far, too long, of becoming too afraid, or too apathetic to have evenly and well.

You say, „All right. Now have all the other algae come in and beat you up. All right, now you… you can beat up two algae now.“ And in such a condition you can work a fellow back up, really, in an hour or two of processing. You could take Joe Lewis for instance. Now you would work that process… that’s the process you would work on Joe Lewis. You’d have him back in there climbing into the ring, this big, black glossy tiger, see… panther climbing into the ring and looking around and his opponent comes out of the corner, he picks up one fist, he takes one look, he takes one blow and it’s the end of the fight. Joe Lewis could do that today. You could upset every single fight promoter, betting ring or anything else that you wanted to do, by processing Joe Lois for as little as five hours. You could just ruin the whole fight game. By doing what? Exaggerating his defeatedness. And then minimizing it, and then exaggerating it. Because he’s gotten down to a point where force will no longer permit him to handle the force in his facsimiles.

You’ll find the people at this end of the tone scale, these cases are badly… are badly out of orientation in terms of what we call, laughingly, time. ‘Course this is… they’re out of orientation of havingness. A day to one of them might appear five minutes to you. A year to – one of them might appear to be only a few hours to somebody else.

And his facsimiles move in on him and he’s sitting right now in the midst of every fight he ever had, just as a preclear is sitting in the middle of every fight with force he ever lost. He’s sitting right there – 74 trillion years he’s been losing fights. And you want to know how good he can get? Look how bad off he is.

Do you recall the interminable afternoon of childhood? The interminable afternoon… Johnny went out to play with somebody else, and you sat there and you had nothing to do all afternoon – it would be the same thing to you as… now as saying you had nothing to do for a whole month.

Now let’s remember that then, apply a cycle of action to this. He says, „It does so-and-so.“ That’s why you have to find out what it’s doing. It’s saying, „It’s doing so-and-so and I can’t handle it. It’s doing so-and-so.“ You just either make it do more so just bluntly, just tell him to do it more so, or occasionally introduce a new factor – in other words, change. You just increase it or you change it. And then you decrease it. No matter how tiny an amount you succeed in changing it or altering it, he can then change it a larger amount and a larger amount until the darnedest things will come under somebody’s control.

Havingness. This is an expanse of havingness, a capability of havingness, which gives us all kinds of apparent time. It’s almost a reverse vector, you see? One… the… the particules of havingness are really so easily controlled. A child lives mainly in a world of mock-ups and those particles are so easily controlled, and they’re shifted so fast, that one’s havingness can increase with such a rapidity, and decrease with such a rapidity, that a child’s time track looks like a roller-coaster.

If you were to say to a preclear who’s out of his body and who couldn’t even move a cigarette paper to „Get how terrible it would be to move the cigarette paper,“ and then have the cigarette paper moving him all over the place and get cigarette papers coming up and chasing him, and now let’s get molecules out of cigarette papers chasing him – if you were to just exaggerate this disability to a point where it really degrades him – oh, he’s… feels in terrible condition.

But wait till we get this child up to the age of 35, 40, 45, 50 and he goes to the office in the morning – he doesn’t have any universe of his own, he just has the havingness which is given to him, by suffurance, and which may be taken away from him at any moment. And he sits at a desk, he has pieces of paper, or if he’s a labourer, he has a drill press. He has a locker, he maybe has a car, he has a Sunday suit, he has a cubicle of some sort, his space where he has a few items parked away, and that is the extent of his havingness, and he knows very well by this time that he cannot enlarge it. And so his time doesn’t go by interminably. He can’t change his havingness. Time just is fixed for him. He’s living forever, but the days go by with a rush. A complete chaos of orientation.

Degradation is actually an inability to handle force. Lack of pride because one’s force is gone. Upscale, a person feels very competent. He walks in to the… up to the… the bois in the morning and uh… Henri has swatted him on the cheek with a glove. He walks out in the bois and he takes out his long rapier and with great expertness and great glee he goes through Henri’s guard and Henri dies very quickly, under great competence.

Now you step up to this fellow and you say, „Be a step back of your head.“

The next thing you know… the next thing you know, this fellow… this fellow is not any longer interested in killing Henri. He is afraid to be competent. Not so much because of the backflash of every time he’s applied pressure, because he loses. He loses a few times so he recognizes that his competence against Henri was competence. And what knocked him off was competence. So what’s wrong with it is competence. And competence in the handling of force, then, must be eschewed. And if competence in the handling of force is eschewed and abandoned, you’re not supposed to have anything to do with it anymore, then of course you have to abandon force, because if there’s no competence with the force, the force becomes completely random. As a net result his competence goes by the boards and he begins to feel how? Degraded, because he can’t use force.

„What head?“ He’ll be in a… various stages of disrepair. And we’ll cover these fellows with the steps and it’ll be just that gradient scale, but back of all this work that we’re doing from Step One on down is the formula of DEI and Forget and Remember as a result thereof.

How can you get ahead in the world and how can you dig yourself out of this universe and lift yourself up ranks and… and… and go up the line and so forth? By recovering the use of force. The guy can’t use force, so you exaggerate his inability to use it. The dot won’t stay still. Now, you make him move this point, just… it’s… he finally conquered it. Now let’s move it just a little bit. Let’s move it in some other direction. let’s move it in some other direction. Change its color. Put it behind his back. And every time he puts it behind his back, he gets another one out front.

And it goes on this wise. The man cannot be certain. You are looking for certainty in a preclear. Is he certain that he has put a mock-up in yesterday? And he can’t be certain of that. Is he certain that he has changed it from the front to the back? And he can’t be certain of that. It keeps moving on him, and he can’t be certain that it can be stopped. This is faith of capability, but it… it’s also to the degree that he desires to be convinced. As he is unable to know, he becomes desirous of being convinced. As he is unable to know, he has to be convinced; until at long last he is s… solely and only capable of being convinced and he is not capable of knowing. And the lower part of this scale is a hideous thing to see – really low on it. If you were to tell him that it were so, it would then be so. But would this man be free or would you have a slave?

So you make him put two out front for every one he puts behind his back. Two out front. And he gets to doing this after a while and he can’t stop it. So you say, „All right now, put four out front for every one you put behind your back. Put one of them behind your back and put four out front.“ And this finally gets up so the whole room starts getting full of these darn things. And he can’t tell which point’s which anymore. He’s just getting the whole thing…

Do not operate as they have operated in the field of psychotherapy. Do not tell a man to be certain. Give him a skill, give him an exercise, suggest something for him to do, but do not tell him where he is or what he is doing. Let him tell you and you find out where he is and what he is doing.

And you say, „Are you willing to start over again on these points? Well, that’s fine. Let’s put those all in yesterday, and let’s get a new point.“ And he’ll say, „Yeah!“ „All right, put that point behind your back.“ „Okay!“

How do you control homo sapiens? By placing him in space and time and in creating space and time in which to place him. That’s the way you control homo sapiens. Q1.

Now… now that you’ve got that conquered, let’s build some two-dimensional space. Don’t get into any big arguments with the preclear about the fact you couldn’t possibly move around in two-dimensional space. You can move around in two-dimensional space, because it’s a postulated area of only two dimensions that has two or more anchor points. So we put four anchor points on this two-dimensional space and we do things with it. First we fit it over his body. Then we put it below his body. We put it above his body. And what do we use for anchor points? His body! That’s the only orientation he’s got.

Now if you at the bottom… had a preclear who was going out the bottom, believe me, the only method he thinks he has of knowing is if you tell him. Why? He’s in a hypnotic trance. He’s in an hypnotic trance from 2.0 down and a bad one. And at… then… he gets to a point where if you tell him that’s why, it isn’t true; but if you do the opposite, then of course it becomes convincing. He becomes sure that you’re going to kill him because you’re so nice to him. He becomes sure that you are his enemy in that wise. You are so mean to him that he’s sure, then, that you are his friend.

A preclear in this state is oriented in relationship to his body and to nothing else. So we put these two anchor points, and let’s… let’s just routinize this thing – it doesn’t have to be this way, but this is mostly because it makes the preclear so angry and uncomfortable. Uh… make him lie on his back and put his hands under his head and use his two elbows as anchor points: And make him put his big toes about a foot apart, and use those as two anchor points. And have this two-dimension space running from those two big toes up to the points of his elbows. And when he starts to shift his elbows around or move his feet so as not to have those anchor points anymore, make him pull it back into that condition… circumstance. He’ll get very tired of it after a while. He’ll get very restless. I’ve never had a preclear yet who didn’t get extremely restless when you made him lie in one position and restricted his freedom of motion and made him handle something that he would much rather run away from. The way he’ll run away from it is by curling up, by closing his feet together, by putting his arms down at his sides, and so forth. He just keeps running away. He doesn’t want to get under this tension, because you’re just about to put him under terrific tension.

Reverse vectors walk in, and those vectors reverse back and forth, and we get this dwindling spiral of belief. And here you see the sandwich on the tone scale. Those little sandwiches come down the line – distrust-trust, distrust-trust, distrust-trust, and up high on the scale, all those trusts are trust of self and all low on the scale, those trusts are trusts of that which convinces him – only.

Now, you take those two anchor points – his hands are behind his head so his elbows are out the akimbo, not akimbo, but his elbows are sticking out. Those are two anchor points. He’s got these two big toes as anchor points. Now have him put some two-dimensional space between his two big toes and his elbows.

So let’s… let’s be a… aware, then, of this first fact in handling any case below 2 and that is that he will take your word for it ordinarily, or take the reverse of your word for it, before he will take his own knowingness. And that’s what’s wrong with him. And if you evaluate for him you can kill him. Just remember that. If you’ve ever had anything to do with people who have been consistently and continuously hypnotized you will know the truth of what I am saying. These people have been slain. Because somebody else took over their knowingness for them.

And when he does that – my God! Coffins, deaths, all kinds of horrible things start to roll off of this case like mad. Do you pay any attention to these things? No! You just make him take this two-dimensional space and hold it until you can make that space lie quiet. That’s the main thing that space is supposed to do, you understand. Space is supposed to do that. It is supposed to be quiet!

How do you reverse this vector then? You work on the highest level of certainty obtainable and each time discover a highest level of certainty obtainable. And what are you trying to discover a certainty on? On that thing of which he is convinced falsely, the existence of the MEST universe? No, Sir. His level of knowingness proceeds up the scale along the line of his ability to create, change and destroy his own universe. So your levels of certainty in his own universe lead directly to knowingness – not conviction. And you go straight up scale with this fellow.

How do you get somebody from ever having any space any more? Make him jiggle and jitter. If you can get a guy nervous enough, he wouldn’t have any space any more. But how do you get somebody nervous? By making the space which he occupies untenable. What is nervousness? Nervousness is that condition which results from having one’s space as occupied made untenable. If you take some fellow and run him headlong into a tree, the tree is occupying the space he should have been occupying, and of course that space is untenable, so the fellow after that gets nervous about trees. This is very simple with the stuff we’ve been over about Spacation.

But if you ask him to be convinced by reality, he will go down scale. You can get resurgences by making him suddenly aware of reality. But you’re not interested in reality; you’re Interested in actuality. And the only actuality there is for this man is the actuality of what he can do with his own mind and all of its skills. And that’s his actuality. And you build on certainties, and certainties lie in the field of actuality. They can appear to lie in the field of reality. But all reality is a farce. A very broad statement, but it’s a farce. If you can’t play a game, don’t fool with reality. If you were capable of the spirit of play and playing a game and pretending, if you’re capable of action which you merely postulate should be undertaken and still know the fact that it’s only being undertaken because you’ve postulated that it should be, you’re in a position where you can play the game called reality. But the game called reality cannot be played by somebody, safely, who is in a state where it is real, where it is important, where it is serious and where he must agree with it or where he’s even abandoned agreeing with it because it is so strong and powerful.

We’re going over this as a rote process now. You just hook those anchor points down there to the toes. Use those toes as anchor points, those elbows as anchor points and the thing starts shifting and curling up and rippling and turning over and flying away and so forth. So you just make it shift faster, you make it fly higher, you make more people come in and interfere with it. You get more gruesome things happening because it’s there. You make it roll up and unroll faster. Whatever it is doing, exaggerate it and then each time come back and decrease that. And then fix it on his body again, so he orients it. And you keep that up until he can hold that two-dimensional space right there without a qualm.

Now let’s look over this situation with the preclear and really know what you’re looking at when you look at somebody who doesn’t, the first instant, step out of the back of his head. Don’t immediately suppose this person is mad. He’s not. He may be in much better shape than most homo sapiens you’ve run across. But, he’s not in a collected and orderly condition with regard to his environment, and he’s out of orientation on these two points only: Space and Energy. And Energy, lumping up, becomes Havingness. He’s out of orientation on these two things. And being out of orientation on them, that orientation must be remedied before you find him capable of becoming a Step One and working accordingly.

Now in the process of doing this, he’s going to get nervous. Particularly his… his arms are going to get jumpy. The small of his back is going to get jumpy, and his legs will get very jumpy because legs are what one uses to remove oneself from space which has become untenable. So naturally his legs wall get jumpy.

Your job from Two down is to create a Step One and then follow the rules back of running a Step One. Very simple, isn’t it.

Now did you ever want to know what this manifestation is called? „nervous legs?“ You ask somebody, „Turn on sonic,“ and the guy… all of a sudden his legs start to jerk. He can’t turn on sonic because if he really found out that he was in a space big enough to turn on sonic, it would be made so untenable for him so fast that he’d have to run away. So his legs are all set to run the second you ask him to turn on a sound. Or any perceptic.

You can make a Step One and then you have Step One to do. When you’ve got that done, you’ve got a Theta Clear – that’s all there is to that.

And he knows he has to have space in which to turn on energy. If he can’t have any space, he can’t turn on energy, except to do anything but run. So his legs get very jumpy and he gets very upset.

So you treat a Two, Three and Four and Five and Six, Seven – you create these people solely to get a Step One case, that’s all.

And you just keep putting that back on his body and hooking it up to his elbows, and then increasing it and making it fly around and do all sorts of things and change character and go behind him and above him. And make it worse! Any condition he reports as happening, make it worse. Until the first thing you know, he’s handling two-dimensional space. Then you put the two-dimensional space below him, his body in the same position; then turn it end for end; then put it above his body, then turn it end for end; then make it stand up and make it in various parts of the room. And finally, he’ll be able to hold it very calmly, without any change, very quietly, on top of his body. He will have conquered two-dimensional space.

Now what… what do you… how do you remedy this situation? You could have an awful lot of formulas; you could have an awful lot of peculiarities in these cases. Let’s get the common denominator of all these cases, solve that and go on from there. That would be a good idea? That gives you only one thing you have to know and that’s DEI.

Now what’s the value of this? You’ve just shown him that there were anchor points which could be held stable. How do you expect a preclear to run anything or develop any energy at all if he doesn’t have any anchor points? This fellow hasn’t got any anchor points. Well, where could he put the energy if he doesn’t have any anchor points? Everything belongs to everybody else; it doesn’t belong to him.

Now let’s look over this Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, and we will use these headings: „Step Two by Orientation. Ask the preclear, still inside, to locate the inside of his forehead. Ask him to put a pressor beam against it and push himself out the back of his head. Supplement this by asking him to reach out through the back of his head and grab a wall with a pulling beam and pull himself out. Ask him to steady himself outside and then by means of beams, to raise and lower himself while outside,“ and so forth.

All right, next step on Spacation is to make this piece of two- dimensional space demonstrably solid and then unsolid, to convince people it’s solid and then convince ‘em it’s not solid. And just go through the routine: Now you pick up that space… make the preclear take that space and shove his – this is not actual, this is just his figurative – arm through it, demonstrating it’s not solid. And then make it solid. And figuratively hit it with his fist to make it make a sound to demonstrate it is solid. Then to make it not solid. Then to make it solid. Then to make it not solid. Until at last he suddenly recognizes something that is the most vital thing on the whole track: How did things get to be solid? Why do you think this wall up here is solid?

You can go right ahead and use that as Step Two – just as it is right there. With this single point: The moment you start to have trouble with this, this man is convinced already that he has to have energy to move around. And that in itself is an upset. It’s not true, you see. You don’t have to have energy to move around. You have to learn how to use this stuff called energy, but you don’t need it. You have to use it so that you need never thereafter be afraid of it. You must not only learn how to use it, but you must be completely willing to use it. And use it better than you ever used it before. But, that does not mean this person is working well, just because he can run energy. He will fix himself up so he looks like a grasshopper to himself. Quite often people get quite upset. They say, „I must be an insect, or… or something of the sort.“ They go walking around on these beams. They find out they can get around by doing that.

Now if he’s been convinced, he can convince somebody else that it is – this wall’s command value over him lessens. This’ll upset him, by the way, because he’ll feel immediately if he does that he’s liable to start making mistakes and walking through doors with his body without taking ahold of doorknobs. He’ll get certain that this kind of a condition would exist and it’d be very embarrassing to him. It’d be very embarrassing to him if he forgot to remember that his clothing was solid and walked out of them in the middle of the street.

This simply means that he is convinced that all space is MEST universe space and that you need MEST universe type things to move in it. So he’s short on space, isn’t he? Well, therefore you had better devote some time with this case to orienting him with regard to space in the MEST universe. And drilling him into moving by thought. You walk him out of his head with beams, and add now to Step Two „Now drill him until he can move by thought.“ And you do this by saying, „All right, now move over, or walk over“ – which is what’s he’s doing – „to the mantle. All right, now you’re there? All right, now let’s just ‘think’ yourself on the other side of the mantle and be there.“

Any kind of a condition could result from this, but that’s only because he is unable to control solidity and unsolidity at will. Furthermore, every time this individual’s been in bad condition, been placed in bad condition, it was by a force which convinced him. And how’d it convince him? By taking over the space he was occupying. One gets convinced the MEST universe exists at the moment it collides with the home universe and takes over the space of the home universe – one is then convinced of the existence of the MEST universe. More powerful space, of course!

Well, we won’t have a good time with this at all. You’ll probably have to hit it at a gradient scale. „Think yourself as two inches over to the right. Think yourself two inches over to the left“ – little tiny gradient scales until he’s used to shifting himself around in space. And all of a sudden he finds out he can do this; an awful lot of things will clip out of the case immediately.

So, the solidity of space is the first step on particles. You see, there is no such thing as a particle. There is a postulate about particles. But you get solid space – you can do anything with it. It doesn’t even have to be a particle. This is really senior magic.

So add that drill to Step Two and then just go right on with Step One as outlined in these lectures, not as outlined in this book. You get that little addition there to Step Two – „by orientation“ it says. Well „by orientation“ means you’ve got to train him to ‘think’ himself around in space before you go back to using energy. He’s got to find out that he can move in space by thinking himself from one point to another. You’ve got to teach him that by gradient scales and then you run Step One on him – very simple.

Now any time this individual’s gone through a tree, he has had it demonstrated that space could be solid. Any time he has run into a brick wall, he has decided that space could be solid. He’s run into enough of them back along – every time he has fallen and hit a planet, you know, jumped out of the second-story window or something, and hit the ground, he… has been demonstrated to him the planet is solid. Any one of these conditions are convictions. Of course, he had to have a higher level belief in the thing, or conviction. He had to accept somebody else’s evaluation in the first place to get into that condition. Or he had to sell people and fail to sell them on the solidity of his own space. If he couldn’t have space that solid, then nobody else… anybody else could come along and demonstrate that their space was solid and his wasn’t.

Now he isn’t in very bad shape, if you can do this, by the way. He’s in pretty good shape. If he fouls up to some degree on this or if he gets upset or the use of energy suddenly makes him feel terribly degraded or he’s in bad condition about some of this, why what do you do? If he falls from a Step Two – he walked out of the back of his head and all of a sudden he can’t now – he of course has done what? He’s just fallen into a later step case. That’s all.

So let’s take a look at this situation, and find out that the making of solid, two-dimensional space, and the unmaking of it at will, is of the essence in reconvincing him on the subject of energy.

He used energy for a short time and then all of a sudden the energy folded up on him; he couldn’t use it. Well, he’s just a later step case.

So, how do we do? He rams against it, he knocks it with his knuckles, and he finds out it’s impossible to go through it – utterly impossible to go through it. But he says, „Yeah, I made it solid, but it’s solid all the time. This thing has been solid from the beginning. It is a solid piece of two-dimensional space and that’s all there is to it and I can’t do anything with it.“

So when you pick him up and find out he’s no longer able to move himself out of his head this way, or something has happened to him or some waitress has banged a tray over his head or… or somebody shot him with a shotgun, or something of the sort, between sessions, work him then as a later step case. Don’t get confused about that. We had a Step Two; he could move himself out of his head by orientation. And we moved him around in space with beams and then he moved him in space by getting him to „think“ himself in space; and then we went on to Step One and went on from there.

„Well, that’s fine. Have it much more solid. Now get things like 16 inch guns firing into it, uh… airplanes crashing through it going faster than sound, and all of them just folding up and stopping when they hit this two-dimensional space. Let’s really exaggerate its solidity. Let’s make it hyperbolical beyond hyperbole. Let’s get it so that we have huge battering rams run forward by a thousand men hit this space. They’ve got spike points on the battering ram, and it doesn’t penetrate the space, and nothing penetrates it either. He’ll all of a sudden say, „Nothing’s this solid,“ and he’ll let something go through slightly. And after that it’s easy to break it down. And you just break it down to the point, then, to where you have this very small caterpillar come up with a very small hair off of his chin and push this very small hair through the space, and demonstrate it goes through. And after that he can move through this space at will.

But the next time we saw him, he wasn’t in as good a shape as we thought we were, and uh… you tell him, „Move out by energy“ and he can’t do it – this doesn’t mean that some new and heroic something that Ron didn’t tell you about is necessary. No, he’s just a later kind of case, that’s all. Do you get the idea?

Now supposing he can’t make it solid, supposing he can’t make it solid. Well, get it out horizontally and make it support something. Don’t have it hit, make it support something. Put on it a dust mote and have it support the dust mote, and not go through. And make sure the dust mote doesn’t go through. And the guy will eventually get the idea, all right, he can hang a dust mote on this.

Any… don’t… don’t get fixed on these cases. Don’t get arbitrary on these cases. As… a Case Five, a Step Five case can and should become a Step One case. He might even become a Step Two case. These categories change, and you will be alarmed by this fact: There will be some preclears, Two’s and Three’s and Four’s particularly, who do the darnedest things. They keep moving all over. One day they’re a Step Two, and the next day they’re a Step Five. The next day they’re a Step Three and the next day they’re a Step Two. They keep moving around on this.

Now let’s keep building it up from there until this thing can have cannonballs rested on it, until it can have a man rested on it, and until it could be hit by a sixteen-inch gun, or have a battleship or a faster- than-sound plane hit it and it wouldn’t go through.

Well, the only way that this is upsetting, and the only reason this is upsetting, is because they are, actually, incapable in some line or another and your presence gives them sudden hope. And this hope is sufficient to boost them up from what they are: A Five. It boosts them up and they’re very optimistic and as long as you’re there, they’ll all right. And then they go off down the street and they take a step a foot in back of their head and Pang! Zing! And they’re all upset. They’re being bolstered by the auditor, and the auditor has artificially bumped them up a couple of steps in auditing them. And of course, they’re not there and they can’t do this. Don’t worry about it. Don’t get any worry about this stuff. This is s… really too easy.

Now get him to change and shift solidity, pierceability and unpierceability – enterability and unenterability of that two-dimensional piece of space.

Now Step Three is by Spacation. It says here that „The MEST universe has forced upon the thetan its space… spacial dimensions and directions. The thetan is likely to become a point which is being subjected to all the counter-efforts and emotions of his environment, for his entire concept of space as being determined by the MEST universe. Have the thetan who’s still inside find his feet in the opposite direction.“

Now once in a while you’ll find this two-dimensional piece of space gets terribly fragile. Well, if it gets fragile, just keep breaking it up. Take a piece of two-dimensional space and break it up some more. And then… then throw those fragments away and get another piece of two-dimensional space and break that up. And another one and break that up. And all of a sudden it’ll get stronger.

All right. Step Three, Space Processing. Let’s call that now Spacation, and I will give you Spacation. If you had your books, you could strike out – and when you get your books and hear this tape again – strike out the rest of that beyond what I read. He’s out of orientation. The MEST universe has forced space and dimension upon him to a degree where he can’t handle it.

In other words, you toughen this space up until it is completely under his control. It’s enterable or not enterable. It can move here, dispose there – anything can be done with this that he cares to do with it.

You say, „So far, we’ve had this case this way: We’ve said to this case, „Be two feet back of your head.“ He wasn’t.“ You say, „All right, put a beam against your forehead and push yourself out.“ He didn’t. Okay. It… that… that took how long? That… that took 45 seconds. We’ve done an assessment on this case and we’ve spent about 45 seconds now following through Standard Operating Procedure, and we’re at Three. And we find out that he can’t do this.

Next step. Next step is to get two such planes and enclose a space with them. Two planes of two pieces of two-dimensional space and put them about four or five feet apart. Make a box – a big box. I don’t care how big you make it – 20 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet or something like that.

Here’s our test… immediate test for a Three: Have him put a point out in front of him. This is the next thing you do to this case. Put a point out in front of him – a mock-up. See, after he couldn’t step out of his head with a beam, the next thing you do is, „All right, now have a point in front of you. All right. Got it there? Now hold it steady. What’s happening?“ That’s just as simple as that, see?

But get this: That box encloses the preclear and the preclear’s bed. And the first thing it’ll remind him of, of course, is a coffin. And that is the space they’ve made very antipathetic to homo sapiens. They take a guy while he’s still in the head, and they fill the body full of formaldehyde and they do all sorts of gruesome things and then they put it in this little, tiny cramped box and they let… shove the lid down so it’s completely armor-proof, seap-proof, uh… bill-collector proof, I suppose, and bury it deep in the ground. It’s just a dramatization of a control operation. There isn’t any reason that anybody should do this. I mean, this is just nonsense beyond nonsense. Preserve a dead body? Let’s go down to the slaughterhouse and every cow they kill, let’s fill that cow full of formaldehyde and bury it. It just makes as much sense as people keeping this relic around with powder and paint on its face buried deep in the ground.

If that point is stable and if no strange new and peculiar facsimiles start shooting through, and if he’s obviously in very good control of this point and can conserve it and keep it stopped – with no further processing and so on – this fellow is a Three. And he… he will give up right away on Spacation. But…

It’s just… it’s just odd – just weird! I mean, how can a society go that nutty? Or, I should say, much greater dignity, how does it come so extremely aberrated? Well, it just goes nuts, that’s all, and… on the subject of bodies. „Care of the body… care of the body… care of the body. Nothing but bodies… nothing but bodies. All the space there is, is MEST universe space, all the space there is that can be controlled by the body. The body occupies the only space.“ And so, boy, right out of this…

All right, now what happens here? He… he holds the point. You say, „Put a point out there.“

You think you’re just in beautiful shape, now that you’ve got a piece of two-dimensional space. The guy can hold a point steady. Now he can hold eight points steady. He’s got two pieces of two-dimensional space and this makes eight points. It makes a rectahedron.

And he says, „What kind of a point?“

All right, here he sits… lies in this box. And the first thing you’re going to get… you say, „All right, let’s feel all around and make sure nothing is there but your space and the walls. Now cover ‘em with fur or put rugs on ‘em, or something of the sort. Now turn ‘em end for end, turn the walls end for end. Now rotate them a hundred and eighty degrees. Now handle them. Now color the walls red. Color them blue. Color them green. Shift it up higher – pull it down lower.“ And all the time let the body… you know, don’t let this guy lie on the couch and construct this thing out there somewhere on the other side of Marcab.

And you say, „Well, make it just little gold point of some sort or – another. Now just put that out in front of you. All right, now. Look at it. Now hold it steady.“

No, uh… you are about to unmock one body and one couch.

If he has even the vaguest difficulty with this, if he has even the tiniest uncertainty as to what this point’s doing, go right on to Step Four. If he holds that point, you can spring him by unmocking him.

Now, he’s got this space, and make him reach from where he is and feel all around the floor of it. That’s why it’s good to have rugs on the floor and silk walls, or something of the sort, so he can get a tactile on them. And make sure that’s his space. Now you make him feel all around and make sure there’s nothing in there but himself, as a thetan. And he’ll tell you long in advance of where he can actually stabilize this. „Oh, no. There’s nothing in here,“ he’ll keep yap-yapping at you. You just make awfully sure. Because when he gets this… when he gets this sensation, you can tell. It will come as a considerable surprise to him. It will really shock him. You’ll always see this surprise. He won’t just take this calmly because what he’s actually done is make some space, and he’ll suddenly realize he’s made some space. And what you do is have him sit in there as a thetan, in the middle of that huge spatial area and he reaches from one part to another, inspects all the corners, inspects all the walls, inspects the ceiling. And each time he determines that there’s nothing there but that space and himself as a thetan. You get him to inspect this real good, see?

And I’ll tell you exactly how that’s done: You unmock the body and leave the thetan sitting there. And then he moves off. Very simple trick. Because if he can hold that stable, he’s just within an ace of being able to handle space. If he can’t, he doesn’t know yet. That’s why he wasn’t a foot back of… two feet back of his head. That’s why he couldn’t push himself out with a beam because space is kinda dangerous. But he still might be able to handle a little bit of energy and so forth. But if he can hold this point, if he has no trouble with this point, you go with Spacation.

Now, you number the corners. You don’t have to demonstrate to him. You just say, „Number those corners one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight, and you’ve got all the corners numbered?… All right, go to corner one. Now feel all through the place from corner one. Now go to corner two. Now make… feel all through the place from corner two and make absolutely sure there’s nothing in there. Get a good tactile on the floor and the ceiling and the walls. Now go to corner three and do that. And go to corner four and do that and go to corner five and do that, six, seven, eight. Now make this completely certain there’s nothing in there.“

And from here on, this is the way you do Spacation.

Probably some kind of a condition like this is going to happen. He will either find it impossible to maintain this steadily, or he won’t. Other things will keep popping in there that he doesn’t want. If they do, make him keep filling it up full of all kinds of impossible things. Again, exaggerate the condition, and then empty it out, and then fill it up and then empty it out and fill it up and then empty it out and finally he’ll say, „The dickens with it.“

Okay. Gonna give you a whole hour on how you do Spacation, and I’ll just go on with the rest of this right now, this… immediately follow this.

Now if he says he can’t get rid of the furniture – the furniture is too great an actuality to him, Father was a furniture dealer or something like that – enlarge the space and start putting furniture in it. He’s got one couch in it already; have him put dozens of couches in it. Have him put couches all through the thing and then take them out again. Fill up that space and empty it until he’s sitting there with a complete certainty on the possession of that space.

It’s just this: The manifestations which take place around that point must be carefully examined before you determine that this fellow is a Three. If he can hold that point, he can be stable in his own space. You can make his own space for him and then stabilize him in it.

Now, he isn’t going to get the complete certainty right at first, but he can get it. He’ll think that’s very peculiar because he’s going to have something else sitting in that space and you can just count your bottom dollar he’ll have something else sitting in that space: and that is what’s left of the home universe will be found in that space.

And if any one of the following conditions occur, however, you go right straight on to Step Four. One, the point jiggles out of control. Two, it sweeps in on him. Three, it sweeps away from him.

But before he attains that, you’re going to have facsimiles flying off this fellow like mad. You’re going to have him dug out of this, and into that, and… and shot here and maimed there and lying someplace else dying. And these facsimiles are going to come through boppety-boppety-boppety- boppety-boppety-boppety-boppety-bop! And he keeps trying to tell you about these facsimiles.

Four, the point uh… holds, all right, but a lot of facsimiles start showing up and flying around.

Well, just… just disregard them and go on with the space, or if they become too annoying, throw in a few more agonizing deaths into the chain. Just throw in some deaths that are a little worse on the thing. „Well, get the… get a death now where you’re being disemboweled by a horse. Yeah, you got that? Well, all right now. Let the chain go on – look at the rest of them… All right, now run in there one now where you’re tied over a cannon’s muzzle and it’s fired. You got that? Well, let that one go on by. Now get… get one where you’re down at the bottom of the sea.“

And six, if it keeps blinking on and off, if it’s intermittent.

The fellow keeps saying he’s drowning or something. Oh, he… he’ll go through agony in this sometimes. And he keeps drowning or something. Say, „All right, get one of being at the bottom of the sea and have a couple of big sharks come along and grab ahold of the body and hold it still while bullet-fish fly through it. You got that?“

Any one of those conditions, he’s not a Case Three – not a Step level Three.

And he says, „What’s a bullet-fish?“

Now there’s a very distinct possibility you won’t find too many of these. But whether you find them or not, Spacation is doable by a Step One, a Step Two, a Three, and has to be done by a Four, and has to be done by a Five before you’ll get anyplace with these cases.

And you say, „It’s a bullet-fish, of course. Put some in.“ Anything, if that gets too bad… ordinarily you can just disregard that chain of deaths, because if you were to hold that consistently and let him look, he would see practically every past death he had rushing off of this thing.

So therefore, Spacation is quite important. But right here at that point, can you, at Step Three, can your preclear hold this point? If he can hold this point, you go right straight on with Spacation and unmock him. And just… he moves out. That’s that! He’s out.

Why? He’s been living since the explosion of the MEST universe… I mean, pardon me, explosion of his home universe at the hands of the MEST universe in borrowed space. So the second he tries to make any of his own space, all the borrowed space starts flashing at him. Every time he tried to possess space and was stopped, every failure to continue to own space is liable to show up in this space he’s trying to create.

Now the additional data which you need as you go down from Two and Three and Four and Five and Six and Seven is simply this: The fellow has lost too much, so that he abandons everything. Or loss is so frightful to him, he’s just a little bit above that on the scale, that he holds on to everything. The one who is abandoning will be very thin, and the one who is holding on will be plump. You can tell them on sight. And they’ll both use the same process for this.

So there he lies – all sorts of situation can show up there. Exaggerate the situation, and decrease it, increase it, run a cycle of action on it and keep putting that big box together there and uh… until he’s finally got space and then he’s going to find somewhere in there a high degree of probability that he will find a home universe. And he’ll be something ‘like the black spot over in one corner, or a tiny little dot in the middle. Or he’ll try to go through the middle of it. And he’ll say, „Every time I go through the middle of it it feels like I’m shot or something,“ or „like I’ve just been hit by Niagara Falls“ – anything along that line.

This does not become marked until a Four, Step Four, but you’re still dealing with those factors on the earlier ones – still dealing with them.

And uh… so, what do you do with this universe? If you were to ask him to put something in this rectahedron after he’s sure that it’s absolutely empty, you will get a sour reply. He’ll put something in it. he’ll be mean about it, or he’ll be unhappy about it. He’ll put something in it. He’ll be upset about it. He… he won’t want to put anything in it.

Now in the next hour I’m going to talk to you about Spacation. It’s a very special technique, and you’ve got all the theory that you need on this. But it has not been assembled for you into a very neat, one-two-three, little package. Well now, you can use it with great ease.

He’ll tell you it’s lonely, he’ll tell you that it’s no fun, he’ll tell you all sorts of things. „So, if this is all there is of building your own universe, I don’t want anything to do with it,“ he’ll be feeling.

Let’s take a break.

Why? You’re staring the MEST universe’s collapse and end right in the teeth, and it’s such a major failure that he doesn’t want to build a universe. He has nothing about that now.

So, what do you do? You get him to go in there, around and through that – of course, he’s in this space all the time. You make him look around and make sure the place is empty. And he’ll eventually find this thing somewhere in there. He won’t know what it is; he won’t be able to get rid of it right away. So you turn it into a gaseous mass, you change the color of the gas, you move it around into the various corners, you solidify it, you just give it straight mock-up change. You keep using it. You decrease it till it occupies the whole space and decrease it down again. The fellow’ll begin to tell you all about his home universe, if you do this.

And you don’t have to suggest „home universe“ to him. He’ll just tell you about it, and that’s that. And uh… you just keep working it; don’t let him go into large details about the thing. He’ll start wondering how on earth…

And, by the way, you needn’t tip him off to this degree unless it’s just too… unless he’s just too wild on the thing and he’s wasting too much time, as to how his home universe got that way, and what happened to it. He’ll tell you all sorts of stories, because the fact of the matter is that the loss of it and we’ll cover that in the next hour, what loss is, and a little more of the anatomy of loss so you can see how this thing works out – made him forget it. And he’s forgotten it. And he’s forgotten it with a vim, because that was the biggest loss he ever had. That was his and all of a sudden, wham!

What happened was, evidently, the MEST universe just came over and took it over. It just took it over. And it ran into it or fell on top of it, ‘cause this universe is expanding and it keeps hitting these things and so on. And it got on the wrong wave length or something happened and he suffered this. And the next thing he knew – really this is what happened – it went out and he came in. He didn’t have much of an entrance point or anything else. He just found himself there one day. He didn’t know where he was and he didn’t know what was happening, and he might have had some strange adventures and so forth. But after that he was a homeless waif – because he never found out what happened to him.

And that’s where your people are lost on the time track. They’re lost because they don’t have any space – it’s very simple.

All right, we change and alter this mass that he can’t get rid of called the „home universe“ until he’s perfectly satisfied about the whole thing. And then and there he will… will discover that space is his. He’ll find out that space is his, that is his space. He can do as he likes with that space, and he’ll find out something very strange. The mock-ups that he puts in that space appear and disappear with such ease, compared with the mock-ups he puts out in the MEST universe space. He’s been putting up mock-ups, let’s say, rather poorly. They’ve been shimmery, they’ve been thin, all that sort of thing. After you’re done (and this process is known as a Spacation), after he’s done a Spacation in that space, mock-ups can appear, disappear – bing-bang! Beautiful! He can move ‘em, change ‘em, put ‘em automatic, take ‘em off automatic and so on. He’ll find himself able to handle them in his own space.

Is this space actually his own space? If he has done this sufficiently and if he has done this well enough, he actually has parted company with MEST universe space. It is his own space.

You’ve got a certainty of dimension which is not coincident with MEST universe dimensions. And therefore MEST universe could not override that space.

Now you could go far in this direction to where he could be so expert in creating space and unmocking, that he could go out and look at an automobile and there wouldn’t be any automobile there anymore – for anybody. At first these spaces just disappear for himself. It… he’s… it won’t occur to him that his body might disappear or blow up or something as he’s doing this. He probably won’t think of it.

If he does think of it, don’t worry about it. I’ve done this to quite a few people and expected, in the early ones, that we would suddenly have somebody turn up missing on our hands, but nobody did. The preclear continued to remain visible to me on the couch but sometimes would get kind of thin – you’d kind of start seeing through them a little bit – not theta-wise. I mean, they just… just sort of looked kind of thin and unsubstantial.

Now, they’re liable to take off from that and go racing right on down the time track to present time on convictions – what they’ve been convinced of, what… the game they’re trying to play, and that sort of thing. And if they’re capable of seeing energy areas on themselves, they will see all sorts of energy areas on themselves. It’ll just surprise the dickens out of them how many energy deposits are convictions. They’ve been convinced they ought to play a game – they should play the game. „All right, how do you play the game?“

„Well, you play the game so that when you walk along here and you’re hit by this, you say, ‘I’m hurt’.“

„Well, I’m not hurt.“

„Well,“ they say, „well, you walk along there and when you’re hurt, you say, ‘I’m hurt,’ and that’s… that’s the game on this. And then I walk along here and I say, ‘I’m hurt,’ and I’m hurt, and uh… so on.“

But this fellow says, „But I’m not hurt.“

„Well, you just… just… this is just the rules. It’s the way you play this game.“

„Well, it’s a game – that’s all right.“ The most idiotic thing.

You make a hole – there’s a hole there and there’s something in it. And the fellow goes into it to find out if there’s anything in it and he doesn’t find anything in it so he takes things out of it. You know, he makes up things. And people say, „Well, this… no-no. That isn’t what it is – no, that isn’t what it is. No, that isn’t what it is.“ They just invalidate the heck out of a guy like this.

So, he is asking to be convinced continually, and any time he can find several people to agree with him, he’ll be convinced uh… on something or other. And he’s being invalidated continually. And the major ones are done by force and both of them depend on the banishment of space, really – banishmnent of the concept of how much space one can occupy.

When you’ve taken your space from the MEST universe, you have taken spurious or specious space. It isn’t real space for you because you… it’s not your dimensions. You’ve borrowed some other dimension and that’s about the most serious thing you could do is to take a dimension that is not of your own determination. And after that, you have difficulty with energy because you can’t put mock-ups in space which isn’t yours. And you know the space isn’t yours and so therefore you can’t put mock-ups in it. If you can’t put mock-ups in it, that means you can’t put energy in it.

Now you can get practiced enough on this so that you can simply turn around and put in MEST universe space energy. You can get to a point where you’ll string a little thread of energy between two cans, E-Meter cans, and the E-Meter – has anybody done that since I mentioned about it there? work? Did it work?

Voice: (?).

LRH: Oh, did you get a… just a little twitch on it?

Voice: (?).

Yeah, you’d have to put a pretty good… be pretty good at stringing, beams, and you’ve got to put a pretty solid beam between the two of ‘em and just let let it sit here for a moment and you’ll get interesting results on the meter. I’m fixing a meter up to do that.

The point is, then, that you are rehabilitating space for this preclear. Now this process called Spacation will spring somebody with great ease – after he’s unmocked the body a few times and he has had facility in creation of space and so on, moving in and out of the head or being where he wants to be in the MEST universe becomes very easy to him.

Now your Step One case can go right straight ahead on his route and go ahead and do this. But believe me, your Step One case should be put through a complete Spacation before your… consider him an operating thetan. You just take him from there on up. With a Spacation he becomes more or less an operating thetan rather than a theta clear. And he gets very able – he’s not too bad off, your Step One case.

These other people, you’ll find out on lower step cases, that you just push them through a Spacation anyhow, and sometimes have to before you can do a darn thing with them.

Actually, in view of the fact that space is beingness, you have to be able to handle space before the preclear can be anything.

So it’s a good thing to do, to put… as you go through this process, to be very careful about that particular set-up.

Now we’ll put that as a Three level. And the reason we leave One and Two as they are without stressing Spacation to any great degree, is because you can completely alter the beingness of a man, his condition and so forth, by steps One and Two – without any Spacation or anything else. You just tell ‘em, „Be two feet back or your head,“ or „Push yourself out with an energy beam.“

Now when that guy has had that done, when this has occurred, you’ll see facial changes and personality changes of considerable magnitude. And when these changes have occurred they are very worth just striking for, just as their own, because it’ll happen in more than 50 percent of your people, much more than 50 percent if you use Step One and Two, that they’ll simply be outside, and will go through these paces. And they can be brought up to a stability without Spacation.

Now, you’ll be surprised. It… it… it just changes the fellow, changes him very markedly to have this happen to him. But by the time you’ve got to Step Three, they hold that space point steady, and so forth, there’s just enough little buggy things wrong with them that they… they can’t quite do a Step One and Two.

Well, if you do a Spacation on the Three case, he’ll move right up into a One category and you just go on with Step One.

Only when you’ve got him stabilized and outside and able to lift his various arms and limbs and so forth, from the exterior as the One does immediately, you’ve got an operating thetan. And you’ve got your other jump because he can make his own space.

All right. Spacation, then, is a process of rehabilitating space by first, ownership and stabilization of a point. Then ownership and stabilization of more than one point, namely four points; and ownership and stabilization of a two-dimensional plane hinged on those four points. And then ownership and stabilization of two such planes; and then ownership and stabilization of a rectahedron. Think that’s a tetrahedron. Uh… no, a tetrahedron is s…

Voice:…

LRH:… four points… it’s a tetrahedron, isn’t it? No, it’s actually a rectangle. It’s a rectangle. Is that a rectahedron?

Voice: I think so…

LRH: I haven’t done any solid geometry in a long time, in English, that is.

Well, anyway, you build that and that stabilizes into his own space. And we have the essential breakdown, the essential points of space, the essential ingredients – the characteristics of space, which are anchor points – two dimensions and three dimensions – and you have the most elementary space there is.

And when he has claimed this completely as his space you will find him able to do a great many things which he was not able to do before.

All right? There is no substitute for a rehabilitation of space, to return to an individual a rehabilitation of his beingness. But don’t think because he’s done this indifferently or suddenly or quickly or snappily and then stepped out of his head and so forth, that he can create space worth a darn. I mean, he… he’s able to go through these steps, maybe. But if you haven’t done a very good job, and if he can’t do it the next time easily, and if he can’t do it for about four or five consecutive times, easily, so forth, he’s not stable on the subject.

So the next time you get ahold of this preclear you put him right straight through all the steps of a Spacation which are, establish one point; establish four points; establish eight points; and establish its emptiness. And uh… you finally will find him quite stable. Otherwise you’re liable to unstabilize him. If you put him through a Spacation once, you get it indifferently well, and all you’ve succeeded in doing is throwing him through 565 past deaths or some darn fool thing like that, or run him against the old home universe, and – you’ve charged him up to a fare-you-well! Bad deal, strictly. Okay? How much you got left on that tape? Voice: About seven minutes.

Now that’s quite sufficient for me to tell you a very important datum uh… about all this. Loss is loss of space as its most important loss point – loss of space.

So anywhere down along the line, what kind of mock-up do you favor for any case from Three down? What kind of mock-up? You take the most beloved living place in the current lifetime of your preclear and do standard mock-up manufacture and shifting with it – even if he does it poorly – making many of ‘em, changing it, altering it, lessening the quantity, increasing the quantity, placing it behind the back and afar and above and around, until your preclear does not give a… two whoops and a continental about it, and can handle it with great ease. Because there he is still tied with this lifetime’s anchor points! And that will be, usually, his childhood home. And more locks will fly off of this. You’ll be amazed! Oh, the locks will fly off of it, in all directions. But you’ve rehabilitated his space considerably when you’ve done this.

And don’t be surprised when other houses like it start to show up automatically. Of course, you’re just peeling the track. All kinds of things will show up as marked out MEST universe space which he has tried to claim. And in view of the fact that was MEST universe space with imposed MEST universe dimensions it of course was not under the good control of the preclear.

A preclear can afford to lose anything he has as long as he does not lose as well his ability to create.

But when anything is based upon the speciousness of MEST universe anchor points, of course, he is anxious about it in the first place. And then when he loses it, the MEST universe has to be waited on for the MEST universe to give him permission to have more anchor points.

So you start handling that childhood home. You want to know what happens to a pc’s childhood. Why is a pc’s childhood occluded? Well, a pc’s childhood is occluded because, one, he was moving faster when he was a child than he’s moving now, and therefore in order to pick up facsimiles of childhood he’d have to generate and move a lot faster as a preclear. And that also applies to why can’t he pick up early track as easily as he can pick up later track. And that’s because he’s moving too fast and too strongly on the early track for him to have uh… for him to pick it up now. He hasn’t got enough speed, you see; we’re going through a slow-down process, as one goes down the cycles. So we can’t get these things earlier very easily – mostly because of speed.

So, in childhood, however, uh… that’s one reason. And the other reason is these anchor points. And because childhood is studded with loss from one end to the other. There is more loss per square inch of havingness in childhood, because one attaches such enormous importance to trivia. Everything is given to one, everything is assigned and owned in some other fashion. One’s toy – he has to be very careful. You just think for a moment and just try to remember a toy you had when you were a child – just one toy. If you remember a toy, the toy which you remember was a toy which you were given and which was not interfered with very much. Nobody cared enough about the toy except you. That was one toy.

Now your havingness, then, was slight and your space compared to your size was pretty large. But you got nailed down. MEST universe anchor points had been assigned to you. And if you were racketted around much and you were changed from home to home and area to area, just anchor points and anchor points and anchor points and anchor points, and the guy just all snarls up all over the place.

Sooner or later as an adult, one time too often, (I’m going to cover ‘forget’ and ‘remember’ in the next hour) and one time too often he loses a set of anchor points and it’s too much for him. And the whole track, actually will jam right at that point – jam! He will at that moment run out of space for his facsimiles. He hasn’t even got space for his facsimiles anymore. And uh… having no space for them, of course, the only space left to them – he’s not going to part with them! They just simply move in on him – crash! And he’s got ‘em! That’s that.

An electrical shock moves one out of his last efforts to maintain anything like space – the last efforts to maintain space are psychotic or neurotic. Because one is saying, „I’m not responsible for anything, and therefore it’s all right to leave me in this space. I’ve abandoned all responsibility for all force, and I’ll do whatever you say, and I can still have some space, can’t I? I’m still permitted to have some space. You see, I’m nutty. I can’t do any wrong – can’t – I mean, can’t harm you very much.“ And uh… that’s just a protest. That’s… that’s the last shreds of beingness – complete irresponsibility.

All right, so they just move him out of that into utter abandonment. They move him out of that into death. And they do that very simply. And… or they collapse the track on him. And that, of course, prevents them from moving out of anyplace. They have to stay there then. There… there’s a forcing mechanism. It is about as sensible as… well, these things are very sensible, well, about as sensible as anything else in this universe.

We have a profession that pretends to heal, and it destroys. It’s no wonder, you see, that somebody believes great evil of you as a Scientologist. If you get out practicing for a little while, they’ll believe great evil of you. The reason why? You’re obviously doing good so obviously, you must be evil. Reasonable. It follows.

If a fellow can’t move around anymore, and if he’s all pinned down, and he’s very upset and he hasn’t got anyplace to go, why, let’s take what’s left of him, his body, and let’s fill it up full of electricity which is highly antipathetic to him, and fix it up so he can’t even be there. And then explain to everybody that this makes him well, you see, with sort of a snide, pompous expression on one’s face. Great stuff!

Force, and the application of force to the individual is primarily a question of changing space for him – making him abandon a piece of space.

The highest level of conviction there is is to knock hell out of him. That convinces him. Of course, way up above that he had to have better conviction in the field of reason.

So knowingness is upset by force. Force crashes into the individual and it upsets his space – it’ll upset his knowingness. Why? Because something occupies the space which he should have been occupying and makes it impossible for him to occupy that space.

And if he’s unable to create more space at will then, of course he considers that he has been displaced in the space. And in Spacation, you’re teaching him that he can make any kind of space that he wants to make at any tine he wants to make it. And when he’s done it a little more often, a little more often, a little more often, he finally realizes that he has all the space anybody could need in which to do anything, and he finally doesn’t worry anymore about having to have space where the body is.

The process of Spacation, of course, follows that because the body is in that quadrilateral, octilateral – whatever it is – uh… because the body is in that blown-up coffin, why, uh… it gets unmocked. And you never ask him to unmock his body at all. It just disappear on him. You point it out to him afterwards his body wasn’t there.

He says, „That’s right. The body isn’t there.“

„Well, why does your body have to be there now? Why don’t you just move out two feet behind your back?“ Okay. Let’s take a break.