As I understand, at the last lecture, some of the people didn’t know all there was to know about this at the end of the lecture. In fact, I was given to understand that two or three people were — well, to be blunt — confused as the devil. I So tonight I’m actually going to give you two talks. And the first one is the Straightwire and the second one is the standard process of 88.

Note: The recording from which this lecture was transcribed begins with the lecture already in progress.

Now, oddly enough, these two techniques form the backbone of 88, but they are essentially very, very simple. So if there were someone here tonight who knew absolutely nothing about Scientology or Dianetics, if he took — very carefully — cognizance of particularly this Straightwire technique, or the heavy processing technique, he could use them. He could walk right out of here and process somebody. Of course, he’d be in lots of trouble in a very short space of time, but this person would know that something has happened! (audience laughter)

But a couple of things have turned up that people who are running this should know about it — very definitely should know.

There’s always an advantage in knowing background. You can use this 88 Straightwire, and if you didn’t know anything about the whole track — neither you nor the preclear might know anything about- the whole track — you might not know this thing goes back a couple of hundred thousand years, and this preclear has had as many bodies as the local tmdertaker. You might not know that or appreciate it; you might say, “Well, this doesn’t exist.”

What has occupied the greatest part of an auditor’s time was the preclear’s boil-off. In the first book, I said I used to kick preclears out of boil-offs.

I mean, just after you’ve processed the preclear for about six hours on this Straightwire, preclear is getting fine, the world is looking very bright. They are not even vaguely confused about anything anymore, and they know just now, just exactly what’s wrong with them. And they’re going along — and all of a sudden they’re standing two feet in back of themselves. This would upset them. People don’t like to suddenly find out that they aren’t them. It upsets them very much.

A great many people have done a lot of boiling off; it seems to do something for the preclear. But if a preclear is pretty low on the scale, a boil-off can take two out of three hours of processing. And I have followed an awful lot of cases now, cases which have been permitted to boil off just ad infinitum. And I have not seen improvement in these cases.

After you’ve given this Straightwire for a short time, or sometimes a long time — ten, twelve hours — your preclear is all of a sudden going to get the funniest feeling, like he’s pushing up against something. And he’s going to say, aI’m stuck here. Funny sensation. Like — it’s like I’ve walked into a post!”

The answer to boil-off makes it possible — not only makes it possible but makes it mandatory — for the auditor to haul his preclear out of boil off every time the preclear starts into boil-off and to train the preclear not to go into boil-off. In this way, you’re going to get high-speed auditing. And it was too simple.

And if you didn’t know the background on whole track or if you were saying, “Well, we’re going to wait and see. And maybe after the University of Chicago has heard about this in the year 2562, why, and they’ve said it’s all right, why, we’ll accept whole track.”

And as a matter of fact, I stand here before you today, and I think I must be a dumb dog. Two and a half years since the first book is out now, almost, and five years that I’ve known about this phenomenon, boil-off, and it took Scientology’s energy flow techniques to suddenly demonstrate what boil-off was.

“But meantime, we’ll just go along with what Hubbard says here because we realize that it’s some manifestation of the theta body — or just, you know, everybody’s an electronic field, and he’s just interpreted it kind of wrong.” There’s lots of grief waiting there for you, because, as I say, after a few hours of this stuff, your preclear is cognizant of the fact that there’s something different. He didn’t realize that this was what’s taking place.

Boit-off is the input to the preclear immediately after he does some outputting. And no matter what he puts out, he’s going to get one of these inputs very, very shortly. Within seconds after he puts out — he gets an outgoing flow — he’s going to hit a boil-off.

And you’re busy, not trying to pry him off of this life’s body — you keep saying, “Well, go on, now, go on. Let’s get that ‘hold’ feeling, get that ‘hold’ feeling, now. How old are you?”

And how do you cure a boil-off ? Well, it sounds very silly. The first time you try this, the first time you do this, you’re going to feel very silly. All you do is flow in. The second he starts to boil off, the second he feels himself get even vaguely groggy, then, at that moment, he just reverses the flow and pulls in, just willy-nilly at anything — gust pull in. And the fogginess goes away and all the unconsciousness symptoms cease at that instant. He just gets even vaguely foggy, just pull in and boil-off goes away.

And he’ll say, “I don’t know. I keep seeing — I keep seeing my eighth wife and — in this life and. . . But there’s a shadow standing in between us.”

Now, your Black and White technique shows that he should pull in until he turns it bright white, if possible. And if he only gets gray, until he at least turns it gray.

And you say, “Well, go on, process this life. (Now, what does he mean ‘a shadow in between us’?)”

Now, this is very simple. If you’ve ever noticed this, in boil-off every thing goes black! All right, everything goes black, the fellow starts to see it very — going very black and he knows he’s hitting a boil-off, just turn the flow around and pull in, and the second he pulls in, boil- off goes away.

And he’ll say, “You know, this guy that’s standing in between us isn’t a shadow anymore. He’s wearing a ruff! He — he’s — he’s wearing this big ruff!”Well, of course, by that time the preclear would be certain that he was crazy. What you’ve done, you’re processing him off one of the first bodies he got stuck on, in the year 1528. And he’s on to somebody with one of these Elizabethan collars or something. And that body is this distance from him. Because, you know, in overt acts — man has become more and more chary of overt acts. You can go down back along the line and you’ll find this weird manifestation.

The day of boil-off at this moment is done; there’s just no boiling off and there’s no sense in it. And you can then get in on the processing hour an hour’s worth of processing. Don’t let your preclear go into boil off; it evidently doesn’t do him a bit of good. But on the contrary, if you pick up every time he puts out too hard, he’ll get this boil-off, and if you stick that in, your preclear will finish the session, not groggy as he commonly does, but very alert. Because what is he pulling in?

At first, when somebody did an overt act to somebody else, he bit him. That’s the first line of the overt act that you find, is teeth — urrh!

I told you the last time I talked to you that there was an outgoing flow which was sanity, reason, analytical thought, emotion, effort — all of these were low-band flows. So that’s what came back from a body, the low-band flows — analytical thought on down the line — whatruns through the neurons and passes for thought. “Stream of consciousness” that the writers write about and that nobody thinks that way. All right.

You run somebody back down the genetic line, by the way, and he’ll get awfully surprised because you say, “Bite,” or you just tell somebody, “Start biting.”

Therefore, your thetan is putting out on a high level way up there, anywheres from point twelve zeros five [.0000000000005], on up to point twenty-six zeros five [.000000000000000000000000005] — way upscale. And he never gets that wave back from a body; he just never gets it back from a body. So he’ll start putting out to the body in terms of facsimiles. Facsimiles don’t exist, actually, on those very, very high levels as such, because they blow away. Facsimiles contain analytical thought, emotion and effort. But these high-level aesthetics can be appended to the zero of theta. They are the only thing that makes it possible for thought to even contact lower-level thought, emotion and effort — are these little highlevel aesthetics.

Bite, bite. “My teeth are getting bigger!” Bite, bite. He’ll get real upset, because his teeth are getting about this big, see, great big choppers out here. Very early on the track when you bit, you bit! Somebody’s head flew off or something of the sort. That’s on the genetic line. All right.

But the actuality is that your thetan has continually put out to MEST bodies “Be beautiful,” “Be nice,” “I want to make life wonderful for you,” “I’m going to fix you all up,” “It’s going to be pretty,” “You are pretty,” “I don’t want to hurt you.” And he’s gone along in this very, very highlevel aesthetic. And what’s he get back? Stream-of-consciousness-level emotion and effort is the back wave. Now, I’m going to give you the prescription of running a case — the prescription of running a case — and tell you about a new phenomenon, which is it. You’re going to see this just as clear and it’s just as simple as boil-off.

Now, the next thing, they were sort of hitting each other and striking and scratching. They’d sort of backed off of this biting. That was too close an overt act; they’d worn that one out completely — scratching, biting.

It’s going to make you feel very foolish. I mentioned it the other night hut I’m sure that from what reaction I’ve gotten that I did not make myself clear on this. I merely gave it substance and as a result an auditor using it, or a preclear running it, ordinarily wouldn’t run into it; because he wouldn’t think it was this desperate.

Now the next thing you know, it’s all hitting. It’s clear out here at arm’s length.

We have Black and White as a heavy process. Remember that you can process — even though you have a MEST body in the theta field — you can process Black and White incidents, heavy electronic incidents. You can take it — anything from the Capper straight on through to the — one of the most recent ones, the Iron Maiden. Now, any one of this barrage of incidents, you can pick them up one after the other and process them. Very often, you’ll find your preclear so sodden with psychosomatic illnesses that he can’t do anything else but process one of these big blackand-white electronic incidents.

Now they get a dagger, and that extends them a little bit further from the victim. See, they’re getting charier and charier of hurting another being. So they get this dagger and that extends them out a little bit further. And then they get a stone ax, something like that, and that puts them a nice ways out. And they smash a few dozen skulls with a stone ax and they decide that isn’t so good.

But remember, you’re laying in to the MEST body a somatic, because that MEST body is all tuned up to have somatics. A theta body isn’t. So, you process these heavy black-and-whites — and you can; and you can get preclears a long way along, you can process a lot out. But that is not the process by which to obtain a Theta Clear.

By that time they’ll start using a spear. That gets the fellow about twenty yards away from them. Then next thing you know, they start using slings; they don’t kill — like to kill people close up now. The person is better if he’s thirty, forty yards away. And they finally work on up to an atomic bomb. The person has to be at least eight or nine thousand miles away before a person feels comfortable about killing him.

Your process is obtain a Theta Clear by processing off what makes them not a Theta Clear. And there’s only one thing that makes a Theta Clear not a Theta Clear, and that is a body. So the only thing you’re interested in processing, actually, are bodies.

For instance, if Nagasaki were in New Mexico, none of us would contemplate dropping an atom bomb on it. But Nagasaki is seven or eight thousand miles away, so that’s all right.

Now in processing bodies, you’re very rapidly going to run back and find that some of this body stuff is sitting right square on top of one of these old electronic incidents.

That is what’s known as an extension of the overt act. It’s a complete cycle.

There’s one particular one that’s a rough one, which is a post. And the post is magnetic, and this post doesn’t have any charge in it. When you first encounter this incident, you will swear to God that this post is highly charged. The thetan will get somewhere in the vicinity of this metal post and he will feel himself being drawn straight into the post, and he will put up an energy flow and he will say, Oh, no.” And the harder he puts up this energy flow, the faster he comes into the post. He is the guy who is charging the post up; there’s no other energy in the post but his.

Little boys will go through this cycle in one lifetime. They’re perfectly willing to chew up, hit, bite, and so forth, other little children, but you’ll find pretty soon they’re out there to the level of where they’re using hoopsticks. They want to back up.

The circular field that is set up inside the post charges up, and any time he throws any kind of a wave at it, it starts that wave rolling and he — all of a sudden, the harder he pushes against it, the harder he comes in against it. Now, you want to know — a preclear who has some kind of an idea that anything he wants to do he can’t do. You know, all these reverse computations on a preclear. Well, that’s that post. Well, sure, if he wants to get away, he goes closer to it; if he wanted to go closer to it, he’d probably bounce off of it. But it’s just completely reverse. What happens to him is he comes up to this post, and he’ll finally get over — as a field — over the top of this confounded post; and every time he gives himself a booster to get off of the post, he energizes the post and it holds on to him solider.

Actually, there’s a terrific back punch. There’s an energy wave flies out of human beings when they’re hit — a pain wave. It flies off of them. It’s counter-emotion, it’s counter- thought. You get these off of people. It’s uncomfortable. And it’s intense by the square, just like electricity is or radiation is. And so it gets less intense by the square as they get away. So if you can be two or three feet away from this fellow, why, that’s much better.

People have been on these things anywheres from ten years, fifteen years, two hundred years at a crack; because nobody bothers to come around and pull them off. Anyways, that’s a theta trap; that’s a basic theta trap. And it feels like a MEST body — that post. So every once in a while you’ll run into a preclear who can’t run MEST body incidents until you get rid of that confounded thing.

Did you ever put your arms around somebody who was crying and felt very bad? Well, you’ll be willing to do it a few times. Pretty soon, why, you’re much more prone to sort of pat them and have them sit down over here. All right. It works that way with a theta body, only it’s exactly. in reverse. The first time that you as a — your theta individual, that is to say, the energy level which is you. . . By the way, they’ve been talking about this for thousands of years. They’ve been calling it the human soul and they’ve been saying it went to hell, and they said it sinned and it finally wound up going to hell. Or, if it was very, very good, it went to heaven. Well, I can corroborate the first part of the statement: A theta body inevitably winds up going to hell, because this is hell. And they evidently spin on in from here.

But as far as the heavy electronic incidents, you should know about these so that you can clear a Theta Clear.

A theta body that has a MEST body probably does not keep it more than, at the outside, a hundred and fifty generations; I mean, that would be absolute tops. It’s usually probably more on the order of thirty or forty generations. And then what does it do? And then it becomes one of these entities you fight, evidently. All right.

Two Theta Clears Theta Clear — person that doesn’t have a body or have to have a body; he can get on and off bodies at will. That’s one kind of Theta Clear. There’s another kind of Theta Clear — that’s a Cleared Theta Clear. And a Cleared Theta Clear would be on and off bodies and also have all the rest of these electronic incidents torn up and thrown in the ashcan. He’d be able to handle facsimiles like confetti; they would mean nothing to him.

So, there — it does go out the bottom. The theta body, evidently, does not survive. But how does it do this? At first it has enough power and influence so it can take a MEST body. And this MEST body — rather stupid, moronic MEST body (a MEST body’s a vegetable) — and it can control one up there maybe two hundred yards away, maybe that far.

Now, you differentiate between these two, and if you start running a preclear on heavy electronic incidents one right after the other, and nothing but heavy electronic incidents, you’re not getting off any locks off the case or what’s really wrong with him — basically wrong with him. He could go on for just ages and ages, and as a matter of fact has gone on for tens of thousands of years with a lot of these electronic incidents all ready to pump — bangs But it didn’t worry him. It didn’t worry him a bit, until one day he started to get mixed up with bodies.

You see a fellow walking down the street, and you’re a thetan, and you see this fellow walking down the street, and you say, “Jump!” And he’s two hundred yards away and he goes and he jumps. You say, “That’s amusing.” And you play with that for a while. And the next thing you know, you can only handle one a hundred yards away — they only jump when they’re a hundred yards away. Then one day, why, you find out that you can most easily handle them when they’re about seventy~five feet from you, and you can really have an effect on them. You’re not stuck on them by this time.

And these bodies are very pretty and they’re very animate, and that sort of thing. But oh, boy. Because they’re sort of like theta traps. The biggest theta trap of all is the body.

But one day — one day, you grab hold of one too many MEST bodies, and you’re sort of going down the line on charge, and this MEST body is about that far from you. Usually you grab hold of it from the back and usually connect up with the motor controls. It’s about this far. So the first bodies that you pick up are about that far.

Now, you start pouring energy into a body. . . All you’ve got to pour into this body is a high- level aesthetic energy, and all you’re going to ever get back out of this body is a flock of low- level energy waves. A body’s really crude — really crude. And so a person goes down Tone Scale, gets away from aesthetics entirely. The second he gets away from aesthetics, he loses contact with being a thetan, because a thetan is primarily aesthetic. And he gets analytical, he gets reasonable, and he starts on going down Tone Scale, and he gets very emotional and then finally he gets all fouled up with facsimiles and the facsimiles start running him and he becomes “average.”

Now, in this process of Straightwire, you will actually start finding this body out here. Why do you find this one instead of your present body? Well, that’s because this is basic. This one out here is basic. This is the first body you really got stuck on, but thoroughly.

Now, what’s the prescription? The prescription, then, is to look over the case and find the first contact or transfer on the MEST body: the first time he ever went onto a MEST body or blanketed a MEST body or any such incident that has to do with a MEST body. Now, as you know, a blanket incident is merely a thetan settling over the top of the MEST body. Facsimiles, when you feed too much current to them, zip! will explode.

Of course, you understand earlier there were blanket incidents whereby you actually settled over a body and are holding on to it, but it’s just a single engram. I’m talking now about being a MEST body.

A few of you, by the way, in running this, have felt a fear. That fear is mainly dispersal. But the point is that there’s an actual fear there; it’s based on former experience. It says, “If I start to run this facsimile, the thing’s going to blow up!”

So here’s this body out here, arm’s length — way out here. Next generation — here, next generation — here, next, next generation, next generation, next generation, next generation, next generation. And this generation, you’ll find quite a few people around who have their body right about here. You’ll find them walking around and quite surprised when they go back on the track. aAll I can see is the back of my neck. I never can get in valencel”

Now, on a death shock, a person puts out so many energy units, wham! all of a sudden, bang! — that a facsimile that’s sitting there very handy will run off all at once, and it explodes. You get the sensation of an explosion.

“Well,” you say, “get in valence!” you know, kind of mean and so forth, and they can’t. Why? Because you’re actually running the thetan viewpoint. Wonderful. The guy is much saner than you thought. That’s where he’s supposed to be! All right.

Most preclears can remember a time when they were sitting still someplace or other and they weren’t even thinking about something and this unexplainable thing happened to them: they felt like they’d had a bad shock. And right afterwards they get a case of shingles or something like that. They think they read a bad piece of news or something and they got this. All they did was get an old facsimile of a facsimile exploding.

But the most of the people which you will process, ten lives back, will actually be concave. You’ll get this funny somatic, and it’s a cave-in somatic. Their face feels caved in, their chest feels caved in. They feel just caved in all the way down. Their legs feel cupped and caved in. They’re lying right up against a MEST body, and they have the solid impression of that MEST body impressed into their body. Very solid.

Now, when you blanket a being that has a theta body on it and the being happens to be killed, knocked off, you squeeze them to death — something of the sort happens to them — you will normally, with that death shock, get an explosion.

You run into this cave-in somatic right away. I mean, there’s no trouble running into this. This is the easiest thing in the world to run into.

So here’s your thetan up here blanketing [marking on blackboard] this being. Here’s your thetan blanketing, but here is a thetan already on top of this MEST body, usually. So the body gets hit, shot, something happens to it, and it’ll die before the thetan can get off of it, and the body starts to explode with this energy of death shock. The death shock starts out like this: This inner body here says, “Crunch! I’m going to hold on; I’m not going to blow up,” and the second he blows up, he feeds the remaining current necessary to explode the facsimiles which are in restimulation at the moment.

But when you start processing with this 88 Straightwire, you’re going to start processing in this lifetime, and your individual is going to start picking out people out here in this lifetime. He’s going to start picking out people — well, there was somebody, and his mother used to stand here, see? And as he talks to his mother, he gets this funny feeling of sort of being caved in. He wonders what that is. Actually, the basic on it is a body standing here.

So, what’s he get? You get this kind of a sensation: The inner body starts to go out with the death shock, comes in — crunch! — and explodes a minor facsimile of some sort. This outer thetan, which is your preclear (because this is very early on the track and he’s blanketing this MEST body) — he feels this MEST body start to explode and he starts to get off of it. But then he realizes he can’t do that, and his automatic reaction is to hold on. So he comes in just about the same time this body is coming in, and he blows up the rest of the facsimiles present and you get a very nice shock out of it. And people will avoid this. This is your anxiety stomach. And as you run incidents, you’ll find this confounded blanket circum stance here on the preclear and he’ll start to get a nervous stomach, he’ll start to get worried and so on.

Now, you don’t have to tell him. You don’t have to tell him what he’s running into. Let him spin. And he will! You start working him on the couch and the next thing you know, this is — he shouldn’t be doing this. It shouldn’t be this way.

Well, all you have to remember is that the — when this fellow holds in, he doesn’t reach outside himself and hold in, he does an implosion. That is to say, he pulls his shell in. So he is exploding in on himself. He’s imploding. This one implodes. This one implodes. It’s not very complicated. All you have to do is locate the center of the explosion. And make your preclear locate the center of the explosion and feel the thing come in. He’ll get a little somatic and all of a sudden it’ll stop.

And you let him run on and on and on, and pretty soon he’ll look at you rather worriedly. And he starts to say — well, sometimes he’ll say, “I think I’m hallucinating. This is all dub- in. I feel I must be going crazy or something.” There he’s getting too much randomity — unknown datum. Or he’ll say, “Can it be I’ve lived before?”

And you say, “All right. Now you’ve located the center. Let’s locate the sphere and let’s crush the sphere in.”

When he starts to worry about his sanity, or if he asks you if he’s ever lived before, is about the first time you have to impart any information to him. Let him find it out. Just let him walk into it with all four feet. Now, he’s going to; don’t worry about whether or not he’ll get there. Depends on how good you are and how long you process him.

And he’ll say, “Oh no, I don’t want to do that.” “Well, you go ahead and do that.”

But you can be just terrible with this technique. I mean, you could just be so bad that you only got one sentence of what I said tonight, and this fellow, if you process him enough hours, is going to wind up concave, stuck on the MEST body, saying, “I can’t get off of this thing. What am I trying to get off of ?”

All right, he goes “crush.” All of a sudden you get some somatics.

This girl — “I’m terribly obsessed about my husband because he keeps walking away from me. Every time I try to talk to him, he walks away from me!”

“Now find the center. Now pull it in.” And it’ll come in. And then, “Now crush it in.”

“Well,” you say, “that shouldn’t upset you too much.” “Well, it does! “

And now, about this time, you will have the sensation of this thing going out. And you let it flow out and crush it in, and let it flow out and these various combinations: finding the center, finding the sphere. Now, one of these is trying to expand off of the sphere. And each one of these will set up and run the rest of the facsimile.

What’s she got in restim? She’s got an old body facsimile out here, and her husband will be standing there, and as she talks to him she wants him to stand still. So she uses this old facsimile. And the actual truth of the matter is, she’ll send out a wave and try to get a wave and clamp it on either side of his head, saying, “Stand still, George! Now stand still.” And he walks away! Well, this is the equivalent of death. Because that’s what happened: Finally this person, when this body died and he got all putrid and everything, they had to leave it. It left.

This is the first contact with MEST bodies [tapping on blackboard] on the track: blanketings, nippings. Somebody would come along here, and he’d see a guy walking down the road, and the fellow looked like a farmer and — something of the sort. And he would sort of want him to move off of the road, or do something of the sort. And the fellow wouldn’t move, so he’d go pap! and just give him an electric shock across here. And of course, that carries a reverse jolt on it; it’s not very engramic. But the theta body gives him a shock like this, and what’s he get back? He gets back fear and apathy, one right after the other — bing! bing! And he gets this as a backflow. And then, throughout the career of a thetan, he keeps putting out high- level energies, and what does he get in return? Fear, apathy, sorrow, exhaustion, tired, dead, so forth. He just gets these, one after the other. And after he’s done this a few hundred thou sand times, he finally has so many facsimiles that say fear, apathy and so forth that he’s “normal.” And that’s what happens. Now, that’s your cycle, [tapping on blackboard] and that’s your first incident. Now, you want to look for this incident on your preclear — just take your preclear and look for this incident. By the way, if you run this thing far enough, you’ll run it into a perceptic level. You’ll run it out of the attentionunit band up into perception. And then you’ll run it up into aesthetics.

If you’ve noticed, you can take any 1.5, you can put this 1.5 in complete apathy any time you want to, simply by: Stand there talking to him a moment, he’s talking to you and he gets a little interest; get a little interest going, he really knows he’s communicating, and without saying — no periods or commas — just as in midflight, why, you can smile at him and walk away from him. He’ll go nuts! About the time you go into communication with him, what are you doing?

Now, that is one rule for you to remember straight on through. I don’t care whether you process any emotion — grief, apathy, I don’t care whether you process any of those things or not — but for God’s sakes, process aesthetics. “I’m doing it because it’s so pretty.” “I didn’t mean to hurt her.” “I wanted to make her beautiful.” “I wanted to do this.” “I want to make this beautiful illusion.” “I want everybody to be excited and enthusiastic about this new temple.” “ I want this — that along in this level.” “Everybody is supposed to feel good.” “It’s supposed to be colorful.” “It’s supposed to be pretty.”

[drawing on blackboard] Here’s the — as a theta — you get your shape here somewhat. Here, by the way, this would be where a human being would be sitting here, see? And here’s the other human being — here’s the other body.

Remember to process that, because whenever you process that, you’re processing the closest thing up here to theta; you’re processing this thin wave. Below this is a heavier wave, analytical thought. Below this is a heavier wave, emotion. And here is effort. And the only way that effort can hang on to the [tapping on blackboard] zero of theta is via aesthetics. You’ll have to run this to believe it. But, by George, ‘ you can get enough lift in tone, happiness and general change in the personality on a couple hours of this aesthetic processing. You can get an enormous amount of change in your preclear.

This body sort of goes out and puts a blanket. It extends itself, yet it — the way it’d look from here is a concavity, whereby you have this lobe would be coming out here, and this lobe coming out here, see? This is a concavity.

And you can change his personality. And all of a sudden he’ll start to spark up; he’ll start to think of himself not as being degraded, but as worth something. That is the one thing you’re really trying to do, is make a human being appreciate life and be happy about it. Well, there’s only one thing that a thetan is interested in with regard to life, and that is an aesthetic appreciation of life, right? All right.

The 1.5 is stuck — and put that for a definition of a 1.5 — he’s simply stuck in an old hold- on-to-the-body engram, that’s all. And any time you want to drive him way low on the Tone Scale, just fish around until he looks comfortable. Just move back and forth a little bit closer to him, a little bit further away from him. All of a sudden he’ll look comfortable and kind of smile. That’s where he’s stuck. See, he isn’t mobile anymore. And he’s very comfortable; he’s got you right in the bracket.

So he actually didn’t start in on MEST bodies with, really, an aesthetic interest. It was curiosity. And curiosity seems to be way up here someplace. Because we’re dealing up here in the strata of interest, curiosity, and so forth. They’re way up here. All right.

Now get him communicating. (If you get him communicating very much, by the way, he actually will start to control you and hold you. You can feel a sort of rigidity start coming over yourself.) Get him to commu nicating, and just when he’s really communicating well, step away. Phwwt He’s died on you. It’s wrong. All right. Now you get this evolution, then, of this theta body. First, you touched them occasionally, long way away — you didn’t even have to come close to them. You’ve touched them a little closer, little closer, little closer, little closer.

He was curious. This thing was walking down the road and he never saw anything like that before. And so he’d nip it or push it off the road or do something like that. Well, after a while he’d begin to believe they were pretty. He’d think, “Gee, that’s a pretty body; that’s a very pretty body.” Pat it on the head or something and put out an affinity wave. Now, that’s all very well, but the next thing you know, the body gives him a kickback from it, because he just meant to pat it on the head and it shocked hell out of it and he ruined it. All right.

I’m pretty good these days, by the way; I can get down the length of a soda fountain. “Stop talking to that guy. Come here.” Swwt! — there’s the clerk. It’s very handy, very handy. Cat, for instance: A cat runs in the house and runs into the living room — ptock! — out.

Therefore, you’ve got this distance contact — and then you get these blankets. The thetan gets interested in sex. Aesthetics get pulled down here into a sexual band, and this sex incident — sex blanketings — actu ally, these things are very interesting to run on a preclear. Preclears who are aberrated on the second dynamic are so badly aberrated that they even attracted the attention of early researchers in psychology. I mean, it was really obvious. And, well, you run your preclear through one of these sexual blanketings, he, by the way, gets very sexually excited — very. And then all of a sudden, it goes off the curve. And people have been arguing with me. They’ve been saying, “Sex goes from excitement and exhilaration down to contentment.” And they just don’t seem to get through their heads that I’m not talking about sexual relationships as they might possibly have been practiced in a golden age. I’m talking about aberrated sex.

All you have to do — that’s really all you have to do, is just think, “Well, motor controls, ambulate.” It’s very simple.

And aberrated sex in a blanketing . . . Well, here’s your MEST being or your body, and this body is getting very, very thrilled and so forth. But your thetan doesn’t know when to quit on that body. He doesn’t say, Well, okay. You’re down to contentment now.” No! He’ll drive that body up to a high degree of frenzy, just zing! And then say, Okay, maintain it!” And of course the body doesn’t, and all of a sudden, bang! — here’s the body clear down here — apathy. And the thetan will say, Well, I killed it. For heaven’s sakes. What did it die for?

Now, you get this back slowly, this mobility, because, after all, when you’ve been hung on a body a couple of thousand years — various bodies — you get in the habit. And there’s various reasons why this is. All right.

That’s silly!” But actually that’s how violent some of these sexual blanketings are — they left the MEST body dead.

The body that you’re going to find as basic on the chain is going to be out here. There’s going to be a facsimile, probably in restimulation, out here. And every time this person has talked to a human being in any lifetime, he’s put this one back in restimulation. So there’s always that shadow. And in a lot of cases, that’s his occlusion — that’s his occlusion.

So what’s your thetan get out of this? He gets a pumped-back emo tion which starts in with curiosity and interest, then excitement and eagerness, it goes on up to a high level of frenzy — this is the kickback emotion — and then goes right on down, and steep curve into apathy. And it’s a steep enough curve to temporarily stick him on the body.

Because in that facsimile he was depending on that body to see, feel, hear, think. He thought the body was doing it. So, as far as he’s concerned, he didn’t exist; he couldn’t see, he couldn’t feel, he couldn’t hear. Actually, he was the only one that could. He was just routing it through the body.

Just sexual blanketings never ruined any thetan. But it certainly made him groggy, and you’ll get this backflow. And he’ll start to go into boil-off.

So, as the person lives longer, he gets stacked up until finally he is just wrapped around this body tight, stuck on it completely; he feels like a board hanging on to himself. There isn’t a person here who has a live back — I know that. You can take a person’s back and find out what — the relative sensitivity between the back, for instance, and the chest. Take a pin, scratch them on the chest and register how much they jump. Take the same pin, scratch them on the back, you’ll find out that it’s somewhat anesthesed. A lot of people have a completely anesthesed back, and a lot of preclears, in running, have never had a somatic in their back area. Never had a somatic in this whole area and across the back and down. Why? They got it blanketed by their thetan. There is where they are! There is where they are — they’re on their back, they’re not this body.

The second he starts into boil-off, that’s merely your signal to the fact that he’s got an incoming wave into him. And just run that incoming wave; it’s an incoming low-level wave of some sort or another. Just ask him what it is and tell him to run it. If he insists on boiling off, get another preclear (audience laughter) All right.

What process would you use, just calmly and in a very orderly fashion, without stirring up your preclear or challenging his credulity, how would you just sort of move him off of this whole thing? It’s very simple Straight wire — exceedingly simple.

Now, that’s your first step, then, is your blanketing. You’ll find nips and so forth are earlier and they’re easy to run and all that sort of thing, but you won’t find that your preclear has much reality on them. He doesn’t have very much reality, but believe me, he gets reality on a blanket; there is just too intimate a contact of emotion there for him to miss.

Now, you understand that the thetan is actually putting an output of energy into the body. The body does a little bit of backflow, usually on an emotional line.

And what the head of the human being is suddenly doing showing up about the level of his chest or bellybutton — that is a puzzler. So all of a sudden he says to himself, “My God, I’m not me; I’m not a MEST body. Here — here I am, I was just blanketing and — and I am obviously over a body. Here it is.” Very convincing.

A MEST body is incapable of high-level thought. The highest wave that it puts out is somewhere in the vicinity of about .01 centimeters. It’s a very, very long, heavy wave.

Your next step on this chain — and watch: this is just one, two, three, four as a process. Here is your thetan. The next one he handles is out here about maybe two hundred yards. He’ll start handling somebody out that far. He won’t get stuck on that body at that distance. The thetan at this time has a concept of himself of being a couple of hundred feet high. I mean he thinks he’s big! Of course, he doesn’t have any size, he just thinks he’s big. And so this body out here will appear microscopic to your preclear.

When you say somebody is very — an emotional sort of a person, you don’t like this idea of an emotional person — you mean they have this heavy-wave thing, and they’re depending too much on the MEST body. The MEST body will emote at that level, but it doesn’t think. It’s a stimulus response mechanism. There isn’t a mest body in existence higher than 4.0 on the Tone Scale. And that’s why there was so much concentration on 4.0; following the genetic line, considering the MEST body really was something, wasn’t a stalk of celery.

All right. Your next being is closer in — that he has anything to do with — your next being is [tapping on blackboard] closer in, closer in, closer in, closer in, closer in, closer in. And then you come into the intimate contact which gives people somatics. These are almost incidental.

You got the idea that a MEST body was something terrific because you saw MEST bodies going around and doing things. Why were they doing things? It was because they had a theta body directing them. You take that theta body off, and they’ll walk around like a flock of aborigines in Aus tralia — go down on the beach and eat overripe whale, and then sit around and complain because they have stomachaches, and be utterly incapable of connecting it up with having eaten overripe whale. That’s very high-level thought.

He had an idea that he was about sixteen feet high when he first started to monitor a MEST body and got stuck on it, carried it through a full lifetime. Do you want to know how to find a MEST body for the first time the full lifetime took place? Nothing easier than this.

A dog — dog’s pretty smart. Dog is real smart. “When the master comes home, I wag my tail. If I bark real loud, they tell me to shut up. When they say, ‘Shut up,’ they want me to stop barking, and the best thing to do is to bark.” I mean, that’s about how bright a MEST body is. It isn’t bright.

You’ve got that chain of it getting in closer and closer, he’s getting more and more aberrated, and he’s thinking of himself as being smaller and smaller. He started to think of himself as two hundred feet high, and the first time he ran a body through one of its lifetimes, he figured he was about fifteen feet high. So the first thing that you get with your preclear is an impression, a ridge, which comes down to about here — reaches down to about the middle of the leg here and comes up about that high. And that’s a six-foot man. So you get this ridge and that’s your first ridge; this is an edge-on view looking at your preclear. Looking head-on, you’ll get a sort of a concavity here — there will be a concavity up here.

So you saw all these MEST bodies walking around. You said, “Oh, my! That’s really the thing to be. Aren’t they bright and aren’t they aesthetic and aren’t they nice-looking and aren’t they this and that?” and so forth. You were watching thetans run them, but you probably, at the time you thought that, had come down the Tone Scale to a point where you couldn’t see thetans anymore.

Now, you may find one just before this, right along about the nose level, no other contact with the body, so that it possibly could have been just barely touching here. So there’s this little concavity here.

So your Straightwire, with regard to this, is a very simple Straightwire. It depends on the Chart of Attitudes. And you understand that a MEST body has been absorbing an enormous amount of physical impact in terms of voices, in terms of effort, in terms of emotion. It’s been getting a lot of impact, but the theta body wasn’t getting much coming in.

Now, there’s this bigger concavity here — comes down to about the knees. And just behind that there is another ridge which would make another plate like this, looking at him front end. And then there’s another ridge and another ridge and another ridge. Each time, he conceives himself to be smaller; each time, the MEST body is larger. And another ridge and another ridge (and this is the one he generally is hung up in) and another ridge, and he’ll even go to the point where he’s got a ridge back here.

When people talked to this thetan, they were talking to somebody who was a foot behind the target. The nerve system of a MEST body was absorbing most of the shock waves. The thetan is standing there, in other words, century in and century out, putting out — outflow, outflow, outflow. What happens if an individual does nothing but put out, and never takes anything back?

Now, there’s an odd thing about these ridges: They exactly match the back of a body — every one of them matches the back of a body. And they’re just a bunch of concatenations like that. And you can trace these out in your preclear. One after the other you can find these ridges — ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock — because your preclear is now moved all the way into a body, so all these ridges are available.

The theta body has a number of implants. Any operation, for instance, is an implant. A theta body can be made unconscious, it can be made hypnotized, it can have the effect of being drugged, it can do anything which you think MEST bodies are doing. And as a result, then, this theta body goes downhill, because the only thing it’s ever taken in, really, as a backfire, was pain and a small amount of observation, but all of its effort was outflow.

Now, there’s something funny about these ridges — is once in a while you’ll have one of these ridges . . . Of course, they show shoulders and legs and so forth, and they’ve got the back of it. As a matter of fact, sometimes they’ve been unlucky enough to have somebody with a rather big rump and it makes a considerable indentation in them.

If you run a preclear who has a job which does nothing but push out, all you’ve got to do to make him well is just make him run that pushing out! If you took a fireman and this guy handled the nozzle on a hose, and all he did with the nozzle on the hose was just stand there and hold it — water is going away from him all the time, nothing ever comes back — it will gradually run out every engram he has which has an outflow, and then after that start bucking all the inflows. And eventually he will hang up on the track. You see how that is? He keeps doing these overt acts, you might say. It’s all overt, no motivators. There’s nothing coming in, and he’ll go down Tone Scale.

All right, there’s the back. And here’s your present man. Here’s your present man, let’s say. [marking on blackboard] Here’s his body. And he’s got this funny sensation in there. He’s got a somatic which lies across his face this way, down inside the body.

If you start to run an incident out of people, and you insist on running nothing but the overt act and never run a motivator anywhere on the track, this fellow is going to hang up. And if you’re real tough as an auditor and you say, “Go on, run another overt act.” And “Go on, run another one and run another one and run another one” — more output, more output — this fellow is getting rich! It’s harder and it’s: harder and it’s harder. Everything starts going black on him. All of his perceptics turn off. Everything turns off, and he keeps putting out and putting out. And the more he puts out over that period of where he should have run the motivator, the more occluded he gets, the more jammed his track becomes, the more time jams up and everything else. Simple, huh?

Now, they come in like this. But occasionally, he has been turned sideways when he was hooked up with a MEST body, so you’ll find ridges coming in from the side over here once in a while, and ridges coming in over here. And sometimes you will find a direction reversal; sometimes he’ll get an impression of a face being here, sideways. Well, he’s just been running somebody from the side.

What’s a theta body do? It puts out. It starts putting out into these MEST bodies, and it starts putting out, and it puts out, and it puts out and it puts out and it never gets anything back! And as a consequence, your theta body goes from well aware that you were standing around a MEST body monitoring it — just as well aware of the fact you’d sit down to a soda fountain counter. And you’d look down the counter down here and you’d say, aI’m going to make that girl walk up here and serve me my scrambled eggs.” And you go bngh, bong, zing, bong. “Scrambled eggs,” you say. She goes off and fixes you your scrambled eggs and brings them back. Wonderful device for getting waiters. All right. You were as well aware of the fact that you monitored your body as you would be of doing that! But you keep putting out, putting out, putting out, putting out, and the only thing you ever get back is pain. Just these big, solid pain waves. Sudden shocks, sudden interruptions — bang! bang! — but none of the smooth flow. None of the higher, upper-echelon flows ever come back to you, really.

These ridges you want to locate, because it’s the sum total of aberrao tion. And what is the key to all this aberration? The key to all this aberration is aHold on, but try to get off.” And you want to know what’s wrong with any preclear, any Homo sapierts, it’s zI’ve got to hold on, but I want to get off.” At a further distance is Every time I try to get away, I get closer,” which is another variation of it, which gives them opposite lines.

No high-level flows ever come back from a MEST body. MEST body, the highest it goes is about .01 centimeters. And a theta body output is quite nor mally point fifteen zeros five centimeters [.0000000000000005]. And its aes thetic level is point twenty-six zeros two [.000000000000000000000000002]. That’s an incredible figure: [marking on blackboard] point twenty-six of these things, centimeters. That’s just a little tiny wave. Nothing can manufacture it in this whole universe but a thetan. All right.

This also gives you direction reversal, because of this — and I’ll go in now to how you audit this: Here’s your luckless preclear. One fine day he meets somebody that he can’t hold still. He can’t get this person in motion when they’re stopped, and he can’t get this person to hold still when they’re started. Some friend of his or his wife or his mother or her husband — somebody in their intimate family — has had the horrible habit of moving when the individual thought they should stand still.

And what’s this MEST body down here? This MEST body — zero one. Any fellow in any electronic shop could make a 0.1 wave.

What’s he doing? He’s trying this old stunt of — here’s your preclear and he’s trying this old stunt of running somebody out here five or six feet away, and he can’t do it anymore because he hasn’t got enough horsepower. He’s all jammed up in this body, and all of his forces are strained into this MEST body he’s fitted together. And here sits somebody out there and he used to be able to — he’s got a lingering recall of practically being able to stop time any time he wanted to.

Radar during the war achieved a 0.5 wave without any trouble what soever. You can almost see this wave.

And here this person is sitting down and he’s telling them all about last night at the lodge meeting, and he’s quoting verbatim the entire minutes of the meeting before. And it’s very fascinating stuff, and he’s only done it for about two hours. And this other person insists on getting up and going and doing the dishes. And the second this other person starts to get up, he’ll think — (pause) — and they get up anyhowl That’s a heck of a noted And they start to walk away. So he reaches over here to try to bring them back and they don’t come back. He tries to bring them back and they just don’t come back.

So what’s this theta body get back? [marking on blackboard] He puts out waves like this. Any waves like that ever come back to him? Never. So what’s the first thing he loses? He loses his aesthetics: he loses his ability to paint, his ability to imagine, his ability to make things beautiful, his ability to want things beautiful. That’s the first thing he loses.

And he says, “I don’t amount to much anymore. Well, damn them!” And he’ll start down Tone Scale and someplace in one of these past lives, you will find the fellow heading in — 2.0, oh, he gets up, 2.5. He gets up to the point “Well, I don’t care whether they stand up and go away or not. They bore me. I really don’t care if they do.”

Now, as he comes down scale, he loses his ability to be rational, his ability to be analytical.

But if they insist on doing it, he goes down to 2.0 — which is “Hrrrrr! Hold still! Don’t you — I’m going to bowl you over; I’m going to somehow hold on to you and drill through you somehow.” And then he goes down to 1.5 which is “Become rock, brother!” And then he goes down to 1.1. And 1.1 is sort of — the person starts to walk away and he says, “Hey, I’ve got some French picture postcards.” So he gets way downscale on this. And he goes down finally into apathy. He finds out he cannot control people who are opposite him.

Analytical thought is a very wide band. You could say point four zeros or six zeros or eight zeros, some numeral — one. Now, pretty soon it isn’t able to put out an analytical wave. Why?

The clue in operating, then, on your preclear is to find out who’s occluded on the case. Because he put out continual waves at them: He tried to interest them, he tried to do anything he could think of to make that person stand still. And because he couldn’t make that person stand still, it put one of these old bodies into restim. And to some degree, he now becomes a body centuries ago, and does he go back down the time track in a hurry. And he’s back down the time track thereafter. This person is occluded, naturally, because he’s put out, put out, put out, put out and tried to hold; put out and try to hold, put out and try to hold. No backflow! How do you unocclude a person? Just run the backflow.

Here’s this confounded MEST body down here at zero one. Thetans are no longer talking to him with an analytical wave; it’s no longer an inter change of thought just for thought. Somebody thinks and speaks, and it’s a sound wave and it’s a very gross wave. And it hits that MEST body and it retranslates back as sound — a sound wave. Oh, sound waves are incredibly big. Even the electronic restimulation of a sound wave on the human nervous system is incredibly large. So he wipes out his ability to be sane. [marking on blackboard] It’s coming right on down the line here — further and further down the line. And, well, by the time he gets here, he’s got amnesia as far as being a MEST body is concerned.

The next thing you know, one of these somatics will start to show up, one of these old ridges will start to show up. Now, just arbitrarily take those ridges, one right after the other, and turn each ridge white. Turn anything white from the ridge out — or wherever the edge was, from here out — turn that white and run Black and White on it. And when it starts to get black, get a reverse flow. Of course, when it starts to get black, he’ll start to go into a boil-off. That means he merely gets reverse flow, and it’ll turn white again. Reverse flow — bing, bang.

You could actually take a preclear and butcher him on the subject of an overt act. You could make him run outgoing flows, outgoing flows, outgoing flows, outgoing flows. And the next thing you know, he’s all bogging down and he’s getting very unhappy. And you say, “You can’t get around that. Run some more outgoing flows.” And he’ll finally get completely occluded. He’ll lose his memory on the subject of anything that’s outgoing. If you really wanted to ruin him, that’s what would happen.

And you’ll find out that it’s an outflow of aesthetic and an inflow of low MEST waves.

So what happens to the MEST body? The MEST body will pour back a wave like that. What happens to the theta body? It comes clear on down the Tone Scale, and finally it gets into that bracket. And that’s 4.0 on the Tone Scale, and that passes for a very, very high-level sanity today. Here’s your average, way down there.

Now, that’s a prescription for running a case. And you can take this and you can get the people out in front of him, and you will probably find them hung up on some old incident where he’s got somebody out irk front of him. You just run attention units — Black and White — you try to get this older person to turn white. “What do you have to do to turn this person white?” He has to pull in, he has to do that; sometimes he has to do the silly thing of hold with a wave here and pull with a wave here. That’s the effort of trying to hold somebody still. You push out here and clamp their head, and then, slussss — pull in like that — retractor beam.

Now, why is this the theta body never gets back what it puts out? It has gotten into an unnatural and unbalanced situation — unnatural, unbalanced. How do you rehabilitate it? Run the facsimiles of all this tremendous output. You’ve got to run out the output.

Now, that becomes very complicated, because it turns black all of a sudden. Well, that means you’ve got to run the reverse flow here and a whhhhh there. You just turn it black and white, black and white, and keep it white, keep it white, keep it white. And particularly when you get onto these body ridges, start turning them white. Anything from here out, turn it white, and it’ll run right on out. And you can turn it white up to a point . . .

This body, this thetan, has been overstrained by output. The dickens with running counter- emotion, it doesn’t matter much — if you run this. This is very high-level stuff. You wouldn’t even think of it as an aberration.

At first in the case you won’t-be able to even vaguely get a perceptic on it. But after you’ve been processing the case for a little while, this preclear should be getting a perceptic on what he was holding on to. Here he was holding on to somebody in intimate contact with his body for years and years and years, and this person was probably unhappy about it. And they wriggled and he had a bad time doing it. They moved when they were not supposed to; they stopped when they were not supposed to. They started going this way and the thetan tried to turn them that way and they kept on going this way, so the thetan really crunched in.

To date, till a very short time ago, we were processing the MEST body. That was Dianetics: the processing of a MEST body. Your dividing line — slash — the processing of a theta body. You’re not processing the MEST body now, and there’s no sense in processing one, because the person you’re trying to process is not the MEST body, it’s the theta body. And so you’ve seen people as you process their MEST body get happy very slowly — you want to get them upscale fast.

Now, every one of these wound up in a death, to drop a curve on it. So you’ve got — in each ridge, you’ve got decades of experience. Every ridge contains decades of experience. And here is the nasty little trick about a body: “It wasn’t my life, it was the body’s life. It wasn’t my fault it happened, it was the body’s fault. It didn’t happen to me, that life didn’t; it happened to the body and the body is now dead.” How logical. There’s how you forget your past lives. If it weren’t for these natural mechanisms, no implant — no electric implant under the sun, moon or stars — could have affected you for two minutes. These are actually more important than the electronic implants. But you’ll get this happening: because each one of these is to some degree an overt act — because it’s an overt act — the electronic implants show up as motivators. So a fellow gets an electronic implant after he’s done a few of these — oh boy, now he’s got a nice, beautiful DEDex. And so, you will find yourself starting to run electronic incidents every once in a while — find your preclear starting to run them — and there’s really no need to run them because you can key this stuff out.

People are terribly interested in their artistic ability. What’s happened to it? How do they get it back? Here we go, way up here [tapping on blackboard] at the top. That’s their artistic ability.

What is the reverse act on holding somebody still? It’s having to sit still and write; it’s having to sit still and compose something; it’s having to try to make life interesting for somebody; it’s aesthetics, aesthetics, aesthetics.

What MEST body, what MEST universe wave, could ever duplicate that wave to give them an inflowing wave of that length? They can’t. It’s way down here. This is looking at a MEST universe picture, listening to the words or piano music. It’s coming in on this bracket down in here. Now, it will retranslate — once in a great while, you’ve seen a great actor step on a stage and suddenly just electrify a whole audience. And they say — there have been a few actors in the past; they still talk about them — some early Shakespearean actors of a hundred years ago and so on, they talk about these people.

Now, you’ll find that your aesthetic comes up against this lower-level inflow, and as you run this, before you’ve run this very long, your boy is going to say, “You know, I can now stand there and look at the back of my neck.” That’s all there is to that. You clean him up a little bit further and he’ll find out he can put his paws on his own motor controls or take them off at will.

There are very few modern actors who have any part of this. I know of a couple offhand, that really — the audience gets interested. They’re not talking lines. They just sort of — Sarah Bernhardt was one of them, by the way. Sarah Bernhardt could walk on the stage and make a gesture with her hand, and everybody in the audience would — hh-hhh! — sigh. The old girl was so far up the line that she could still put out on this wave direct. She could still hit that audience right there in the middle of the theta being. And so people like to go see a great actor. But, oh, they’re scarce. They’re starved for that wave, utterly starved for it! They’ll even go see B Hollywood pictures, they’ll even look at television, in the hopes that sooner or later somebody is going to put that wave out.

Because the horrible part of this is, is he’s held on — he’s held just solid. And the reason he’s held is because he’s put outflow of aesthetics, outflow of aesthetics, outflow of aesthetics, and the inflow has never been an aesthetic inflow. It’s always been a low-level MEST inflow. So he has this out and this in; he’s never balanced this.

Actually, that wave alone could heal. If you gave an individual that wave alone in sufficient quantity, he’d become well. Unfortunately, it cannot be done by hanging a picture up on the wall or playing a concerto. But it could be done by the pianist sitting. . . Did you ever listen to records of various pianists? It’s a very funny thing that you can listen to a record by Paderewskil° and a record of somebody else and a record by somebody else and a record by somebody else, and you say, “Yep, they got their hands on the keyboard. I can tell.”

In order for an engram to work itself out, you would have had to have a low-level outflow and a high-level inflow too. But he never got this balanced.

And then somebody who is a great critic says to you, “But you can see that what is really beautiful here is the counterpoint, the way he hits that twiddle-twiddle-twiddle.” And you know that’s wrong; you know that isn’t why.

If you want to see a preclear get stuck on an E-Meter, insist he End some white outpouring of energy somewhere on the track and then just insist that he keep it white and keep pouring it out. And even after it turns black, insist he pour it out, pour it out, pour it out. And that doggone E-Meter is going to get more and more rigid, more and more rigid, more and more rigid, and then it’s really going to stick.

But go to see Paderewski — that was something else. The guy would sit down on the piano stool, and the whole audience would just go stiff and listen. The funny part of it is, they weren’t even listening to the music come out of that piano z They were listening to the music come out of here. And he could hold a whole audience — very peculiar, very interesting. That’s your great artiste.

And that’s what he’s been doing for centuries: He’s been sticking himself because here’s this high-level outflow, high-level outflow, highlevel outflow; low-level inflow, low-level inflow, low-level inflow. And the high and the low didn’t cancel each other at all. They didn’t even vaguely cancel each other out because they wouldn’t match.

That’s why live theater — live theater has it over Hollywood and TV tremendously, because even a little bit of live theater, even your little theater down here, still has, occasionally, maybe for three seconds during the play, somebody will put that one out, and it’s worth waiting for.

So what have you got to do? You’ve got to run out this high-level outflow and you’ve got to run out some of this low-level inflow. But the low-level inflow didn’t have very much influence on him, if you get rid of the high-level pitch there.

All right. You’ve been processing people down here [tapping on blackboard]. To a MEST body, this is aberrative. To a theta body, it’s also aberrative as input; but you could process that from here on out and you would never get a person out through the top. You could push them out through the bottom, but that’s not desirable at this time. We’re not processing any politicians. (audience laughter)

That’s how you make a Theta Clear, and there’s not much to it. It is not difficult. It gets fantastically easy. It’s probably the easiest auditing you ever did. If you can’t do anything else with a preclear do just straight Black and White heavy processing. Anything he’s in will suddenly come up.

So, what do we find here? We find that we’ve got only one chart at this time which embraces from 16.0 up, and you’re only interested, at the lowest, at 8.0 on the Tone Scale. You’re interested, perhaps, in enthusiasm, maybe. Process enthusiasm on somebody sometime, but it’s not . . . Low. You really want to process somebody, process exhilaration as the lowest level you’re going to hit on the emotion. Terribly aberrative to a thetan — very low scale, exhilaration. Very low scale.

But if you know these facts, as he runs his black-and-whites he’ll suddenly trigger one. He’ll suddenly trigger in one of these funny somatics. It won’t take him very long either. He’ll say, “I have one in my mouth and it comes like this, and I don’t know what it is. It feels like something lying up against me. And the harder I run this, the more solid it is.” Of course, he’s trying to hold it still.

And you go up from there and what do you start finding up here? You find “I know,” “I am,” and the gradients on them from about 8.0 up. And you get the feeling of somebody trying to get you to know, and the feeling of you trying to get somebody else to know. And you don’t get the emotion involved with it at all. You get just the feeling of trying to get somebody else to know; the feeling of trying to get somebody else to be really cause; the feeling of trying to get somebody else to be. The feeling of very highlevel start, stop and change of other human beings — very high level. Trying to get them to know, trying to get them to be exhilarated, trying to get them to be knowledgeable, trying to get them to reach for the moon, trying to get them to be cause. Trying to talk somebody into “Well, why don’t you tell him what you want and set things to rights in the family, and so forth? Why don’t you do this?” and so on.

Pull this trick on him: Say, “Let it squirm for a minute.” And he says, “What?”

You’re trying to get them to be cause. The words don’t matter, because you’re processing just that little tiny erg of power left that the thetan had that he could really do that to, from brain to brain, mind to mind. Just doing a skip distanced here. Whatever he’s saying — no, it doesn’t matter — matter what he’s saying. Doesn’t matter, really, what his emotion is either. But you’re trying to get this.

And you say, “Well, let it squirm.”

Now, oddly enough, up in this bracket there’s a whole Tone Scale. There’s a whole Tone Scale up here. There’s apathy clear up there in the high 30s. There’s an apathy which makes these waves sort of timeless and so on. Very high-level emotions. There’s dispersals up there; there’s a very high-level fear. You don’t feel it the same way.

“Well, I — I can’t. I mean, it wou wouldn’t.”

So how do you run this? You just take the Chart of Attitudes and you take anything from exhilaration up, and you get the individual trying to get people to know, trying to get people to be, trying to get people this, trying to get people that — output, output, output, output — and all of a sudden he says, “I’m stuck. Right here, I’m stuck.” And you say, “Well, go on, try to get somebody to know.”

“Well, just make believe it’s squirming.” And all of a sudden he’ll — the somatic will really turn on very nice. And if his sensitivity comes way up the line, he can get the complete outline of the hair and everything through here. Or he can get the outline of the back of the collar.

He says, “This thing is getting worse.” “Well, go on, try to get them to know.”

Fellow was hooked up on a preacher one time, and it gave him a band across his neck here. Only the band went the wrong way; it went around back of his esophagus and out this way.

Don’t ask him anything stupid like “What are you trying to say to this person?” because he isn’t saying anything to this person; he’s putting an output wave into the motor controls of some old body, is really what he’s doing. You don’t have to tell him what he’s doing. He’s stuck. You just get him to run this stuff and he’ll stick, just like that. And there he’ll be. You get him to run it a little bit further, and he says, “I now feel I’m out here. Now I’m out here.” You’re running him clear back down the Tone Scale.

The reason why this takes place is because your theta body all by itself was gradually more and more impressed on a MEST body; it isn’t the person as a MEST body has ever done this. And he’s finally gotten to the point where, when he comes back about halfway through, he’s pushed way into the MEST body.

Male voice: Okay.

Now, you get this other manifestation: He’s pushed so far into the MEST body that he feels like he has two faces. Here’s a face here and here’s his face, so he’s got a sort of a mask on all the time. And he can’t figure out what this mask is. Well, he’s just pushed into a body, and all you have to do is turn the distance between himself and that mask white. Just what does he have to do to turn it white? Just run it until it turns white and all of a sudden it will run out as a somatic.

That’s your time track.

Don’t be surprised, though, that when these things start going out, they come up-wave: your waves get higher and higher and higher and higher and higher, till all of a sudden they’re so high they’re just solid. They’re like a piece of porcelain. You don’t have any sensation of wave action or motion or anything else; it’s just there.

So your thetan — all of a sudden the fellow will get this concavity; he’s got this body at last. His visio is liable to go off, and he’ll say, “I’m blind.” Yeah, he’s blind, as a thetan. As a thetan he’s blind.

Well, what you should do with a case like that is just tell him to sort of disintegrate it, vibrate it. You know, “Shoot your attention at it.” And he will, and all of a sudden it’ll pass on out.

Boy, are you in terrible shape! You’re blind, deaf! You talk about “I wish my perceptics could come on.” You want to get the MEST waves out of facsimiles, and get this eidetic recall? Nonsense.

As you can suspect, then, the most aberrative — there are three most aberrative things. The most aberrative thing, then: sexual intercourse, as — that’s one of the three; very aberrative. The only reason it’s aberrative is because it’ll give a guy an anxiety complex sooner or later. How does it give him an anxiety complex? Because he’s blanketed people. That’s all.

There is a method of seeing by radar — a thetan can. Your preclear will get this to flickering on as you run this Straightwire; he’ll get this flick ering. He’ll all of a sudden say, “I’m outside the house. No, I’m not. That was a funny sensation: I was standing out here looking at the hill.”

Anxiety is just a sensation in the pit of the stomach, more or less, to most people. And so, as he goes on through life, he will find himself becoming more and more anxious about sex. That’s kind of stupid, isn’t it? He’ll get more and more anxious about sex. He’ll wonder whether or not, and so on. Oh, wonderful. You run out a few blankets and then you’ll become anxious about it, but he won’t.

And you say, “Well, go on running it.” And he’ll say, “Well, that worried me.” “Well, just go on, run it some more.”

Now, the next point that you should recall on this is that the bodies he has contacted and held to himself, form up in front of him and in ridges and are restimulated by his inability to hold people and control people at a distance. When he tries and fails to control people at a distance, it restims these ridges and he gets somatics. He has his teeth pulled out, he has various bad things happen to him — one of these is in restimulation.

And he’ll say, “Him, there I am again, I’m in the living room. No, I don’t like to run this stuff. I’m all over the place.”

He, in this life, conceives himself to be the person that is restimulated for some past era. He’s given himself these completely false characteristics.

Actually, what he’s doing — he’s bypassing walls with his sight and everything else. The darnedest things are happening to him, and he’ll start to get worried. When this starts to happen to him there in present time, he’ll think that there’s something aberrative about it. He’ll start fighting it as an aberration. It’s not an aberration, that’s natural.

And the other thing to remember is the important line to run is the aesthetic line — aesthetics. “Truth is beauty and beauty is truth and never the twain shall meet,” or some such quotation. You get these down with your preclear and so on.

All right. So how do you process somebody by Straightwire? You take the top of the Tone Scale, and you get him to making people know, making people be, exhilarating people, exciting people, if you want to get low scale on it. And just take it right straight across: make somebody be cause, making somebody be brave, making somebody this way, that way and so on.

Now, don’t tell me that we’ve abandoned Black and White; we haven’t. I repeat that. The only way these ridges will run out is by turning them white. Way a long time ago, he ran somebody that was out there, a quarter of a mile away, maybe. That’s a white speck. And as long as that speck is black and as long as the current going to that speck stays black, it won’t run out.

Oddly enough, there is a low-scale wave that you can process, and that is very easily summed up: making people stand still when they want to move and making them move when they want to stand still, and changing their direction. Because you’ll find out that after a while when the thetan got kind of foggy and old and crippled and defunct and so forth, every once in a while one of these darn MEST bodies would take off and get angry.

“What do you do to turn it white?”

Actually, there were other, less powerful thetans present, evidently. That’s your entity. It’s a thetan that’s really gone out the bottom, evidently. And they’re still hanging on. And you don’t interchange much with their minds. They’re other personalities and they’re caved in. About all they can do is, like any aberree, hold on to some old, painful facsimile and say, aI’m still here. I’m still here. I’m still here.” The preclear goes around and he has this awful pain right across there, and he can’t get rid of it. And you process everything under the sun, moon or starve trying to process this pain out.

Well, he has to — hmm, push it this way to turn it white. “All right, it’s white now; it’s white.”

Well, why can one of these old thetans get that far out of control? Well, it observes somebody in the environment handling you, and it says, “Huh! That’s the way he can be controlled.” And it’ll go on into a stupid cycle of doing what this other person has done to you. When you start running out what Papa has done and what Mama has done and what somebody else has done to the preclear you probably are running it out of entities who are using it on the preclear.

“Run it white. Run it white.”

The fellow can’t get rid of a thought, one of these entities are hanging on to this thought for him.

And all of a sudden he says, “It’s getting black.”

How do you get him up to a point where entities don’t bother him and where a MEST body doesn’t bother him? Well, it’s on “something you’ve been avoiding.” And this is a whole Straightwire process in itself — “something you’ve been avoiding.”

And you say, “Pull it back this way.” “Well, there’s nothing beautiful coming back from it, believe me,” he says.

What do you suppose you’re trying to do to a MEST body? You’re trying to control it. And you get to the point, finally, where you can’t control it, then you say control is no good. Actually, if you were really in good shape, you could probably control the thoughts and actions of everybody in this corner of the galaxy. No reason to negate against it. You wouldn’t even have to do it; you wouldn’t be fixed on doing it. That’s one of these big, silly ultimates, something that’s never achieved. Maybe not . . .

And you say, “Well, get some exhaustion, some apathy,” something of the sort. “Yeah, yeah,” and he brightens right up. All of a sudden he pulls that in.

Anyway. . . Control. What are you trying to do to a body? So any time you have tried to control, any time your preclear has tried to control another human being, any time they have tried to control a MEST body — whether it’s a dog or a cat, but particularly human beings — or human beings have tried to control their body, is aberrative. And has cut down, each time it has failed, the ability of the thetan to control and assert himself

Now, you’ll find preclears that are kind of bad shape about this will be able to do nothing but pull in exhaustion for a while or pull in agreement for a while and try to hold exhaustion off. People get so looped up on this that they’ll eventually spend nearly 100 percent of their time worrying about people in front of them, hoping that that exhaustion ray doesn’t come in. That exhaustion wave mustn’t come in. So they kind of — they go through life with interpersonal relationships this way. And somebody says something to them, they try to hold it back and then they sort of succumb and get apathetic about what the person said. Painful to them.

What is this thing called internal awareness that pcs get if they run on Handbook for Preclears for a while? What is that thing? It is just getting control of all the epicenters in the body. If you can get the individual in control of every part of his body, he’s a well individual. You know that. A lot of you have seen this happen to pcs. All of a sudden, they’re suddenly in control of all their motor controls, and they’re just as happy as clams. They think life’s wonderful. After that, they have what they call internal awareness, external awareness, to the rear march, something of the sort. They’d say they’re in wonderful shape — they’re only completely psychotic on a thetan level.

That’s what happens to antisocialism. The only thing that’s wrong with a criminal is his aesthetics have been broken to pieces. If his aesthetics have been broken to pieces, you can count on the fact that he’ll have no pride.

All right, there’s awareness. Now, actually, how do you get a person up to this? You only run one thing to get him up there, just one thing. You just run that control: people trying to control his body, him trying to con trol other people’s body, him trying to control — and here we get down to the real hub — his trying to control his own body. And, of course, this is something that goes on all the time, so you have thousands and thousands and thousands of incidents.

What’s pride? High aesthetic sensitivity. That’s pride. And if you can define it that way, you can rehabilitate pride. If you can rehabilitate pride, you can rehabilitate marriages, thetans, the United Nations, almost anything. The only reason Russia goes to war is because she knows she’s a dog. They do, they know they’re a bunch of revolutionaries that bumped off a lot of guys better than they were. And they are so darned paranoid about it that it is pathetic. I know. I’m not talking out of Hears* newspapers; I know Russia to some degree — knowing it through knowing some of its officers.

What’s the important one? Given this, [tapping on blackboard] what’s the important one? That one, of course. And why is that one so important? It happens to be a problem in energy — why it’s important. It’s a problem in energy. It’s just as mechanical as you pour gasoline in a car and it runs.

But here, rehabilitation of pride. So a person after a while will start to get desperate about his pride; he becomes easy to insult. He’s still pretty high level. Oh, nobody had better cross his path or insult him. We went through whole periods in the last few centuries of people dueling at the drop of a gun right here in Arizona.

[At this point there is a gap in the original recording.]

Fellow says, “You blankety-blank.”

Theta is a zero wavelength or an infinity wavelength. Boy, that old theta-MEST theory — God bless it — it really paid off, really paid off. Zero wave. Zero wave. That is theta. It’s a static.

And the other fellow says, “When you say that, smile.” And there was a blast of pistols at sunset and somebody died because of pride. Pride — that was very important. Then they went down below that, and they got to a point where politeness was everything: polite, polite — they’re more defensive.

How in the name of common sense would you ever get a static into action? How would you ever get a static interested in motion? The basic that you are is a static! How would you ever get it into motion? How would you ever get it to hold on to effort? How would you ever get it to hold on to a pain facsimile? How, mechanically, did you ever come by any facsimiles in the first place? You don’t need them. How?

Then they got down to below a level where — civil rights: “We have to pay attention to our rights. All men are created equal” — any other dodge in order to make it possible for somebody to survive, because their pride is gone. Nobody with any pride will get up and say, “I am equal to all other men.” Dash! Because pride is a rather individual thing.

You’d have to get the wave that is closest to zero, that is a wave. Just like the virus is not a cell and it’s not matter, it’s halfway between. So what do you do? You take the finest, thinnest wave possible — is the only thing that’ll stand and hold on to and hook up with zero wavelength. And that wavelength’s length is one over infinity, and that is the highest level of aesthetics. So what is aberrative? How do we get the whole facsimile bank to just drop off, boom! with all of its emotion, heavy emotion, with all of its effort? How do we just do an effort-ectomy? How do we get off all the effort and counter-effort off the case, all of the emotion and counter-emotion offthe case, just snip? How do we do it?

Now, we go down level a little bit further, and we get people massing together under strong leadership and being very destructive, and depending for their pride on how much they can destroy. “We’re the Wehrmacht!” And they go to war! To do what? To assert the fact that they still have some pride. Actually, they’ve got aesthetics all mixed up with it; it’s just all mixed up with it.

Male voice: At zero?

They get aesthetics into religion, they get it here, they get it there — they try to figure it all out from that basis and it won’t figure.

That’s it, control on this level — aesthetic control. My gosh, you ought to see a preclear take off when you start doing Straightwire on this: [marking on blackboard] a fellow trying to conceive himself to be good-looking, a fellow trying to conceive that he is not good-looking and arguing against being not good-looking, a fellow thinking that somebody else’s MEST body is not pretty, a fellow being envious of somebody else’s MEST body because it’s pretty, a fellow trying to hold on to a pretty girl. And all you have to process is just that little fleeting thought, just that instant, “Gosh, she’s pretty,” and the whole love affair, after that, goes crunch! out the window. You can jettison the whole works. All the time when he shot her and she threw him in the garbage can and the time when he got knocked downstairs, and the flatirons got — were flying in the air. This is all effort.

They come downscale from that, they go in for communism. aWe’re all of a group here together. We’re all of a group here together. Our only pride is that the hammer and sickles goes on flying.” The pride has become a flag or something over there, or somebody named Uncle Joe8 or something.

How in the name of common sense do you get theta or thetans to go on in this universe at all? [marking on blackboard] There. And that’s the only reason they keep on going.

They keep going down, down, down, down, down, down, down. The pride becomes more and more general, and they finally sort of spiral out the bottom.

And this may seem a very extreme statement to you, but it’s a very true statement: You have no facsimile and there is no facsimile in any preclear which he isn’t holding on to because of an aesthetic attachment or an aesthetic use. And if you can find that aesthetic use, the facsimile will incident-ectify. It will go ptock! There’s no reason to hold on to it.

Before they come to that, they have — get a concept that they are everybody in the universe — a very aberrated concept. They have lost all their individuality. The only way that they could be everybody and everything on all the dynamics would be to have the highest possible aesthetic value and pride, and then they could mote. So you’ll see it at both ends of the spectrum. So rehabilitate that above all other things.

How do you keep people going on in life at all? You give them shows, you entertain them. They keep on going down the track just hoping that there’ll be something pretty show up.

But now I’ve given you, now, the one-two-three steps. Don’t want to keep you here very long; I just want to give you data.

Do you want to really tear a little kid to pieces? You want to take a little kid and just cut him all up and feed him to a hamburger grinder and then stamp on what’s left of their teeth? They walk up to you, and they say — with something, some old piece of dried mud or maybe something even worse — and they put it in your hand and they say, “Pretty.”

This step of the sequence you run in order to create a Theta Clear. And this is the easiest thing in the world to run. It’s just this blanket and you get the center of it and the impact, and the out and the in and the out and the in. And all of a sudden the guy — he gets this horrible fear: “Oh-oh-oh! I’m sick. I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s hor rible, it’s horrible.” Well, all that is, is some MEST body that had an old thetan on it about ready to explode. So keep him running right on through that, and it’ll run off in a few minutes.

You say, “Go away with that old nasty thing! Beat it.” Good. You’ve made a human being out of him right there in that moment. You could take that kid out and tie him on the back end of the car and drive down the street at twenty miles an hour, and you wouldn’t do the kid as much damage. Because that’s just pain, that’s just effort; that’s nothing. You hit him on an aesthetic wave!

But people go through their whole lives with that. And the only way that police can control criminals is because that manifestation comes into effect. They get anxiety stomachs. And if you have a criminal who doesn’t have the good graces to have an anxiety stomach, he goes on committing crimes.

How does the American university destroy human beings? It’s with a — “Oh, you want to be a writer, do you? Well, your period is in the wrong place and your paragraph is in the wrong place. And you just used this word and so forth. And do you realize that in this story . . . Yes, I realize the mood is very interesting, but you’ve misspelled the word. Hah! Tsk! We’ve got you now! Now, what you must learn how to take is criticism!”

Now, that step and then this step of controlling people at a distanceand you’ll find people in this life and people in other lives clipping back and forth. And the only really important point of control is when they were trying to control them aesthetically, when they were trying to interest them, when they were trying to get them interested in art. When they were trying to do this and that with some other being and this other being wouldn’t stand still, it restimulated these old implants.

Well, when you look at control, remember that the most subtle way of controlling anybody is criticism on an aesthetic level. And if you want tofind where the individual spun in this life, look back along the track to where he handed out some criticism on an aesthetic level. And there will be fifty other reasons, apparently, in that area. You’ll have spotted the area as the most aberrative area which you have on the track for that preclear. And there were several knockdown-drag-out fights, and his dogs left him, and all sorts of things happened to him. And you just keep processing this and processing it and processing it and it doesn’t go away. Until you find out all of a sudden one day he gave — tried to control somebody with an aesthetic criticism, usually very savage aesthetic criticism.

You just follow back up the track from basic-basic, which is the blanket way out here. It’s a sort of a circular pattern, don’t you see? It’s first the blanket, then you get out here, [marking on blackboard] with people way out — control coming in — and then there’s this thing and then this. It’s a sort of a circular process. It starts right here and then goes out, and then comes back in and then becomes these ridges. And you run Black and White on this, run Black and White on these ridges; turn everything from the ridge forward white.

Somebody was trying to write or paint or write poetry or do something aesthetic, and he came down on them with a crunch — or he realized he had. A little bit later on, you’ll find out that he feels very bad because somebody or other can’t paint around him or something. Oh, and he’ll just be beating his brains out.

If possible, turn everything in the ridge back white, too. But the thing will run out if you turn everything from the ridge forward white. And you’ve gotten rid of one body and you’ve. . . This was the first body that was touching the thetan — really touching him for a long time. And you’ll find that ridge is awful solid and it’s apathetic. And you’ll find this anxiety to hold on, hold on, hold on. And then all of a sudden this thing died and he couldn’t get off. And then finally he made it. Great! Say, “I’m never having anything more to do with that. Here’s another body.” Boy, he just goes one, two, three.

Aesthetics. Now, isn’t that a funny thing? You know, the first thing a fellow gets when you start processing this is personal pride. And what are you trying to get back for a preclear? You’re trying to get back personal pride.

Now, as he goes, his degradation is a very interesting plot. It first says, “I’m not going to have any sympathy for this body.” Then it says, “I’m sympathizing for this body.” Then it says, “I’m going to do anything for this body.” And then it says, “This body is cause and if the body is all, then the body is everything and I am not.”

And there’s only one real reason he’s got to hang on to a MEST body: Sometimes MEST bodies are pretty; that’s the only reason he’s got.

So you can expect a psychic upset in your preclear for a short time — a real psychic upset. He’s going to hit the strata where as a thetan he is nothing, and a MEST body he doesn’t amount to anything. And let him run it out. Because that is the bridge you’re trying to cross, and that’s what the old-timers out in India used to say: “You have to reach the bottom before you reach the top.” How they knew, I don’t know. I know they don’t know, too.

You know, there is an aesthetic of living; there is an actual aesthetic of living. A person can — not necessarily take up with the arts — a person can make the whole life an art. He can live a life that paints a picture. His life — he’s actually trying to do that.

But you had to reach the bottom before you reached the top. And that was the fact that the MEST body dwindled and dwindled and dwindled in importance, and all of a sudden as a thetan . . . At the moment the MEST body was completely dwindled in importance, the thetan was, at his first level of consciousness, blotto, zero, nothing. No pride, no aesthetics, nothing — just a rag.

And when he’s a little kid, he goes around and he pretends this and he pretends that, and he tries to get this situation and that concept and so forth. What’s he trying to do? He’s trying to live an aesthetic. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with reality! Aesthetics never have anything to do with reality; they couldn’t have anything to do with reality — because I’m going to tell you what reality is now. You put that down in your notebook.

Now he starts up the line in there as a thetan. You’ll find you run out more and more of these body contacts, more and more of these contacts, more and more of these contacts, and all of a sudden he’s not just standing there looking at his own collar. His body is sitting there and he goes over and sits in a chair someplace or in a corner — flies away to Mount Kaaf.

In other words, we get this top-Tone Scale output: getting bodies to know, to be, so forth — top-Tone Scale output, then efforts to control. And if you get the top-Tone Scale output on the subject of arts, you’re really there — getting somebody to know about art.

You haven’t got a Clear when you do that, you understand; you’ve just got a Theta Clear. A MEST Clear in a body would be even a little higher level aesthetically, because the fellow still thinks he’s the body. See, “I’m important because I’m the body.” And you’ve taken this guy over the hump, and he’s probably still pretty low on the Tone Scale. He’s probably 8.0, 10.0, something like that on the Tone Scale, and he doesn’t feel like he amounts to much because he hasn’t got any of his horsepower left. He actually, theoretically, should be able to throw out about twenty-five thousand watts or something at will, and he isn’t able to do that. So he knows he’s dished; he knows he’s in bad shape. And so he starts to rehabilitate himself And it’s very easy to run electronic incidents without a body, but it’s hard to run them with one because they keep throwing in somatics.

I ran a fellow going to an art gallery one time; I ran it out of him. I often wondered why the thing was aberrative. I used to sit around once in a while for months afterward and wonder why this made such a change in the fellow, and I couldn’t account for it.

That was all I wanted to tell you and I hope you have found it of interest and of use.

Fellow came in and he sat down on the couch, and he seemed to be in bad shape. And I got him to talking and I tried to get him interested in something. He was quite neurotic. And he talked for about two hours. And I said, “Well, we’ll pick something interesting to talk about,” just to get him into communication. And he told me all about taking this friend of his to the art gallery. And he was quite hectic about it. He was very hectic about it. And he told me about it, and he kept telling me about it, he kept telling about it, and all of a sudden he wasn’t interested, and he got up and his skin was rosy and shiny and he was cheerful, he was happy and he left.

I want to see a few Theta Clears down here in Phoenix. We’ve got a big job to do. We got Russia to clean up and a few other things to clean up and society to mop up in general, and the elections in November and who wants Eisenhowerl° in? (audience laughter)

He called me up about two or three weeks later and sent me over, I think, a crate of peaches or something of the sort, and oh, he was happy. I never could figure that one out. That was about 1946, something like that — way back.

Thank you very much.

Well, boy, I know why now. Very simple. All the time he was at the art gallery, he was trying to get his friend to know about art. He was trying to show his friend that he was in his control, because he knew more about art than his friend did. So he kept telling his friend and his friend didn’t know anything about art, but he knew about art and he wanted his friend to know about art. And of course it just spun him in. That was all he had to do, and of course he spun in. After that he was neurotic. I hit the one lock in his case that processed not the mest body but the thetan.

A thetan is powerful enough to make the MEST body perfectly healthy. So why worry about the MEST body? They’re cheap anyway. China is full of them. Japan — lots of them. Slave markets over in Arabia, I understand.

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Control on an aesthetic line, thwarted aesthetics, thwarted aesthetic ambitions, trying to live a beautiful life, people convincing you that you weren’t (but you mostly convincing them they weren’t), a critical thought about the “unbeauty” of something.

It’s a very funny thing, but, you see, even the unbeautiful, even the ugly, has an aesthetic value if you’re very well balanced about it. You know, there’s really nothing more aesthetic than a battlefield completely strewn with corpses and the maimed and dying. Actually, it’s terribly aesthetic.

If you take a man’s whole career in war, and you process out every time the grandeur and horror of it assumed an aesthetic pitch — he thought, “Boy, I’ll have to tell the folks at home about this. Lookit there, over a thousand men lying out there getting bloated in the sun.” The fury, the sound, action, motion, color, and the horrible urgency of it and the terrible danger of it actually could sum up to an aesthetic. And you process out that feeling of it being an aesthetic, and all of the action and the pai and the starvation and everything else of the thing just falls away — pshew! The only thing that can hold anything to theta is an aesthetic wave! The only reason that you are alive today is because you have a hope that something will turn up that’s aesthetic, interesting, pretty, entertaining and so on. You will hold that hope solidly and you’ll go through anything to obtain it. The original implants on the track are way up on that level, not on a heavy level.

Now here’s reality. [marking on blackboard] Here’s your static, here’s a very fine wave, aesthetic wave. Here’s a heavier wave. Now we’re getting down here to an analytical-thought wave. Now we’re getting down here to an emotional wave. Now here’s effort. How can this heavy effort append itself to the zero-ness of theta? Only by holding on by graduated, smaller and smaller intervals.

So actually, if you wanted to process something, you’d process out all the times the fellow was rational. Terribly aberrative. All the times he was rational, every time he was making good sense. And of course, you’re cutting this right at this level here. And if you processed out that, your emotion and the effort would fall away.

But if you really want to get it off and get rid of this whole series of incidents, process that little tiny aesthetic wave. Because it’s tiny doesn’t mean it’s strong. You understand that its output and force has no bearing upon its wavelength. An aesthetic can be a terrifically powerful wave.

You can tell a story — tell a story about a fellow who took a slave as a model. And he made this slave hold up this terrific block of stone for days and days and weeks and weeks while he painted a picture of him (over in Europe somewhere). And he painted this picture, and the slave got in worse shape and worse shape and worse shape and all of a sudden ruptured himself and died. And the slave was quite popular. There was a riot. The slave was an athlete. There was a riot. People were swarming out around the street, and they were just going to tear this painter to ribbons. He’d killed this slave. And the painter just walked out to the door holding on to this picture and just held the picture up and let the crowd see it. And they all said, Gee!” and went home. They were going to hang him two seconds before that. That’s a fact.

You can handle people with effort if you want to. “You go to sleep at your post, I’m going to shoot you.” “You drive down this street, I’m going to put you in jail! That’s what we’re going to do to you.” You can handle people this way. You can also handle people by being reasonable. You can also handle people by being emotional. “You brute, you struck me!” It will handle them. They handle very nicely. But, boy, they really handle up here. [tapping on blackboard]

So what’s your process level, then? Process level, as high as you can get it. So we take top- Tone Scale “I know,” “I am,” “cause,” so forth, and we process an individual trying to know or be, make somebody else know, be; make his body know and be on the subject of arts, aesthetics, beauty. And you’ll just cut off all the rest of the facsimiles, bang! And the next thing you know, the fellow is walking clear out here, and he says, “What’s this shadow in front of me?” That shadow is him.

Now, here’s your scale of agreement. I told you once upon a time I didn’t know why reality was agreement, but it seemed to be. You read in Science of Survival, you’ll find out reality is agreement. It is, that’s all. And it depends on affinity and communication, but we all agree that it’s real, so it’s real. And that’s about as close as we get to reality, and that’s about that.

Well, it’s worse than that. Here is the zero of aesthetics. Now we start to get [marking on blackboard] illusion, imaginary, aesthetic, creativeness. All of this sort of thing comes down along this scale here: creativeness, less and less creativeness, less and less creativeness, more and more MEST universe wave, more and more force coming in here, more and more force, more and more force, more and more force, more and more force.

We’re down here at about 8.0 on the Tone Scale now, and what do we have? We have force so heavy, waves so heavy, that an individual starts to fight them; he’ll start fighting and turning back before it reaches him, any incoming wave. Any heavy wave that he sees coming in toward him, he just instinctively guides it back; he’ll fight that wave.

You get down here a little bit more at 4.0, he’s gotten the concept that if he puts out an outgoing wave — “rrroww!” — that no waves can come in and hit him. That’s enthusiasm.

Now, we get down here on a hold basis, and you’ve got your conservatism. The fellow is holding this wave here.

He gets down here to 2.0 on the Tone Scale and you’re into your effort band, and he’s got the idea “I’ll get those waves away from here. Rrr, err — I’ll get them away. Hhhh! Hhrr!” And you get down here, 1.5 on the Tone Scale, and he’s saying, “tImmm, I’ll stop this motion. I’ll stop it. I’ll stop it. I’ll stop it. I’ll stop it.”

You get down below this and you really get agreement. From 1.0 down the fellow is starting to agree.

Now, the horrible part of it is, is from 1.0 down he’s agreeing with the physical universe. The physical universe takes that level of agreement because it’s in apathy What is it but apathy? It’s big chunks of apathy floating around and going around other pieces of apathy. The only way you’d get anything as consistent and timeless as a piece of matter is to really have a deep apathy. Isn’t that true? All right.

So you come down Tone Scale, you get way down here and what do you get? You get a fellow being agreeable. The second an individual starts to agree, he’s done! The second you looked out and you said, “It’s a nice universe . . . Ain’t it a beautiful morning!” you said. Skktt! You cut your own throat. You were below 2.0 when you did that. Isn’t it a beautiful day! Yes, I think this is a pretty country. Yes, I think that piece of MEST is lovely.” You’re applying a value up here way down here on the Tone Scale, and it’s complete perversion!

And if you’ve ever known a loop, this loop is going around all the time saying to you, “How pretty it is. Come on out and look at the sunset, how pretty it is. Isn’t the ocean pretty? I think -* well, this is pretty, that’s pretty, and you bet . . .” He’s going out of his mind to tell you — he’s agree, agree, agree, agree, agree — he’s scared stiff. He’s afraid! He’s holding a status quo. He’s holding this status quo that’s saying to him, “If I agree with all of it, if I say this is beauty, if I say this is aesthetics, if I say this is pretty — these coarse, MEST universe waves - if I say all this is, if I keep agreeing, I’m safe!” That’s what he’s doing: “I’m safe.”

There’s a horrible level just below this: It’s the chaos of upper apathy, when the waves are so random that you can’t agree with them. And the individual will say, “Yes, I’ll agree if I could just find out which way they’re going!” And you know . . . Now, that’s really MEST universe.

So we’re really into ARC on the MEST universe level way down here. So a whole Straightwire process comes out of this — whole Straightwire: “When did you agree with somebody?” Very aberrative. “When did you agree? Anything you agreed on in the MEST universe.”

But let’s really doctor it up and hit at the center of it, and let’s find, now, a really aberrative situation. This is a beautifully aberrative situation, is “When did you agree the MEST universe was pretty?” Just spot them out and the individual will start on up the Tone Scale like a little soldier. “When did you agree the MEST universe was pretty?”

You’re taking him right on up the line. Because that is immediately next door of “When did you get this weird, stupid, idiotic idea that a MEST body was pretty? Where did you get that one?”

Because the second you pick up that one on the track, the individual is right back at the beginning of the horrible concatenation which wound him up as a human being. You’ve got basic on it, when he has agreed that a MEST body was beautiful and desirable and worth having. He was probably sitting down one day swapping facsimiles with Joe and they saw this girl walk down the road, and they didn’t have anything else to say at the moment and he says, “You know, Joe,” (facsimiles, of course, just interchange) “I think that girl’s pretty.”

Joe says, “I don’t.”

“Well, I do.” Well, that was the beginning of his downfall. With men, cherchez la femme, and with women, cherchez l’homme.

What I’m telling you sounds very silly, perhaps, but I’ve given you a process now which simply adds up to this. This is a Straightwire process, and it codifies in this fashion: When did you try to control the beautiful or make somebody know or be beautiful?” or When did you feel critical about things not being beautiful?” When did you agree that the MEST universe was beautiful?” When did you criticize it for not being beautiful?” What’s the desire to have the MEST universe beautiful?” Actually, it can’t be; that’s silly.

You could dream up a universe out here which would be pretty. This is where they come off when they say the artist — art is only the concept of one individual. Well, it goes way up above that level. What would really be beauty would be something you’d mocked up, and it would be beautiful to you; that’s about all.

Now, how did individuals start controlling other individuals? How did thetans start controlling thetans? They got them interested! And they got — had to get them interested, of course, way up on this level.

So you get a picture of these thetans sitting around being no motion, everything going along just beautifully — completely timeless, cheerful, hardly even imagining anything once in a while, but once in a while imagining something, enjoying life, no need to work, to eat or anything. You get the idea of this fast-talking supersalesman that comes around and says — with this little tiny, fine wave, about one over infinity, and punches.

The fellow looks at it come in, and punches it. This thetan looks at it come in and it’s . . . He’s done for right there. Because from there, he will start changing motion on this high-level wave. He’ll then begin to change motion on an analytical wave — he will have sane thoughts, he’ll have rational thoughts, he’ll begin to think analytically. Next thing you know, he’s down here along this level of exhilarated — he feels exhilarated, he feels enthusi astic. Next thing you know, he feels other levels of emotion. And the next thing, he agrees with the physical universe — bang!

He gets hooked onto a body long before this; he gets hooked onto a body with enthusiasm — about 4.0 on the Tone Scale. He, by that time, has become blotted out as an individual.

Now, you know that you can get these things by concepts. You can just get the guy — the preclear to feel the concept: “Feel the concept of making somebody know it’s pretty; just feel that concept.” Or “Feel the concept of wanting to control some girl because she’s pretty.”

Oh, the fellow will say, “I never did that.” “Get the concept.”

And he will, and a whole string of incidents will turn out of this. But it’s “Get the concept.” You don’t get a specific incident; get the concept of that sort of a situation taking place. This is Concept Running, and that’s what you use this on.

Now, there is a full set of reactions. First, you know on an overt act, every once in a while you’ll find the preclear feeling — first he feels the emotion of no-sympathy. Now, mark that down as an important thing, because it’s a blackout, it’s an occlusion.

Can you feel how it feels not to feel any sympathy for something? Well, just try it. It’s just. . . aI’m not going to feel sympathy for its is actually the phrase that goes with the concept. fit doesn’t matter what I am doing here, I’m not going to feel sympathy about it.t He’s bound and determined not to be sympathetic, and that’s the emotion of no-sympathy. And it’s just blacking the thing out. It’s denying himself knowledge of what he’s doing.

You’ve seen mothers do this. Little Junior rushes in, gets the floor all muddy, she picks up a broom, she hits him alongside of the head, it knocks him sideways, he skids under the sink, he knocks over the garbage can. She didn’t mean to hit him that hard. “Well, I’m not going to feel any sym pathy for you. Get up and leave!” See? She has to grit her teeth to do that. She says, “No sympathy, no sympathy,” finds herself sliding off — “Gee, that was a horrible thing to do to Junior. I won’t feel any sympathy for him. He deserved it. It served him right; I’m not going to feel any sympathy.”

If you can get the preclear to find that concept, that is next door to just going all over, super- saccharine, oh-my-God level of sympathy. It’s right next door to it, because the fellow feels that downscale emotion, sympathy, is going to come on. And he’s blocking it and he’s stopping it, and he’s saying, “No, no! No, no! No, no! No.” And then all of a sudden, like the little boy who took his finger out of the dike, all the dikes give way. And he’ll say, “Oh, poor Junior.”

Now, the second he says, “Oh, poor Junior” . . . It’s first no-sympathy: “I’m not going to feel any sympathy. I don’t care what I’m doing. I can do anything I want to do. I don’t have to do this,” and so on. Next scale down from that is sympathy. Next scale down from that is “I’ll do anything if it will make . . .” Next one down from that is “I will be you!” Life continuum. And the thetan does a life continuum on MEST bodies.

And you get that gradient scale of emotion, and you just start processing that gradient scale of emotion with an individual, and he’ll wind up as his own theta being. You could probably do this for a thousand hours, and you’d probably have a guy Clear. Because he’d pick up in rotation each and every case, one after the other, where this had happened. Just get him to feel this emotion of not wanting to feel any sympathy, determination not to feel sympathy. Get that, and he’ll run that, and he’ll run it, and he’ll run it and he’ll run it, and he’ll run the concept and he’ll run the concept. All of a sudden he is saying, aOh, it was a pretty bad thing to do.”

And you say, “What?”

He says, “Well, it was a little girl I knocked down in the ravine.” And you say, “When?”

“(Sigh)!“

He’ll tell you about it. After that, why, he carried her books home, and he would have done anything.

And you’ll find out this is the cycle of the theta being toward its MEST bodies. At first, “I’m not going to feel any sympathy for these MEST bodies.” Next, “Poor things.” Next is “Well, I’ll help them out.” Next, “I’ll do anything to make this MEST body bright and beautiful, because I’m going to make life beautiful for this MEST body. That’s the way I’m going to repay and repent.” And more of it and more of it. And all of a sudden the.theta being doesn’t even know he’s a theta being; he thinks he’s a MEST body. He does a life continuum from that point on.

And that is the transfer and that is the sequence whereby a transfer takes place.

And it always has this concept in it: “I’m going to make things beau tiful for this being.” And that’s where the theta being breaks his own neck, and he drops off to zero! He begins to believe, then, that he is so low, so mean, so nothing, that the 07lly thing he could do, the only way he could be identified, is by having a label out here, a MEST body.

He feels so degraded and so low that he’s only good for just one thing: running this body around. He’s got to take care of it. And out of that cycle, you’ll find every human personality there is. It’s out of that cycle; it’s in that cycle someplace.

Like “To hell with this body; I don’t want anything to do with it! I’m going to wreck it if I get a chance.” Down to, “Well, I’ll have to give it something once in a while.” You’ll see workmen out occasionally, and they’ll be working in the roaring sun without a coat on or a hat on, and you’ll find them going through eight or nine motions where one would suffice, and they’re just running themselves ragged. They’re going to say, “I’ll get even with this thing — arrr-rowrr-rrr.” Just dramatizing it. They’ll kill themselves if they get a chance.

A little bit later in life, you’ll find them being very propitiative: “Well, I have to take care of myself, you know. I don’t dare eat too much greasy food; it gets my stomach.” “Well, I’d better not drink any more beer; it’s bad for my sinus trouble.” Deny, deny, deny. “Got to take care of myself I guess I’d better go to the doctor, I don’t feel well anymore.” Down scale.

Run that thing in reverse, and you’ll bail out the thetan, and it’s ter ribly easy to do. 88 Straightwire, there’s nothing easier.

It’s nothing to it. There isn’t a person in this room right now who can’t get the concept “I’m going to make things beautiful for this body.” Try and get that concept. “Going to make things beautiful for this body” — whether it’s another person or this body or — yeah, just get the concept. “Going to make things beautiful, going to make things pretty.” A variant of it is “I’m going to make things romantic for him.” You get this concept, you’re on your way. You can get that.

There isn’t a person here who can’t get the concept “I refuse to feel any sympathy That’s a high-level emotion, and it’s also a complete occlusion.

Now, if all you could remember out of all of this is just the efforts to control beauty, if that’s all you could remember, you could take a preclear and go process him on efforts to control beauty, on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And all of a sudden he would be saying, There’s this shadow standing out here in front of me. What is it?”

And you’d say, “Well, don’t pay any attention to that. Just go on and process it some more.” He’d say, “Well, I get the funny i , it’s got a cuff on it!”

You say, “It’s probably some movie you saw.” “No, it is not! It is not. It’s some guy.”

Sometimes they’ll go into a boil-off and they’ll see some of their former bodies. And the bodies will be walking away from them, of course, in motion, and they’ll be tagging along behind. It’s somewhat like riding a monocycle or a unicycle behind a human being. It’s very balanced. You have to work these feet, “Yeah. Now I’ll wink his eye. Now I’ll make him sneer.” Find it very amusing.

When you get down to the first time a person started to control a body, how awfully affected they felt about it; they felt like they were running a puppet. That’s the way it should feel — they’re running this puppet. But you notice how this society tries to sink human beings deeper in the mire?

“He’s very superficial.”

That’s what he’s supposed to be!

“Oh, he doesn’t take things seriously!”

“She’s affected; all those gestures are very self-conscious.” Well, they ought to be!

“Very affected, very affected. Look at the way she holds her hand; she’s just conscious of what she’s doing every minute of the time. She doesn’t act natural.”

Of course, you want people who act natural, because, gee, are they easy to control. The thetan doesn’t even know he’s there, he’s completely blotto, he’s moved into a permanent transfer inside the body. He will take orders like an automaton and he will act like a second body. And if you’re in a position whereby you can control your body without too much worry, then you can control his body too. And if you can extend this out to twenty men, you’d make a good sergeant. Of course, every additional body which you control is that much more in the soup.

Now, it all breaks down at the final end of the thing, is that there’s one thing to be learned out of all this: is there’s just no sense in having MEST bodies. It’s really an aberration that’s a wonderful aberration. Except this: You would be amazed — you’ll look back on the whole track (and you’ll have to take my word for it at the moment; you’ll run into them sooner or later), you will find in some areas — instead of human beings, you’ll find animated dolls. And out of a preclear — once in a while, he’ll get this feeling, he says, “Well, all of my life I’ve had this feeling like this motor is running in my stomach. I get all charged up and this motor keeps run ning — going whir-whir-whir-whir. I get to thinking, you know, and this motor keeps turning over inside my mind.” There is — old expression: awheels in his head,” Ma cog’s loose.”

An animated doll! How easy it is to electronically manipulate the con trols on a doll. It’s like somebody carrying a sign around. This somebody isn’t visible, so he keeps carrying this little sign around, says, “John Doe, John Doe, John Doe, John Doe, John Doe.” Instead of that, he carries a doll. In the higher level in the ruling class in many other locales are dolls — just dolls, that’s all. Very lightweight dolls, motor-driven.

Every once in a while you’ll get somebody who has a motor running in him. “And I keep hearing this motor.” And you start processing the motor and he’ll say, “You know, it’s a funny thing but there’s a doll here; it’s got a blue uniform on.” “Huh. Looks like a full-size doll.” He’ll look very con fused about it. “And there are other dolls around here, too.”

A theta body can have this horrible thing happen to it: it can come up against a radioactive piece of material, or a highly magnetized post, and it can’t get away. Because every time it throws out an electronic flow that should move it off of this metal, it simply recharges the metal and holds itself on. That is a theta trap.

Theta traps, by the way, seldom have any electricity in them. The guy charges it up himself. He’s walking along and he passes by this magnet, and the magnet holds on to him. So he says, “Get away.” And of course, every time he shoots a charge of electricity at the magnet to back himself off, he fastens on by magnetizing it more and more. So he does it to him self — 100 percent. So there’s a liability.

By the way, a thetan has an awful time trying to write. It’s much easier to have a doll and have a doll punch a typewriter or work a televisor. You’d be surprised how much trouble it is to take hold of a doll’s wrist and make it sign a check or something.

Well now, a MEST body is very attractive. All you have to do to a MEST body is just enter into these motor controls and give it ideas and training patterns and train it and train it and train it, till it’s got all these training patterns, and then you just punch the button and it writes a check. It’s very fine.

But one day you think you as the theta body are the MEST body and that you are writing the check. And the difference between a doll and a MEST body is the MEST body has also got theta in it. And it can kick back a heavy wave and it can also be taught to know, so that you have a light wave going in and a heavy wave coming back, and that’s very aberrative and you’ll eventually get stuck on one.

They seem to be very attractive; they’re very malleable, arms move and — where a doll is very stiff, not graceful. Why, MEST bodies have good joints, their eyes wiggle in their heads, they see, they have some memory, and they’re pretty good. They make good identification. They’re prettier; you can do things with them. They have a sexual connotation that’s sometimes pleasant. But, boy, are they dangerous!

Now, I can tell you they’re dangerous right now; you won’t really believe me very much. Wait till you process it for a little while, and start all of a sudden coming up into a realization of “My God, I’m here and I don’t even know I’m me!”

Every once in a while, a preclear will go around saying, “You know, there’s something psychotic about me or around me or something. I can’t figure out what it is.” Well, that’s where it is. It’s just — all of a sudden you’ll hit that line, and you’ll feel this concavity and you’ll see this — “Where am I? Who am I?” It’s just as though you’re awaking from an hypnotic trance, and you consider this normal. The way you sit there and not know where you’re sitting, not know what you are. That’s normal. You get along all right that way. And it’s not frightening to you. You’ve been going along this way for years. Until all of a sudden you get upscale just a little bit and you just take a look at it and you say, “Meek! No!” The story about Sleeping Beauty was no idle fairy tale.

All right, let’s take a break and I’ll tell you about Black and White, the way to run this stuff heavy.