This is the second hour on December the eighth, afternoon, continuing on automaticity.

This is, I think, the eighth of December, the first lecture afternoon class.

You will see automaticity in action in a created thing by, as somebody just said, as a few extra bounces. The fact that uh… you… you say all right, now let’s put this billiard ball in the center of the room and the fellow puts it in the center of the room, but it hit four walls first. And uh… he’s… he will… unless you inspect what he’s doing rather closely, continually, you’re liable to find himself pulling this sort of an automatic trick on himself. He… he saw the billiard ball hit, and then go into the center of the room and then he told himself, „Well, I wanted it to do that.“ And he will kid himself along for a long time excusing these inabilities by saying that was part of his intention and he will actually have himself fooled that this is the case.

I want to talk to you today about ARC and finish up all this… things and stuff about these cycles and uh… get squared around with theory here so that we can take off on a breakdown of Standard Operating Procedure.

It’s only when you make him pin it down that the billiard ball went from that wall closer to him into the center of the room and no place else, that he suddenly realizes that he is doing this on too much automatic. Then he… he finds out he… he’ll… he’ll have to get down and work on that. He’ll get that billiard ball a little bit forward and put it back and put it forward and back and so forth. And every… every couple of seconds why the billiard ball is liable to suddenly spring up, hit the ceiling, hit the far wall and then return to its place again. And he’s confronted with the fact that he is not making the billiard ball do that. He’s no longer able to kid himself.

The word is… spreads very fast on this material. I’m getting printed notices now from clip joints and little two-bit outfits like the AMA saying they now realize that they… that their approaches… their approaches and my approaches weren’t in terrific disagreement after all and to prove this they’re presenting Standard Operating Procedure Theta Clearing Issue Three, but they don’t have that yet so I don’t know what they present. So what I… what I give you… what I give you in these lectures I’m sure of and what’s manufactured by the squirrels nobody’s sure of.

Now that’s a manifestation of automaticity. Uh… another comment came up here during the intermission is interesting, is the… the fact that those things which introduced themselves automatically uh… may be difficult to handle when the incident is… or the mock-up is vanished. The automatic aspects of the incident don’t go away quite as fast.

You know what a squirrel is? A squirrel is somebody you know… you know… the medical professions since time immemorial and all these various professions have had on their coat tails uh… squirrels. Everyone of them. There hasn’t been a single branch of human endeavor that doesn’t have its lunatic fringe. We’ve had more than our quota, much more than our quota. And uh… they… the damage that can be done by them is fortunately minimal. But occasionally they get ahold of somebody and they louse them up most gloriously.

So when you’re getting a large amount of linger on the part of incidents, if you’ll inspect what the preclear was doing you will find that the automaticity itself doesn’t go away. It didn’t ask to come and it doesn’t go when asked. You got that? It didn’t ask to come and it didn’t go when asked. You tell him to get o… rid of this and it’s done several extra things and added a couple of new ingredients and the whole thing goes except the ingredients that weren’t called for.

It’s a… actually a comment upon Man today that an effort which is made without using any of its horsepower could actually be mauled around to the extent that Scientology and Dianetics has been mauled around. ‘Course I’ve done some of the mauling around myself. I write under the pen name of Ira Wallace and uh… my Hop-a-long Freud did a good job.

As an example of that… as an example of that, let’s take the billiard ball again. It hits the four walls and so forth, and when it comes down it’s a blue billiard ball. But he moved a white billiard ball the way he was supposed to move it. You see, the second you told him to move that billiard ball from the wall out toward the center of the room why uh… this other factor was uh… present. The billiard ball was seen at the same time to jump up, hit the wall and go back and now it’s sitting down there. Uh… but he doesn’t… he ignores it. He… he saw that happen, but he ignores it. And now all of a sudden you tell him, „All right, blow it up or make it vanish and you take a look down there and he’ll see a blue billiard ball. And the billiard… blue billiard ball that came when it wasn’t asked, sometimes won’t go when it’s asked, too.

Uh… but all joking aside, you as auditors are going to be beset by squirrels. You’re going to look with the most aghast expression at the fact that Mrs. Pongerbung has come over and she’s gotten much better. She’s in pretty good condition. She ceases to pick those cockroaches off the wall all the time, and uh… she’s in pretty good shape, her… uh… it’s been weeks since she strangled any babies and you’re going to find her husband who has witnessed this improvement and Mrs. Pongerbung coming over to say, „You know uh… we have uh… just been talked to by an auditor who uh… who uh… practices a subject known as uh… Squirreletics. And uh… he’s decided that we’ve decided that uh… probably that treatment is much better.“ Well of course that treatment consists probably of putting the preclear down on the couch, putting a knee in his throat, and banging him over the head with a small mallet or something of the sort in order to secure a good solid theta clear.

Now when you draw uh… this scale of automaticity you are really drawing a scale of self-determinism. Here you have at the top here forty – point-zero. You have high self-determinism. And here at twenty-point-zero you have interacting determinism and that in itself is action. Interacting determinism with… with fifty percent self-determined. Very rough figure. And down here at zero-point-zero we have total lack of self-determinism. Now we can put in there… we find out that you have a total lack of automaticity.

You will look at this just aghast and uh… you will say, „Look, uh… no, no intelligent civilization could witness such a thing as this going on.“ Don’t kid yourselves. It’s not an intelligent civilization. We’re trying to make one out of it. And you got a long way to go.

And you have here fifty percent, the other fifty percent automaticity. And here you have total automaticity.

Uh… Man has been playing this beautiful tune of all is best in this best of all possible worlds, and with rape, and murder, and arson, and a terrific thirst of havingness all up and down the alleys and by-roads, and trying to call those alleys boulevards. He’s… he’s just barely out of the trees.

Now the reason your thetan can go below zero is just the fact that he is uh… he is running on total automaticity. From zero to minus eight-point – zero the thetan is running on total automaticity. Everything is being done for him by the body, and by other bodies. Of course, when you get total automaticity, you get total non-beingness so he doesn’t even appear to be there, and he doesn’t know he’s there and he wouldn’t know what to do about it.

Now uh… when it comes to… when it comes to the humanities, there have been no humanities. Don’t make a confusion of that. There haven’t been any. We are doing a pioneering job in that direction which is very far from done to any great distance, but we have won this… we have won techniques which have a workability and if adhered to, and if practiced well, can do the job. Because you can make something more than homo sapiens and in my opinion it’s about time.

One of the most interesting drills on this is to demonstrate to the thetan that he is actually handling the body with his own energy. When he makes it impulse and do anything (he’s already saying it’s the body doing it and so forth); it’s a… really a cover-up, a tremendous cover-up.

Okay, those… those snide and bitter comments, probably, uh… are uh… completely unwarranted, but uh… once in a while, once in a while I tell you the truth, I get bored. „I wonder why, Ronnie,“ I say to me, I say, „What the hell did… what you ever start this for?“

Here you have a thetan present in the body and he is all that the preclear will ever be and yet he has totally negated against any form as such. This is the… the wonder of wonders. This is the riddle of this particular end of the universe. Is how you could have somebody who is… has negative thereness and… and yet it exists; it exists to such a tremendous degree that for thousands and thousands of years Man had a total belief in his soul as something different than himself, because he wasn’t there. He was a body and so forth. Now, therefore they had to figure out various ways, they… they knew it went someplace and they didn’t know quite who it was but they had an abiding faith that this existed. And that was practically all that kept Man running was the fact that, „I just don’t stop. Uh… something of me keeps going.“

Well, let’s go in immediately into another pair of cycles. There are two more cycles compared to the ones which we have had. The most important of those is automaticity. Automaticity ties in a little bit into what I’ve just been saying because automaticity is the gradient scale of, „It’s all being done,“ or „It must be done for me.“ This state of mind, this is an aspect of experience, and this state of mind is something which is going… which is going to appall you in a preclear.

Now what we’re doing here is bringing that beingness, the only being that preclear will ever be, into beingness, and it comes up above the level of zero-point-zero. Well, the fastest way to get it up above the level of zero-point-zero that I know – I said, „Well we follow all these cycles of action“ – is to… is to return to the thetan some of his own functions in handling the body. It makes a terrific difference to him. Uh… he… he… he gets a tremendous difference, the feeling of this.

Automaticity is something which has only vaguely been added into human experience. And yet it is right there to be added into human experience. The fellow who says, uh… „I have to do it all myself“ is an aberrated point at an aberrated point on this scale. But he’s not nearly as bad off as the people there who are below the point, „It all has to be done for me.“

Now let’s take even this… let’s take the case where you say to the fellow, „Be two feet back of your head,“ and he’s two feet back of his head. And you say, „All right, move yourself back to the wall.“ All right, he does and you move him up, move him down, move him this way, move him that way. Be here, be there, do this, do that, put out a little beam of energy and do this.

The thirst to have it done for me, that is… that is evidently inculcated into Man in earliest babyhood. He… he requires to be waited upon to an extent and a degree which demonstrates actually a very low level of culture. You’d be surprised how this automaticity is played upon by the modern businessman, by the manufacturer, and so on.

One of the strangest things that you can do with a preclear, let’s say he is sitting in a chair. He’s got his hands on the arms of the chair, you tell him to go around and pick up one of the fingers of the body. He’s quite accustomed to handling the body. He can handle the body a long… long… By the way if you omit this step, your chances of getting him to bust pop bottles and so forth are quite faint because you haven’t restored to him… He thinks… he thinks some… that something ought to go bust the pop bottle for him; he thinks this ought to happen first. Uh… somebody else ought to do it, that’s automaticity, you see.

Automaticity could be said to be the gradient scale of action, stemming from oneself down to having everything done for oneself. The catatonic schlitz is at almost the bottom of the scale; the dead man is at the very bottom of the scale. The dead man can’t even embalm himself. He has to have other people do that and bury him.

Somebody else ought to move the paper. The body’s hand ought to move the pop bottle, the body’s hand ought to move the paper. So you just knock this… the… knock him flat on this basis after you’ve drilled him in numerous ways, mock-ups and that sort of thing, don’t omit this step. Have him handle the body exterior to the body and without using his communication lines to the body or its automatic responses. Have him go around and pick up one of the body’s fingers.

Uh… now you get upscale just a little bit, you look over automaticity and you will find it in the creation of illusion. People start creating illusions. Instead of creating the illusion they put it on an automatic circuit and homo sapiens is very good at rigging up these automatic circuits so that he won’t have to pay attention or think about it. And that is the entrance point into automaticity.

It is an interesting experience for the preclear. He… his hands are on the sides of this chair or to make it even easier, put his hand on a table and you tell him, „Now from outside the body go over the hand and pick up a finger.“ And he will puff and strain at this and he’ll put down and he’ll unstabilize himself and he’ll find himself going backwards on all this sort of thing and he’ll be getting very upset. And all of a sudden he’ll… you’ll see one of the fingers that he’s working on will suddenly move over.

The person is perfectly powerful, sane, able, all-pervasive and capable of enormous goals up to the first moment that he says, „I’ll rig it up so it’s automatic.“ The first instant that he says that, he has said at the same time, „I am insufficiently powerful to concentrate on more than one point at once.“ You see, there is no… no slightest doubt about this fact. A man can think in twelve different spheres of action and dictate twelve separate and not even related actions simultaneously.

Possibly doesn’t pick up at all. It will just skitter sideways or something and he’ll say, „Aahh“. And make him keep right at it and with his OWN energy, with his OWN beams, his OWN energy, and his OWN beams. Make him pick up that finger, make him pick up another finger, make him cross a couple of fingers, make him take one of the fingers and make it go spat, spat down on the table.

In the first place there isn’t any such thing as time. One of the easiest ways to do this would be to rig up a time track for – let’s say we’re running twelve dogs. All right, let’s rig up a time track for each one of the twelve dogs and then let them play simultaneously. Rig them up in series. Let’s fix up the time track. We’ll say dog one is going to do this and dog two is going to do that and dog three is going to do that. And we… we go at it on that… on that level in series. One right after the other and then we could just take those time tracks and put them all in… in parallel and… and have them all run off simultaneously and have the dogs act on those postulates simultaneously. And they would do so. But it… that is dictated action and that is a step down from the desirable state of being able simply to dictate the actions of twelve dogs simultaneously.

Finally get him to a point where he’s picking up this hand and dropping it again so it goes thoomp! Just have him wrap a beam or two around the thing, and actually pick up that finger using force, energy. And by jacking himself up on stilts and so forth. He… he actually… he sometimes get terrifically complicated when he tries to pick up that finger for the first time.

Man has gotten to a point of concentration, or the thetan who has come down here and the thetans out in the universe are actually at a point of concentration which is appalling. Uh… they think they can only do one thing at a time. Some people have got this so bad, they think they can only listen and look and so on. You want to make a test out of a preclear, have him look out the window and… and… and… and start figuring out which one he is doing.

You see if he tells the finger to move, sure enough, he’s using his old ridges which are already rigged up in the body energy to make the finger move. That’s no trick, but if he comes outside and stands over that hand, well, you may find him doing things like this: Putting down a tripod over one finger. Putting down the tripod and then testing the tripod very carefully to raise and lower the tripod. When he first does this, he quite often finds when he tries to raise the tripod, he lowers. And when he tries to lower it down, he raises. And get this worked out so that he knows which way he’s going.

He… he gets pretty groggy, you say, „All right, now le… let’s… let’s look. All right, now you’re looking? Okay, now, as you look, listen. Now as you listen, feel the weight on your feet. Now as you feel the weight on your feet, feel your heart beating,“ and about that time you will see him start reeling. You’ve asked him to come off of some terrific point of concentration that he is fixated on by aberration, and he reacts to this by uh… becoming unbalanced and unstable just in its most literal sense. I mean he physically becomes failed in his balance and stability.

And then he’ll do such things as get over the finger, he’ll loop a… a line of tensional energy underneath the finger and then suddenly make the legs of the tripod expand, and lengthen. And he’ll make them lengthen and lengthen and lengthen. Very often he’ll find out the legs of his tripod will dive right straight through the top of the table. They won’t stand on the top of the table. They’ll penetrate matter.

That’s because you’re asking him to do more than one thing at once and he knows very, very well it’s utterly impossible to do more than one thing at once. Well, of course a fellow couldn’t run a universe of his own without introducing some factor of automaticity.

This is because he has too often failed during that incident known as a transfer. He’s had a beam, on… he’s had a pressor beam on somebody’s head and then something happened to the person, the tractor beam pulled him in and the pressor beam he couldn’t get to hold. So he begins to think that his pressor beam is very weak and will go through matter.

He starts a planet going around and he says, „This planet hereinafter shall go around. Here it goes.“ Or he builds a wood and he said, „Now this wood is now inhabited by… by gophers and uh… rabbits and uh… people from Fairhope, Alabama, so that the squirrels will have something to eat.“ And uh… then he… he just walks off more or less and leaves it with a confidence that it will continue to run.

Well, just get him to practice on that and he’ll finally find out this astonishing fact, „All I have to do is change a postulate that it will hold, and believe it and it holds.“ He’ll find that out. „Well, what do you know,“ he’ll say. All right, and he’ll get this tripod over the finger and he’ll work and he’ll slave and he’ll sweat. And the first thing you know he’ll say… he’ll get the finger moved. He’ll work on it till it’s moved.

Well, that is entering into the first stages of automaticity and only becomes bad when he starts to play this game, and this game is one that spins in very quick. He says… he comes back the next day and he starts pretending for his own interest and enthusiasm, „Isn’t this a nice wood, I wonder who made it?“ He… he feels that he has to do this. The second that he starts splitting up and saying to himself, „I didn’t do it,“ he’s got a piece of woods for randomity, and all you have to do to produce randomity is to fail to take responsibility for something. If you’ll just refuse to take the responsibility for having done something or just deny having done something you’re going to get randomity. And the end of that curve is lots of randomity.

Now get him to work the whole hand and drop it. And he’s… he’s finding it easier and easier and easier to do this. And then finally he can practically stop in midair, he can be without being supported anyplace, and so forth. He can actually throw out a beam and knock the hand up into the air and knock it flat again.

The end of that track after a long time – it can get pretty low. It can get down to politicians, and squirrels, that’s pretty, pretty bad off. Now very often a fellow is persuaded that he is setting himself up as an automatic piece of machinery when he’s just being himself. He’s just going on a reverse on this deal. He’s not self-conscious.

Now, train him to do something thetans have never been trained to do, to make that hand write with beams. And the day you do that, that day he ceases to have a complete dependence on the body for communication. Make him actually move that hand around until it will write legibly from outside the body.

Uh… he all of a sudden just enters into doing what he is doing and he simply goes on doing it and then he says, „Look, this is so good, this is so good; there’s no time lapse there of my saying, „Now you do this and now you do that and now you do something or other“.“ Tha… that’s so good, it’s so fast, it’s so convincing to him that he doesn’t recognize that that is action. That’s action, the other is automaticity being played across two or three circuits.

Now it’s an interesting thing that he can handle flesh of his own, his own body, much before he can handle any other kind of matter. That’s because he’s used to it, he sees it move and because he owns it and it’s not liable to kick back at him and a lot of other things. But you move on from there to putting up a dummy hand. Just put up something, a board with a pencil in the end of it to furnish pressure and so on, and he could go ahead and handle that. What do you know. He can really make that board move around and make crude letters. A B C. „What do you know,“ he’ll say, „I can write, I can write.“ And he’ll think he’s doing just dandy. He just thinks he’s just doing wonderful and nothing possibly could be done better than that until you say, „All right, now take the pencil. Take the pencil, now write directly with the pencil.“

Here’s this fellow all set up. He’s got a lot of circuits and one… one of his circuits is to be able to drive a bus. And he goes up and down the bus route, back and forth on the bus route, back and forth on the bus route, back and forth on the bus route. He knows he’s driving a bus. His circuit responses actually are… are minimal. You’d think they’d… they’d be terrific but are… they’re actually minimal. He… he knows he’s sitting there driving a bus.

Understand, he’s got to be trained to do this almost perfectly with his own hand before he’ll feel any confidence in the second step of moving a board and a pencil. You see a board with a pencil shoved through it, so that you’ll hold that. He can… he’ll… he’ll finally get so he can handle that because it’s a mock-up of his arm.

It’s only when one day he would say, „All right now this body’s going to sit here and drive this bus automatically and I’m not going to have to pay any more attention to it.“ Or uh… he sits there driving the bus and dreaming he’s someplace else and thinking about something else.

Now you just say to him, „All right, pick up the pencil. Okay. ‘ got it? Real good – write with it.“ Boy he will fumble, and the pencil will fall down and he’ll be erecting tripods and derricks and everything else all over again, all complicated ways. And he’ll be getting his responses and reflexes, he’ll be all tangled up again. But all of a sudden he can write with a pencil. He can move a pencil around and make it write.

There he’s removed himself from the environment and he is setting it up with automaticity in order to secure his own freedom. That’s the wrong way to secure a freedom; what’s he doing driving a bus in the first place? Now when you have… when you have a problem then with a preclear who is doing mock-ups and the… the preclear says to you, uh… „Oh look uh… yeah yeah, I get that black spot all right but there is a green banshee keeps wailing every time I get that and isn’t that cute? Look at there forty-five, uh… forty-five tires just rolled in the room and saluted and uh… aren’t… aren’t they cute, and uh… yeah that’s very funny. And uh… this building you just said to mock up, it is now waltzing.“ You are looking at an automaticity.

It’s only a step from that by the way to take a torch and write something in fire on a wall. Only a step. But that is a very essential step of clearing, because for Lord’s sakes, look what this thetan has done on the automaticity schedule. He’s gone to a point of automaticity to where he is dependent upon a MEST object, a material object to do all of his communicating for him, and you ask somebody to cease to communicate to anybody anywhere in a form that he’s positive on and you just practically ask him to lie down and die. Because when you’ve asked him to get rid of his communication line, you have asked him to get rid of all of his friends and anything he loves. You can’t ask a man to do that. Certainly not in the name of therapy and processing. So, remember that a very, very important thing to rehabilitate is ability to communicate without depending on the body to do it automatically. So the toughest side of automaticity is dependence on something else to communicate. Now if you want to get a writer in bad shape… you want to get him in bad shape, yo… you find out he’s been sitting there he… he… he… he has a 1912 Oliver typewriter. And he’s just been banging out on it and… perfectly all right and it’s a degree of automaticity that he’s accustomed to, it’s a little bit tough handling this old machine; his copy looks a little bit lousy. Insist that he gets a new typewriter to make writing easier for him. Hum-hum-hum-hum-hum. How to kill off your competitors. Give them new typewriters. He’ll find something wrong with this new typewriter, and he’ll find this wrong with it and that wrong with it, and he’ll decide he’ll have to get a newer typewriter and a better typewriter, and he’ll go on up the line from there. And he’ll get fancier and fancier typewriters and try to work this out. But he’s working it exactly the… 180 degrees wrong. He’s working 180 wrong.

The fellow has a terrific desire not to be responsible for what he himself creates. And that terrific desire reflects itself in creative processing in a randomity in the objects created. He… you say, „Mock up your body.“ You want to watch this, by the way, very closely, and understand what this is, because it’s something that you must not tolerate but must work toward the end of actually controlling the created object, and if you’ve got a vast amount of automaticity going on in the created scene, work to get it out. Increase and decrease the action in that scene, and change the location and set-up of that scene until you’re no longer confronted with this… this random action, this automaticity. Things happening without, apparently without his consent. The actuality is, they are happening exactly with his consent because he consented on some other by-line, some other past, and it’s arriving there at center with the scene all out of adjustment. Now you’ll say to some fellow, „M… mock up your body.“ You say, „All right.“ You say, „Put it out in the street. And put it back here.“

What he’s trying to get rid of, is automaticity which is interfering with his own creative process. And it was much better, far better, to have that 1912 Oliver that made a lot of trouble. When he abandoned that and started to make things easier, he got in bad trouble. So what’s the… what’s down on this curve? What’s down on this curve – this is within limits, you understand – what’s down on this curve is easier machinery.

And then he says, „Okay, okay, okay, fine, yes, that’s right, another place, oh yes, fine. That’s…“

It’s quite remarkable that very early on the track, quite remarkable that a thetan stopped using his own energy for police work, lot of reasons for this. He stopped using it for police work. He stopped using it in moving material objects. The next thing you know you find him using a gun which didn’t produce anywhere near what he himself could natively produce in terms of energy.

And you… you think he’s going right on with this. Uh… you ask him what the body’s doing when it gets out on the street.

You find him using a gun or you’d find him using ray tools and all sorts of odds and ends which are substitutes for his own horsepower. He’s practically gone when he starts that. But that is a secondary manifestation; that’s not a primary manifestation.

„Oh,“ he says, „it’s standing there twirling an umbrella. Uh… now it’s playing hopscotch, yes, I have it back here now,“ he said. „But when it got back here, it was wearing a plug hat. It had suddenly changed its overshoes, changes into Momma, changes into a green elephant, and changes back to the body again. Then it does a jig.“ And he says, „Yes, I have the body here. That’s fine.“

Your primary manifestation of the thing is when he… I mean this… that’s… that’s… that just follows when something else has happened. He started to use automatic communication. He started to have communication done for him in one way or another. The first thing he started to use, to make it more automatic and easier and more positive was energy. That was his first blunder. He started to use energy. There wasn’t any point in using energy.

And now you say, „Put it up on the roof.“ And uh… he hasn’t told you it’s doing anything, but if you had asked him, you’d lave found the moment it hit the roof, the body started making little paper airplanes, and… and throwing them out into the street. Well, this is automaticity.

But he had to accept the responsibility for communicating on a line which could confuse with postulates. Making a statement which would communicate and then, you see, he’d… he’d lose the ability to differentiate between a postulate and a communication statement. And things would happen in his surroundings which he didn’t think he’d intended to happen, you see? And a little disaster, or something or other that he would consider so, would occur, and he would back off and say, „I can no longer trust this merely stated pervasion into the atmosphere. I can no longer trust simply saying something that I know then somebody else will know. And the reason why I can’t trust that is becau…“ One of the reasons is because they have ceased to trust their reception. And so he said, „Let’s make it positive. Let’s use energy. And we will put a beam out, and we’ll put a communication on the beam. And the beam will carry the communication.“ And then he will know it’s a communication because there’s a beam sitting there.

This is action outside the control of the individual. I suppose that really is the definition of automaticity. Desire to have action outside the control of self, even though one has initiated the action.

Might as well be a Western Union telegram blank, you see, and then he… after a while he says, „All communications have to go up and down a beam.“

Automaticity is a principle with which randomity is produced but if automaticity comes up to such a point as to be uncontrollable, an individual finds himself extremely uh… perplexed after a while because he’s set up so many circuits he don’t know who he is any more. Well, he is the fellow that can make the automaticity increase and decrease in those images.

And then after a while he found out that energy in this universe has a terrible kick-back. And he finds out that the beams go the opposite direction to what he wants them to go. And where’s he finally wind up? He winds up by dropping a nickel in the Bell Company just to tell somebody at home he’ll be late for dinner. He’s gone dog.

Body lands out on the street and starts twirling an umbrella. You say, „All right. What’s the body doing out there.“

Now he has a higher dependency than that. He started to depend upon energy for sensation. And when he started to depend on energy for sensation, we get another automaticity which is highly undesirable. And this „energy – dependence upon energy for sensation“ meant that. It must… energy must then be used to make an effect out of one.

He says, „Well it’s just standing there twirling an umbrella and so forth.“ And you say, „Did you start it twirling the umbrella?“ And he says, „No.“

If one wanted to be the effect of some sensation, then the sensation had another point than one’s self for its origin. You get that? Fellow stands at one place and he stands over here at A and he puts… he wants a sensation from B. So he runs a line from B back here to A and the line goes in that direction.

„Well, make it twirl the umbrella faster. Now make it… twirl it slower. Now make it… twirl it much faster.“

Well, now you’re looking at energy graph of cause and effect. B, in this case, is an effect, and uh… pardon me, B is being elected cause because B has sensation to deliver and A then has elected himself an effect. Ask your preclear to stretch up a communication line. Ask him to put a communication line on one end on himself and one end on somebody else, and what do you know? The bulk of your preclears will first put it on the other object and then on himself.

And he’ll say by this time, „Well, it’s put the umbrella away by now, and uh… it’s… it’s put on some skates and it’s skating.“

You say, „Which end did you put up first? Oh, you put it on the other object, huh?“ Well, you don’t tell him any more than that. You just simply know that this boy has to have a lot of drill. He is – that is the manifestation by which he has demonstrating he has elected himself an effect as far as communication and sensation is concerned.

Well, you better start in with the simplest geometric forms, if that sort of thing happens. Simplest geometric forms, geometric form one, of course, is a point, geometric form two is a small circle or a disc. Three is a square, four is a triangle, any… any one of these little… little figures. And have the fellow take that and put it up someplace, or back someplace, or under, around and so forth, until he can hold it still. And uh… till he can hold it still and then move it at will. Hold it still and move it at will, hold it still and move it at will. All of a sudden he’ll say, „What do you know, I can – I can control these gimmicks which I create!“ And he’ll take a considerable jump up the tone scale at that moment.

So he has sensation received from some object and he will gradually get to a point where as he comes down tone scale he will become the effect of any line. He will become the effect of any energy line and will not be cause on any one of these lines.

Now another effect of automaticity is that the individual has a developed disability in order to have something done for him. Now you’re just looking right straight at the service facsimile chain there. He’s… it always has to go this way. I… he has to tell himself, „All right, I can’t do this,“ so he can do something else. In other words, he says, „Now“ – he’s… he’s… he’s tired of this set-up and instead of saying… instead of saying… saying, „Well, the devil with it!“ Or blowing it up or something like that, he wants it to continue in some fashion, so he says, „Well, I’m incapable of taking care of this segment of it. And uh… therefore we’ll set that up sort of on an automatic circuit.“ Anytime anything is done for one, there is an incapability demonstrated by the individual. Look at modern advertising. Save yourself a hundred and ninety steps a minute. Use Squirrello straight from our laboratories in Colorado Springs, an electric shock in every package.“

All right, if that is the case, what do you know? He’ll elect himself as the effect on any energy beam that happens anyplace, whether it’s a force beam or any other kind of a beam. Therefore he becomes frightened of all force. And he will cease to use force.

Uh… you know very well that you couldn’t possibly be able to exist without a whumpacator, a tumpapator, uh… a little handy jim dandy can opener, you know you couldn’t exist without these things. Well, stop and look at it for a minute. You can exist without them.

Now it’s all very well for your preclear to say, „Well, that’s fine, I’ll just rehabilitate my idea, uh… I’ll just rehabilitate my ability then to think these things and all will be sweetness and light thereafter.“ I am afraid that isn’t the case. The road out is the road through.

„Yes,“ you say, „well, I can. All right, I can do without a can opener. I can sort of bite them open with my teeth.“

Although you find him in a state where he’s only able to communicate an idea, no matter how good those ideas are, no matter how thorough, because you see his own character isn’t involved in this so very much, what’s involved in this is his scope of action.

„What the hell are you doing with a tin can?“ He’ll say, „Well, you have a tin can so you’ll be able to eat.“ You say, „What the dickens are you doing eating.“ The fellow says, „Well, uh… you got to keep the body going.“ „What are you doing with a body, fellow?“

And if you’re going to increase his scope of action you will have to rehabilitate his ability to handle energy because he’s made an enormous number of postulates that he can’t do it. So we’ve got a lot of CAN’Ts in there that we’ll have to turn into CANs before he can, with complete freedom, return to that enviable position of merely being able to think an idea and have it received. Now you’ve got to go through. You’ve got to go through, not just skip on this.

„Well, you… you have a uh… well I couldn’t get along without a body. I… I tried it the other day, this theta clearing and stuff and I didn’t have enough force in order to push things around or… or… or do anything. I… I… I just didn’t.“

So, automaticity. What is the automaticity? What is… what you might say is the common denominator between forty-point-zero and zero-point-zero in this universe? Energy. You ever see a fellow by the name of Ready Kilowatt? All right, he’s the devil of this universe.

You say, „What are you doing without force, fellow? Huh?“ And he says, „Why, I don’t know. That’s right. I don’t know.“

Energy will do it for you. It will all be done for you. MEST objects are actually condensed energy. MEST objects will do it for you. Energy will do it for you. You don’t have to do it yourself. It’s all automatic. It’s all automatic. It’s all automatic.

How the dickens did he get into such a state that he can’t produce a kilowatt. I mean all you’re asking the fellow is to produce is one lousy stinking little kilowatt of energy and direct it. That’s all you’re asking of him. And jus… can he do it? No. You… you say, „Well, all right, how about pulling the electric light line down there and there’s only 110 volts on it and uh… shorting it with a wire so it will crackle and go spit.“

And a person’s ability to use and originate energy at… up there at the top of the scale, declines to the ratio, unfortunately, that he utilizes energy. He goes in and puts in a higher and higher dependence upon energy and becomes lower and lower on the scale, lower and lower on the scale. Energy, energy, energy, energy.

No, no, no he doesn’t want anything to do with that. Why doesn’t he want anything to do with it? Well automaticity a long time ago said, „It’s better to have something else produce force for me than me to produce the force, because it’s more fun that way.“ It’s not more fun that way, but it’s a better operational control that way for somebody else.

The common denominator then of automaticity is energy. And the final end of all automaticity is becoming an object which is condensed energy.

I can just see somebody from Batten, Barton, Durstein and Osburne now, walking into your home universe saying, „Now, what you need… what you need is a little more automaticity. We’ve got a couple of boys and uh… they’ve drawn up this little operating schedule here and uh… all you have to do… all you have to do is… is just set up this little dynamo and it makes all this force over on this side, and then you don’t have to make the force anymore.“

Above this level we can have… the thetan can handle this in terms of space. You can have space without having energy. You can have theta level objects which are not composed of energy. Interesting.

Now the fellow who said… it possibly never occurred to somebody, such as the wantingness of a thetan… probably never occurred to him to say, „Now wait a minute. Why do I want something to make force for me? I’m just getting along just fine.“ It probably never occurred to him that, he said… he probably said, „Well, that’s cute, that’s interesting.“ That’s all set. There’s no difference between that theoretical and highly postulated operation – BBDO doesn’t operate in the theta universe. Yes, there’s a fellow by the name of, well, I won’t go on about that, they… they burn coal down there anyway.

Energy is a good system and a good theory and all that sort of thing. Now that you have a key to what energy is and how it’s… what its liabilities are, and how to rehabilitate an individual who through the use of energy has fallen into this curve of automaticity and is hitting bottom, you can go on and use energy.

Uh… here we have… here we have one of the most marvelous operations, „You look tired. Let me take your slippers and uh… you just sit there and read your paper. Oh the work was hard today, was it?“ Automaticity in another guise at another position on the tone scale. These people that go around and say to you, „Poor fellow you look so tired.“ If you can’t furnish a kilowatt, you’d better learn how so that you can zap him, because he’s trying to kill you and cut down your horse power. That’s it. I mean he isn’t just doing this out of uh… sheer stupidity or something of the sort; he isn’t doing it out of automatic circuits. Actually lurking right back that in the level of knowingness is, „How can we get this guy quieted down?“

I used to tell people, „Now all right. Now on this overt act – motivator combination, I want you to be very careful on overt acts and motivators. When you deliver an overt act. When you deliver an overt act to somebody or other, you knock somebody off or do something like that and so on, run it out!

„You look so tired, you poor fellow, you are overworked – what you need is a rest.“ Tell a fellow that often enough and he’s all set.

It’s the same way with the use of energy. Run it out. In the first place sensations that come in via energy are not the higher level sensations, There are higher level sensations that are independent of energy. There’s all kinds of things independent of energy.

Now, you’ll find every once in a while somebody DOES need a rest. Every once in a while somebody’s worked himself to a sizzled frazzle, and uh… he’s all set. Let him go someplace and take a rest. You’ll have to. Automaticity is mounted up on him to a point where the best and easiest way to combat it is to actually give him a rest, but that is long after the first germs were planted.

But the fellow who has learned to use energy and has found himself pushed, thrust, slammed into this universe and is right now the subject of solidified energy at every hand – that individual… that individual had sure better learn how to use energy because he won’t get out of here otherwise.

Here’s this fellow. Let’s take the young playwright. He’s… he’s maybe twenty-two, he’s writing plays like mad. After he writes them why he goes around and he has a… a whale of a time, and… and uh… figured it all out this way and that, and getting a producer, and he… he’s around the parties, and he’s doing this and he’s doing that and squaring things around, and finally the production gets on and geez, he’s half the cast too. He’s working day and night continually continually and… and that he… that play goes over and he gets another play. And he’s got that one and he’s sitting up all night long, writing that one. He’s going out on a party and… and… and so forth, and making contacts with people, and he’s coming back in and he’s making contacts with his business agent. And he’s work, work, work, and that telephone is ringing and he’s writing with his left hand, he’s… he’s just going like a rocket!

But space, of course, is a criterion above energy. Space is up there at forty-point-zero. Space is beingness, your preclear also at the bottom of the scale has had this horrible thing happen to him. As he went downscale in the uses of energy, he finally wound up with no space and he didn’t notice it. He didn’t notice this space angle that was lurking in the background all the time.

How long could he go like a rocket without blowing up? Well, nobody’s ever given anybody a chance to find out. They DON’T blow up because they’re working hard and using energy. They do not do that! Let me emphasize that, because you want to know what to do for the tired business man who is facing a nervous breakdown, it’s contained right in this process. And you’ll find plenty of those. What’s he… what happened?

But of course, beingness, and beingness is dependent upon space. Space is beingness. Beingness is impossible without space, so your thetan doesn’t have space, therefore he has no beingness. The body occupies the space the thetan thinks he’s occupying. The body is then therefore occupying the place where… the space where the thetan should be, so of course the thetan has no beingness. It’s the body that has beingness not the thetan.

Well, he was twenty-two and he was twenty-three and he was twenty – four and he was just doing fine. Then all of a sudden you find out that he slowed down. He had to protect himself. He thought he had to take care of himself and do a little bit better. Find the character who slowed him down, because he didn’t slow himself down.

All right, so coming right down this scale of automaticity, unseen and hidden behind this decline in the use of force, is: make space, all kinds of space, lots of space, handle space, and right on down the scale here to less and less space, less and less space, less and less space, ‘less and less space, less and less and then, what do you know, any space I could have is being occupied by something or somebody else.

Now you could say, „Sure he went through a failure and he went this way and he went that way, and there were lots of reasons for it.“ Oh, no, there weren’t any reasons for it. A guy can ride over forty thousand failures and come up shining, put the machine guns on the parapet and go back to work, unless there’s somebody there. Some serpent in the garden of Eden who is ready to twine around his neck and choke him to death with this clawing statement, „Dear, you’re working so hard, let’s take a rest, shall we? What you need is a little vacation. Oh, you’ve just had a failure? Well let’s get away from it all now, and why don’t you just forget it for a week or two and have a little rest and it will be all right, and you’ll be able to come back fresh and shiny.“ Phoohy.

Negative, negative concepts on space. Not only, not only I am… I am here but something else is here. The something else is more important for the usages because it’s composed of energy. Energy is God. Energy is king. And that’s all that their God there is. You know, guy’s way down tone scale here. It’s energy energy and he gets down into this concept all of a sudden where he says, „Well, I can’t be here because I’m supposed to be in that space and the body occupies that space.“ Very silly business.

What do you do? Why do you locate this character? Why do you locate automaticity number one for current life? So that you can take this person and start handling this person with mock-ups very adequately until the person of this person seems to be so easily handled that one does not afterwards have to do anything… have to do anything that person said. How do you bust out every engram momma ever laid in? Work the preclear up with mock-ups until he can chuck momma uh… the length and breadth of the city. Use her for a football, roll her up into a hedge hog, and… and fire her from cannon balls and then also be very nice to her and put capes and create things for her, and put her in big palaces, and… and blow them up and uh… so on. But you’ll find out that somebody entered into his life, this young playwright’s life theoretically, who wanted to tell him just one thing, „I want to eat you and I can’t do it right now because you’re running too fast for me. But in view of the fact that we’re very, very low tone scale we can get you running slower, we’ll be all right.“

Now there’s something at… there’s an interesting trick on this. You get a thetan to start using his – quote hands unquote – his postulated hands. And how do you suppose he moves an arm? He’s got a beam one way or another. There’s a dozen, dozen ways of hooking these things up. But he’ll have a beam going to various energy deposits which give this arm action and inaction. Now he can have this arm rigged so that he’s got this body on a piston system. He… or he’s got it on an activation of ridge system. There are several of these systems. You could have an awful lot of fun. An engineer could just have all kinds of fun studying up on these various body systems that various thetans are using because they’re not all using the same system.

Homo sapiens hardly has a chance, he’s glued down to a gravity field which is very heavy and he can’t get up to speed. The fastest acting fellow you ever knew is operating at maybe a hundredth or even a thousandth of what would be considered a normal speed in space. It’s real slow.

All right, we have… but still every thetan has a potentiality of putting an energy beam down each arm. Get him to do this weird little trick. Get him to take those beams and go through all the motion necessary to move his arm without the arm moving. He’ll feel so strange for a little while.

I mean homo sapiens reminds you of the fellow, the diver walking in the bottom of the seas, slow motion against the water. It’s just almost agony to look at him. You wonder, „My God he’s walking down the street!“ You see some guy in one of these go-getters walking down the street. Evidently his feet are going chop chop chop chop chop. No they’re not.

He… you say, „All right, now get all the sensation necessary to move your arm in an inch.“ And the first time he does it he’ll… he’ll get a twitch on the arm. He’ll finally be able to get what beams he’s using free for his own use. It’s very interesting.

You say, „After he’s picked that foot up is he ever going to set it down again?“ You know, you just watch this slow agonizing… this fellow thinks he’s walking, he thinks he’s moving in some direction or other. And you watch him pick that foot up. Now you watch the foot go through. And you hear the joints creak and so forth. And he gets over to the midpoint of the stride, and then it goes down again, slowly, slowly and about that time he shifts the weight of his body and he gets the other foot starting to come up and you say, „Oh, Christ! How is anybody ever going to get there that way?“

Make him move an arm in and examine one of his own beams by turning it over. Going through the same actions he would go through to turn his arm. And he moves in, moves it back, moves it around. He can pick this up at any time, but this arm is getting… MEST arm is getting less and less real to him. And this beam is getting a little more real to him. And he says, „This is very… very strange,“ and he’ll put these beams in and he’ll put them out again and it’s… go through the same… just as though you were postulating the muscular action of an arm, but actually move the beam, not the arm.

It’s like… like all the pavements are made out of glue. Automaticity got to them, they’re running slow and it is a speed level which is very dangerous. The fastest that homo sapiens moves is a speed level below the point of high danger. It just can’t move that slow and live. And homo sapiens doesn’t live – three score and ten.

And you get to working with this after a while and like working a little tiny bit at a time. Or the thing that moves the finger. Now move it without moving the finger. And he’ll find that they’re… they’re busting out at the oddest places. Some of them… well when he gets a beam up here when he starts to move the finger, he’s handling that whole arm from way up on the shoulder. Sometimes it’s actually in the finger. Sometimes it’s here and there, but you move his hands in. Get him to look at them. And close his eyes. He’ll find they’re pretty dim. Sometimes he’ll say, „Aooo, oh no,“ because he’s got a police implant which has given him horrible hands, horrible body functions. He thinks he’s in that body.

All right, now that’s like the… a snap of your fingers is in the… in the length of eternity. It’s not even that. Let’s see, I guess it would be an infinitesimally small instant, or an infinitesimally small part of the length of time necessary to snap one’s fingers. Yes.

You understand, of course, that that is just a body facsimile just as he has a facsimile of other past bodies. It’s not really his body at all. And uh… anymore than… than homo sapiens’s drape-over is his body.

All right. Automaticity, how do you recognize it, what do you do about it, and how does it apply to processing? Homo sapiens, your preclear, he’s running slow. Lot of people… lot of people say, „Well, all right I’m out of the body, I stay out of there stably, what do I do now?“ Well, they… it’s something like… something like taking a quarter horse out there and you finally got this quarter horse so that he can lounge over to the other side of the stall. And say, „Now we have fully rehabilitated this quarter horse, let’s go and find something else to do.“ Yeah, he can… he can cross his legs and lounge over against the other side of the stall so you think he’s fully fast enough and active enough to be a quarter horse.

You get him to move his hands in; take a look at his hands. You find with a lot of preclears it’s totally unnecessary, I’m talking about a preclear now who’s pinned down in the body. You can’t get him out, something of the sort. Get him to move his hands in. Turn them over, move them this way, move them that way, until he can move them selectively without moving his arms. Get them very clear, very clean and if he feels… starts feeling nauseated or… and uh… depraved or degraded or something like that, just keep him at it.

When you get him up to the highest point that you possibly think that anybody could get up to in terms of speed, thought, ability, ability to move, reaction time, and ability to create energy, realize that you are just about at that point looking at the lowest safest level he could be at if nothing else ever happened to him to shake him up. You’re scraping bottom then. Now let’s get him up to speed from there. Just take the uttermost super limit that you can think of in terms of speed and action and consider that as below what is a safe margin, operating margin.

Sometimes his feeling of degradation uh… if he is very badly nailed down in this department, will be such that… that you’ve just never witnessed anything like it. You see if degradation is just not-beingness and unable to use force, that’s all it is. It’s the emotion of „I cannot use force“. It’s a can’t.

And the way you handle this is to knock out all the automaticity.

And you get him to work with this, back and forth, and around and around. And then have him walk over to the wall and push himself flat with those beams. After you’ve worked with these hands to a point where he can put leverage on things and so forth, get him to walk over to the wall and push the body flat. He’ll find out that he’s got more horsepower in those beams than he has in his arms, if you build it up right. Becomes very interesting.

It seems to be to you, that if you could get your preclear to do everything automatically he would then and there – everything automatically he would be then and there be in the first best possible method of training. He would be trained.

Then make him hold his head still but use all the mechanisms necessary to move his head. Make him get the sensation of moving his head without moving his head. Without moving his MEST head. You’ll have ridges going pong and pang and headaches turning on and off, and the guy’s getting all excited and he doesn’t quite know which is which and how to do it. And the next thing you know get him to shrug his shoulders and leave his MEST shoulders where they are. And he’ll find out where he’s using all these actions and it becomes elementary to him. And then all of a sudden he’ll… where… even though he’s located in the center of his head, he’ll just move right on out. Not only that, but your thetan will come out, you might say, fighting. Your thetan will come out in a state where he can pick up a book on the table and flutter its leaves. That really upsets people. But you’ve demonstrated to him.

This goes to such an idiocy that they actually, mind you, the planet Earth where they train athletes. They get fellows out there and they get them pushing things around with their shoulders to play football and they get… get them trotting around tracks in short pants, and if they smoke a cigarette, that’s – no no no no. That’s a lot of hog wash. It was brought in here from Sweden – a new method of slowing people down.

Now the wrong way to handle this guy that you’re having a lot of trouble with, is to get him out and find out… find out what his hands look like and find out that he has a terrific disgust for energy. And… and get him outside and he can’t handle himself in any other way and he just goes into apathy and backs up into the body. You’ll have to work a lot longer.

What do you build up with all those things? You build up this very glorious lot of new facsimiles which pass for muscles. If you ever want to see the ultimate in training just take a look at one of these boys that has built up all these muscles with barbells. He… he’s really wonderful. He hasn’t got any sphere or motion, action, anything else of the kind that he ought to have. Why? He’s done nothing but build up facsimiles in the exact spots that he ought to build the facsimiles up in. And people have never coordinated this. Why is it when a fellow trains up on barbells he gets unhealthier and unhealthier. He looks, he looks muscular, muscleder and muscleder but he is actually getting less and less able to withstand bacteria or anything else.

So I would put this at about step three, step four. Let’s put it just willy-nilly at step four; just exercise the thetan’s beams while he’s still in the body. It’s a very fascinating exercise.

You go out here one of these football squads sometime if you really want a laugh. My… my God! You’d think you were looking… you’d think you were walking down the ward of a hospital. These guys, these guys are just, they… they… they get more and more delicate. The coach practically goes around and starts feeding them sugar and… and uh… and uh… one of the first things he’d do if you started auditing some of these boys is uh… he’s come in with terrific anxiety. „Don’t break up my quarterback now. Don’t sneeze in here, don’t do anything else, because he’s liable to sprain his back or something of the sort.“

All right, you’re overcoming, when you do this, the automaticity imposed by the body, and that homo sapiens’s body which your thetan is packing around is a last line of automaticity. When this body is dead the thetan isn’t there at all, so he knows he’s very much worse than dead. So he has no place to go but to report back to somebody or other or something or other and do something.

You look at them as they go out on the playing field and they’re all taped up, and wrapped up, and strapped up and splinted up until if it… they put this uniform on them after that. And the reason they wear uniforms and so forth is to cover up the bandages. Because all this fellow had to do was open his car door and he practically broke his arm. It’s wonderful; they get them up to a real high level of automaticity.

This becomes very interesting then as a level of automaticity. The most automatic thing there is, is a MEST object – matter. Definition of automatic: moved itself by something else, it moves itself. It… it… automatic means it moves itself, but we’re using automaticity in being moved by something automatically, you see. Uh… we’re using the thing of… a freight elevator is moved by a motor. A motor is the automatic part of freight elevator.

All right. How do you… how do you cure that? You just uh… handle mock-ups until the fellow can really handle a mock-up. He knows what the mock-up is doing. He can place it where he wants to place it and he doesn’t wait for somebody else to place it there for him.

All right, therefore your thetan… your thetan is actually serving the body instead of the body serving him. And this is the fate of any robot, anywhere, even though he might have started out to be a self-respecting well wound up robot, he will wind up as a servant because he can be handled and placed in time and space by anything.

Now there is a level of automaticity where you can get further with your preclear if you have him mock up somebody in order to move something around. You can actually go at it that way if you have to. You… you mock up, you mock up a fellow by the name of… of uh… uh… Jones Whiler or something, or Bessie Ann, to go over and push the mock-up around and uh… he’ll get tired of this after a while. And all of a sudden he’ll come to this astonishing realization, he’ll say, „You know I don’t need Bessie Ann.“

Let’s take the automaticity of a rock. The rock’s desire for automaticity is such that it does not, willing, will itself into any space, or time, at all. It requires an entire machine to change its position. A man can come along and pick up a rock. Now don’t make the mistake of believing that this is so tremendous that a man can pick up a rock. The man is picking up the rock for a thetan who is in a state of mind whereby he believes he is serving the man. The servant of the robot would be the most interesting little tale of man’s activities here. The thetan has become the servant of the robot.

And you’ll say, „No.“

Okay, automaticity as it manifests itself then in illusions and creative processing in general, takes on a new meaning and a new significance.

What we’re working with here is a level of self-sufficiency which is really a little bit out of the imagination of Man. He’s built up things to such an interdependency and he thinks this interdependency is so vital that the fellow who can stand up on his own two feet is looked at like a freak.

You see that it is the thirst of the individual to have things done for him. And in handling, then, these things, you want to be very careful that you handle these illusions simply enough so that automatic tendencies on the part of the illusion do not take place. It acts itself independent of the command of the preclear. That’s very bad. That means the preclear is the servant of that illusion, just as the thetan is the servant of the body. And the level of service that he is being forced to do is the criterion on this.

What, you mean this fellow doesn’t buy General Food’s products? He doesn’t buy… he doesn’t have to have eighteen uh… hot and cold running bellhops every time he goes in the hotel. He carries his own baggage. He… he… he says, „To the devil, what the devil does the maid keep coming in here for? Uh… the bed’s already made! I’m…“

Now of course, this, this whole schedule here, all of these scales very naturally go together uh… and automaticity uh… runs from self – determinism, partial automaticity over to total automatic. And this goes over here from sensation scale: provides own sensation, needs own, and sensation is always others. He provides no sensation. You get somebody low on the tone scale, they don’t even use it. They don’t feel any responsibility for giving anybody any sensation. They can’t give anybody any sensation. And they don’t either.

„Got up when they come in,“ he says.

So this would be automaticity and this would be sensation. Now your sensations can be graphed here and uh… your actuality here is that you’re dealing with a level of perception so he again places perception. Here he places and perceives what he has placed. And over here he has perceived only, low band. That isn’t of course this… this is no perception. So that’s perception. That goes right hand in hand with automaticity. Goes hand in hand with sensation.

They say, „What’s the matter with you? I mean uh…“ They kind of look at you. They say, „Well, he… he made his own bed, humm. Huh.“ That’s bad you understand, that’s real bad.

„I don’t get any fun out of life“ somebody says, they want everything done for them. Same breath. When they tell you those two statements in the same breath, they both coor… coordinate the same thing. That means „Energy must do it for me“ – says the same thing.

Now out in China they have an organizational set-up all through the longshore societies of China which are fascinating to behold. And that is „Pou chea.“ Don’t break your neighbors’ rice bowl.

So we have the guy that’s self-determined up here, that is to say he does things himself and then he’s partly automatic. And then he’s totally automatic. And a guy by our definition is, when he is totally automatic, dead. He’s deader than a mackerel. Anything can handle him – embalmers uh… anything.

When I was a little… when I was a kid out there I used to look at this and I’d say, „Oh, no, things just can’t be this bad. Don’t break your neighbors’ rice bowl.“ All right, we… how do they go about this?

Now on perception, what do I mean here when I say places perception? Yes, yes, he… he hands things out to be perceived. He knows so certainly how things would be perceived if he’s going to enter in the scale and use energy to that degree. He could place it and know how it would be without inspecting it.

All right you… you’re a shipper, you see, and you order a ton of freight to be laid down on uh… on the jingo jetty, and you’re supposed to have this ton of freight laid down on this jetty and it’s just down the river and you’ve got another ship there and it’s going to pick that ton of freight up at that jetty. Well, everything’s all going to go out very smoothly except Pou chea is going to step in your road, and that consists of this: The boys who bring the freight down to the jingo jetty don’t bring it to jingo jetty. They haven’t any vested interest in this at all except they know there’s another longshore crew up river that isn’t working and they have to have work to eat. They know that, they know that so thoroughly that they’re spinning out the bottom as a civilization so darn fast they look like a rocket pointed straight down.

Did you ever see a golf champ walk on… I mean a real good one, walk out on the course and put the ball down and take a whoomp at the ball and simply put the club back in his bag and start to walk down the fairway? He knows the ball’s a hundred and seventy-five yards out there on the green. He didn’t look. What a level of self-confidence. Well, that’s it.

They take that ton of freight they’re supposed to be hauling for you and they put it up the river a mile and then they walk off. Oh big mistake, big mistake. They… there’s very – they… they couldn’t possibly have done this and uh… they remedy the whole thing, but uh… they can’t move anything on the river. Uh… that’s uh… there’s uh… they know a fellow though, they know this fellow, and uh… this fellow uh… he can get it moved for them. The next thing you know you have to hire another longshore crew in order to take that ton of freight and take it back down the river a mile to jingo jetty.

So you can put the perception out there, you know what’s there, furthermore, you know no perception could possibly hit you that you wouldn’t want to worry about. You just… no strain on perception. You don’t even bother to perceive. That’s a level of knowingness.

And perhaps if you were standing there with the coppers in your hands or something of the sort, and say you just won’t pay a dime unless it’s laid down on the jingo jetty, the package, the ton of freight will be delivered a mile south of the jingo jetty. And actually they’ll take something like that and they will shift it up the river and down the river and into this sampan and into the wrong boat and over on the wrong side.

Well, down here because you’ve elected out everything… you’ve elected things out to be fifty percent automatic. You’ve got to perceive about fifty percent of the things, but you still know that when you perceive you place the perception and then get it back again.

You watch your boys… watch your boys unloading a ship of rice, let’s say. The guys, your own crew, will start picking up rice bags and they’ll start over the side with the rice bag and they will go down to the bottom of the gangway. And here are a whole lot of urchins, and beggars, and people down along the docks and they’ll just take and bust a small hole in that: rice bag as they reach the bottom of the gangway. Bust a hole… a small hole in rice bag and pack it across into the warehouse, and of course it’s leaving a track of rice all the way along behind him. Little… little tiny thin trickle of rice, and they’ll stack up that sack and they’ll go back and they’ll get the next sack. And the little kids suddenly burst out of nowhere and so on and they’ve got dust pans, uh… little brooms, something like that. And they’ll sweep up this rice – zzzzzzzz. Don’t break your neighbor’s rice bowl.

You… you… you’re w… well aware of the fact that when you want to feel joy from that person you put joy on that person then experience the joy. Now you can put something else on that person. You can fish through the ether, so to speak, and take the viewpoint of that person and find out how they are perceiving life. Just make a test of it, then you know what their emotion, or feeling or idea is about life and you don’t have to take this relatively unnecessary step of putting an emotion onto their stream of regard for life to find out how they’re looking about it. You know how they’re looking about it… at it. You don’t have to reach over there and inject an emotion so that you can feel it. That’s on an idea level.

Never occurs to any of them, you say, „Now look, I don’t want all those rice sacks broken, we’ll just take two rice sacks and sit it over there and all the beggars can have that.“ Oh no. You see it’s… the theory is they have to make work for somebody. They have to make work, and they run it in exact opposites too – they won’t let anybody work that possibly can be restrained from working.

Then you find out their idea of agreement simply by expanding or extending in their direction on an agreement basis figuring out what that agreement is, what their communication line is, what they’re experiencing in the way of emotion. And by substituting then using that idea, you substitute that emotion and then you get it back again. You could feel what they were feeling and that is the way you would get counter-emotion at twenty-two or eighteen on the tone scale. That’s the only way you’ll be able to feel counter-emotion.

Just walk down off a ship, or walk out of a hotel, or just try and reach down for your hat which you dropped – or… or… God, some of the boys… some of the boys out there, fellow who’d get to be old China hands and so forth, they… they just go to pieces. These fellows will sit down in a chair and actually some of them will go to the extent of separating the thumb and fingers wide enough for a glass to be put in it. N… none of them have their wrists lifted to their mouths. But it’s just about that bad. They are surrounded by service, service, lots of service, big stuff.

You got an idea this person should be sad, he’s looking at those… a wreck and therefore he should be sad, so you’d have to extend over into his chain, a feeling of sadness, and then reexperience from him sadness. And you’d say, „I know he’s feeling sadness.“ You’d know at the same time you’d put some sadness over there so that you could feel it.

Well, you say immediately, „Why, how could we possibly do without a lot of this service.“ And again we go down and, „Am I expected to bite the tin can open with my teeth?“ What are you doing with a tin can? If you’re going to support a lot of objects which aren’t yours anyhow, you can get into a dwindling spiral on this.

Now way on down tone scale you look at him and you say, „He feels sad.“ You see it’s all automatic by this time. You just look at somebody and you know he ought to feel sad so you feel sadness from him. And you omit the fact that you have set up circuits which automatically install the sensation of sadness in him so that you can feel it back again. You don’t inspect it in lines of ideas at all.

You wonder why the rich, and rich families, last about three generations in America at the absolute outside. The great fortunes of America go on that rolly coaster at… on an average with great regularity. That’s because of service. They have, they have, they have and then people make sure that they have. And people make real sure they have. And then one day the third generation is so dead that it couldn’t be moved around with a derrick! Automaticity.

Did you ever have this experience in your life: “I ought to get mad about this,“ and then get mad? Let’s look it over from an analytical standpoint, you say, „Well, I ought to get mad about that,“ and you got mad.

Well, way up the level we get at automaticity… we get allowable automaticity, which we could say is allowable automaticity. We say, „This operation is going to continue.“ And you’re saying at the same time, „I am continuing this operation.“ Next allowable automaticity is, „We are a… a group of individuals and we have a subdivided uh… set of functions here in order to smooth this out, we will stay by our own functions… divided functions. Not because that is efficient, and not because a specialist should stick to his last…“ this… the whole field of medicine.

Well actually a little bit lower level than that, an individual goes into this kind of a line. He looks and he, I mean, pardon me, higher than that at „places and perceives“, he looks over at this situation and he says, „That girl ought to be feeling great happiness.“ So he says, „Let’s see, all right, I’ll feel great happiness from the girl,“ and so he does. He gets the emotion of great happiness from the girl. Isn’t that pleasant? Great.

The only reason… the only reason medicine finally blew up back there in the twentieth century was actually because of specialization. Somebody went in and… and if… if there was a spot on the center of the tonsil and they’ve just gone to a tonsil expert why they had to go to a center of a tonsil expert, and have the spot examined.

Little bit later as he goes down scale you’ll find this same individual has become so haggard on this subject of placing and perceiving and so forth that he sees this girl and he says, „Oh, I wish she would feel happy, I’m so tired of feeling that sadness coming from her.“

Uh’… that thing set in and uh… specialization but here it’s on the very allowable thing to set up spheres of action. Not on the phony excuse that there are people there who are specialized and strangely skilled in these actions, not on that theory at all but just on the theory that we’ve… we’ve’ uh… want to produce some randomity.

Ah, this is something you… it’s just about as idiotic as the fellow’s lying out on the pavement and he’s got this boulder on his stomach. He’s not hurt in any way, he’s got the boulder on his stomach. And you say, „Uh… hey fellow, uh… what’s the matter with you? What you groaning about?“ „Well, I got a boulder on my stomach.“ And you say, „Well, why don’t you push it away?“

You’re setting it up on the theory that each person there uh… is segregated into a sphere of action. Not to have things smoother or anything – who wants things smooth? That’s just to produce greater randomity and it becomes unallowable the moment when we say, „The reason we have done this is these people are particularly skilled in these lines and could not handle the other functions.“

This would come to him as a totally shocking idea. Obviously somebody else had to come along and pick up the boulder and remove it from his stomach.

When they’ve said he couldn’t handle the other functions we’ve introduced a disability and we’ve said therefore the group has to be served.

Well that’s the same thing as, „I object to all these people feeling sad. I object to all these people feeling upset.“ What you’re really objecting to is the cross warp, you… you realize that what they are looking at and what they see… their idea is that things are sad. You know that by just investigating the situation – just looking at what they’re looking at – and you can actually test their agreement and find out what their agreement level is at that time. And you say they’re… they’re… there’s the postulate on which they’re running is sad.

Automaticity, the group has to be served. Hogwash! That is no reason to go downscale to pick up these excuses. What are you doing it for? It’s fun. That’s all. There isn’t any heavy pressure of necessity on this line.

Now, you’ve gone in addition to that and put a current of sadness over there and you’ve gotten the current back again and you can feel the sadness. This is a trick that you do. Then you hide this from yourself and say, „My, how sad those people feel, and I feel this great sadness coming in upon me.“

All right, now you… you have in that same strata, the communication of knowledge. Uh… you start in at some low strata like Earth or something like this. Somebody might have a little more experience along in these various lines. You’re trying to dig out of something – get back through.

It’s a very interesting trick and your preclear is… is remedied in this respect simply by having him mock up things and put the emotion on it. No matter how bored he sounds, looks or anything else, when you make him do this, you make him do this, and you make him do this he’ll start to feel some pings and bangs and all sorts of things around as his automaticity circuits start cutting out on him. And then he’s left in a rather strange situation of walking – it’s so quiet you thin… think at first that… you think at first that it was necessary to have all these things.

An automaticity set-up or a functional set-up which heightens self-determinism is not only allowable but desirable. Because you can heighten it at a greater speed but an automaticity, which is entered into to depress self-determinism or demonstrate a disability, becomes highly aberrative and will wind up with this dwindling spiral into something like the MEST universe.

This fellow walks down the road, and he’s gotta hike eighty miles in the hot sun and he’s carrying a great big roll on one shoulder and a big pack on his back and there’s a belt with a lot of things hanging on it and there’s a hat with a lot of ornaments dangling from it. And there’s can openers, and spare boots, and all of this sort of thing, and there’s a great big roll of blankets, warm summer, see. He’s got a great big roll of blankets, and you go over to him and you say, „Gee, whatcha carrying all that stuff for?“

So when you look this picture over you’ll find out that studying spheres of knowledge, quite allowable, as long as those spheres are then not used as control factors, on the rest of the group. Get that one, just as long as they are not then used as control factors on the rest of the group.

And he says, „Well I… I might need something. I might need some of this somewhere along this line. I… I… I just don’t dare leave any of it aside.“ Of course, you see him dead down the road another twenty yards with a sunstroke. But uh… he obviously needed it all, didn’t he? Uh… he only carries it with him because he doesn’t think he can create it at any time.

That big long knife which you see gleaming slightly behind my back is one which I am going to sink straight through the whole cult of, „The reason I am important is because I am an authority.“

Now it’s rather upsetting to your preclear once in a while – your preclear gets into a situation where he’s starting to plant perception into everything and he starts to do it very consciously. He’s being very, very conscious of it and he’ll start to fight out of this. Why? He’s surrounded with the idea that it ought to be automatic and he’ll start to fight right straight out of this and back into it again and out of it again.

„And I can stay important“ this groups says, „just as long as I can convince you that it is difficult and succeed in withholding some of the information from you.“ That’s a… a control operation. Knowledge in that sphere then is saying you’ll get the vectors on this in a moment very clear. That group… the person who does that is saying, „We must have automaticity. I am sitting here and I am the only one who knows and therefore being the only one who knows possibly, why, I have to hold back information and use part of what I’ve got to reduce the automaticity uh… to heighten automaticity and reduce the self-determinism of others in this group.“

And he’ll fluctuate around because he’s in the stream – you might say in contact with the idea of agreement on ever… every hand. And he’s afraid he’ll just take off from here. Well, he can, but he can also come back, so show him he can do that.

Now that… that operation winds up in disaster! Fortunately it winds up in disaster for all hands – including the authority.

Now one of the things of automaticity is to have one’s space made for one. That is a great one. Go around all the time expecting somebody else to make one’s space. You expect the wife to make the home, you expect the husband to provide the playground, this and that. You make one out… that’s just low manifestations. When I’m talking about space, I mean real space, make… making real space. And uh… one of the most interesting things you can have a preclear do is just reverse automaticity of space manufacture by having him pick up and put in one place in front of him or hang around the neck of his body or anyway you want to do this, every area he has ever lived in in this life.

And uh… then there is allowable level, allowable levels all up and down the line. It is true that homo sapiens has an interdependency which must – be served so long as he continues to be homo sapiens and that he is just as capable of digging himself out as homo sapiens as he can buy a breathing space from the terrific onerous necessity levels which have been thrust upon him throughout time.

You say, „Put out two anchor points. All right. Put your first childhood home in the middle of it.“

Now I mean by that, we wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance of digging ourselves out right now unless homo sapiens actually had slugged up from the mud far enough to a point where he had a little leisure time. If every one of you was forced to handle with your bare hands the blocks and so forth of buildings, if you were able only to secure manuscripts which had been printed arduously word by word stroke by stroke, no, you wouldn’t have much of a chance for the good reason that the oppression of the individual would have become tremendous just in the level of survival.

„Yeah.“

We happen to be going through temporarily, momentarily, only for an instant, a period when Man has made himself relatively free by the use of a machine. A period which just succeeds after a period when he was terribly enslaved by a machine. The industrial… early days of industrialism with their twelve, fourteen hour days, with their smoke-belching factories, that were eating out the lungs and wits of everybody in them; that was a pretty grim period. He had moved from one kind of slavery to another kind of slavery,

You say, „All right. Without removing the childhood home, now let’s take the first school you went to and put that in the middle of it.“

All right, he’s… he’s moved out of that. This era is just succeeding that and just before the machine is employed for his utter enslavement.

He’ll say, „Mmm, creepy, yeah, I can do that.“

The reason you’ve got Scientology is to a large degree because it’s right here that there’s a breathing period on Earth. There’s a little breathing period. I don’t know how many years it is from here to the other but you’ve already seen it begin. You’ve already seen the second slavery stage start. And it started with Hiroshima.

You say, „All right. Now let’s take the area where you had your first job and let’s put that in the middle of it.“

It became dangerous according to the most learned of our national political buffoons for knowledge to be disseminated. Of course, every country that could possibly afford to build one now has an atom bomb. Though I don’t know quite where they got off that their atomic police was so important. But it became terribly important to them to shut all the boundaries on knowledge. And you’ve seen those things, those curtains shutting down. And those were the shades of night falling.

Creeaks. You’re just making him stack his old anchor points up; they’re no good to him, anyhow.

And they say Professor Wumphgutta is no longer at the university, he is working at our project at a destination point unknown and you have to have cards and you have to have this and your political affiliations are wrong so therefore your theories of nuclear fission are wrong. Uh… the uh… the whole nonsense of thought police is moving right straight in. The shades of night.

And you… by the time… you get some people they’ve lived in dozens and dozens and dozens of places and you get all those places stacked up, one right on top of the other. Boy, he’s holding it together. He knows this whole thing is going to explode, he knows it’s just going to tear to pieces. It’s the doggonedest sensation, trying to hold all that together.

Now we’ve got a period here of a very short space of time. You see it ISN’T the destruction of civilization by an atomic bomb that worries anybody. These jokers can’t throw enough atomic bombs to blow this civilization up. They just haven’t got enough bombs, that’s all.

And you say, „All right. Skim them back to where they want to go.“

Man is the most surprising character. I tell you, you co… you could lie in off of a beach and you could hear the sixteen-inch shells going in over your heads like so many freight trains, moving in with tremendous explosions in the s… in the sand and in… in different barricades, over on a shore line and you’d hear your own gun going and everybody else’s guns going and the bombs and… a coming down like hail, and you’d say, „There is… couldn’t be anybody left alive in there. That’s utterly impossible – for a single human being to have survived in the midst of that flame and rubble.“

And he’s liable tell such things as, „Well the lines are all stretched out now, it won’t snap back.“ You say, „It won’t, what?“ „Well, they just don’t snap back to where they ought to go.“

Oh, oh – your first landing craft hit that beach, all of that masonry and everything else would vomit humanity and fire, coming your way. It’s the most fantastic thing, it… it just exceeds your ability to figure out why this exists that Man is so relatively unkillable. I have seen him live through continually things he couldn’t possibly have lived through, so don’t worry about the atomic bomb from the standpoint of wiping out all human beings. No, it’s something else. it’s… it’s uh… let’s shut down the communication lines of knowledge.

You say, „I didn’t say let them snap back to where they ought to go, that’s automaticity.“ He’s expects all of a sudden these places, now, he’s going to sit back and they’re all going replace themselves. It’s something like… it’s just about as liable to happen, you see, it’s just about as likely as after you’ve come home and tired, and thrown all your clothes off around the floor that they’ll get up and put themselves on the hangers while you’re asleep. They won’t.

Here for a brief moment we have had them free and open and something could happen. Now, because we have a big weapon, let’s close all the frontiers. There’s a tremendous urgency against that because that’s… that’s real. That’s going to happen here on Earth. There’s really only one other answer to it – an answer you don’t want anything to do with and that is to… to start in using your weapons as a police weapon to get it across. That becomes very rough.

So you… you take these things and you… he has to deal each one of them back. And he’ll start to swear after a while, because he picked these things up carelessly; he just grabbed these things and brought them in there and he can’t quite find out how he got them and where they fit and he’ll start expressing all this concern about them.

Start using Scientology as a police weapon in order to… to free people – very bad. Very complicated, not very doable.

And you have him make up a few places now and just throw it in for randomity’s sake. „Now let’s pretend that you lived once at… in the uh… the capital at Washington. All right. Now let’s pretend once that you lived in Buckingham Palace. Now let’s pretend once that you were at the top of the Eiffel Tower and let’s put that space in there.“

Now, automaticity then tells you that bad automaticity would be that which depressed self-determinism by pretending sympathy or service for others, and good automaticity would only be that which raised the self-determinism of others and let them more and more on a rising scale think, act and provide for themselves. Or automaticity on all these lines and all these points, but, „Dear I have to do it for you because you are so tired“ is down, very definitely.

„Oh,“ he says, „but look at… that space is dimensional. You can’t get that in there too.“ And you say, „Well, put the Eiffel Tower there and now start ringing it with your childhood home, with your first school, with college,“ with this, with that, and so forth. And he’ll ring it all. He’ll say, „I’ll never get them back again.“

You want these automaticity people, bad automaticity people, out of your preclear’s life and you get them out by handling them with mock-ups on the part of the preclear.

„All right, well ring the Eiffel Tower and we’ll have it all stacked up. Now take the first one off and put it back.“

Let’s take a break.

„I’ve forgotten what the first one was.“ You say, „Well take a ‘look at it.“

And he takes a look at it and he says, „Well, all right.“ And he has to go back through all of the trouble of putting it back in place.

First thing you know he can throw all these places together. He says, „What the hell, they’re just anchor points. I can create better anchor points than that.“ And all of this feeling of lostness and so forth goes by the boards that he’s been packing around all his lifetime, feeling so lost; also childhood will fly into view and fly out, as an unnecessary ingredient.

Automaticity, in terms of space, is having somebody else provide the anchor points for you namely… namely the MEST universe. The MEST universe is very nice about waiting upon you. It does a good job of waiting upon you. Gives you everything. It supplies you with a perception of abundant energy providing you are willing to perceive the perception of abundant energy. And it provides you with all sorts of combined ideas of other people, doing this and you staying in agreement with the other people. As long as you stay in agreement with the other people the objects still remain there for your use, and of course you need them. That’s obviously… you need them. Yes sir.

You know you talk about teleportation. You don’t have to worry much about teleportation. That’s been a… a dream for a lot longer than Man has been writing. They drag… drag the body here and drag the body there and so forth.

It’s like the old man of the sea. The legend of the old man of the sea, the old man of the sea gets onto Sinbad’s back and he won’t let go. Well, that’s kinda… it’s worse than that, having a… having a body because the body is… is there and you don’t even know you’re there. But if you start rehabilitating this, why, you start packing around the body. There would be act… actually nothing easier than to pick up the body by the scruff of the neck making sure that you didn’t choke it and uh… yanking it over and putting it down at some place or another and kicking in a door, and sitting it in a chair and smoothing it all out so that it could be observed properly to be doing what it ought to be doing.

If you start doing that, however, you’ll step up out of the, what you might call the stream of agreement or the consciousness of intermingled ideas and agreements. You don’t have to have those at all. You don’t have to pay any attention to anybody else’s agreement but, you have agreed to.

You know it’s really best that uh… we find out what the other fellow thinks and uh… we do this and we do that. And it’s really best that we don’t interrupt other people when they’re talking and we give the other fellow a show. That’s all agreement on this line, and contributes to automaticity.

Okay, I hope you can work this out now with creative processing. I don’t think I’m going to say too much more about automaticity. But know that these schedules fit in, of course, with start, stop and change, with be, have and do, with space, energy and time. This is just an additional set of cycles that goes onto the other cycles tieing up a little tighter the packages of Man’s experience in this universe and the experience that Man and Thetan are. Let’s take a break.