Perception is a direct index of the amount of ability and alertness of the mind — that is just perception, not necessarily the recall of perception. If anybody is operating on a shut-off recall basis, however, his perception is certainly down from what it could be.

This theory is just as valid, really, on the employment of the genetic line only. You can work it out if you want to on simply the employment of genetic-line facsimiles.

Now, as we go through the Axioms, you may find that as these early points are clarified the later axioms as far as you are concerned get to be pretty humdrum, because you have seen the phenomena of the engram, unconsciousness and so forth. What we are covering on these early ones, though, is a higher level of simplification.

I mentioned earlier that these behavior patterns which you find in cats and men and so forth are inherited characteristics. And we know that theta facsimiles exist.

Axiom 33: Conclusions are directed toward the inhibition, maintenance or acceleration of efforts.

Theta facsimile is a nice, highly generalised term for a static we know very little of, except that it is a static. It could be said to be the highest static with which we are dealing in the science of Dianetics as it exists at this moment. The next advance is possibly on the other side of that static.

That shows up in self-determinism very markedly. Self-determinism could be said to be a mechanism which postulates the conclusions and puts them into action. Therefore, when you start to hit conclusions, a separating out of?” What are your conclusions?” and?” What were somebody else’s?” seems to be best accomplished mostly by finding out which ones were yours and not worrying too much about somebody else’s conclusions.

However, the ultimate static is “Survive?” as a command. That is a static. “Survive in the physical universe by interplays of motion” actually would be the full command, and that is a static.

You find that theta facsimiles could be seen to be combined. Theta facsimiles are actually just pictures of the MEST universe and so. forth, and they combine by similarities and differences and so on. You get various conclusions out of them by just more or less a yea/nay index system. And after you have summed up a lot of these, a conclusion jumps out.

On the other side of that static, we don’t know what exists. Nobody does at the moment completely, so we are not in any argument or contest about what might lie beyond that static. At the moment it is as if we have reached the Azores and we are about to take a jump off for the West Indies, time permitting. But we have reached the Azores and it is a very useful cruise.

Every conclusion is a static. The theta facsimiles are action, but the conclusion is a static in each case. It is quite important to recognize the difference between a datum and a conclusion, because a datum probably tends more over into the action level. But when a datum is held up to be a separate datum, hidden right behind it is the statement?” I have come to the conclusion that this is a separate datum?” So that too is a conclusion.

The existence of a facsimile which jumps off from a death and follows a theta line on through into the next generation — the jump of the individual personality in this fashion — is not in question in the epicenter theory. I wish to impress you with that. I am not trying to hang that on you. I am trying only to show you that there are phenomena of past deaths, which are too easily recoverable in preclears to be ignored. But I am not telling you that Dianetics embraces the theory of past death. I am telling you that Dianetics stays with the incredibility that this theory need never be used. As far as Dianetic theory to be released to the American universities is concerned, there will never be a word spoken of this.

But data by itself in an unconcluded form is in motion. Theta facsimiles themselves, containing motion, are in motion.

The point I am trying to make is that you do not have to admit the existence of death facsimiles in order to look over the theory of epicenters. If you just take it on the basis of genetic-line facsimiles, it agrees with classical biology and other subjects. It agrees very well. It agrees with Darwin’s theory of evolution and so on. All it is saying — although it puts it in different, more workable phrases — is that the theta facsimiles exist all the way back down the line to the first jump-off.

When a conclusion is postulated by the individual, he postulates a static, and he thereafter receives the effect of that static. Whatever that static is, his future motion is moderated by that static. That is because he is traveling along a time track.

In cytology they say there is an unending stream of protoplasm going through space and time, and this forms life forms. They put the emphasis on the protoplasm; anthropology and other subjects put it on the organism produced out of that protoplasm. But the point is that a blueprint is being carried.We are not even faintly in disagreement with scientific thought of this year 1951 when we say theta facsimiles exist on the evolutionary chain; we are not in any disagreement. They put it much more sloppily: they say there are inherited characteristics. Just how you inherit a characteristic without a blueprint, they have never bothered to explain. We know that people remember things — at least some people do — and we call this “photograph” of the object which is remembered a theta facsimile. These things obviously exist, otherwise there wouldn’t be any blueprint. Men would be born and they would look like cows or horses or professors or something. There would be no constancy to this unending line of protoplasm unless there were a blueprint of some sort.

Earlier statements have more force than later statements — we know this from hypnotism. We give somebody a hypnotic command — we tell him that he is now never going to be ableto spit, or something sensible like hypnotists use — and we find that if we hypnotise him the next day and tell him?” Now you will find that you are doing nothing but spitting twenty- four hours a day?” that second command will be inoperative. It is held in suspension by the first conclusion. Therefore, first things first.

Now, you could envision a theta facsimile as traveling through the gaps by genes and chromosomes. You could say that genes and chromosomes contain these facsimiles and you would still have the theory of epicenters.

In theta perceptions or perceptics or facsimiles, the earlier perceptic takes precedence. This is not true of effort, it is only true of facsimiles.

It has been observed, for instance, that life keeps improving on the organism and complicating the organism without ever undoing what it did. It has also been observed that ontogeny is a recapitulation of phylogeny: the human organism in the process of growth in the womb, from sperm and ovum on up to infant, follows a cyclic pattern which approximates the pattern of evolution. On the mind side of the thing, we notice there are behavior patterns in animals and men which go back along the line. Men have very definite, positive behavior patterns, built-in reflexes and responses and so forth which they recover one way or the other. They are a little bit slower to recover them: a baby fools with its toes a lot longer before it gets one of these things keyed in than any other animal does.

As a consequence, the exhausting of facsimiles out of engrams is possible without hitting any of the efforts. But to exhaust those facsimiles, you have to go to the earliest part of the track and start exhausting the perceptics there, because these perceptics are really just theta facsimiles; you have to exhaust the earliest ones that yoll find on the track. Then you come later and later, and if you get too late on the time track you will find that an individual’s perceptics are actually stet, they are fixed. These perceptions all by themselves are tending to become conclusions, and they are set. And unless you have hit the earlier perceptics, the later ones are not reducible or erasable. If you hit the early perceptics they will erase.

Have you ever seen a baby trying to use its hands and feet? It finds its hands, looks at them, finally keys in the theta facsimiles of the hands and finds their use. Then it looks at a foot and one day it is very surprised to find out it has another foot. I ran a grief charge out of a fellow who had gone through this whole sequence and suddenly realized that he had never recognised or seen his ears, actually.

That is in the field of perception. However, perception is wrapped up in effort. And it doesn’t matter how late or how early an effort is, it apparently will reduce anywhere on the track; it is a physical motion. It is actually on a very, very early basic and it is very easily changed. I wouldn’t make this experiment offhand, just to be making it, but I dare say that you could take hold of somebody and run out his last operation in terms of Effort Processing. You could get all the effort out of it and he would feel fine. I am just postulating that is true; I have not taken late effort engrams and run them. This would be very fortunate if it were true. One could then handle such a thing as a delivery; he could take a series of deliveries of children on a woman. He could take five, in some cases, including her own birth, and just determine that that is what should be run and go run it as a package of effort. It wouldn’t matter much whether he hit the last one or the first one — her own birth and her four children, or the fourth child and then her birth — whatever would be attainable.

The theory of epicenters merely states that there is an evolution of command posts, and that those command posts remain structurally visible in the organism. They can be found in the organism and they still behave as lower-echelon command posts — control centers, in other words.

But the perceptic filing is filed very definitely according to time. You can see why this is: Perceptions have, much more intimately contained in them, time. Perceptions have time in them because every perception includes time. This is really very simple when you look at it. Perceptions, which contain time, are apt to obey the laws of time, whereas effort as such is not necessarily dependent upon perception. It is dependent upon actual basic motion. In other words, because an automobile went backwards today is no reason it won’t go forward tomorrow. Muscular effort is just as mechanical as that, just as mechanical as any MEST, because it is almost pure MEST; there is very little theta in it. It wraps up theta, though.

There is a nerve, for instance, that at one time or other went straight across in a fish, and then as man evolved and the body started to grow lungs, instead of taking that nerve and parting it in one generation and putting it back together again, it kept dragging further and further down, and it now passes from one part of the brain around and under the lungs and back up again. It does a big circle round Robin Hood’s barns in order to get a couple of inches, because in evolution the theta facsimiles — the blueprints — kept taking pictures of this nerve in an extended state, and so it finally wound up with an error. There isn’t any other reason for this nerve to be where it is.

You can take a lot of effort and you will find the perceptics spilling out of the effort. There are several tricks you can do.

The same thing has occurred with these mind centers. There is a law concerning this: At the origin of each new organism (say, conception, forward on through to maturity), it is postulated that the new control venter is in complete control of the organism and environment and will be obeyed by all the sub-control centers of the organism. In a new organism, it is postulated that its new control center is going to be in command of the organism in this generation. It is going to be obeyed by all old subcenters. That law is very workable, very useful.

Take somebody who has an anxiety stomach. You can go through with a very heroic type of processing if you want to. You just tell him to lie down on the couch and ask him, “What position do you think the middle of your body is in?”

A person sinks on the tone scale in direct ratio to the amount of control lost by this new venter.

The fellow says, “Well, I’m lying right here on the couch?” No, what position was it in then? Can you get a then imagination of where it was?” He gets some vague idea that it may be over a little bit, so you just say, “All right now, move it back. Move the then perception back?” He will start to move the then perception back into place, and it will make him wriggle around and he will lose contact with it. So you get the then perception of his feet and the then perception of his hands, and then you get the then perception on his stomach again. If you keep this up you will gradually knock the effort out of an engram which hasn’t even been perceived. But you can very naturally expect, right in the middle of all of this, to have something very interesting happen: the perceptions will fall out of the effort and he will have recall.

The only thing necessary to regain good equilibrium in an organism is to rehabilitate the command value of the postulated control center of that generation. The only thing necessary, in operation, to rehabilitate it is to rehabilitate its belief in its self-determinism.

This is particularly true if the individual is in a state of obedience where his stomach is, as he normally would be. Of course, it is a static or he wouldn’t be stopped there.

I want to show you what happens on this epicenter proposition.

I did this to a salesman who foolishly came and knocked at my door, and he looked down and in a very puzzled tone of voice said, “A Confederate belt buckle?” We went ahead and exhausted the Confederate belt buckle and he felt much better, and his stomach hasn’t kicked back on him since.

There are three therapies you can embark upon. The first of these is to deintensify nonsurvival conclusions by knocking out self-determined postulates — rehabilitate a person from his nonsurvival conclusions just by knocking out the moments when the conclusions were taken. You can state it either way. We call that Self-determinism Straightwire, and it is done by simply knocking out all the old postulates so the fellow is now free of his own postulated statics. That is all — you just knock out the statics.

He had no idea of what was happening to him, but it was just that process. He went away and wondered where that Confederate belt buckle had come from, but he didn’t have as much question about it as you would have thought. Something sort of clicked through and said, “It’s all right?” I don’t imagine, though, he is going around telling his fellow salesmen?” You know, the other day I called at a house . . “

You understand that when an individual says to himself “I am a schnook” and he goes down the time track ten minutes, he is a schnook. He says to himself, “I’m not very good at music, I guess?” Then he goes down the time track fifteen years and starts to learn how to play the jew’s-harp and he can’t play it.

A fixed muscular position, then, is like a conclusion. The muscles did this and this and this and then got to this state and stopped. And there are stops on the track with these. The same thing happens with theta perceptics — they get stopped — because they are dependent upon motion but they are not intimately connected with motion; that is to say, they can be handled regardless of the motion that is actually in them.

He tells somebody, just out of social consciousness, “I can’t sing” Later he is out with a beautiful girl in the moonlight, and she loves singing. He knows he could sing once, so he starts to sing but a frog croak comes up. She marries the other fellow. Maybe this is lucky for him, but the point is that he has become subject to his own statements.

For instance, you can think about a train running down the track and you don’t at the same time have to carry the track under your arm and so forth while you watch it. In other words, the perception will operate independent of the effort. But the effort always is in existence preceding a perception. There must be an effort to have a perception.

It is not very peculiar how this comes about. You have a control center which is in command of the organism. What is command? Command is a static, no matter how thought seems to ebb and flow. If this organism is to be healthy, its command center has to be in command. Just like a naval vessel or an army, it will go down in defeat the moment that its command center is invalidated and made unworkable, because this new central control system is commanding a numerical army much greater than any army alive on the face of the earth today. You as an individual command an army in terms of numbers and earn command of complexities which no military organization or government can compare with. It is something to think about.

Axiom 33A: The common denominator of all life organisms is motion.

The laws of good command activities — as worked out and written down but seldom obeyed or viewed — happen to be the laws of good conduct on the part of a control center toward its own organism. It does nobody any good for somebody to come along and tell you, “In order for you to command yourself, you must first learn to obey” This is an arbitrary any way you want to look at it.” To learn to command yourself, you must first learn to obey yourself” — it doesn’t work.” You must first learn to obey other people” — no.

You will find that to be true of grass or trees or even the bum on the park bench. Here we have a common denominator. Therefore, if you want a common denominator to all illness — psychosomatic illness and so forth — that common denominator is motion. And if you want to hook it up to the mind, it becomes effort.

When the baby is born, he is already fully prepared to do his best on this line. He will do almost anything to stay in control of his own organism. This is the same as a general fighting against a hostile army that is trying to upset his outfit: he will try to do the very best he can for his army. Until that general is invalidated, he does very well. But he gets invalidated to the troops eventually. Somebody comes along and says he is a paranoid schizophrenic or something.

Motion can exist without being hooked up to a mind. It can exist. A volcano blows up — that is motion. A fellow dies and the undertaker comes along, puts him on the marble slab and wiggles his arms and legs around; there is motion, but it is not connected to that person’s mind. You can take any living organism and move it around without the consent or the disagreement of the mind, too; you can render it unconscious or something of the sort and you can reposition the limbs and so on. So motion is possible without a mind, but the kind of motion that we are interested in is motion which is connected to a mind — and that is effort. Effort is sort of a measured motion — a measured, monitored motion.

The point is, self-determinism is just that. It is one’s recognition of one’s command of the body and the body’s recognition of the command value of the control center — just that. It is an interplay.

Axiom 33B: The effort of an organism toward survive or succumb is physical motion of a life organism at a given moment in time through space.

No general gets very far with a great deal of punishment of his troops, but, by golly, he doesn’t get very far unless he has the right to. That is something to think about.

That is not very obscure. It just means that an effort has, as part of its theta facsimile, a moment in time and a position in space. If a fellow is operated upon, hooked up in that operation someplace are all the tabs of position and time. This theta facsimile, however, can be so wrapped up in effort that the perceptions of it are missing, including the time and space perception. Therefore it can drift and float around and it can get into present time and so on. He can lift it into present time without knowing what it is and go on fighting it for years.

ARC is just fine. But what kind of a command is this? Peacetime command or wartime command? Peacetime command is naturally sloppy. Senators come aboard and you give them ruffles and drums; you say, “Yes, everything is fine”; you go down to the wardroom and drink coffee and so on — because there is nothing happening. But a wartime command is actually what any individual is on. He has got to be able to operate on an emergency status at any instant.

But it belongs back on the time track someplace, and the second you can assign it time and space, it really ceases to be very aberrative. The fellow recognizes where it is, he sees that that is where it is, he has proven it to himself that that is where it belongs, and after that it is just not very aberrative.

Driving an automobile, for instance, is a nice, peaceful operation, apparently. Peaceful? There are more people killed on the highways of America in any one year than were killed in all the U.S. forces during World War I. It doesn’t look to me like that is a very peaceful operation. This life is not precarious, particularly, but you have certainly got to be tough and well coordinated to do well in it.

Actually, the whole process of erasure may only be getting enough effort out of one of these engram facsimiles so that the individual can no longer hold it out of position, and having it then sort of snap back into position. That may be what the phenomena of erasure and reduction are, although I believe that there is more to it than that. That is part of it. I think you are actually taking apart the whole theta facsimile when you really get an erasure. It doesn’t matter too much what happens; as long as you can get rid of them they never turn up again.

You are driving an automobile down the road when all of a sudden some youngster in a hot rod swerves around the corner — this is an emergency. The command center observes?” Automobile coming around corne?” and commands, “Coordinate hands; steering wheel, turn right; feet, stamp on clutch and brake pedals” But it kind of seems like lately there have been a couple of companies that have been rather dissatisfied; they didn’t get their rations on time and they have been getting some enemy propaganda to the effect that the command center isn’t so good. The command center has been getting some enemy propaganda to the effect that those two companies down there in the right foot aren’t so good. So when the command center says, “Emergency — foot, hit brake?” nothing happens. Crash! Dead organism.

Definition: Motion is any change in orientation in space.

Although we do not lead hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute dangerous lives, there is hardly a twenty-four-hour period that goes by in which we do not encounter at least one emergency. But man is living in a society which is too safe for him — much too safe for him. He is getting something like a peacetime army: “All sergeants will act toward soldiers like big brothers. You do not have to salute your officers” This sort of an arrangement comes into being.

Something has to go through a motion in order to make a transit from one position to another.

The human body is made to meet sudden death and overcome it two or three times a day. For eons, boa constrictors and saber-toothed tigers and so forth have been jumping out of trees and from behind rocks. And there is nothing like a boa constrictor missing you by half an inch to bring you up to present time! Without this stimulus, man sort of becomes introverted. He goes slipping off down the track and wandering here and there.

All motion contains time. That is the trouble with it. Time is an arbitrary, and therefore every time somebody comes along and tackles motion he is bumping his nose into an arbitrary.

You will find that men in relatively dangerous professions remain fairly healthy.

Now, a person can handle the space all right; he can move things around in space. So he conceives that because he can move things in space, he can also move things in time. Maybe high on the tone scale it is possible to move things in time, but low on the tone scale it is not. As a consequence, somebody who comes along and tries to shove something someplace else is shoving right straight against time. And it may very well be that an individual is determining the span of his own life by the action which he undertakes during it, because he is absorbing time into his facsimiles — time and more time — and he puts physical effort into those facsimiles.

All this has to do with the central, top, this-generation control center being in command of the organism. When it says command of the organism, it means command of the organism. It wants a fast reaction time, everything in good condition, everything shipshape; the organism well covered, well housed — food, clothing and shelter taken care of — various parts of the body cared for, all old control centers cared for, and no mutinies. With the command center in command like that, everything gets along just sweepingly beautifully and the person is well.

Swedish calisthenics, army close-order drill and other?” therapeutic measure?” are very interesting in their real activity. You take a college athlete: The poor fellow gets in there and he trains and he trains and he trains. Then when he is thirty-two or something like that, he is going around selling bonds and he gets what they call an enlarged heart or something of the sort; he gets to be in bad shape. If you start checking up on athletes who have ceased to be athletes, looking them over, you will find they are a relatively unhealthy crew much too early in life.

This business about learning to command oneself is simply an old-time injunction to get squared away on the first dynamic before we try the second, third, fourth and fifth.

These fellows have introduced a lack of randomity into their motions, they have routinized their motions, which is a static. They have gone through training motions which were on the order of picking up the dumbbell here and putting it down there, and then picking it up there and putting it down there, and then swinging on the rings, and they go through just exactly this same evolution many times.

The reason for this is very simple: An individual will start to treat himself like others have treated him. And you can put that down as a law. He will treat himself as others have treated him, and he will also treat others as he treats himself. It works both ways.

A fellow keeps that up too long and it becomes a static. As a result, because he was under strain and tension during that moment of exercise, the strain and tension of the static then stays with him right straight on through. You see how this could be? He goes through routine motions, routine motions, and he gets tired after a while and he still goes through routine motions. The coach (a fellow with a big paunch, smoking a thick cigar and so on) says, “Now get in there?” He says, “I’ll show those fellows — they’re not going to intimidate me?” and so on, and he urges them on. The boys get tireder and tireder, and he just says, “Keep right on going; you’re not going to let me get licked on the situation?”

You see someone who is going around mad all the time at everybody and you are looking at someone who is mad at himself. But he is mad at himself because people have been mad at him, and they have been mad at him up to the point where he has decided he should be mad at himself.

That is the sort of an action they go through. I am giving you this for a very good reason: You will find this in a very large number of men and women who have been highly athletic, who have trained up in this line. For heaven’s sakes, exhaust the effort out of that. Don’t avoid it because it is supposed to be healthy. Sure enough, it probably is healthy. It has a shorttime value. The healthiest part of it, though, is the full belief of the individual engaging in these activities that they will make him healthy. But after he gets away from this postulate for a while, the actual real basic starts to turn up and he starts to get an enlarged heart or something.

So when you have a command center estranged from and in argument with the troops, you get all sorts of odds and ends of discoordination, and very importantly, you get unhealthiness and unhappiness as a result. An army which is badly commanded will be straggling out across the field, its equipment will be in horrible condition, it will be poorly fed, disease will be rampant, and it will lose its battles. That is what happens in one human being.

What is an enlarged heart? You start working with barbells long enough and the next thing you know, your heart is pumping hard; it is hard work, and the action in the heart will build it up to what it thinks is a necessary capacity. And then it has too much capacity.

Every time the command center goes into sympathy with another organism and says “Well, that body — I don’t think it’s very good or very beautiful?” what it actually is saying is “I know I shouldn’t brag; I know I have nothing to brag about?” or “I know I’m stupid?” and so on. When a person says that to himself — when he says “Well, I know that the cells in the fingernails, the toenails, the hands, nerves, sinews, are stupid, not beautiful, don’t function well” — he is putting a postulate down, just as though he had posted a division order: “From this moment hence forward, no troops will conduct themselves with pride. From this moment henceforward, all troops are skunks” Now he expects to get obedience from the troops. He won’t.

Interesting things can be done physiologically. During the war, I saw a young man taken into a hospital who had an enlarged heart, and the doctor made him build up an athletic schedule to the point where it had been when he was in college. It was a lot of work. This took about three years, by the way. I heard a final report on it about 1947. I liked this boy a lot; he was a nice fellow. I got in there and talked to him for a while; I said “What are you doing?” “Well, every morning I have to go out on a two-mile walk, and in the afternoon I run around the track six times. Then I take a turn in the gym and then I swim for a quarter of a mile?”

That is what a command center does and that is what happens in the individual. I am giving you an example from the third dynamic for you to apply to the first dynamic. People have a tendency, long before they become one, to behave as a unit, as an individual.

That was finally what he had worked his routine up to. He had built his physical strength back to the enlarged heart. He was of course going to be all right because he got into balance. The only trouble was that after three years of this sort of thing he had quit it, and he was in another static! And he was declining some more.

What is an individual, a real individual? It is somebody who is operating in coordination with himself twenty-four hours a day. That is an individual. An organism which is sick, unhappy or aberrated is an organism which is working at cross-purposes with itself twenty-four hours a day. It is in dissension — mutiny.

This should be of interest to you, because you will note this to be wrong with people. Remember that a static can be formed by routine action. You take somebody who has had to do sentry gol in the cold — back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, day in and day out. Maybe he was at this for two years. And if he was up in some place like Argentia or someplace like that, doing this kind of sentry go, you will find that he has gotten himself in a little bit of bad shape. He has chills. He has gotten a static, a static which he has fallen into through repeating the same motion over and over. As a result, he has overdeveloped on all fronts. He has overdeveloped, also, a static, so that he tries to go on down the time track and his body carries right along with it the chill, the aching feet, the hollow in his shoulder for the musket and everything. He will carry this right on down the track with him. When you pick him up as an auditor he will say, “Well, I guess it’s because I took to drink when I was twelve?” or something. You just knock out that effort of sentry go.

There is almost nothing, short of being hit head-on by a Sherman tank, l that a human body which is operating in good coordination with itself cannot overcome or cannot accomplish or cannot heal — almost nothing. Yet people go around saying, “Well, I can’t do this?” and “I’m not much good” and “I have to wear this” and “I’m bad off” and “I have to travel slowly” and “The doctor says . . ?” and so on and so on. It is a very strange thing, when you get into the center push button and do an analysis on this thing, how awfully simple it is — how terribly simple, how appallingly simple — to be so long overlooked.

Definition: Force is random effort.

But there is a natural reason why it was long overlooked. Maybe nobody just plain had enough guts to come out and say, “The second I state that an individual should be in free and complete command of himself, the second I say that an individual should be given back into his own command and thereafter operate on the lines of his own experience, I am postulating that I will now have to live in a world of individuals who cannot be bludgeoned or beaten into instantaneous blank obedience. And also I am abdicating from any throne over the tops of individuals?”

Force does not have, according to physics, direction, unless you have applied force which has direction. Physicists can argue around about this, but this is the definition which we can take: Force is random effort.

That is what an individual says at the same time he says this other thing. And you as individuals, when you look around at the people in your immediate vicinity, will see that this is actually what you are doing. You are saying, “I don’t want this fellow as MEST. I don’t want this human being as property” And you are also saying, “I’ve got to have enough nerve and enough confidence in my own ability to live with individuals who are strong, powerful and self-determined”

Definition: Effort is directed force.

If you think it over, it is quite a decision you have to make, because that is what you are doing. You are giving up all the push buttons the second you put a man back to battery; you are saying, “I’m not going to use these anymore” It is important to recognize that, since here and there some individual may find in himself a feeling that maybe he shouldn’t be quite so anxious to have Mr. Doakes be an entirely self-determined, coordinated individual. It might make Mr. Doakes a little bit tougher to get along with sometimes. Maybe it will. Let’s not try to sing a paean of pastoral glory and contentment and go along with Rousseau and so on all the way. Maybe we are making a world full of wolves. So what? I certainly am sick of looking at a world full of rabbits.

In our definition of effort, we have the fellow postulating a direction and amount of force, and in that we have effort. And that is what we mean exactly by effort.

Now, when it comes to your ability to do this, the first moment of your ability starts when you think the problem over carefully, look at it from all sides and figure out whether or not you want to do it to people, because it is a decision which has to do with you.

Axiom 34: An organism’s effort can be to remain at rest or persist in a given motion.

Here is the liability on knocking an army or a nation apart: You knock a nation apart and you have to feed it, care for it and baby it, and it is dangerous to have around. The United States went over and knocked apart the early Russian government. The old government had been no good; the new government may have offered some slight hope for the people. We sent troops into Siberia — so did England and France — and tried to knock the new Bolshevik government into smithereens. Now we sit around and say, “Here we are. We’re not aggressors. We’re just trying to make the world safe for democracy”

Here again you have statics and motion on a reduced scale. You will find that injuries are incurred by organisms when they are at rest and resist moving, or when they are moving and get stopped. Either one violates the self-determinism of the organism. A fellow says, “I am going to stand here?” and somebody comes along and gives him a shove. The individual’s effort was to remain in a state of rest and then somebody came along and tried to interrupt his self-determinism. Or a fellow is walking along and somebody stops him. This other person has interrupted the fellow’s self-determinism.

But the communist sits over there in Russia and he knows something happened to him from here or there; he knows something is happening to him and he is going to fight. He is not very bright or very far advanced, actually. He is fighting for a kind of freedom for the people in Russia which we earned so long ago we have almost forgotten it and almost thrown it away. He is very sincere about all of this and he is dangerous to have around.

This is a very important axiom, though it doesn’t appear so. You had better put a couple of stars after it because it is very important. It is something that you might overlook.

But nobody ever gave him a helping hand. On the contrary, he was attacked. This is not bad or good — just the facts. And so instead of trying to give Russia back any kind of self- determinism we are trying to cut her down and make her a little weaker and a little weaker, and we are going to make her so weak someday that San Francisco, St. Louis, New York City, Chicago, Wichita, and points east, north, south and west will probably be blown off the map. And that Russia gets wiped out simultaneously does not excuse it as a thoroughly rotten method of proceeding. That is true on a human-being level.

This is actually the basis of self-determinism. It is whether a person is going to remain at a state of rest in face of all hostile forces or whether he is going to be able to remain in a state of motion despite all hostile forces. And when counter-efforts interrupt his effort to remain at rest or his effort to remain in motion, his self-determinism is undermined just to that extent. So long as he does not succumb to being stopped and started and stopped and started — in other words, as long as he does not say to himself?” Well, I mustn’t move in that direction because I’ll be stopped?” as long as he does not say to himself?” I must not stand still because I will not be permitted to stand still?” and agree to that — he will be all right. But when he agrees, that is too bad.

Russia hasn’t been very smart about this country either. They get a lot of people running around that ought to be in kindergarten or something saying, “I’m a big shot now; I belong to the Party” and making asses out of themselves. They come tearing around and start carving up the society, and the next thing you know, somebody starts to get “red headed” about the thing. He says, “Well, let’s see. What will we do to the Communist Party” That’s bad too.

Theta, therefore, has its own force; it isn’t just all stimulus-response. It postulates something; it says, “I must continue and persevere in life, regardless of any of this?” A man can be knocked around most alarmingly and be all right until he all of a sudden agrees that he is being knocked around. Then he agrees on which direction he is being knocked around, and then he agrees on what he mustn’t do to get knocked around. When he has gone all through this gamut he is practically done for.

Russia introduces, in other words, a disruptive force in an effort to nullify the United States and bring it down the tone scale. We introduce disruptive efforts into Russia and bring her down the tone scale. Both countries fail to prosper, and a lot of little people on the face of the earth who don’t give a darn about it are going to get killed. Interesting, isn’t it, how error concatenates?

You as an auditor pick him up on the basis of when he agreed that he would get stopped every time he moved or when he agreed that he would be moved every time he tried to come to a state of rest. You can work from that point and then you can work to the minor points of the matter, which are when he felt that he would be if he did. That is about all you need to get.

So you look at it the other way and you say, “Well, shoot the works — what would happen on real self-determinism” You try it out and start giving a fellow back his ability to be self- determined and you get some very interesting results. He starts to get well and he starts to think, because the statics have been taken out and he can get his theta facsimiles into motion, and as soon as he can get them into motion you can reach, to some degree, his understanding.

If a man is really pretty daffy about it, you of course get in there and exhaust the effort. You just exhaust a few of these times when he was stopped. Get an earlier period when he made an effort to stand still and he made an effort to remain in motion, and get the efforts to stand still and be in motion and exhaust those as such, and you will find perceptics flying out of this fellow’s track just like fireworks on the Fourth of July, if you start working on those two efforts.

ARC is the only possible way up the tone scale. The only things possible in the lower brackets of the tone scale are death and destruction. Domination and nullification are not fitting weapons for a human being to use on another human being.

All obedience must have as its forerunner physical action — a countereffort against the individual — which will not permit him to stand still when he wants to or will not permit him to move when he wants to. Obedience cannot be achieved without that. That is all you have to do to an individual to get him into a state of blind obedience.

So, you have to solve, within yourself, whether you want to do that to people or not. And if you think it over very carefully, you will probably get quite a few little chills out of it — whether you want to take everybody in your vicinity and suddenly turn them loose, take the push buttons out of them. This is rehabilitation of self-determinism. But it brings them up the tone scale and, importantly, it takes away the imagined fears.

That is the reason for close-order drill in the services. The formations of close-order drill went out shortly after the War of 1812 as the usual thing — where you stood up in a column and drilled on a battlefield and wheeled around and fired by volley and so forth. Guns and rifles got better and they didn’t have to use men in this fashion. But armies have still continued the use of close-order drill.

Any body of troops which has been disrupted badly is rife with rumor and will believe anything. And any human being who is down the tone scale will accept lies and will postulate, for himself and those around him, destructive actions which have nothing to do with reason. He is beyond the reach of reason.

The way to really get a company of men under control so that you will have blind instantaneous obedience, you would think offhand, would be to do it on an ARC basis. No, that isn’t it, because you have to handle all kinds of men. You take the esprit and let that be handled on an ARC basis; that is another echelon. You, as the sergeant or the officer, stand aside from that ARC. That is the service, that is the flag, those are symbols and that sort of thing.?” You are my MEST as far as I am concerned, and you hate me, but you love that fla?” is the way they do it.

Reason is your best weapon always — not force. But sometimes in a moment of emergency force is necessary. How do you solve that? You solve it by the agreement that sometimes in a moment of emergency force is necessary. One of the necessities for success of a self- determined individual is a coordination with the human beings around him of what his goals are. What is the method of agreeing upon approaching those goals? It is rather simple, all in all. This is something we have to think about because right now we are not just on the verge of, we are very well into the progress of, creating individuals who are very self-determined.

Unfortunately, war and the activities of war do not have enough time element in them to permit anything like ARC. And what is a static? It is something with no time in it. So, in order to work in a field where there is no time, you have to create statics. You tell a bunch of men, “Jump up on that parapet and charge!” and they jump up on the parapet and charge. This is a foolish thing to do; there are machine guns over on the other side and so on, but these men will still jump up on the parapet and charge. That is the mystery. They use no self-determinism with regard to those machine guns at all. A regiment, a division, will pour itself into a slaughterhouse action where their casualties will be 80 or 90 percent, even though every man there and every officer there knows the general has given them the wrong order!

You are going to start watching preclears coming up the tone scale. You may never have realized that they were mostly in 0.5, but they start coming up the tone scale and they get angry and they start to use their selfdeterminism in the most cockeyed fashions.

So this is how the army handles urgency actions, actions in a very brief time span. And the briefer the time span demanded, the greater the tendency toward a static. This is why accidents and so forth have so many holders in them right before the accident. It is an emergency, so the fellow takes all the time out of it and tries to act, and he will stick himself on the track.

It became risky to an auditor without his realizing it in the past, because the fellow hung up at levels on the tone scale one after the other. He would hang there so long that the society would see him hanging at the wrong place on the tone scale and bat him down again. So it took a fast method, and we have got speed in this method. It is swift — just this method all by itself!

There is something else that should be remarked here: The delivery of bad news, the delivery of bad tidings or the delivery of a blow (these are all the same thing; the bad tidings are just symbols of a blow), delivered in the shortest possible time span, will produce the maximum drop on the tone scale.

All you do is take MEST Processing as represented in Self Analysis, under the formula contained in the Axioms that I had you mark with a number of stars, and apply it to the individual. Locate moments when he concluded to do these things to himself. You can do it on the validation side or on the entheta side.

When you shorten the time span of the delivery of bad news or a blow, you increase the amount of drop on the tone scale to the individual to whom it is delivered. That is an important axiom; it is not even in the book, though. One of the reasons it is not in there is that it tells you how to knock a man, an organisation or a country into apathy with the greatest amount of dispatch.

When did he decide not to maintain himself? When did he decide to do this, not to do that? And, basically, down at the center of the formula is when he decided to stop himself or start himself.

Don’t deliver five bombs, one a day — deliver five bombs on five cities in the same five minutes and you will produce apathy. If you drop a bomb today on one city and tomorrow on another city and so on, you may still produce something like apathy. But if you drop a bomb today and you drop a bomb next week and you drop a bomb the week after that and you spread it out to five weeks, at the end of five weeks you will have the country fighting mad. They haven’t dropped on the tone scale. So, to create a static, what you do is create an emergency situation. Maximal destruction in minimal time produces the maximum drop on the tone scale.

What you are doing is taking a full review of the general orders issued by the command center on a static and arbitrary level. You are taking a full review of that entire file of orders for the person’s whole life. It doesn’t take very long, oddly enough.

This is something a sergeant uses. He goes in and gets a couple of men out of bed — they were sassy to him at retreat or something of the sort — and he says, “Go dig a ditch?”

You just start using MEST Processing — not on the environment, but on the individual himself — and you start going down the lists of MEST Processing. The question says object, so take the preclear’s hand: “When did you realize that you had burned your hand?”

And they say, “What?” “Go dig a ditch?” “It’s two o’clock in the morning?” Bow! Bow! “Dig a ditch?”

Or take sight: ask, “When did you agree that you couldn’t see?” Or you can ask, “When did you have a hard time disagreeing that you couldn’t see?” because disagreement will keep him down on the scale, too.

This is completely out of order; it has nothing to do with reason. It is utterly unreasonable! They go dig their ditch and they come back swearing, and the whole company begins to buzz and boil about it and so forth.

You will start rehabilitating the person because you are rehabilitating the dynamic which should be rehabilitated first, and that is the first dynamic. You can’t expect a fellow to operate very much on the third dynamic until you have done something for the first. Now, how specific you need to get depends on how much you want to be specific. You will have some cases which you have to pilot through very carefully on this, and others who will just start to get the idea and start to roll it on up.

One man gets pretty uppity, but he oddly enough has a dirty rifle. So the sergeant takes the rifle, looks it over carefully, puts it in his tent and gives the fellow a deck court-martial or something like that for having lost his rifle. This is completely arbitrary; it doesn’t have any sense. Any way you can assault reason with force produces a static. Just assault reason with force and you will produce a static.

You are not worrying about the effort with this. You are not worrying about the physical effort to make these conclusions. That is the second process.

Now, the speed and savageness and suddenness of the production of that static measures the amount of reduction on the tone scale. In the same way, good news or something which lifts or exalts the individual produces the maximum rise on the tone scale by being given in the minimum time. It is again a static. So you see, the static is the thing. Somebody says, “Armistice has been signed?” Whistles go off all over town and everybody takes off like a rocket. That formed a static — sudden news in the minimum time of delivery — and everybody will go on up to the stars. But if you tell them tomorrow?” That wasn’t the static, this is now the static?” you will get a little response. That isn’t just invalidation at work, that is the mechanism of invalidation.

You are familiar with this band from an earlier Standard Procedure, where you were knocking out the material, just on a gunshot basis, which an individual used to postulate his new conclusions. Now we find out that an individual’s power of choice is so great that the only way those items could.be revived would be by the individual himself pulling them into action.

The next day you come along and you tell somebody something good and you try to tell them quickly and so forth, but you have spread all sorts of stuff across a time span and as a consequence the amount they will ga up the tone scale is very small.

What does this have to do with the theory of epicenters?

You can take good news or something like that and unload it on people’s heads suddenly, and they will just sit there stunned for an instant. You have formed a static. They will proceed on their time tracks from that moment on with this static in mind. That is how to rabble-rouse. (I have never tried it very much!)

Every successive command post in the body in every successive direction has at one time or another had full command of that organism — what organism there was. It had full command. Once upon a time it was the general. And the counter-effort permitted a new command post to be formed each time. Each time a new command post was formed the organism appointed a new officer and the old command post had to be knocked into apathy to get it under the thumb, quick!

Now, there are really two kinds of statics (these are the statics of attention). One is motion of attention, unfixed — unfixed but sweeping attention. You can get a fellow to where he will sweep his attention like that and it becomes a static. Why? Because it doesn’t fix on anything, it doesn’t mark anything happening, it doesn’t mark anything going by. You will find psychotics doing this, or fixing their attention on one object and not sweeping.

That, by the way, is true from the first to the last of these command posts. It is just successive. In the course of life, you will find some fellow saying, “Well, I have to go get operated on?”

Motion, then, for the mind, depends upon the attention not being too widely unfixed or too sharply fixed.

Christian Science goes to such a degree that it says nobody ever needs to be operated on. This is rather an extreme thing, but it very well may be attainable. It may be attainable through science, MEST and working the thing over, but it is an extreme. Without the bridge built to that fact, it is foolish.

That is of use in such things as radar. You get a fellow sitting down looking at a radarscope, and this thing swings, swings, swings monotonously. That is a static because it is repeated motion, and his attention on that radar is unvarying. His watching of this thing has an unvarying attention and he is keeping a fixed watch on it. He himself is put in the position of a static, he is told to keep his attention static, and he watches something which by its cyclic repetition of sweep is itself static. And he becomes static. I have seen men lag on the report of a pip on radar quite a long time; they sit there and they just won’t register it. The man doing this is in a static, he isn’t in motion. All you would have to do to remedy this is make the sweep of the radar random and occasionally make it fix on something. Then the fellow could sit there and watch it and he wouldn’t go out like a light. This would be very simple. By the way, they have been trying to solve this in Washington. Axiom 35: The ultimate goal of lambda is infinite survival.

Let’s say an individual makes a mistake. The command post made a mistake: it said, “Run down that slope?” and the organism ran down the slope and fell and broke its leg. The fellow realizes he was wrong; one of the first things he will say is “I was wrong” That is one of the last things he should say. If he were not badly enturbulated, if his command post were not already at odds with the rest of the body, he wouldn’t say “Run down the slope and break your leg” he wouldn’t say “Go ahead and ride with Charlie even though he’s drunk” He just wouldn’t do these things.

That is rather obvious.

So there is a terrific amount of misguided social activity that goes on which is terrifically inhibitive to the society itself and to the people it is done to. It is unnecessary. If you started living on a more honest basis than the existing social code, you would find it would work out much more kindly.

Axiom 36: Death is the abandonment by theta of a life organism or race or species where these can no longer serve theta in its goal of infinite survival.

But in this case, with Effort Processing, what you do is knock out the effort of the command post which is holding the engrams in present time. This is exactly the same operation as the general who is continually ordering field punishment for his troops. The command post says, “So, you’re going to hurt”; it goes down, picks up an engram and says, “Now you can really hurt” A general who does too much of that always gets a mutiny. But it is a weapon. It is the use of the death facsimile, if you want to be plain about it. It is the use of the pain facsimile to procure the obedience of the organism.

You will find, oddly enough, that death is self-determined. A person looks at his body and says, “Boy, I’m sure chopped up; this motor can’t run?” so he shuts off the whole machine.

There is no quicker method of subduing an old command post which has suddenly become active than by dropping a pain facsimile on it, reminding it of the time it failed.” You used to be a general, but you’re just a lieutenant now. You don’t believe it? Well, here’s the last time you fell over the kitchen stove?” Simple and effective.

Now, a fellow thinks he is going to stop this motion when he is injured — he tries to stop the motion of pain and so forth — and he will hang himself up on the track.

However, if you rehabilitate equanimity amongst the troops, there isn’t any reason to empty the locker box of all the old whips — no particular reason. And as a matter of fact, I don’t believe you can; there are that many whips. But you can get the self-determinism on the first time the fellow ever agreed to use pain facsimiles on himself or others. The first time he agreed upon or decided to use pain facsimiles on himself or others — get that effort out of the case. You will find yourself sailing a long way back on the time track.

If you get some poor luckless devil who sits around and has somebody in his environment that he is trying to stop with words, when he finds out he can’t stop them he will stop himself. That is something very important for you to remember in therapy. Where an individual has been unable to control the motions of someone in his environment that he thought he ought to control — he begins to try to stop that person or start that person vocally or by action, one way or the other — he will wind up in postulating these motions. The recognition that he can’t effect them will cause him to go into a static. And the reason, of course, is that he is starting to start and stop motion and it comes right back in, so he winds up by starting and stopping motion in himself. He will get into a static.

Very interesting results accrue from finding that. But it is the button within the button within the button within the button. It is the first time of agreement, and it is a long way back.

You will find that people group in the vicinity of people whom they cannot control.

So it is not necessary to clean up every pain facsimile, but it is necessary to clean up the times one decided to use them.

Take that advisedly on control; an individual who is in good ARC with another person won’t try to control him. But let him go out of ARC with somebody else who is still in his environment and he will try to start and stop this person in some fashion. The effort to start and stop this individual cannot be physically applied — it is against the law in this society.

We have reached a stage in the evolution of the organism where it is possible, at least as a test, to trust the computing power of the human mind and to trust its use of ARC within itself. The test would be reached at a level and would thereafter possibly continue by leaps, fits and starts through the race for a little while, and then would eventually settle down to be the usual thing — if the organism has arrived at a point where it doesn’t need to evolve any further, because we are sticking a log straight across evolution itself when we do this.

This society is a great society; it is really set up for statics. You can’t go poke anybody in the nose. As a result, your efforts to stop them or start them in some particular direction result in you stopping yourself, because you are the closest physical contact you have. Just the postulation off “he must stop” stops you to that degree.

According to the epicenter theory, the way a new form and a new command post is evolved is by picking the common denominator of all the centers of all the counter-efforts of a generation, and this makes a new command post for the new generation. That is the way it is done. But now, all of a sudden, in one generation you are going to pick up all these counterefforts and you are going to interrupt the organism in its evolution. Man never will get to a point where he has two heads.

Check this over with preclears; you will find this fascinating — trying to stop and start Mama, trying to stop and start pets. The fellow just goes into a spin on it finally, and he gets a static right there. Then he says, “Well, I’m no good. I can’t control myself, obviously, because I can’t control Mama?” He loses control of himself because he can’t control the other, because when he tried to control the other he was trying to control himself. He didn’t notice, at the moment, that he was also trying to start and stop himself when he was trying to start and stop Mama.

Fortunately, there isn’t even much chance of picking up all those counter-efforts. But there is a definite chance of picking up the determination to use them and the physical effort to use them. You pick up these things and you will find the race getting so much better that the race can start to operate itself as an enormous organism in cooperation with itself, to the consequent conquest of the entire physical universe.

Did you ever see anybody trying to feed a little baby? They take the spoon and try to put it in the baby’s mouth and the baby closes its mouth. So they open their mouth wide.

Now, the third therapy method is to reduce all entheta facsimiles — all there are on the track, all that can be found, from successive command center to command center. Anybody who wants to start on this had better start right now and work constantly for the next couple of years, because that is about how long it would take, just to get the efforts out.

I was in a restaurant one day and there was a little baby being fed at the center table. The manager had put this baby right in the center of the whole dining room and Mama was trying to feed this baby with a spoon. And Mama was opening her mouth, trying to get the baby to open its mouth. Unconsciously, Papa was doing the same thing. I looked around the other tables and about a third of the people in there were doing the same thing. You see the mechanism: they try to get the baby to open its mouth and they open theirs. Try to stop somebody, you stop yourself.

We can reduce a tonsillectomy now in probably twenty minutes. We can reduce a birth in fifteen minutes or half an hour or something like that. But at this rate of reduction, going right straight down the track, getting full reality, doing a nice job of efficient auditing and everything else, if you were to take that back to the beginning of time and get the first photon and proceed on forward from there, reducing all of them, you would really have a job on your hands.

Axiom 37: The reward of an organism engaging upon survival activity is pleasure.

What we have is a shortcut way to do this. What we were trying to do in earlier methods of processing was exhaust all the entheta facsimiles in one lifetime, and we could succeed in doing this fairly well as long as we only addressed one lifetime. But on Effort Processing if you can keep the preclear in one lifetime you are pretty good. Write me a letter and tell me how you did it if you succeeded, because you would be pretty good. Preclears run on this go flying off down the track like they were shot from guns.

Pleasure is actually a sufficient randomity of motion to not produce a static. That is to say, there would be completely monotonous motion — repeated motion — and that is a static, and no-motion is a static. Therefore, pleasure must lie between a monotonous motion and the static of no motion. In other words, it lies between two statics. You can see immediately that that has to contain randomity, which I will go into a bit later.

Now, these old epicenters will give trouble, and it may be necessary sometimes for you to run all the engrams out of one particular epicenter. That is not too hard on just one epicenter, such as the epicenter in the middle of the tongue, or maybe the epicenter in the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the tongue, or something like that. It isn’t too hard to run out just one lifetime out of one epicenter, or maybe ten lifetimes out of one epicenter. You might have to do this to deintensify the thing sufficiently, because it might have gotten whipped around to a point in this life where the basic on all of its engram chains, way back in the old epicenter, got keyed in. The doctor carved around on the fellow or he has too many automobile accidents that hit him in one place too often, and the next thing you know, he has a whole series of engrams right on that epicenter in restimulation.

Pleasure is obtainable, then, in overcoming minor uncertainties, in facing various forces and so forth, and in a continuance of effort in the direction of survival. If a person goes along in a nonstatic way, he could be said to be experiencing pleasure.

In fact, the loss of authority of the central command post in the body is attended by the usurpation of authority by old control centers — old epicenters. That is one of the ways the command post loses its authority. All of a sudden an old epicenter gets hurt too bad, you get hurt too much, and the command post tries to impose an engram upon it to get it into line. That just restimulates it more and it kicks back against the command post more, and the command post says, “Get into line?” and restimulates another engram on it, until all of a sudden there is a terrific ball-up and about the only thing you can do is clean up the old epicenter. This is quite important to processing if you are going on a long-term basis.

Axiom 38: The penalty of an organism failing to engage upon survival activity or engaging on nonsurgical activity is pain.

There are people walking around who are thinking with old epicenters instead of their command posts. If you know any preclear who has, for instance, a?” hollow head?” it isn’t because somebody hollowed his head out, it is because he has drifted down the line on epicenters until he is probably thinking with the epicenter on top of the roof of his mouth or he is thinking with the epicenter at the hinge of his jaw. It is very common for the epicenters back there to be active; they are fairly late on the track in evolution.

Pain is an interesting mechanism. Some engineers were trying to study what pain was and they finally found out that if you gave a person an electric shock he would get over his pain.

You can watch people’s behavior and personalities and behavior patterns, and you can practically call your shots on what epicenter they are working on. That is interesting.

I imagine the auditor who came along afterwards, after he had run out the shock, could get at the original pain in order to run that out.

Every time you have a command post which is not in command of the organism you have trouble with the individual and the organism. It is very interesting that an individual’s command post projects its activity to control the organism into an effort to control the environment. Instead of turning to the organism and facing down the mutiny, it tries to control the environment instead before it controls its own organism.

Pain is a randomity of peculiar characteristics; it is maximal motion in minimal time causing a misalignment of the atoms and molecules in the organism. It introduces a forceful, authoritative wave which goes counter to all of the body’s motions and actions, and it cancels out motion on the part of the body in too short a span of time. That we call pain.

Therefore, a command post which is having a lot of trouble with the troops is being destructive to its environment because the environment has been destructive to it, and it completely misses the first dynamic, mostly because it is so very fashionable in this society to be all cockeyed on the first dynamic — to be crazy: “Oh, I do the craziest things, I’m so proud of me?”

Pain is actual and physical at the moment of receipt, and is then a theta facsimile. The fact that a theta facsimile was made of it had been overlooked.

The amount of dignity available in the society, if collected all together and put in a thimble, would be easily and quickly lost. There is a lot of pomposity, but very little dignity. We don’t think much of an Indian, for instance, who walks around and says, “Me very great man. Big, big hunter” He tells you all about it.

It is not even widely known that people can recall pain. People out in the society don’t realize that. That should give you some kind of an idea how far we are ahead.

People look at this healthy, strapping, sunburnt fellow and say, “Conceited ass?”

I was talking to a fellow the other day who needed Dianetics — he needed it the worst way. Of course, I would never give it into the hands of some people I know, but he could have used processing. He said, “What is this Dianetics all about?”

This code of conduct that we cling to is one of the most destructive things we could possibly have: self-negation. Do you know where the bottom rung of this code of conduct is? In a sick, lame, halt and blind society like China: “This unworthy person says to your magnificent and wonderful self . . ?”

And I told him, “Well, I found out that life is an energy which gets stored as pain and so forth — the moments of impacts. When you have experienced pain once, it is stored and then later on it is exerted on the body.” His ears went up like a mule’s and they waved and I almost got cool in the breeze! He was very interested; this was a brand-new concept as far as he was concerned.

Japan, one of the politest societies on earth, is full of people who can’t see; “What chart? What wall?” is the general rule. They did find a lot of men to be pilots. We didn’t think they could before the war, but they did.

As a matter of fact, that is an incorrect statement: pain is not stored as an energy; it can’t be. But that sounds logical to them, so you don’t have to tell them about theta and theta facsimiles and this and that.

Go around Nagasaki, and practically everybody in Nagasaki is wearing a filthy rag gauze across the front of his nose in order to keep off the germs. Of course, the rag contains more germs than there are in the air, but that is beside the point. He wears this thing to keep off the germs. The people are sick with eye infections, rickets, disease and more disease. They are sick people. And one of their most common social expressions means “I withhold my foul breath from your face”

Axiom 39: The cell and/or virus are the primary building blocks of life organisms.

Self-negation results in illness because one continues to postulate his nonexistence, and he keeps getting caught in these postulates — these conclusions of nonexistence — day after day, week after week, and he gets sicker and sicker and crazier and crazier. This happened in Japan, and one day they all jumped up and said, “Now, we’ve thought this over carefully, and we have a wonderful idea — a good idea. Let’s all go over and attack Pearl Harbor” And look at them now. It just wasn’t smart.

This is true, unless you want to consider theta facsimiles as the primary building blocks. It is all the same to me.

You get somebody around in an operation that you are connected with who is doing a lot of self-negation — he probably looks pretty sick — and one day he will say, “Let me see. I’ve thought this over carefully” (probably with the epicenter on the tip of his ear), “and I’ve come to the conclusion that I should write the local newspaper and tell them everything that’s wrong with this operation” The next thing you know, everybody is saying, “It’s tough the way your organisation is in such horrible shape” when it is actually running like a well-oiled clock.

Axiom 40: The virus and cell are matter and energy animated and motivated in space and time by theta.

It is just not safe, that’s all, to have that person around. But it is a choice between that sort of thing and restoring a person’s self-determinism.

That is something that you as an auditor should take cognizance of. It is very interesting that you can start running back the theta facsimiles of individual cells.

Now, sometimes characters aren’t available; you can’t lay your paws on them so that you can return their self-determinism to them, and say, “Now listen, we’re going to cure you up of several of these items” and so on. You might do it under duress at first, as you will do with most psychotics, but the fellow could snap out of it — he actually could.

If some fellow is having a lot of trouble with a particular portion of his body, you can process that portion of his body and run it on the time track to find the cell-injury facsimiles rather than the organism-injury facsimiles. You will find some of the most interesting things. That is a fact, though; there are cell facsimiles.

Sometimes it takes an exterior force to straighten up an army. Belisariusl arrived one time when Justinian was besieged in Constantinople by his own people. Belisarius arrived with a couple of hundred sailors, and there was nothing like a couple of hundred well- organized, policed sailors to restore order to that city.

There is a nervous system in a monocell. A monocell is a very advanced animal, actually; although it procreates by division and so forth, it has a complex anatomy. It is pretty well developed already. If you were to think of a monocell as being a basic building block of life, you would have started already at much too high an echelon of complexity, because a monocell is a very complex animal. It has a nervous system and it thinks; it obviously thinks. You can run tests on monocells and you will find that you can train them to avoid pain sources and so on. This is fascinating work. The field of biology has never done any of this work to amount to anything.

It is possible, then, for psychosis to be treated, in your initial step, as an emergency proposition, just exactly as you would treat an army which had turned into a mutinous rabble. But this doesn’t say that you should keep the army in the status of mutiny, or that you should kill off 50 percent of the troops, or that you should shoot the general in command of it. These are unwarranted assumptions.

But once in a while somebody will come along and make some comment on the behavior of growth. It never seems to have occurred to anybody that you can take monocells and train them. Of course, it is a little bit more of an artistic job than that done by the owner of a flea circus, but it is much on the same order of magnitude — training a monocell to jump, to go to the other side. You take germ cells of various diseases, and if they are mobile they can be conditioned to run away from green water. You tint the water green with something which is an irritant and they will go away from it. Then you put a green in the water which is not an irritant and they will go away from it.

But an emergency action is sometimes possible, and you auditors in treatment of psychosis know to your sorrow that a psychotic is pretty hard to handle. There are a lot of people walking around, by the way, who are hard to handle too, who aren’t carrying the label. And you will find out that they can raise mischief with you and your preclears

This is very interesting, but the work is so delicate, so difficult to do, that the results are obtained only after many, many experiments. In the first place, your own credulity is fighting you — that something so small could actually perceive to this degree so that it could take survival courses of its own. But your reason should tell you immediately that something which is a live organism which can’t take survival actions would of course be a dead organism.

For instance, some girl has a husband who says to her every time she comes home from a session, “Yeah, that stuff’s a lot of bunk. You don’t look any better. Yeah, so you thought it did you some good last time” That was the main reason a fast technique was necessary — so you could jump your preclear’s self-determinism up the tone scale fairly rapidly, so that he could go home and when somebody said, “My, you look terrible” he would say, “What cat drug you in, bud?”

Axiom 41: Theta mobilises the virus and cell in the colonial aggregations to increase potential motion and accomplish effort. You can see that the body cells building themselves together are a colonial effort.

Now, the first formula which you use to put together Straightwire on self-determinism is on the basis of start and stop, a simple motion formula.”When have you tried to start yourself and stop yourself?” — not doing anything — you just ask, “When have you tried to start yourself and stop yourself?”

People were looking at the reverse side of this thing. They said that to avoid pain or to fight its enemies or to get away from something and so on (you can just see where the people who were inventing these theories were on the tone scale), the cells got together into colonial aggregations and developed teeth or something.

Then you can start assigning various odds and ends of actions to it — eating and sleeping and so on, all the common actions: “When have you tried to start and stop . . . ?”

There is a dynamic goal there that you don’t see if you don’t look at the other side of it and see that the cells are getting together in order to handle more physical universe; without that you have no forward motion — nothing. That other idea postulates a static, and it must have been postulated by people who were pretty static.

This is Straightwire, you understand, or kind of running on the track a little bit, picking up this and that, with “Feel your agreement about it” occasionally, and “Feel this or that?” You are running start and stop on the first dynamic.

Axiom 42: The goal of the virus and cell is survival in space through time. That is the same as the organism’s goal.

Then, go over into this other formula, the one in Axiom 20: Lambda creates, conserves, maintains, acquires, destroys, changes, occupies, groups and disperses MEST. You can apply all those things and say “The command post creates, conserves, maintains, acquires, destroys, changes, occupies, groups and disperses its own organism” That is a formula about the organism itself.

Axiom 43: The total mission of higher organisms, viruses and cells is the same as that of the virus and cell.

You want to know the conclusions. If you want to pick up reality here or there on the case, a little higher or a little faster, get the moments when he is being forced toward a static and is still disagreeing with it — those instants — and you will blow him up into ARC on the subject. For instance, somebody is telling him, “You shouldn’t eat candy” “Why not?” “Well, it is bad for you; it’ll rot your teeth?” “Well, why? I like candy?” “Well, you can’t have any more candy?” And you just get a sort of a sullen disagreement on the thing.

In other words, any type of life, no matter what form it is in, is doing pretty much the same thing.

That has approached a static, but the person hasn’t accepted it. Sometimes you will discover a static by getting one of those lighter moments where the person is still disagreeing, and making him feel that disagreement. He will come up the tone scale on that one subject and get a little more free theta on the case; he frees up another facsimile and the next thing you know, you can get the more basic moments.

It is very interesting that those two axioms, Axiom 42 and Axiom 43, were the earliest axioms in Dianetics. They go back to 1933, and they sat there for a long time without anything else happening, more or less stated in just those words: The goal of the virus and cell is survival in space through time. The total mission of higher organisms, viruses and cells is the same as that of the virus and cell.

You will find moments when the organism is disobeying itself to be occluded, ordinarily — pretty well occluded. When it is trying to start and stop itself, you will find an enormous number of postulates.

Axiom 44: Colonial aggregations of viruses and cells can be imbued with more theta than they inherently contained.

You call those things postulates — what the command post said. You could call them general orders or orders of the day or anything else, but call them a postulate just for a good code word; they are start and stop. You will find the fellow has stopped himself on the time track and started himself elsewhere on the time track and changed himself on the time track and so forth, and this basically is all there was to it.

That is new, but those two earlier ones I have a sentimental attachment for.

So when you have gotten the first dynamic out of the road, and when you are thoroughly convinced that you have accomplished tone 40.0 — when you have gotten that all squared away with this one individual and he is all straightened up on the first dynamic (“You mustn’t think about yourself in this society” ; that is mainly what is wrong with it) — then you start in on the opposite sex, sex and children, the second dynamic. When you have gotten that all swamped up with this same formula, you start on the third dynamic and you start handling other people in the environment.

Axiom 44 is very important in that the one thing you must know in Group Dianetics or in examining personality is that there seems to be more theta attracted to the aggregation.

Occasionally as you are processing the individual on the first dynamic you will find that he has a tendency to pick up stuff on the other dynamics. Don’t stop him from picking this up, but get him back on that first dynamic.

This could also be seen to be a static forming new facsimiles of action. You have a full body at work and you get facsimiles of what the full body is doing, therefore the body has an identity because there is a full facsimile of it. And because this is a facsimile which is common to every cell facsimile in the body, every cell could be coaxed to accept or would accept this major facsimile. As a result, you would have facsimiles of the organism as a personality.

Let’s get the army in shape, in good shape, all battalions marshaled, logistics cared for and supply lines open, perceptions good, signal corps operating in beautiful condition, armor repaired and ready to roar, and then. declare war along the lines of the dynamics.

The same thing would happen in a group. You would get a theta facsimile of the group which everybody would begin to accept. This is not a matter of quantity, it is a matter of overall facsimiles. Once those facsimiles accumulate it is almost impossible to do anything about them. There is a new static. In the formation of groups, then, great attention has to be paid to the formation of an organism along the lines of the rules of organisms. You can’t form a group out of individuals and then treat them continually from there on as individuals, each one with separate goals.

The whole human race, as individuals today, has done the same thing as the Rough Riders did. The Rough Riders were in beautiful shape. They went down to Cuba without any horses — they were trained to ride horses, but that was beside the point — and they were given orders to attack and take San Juan Hill. In the process, they posted orders that said, “At 4:30 A.M. we jump off for the crest on San Juan Hill” The Rough Riders got up at 3:00 A.M. and grabbed some hardtack or bully beef or something of the sort, but they hadn’t taken the point from which they were to jump off. The name of that hill was El Caney. And nearly all the casualties suffered in the famous “Attack on San Juan Hill” were suffered in the attack on El Caney, trying to get a point from which to jump off to attack San Juan Hill.

The organism itself has to have its own goals. As long as it has its own goals it is an organism.

I have always kept that rather interestedly in mind as about the primary error a fellow can make when he is trying to take an objective: to say you are going to jump off from someplace and not be there yet.

It also has to have nerve lines. It also has to have standard memory banks. In other words, if you are going to make a group successfully, you are going to have to obey the rules of an organism. This is the axiom that takes care of that.

It looks to me, in Dianetics and in the human race, as if people do an awful lot of jumping off for the third and fourth and fifth dynamics without taking the first one, because only when you have taken the first one can you jump off for any place else. You are right there. You don’t have to go afield to find trouble.

Axiom 45: Effort can be accomplished by lambda only through the coordination of its parts toward goals.

Now, it should not take us as a crew very long to clean up the first dynamic. We have the tools now. If you manage to misunderstand them you are pretty badly off. It shouldn’t take you very long to take the first dynamic, and then we can go out on an all-out cavalry charge for the second, and on down the line.

This is rather obvious.

Axiom 46: An organism is equipped to be governed and controlled by a mind.

The evolution of the mind is a subject which is just barely mentioned in the first book on Dianetics. It talks about the impact system and it is really talking about counter-efforts.

The effort of the body to absorb, channel and use counter-efforts resulted in a nervous system, a brain, a shock-cushion arrangement for the body. Actually, what happened was that theta facsimiles of this and all combined theta facsimiles were going together, forming up the memory banks and the active mind of the organism. This hooks in, evidently, to the nervous and control system. I don’t think it would be too hard to solve exactly where it hooks in.

Axiom 47: The purpose of the mind is to pose and resolve problems relating to survival and to direct the effort of the organism according to these solutions.

We are back on familiar ground with that one.

Axiom 48: All problems are posed and resolved through estimations of effort.

That is important to an auditor, because how can an organism estimate effort unless it itself has experienced effort? Back of every calculation of effort is actual physical effort. And if there is a calculation of effort in the organism that you consider to be aberrated, all you have to do is get the earlier physical effort out of it and that aberrated calculation will fold up. It is no longer able to operate as such because you have knocked out part of the facsimile; you have disconnected the facsimile.

Axiom 49: The mind can confuse position in space with position in time.

If you just look at words which people use to describe time, you will find out how confused this language is: “It’s a ‘long’ time” — time isn’t long? “It’s a ‘short’ time?” and so on. There are no descriptive words for time, which is an indicator. We just use space words to describe time, and as a result you can tell somebody to go “down” the time track. You can’t go “down” a time track. You travel through time along a time track, but you can’t go “along” time. You get the idea?

The only way you can really contact time is through motion. As long as you address motion you are on safe ground, because motion has time in it. When a person gets frozen up in a motion as a static — he is trying to do something about the motion — he then can’t move in time, because what is frozen in there, what the arbitrary is, is the time. So this individual tries to move up and down his time track, but he cannot handle motion so he can’t move on his time track. The reason he can’t move on his time track is that he can’t handle motion. The reason he can’t handle motion is that he is stuck in a static about motion.

If you take somebody who has been punching a drill press with the same motion day after day, week after week, year after year, and you all of a sudden get him for processing — if there is anything left of him to process — you will find that this fellow is in a static, a very bad static. The reason is that he has lost, in his job, the ability to differentiate time, because all the motions are the same.

So, the estimation of time depends upon the ability to observe changes in space. You observe changes in space and so you estimate time. You know that it has been some time since you left your home town because you go back and look. You know where you have been; the home town looks exactly the same only it is all different. It is those differences by which you measure that home town: the people, what has been built, what has been burned, what has been torn down. These changes permit you to observe what has happened to time in the interim.

Thus, time as an arbitrary is traced by the individual through changes in space or through motion. But you can’t get any changes in space without getting motion, so you are on safe ground as long as you keep an individual all cleaned up on the subject of motion. The easiest way to do it, of course, is by the estimations of effort.