Okay. And this is the afternoon lecture of January the 14th. And this afternoon, I would like to talk to you about some more beingness and its application in terms of communication.

This thing we’re talking about, about unwillingness to be an effect, would be unwillingness to grant beingness, also.

You, after a while, are going to find out that there are only certain essentials that we’re talking about and these essentials actually are Knowingness, Beingness, Lookingness, Emotingness, Effortingness, Thinkingness, Symbolizingness and Eatingness and Sexingness.

As long as you think that there’s a finite quantity of beingness that you can grant, then of course, you can’t spare any to be the other thing which you want to create. Because the only thing it’s ever going to be created of is your beingness. (Just using that “beingness” kind of loosely as a term, it’s the best thing that describes it.) Do you see that adequately?

Now, I’m real smart. I can list those off very rapidly, but not because I wrote them down and took a look at them, because all I do is just run the span, just run the span and name its parts.

You materialize things with your own beingness. You see this MEST universe out here well enough if you are willing to have enough beingness to grant it beingness. You will be heard as easily in an auditorium as you are willing to put beingness out into the auditorium. You won’t be heard any better. I don’t care if you have the loudest voice in the world going through the loudest air horns.

Now, I could go at it this way: no solidity, total ability, total potential, pervasion, looking to find out what one isn’t pervading, down to emoting to prevent pervasion or to assist it, down to solidification so that you’ll have something to pervade, down to thinking about it in case we don’t have something to pervade. And then going down into condensed thinkingness and then thinking, which is symbolizations. And then we get that something to pervade with an idea in it, in other words, a live animal or something of this sort and we go immediately from there into appetite. And when we go from there into appetite, why, we seek further than that and we find out when there isn’t enough food, why, people indulge in sex.

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Female voice: Hm?

All right. Intention to materialize something, intention to have something, intention to do this means also “willingness to be something.” And also, it means that you must have some kind of an idea of the unlimited quantity of beingness there is of you to dispose of.

That’s absolutely correct. Your overpopulated areas of the world are those areas where there wasn’t originally enough food.

Now, right as you sit there this moment, you have a feeling of being alive, don’t you?

Now you can take a family of mice-you know, once, psychology has contributed something. Never let it be thought that psychology is a dead loss. It is not a dead loss, it has contributed something. It has demonstrated that human beings are not mice, [laughter]

Audience: Mm-hm.

But just in terms of any of the animal kingdom—this includes giraffes and human beings and any kind of animal. A GE is essentially an animal. He is an animal that’s been brought up, in spite of itself, by a thetan.

Hm? You have some feeling of being alive?

Now, as we look over this situation, all we’ve got to do is shorten up certain essentials out of the food supply and they become very, very hectic about reproducing. Fascinating, isn’t it? Well, it shouldn’t be so fascinating. It should be very obvious to you that if you can’t eat with this body, you better fix it up to have another one you can eat with and hope times will be better. You see that? I mean, the guy can slide along the track, then, to another period. It’s very simple.

Audience: Mm-hm.

The first impulse towards sex actually begins with the individual at the moment he decides that he can’t survive. That’s the other test. That works as a technique. When you’ve got somebody who is pretty goofy on the subject of sex, well, you just find out places where he isn’t deciding he can’t survive or almost any kind of a technique you want to tailor up on the spur of the moment, which simply runs out and puts into his power the decision that he can’t survive.

Well, what is that feeling, huh?

Now, the decision he can’t survive is almost concurrent with the decision that he can’t create and they’re almost-they’re together. So that “can’t survive” comes first and “can’t create” comes afterwards. Or “can’t create” comes first and “can’t survive” comes afterwards. It mainly depends on what subject he can’t survive on or what thing he can’t create, but the two come very close together.

Well, let’s examine that feeling. Let’s feel it. Well, do you know that you’re totally sold on the damnedest thing? And this, by the way, I’ve told a couple of people about back down the track one way or the other and they all of a sudden turned on like you’d panned. So, it’s just this: you know that feeling you’ve got there in your body? That’s a feeling which you once had in the walls of rooms in which you were. And you felt much better than that.

So you see that somebody who has decided he can’t survive will go into hectic sexual activity, quite ordinarily, in order to survive in the next generation. We’re only talking now about animals, by the way. Don’t make it an overall end of everything, because we’ve got sex sitting down there below eatingness.

When you talk to somebody for quite a while sometimes, do you have a feeling like they are “aliver”? Well, what do you think you’ve done?

When we talk about eatingness, we’re talking about the whole Applause Scale, really. And when we say eatingness and sex, we’re just making a highly specialized application of the Applause and Attention Scales, that’s all. Attention is valuable, there are scarcities of that and applause is a substitute for attention and so on.

You’re kind of living in them too. Do you see that? This granting of beingness. This mysterious quantity. It’s almost as mysterious as the ether the boys used to talk about.

Well anyway, let’s look this over and we find out that when you get applause supercondensed, you get Mr. Tiger-1 like this picture because it sort of punches it up one way or the other. I got hold of this mock-up some time ago and I’ve been fond of it ever since, I don’t know why. And I suppose there is no significance, which is what makes it significant.

Well now, examine your chair. Just kind of get a feeling of the (quote) “personality” or “personability” or “beingness” or “aliveness” or “awareness” or whatever else you want to, of your chair, or its lack of it. Is it alive or dead?

But anyway, we get the idea of this tiger going through the woods and this monkey pelting a couple of old dead twigs at him and so forth. And the tiger, he doesn’t mind that. He kind of snarls back and so forth and it makes a nice randomity. But then the monkey refuses to pay him any attention that is of an admiring or flattering kind. So having refused to pay him any attention of an admiring or flattering kind, Mr. Tiger decides that he is going to get some attention from this monkey anyhow, so he eats him.

Audience: [various responses]

Now, if the monkey had simply applauded sufficiently, the tiger never would have eaten him. And if it hadn’t been for the fact that monkeys stopped applauding very early on the track, then tigers would not now be eating monkeys. But monkeys did stop applauding. They got stuck on the ridicule band and they stopped applauding and they insisted there was nothing to applaud. In other words, there was no good attention.

Mm-hm? Well, are you unwilling to be a chair or willing to be a chair? If you’re perfectly willing to be a chair, the chair will come to life.Let’s take the front wall of this room now. Does that feel alive or dead to you? Now, be willing to be the front wall of the room. Just be willing to be it and just stand there forever. I didn’t say exclusively. Be willing to be it and stand there forever. Quite like that?

Now, that is simply defined as good attention. Actually, ridicule or betrayal or anything else is attention. And you’ll find some character who’s real bad off-they’ll chatter straight out of their fundamental bank. They’ll tell you-they’ll tell you, “Well, just-you can ridicule me or betray me- or anything you want, just don’t ignore me. Huuh! Don’t ignore me, please.”

Audience: [various responses]

And the most awful thing that you can do to anybody is to ignore them. It’s terrible. Sets up more appetite. If you want somebody to get to a point where he’d like to eat you, why, just ignore him long enough, see? Very simple.

Now, let’s just be willing to be it. Kind of experimentally, be it now. Now, look at it and tell me whether or not it’s alive or dead. Does it look brighter or dimmer to you?

All right. Now, let’s look at this beingness proposition and we find out knowingness and beingness-and we have got two different kinds of an operation. Do you see that? We’ve got knowingness and beingness and those two things are kind of easy to confuse. They aren’t the same thing. They really don’t properly, as I’ve told you a couple times-every time I’ve put beingness on that scale, I’ve said, “It doesn’t properly belong here, but we might as well throw it in here.”

Audience: [various responses]

There isn’t any reason to go into the two sides of this ledger, to amount to anything, but you can understand that beingness and an aliveness and a livingness and an awareness does cross with knowingness, but it isn’t knowingness, you see? Knowingness is being aware. The bridge there is awareness. Beingness is being aware. Knowingness is being aware. And because they’re connected by a bridge, you see, they can appear to be the same thing. They really aren’t the same thing.

Well now, you don’t grant beingness by granting something energy. And when they start to buck around on the preclear and jump up and down and do strange and weird things, why, you’ve granted them energy rather than beingness. The funny thing is that energy materializes out of beingness, but beingness itself is not energy. It’s just this feeling of aliveness with which you are actually entirely conversant. You look at a dead man and if he's sprawled around bad enough, you’ll get a feeling of complete emptiness to him. You know, he’s really dead.

Beingness is the first tiny little entrance into energy and space, and knowingness is no entrance at all. Total knowingness is no entrance into space, objects or anything. But beingness-we’ve started to enter space and started to enter objects. So we’re already on the dwindling spiral. Well, that’s very fine to call it a dwindling spiral but really it only becomes a dwindling spiral below 2.0 on the Tone Scale.

Well, the first time I read about that and so on, I thought, “My, that’s a very descriptive phrase.” And so I put it in a lot of stories and so forth. And this was all very well until I found out that dead men were supposed to be dead because we’ve agreed they feel dead. See, we know how they feel because we’ve also felt dead and so forth. And they bother people to the degree that people feel they have to feel dead. That’s the amount they bother people.

Now, the truth of the matter is that almost any kind of livingness above 2.0 on the Tone Scale is intensely enjoyable. That is, the individual can’t do anything else, but he enjoys it on the bulk of the scale.

Now, if a person feels entirely dead himself, he doesn’t mind dead men. You know, they feel like he feels, so it doesn’t matter. He just doesn’t have a perception of a dead man. But a person can be tremendously alive and he looks at dead men-and there’s the dead men, dead, you know-and they don’t feel dead to him. And although the bones are busted up and there’s some holes in them and that sort of thing, they just wouldn’t feel dead to him, that’s all. Why? Because they’re part of the MEST scenery. MEST scenery is kind of alive, it’s perfectly vibrant and alive to him. So why should a dead man feel dead?

He even has some slight enjoyment out of being bored. Did you ever have anything to do with a society which made its entire interest out of seeing how bored they could act? I think the aristocratic Roman society, toward the end of its days, was making really a big cult out of how bored could they act. The French aristocracy, just before “comes da revolution”-the French aristocracy were also doing this and so on. They were beginning to find out how bored they could act. You can always see when some society is passing down and about to hit 2.0, because they hit a strata of boredom. And then after that, all they can do is be antagonistic, they can’t enjoy anything, really.

Well, when you remove that up one more step, you bring the dead to life, not by putting the same thetan back in them, but by being them. By also being them. And when I say also being them, you probably will understand a great deal more than just by saying “being them.” Nearly everybody gets hung up on this and the center of the puzzle is simply this: being something exclusively, which is the psychosis called the “only one,” from which most... If the thetan is suffering from any kind of a wingding, it’s that one. And that is a scarcity of beingness. It goes down deeper, then, into a scarcity of attention. After he has spread his beingness around, he feels he doesn’t have enough attention, so he couldn’t possibly concentrate from several viewpoints simultaneously and manage several living objects well.

Well, if you were to look at this band of sexingness back up to knowingness and so forth and if you were to look at it from the band of, oh, 1.1 or 1.0 or .5 or something on the Tone Scale-because this, by the way, matches the Tone Scale, it’s right on the Tone Scale. It’s just a different way of grading, different way of stretching it out. I think 8-80 goes into that quite considerably. You’ve got a book that goes into that, tells quite a bit about it.

And as long as he feels he couldn’t do this-you see, then he’d have to give attention from these objects and that would confuse him with what he’s doing, because “everybody knows you can only do one thing at a time”-and so we’d get into this kind of a situation, you see? We’d have a problem of the scarcity of beingness. And as soon as we got into this “only one” problem (label-any other way you want to call it, but “only one”)-soon as the fellow gets the “only one” problem, why, he feels that he can’t grant beingness. He restrains himself because if he did, it would kind of come to life and he’d have to have some attention from it. Now, I’ll give you an idea of that.

Anyway, somebody down there around .5 or 1.0 or something like that, he looks up at the rest of it and, of course, his evaluating factors are pretty well stuck in .5 and 1.0. So a fellow in .5 would evaluate enthusiasm as a sort of a grief expressed too loudly. And knowingness, a total knowingness to something at .5 would be of knowing all the things there are to cry about, see? So this is actually a condensing action: that he doesn’t want to know all the things there are to cry about, so he knows less, which puts him further down on the scale.

Now, let’s look at the room from this forward wall. Let’s be the forward wall and look at the room.

Well, life has long since invented a method of clearing the ledger. They even-we are very, very clever. We can even clear police records. The Federal Boys Institute down here in Washington, that has that big shack on Pennsylvania Avenue with hot-and-cold-running attorneys-by the way, that’s the world’s greatest paper chain. The motto across the door there-it isn’t quite etched deeply into the stone yet-but the motto across the door of it should be “Pass the buck.”

Now be where you are and look at the forward wall while the forward wall is being there looking at you.

You go in there to try to find out about something that has to do with law enforcement or a crime or something-action and you say, “Well, there’s been eighteen banks robbed and I’ve just found out about these banks robbed and so forth.” They send you up to the second floor to tell somebody there. And you say, “Well, these eighteen banks have just been robbed and there’s eighteen billion dollars have just been stolen.”

You get an idea that this would be too much attention you’d have to spread and that it’s liable to be confused. Possibly. Or possibly, you’ve suddenly mastered the knack, which I hope you have.

And the fellow says, “Well, sorry. That’s not quite in my department. It’s next door there.” They tell you about that.

Actually, it’s much easier to sit around in about eighteen or twenty objects, each one with an independent viewpoint, and look at something, because boy, you sure get an all-side view of it. And you sure get a lot of understandings of it. Now, that is what is meant by multiple looking-multiple viewpoints.

And you go over to the next door and they say, “Well, you’ll have to fill out a report.” And you say, “Well, the robbers are right this moment going down the end of the street. Why don’t you do something about it?”

Now, a person does this one: he puts out remote viewpoints. That’s different than multiple viewpoints. A remote viewpoint is something he puts out someplace so that he can look at something. He’s not willing to be what he’s looking from, he is still himself where he is sitting, but he’s just unwilling to put out any more than the viewpoint. Let him put out some beingness, be the object and look from it, as it, and you don’t get a remote viewpoint.

And they say, “Well, you put that in the report too.”

Now most people-most thetans have this business about remote viewpoints. Instead of exteriorizing, they throw out some remote viewpoints. That’s a way of hiding. If people find the viewpoint, they can’t then find you. That’s real cute, isn’t it? So that’s a method of dodging and you have to watch for that one, because this fellow is, again-he’s in a worse condition than simply looking from one viewpoint. That’s what you call a deteriorated condition-remote viewpoints.

And after you’ve made these reports and so forth, you keep going up floors and down corridors. They don’t furnish scooters to go down the corridors, but they should. And when you finally get back to it, you’ve been referred back to the receptionist, who simply refers you to the door and nothing has happened. The most marvelous organization you ever saw and yet criminals are very frightened of it.

Now, there’s no reason to get confused about it, because this is a confusing subject. You just find out that every time somebody is handling remote viewpoints, that if you’ll just ask him to practice being a few things-I don’t care if he’s interiorized or exteriorized-you just practice being a few things, why, you’ll find this remote viewpoint condition having a tendency to clear up. Mostly because you’re making him willing to look from and actually give attention from several objects. Not at once. The way you’d do this is to start him in being single objects and then multiple, have him be two objects at once.For instance, you have to be, actually, two eyes at once in order to see with two eyes. That isn’t just one you, you see, standing there and looking through two eyes. If you’re going to use two eyes, you would essentially have to be the beingness of two viewpoints. But a person doesn’t get upset about this, because that’s normal and agreed upon and so forth. Well, every once in a while, a fellow is so thoroughly agreed upon this-he’s stuck in being two of himself-you exteriorize him and he feels like he’s going to pull apart. And this is very upsetting to him because he knows he can’t be more than just that spot he’s in.

Of course, you do get some of these boys sitting out in their local offices, where they really don’t have too much supervision. They’ve got a lot of tear gas bombs and a lot of things like that and they have a good time, every once in a while, if they can just prove to themselves that it’s interstate, you know. They’re not allowed to do anything unless it’s interstate and then they can do something. Although the government has proven now that anything, even eating or spitting, is interstate traffic. But these guys will occasionally go out and have a heck of a time for themselves.

Well, that’s why there’s no ceiling on an Operating Thetan. There isn’t any ceiling on it. The world is as alive to a child as he can see it from many viewpoints. If you were to ask a little kid-three, four, five years of age, who was in pretty good condition-to take a look at the yard from the fence while he was looking at the yard from his body, he would do so, and probably not get the two even vaguely entangled. Why? Because he can compartment his own beingness.

They do this every few years. They got mad at a fellow by the name of Dillinger, so a bunch of them got their pistols out and went down and stood outside a theater he was in-waited for him till he came out-and just shot hell out of him. I think they nicked a couple of ushers, too. But that was just a sort of an explosion from the boredom of it all.

Well now, this is condemned and feared, because it gets fixed sometimes and becomes a psychosis. It becomes used, as anything else will become used, as a forced, enforced method of escape.

Well, when police work gets on a big paper chain like this, there’s only one thing it does well and that’s keep everybody’s identity nailed down. And boy, it does that more and more thoroughly. The less efficient a police organization is, the more it will dabble with identity. And when it’s got identity completely nailed, you have no police.

What’s the best way of surviving? Well, you’ll survive better as five people than you will one person. So that computation, when added up to a prevention of being killed, leads to disaster. What’s the intention? The intention is to dodge, not to live.

That sounds funny because it sounds, you know, like, well, gee whiz, if they knew who all the criminals were in the country, why, gosh, gee, that would make law enforcement just grand and wonderful and, gosh, you could law enforce everybody then. Gee, gee, look at what you could do.

And we get back behind the scenes and we find out that if a fellow wants to live more and live wider, he has to be less afraid of being dead. It’s actually just a matter of viewpoint and intention whether you take the motorcycle down the road or the motorcycle takes you down the road. Or whether your automatic bank runs you or you run your automatic bank.

No, all you do when you’ve got them all nailed down is tax everybody. Nothing to do with law enforcement. The more a government nails down the individuality of its citizenry, the less justice the government must furnish, because it’s easier for the government to find people’s names and addresses in order to get the tithe-which is the real reason for police, I guess. I guess the first police were born when the first taxpayer refused to pay his tax. I don’t think any police existed up to that moment.

Now it’s very amazing to you and you very often consider that it’s a very terrible thing that all these automatic machines are sitting around, because they appear to have beingness. They’re alive! Let’s take the entity problem. They’re alive! Oooh! You know, they think, they do all sorts of things.

Well now, you think I’m talking way astray, but the funny thing, isn’t it, that actually 7 today that you don’t have the same sterling amounts of law that you had, for instance, a hundred years ago. They used to have cops a hundred years ago. You know, the guy would go out and he’d be looking for the criminals and he’d go find some criminals. But he might not find the right criminals, but ordinarily he did. In the first place, a police officer of a hundred years ago in New York City had to know, personally, practically every criminal in New York City.

Well, how do you think they got that way, huh? You put them up at a time you were willing to be you and a machine. And then you were only willing to be you. But you’re still out operating the machine. You see that? Lots of you is scattered all over the shop, no longer used by you, but is used by you against you.

That’s funny. You’d say, “If he knew all the criminals personally, he’d lock them all up.” Well, they’ve got them all in the files down in the FBI and they’re not all locked up. But more criminals were locked up at that time than later.

Now let’s just take granting of beingness and transpose it into willingness to be and 7 willingness to feel life from things and we’ve got the problem pretty well solved. See that?

These fellows used to go in and they’d look through the lineup-you went around and found a detective, he could tell you who all the criminals were in town and where they were hanging out and where to pick up somebody and where not to and so on.

I’ll give you an example. There was a fellow who had a rather persistent cough and a lot of these covert techniques wouldn’t turn it off. So, I spotted the fact that Papa coughed almost incessantly and Papa was always giving him orders. This fellow was already exteriorized, but he still had a cough-which is an oddity, by the way. But it’s just because he was holding one type of beingness in suspense. Papa was so obviously the person who assigned beingness that it never occurred to him he could be the beingness of Papa. So he had to resent Papa, he couldn’t duplicate Papa. Papa duplicated him, but he couldn’t duplicate Papa.

How did he get this? Well, not by writing it down. He just knew it, you see, by his professional level. You know, that was his professional activity. He knew these people when they were hauled in. And in the morning, for instance, he’d walk down through the jail and he’d take a look at everybody they had locked up and ask them what they were in there for and ask some of the other boys. And he’d be on the beat there for three or four years and then all of a sudden, why, golly, anybody did a crime, he’d say, “I bet that’s ‘Louie the Duke.’ Yeah, yeah, he left a crowbar outside the window and . .. Yeah, it probably is. Well, let’s see, he usually hangs out down there at the Bide-a-Wee Saloon” and go down and pick him up. “Well, come along Louie” and here we go.

So I took him way up somewhere a few thousand miles up, where we could get real good mock-ups, and had him mock-up Papa twice, both mock-ups facing the same direction on a same line, you see? Just like you had a communication line with Papa at C facing E and Papa at E again, facing away from C. Just have Papa repeat it. Because that would be the way the image Would come in. You see, it would be—Papa would be reversed at E. And then had him be Papa and give the E an order. And then be the E and repeat the order. The only thing that bothered him after a while was he couldn’t think of any other orders. But we just had him be at C, you see, and give an order like “You do so-and-so” and then be the image at E and say, “You do so-and-so.”

Also, there was less of a cleavage between the criminal and the cop. The cop was pretty degraded, so was the criminal. Criminal wasn’t quite as much degraded as the cop, though. Well, nowadays, the cop is in apathy. And by golly, the newspaper syndicates had better look out because criminals are going into apathy, too, and they won’t have anything to print.

Well, his cough evaporated. Cough, obviously, was some method to resist a communication. Must have been a communication from in front and, in view of the fact that it was the body and the fellow could exteriorize so easily, the GE itself had been granted-the front of it had been granted-beingness by Papa. There was kind of a reverse image of Papa standing on the front of the fellow’s body, you see? And he was unwilling to be this beingness. As long as he. was unwilling to be the beingness of Papa, he was unwilling to be the exact front of his body. So if he was unwilling to be the exact front of his body, of course, he’d just keep on coughing. Why? It was Papa’s cough.

The paper chain is getting better and better and better and better and better, but you look in vain for justice.

Now, let’s add this up to the same thing as automatic machinery. The machinery-you’ve set yourself up. You know, one day you just move over and you’re a machine, see, and you’re going to run the body and now you move back into the thing that’s going to be run. And this makes it all nice and smooth and even. The only trouble is, it’s in reverse. But you apparently have-eventually, you have somebody who has a lot of demons standing around giving him orders.

Now, you go into almost any law enforcement agency and say, “I have just this moment been robbed and my wallet stolen and I was knocked out and so forth.” Boy, you’ll just wish you never went near the joint. If you’ve ever had this experience, you just wish that you never closed terminals with that police station. Because by the time they get through with you, you’re absolutely certain that you’ve robbed somebody, [laughter]

Who are the demons? Who are the entities? Who are these things? Who are these automatic machines? They’re him. They’re him, with a fixed idea.

Female voice: Uh-huh.

Well, a wonderful way for a thetan exteriorized to set up an automatic machine is just be in one place and say, “This place is in relationship, now, to the other me. And now I have the fixed idea that I must at all times remember to brush my teeth and I will tell myself to brush my teeth. I will tell that other being to brush my teeth, at all times. And now this will resist all effects and go on forever and I’m here.” Then he flips back into his other beingness and cuts the line. He’s made another chess player. Except this isn’t a chess player, this is a tooth-brusher. And after that, he feels nagged if he doesn’t brush his teeth.

Yeah, it’s fantastic. Now, you want to sue somebody for something or do something like that, well, there’s so much paper chain sitting there that you have to do something about it.

Well, of course, you can say, “Well, that’s his mother or that’s his father or that’s somebody else brushing his teeth.” Well, if he didn’t have such a machine himself and if he hadn’t agreed to it and set it up himself, it wouldn’t be there. Wouldn’t be any tooth-brushing machine in the bank.

Now, typical of that is the notice that appears on the windshield of your car if you’re overparked. There isn’t anything even vaguely legal about it. You have not been served with a summons. It specifically states in every state constitution and every other doggone place that a fellow has to be processed by due processes of the law. And a due process of law specifically includes, in any code of laws we have in the United States, that a person be personally served with a summons. They don’t serve anybody with a summons.

Now, when you insist, always, that you are talking to another being, somebody else-when you always insist you’re talking to another being, that this person is another beingness-people start to get kind of hateful to you. Gets kind of to be an ornery problem. Why? Because they’re kind of occupying your space and all that sort of thing.

Now they leave us something or other on the windshield of your car, which can blow away or deteriorate. And somebody else might have borrowed your car and torn up the summons. And yet, do you know that if you don’t reply to that in a very short space of time, they will actually issue a warrant for your arrest? On what grounds? Well, for having been served a summon and not having appeared.

Well, one thetan can’t occupy another thetan’s space worth a nickel as far as the two thetans are concerned, because they don’t have any mass. You have to have mass to occupy space. You could put five thousand thetans on the head of the pin and they’d all be individuals. Just as you could put five thousand automatic machines all the way around a guy and he could still occupy a cube of space one millimeter by one millimeter by one millimeter. He could still be five thousand machines.

But do you know how they do it? You know how they collect that and why they do it? It’s very simple. Nobody wants to go down because it says on these cards that if you don’t pay it within forty-eight hours, why, you should come down. If there’s any protest about it, you should come down and arrange to set the date of trial. That’s what it says there, if you look at these summonses. You have to set the date of trial.

This is not very imponderable if you just consider the idea of a static not having quantity connected with it and a thetan not having quantity connected with it. One of the best ways to disabuse a thetan of having quantity is to make him pass through a force screen of some sort-move through it. The heck with it, he can’t move through this force screen as long as he’s carrying a lot of mass along with him. Because force screens can only act upon mass. And if he thinks he is being mass instead of granting the beingness to the mass-you know, he is the mass, you know, fixed, no further ramifications on it at all, he’s fixedly the mass—why, force screens, then, can affect him. It’s the only way they could affect him.

What the hell are they talking about, the date of trial? In the first place, it’s not legal for a city to charge for parking and it could be contested if anybody wanted to contest. In the second place, nobody has been served with a warrant. And in the third place, here is duress and that is extortion (that’s its title). So there’s practically no difference today between a criminal and a cop. The cop is engaging in extortion.

But actually, his individuality depends upon his not having any mass but granting beingness all over the place. You don’t have to become that thing to which you grant beingness. But you have to be willing to be it, also, as well as you.Now, if you’re willing to be the whole MEST universe and you, too, you’re an individual adrift in a very live, very large playing field. But if the rest of the MEST universe is just something else and you’re “agin it” and that sort of thing, well, the end product is a very grim one. You simply become smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and less willing to grant beingness to anything.

Well, he always has, to some degree, but not quite that flagrantly. You don’t think that’s flagrant because, well, that’s just the way the society runs and it’s only a buck, anyhow. And so you send in your dollar or forget about it. And next time you get your license, you’ll find out they’ve got a warrant for your arrest, that now causes you seven dollars unless they serve it or ...

Now, how did-let’s just provide that somebody did-how did Lazarus pick up his bed and walk?

This isn’t law. That isn’t law enforcement, it isn’t justice. Because as the beingness runs down, the justice runs out. And you’ll find your preclear as low on the Tone Scale as he conceives he cannot himself get or he himself cannot enforce justice.

Female: He brought his bed, his own bed.

There’s a direct index between a person’s ability to use or do his own justice or have it done for him and his well-being.

Worse than that. The fellow that treated him was Lazarus. We don’t know whether Lazarus, the thetan, having shoved off-we don’t know whether he was still Lazarus the thetan, but we know this body picked up a bed and walked, see?

You ask somebody on this circuit-now, by the way, I’m going to run this on you here just for a second.

Now, once in a great while back down through the Middle Ages, some saint’s statue or something of the sort has stepped off the pedestal or spoken. There’s no doubt that this has happened, you see, because it’s too easy to make it happen. If you’re just completely willing to be the saint and then completely willing to alter the basic material of the statue till it can be mobile, of course, any quantity of statues will walk and talk. See? This is not a difficult problem.

Now name three things you can do to somebody else.

This problem is really as difficult as you make it difficult so that other people won’t give you continuous surprises, such as making houses greet you and say, "Good morning.” The world can get readily and rapidly a bit too random for a lot of people. And that’s the way to get random. You’ve been going to church for a long time and one day you go to church and the altar yawns. And the congregation screams! Merely because it’s unexpected.

Now name three things somebody else can do to you.

Now, these people who go around trying to “feel the atmospheres” of places, are trying to be the effect of places. And if you go-this is horrible-this is terrible that I have to tell you this, because it probably will hit awfully close to home in several places-but the fellow who goes around and tries to feel the atmosphere all the time without putting any there, of course, winds up by not feeling any atmosphere. And the world gets to be very drab and very dull and very unexciting after a while, because all things kind of seem the same to him and there’s no interest in it and so on. The dark night full of sage-he remembers this as something very wonderful that he has experienced when he’s young. And he gets back into the same area again and he tries to feel the dark night full of sage. Of course, he winds up by feeling an engram, you might say, a facsimile of what he felt before. Because he’s willing to get back there and be the effect of what he was in the past. Well, if you want to be the effect of the past, go ahead. But the only time you’ll ever live in is the present.

Now get some things you can’t do to somebody else, [pause] Some things you can’t do to somebody else.

Now he could just artificially do this all over again simply by being the night, being the sage, being the smell of the sage, then being himself. And believe me, he’d get a good, beautiful, romantic scene. In other words, put it there and then get it back.

Now get some things somebody else can’t do to you. [pause] Some things somebody else can’t do to you.

Now, fellows build in automatic forgetters. They are the night, are the sage, are themselves, so that they can experience the night and the only conscious experience which they permit to the surface is: “Doesn’t the night smell wonderful!” Well, there has to be two forgetters in there before the night feels wonderful. You see, they have to be the night and then forget that they were the night and then they have to be the sage and forget that they are the sage, then they have to be themselves and experience it. See? Get how tricky this is.

Is there anybody present who has not answered that last one with certainty yet? Haven’t answered that last one with certainty?

Fellows are putting forgetters into themselves all the time. They don’t know what their left hand, right hand is doing. Problem. Because they’re sold on the idea that it’s better to be an effect than to be at cause. So they’re trying all the time to be a good effect, trying not to be a bad effect, trying to be a good cause, trying not to be a bad cause. And they’re getting highly selective, on what? A basic consideration. And that consideration is only this? that there is badness and goodness. See? Badness and goodness don’t exist unless you can consider they exist. Beauty does not exist unless you can consider that it exists. Beauty and ugliness are agreed-upon concepts.

Male voice: All I do is get a few.

And by the way, they are probably the most thoroughly complexly codified agreements which you have in the bank. They’re aberrative mostly because of that, not because beauty is the all and everything. Do you see that? They’re terrifically codified. And then you have to forget about them so that you can experience them. The one thing that you think you have to do is experience beauty. Of course, that makes you the effect of beauty all the time. Well, if you don’t make any beauty, you can’t experience it.

Okay. That’s right.

Well, getting back to what I was talking about at first, if you let the society grant you a beingness and then you agree to be fixed in that beingness, as a label, the whole thing caves in on you and eventually you die as that identity. Because that is the road to death: accepting a label and then being only that label. That’s the road to death.

You answered it with certainty?

The road to life is to make everything live. You couldn’t be simpler than this. Make everything live. Little kids go around, houses actually tip their caps to them.

Male voice: Yeah.

One of the happiest fisherman I ever met, by the way, used to make a run up through some very narrow fjords and so on and he knew every rock on the way. But he didn’t put it that way. He says, “You know,” he says, “every rock all the way up there, every one of them knows me. Every bird knows me. Every rock, every bird.” He obviously was consciously the whole time granting them beingness, he knew he was granting them beingness, this had never slipped the cogs. It was just a big joke with him-good fun.

Yeah well, what can’t they do to you?

So we get down to the fact that if you can’t create, really, to some degree, you can’t live. And a fellow who has made up his mind he can’t create in certain departments and that certain things are wrong with him so he can’t create certain things, of course, goes off in terms of beingness, just incidentally goes off in terms of beingness, because that’s one of the things he can’t create. He can’t create selectively.

Male voice: They can’t kick me out of my house. They can’t rip my clothes off my back. They can’t get me out of my head. [laughter]

And you would be amazed that nearly every human being has agreed with himself many times over that he can’t create this item, that he can’t create that item, that he can’t create something else. When he can’t create enough, he gets onto the second part of the curve, which is survival-which he must make everything persist. When he has to make everything persist, then his mock-ups come back after he’s banished them and the blackness persists and all sorts of things happen. Then he slides over on the curve and he starts unmocking everything because he’s made unmocking itself-by validating survival, he has made unmocking his randomity. So every unmocking machine in the bank will eventually turn around and start to unmock everything he’s got, merely because he is them, still, and he is then his own enemy. You see how that would work? And you’ve got your occluded case, actually, just on that cycle.

Second male voice: I’ve tried at all those, but then when I get to thinking about it.. .

Okay? Well, I won’t belabor this any further. I’ll leave you utterly adrift probably. No, I think there’s a guy or two knows what I’m talking about.

That is the justice index of the case, that question. And if you just run that on a preclear that long and if you’re in direct communication with him when you ask him the last question, if you were to start a stopwatch, it will give you a direct time index on how long it’ll take to Theta Clear him-direct index.

One of the most interesting exercises that you can pull is to have the environment, selectively one point and then another point of the environment, telling an individual there’s something wrong with him. And then having various selected parts of the environment telling the individual that he mustn’t be. Mustn’t be-nothing in specific, just “mustn’t be, mustn’t be this, mustn’t be that.”

And I’ll show you why that is. His individuality is one thing and his identity is another. And he is into the trap of trying to use identity as an insistence upon justice. “I am so-and-so, therefore, I am safe.” And that’s the neatest booby trap there is. Because the more he is a certain identity, the less safe he is. It’s an immediate and direct departure from good sense. It’s an inversion.

And he gets there by this: it’s demonstrated to him continually that anybody can do anything they want to him.

So this makes him grant beingness out very broadly and gets him into practice on granting beingness. So you have these various accusations.

And there’s this specialized case in Scientology in which you might be very interested, is: “You aren’t Clear.” See, you have mountains and valleys and people in far places and so forth looking at the fellow and sneering and saying, “You aren’t Clear. Something wrong with you.”Now, on a black case, by the way, wasting the machinery that makes blackness and getting him to know that he’s wasting it, in brackets, is tremendously effective. It’s very effective. Wasting machinery in brackets.

And again, anything could communicate to you that wanted to. Duplicate it.

Now, I gave you this process about the communication line, the inverted flinch, so forth, yesterday on this case. I want to give you the idea and a notation on that. That’s a long technique, that’s not a short technique. You just do it in brackets. I gave it to you there. The fellow receives a communication and flinches. And the essence of the technique is to have the individual himself, after he has flinched-you know, he receives this piece of paper or bullet or something in the face-just have him determine what he’s going to receive, then have him point the direction he ought to go. Select a new direction each time that he ought to go. He’ll also have directions where he’s supposed to go straight at the individual who hit him.

Now mock yourself up in a condition where anything that wanted to could communicate to you. And duplicate it.

Female voice: Can you say that again, please?

Now mock yourself up in a condition where nothing could communicate with you if you didn’t want it to.

This is the inverted flinch-the double flinch. The communication line technique I gave you for a black case. He receives a communication-this is done in brackets-and then he flinches, knowingly. .. He selects what kind of a communication it is, he receives it, he flinches (you know, inverted flinch or back flinch) and then points out the direction he’s supposed to go. Kind of mocks himself up going in that direction, you see-but points out the selective direction. He selects the direction he’s supposed to go. And this gets him to be the automatic machinery which sends him places.

Do that again.

Another technique is-on this same line-is being the thing which tells him what the future holds and being the thing which is being told what the future holds and being the past which is helping the thing in the future tell him what the future holds or being the past and being neglected or being the past, being the present, being the future.

Now, how many on the first one got dead bodies?

Now, do you rig this up necessarily exteriorized or interiorized? No, you don’t. It just doesn’t matter. You don’t tell the fellow not to go outside and look and you don’t tell him to stay inside and do this. You just tell him to be these various things. “Now be the future telling you in the present-be you, the future, telling you, the present, what the future holds.”

Audience: [various responses]

Guy’s parents turn up on the various warnings and forebodings and so forth. All this stuff starts spilling off. But it’s spilling off the automatic machine, which he laid in the first place to tell him what the future held. First he laid in a machine, though, that would tell him what-to refuse to know what the future held. The first machine that’s laid in there is the machine that tells him he doesn’t know the future. That’s to add randomity. But you peel it on down that way.

Sick bodies, sick bodies. What it is, of course, is a dead body.

On a guy who is exteriorized, you have him be the future and refuse to let him, the present, know what’s going to happen. And then be him, the present, being refused knowledge about the future. And then have him be the past, burying bad material about him, the present. And back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

Now, here is the boy who has gone into an identity. The most identity there is, is a dead body. That’s unfortunately true. The most identity there is, is something which is completely motionless. And identity and motion are themselves a direct index. As the identity increases, the motion decreases till you get complete stillness.

Or you be the past, being the adventures that he can live again when he’s old or something like that. Being the adventures he’ll have to have when he gets bored-lots of variations on this.

Now, if you want a terrifically imposing identity, you just fix yourself in one spot very fixedly and you’ll get an identity. Now, the more thoroughly you fix yourself, the more identity you’ll get.

It’s a little guiding rule, however, that the less significance you put onto a basic concept, 16 the more rapid the technique-the less significance is added into the idea. You just said to the fellow, “Be the future. Be the present. And be the past” and if he did this for a little while, if he’s in fair condition, he’ll all of a sudden pick all this stuff up himself. And you just push it along a little bit faster by telling him to be the future and do so-and-so and be the past and do so-and-so. But if you were to just tell him, “Be the past. Be the present. Be the future. Now be the future looking at you in the present” and back and forth this way, you would work out the very information which I’m giving you. And this information would turn up. But it might take you so much longer as an auditor in some cases that it wouldn’t be worth your while.

Now, that doesn’t seem to hold true, because you think of a dead body as not having any right to use his name. Even though he has a name, still, he hasn’t any right to use that name. But wait a minute. He has no right to motion. He has the right to a name but no right to motion.

Very often, the fellow you’re asking to exteriorize is being the past. He isn’t going to exteriorize into the present if he’s being the past. And some of the others that you’ve run into are being the future. And you try to exteriorize them and, of course, they can’t exteriorize because they’re in the future. Fellow has to be in present time pretty well in order to exteriorize. Okay?

And anybody can find him, anybody can communicate with him. For instance, as long as there’s the slightest bit of life in an individual, he can protect or defend the body in some fashion. In other words, the body cannot be communicated with totally. For instance, damp might not be able to communicate with it. Earth might not be-dirt, these things can’t communicate with it. He’s protecting it to some degree, you see? He could still remove it into situations, one way or the other, where he has some protection.

By the way, some people get a terrific fear on this, the second you start to make them make something alive. Well, you handle that with kid gloves.

But if that body is dead, immobile, then earth and rain and anything can get to any part of it, to the deepest part of its structure-mold. Animal runs along, it can run over it. And anything can touch it, in other words.

And by the way, the worst cases you’ll run into will be those cases which will tell you ... You say, “Now put a concept in that pillow over there.”

Somebody comes along after the battle, the body is lying there dead, why, they generally just pump a few bullets into him or whack him with a few swords or something of the sort. They quite normally treat bodies very disgracefully after a battle. They recognize this. Modern times, they plow them into trenches and send empty coffins home to the folks.

And they say, “That pillow can’t think!”

But there is the end product of MEST universe communication. Do you see that? And it’s an identity. An identity tends in this direction.

You say, “Uh-oh!”-to yourself-“Gee, this guy doesn’t have beingness out to the distance of that pillow and it’s only seven feet.” Tisn’t so much size, but you know-the one thing he knows is that he has to be an effect of the MEST. That’s what tells you that. He’ll argue with you and say it isn’t alive and so on.

Why does the FBI-now you-I fooled you. You just thought I was yapping about law and order. I’m not yapping about law and order. There isn’t any law and order, that’s what I’m yapping about. Why does the FBI want every criminal’s fingerprints, everyplace in the land? So they can communicate with them, of course.

And also, you run brackets on this, remember. He has to be the MEST being alive for other people too, you know, not just for him.

You see? So the better the fingerprint files, why, the better the communication. So when the communication is utterly perfect and they can reach him at all times and no communication whatever could be prevented in the FBI, then they think they have a good police system. They haven’t got a police system, they got a death system, see?

Well, if I can’t tell you anything else, let’s take a break and get to work.

And a society degenerates to a point where that system itself considers every citizen within it having no right to move without state permission and you have this along the iron curtain countries today. You have no right to move unless you have the permission of the state. You haven’t any right to walk without permission of the state, really, because you’re stopped and your papers requested every few blocks.

Interesting, isn’t it? That’s all on the basis of cutting down motion, cutting down motion. And the more motion is cut down, why, the less freedom there is. So this is other-determinism and other-restriction, which, of course, winds up in the no freedom of death. Death is the no-freedom level.

That’s why we have the Tone Scale. The Tone Scale is really just the Tone Scale from life to death. Now, it so happens because of the thetan that there are levels below death, as you conceive it, but these are not communication levels worth a nickel. Because the truth of the matter is-and this will pick you up as your spirits sit there and sag, you poor people, having stuck you in a few past deaths-get this one: the only thing MEST can communicate with is MEST and you’re not MEST.

So it must work out, on the basis of protection that you’re doing. And if you’re mobile at all-if you’re mobile at all, it must be that you’re capable of some protection. And the degree of protection of which you are capable is the degree of mobility which you can achieve with that MEST which you’re trying to protect. See that? All right.

It could be said this way, like I was saying it before, which was why you got so depressed: that the MEST universe can, at any time, communicate with you directly. Well, it can communicate with thetan plus body pretty well, but it can’t communicate with a thetan except as he chooses.

Now, the individual who steps out of the body and then can’t see anything right is simply really exercising his methods of protecting himself. He isn’t in communication with the MEST universe, because he conceives communication from the MEST universe to be dubious at best. You know, it has dubious value.

MEST can communicate with MEST. It’s all very well to say the MEST universe is composed of consecutive spaces, so therefore any part of the MEST universe can be in communication with any other part of the MEST universe. This shouldn’t make you unhappy.

You’d think it was a funny football field, where goal post one couldn’t communicate with goal post two, because they were on two entirely different planes in two different towns. That would be a real silly game, wouldn’t it? So if there are uninterrupted spaces between here and Jupiter or uninterrupted spaces between here and the next island universe, why, of course, there can be no game. It’s just the game is pretty big and can get pretty vicious, but it’s a big playing field.

But just as a football player can go over and sit on the sidelines, so can a thetan at any time go over and sit on the sidelines as far as the MEST universe game is concerned.

Now, what the thetan has been doing, he’s rigged himself so that this can be a fairly covered-up fact so that he won’t have to remember past lives so that he won’t have to have any identity in those lives. Because he’s really as immobile, he believes, as he has identity in those lives.

There’s nothing wrong with remembering those lives. But the more identity you kick up for him in past lives, the less mobile he becomes, the more times he’s stuck on the track, z/he considers that an identity as a symbol is in itself valuable.

So we come back to the definition of a symbol. The symbol is an idea wrapped up in energy which is mobile which takes, of course, space. It’s energy in space, but it has mobility, it definitely has mobility.

Now, it’s an idea wrapped up in energy, so anything can communicate with it, of course. In the MEST universe, anything can communicate with a symbol-anything. The book down at the library can be thrown out back and a horse can see it. He doesn’t have to be able to read to communicate with the book.

Well, he’d have to be able to read to communicate with the deep significance of the book, but we’re not talking about significances, we’re just talking about a book. And there’s a book and a horse can look at a book. So can some dead leaves look at a book. Any shaft of sunlight or any drop of rain can communicate with that symbol.

So anything in the MEST universe can communicate with a symbol, really, except for this: except for the protective instinct of life.

Now, you think life is destructive, but it isn’t life that you’re fighting. Many people think they’re fighting life and they are hard to live with to die degree that they think they have to fight life. They think that life is their randomity. They’re as easy to live with as they haven’t chosen life for their randomity and recognize rather clearly that this playing field itself is a liability.

Now, the only liability there is to this playing field is that it is consecutive spaces and can communicate from one corner of it to the other, consecutively. The only liability a thetan has: that he loses his ability to protect those masses or symbols which he is shielding from communication. See that? So he is as able as he can protect. There’s nothing wrong with protecting and defending. An individual cannot possibly exist without some ability to protect.

It’s a funny thing that there’s one thing that isn’t a dichotomy in all of this and this, too, works out very interestingly in terms of an interesting comment. You can, if you wish, run on a preclear “your problems”-you know, you say, the preclear’s problem is this and the preclear’s problem is that. We use it all the time, very loosely, because that’s our frame of reference here in this particular culture.

But do you know that if you were to Double Terminal “my problems,” you’d probably get no action? You’d get no big action. You just Double Terminal out there four times. You can try it on a preclear if you want. Because I’m telling you about it, it might or might not work on you, but you get four terminals, “my problems,” and you just don’t get much action out of it-nothing violent. But you put up “other people’s problems” as four terminals . ..

Put it up there, four times. Try it.

I don’t see a lot of sighs around here. Getting a little action out of those mock-ups?

Now put up “my own personal problem.”

Now, which one had the most action connected with it?

Female voice: The other people's.

Male voice: It’s a lot of things.

Yeah, a lot-lot of action on that “other people’s problems,” because that’s all the problem you’ve got! There isn’t any other problem than the other person’s problem. This works out very basically from this business of protection, communication.

Now, by our definition, communication is any particle flow. That’s communication. So we find out that a bullet or a Western Union telegram or anything else ... As a matter of fact, a thetan doesn’t much distinguish, mostly because good and bad are a matter of consideration. Well, he can start to consider that bullets are valuable communications and good communications and Western Union telegrams bad communications, even though they tell him he’s won a million dollars in a lottery, you see? And we’ve got that-that consideration enters in there that fools a lot of people. They think there are contra-survival and pro-survival elements just because of the judgment they’re utilizing and the frame of reference in which they are working out the immediate problems with which they’re dealing.

If a bunch of boys get together to destroy a company of the enemy, believe me, they are not going to consider any beneficial fact a good fact. The only good facts they have there are destructive facts.

So they come up and they say, “Well, all right. Let’s fix up some hand grenades so they have a one-half-second fuse and let’s fix them with the enemy labels and leave them in the enemy’s supply dump. That’ll do for a few of them. And let’s see.”

And everybody would sit around. And after somebody had thought that one up, why, they’d congratulate each other, you know, “Ah, that’s a good one, that is. That’s real good” and so forth. Well, it’s just a matter of viewpoint, a matter of beingness. It’s what company or what army they belong to, what fact is good.

Now, they find this pile of hand grenades with one-half-second fuses in their own supply dump and a half a dozen of their boys use them. Now that’s a bad fact, no good at all.

It’s what they’re protecting that makes things good or bad and what they’re protecting against that makes the bad. And this breaks down to just the business of beingness. What are they being, specifically? What are they being? Are they being themselves? Are they being the enemy and so forth?

Now once in a while, some fellow sails in at a high tone and he looks over this game and he says, “Isn’t that interesting? Those fellows are being blue shirts and these fellows over here are being green shirts. Hmm. Lot of nice guys on both sides.”

And he’ll say, "What you guys fighting for, huh?”

Well, they’ve got lots of reasons. Yeah, they have more reasons than anything else.

Well, this guy who is fairly high-toned won’t interfere particularly with them fighting, but he’s liable to point out to them how they could make a much better game out of it because it basically looks like a game to him, you see?

And he finds that the green shirts keep all their troops waiting for two years before they let anybody fight and this spoils the game. And the blue shirts do something else and that spoils the game.

And he said, “Gee whiz. You know something? I’m going to let you fellows in on

1 something. You’re geared, according to your time ratio, to have a game here and I don’t find you doing anything. Why don’t you have a game?” You know, that doesn’t seem right to him, they don’t have a game. All right.

Some other guy drifts in and he’s in real apathy. He’s been whipped. He knows he can’t protect anything and he’s just sure the green shirts and the blue shirts alike will turn on him. Even if he’s a green shirt, he knows the green shirts will fight him. If he’s a blue shirt, he knows the blue shirts will fight him.

And he goes in and he says immediately on this level, “Well, killing is wrong and everything is wrong and fighting is wrong and you shouldn’t do that. And what you should all get is ‘Beastianity’ or something.” That’s strictly from a self-protection method. Because he knows he can protect nothing, he has to have no action.

So you get a mockery level of the Tone Scale, which is the mockery level of the high level on the Tone Scale. You see, they look alike at a first glance. You have to distinguish between the two and the distinguishing thing between the two is how much motion is being called for.

Some fellow who is talking very, very benignly but calling for no motion of any kind whatsoever or no action for any kind whatsoever, he’s on the mockery band. But somebody could talk very, very benignly way on up the scale.

Now, a thetan is in good shape and having a good game on this percentage: he’s using 50 percent of his activities as attacking and 50 percent of them as defending or protecting force. He’s so composed that about 50 percent of his activity has to do with attacking and about 50 percent has to do with defending. And he’ll have a good game and a well-balanced game and he’ll go on and he’ll have a lot of fun and lots of things will happen.

And the reason I give you this is because it’s a figure that holds good in almost any sport, including war. That’s a good average.

For instance, if you imbalance infantry and make them a 90 percent holding force, they’re going to lose. Look at France. They made France into 100 percent holding force in the Maginot Line. You can’t handle infantry like that, that’s all there is to it.

Now, let’s take a besieged castle. The odd part of a besieged castle is it has to do so much attacking. You say, “But it’s besieged. It’s ringed around by its attackers and it can’t possibly do any attacking, because it’s ringed around by its besiegers and so forth and that’s sort of the definition of the game.”

Well, if you look into history and the wars that had to do with siege craft and so forth, you’ll find out that about the deadliest thing to sting would be some kind of a castle like that. Because if it just sat there and defended itself, it would fall.

The besiegers could sit there and their supplies could come in and they could get supplied and they could get squared around. And nothing would happen and everything would be very calm in the countryside and it could be plundered at will. And the people would just sit there in the castle, you see, and wait to be eaten up. And maybe the castle could defend itself, but there’s no time limit on how long a besieger who has full run of the countryside can besiege.

So those castles became unbesieged, which themselves would spend about 50 percent of their time holding the castle and the other 50 percent just raising hell with the besieger.

How did they do this? The/d have sally ports. Small group of men slide out in the middle of the night and, the next thing you know, why, eighty baggage wagons go up in smoke. And then there’s a small group of cavalry go out and they just cut the communication lines to pieces. Then the next thing you know, the besiegers are besieged on the other side and they’re caught in between by a fairly sizable force, one way or the other. And boy, it got real random.

Siege warfare is an interesting study mostly because it has ceased to exist almost and appears to be an entirely new picture. But what do you know, our old pal-our old pal Hitler didn’t know anything about siege warfare, he decided that you could neglect armed posts. He decided you could neglect forts. And he did with great success because he was fronting generals who didn’t know how to use them.

And then as the war progressed, the boys realized what he was doing, so they started specializing in siege warfare and a few other things like that and “the great Wehrmacht were not.” You know, they just disarmed points and that sort of thing and just cut his communications and everything else to ribbons. And so this huge machine depended entirely for attacking and no protection. Oh boy, it lost.

In any game of life, that’ll happen. If in business you simply were to sit still and rake only the inflow and never do an outflow, you’d starve in a very short space of time. So we

I get this whole picture of balanced flows which this universe has so pat: outflow, inflow. And a good game is 50 percent outflow and 50 percent inflow.

Now, you get a preclear come along and the preclear will say to you, “You know, I outflow all the time and that makes it possible for me to hold off and defend myself one way or the other.” Uh-uh. You won’t find him in very good shape. We’d call this a stuck flow or something of the sort.

This fellow must have some ability to attack in order to protect. Just to protect, he has to attack. So the fellow who says, “I’m going to sit still the rest of my life and have peace” has just signed his own death warrant. You see why he has? He’s still going to be in this universe.

Well, there’s your problem with a preclear, is how much can he defend? The other part of the problem is, how much is he trying to? And that gets to be grim.

If Japan had not fallen when Japan fell, Japan could have won the war in the next wave because Japan spread herself all over the Pacific in such a way as to condense the US forces into a raiding force. Then it became elementary to roll up the Japanese from island to island. Became elementary. Why? Because Japan was spread all over the islands, of course.

Well now, all things being equal and atom bombs aside and if somewhat like manufacturing abilities had been more of a parity between the two, by the time the US had rolled up Japan back onto the home island, she theoretically would have left a very heavy raiding force, very compact, which could still have raised hell with the US forces.

And we could have gotten this: where first the US is spread all over the Pacific, Japan rolls them up with a raiding force, you see? Then the US is all compact now, so it rolls up all these Japanese spread all over the Pacific. Then the recurring wave of that, if it hadn’t have been for the amount of destruction which was done, would have been simply for Japan to now be compact and come back and roll up all the forces that had left, see, having been buttered all over the Pacific.

So we get your give and take, back and forth.

Now, your preclear has gotten himself spread out all over the universe, one time or another, and he’s still got fixed ideas about what he’s trying to defend all over the track. And our problem with such a preclear who is (quote) “buttered all over the universe” is that this individual has recognized his failure to protect on practically every playing field with which he has a communication. And he’s in communication with playing fields rather than knowing about playing fields.

He’s in communication with other planets. He’s in communication with all sorts of things-fixed. And you’ll find such a preclear with enormous corded communication fines wrapped all around him and everything else. He’s long on communication and very short on being able to protect and defend.

Well, when you look at the fact that his beingness-his beingness is as good as he can grant beingness to other things-if he has the idea he has to protect everything to which he has granted beingness or is granting beingness, if he then has to protect it, he isn’t going to grant beingness to anything.

And so we get a pattern case and this is a pattern case. You’ll find this case many times. He’s buttered all over the place. You ask him “where he is not” or “where he’s not thinking” or something like that and he has a difficulty in telling you-а great difficulty, great communication lags on the thing.

“Well,” you say, “all right. Now, be the bed.”

And he can’t be the bed. It’s the same thing, see. He has the idea that if he is anything, then he has to protect it and he knows he can’t protect anything. And what you call an apathy case would be a fellow who not only can’t attack but can’t defend, either.

So we get this thing rolling up in this fashion. The fellow starts out about-he starts out all attack, 100 percent attack. And then he gets some things to hold and that breaks down gradually to it’s 50 percent attack and 50 percent protecting the things he holds.

Now he gets so many things to hold he figures there’s a scarcity of an ability to attack. He figures there’s a scarcity of attention, you see. And he starts down to a point where he’s only defending. Now he’s gone up to about 100 percent defense and then that comes down the line to less and less defense. They’re still his, but he’s not defending them.

And this rolls on back to where he’s only defending 50 percent of what he has and he’s only defending 20 percent and 10 percent. And here’s where you start into your apathy case par excellence. The next thing you know, he only has a body. And that’s all he can grant any being to and that’s all he can defend.

Well, boy, the thetan that only owns a body is in horrible condition. He won’t be able to get mock-ups or anything else. He can’t get a mock-up of things which are not his or things which will not potentially be his. So we get this problem of invested beingness, of communication, of identity pretty well wrapped up. You see that? See how it could deteriorate.

Now, it would start out, of course, at a higher echelon than I gave it. It’d start out just knowing about things and not attacking anything. And he’d have to split the universe into two halves, the blues and the greens, before he could really engage in any kind of a random game. His knowingness at that moment would have to drop to 50 percent. See that?

So actually, there is, really, just an intellectual philosophy that goes along right with this, is how would you lead a peaceful life? Well, there is a way to lead a peaceful life: know all there is to know about everything on the process of being able to be everything.

Now, you could know all there is to know about everything, in terms of symbols and data, but be unwilling to be anything and you’d be at the bottom of the scale because you’d be dealing exclusively in symbols. You wouldn’t be dealing in real beingness.

But life has a mechanism which solves this. After a body is ditched, dead, why, the thetan says, “Okay. Now I’m on a no-ownership, no-attack basis.” And he doesn’t know much, but he’s got some kind of a system and he just jettisons all this-you know, just cuts the communication lines as nearly as he can. And he grabs this next body and he says, “Now I have that force which potentially can attack everything and own everything”-pardon me. He says at first it can own everything-a little baby owns everything. And then he gets along to a point where he can attack everything-then he’s into his teens. And then he goes from there into defending family. He’s got a unit he has to defend, he can’t attack any further and then he sort of starts to fall back and he can’t even defend his family. And he gets back to a standard Homo sapiens.

There’s your banker, usually, your drug clerk, your bus driver and so forth. He’d have a little bit of a hard time defending his body, truth be told. You ask him very closely about it, he’d tell you there were quite a few things that could knock in his body. Well, that’s a funny state of mind to be in, you know. The body shouldn’t be the last point of ownership.

All right.