This is January the 13th, 1954, first morning lecture. This morning we have the problem of knowingness.

Now we have, then-that immediate problem, you can with a little practice, I think, satisfy yourself that it’s resolved on a Resistive V level.

Now, when you know all there is to know about knowingness, why, you’ll know all there is to know, of course, and that isn’t just a wisecrack, that’s a fact. When you know all there is to know about knowingness, you’d all know all there is to know.

I’ll go over that again very, very briefly and that is to say, the fellow is a communication particle rather than a communication cause and effect. And you have him receive communications and, you know, interiorize into them. Instead of going someplace, close with them. And then have him receive a communication and then get the sensation of sending himself someplace else. You see, the demand of a bad news is that you be somewhere else instantly. Any communication which carries bad news with it really is insisting on you being elsewhere.

You see, once upon a time, you were bored because you knew everything there was to know. So you began to invent things which you wouldn’t know and began to throw in automaticities which would prevent you from knowing.

One of the silliest things you can get a preclear to do, by the way, is “I’m supposed to be there. I’m supposed to be there. I’m supposed to be there. I’m supposed to be somewhere else. I’m supposed to be somewhere else and so forth.” You get that? He’s supposed to be elsewhere. And by the way, try that. Just say to yourself, “Well, I’m supposed to be there and I’m supposed to be there ...” Interesting, isn’t it? That’s because nearly every communication you receive says that you must do one or two things: you must either duplicate it or be someplace else. You must be it or elsewhere.

And the first automaticity that prevents you from knowing is space. The moment you put down the barrier of space and you say you’re at one place and something else can be in another place, you thereupon, thereby and at that moment, of course, do not know what is at that other point of space unless you look.

Now, a V has an awful hard time being the communication, because he’s so used to receiving orders in this fashion.

So the first major cut-down of knowingness is lookingness. But there is another method which really doesn’t actually belong on this scale but which can be included on this scale just for our use and that’s beingness. You decided to be something that didn’t know and this actually was your first requirement, obviously. All right. Is it a good job? Yes, it’s a good job because it gives you a lot of things you don’t know. That’s a good job.

Well now, sound is always telling you something. It says it’s safe to be here or you should be elsewhere or there’s trouble over there. So just take sound as a communication. If you heard an explosion up the block, why, it would really be saying to you “duplicate it.” You know, to hear it perfectly, you’d have to duplicate the explosion or be elsewhere. Just the wave flow of it would say “be elsewhere.”

So beingness actually flickers around above and below lookingness as a system of not-knowing. Beingness is a system of not-knowing, lookingness is a system of not-knowing, emotingness is a system of not-knowing, effortingness is a system of not-knowing. Thinkingness is the best I know of for not-knowing. Symbolizingness is a system for not-knowing and that thing which is packed with the most surprises, both for the eaten and the eater, is of course eatingness. And then sexingness, of course, is a tremendous adventure on the subject of not-knowingness. And people go around and be sad all up and down this line because they don’t know.

Now, let’s take a bullet. The V will discover this when this is run on him, so you as an auditor ought to be prepared to have him discover it-he won’t necessarily, but he’s liable to. A communication and a bullet are, by our definition and actually by behavior, quite similar. And a bullet falls within our definition of a communication, which simply is a particle from C to E. It’s not a particle from C to E and then back to C again. That’s not a communication, that’s a conversation. You could have a conversation with bullets. (A lot of people used to, out here in Arizona.) And very seldom did a fellow get to communicate back after somebody else had communicated first.

Well now, this is a wonderful thing because they have fixed the line all the way up from top to bottom so they won’t know.

Well now, what’s our goal here? Our goal is to get him over fear of being sent and to unreverse that inversion. Let’s get the inversion reversed so it’s running straight. Well, you do that by-he receives a communication and closes with it, then he receives a communication and goes away with it. Because as he sits there, that V is doing, on all communications, some kind of a flinch. So this is really a reverse flinch. When he receives a communication, his impulse is to flinch back, but he doesn’t flinch back-he flinches in. It’s a reverse flinch. He’s gone down the line far enough to do reversals on flinches. When trouble hits him, he closes with it. And that may or may not be a virtue-when it’s done automatically, it’s no good at all. Anybody can close with trouble, you would never have any randomity if he didn’t. But that’s a reverse flinch.

Now, you come along as an auditor and you want this fellow to know. Obviously, he’s cut his knowingness level down to below tolerance. And he’s gotten down to a point where he doesn’t know that he doesn’t know about a lot of things, but mostly, he doesn’t know that not-knowingness has a value, because he’s down so low on the Knowingness Scale by the time he gets around to being audited that his life is full of, not surprises but anxieties. And what is an anxiety but another surprise? Too many surprises, all in a row, gives an anxiety.

Now, right in the middle, between a reverse flinch (as it works out) and just a straight flinch, is a beautiful apathetic null period, the powerlessness of which shouldn’t happen to somebody. Now, you should also know that a V has probably been a member, too, of one of these invader forces and they quite normally were left-handed. They’re not right-handed. Right-handedness is a very, very artificial development. Making everybody right-handed here on this planet is a sort of a slavery practice itself.

Now, when we say randomness, we’re saying predictingness. Well, let’s add up predictingness and knowingness and find out that the two are quite similar.

Now, that shows up most markedly in a schoolchild who is made to shift from his left hand to his right hand in writing. And the schoolchild is usually very emotionally upset about this. Why? Well, because the boys were all southpaws. They wore a gun on the left-hand side. Their arms were always on the left. They always used their left hand. And the way they were crippled, before they were shot down here, was to fix them up so they couldn’t use their left hand. So if a little boy is getting along fine using his left hand, he hasn’t got this incident in restimulation. And then you, all of a sudden, say, “You mustn’t use your left hand, you must now use your right hand” and he goes boom. He’s degraded, of course, because that’s the implant. And when they run into that and go bad off from it, you can generally count on the fellow getting occluded fairly early in life. It puts him on the chutes.

If you had no time at all, if you were just floating in a span of time which was all the same time, well, there’s certainly no problem of knowingness there. You just investigate the thing and then you know all about it—it’s not going to change any. You have to enter in this thing called motion into time before you get a not-knowingness. When motion gets into time, you have, then, a system of not-knowingness because you have a system of predictingness. And you might say that the time track is rigged by you (by nobody else) to make it possible for you to not-predict, not to make it possible for you to predict. Otherwise, you would be in just a static state of utter boredom. There would be nothing to duplicate because you’d duplicated everything. There would be nothing to not-know because you knew everything. And there would be nothing to do and there would be nothing to have, because you’d have everything. And so we paint this rather dismal picture of the individual who knew all there was to know. It is a dismal picture unless knowing everything would bring about a condition of no boredom. If this possibility exists, all right.

Well you’ll find, then, that delivering communications and receiving communications with the left hand on a Resistive V-you know, a punch to the jaw and receiving a punch to the jaw, that sort of thing from the left-hand side-will restimulate the most awful feelings of weakness. He just gets terrible-I mean, it’s just ghastly.

But once you’ve entered upon a motioningness, boredom is an inevitable consequence. You know, once in a while, you get somebody who has rammed around the world and he can look back to his sixteen, eighteen, twenty-year-old days as a beautiful panorama of surprises and not-knowingnesses-going over the ranges and finding on the other side an enormous difference. And when he gets along a little further, why, he has a slight change. He looks over the hill and down into the dale, he knows what he’ll find there. So after a while, he doesn’t even bother to go and look. And the years drift on drearily up to the time when he can get into an agreed-upon not-knowingness state, such as death. And he gets into a completely not-knowingness state so that he can take a new jump-off into the adventure of not-knowing.

Well, when you’re doing this inverted flinch, a reversed flinch, when that starts to turn around and become a straight flinch-you know, he’s hit and backs up-why, your null period that lies right in between is a nice, deep, black apathy and there’s an implant that actually implants that weakness. You just have him manufacture the stuff, that’s all. Just manufacture that weakness, do it often enough so he comes out of the null period.

And he can go around as a little baby and pull things over on himself and not-know that they were going to hit him. He can go around in the front yard and pat vicious dogs on the head and not-know he’s going to be bitten and life is very bright and life is full of lots of surprises.

I’m only telling you this, not because you need the historical data but just as a little word of warning to you, is don’t leave the guy in that null. He’ll be weaker than a cat, he’ll be dragging himself around with his fingernails-it’s real weak. And he’ll come out of it then and be able to exteriorize straight.

But the villain of yesteryear was generally painted up as being a rather cold, calculating individual who calculated, exactly right, the point of and moment of collision of two particles or when they were going to depart. And this was supposed to be very villainous.

It takes quite a bit of this on such a case, by the way, but it’s just the same technique over and over and over and over. More locks will fly off with which you have no interest or concern. Lots of locks come off. The time he received a telegram that the barn had burned down will fly off and all of this stuff. The time he sent a message to this fellow that was such a nasty message. And there’s all kinds of these present time locks. But the trouble is not in this lifetime. This boy generally tries to exteriorize as a black body too, which is very amusing. Why should he exteriorize as a black body? Then he has degradation trouble with mass and so forth.

Well, that’s sort of another mechanism to prevent you from not-knowing. Because the truth of knowingness, when applied to motion, is the ability to predict the coincidence or noncoincidence or courses and directions of two or more particles.

So right after you run this communication bap-bap technique, you have him go around and pick up pieces of mass and get how much he needs them and how much he has them and all of that sort of thing until he’s finally satisfied with very small pieces of matter. Sort of an Opening Procedure, okay? That’s really a pattern of handling one of these V’s to get him exteriorized.

The estimation of effort then becomes, in terms of motion, knowingness. And the estimation of effort is an “all” when it comes to time, so on. An individual who has lost track of time has lost track of his estimation of effort, of course.

Now, let’s say that you have somebody who’s exteriorized. And there are quite a few people here who are exteriorized. In fact, very far the majority of those present. And you haven’t yet had an opportunity to really clear up some things and do a Grand Tour of-I shouldn’t call it really a Grand Tour. A Grand Tour of this universe is a pretty big, wide proposition. You can do all sorts of interesting things, but the tour with which we’re interested, immediately, is just a tour of the solar system. And the tour could be called “The Solar System: Its Booby Traps and Masses and Spaces.” So, after you get somebody out and his perceptions up a little bit, why, you get him going out around the town or around the building or something and looking at things and flinching and then have them look at him and flinch. And he looks at things and flinches and they look at him and flinch. You know, you send him up to Camelback and have Camelback flinch. And then have him flinch from looking at Camelback and so forth-flinches back and forth, his perception keeps coming up.

Now, you can go through the simple exercise of putting somebody in possession of skill in estimating the coincidence of particles-two particles coming together, what moment they’re going to come together or at what moment they’re going to part-and find out that you will have increased his self-respect, his dignity and all those other things which we value. That’s an oddity, isn’t it? Let’s take a bunch of militiamen and when they fire, why, sometimes they hit the leaves of the trees overhead, sometimes they shoot off the toe of their boot. When you say “Squads right,” they go to the rear. When you say “Charge,” they go to the rear. Their camp is dirty, their uniforms are worse.

Quite usually, then, you’ll run in something on the subject of duplicating nothing, something like that. All right. “Now let’s find a nothingness around you.” “Now duplicate it.” “Now duplicate it.” “Now duplicate it.” “Now duplicate it.” And his perception will come up some more. “Now let’s find the realest thing that you can find around here someplace. Okay. You got that?” “Now make it flinch.” “Now you flinch from it” and so on. In other words, we sort of tin-cup him around till his perception comes up.

And then we train them into being able to predict the coincidence of two particles-a bullet and a man. We train them into being able to commit evolutions on a parade ground and we find out they get so darned cocky that they’ll go ahead and get killed any day of the week.

And then you run him with-just very briefly, because he’ll have to be run enormously on this later-is you get him to duplicate himself: make two of him and be one and be the other one and then be both and be one and be the other and around. And then you make him resist the universe. And that’s a whole process all by itself. The universe caves in on him from all sides and it packs him down and you exteriorize him from the mass and then you have the universe cave in on him and you exteriorize him from the mass of that and do this about eight times until he’s got eight nice masses. Then have him put those together and bang them in real tight till they explode.

We have obviously taken some of the liability out of existence simply by training them into knowing what particles are going to be at what point.

And then have him duplicate that operation-just have him duplicate eight masses and so forth-till you get him over fear of resisting the MEST universe so he can resist it or not resist it at will. How do you do this? You bring it up to the ultimate result of having resisted it, which is to become a solid mass. You just resist all spaces and masses in all directions now and have them all come in on you and exteriorize from that and so forth. You’re getting him over being leery and this whole process, the tour and all the rest of it, is just to get him over being frightened of being alive as a thetan-show him he can get away with it.

Confidence adds up to this in terms of motion-totally adds up to this in terms of motion: knowing when two particles will coincide or not coincide; knowing the courses of particles and their coincidences-that’s confidence. “Unconfidence” or lack of confidence fear or anxiety, has to do only with this: not knowing when and where two particles will coincide, what direction they take. And so we get in the entire pattern of motion, predictingness. And we say prediction, we mean simply that: the time and place of coincidence or noncoincidence of particles and the courses they will pursue. That’s all, we don’t mean anything more than that.

Now, you take him out someplace over Earth and you locate some finite spot and we start to do some Change of Space Processing. We get him over in the middle-а standard one is to get him over in the middle of the Sahara Desert and get him over the auditing town and get him over the Sahara Desert and the auditing town or get him over the Mountains of the Moon and the auditing town-back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And then let him pick out something real over this far place and then have him dive through solid objects.

As long as you stay within these definitions, you’re in very good shape. As soon as you exceed these definitions in auditing, you get into horrible shape. You chase off and start processing druidism out of the girl and you start processing free association and you get bewildered and you wondered why the techniques don’t work and, the next thing, you wind up as the only thing you have to show for your auditing, probably, is a little intercourse along the line. That’s about-crude statement, but it happens to be a very descriptive statement of psychotherapy in the past.

You first start in by having him dive at and miss solid objects, dive at and miss solid objects and then have him dive through them. Well, generally pick up some live object at first-you know, have him dive through a cat, dive through a sheep, and have him do this until his fear of bodies is somewhat diminished-and then have him dive through masonry or mountains or something of the sort. And now start to do Change of Space Processing around the solar system-Sun, Moon, Earth, Sun, Moon, Earth, Sun, Moon, Earth, Sun, Moon, Earth, Sun, Moon, Earth-have him get on the back of the Moon, look around and see what he finds there.

This isn’t what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to predict the coincidence of particles or their noncoincidence. Therefore, Opening Procedure has a value considerably in advance of what you immediately suppose.

You can have him dive through the Moon if you want to and then go out in the asteroid belt and go around and take a look at it and then have him particularly look at Mars and be in the center of it and outside of it and down in the center of it.

Now, I know that Opening Procedure does not appear to be a very beefy technique to ~J some of you people. I know that. It appears to be something that’s very mild and innocent and so forth. Well, that’s because it hasn’t been done with the complete viciousness that it can be done.

Now, I call to your attention that most of the time you’re operating, you’re telling him to be here, be there. In other words, materialize, unmaterialize and rematerialize. Though there’s no process for it except just that. He just does it. You tell him to be somewhere else, he just is there. You don’t tell him move somewhere else. And this is the reason why: he can only move if he’s a mass. And he isn’t a mass.

Because the one thing that it hits at and hits toward is one of the first things that turns up in a session where Opening Procedure is being well used. The moment you start to hit a point where the individual is actually going to predict exactly where he’s going to go and what he’s going to do, you’re liable to kick on the original machine which he installed in order to prevent himself from being bored another eighteen million years. And so, he feels very shortly like he’s going to scream his head off.

Now, you get him out and get him to chase a meteorite or something-a comet. Get him to stand in front of it and have it rush at him and then have him pass through it and be in its tail. And have him be out in front of it and start to resist it and then pass on through it and out its tail.

Now, the terrific confusion of most banks does not happen to admit this plain, clear picture of “if you are able to predict a coincidence of particles or their noncoincidence, you will be bored.” This is not evident, it doesn’t meet the eye, the person does not know that, you see? He hasn’t a clear plot of his own bank.

And then you get him way up above a planet and then have him be on its surface and then be way up above it and then be on its surface and up above it and on its surface and then have him be up above it and go down to the surface and this is the first time you’d have him move, see? As he starts to move toward the surface, he’ll generally protest-he won’t like that. So just have him be on the surface again. And approach it gingerly until he’s actually willing to move toward the surfaces of things and so on.

. It’s just a big scramble of-well, it’s like a government. Do you know how a government is planned? Well, they plan a government by saying there’s going to be a government and then they start adding to it. And they add a bureau to a department and then find out that that is overloaded. And without knocking it out at all, they put in another bureau and then without knocking that out, why, they put in a department to care for the functions which the first two bureaus should have cared for (but aren’t caring for), but they aren’t out of existence, they’re still functioning. And when they find this doesn’t work, why, then the president or somebody appoints a special committee to perform the same function-now having two bureaus, a department already performing that function, now we’ve got a special committee performing the same function. And these are working without any coordination or attention from anybody and they keep falling over each other and making a mad scramble of paper chains that run over the hills and into the Treasury Department, usually.

Well now, when you start to use this on Mars (I hate to have to talk about this, really), it’s very terrible, I know, for Mars to be force-screened, but it happens to be. Now, when he’s way outside of Mars and he moves down to the surface, he’s going to run into force screens, that’s all there is to it. Because he’s a mass. And the only way a force screen can hurt him-if he is a mass. Well, you tell him to move, he has to really be a mass-he thinks.

Now, this is a plan. This is what is laughingly called organized government. That’s merely because Man is very sloppy. His knowingness is too low for him to lay out a workable plan. He knows that he has to have experience in order to have a workable plan. This he knows better than anything else and it happens to be a lie. He could lay out a perfectly workable government, put it into action and let it roll. No great trouble with it. The only trouble is it would take, first, some thought and then some planning and then a little effort and of these, he is not very capable.

So he starts to move as a mass and he hits these force screens and he doesn’t like it. And so you tell him to be on the surface and then you have him move it again. He’ll eventually get to a point where he can move without being a mass and that’s what you’re trying to educate him out of.

Well, you’re looking, actually, at the bank of the preclear when you’re looking at this picture of the government. He set up a bureau in order to function in some department and then he set up another bureau and he set up a department and then he set up a committee. Well, what happened here is actually, at first, he wasn’t bored-what happened was that some very surprising incident occurred, so he set up a machine to police it. He didn’t want that to happen again, so he set up a machine to police it and then he didn’t trust that machine, because his randomity increased immediately that he installed a machine.

Well, what that mean? That means force screens can’t operate on him. In other words, all doors, at that moment, become unlocked in this universe. See how you do it? You have him move down towards something-if he can’t make it or protests, you just have him be at his destination.

You know, you start running-there’s nothing like this system for getting scared-start running. That’s the most wonderful system for getting scared I know of: just start running. Not o/anything. If you don’t believe this, take a preclear down on the corner of a street someday and you say, “Now look, we’re going to conduct a little experiment. I want you to start running down that way as though something were after you.” And he’ll start running. Before he’s gone a quarter of a block, he’ll be sure something is after him.

Well always, when you tell him to move at something and he doesn’t get there, have him be at the destination. Don’t leave an unfinished cycle-of-action in a term-of a course of action. Solve it somehow, get him there somehow. Always get him there and always get him someplace else and someplace else and someplace else. But don’t let him not arrive on you. You figure it out so he can arrive.

Well, what do you do? You just kick in one of these machines, that’s all, or you just kick in a basic randomity. “Everything must have a reason” is the motto of a machine, “Everything has a reason.” So if he finds out that he is running, then, there must be a reason for it, so he supplies the reason. And so he has conducted all of his activities. He tries to balance everything he is doing against a reason for doing this.

Well, you have him scout, then, the various places and then just start binging around like “Be in the center of the Sun, the center of the Moon, the center of the Earth.” And you’ll find out very rapidly that you can’t talk fast enough to keep up with a thetan. So, if you wish, you can institute some sort of a system by which you can really drill him in these places.

The reason is always after the fact. He may think afterwards that it was before the fact, but there’s nothing quite as silly as a fellow trying to explain what he was doing last night, in terms of why. Now, he can tell you what he was doing last night, as just an account of motion of particles-event. But if you sat there and started-if you really wanted to butcher him, you’d keep asking him why he did it. And you know, he’d explain the whole thing to you. He’d just explain it down to the last notch, down to the last broken beer glass, oh, it’d be all explained. But he explains always after the fact.

Now, immediately above that, there’s another specialized version of Change of Space Processing and this would be the Grand Tour. And you just have him be in all the places-the geographical area of all the places mentioned in What to Audit. That starts in with his entrance to the MEST universe. And you have him be at that place and then in the room and then there and in the room and then there and in the room and there and in the room, till he’s in present time there. And then the place where he made his first facsimile and then a place where . .. and so on. I think you’d-have you had it included in your kits there of paper?

Well, he only explains if he feels he doesn’t know. He throws reason into the breach for failures to accurately predict, he throws reason in there-didn’t predict, he explains why.

Female voice: Yes.

Did you ever run into somebody who insisted on explaining “why” to you that he wasn’t driving a Lincoln or a Cadillac or something? Did you ever run into somebody that did that? Or explained why she was wearing last year’s hat. And this person would keep on explaining why this was taking place. If you would just listen, they would go on for a year or two with no other topic of conversation than explaining why. Well, they’re trying to explain away a failure. A failure basically is “not predictingness,” which is of course not-knowingness. They didn’t know it was going to happen.

Well, that’s it. That’s the list. There’s only one thing-there’s an error on that list: that’s 3 and 4 are reversed on that list. So re-reinverse them.

Well, they’ll explain to you, “Well, the reason I’m wearing last year’s hat is a very simple reason. You see, husband-you know he was the general manager of the Pepsco Plant and so on and if it hadn’t have been for one of his bosses there, you know-а fellow had it in for him, couldn’t stand the man’s talent, you know?” And here we go, see, in these long involved explanations as to why.

Well, that’s Change of Space Processing and that makes a Grand Tour.

Well, they’re trying to know after the fact. Now, there is another mechanism of not-knowingness-know afterwards. And everybody pursues this one to some degree-they know afterwards. And then they add this up, finally, to believe that it is a valuable thing to know afterwards. There is absolutely no value in knowing afterwards, because the only accident a piece of knowledge will prevent is the accident which it should have prevented. It won’t prevent the second accident to amount to anything, because the second accident is going to happen in some other fashion. So we just have to keep throwing in ironclad arbitraries and we finally come down to the only thing that will prevent an accident. And every armed force, every bureau, every insurance company comes down to the final conclusion-no motion.

Female voice: Oh, overtact first.

This is the method of preventing an accident. And if you add up all of the reasons why, you will find out they all add up to no motion. The reasons why: “We must prevent this series of accidents. The reason why we have had accidents in the past-that people walked past this point without their tin hats on. All right, people after this are not going to walk past this point.”

Yeah.

Well, at first they’re going to walk past this point with their tin hats on, then they find out that they can’t do that because the supply department isn’t issuing tin hats. So they don’t let people walk past that point.

And you chase him all around the universe and you give him, eventually and at last, a complete freedom in present time in this universe and that’s what the purpose of the Grand Tour is. Now, you got to do that with a fellow and you got to do it pretty well. And you’ll find it very interesting.

Now, they’ve had an accident someplace else, so they won’t let people walk past that point. Now, they’ve had an accident someplace else and they say, "Whoever handles tin bars after this has got to wear gloves.” But there aren’t enough gloves to go around, so after a while they figure out that the best way to handle tin bars is in another shop someplace. So they have to handle tin bars in some highly specified way and they’re, in other words, introducing more and more particles into the coincidence of the first two particles. And they’re getting more and more places where people can’t go and more and more kinds of motions which people can’t do.

If you, too, happen to be operating fairly well, chase along with him.

Now, you say it’s very, very laudable, extremely laudable, this terrific safety campaign which they run in the American public school to prevent little children from being run over at the crosswalks and you say that’s just wonderful. The hell it is. It’s teaching them to have accidents. It’s making them close terminals with accidents, making them accident-conscious and will turn out more accident-prones than you can count. Well, what’s basically wrong with this? Well, it interferes with their survival. It interferes again with the survival of the fittest, going back to Darwin.

Now, it’s very amusing to chase along with a thetan because, although he becomes invisible when he becomes “no mass” at all-see, the trouble with most thetans are they become a certain amount of mass. And the reason he can do this so ably is because what mass he really cherishes-the old pots and pans and chains and so forth, which he stowed-you’re not asking him to abandon them, he’s just leaving them for a moment and you as an auditor are standing guard over his possessions for him. So he’s perfectly willing to move around all over the place without this mass bothering him. But most thetans will carry with them a tiny amount of mass and they are, to some degree-you shouldn’t tell your preclear this and you should never comment on it-but they are to some degree visible. And you certainly can spot them easily because you’re auditing them.

And now, let me point out to you something. One time in the Philippines, I was going through some saw grass and what they call espera un momenta—several espera un momenta thickets. Espera un momento - they’re a thorn bush which has its barb growing backwards and it’s like fishhooks and when you walk by they almost take your arm off, you know? The thorns go the wrong way to.

Now, when you say, “Now be over the pyramids. Now how many pyramids do you see there?” And they tell you the pattern of the pyramids-you’re just above that pattern of the pyramids and you see what pattern he’s looking at-so you say, “Well, get that pyramid-now choose one of these pyramids there, which one is it?”

Well, it’s impossible to get through these things, everybody knows, and through saw grass-that cuts you to ribbons. I was proceeding with the greatest of caution and with considerable work on the part of a machete, when all of a sudden a little brown Igoroti boy was standing in front of me. I wondered how he got there, because he obviously hadn’t come in over the trail. Here was a particle which I hadn’t predicted.

And he said, “Well, it’s the one closest to the river.”

So he wanted to show me the way over to the village because he said I was off course and he said, “Follow me.” And he went away from there at a dead run straight through a-it was the most fantastic job of broken-field running, why, I tell you the Philadelphia Eagles would have paid that little kid more money! And he went through those bushes zip-zip-zip-brring-bang! He was walking straight through and running straight through these thorn bushes and everything and not a single thorn was hitting him-not a scratch on him. I was cut to ribbons.

You say, "That’s fine, now be on the exact top of it-exact top, exact center of the top of it. You’ve got that now?” Okay. He’s there, see?

I never have gotten adventurous enough to try the same thing, but he taught me a big lesson. And that is to say, the speed of the prediction of a particle is what prevents an accident, not less particles.

Well, you’ve got him spotted from there on. As a matter of fact, you probably can see him. And you start chasing him around and you tell him to scare up a flock of goats, something like that-“Be over the middle of the Sahara and scare up a flock of goats.”

Now, you go out on the line of less particles and you’re in trouble because you can cut down somebody’s havingness and then he compulsively has and so forth. Now, let’s not worry about that, let’s not worry about how many particles there are around. Let’s not worry about how many teenagers are driving at ninety miles an hour down the streets. Let’s not worry how many crosswalks people don’t pay any attention to. Because the second we start worrying about that, we’re trying to stop motion. When you stop motion, you make people sick, you make them unhappy and you take out of existence the essential element of competence: you make it unnecessary for them to predict the coincidence of particles-and there’s no other game.

“Okay.”

So these boys who put up these big safety signs and safety slogans and so forth are doing a wonderful job-of what? Of making a totally incompetent society, in terms of motion. As the years roll along, these drivers will get worse and worse and these kids will have more and more accidents. And the cops will care less and less and they’ll go down to a point where nobody is able to prevent being hit. Now, what you want are a bunch of little school kids that can step out directly in the path of a speeding ambulance which is going eighty miles an hour down a residence-district street and have the ambulance go on by without touching the child. Now, that’s what you want.

You’ve got him more or less located. Now, you know where the flock of goats are and so forth and you got the flock of goats picked out and you get him to locate them geographically. You actually know damn well whether or not he chases that flock of goats.

The only way to be safe in this universe is to be able to handle motion in space with enormous competence. And the only way to be happy, if you’re going to have anything to do with motion, is handle it, don’t try to stop it. As soon as you start stopping motion, you are admitting that you don’t know which way it’s going to go and therefore are in a state of apathy concerning its course. So you say, “We can’t have motion.”

And this is the first place where you’ll trip the guy up if he’s using a tremendous number of facsimiles. And if he is, you have a very simple ... Well, you say, “Chase this flock of goats.” You’ve got the flock of goats spotted, you see? And nothing happens to this flock of goats. I mean, they’re just sitting there. And you say, “Did you chase them?” and he says, “Sure, sure, sure.” Yeah, the hell he did.

Well, believe me, perception itself is the interchanges of particles. If you can’t handle motion, you can’t see! Isn’t that interesting? So let’s train everybody up in reverse-let’s train everybody up to have stopped particles. Well, that’s about as far from no training as you can get. And you finally turn out a society which is worse than the militia-you never have to train the militia if there’s never any war.

All right. You really mean what you say-you mean chase a flock of goats.

Well someday, somebody will add up the accident tolls-I can see the article now in Collier’s in the year 1988, “Are We Killing Our Children?”

Well, you don’t get insistent upon this, but you must realize, at that moment, that this boy is using facsimiles. He is doing a flinch back from the MEST universe. So give him some more flinches without letting him in on your little secret, just give him a few more flinches. And then have him mock-up and duplicate and duplicate and duplicate and duplicate flocks of goats. And all of a sudden he says, “Well, what do you know, ha-ha, yeah, there is a flock of goats there.”

The society which today sits around in wheelchairs at the age of ten-you start making people afraid of motion, you start making them sick-real sick.

You say, “Chase them.”

Now, you could say that this is a contest between motion and all knowingness. All knowingness would presuppose a zone in which there was no motion. Nearly all knowingness would presuppose an ability to predict the future positions, consecutively, of all particles. And if you stop and think of the complexity of that picture: predict the future positions of all particles. And we don’t say for how long. Let’s predict the future positions for all particles in this universe for the next million years.

“Well, how do you chase a flock of goats?”

Oh, I tell you, you’re getting up there, that’s really straining at it. Because in the first place, motion itself is there to produce randomity and if you have put all knowingness as a possibility above all particles and their positions, this is really straining at it. Because you have too much and too many and you yourself not willing to predict the courses of particles that thoroughly, because that courts no action, no motion and, actually, no thinkingness. What do you have to think for if you know? It would leave you with absolutely no interest in anything. You never have any interest in anything-why should you be interested in anything? You could predict everything. And this is a horrible state of affairs.

“Oh, I don’t know, bap one of them. Or get ahold of one of their-run a beam through the brain of one.” It’s very easy to run a beam through the brain of a goat-there’s nothing there. Find their anchor points, their balanced anchor points and pull one off-center. That will make a goat start turning in peculiar circles-and harass him, will get him to run. You can get the whole flock running with great ease.

As a matter of fact, if you don’t believe this, put somebody in a room that has some motion in it. Let’s say we have a couple of little air blowers in there that throw ping-pong balls around in a very, very standard pattern. You know the ping-pong balls are always going to go in that pattern. Like you see in vacuum-cleaner store windows, once in a while.

But you start him handling animals. And that’s the other little gimmick that goes into this. After you’ve cleaned up the MEST universe and you have him in present time anyplace, you just start him handling animals. And you’ll know whether he’s handling animals or facsimiles of animals.

Well, you just put this person in that room and have him sit there. You give him adequate light and it’s warm, it’s comfortable and you give him food. You don’t give him anything to read, though, or any other randomity-production mechanisms. And you just let him sit there and watch the ping-pong balls. He knows where they’re going to go. He knows that ping-pong ball when it goes up into the air is going to describe this little elliptical curve-it’s going to come back down again, roll down this little chute and it’s going to go into the top of the machine. It’s going to go up in the air again, go up in this elliptical curve, it’s going to go up-down the chute, it’s going to go back into the air spot again. And it’s going to go up in the air, perform an elliptical curve and ball after ball is going to do this and they’re going to do this in a nice parade.

Now, he’s not above-if he’s really having a rough time of it-pulling this real covert one on you: he’ll mock-up the animal he’s just seen and he’ll look at the mock-up and then do things with the mock-up, mostly because a body is so private. Well, that’s what you’re trying to get him over. He’ll pull this trick on himself and on you and confuse his reality so that he says, “Well, it isn’t very real anyway, but it’s real enough for me” and he’ll give himself a bunch of fairy tales about it.

Now, if you were to play a random color machine on it so that they would turn green and turn blue and turn yellow and mauve and colors would mix and that sort of thing, a person could sit there quite fascinated for quite a while. Why? All he has there is the random shift of color, you see? It’s the one thing which he is able to find that is random. But we don’t give him any random shift of color, he just watches the ping-pong balls. By golly, after a while if he isn’t crazy, he’ll sure feel like he’s going to be. He’s sitting there, he’s doing nothing, there’s nothing to predict at all because everything is predicted. He knows what’s going to happen to these ping-pong balls. The only thing that could possibly happen would be somebody turned off the juice and kept the air from blowing there so that the ping-pong balls would stop.

Truth of the matter is he’s merely frightened of handling animal bodies. He doesn’t want to. And so you get him to handle insects and you get him to handle various domestic animals and go find wild animals and so forth. And "Let’s chase them over hill and dale.” “And let’s sit on the tail end of a bluebird or a swallow or something and take a good flight,” until he’s perfectly willing to do this.

And if you kept him sitting there for a year, that fellow, before many months were out, would just be begging for some accident to occur to stop the ping-pong balls. There is madness. Madness could be said to be a tightrope walk between all knowingness and no knowingness.

Now in flight, of course, you take a bird or something like that-and you want to get him real high and then make him do an appetite over tin cup and then recover his balance and get him way up high again and then upset his flying balance and then get him way up high again and upset his flying balance. And after a while, the thetan begins to take over control of bodies and he has always been trying to prove to himself that he can control any body he runs into and he’s never quite made it. You let him finish that cycle-of-action.

An individual is trying to escape the inevitable consequences of knowing everything and trying to escape the inevitable consequences attendant on knowing nothing. And when he is either position-knowing everything and knowing nothing-we have madness. So we’ve got, actually, the Theta-MEST Theory in terms of sanity.

You get him to control animal bodies and you get him to control real good, animals, insects, birds and then go in for fish. About the time you go into fish, a thetan is going to start getting too interested, in some cases, because the sea is composed of tremendous drama. There are no police around forbidding anybody from eating anybody, and there’s lots of “buddies” to eat.

Now, you want to make a test of this sometime-if you want to, just make a little test of this. I can see some of you uncomfortable thinking about it right now. Does it make you uncomfortable thinking about that?

Well, the state decides the criminal has too much motion in him and instead of gearing up the cops-you know, that isn’t, by the way, an unreasonable solution. You know the criminals are pretty active these days, so we just gear up the cops. You know, get cops that can move instead of cops that hold motion.

All right. Now, you’ve taken him on the Grand Tour, you’ve made him handle some bodies and in a very elementary form, that’s good enough to last you for a while till we get into SOP 8-0, because that’s part of it. I’ve got to give you that now, however, because a lot of you are overreaching it.

The criminal, by the way, works for most of the newspaper syndicates without pay. What the society would do without some good, solid, mean, wicked criminals, I don’t know. British tabloids there are very, very much to the point. They couldn’t even come out. Nobody would pay any attention to them if it wasn’t for the daily work of this unthanked entertainer who belongs to no unions but goes on, day in and day out, doing his task for society by amusing it-holding up trains and so forth. It’s hard work too.

Now, it’s a very, very good thing to run a person exteriorized on 8-C at least once, all the way through-you can do everything at least once, while exteriorized. That’s really what the technique is designed to do. But don’t be misled by the brevity of Step lb. Because that is what I have just described to you. It isn’t all “wrote down by hand.” But that is really Step lb, SOP 8-C. It says “Be in pleasant and unpleasant places and ugly places.” You couldn’t have had a more inadequate statement made of what you do with a thetan after you’ve got him exteriorized, see? And just out of curiosity, you can always do End of Cycle Processing on a fellow when he’s exteriorized, you know? And remember that he can be anything and you have him be spaces. Don’t avoid having him be spaces just because you don’t like space-if you’re auditing somebody and you’re not feeling too well that day.

But the society takes this fellow, after his great labors and after his tremendous public contribution via the newspapers, and puts him in a cage and lets him sit there. It’s real great, it’s real great.

Of course, your next lineup above this is you get him to do a lot of End of Cycle Processing and then get him to do every form of communication of which any body, of any kind, is capable anywhere in the universe-including whistling people in with a phosphorous light. You know, whistling fish in and so forth.

Now, they expect this fellow is going to be saner afterwards. Well, they’ve taken a fellow from a little bit too much motion, they’ve tried to crowd him down to no motion so as to slow him down a little bit. And you know, they can’t quite get through their heads how tough man really is. Because every time they throw him in the jail, it merely convinces him further that society has committed an overt act against him, so he now has a motivator, so he can go out and spend it. Because he merely bottles up all the motion he’d love to do and goes out and performs it.

Okay? That is just as far as we need to go here at the minute because you will find some people doing that.

Now, he does this up to a certain point, at which time his honesty doesn’t crack on, his sanity cracks off and he goes stir-crazy. And what we know as stir-crazy is just the simple problem of sitting still, day in and day out, with nothing to do but think and nothing to look at and no randomity. You know when the guard is going to come by, you know when the food is going to go through.

I really ought to give you a lot more on making sounds and making this and that and doing actual communications while exteriorized. And it really isn’t germane to what we are doing right this minute. What you want to do is get him perfectly at ease and solve this first. The problem has two halves and one of these problems is this: he believes the MEST universe is dangerous to him. You disabuse him of that. That’s the first half of SOP 8-0 and the other half is jolly well convincing him he’s damn dangerous to the MEST universe. Because if you don’t run that in auditing, he’s going out and find it out for himself with consequences. Not necessarily consequences to him, but he’s going to bull around and he’s going to start taking it out on the MEST universe for all the things it’s done to him just now. Because nobody ever bothered to tell him before that he didn’t have to be a mass to have a personality. They told him quite the reverse. They told him he was dynamic and he needed energy and all sorts of things. And when he finally finds out what you can do with energy out in a vacuum, there’s practically no holding him. You can start running resistances into-you see, there’s no resistance out in the minus 273-degree vacuum and, boy, can he handle electrical energy.

The most wonderful story-there is an author in this modern age, believe it or not, there is a real writer-name is Manuel Komroff. He is the least-sung writer for his ability, I think, of modern times. That’s mainly because he can write. Some of his stories are wonderful. But they get buried. Once in a while, some college professor damns one of Manuel Komroffs stories, utterly, by putting it in an anthology. Well, anybody who gets in an anthology, of course, never gets read-he’s done in.

Well, here on Earth, of course, he gets very, very caved in. The poor fellow, the air ionizes every time he puts out a beam, you see, and the beam just goes flop-а. little inconsequential beam-which is a tremendous convincer. And what happens is that it convinces him he has no force or power. What it should convince him of is that electrical energy, as put out by himself, does not happen to have force or power when superionized by air. See, it’s an entirely different thing.

But Manuel Komroff’s material I don’t think is adequately collected. Because I read a little book one-I mean, a little story of his, one time, in Esquire of all places (how junky can you get in magazines-Esquire), but here’s a Manuel Komroff story in there.

But you’ll find out the first-if you don’t know this-the first time you exercise him (he’s outside and you exercise him) and you say, “Put out a beam,” he’ll put out a beam. He’ll be happy putting out beams for a little while and then he finds out the beams are getting thicker. And then they get thicker and thicker and he feels more and more degraded and so forth. He’s running into air. Air is the big, invisible barrier.

And it’s about a fellow who had just got through spending twenty years in prison, something like that, and he’s been sent home. And he gets home and he finds out, little by little, they’re really his friends. You know, that his boy and family will take care of him. He’s pretty old by this time, see, he’s a real old man. So he gradually makes over the room they give him and it’s a little bit too big, you know? The closet is dangerous because there might be mice in there and he gets that space cut down a little bit and, finally, he surreptitiously and covertly manages to get some bars across the window. And he fixes the thing up and once in a while, somebody will appear on the roof of the building next door that will look like a guard and so forth and he’s finally pretty happy about it and he just settles down. That is a real chiller, that story-very calmly written.

Well, he doesn’t run into this out in space. Boy, the mock-ups that you can make out in space are just strictly terrific compared to what they are here. And do they last! You get an Operating Thetan mock-up thrown out there on the asteroid belt and so forth, why, it’ll just go right around with the asteroids-round and round, round and round. Has no volume. It’s why the people in the asteroid belt, by the way, are so terrifically superstitious. You never saw anything quite as superstitious as some of the other peoples of this particular system.

Now, this is the inevitable consequence of somebody in a trap called the MEST universe, really. He predicts no motion, predicts no motion-keeps him boxed up, keeps him in a groove and after a while he starts running real slow and begins to live on Earth.

By the way, don’t keep on being so egocentric as to believe that Earth is the only populated planet in this system or this galaxy or in this island universe or in six or eight island universes. This would be the most impossible actuarial fact.

You ought to change your sights on speed. How fast can an individual move? Well, let’s take an example right here on Earth-this little Igoroti boy: at a dead run he can go through these espera un momenta thickets and saw grass. A white man, cut him to pieces.

And there must be a terrific ability there to see particles and plot the coincidence of his body and brush and things like that and get through holes that would not be observable. Think of the tremendously narrow margin he’s running on, he never gets a scratch.

All right. A trained motorcycle rider is an interesting point. I saw a mechanic the other day, in a motorcycle shop, test out a machine. And he just tested out this machine to find out if the motor was going to run and it didn’t occur to this fellow that he was doing anything very spectacular, but there were about four machines parked. Well now, obviously, for the routine rider, there was no way to get out from amongst these four machines, because they were parked in at random, you see, in front of him. You’d had to have sat on this motorbike that was being tested and then back it for a little distance, you know, and then turn it sideways and work it around and worm it around and so forth. Obviously, that was the course. This fellow sat on the saddle of the motorbike, started its motor, threw it in gear-threw it in low-and cracked the throttle on full and appeared out in the street. He didn’t turn aside. I think his margin between himself-there might have been an eighth of an inch clearance but on about four consecutive turns.

He got out in the street, he ran around the block and he brought it back in and he found out he couldn’t park it without working it around at a great rate, you know. He wasn’t trying to be spectacular-you never saw such a staid expression on anybody’s face-nobody was watching him. And he came in, in back of the four machines and cracked his throttle on full so as to skid the rear wheel and turned 180 and parked the motorcycle. Front brake on full, you see, the front wheel just stopped moving and the rear wheel skidded all the way around to make 180 degree and then he kicked on the props-kickstands, you know-and got off the thing and said he’d have to adjust its carburetor.

Now, this is just a prediction of particles. That’s right. How much space, where are the particles and where are the particles going to meet and where aren’t they going to meet and so forth, done as an observed calculation. Don’t think anybody can get automatic and do this, because it’s not done automatically. This is done by looking. And it’s done by knowing and looking.

Well, let’s take space opera. You can turn people on the E-Meter and find out they’ve been in something they call space opera. All right, and how fast is space opera? Don’t kid yourself. You couldn’t live in space opera with your Earth training here. As a matter of fact, that’s one of the things that bows down a lot of your preclears, girls and guys. They’ve been in space opera, they know how fast it can move, they know how quick it can happen. And you’ll find them parked at times when they were wrong.

Well, how wrong were they? They’re not very wrong. The thing is happening awful fast. Well, that is a tolerable speed of motion, barely tolerable for the psyche, actually.

Now, what are your thetan struggles against? All the time, he’s talking he wants peace, he says. He doesn’t want peace, he wants action! Peace is death! And a desire for peace is the final surrender to the apathy of having lost and knowing you’re in jail. You’re saying, “I’m not dangerous anymore, let’s not anybody else be dangerous either. Let’s have peace.” There is no such thing as peace in this universe-it’s a love-hate universe. If you can’t love passionately and hate passionately, you’re unhappy.

Now, in patching together a preclear, you have to take it into consideration that his motion and his ability to predict motion has been cut way, way, way, way down. And when you take exteriorization into account, you find out, consistently and continually, that your person who exteriorizes least ably, who gets the mock-ups least well, is the person who has the most automatic systems to predict the coincidence of particles and who is doing a rather poor job of predicting their coincidence.

Now, you could get improvement in your preclear simply by taking him out on an athletic field and putting him in a fast game-not football or baseball or tiddlywinks or some other game. I mean a fast game, like lacrosse, or Cubans play a game down there that rather defies the eye. And there are some fast games here on Earth, but very few people can move fast enough to play them.

It’s wonderful that football and baseball draw the crowds-they play nine men standing around loafing on bases. One particle to predict-а baseball. One other particle to predict-the bat. Oh, this is-I mean this is murder.

Anybody in his right mind who would go look at a baseball game and pretend he was really interested . .. You know, it’s a funny thing though, people are able to go to those games. But you know, they really don’t like bush league games, they like big games-big team games.

Well, I found out why one day. I went and saw one of the big-league games by accident and-I thought they were going to play something there. Anyway . .. But I did see it and I was impressed. For I saw a quintuple play which was just fantastic. You know, a triple play is three outs, but this is-I merely mean that particle hit five places. It hit them accurately, it departed from them accurately-you never saw such a machine go into action in life zing-zing-hing-bing-bang! The guy was out. And boy, everybody was right on the qui vive.

Well, these big-league boys are on the qui vive - they really can predict that particle. And it’s a joy to behold. But the trouble is, they’re so competent in predicting the particle and the game itself is so natively slow that you never really get a chance for much action. The pitcher stands up there and fans out the batter. The pitchers are too good and so forth. The game isn’t fast enough. That’s about the main criticism you could make of it.

But here is competence in terms of your preclear. Your preclear here on Earth gets himself all geared up to be tremendously competent and then there’s nothing to be competent about. You know, he goes to the office and he sits down at a desk and there’s no predicting that particle, I mean it’s just going to sit there. And the pieces of paper come in and what do they do to him?

Well, now let me tell you an interesting little gimmick about communication and it’s something you’re going to have to do to some executive sometime or another, as a process, and it’s going to butcher him. Get pieces of paper coming in front of his face saying, uniformly, “You’ve got to take care of it over there, yesterday.” Piece of paper after piece of paper after piece of paper, all they’re telling him-any piece of paper that he gets in his hand, any message he gets in his hand is going to tell him, essentially, not “something is going to happen unless something is done,” but it will tell him, in the low-geared society we’re in, "something has already happened about which you didn’t do anything.” So every piece of paper he’s gotten makes him wrong and the more pieces of paper, the less right he is.

If you wanted a business to really run, you would probably wipe out the desks. You wouldn’t let anybody have a desk. Actually it’s better than nothing to have an accurate paper chain and a fast paper chain moving, but really a business would run better if there was no paper chain-the guy on the ground had to take the responsibility. You know, he couldn’t sit back and say, “Well, I wrote the main office about it last week and, although the derrick fell down today, why, I’ve been waiting for them to send somebody out to bolster it up-we couldn’t do it.” No responsibility, no responsibility, no responsibility. That’s how things fall to pieces. Well anyway, the guy on the ground is the only fellow who can predict the particle, of course.

Now, what’s this all add up to in terms of a process?

Well, I just gave you one. Gets a piece of paper in front of his face that says, “It’s wrong over that way yesterday.” Another piece of paper, "It’s wrong over that way yesterday.” Another piece of paper, “It’s wrong over that way yesterday. It’s wrong over that other direction yesterday.”

And he’ll get right back to one of the earliest thetan-versus-thetan engrams there is. Which, one thetan took a big gob of blackness and smashed it across the other thetan’s mock-up’s face so the mock-up didn’t know where it was. So it didn’t predict that particle and it suddenly lost and it can’t quite figure out why it so suddenly lost. Because it was depending upon sight and it isn’t seeing now, so it’s lost. So it’s wrong over that way.

All right. I want you now to put up, into the front wall of the room, the postulate or thought or symbol (however you want to get it there) and the emotion, “I didn’t know.”

Now put it over in the right wall of the room.

The left wall of the room.

Now the ceiling.

Now the back of the room.

Now put it in the front wall of the room and make it flinch-“I didn’t know,” flinch.

The right wall of the room, “I didn’t know,” flinch.

The left wall of the room, ditto.

The back wall of the room.

The ceiling, [pause] Don’t forget that flinch.

The floor.

The space in front of the building, “I didn’t know,” flinch.

The space in back of the building.

The space at the right side of the building.

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The space at the left side of the building.

The space above the building.

And the space under the building.

Okay. Now get somebody else. Get the idea that somebody else puts into the front wall “I didn’t know,” flinch. And get that flinch, [pause] Somebody else putting it in there.

The left wall, somebody else putting in it “I didn’t know,” flinch.

The right wall.

The back wall.

The ceiling.

The floor.

All right. Now let’s put-have somebody else putting “I didn’t know,” flinch, into the space above the building.

The space back of the building.

Space to the right of the building.

Space to the left of the building.

Space below the building.

And in the space of the room.

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Okay. Now get the idea of somebody else making somebody else not-know and flinch in the front wall.

In the back wall.

In the right wall.

In the left wall.

In the floor.

In the ceiling.

Somebody else making somebody else not-know and flinch in the space in front of the building.

The space in back of the building.

In the space to the right of the building.

The space to the left of the building.

The space above the building.

The space below the building.

In the space of this room.

And you put for somebody else, in the front wall, “I didn’t know,” flinch.

In the back wall.

In the right wall.

In the left wall.

In the ceiling.

In the floor.

In the space in front of the building.

In the space back of the building.

In the space to the right of the building.

In the space to the left of the building.

In a space below the building.

In the space above the building.

Now have somebody putting for you, in the front wall, “I didn’t know,” flinch.

The back wall.

The right wall.

The left wall.

The ceiling.

The floor.

In the space in front of the building.

The space to the right of the building.

The space to the left of the building.

Space below the building.

Space above the building.

Okay. Now have somebody else put for himself, in the front wall, “I didn’t know,” flinch.

In the back wall.

In the ceiling.

In the floor.

In the space in front of the building.

In the space to the right of the building. •

Space to the left of the building.

Space above the building.

Space below the building.

Now have him put it in you.

Now have you put it in somebody else.

Have somebody else put it in somebody else.

Have you put it in yourself.

Have somebody else put it in himself.

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Now put it out there in front of you, four times, “I didn’t know,” flinch. Get that flinch.

And duplicate it. [pause] You can only get one or two, you’ll build up to four.

Duplicate it.

Duplicate it.

Duplicate it.

Duplicate it.

Duplicate it. And get it real good this time.

And duplicate that.

Now say you’re going to put it there and put it there.

Now say you’re going to put it there and put it there.

And duplicate that action.

And duplicate it again.

And duplicate it again.

Now throw away any mock-ups you have there. And let’s put the first time you discovered you didn’t know, out in front of you four times, and have it flinch.

And duplicate it.

And continue to duplicate it.

Duplicate it some more.

Now, duplicate it and each time let go. Say you’re going to put it there, put it there four times, say you’re going to let go and then let go and then duplicate it all over again.

All right. Sweep all those mock-ups away.

Now, any automaticity, any strange thing-tears, laughter or anything else that has shown up while you’re doing this, duplicate it.

And continue to duplicate it.

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