All right, let’s go in for something here on this third hour of December 11th, afternoon. Let’s go in for something very much more specific. And I’m going to give you your straight rundown on this quite rapidly on this page 38, List of Processing.

Now to some degree (this is the second afternoon lecture uh… December the 11th) – to some degree you may find some of the data I give you – uh… unless you take a look at the way it’s being oriented – somewhat rambling. Well, maybe it is rambling. Uh… but uh… actually, I’m demonstrating something to you – we keep picking up things and then orienting them back to a point. In other words, we’re demonstrating data, a central data and its evaluation against many other data. And we just keep picking that up and bringing it back in.

„All processes are based upon the original observation that an individual could have implanted in him by hypnosis and removed at will any obsession or aberration, compulsion, desire, inhibition which you could think of – by hypnosis.“ Hypnosis, then, was the wild variable; sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t work. It worked on some people; it didn’t work on other people.

And we start talking about running regular things. Well, we show how that swings back in again.

Any time you have a variable that is as wild as this, study it. The essence of solving problems is the essence of solving one against the other: the highest certainty that you can reach, versus the most variable thing you could reach.

Uh… having to have and not having to have is, of course, a form of agreement. And we keep swinging back into agreement which we undo with mock-ups – simple isn’t it?

Well, I had a high certainty already – I had survival. Got that in

Having to have, and trying to avoid having to have – it’s a very funny thing that this works out so… so easily. This speaks of, first, a cultivated desire: The person had to have a desire in some direction or another in order to go down tone scale. The thetan was picked up way up tone scale and Desire, and uh… so forth, is way up tone scale. So we come down tone scale a little bit on Desire.

1938 or before that. And uh… I’d studied the endocrine system and structure at will. Oh, just… oh, just studied it and studied it and studied it. I spent a year doing nothing but studying the endocrine system, trying to find out if anybody know what happened to the endocrine system. The British solved the endocrine system better than the Americans had. And it was a… really some kind of an alarm, or monitoring system of the body. But it did not respond to matter. It couldn’t be monitored very much by matter, but boy, could it be monitored by mind.

Then when his desire paled, somebody of course, had to enforce it to keep it going. That brought him down tone scale a little further. And when he’d enforced it to a point where it was IMPOSSIBLE to do without it, then you inhibit it so the guy can’t have it.

Wooo! You could take somebody and you could remove a compulsion or an inhibition and his endocrine balance would just go Zing! – way up along the line. Or you could hypnotize him and selectively repress, if you please, almost any gland he had. And then knock that repression out and turn the repression on again. Handle it at will with direct command and hypnosis. That’s function, you understand. And you could feed him hormones and you could feed him anything else you could think of and you couldn’t materially change his behavior.

And that’s any item or thought or belief.

So I had solved the basic problem of what did you study? Structure or function? If it had been function, I would have gone into function on an engineering level and uh… tried to knock the problem apart from that angle. It turned out that wasn’t it. It was: structure was uh… not the answer or the road to an answer because you couldn’t do anything with structure. You could use the most rigorous tests you could set up and observe as close as you wanted to, and nothing happened. Nobody’d ever tried to do this before in the history of the examination of man. I want you to understand that that job had not been done.

Let’s take a thought on this line – let’s take Christianity – that’s a handy example. Lot of people know something about Christianity. There are a few still left in the society who do. And uh… the uh… we get Desire at the top. Yes, sir, sure enough, you tell somebody, „Life immortal – this is the route to life immortal. Here we go.“

Nobody divided the problem into two halves – structure, function – and had then selectively taken each one of these halves and seen if you could monitor structure and function by treating just one half of it.

And of course, everybody knew that there was a route to life immortal. They knew that instinctively and many other religions before Christianity had gotten into beautiful condition by selling Immortality. I almost called it, „Pie in the sky“ but I – that’s a Communist term and I don’t want to be partisan.

In other words, could you change structure and function by handling only structure? That was a question that should have been asked. And then, could you handle structure and function by handling only function?

Uh… the war of ideas and ideologies is a fascinating war. All right?

Well, you have to break a problem down before it can become a problem, so maybe nobody even know there was a problem here. But certainly, there weren’t any answers to it. I don’t make any reservations on that. Louis Pasteur’s work is a shining example of uh… accuracy in a field which is otherwise just flop. Uh… even Pasteur, he should have looked a little closer. He had all the tools to look with.

Here we have, then, immortality and they rig it out aesthetically – give it good story value that’s all. Here it is a nice aesthetic. You desire to have immortality.

What happens to an experimenter or an investigator is something very interesting. He becomes so convinced… he becomes so convinced that he has to be right, that he doesn’t bother to look. There’s a good dissertation on this – Will Durant once wrote a beautiful dissertation on this – they find something and then they’ve got to rush around like mad and wave this thing around and never look any further.

Now, then the next step is – you go through this ritual, you get immortality. That’s good. The next step is, down the line from that, that it’s very, very good – little stronger salesmanship – and uh… by the time the guy has bought this, he then buys the next step down the scale which is, „And if you don’t buy pie in the sky“ – pardon me – „immortality uh… if you don’t buy this, we’re going to send you to hell. And hell’s a terrible place.“ And you know hell was really – really interesting at first. It was just „Hell.“

They want to hit an action spot, accomplish it, and there they go. In other words, they’re running on a very short cycle. As soon as they start something, they’ve got to stop it. You’ve got to run on a long cycle to tackle a long problem like this.

By the way, do you know what the first Hell was? Everybody hoped, but thoroughly, all through the civilized world, that Rome, the corrupt prostitute of all nations, would roast in its tracks. And they hoped because of the volcanic action of Italy, that one day the ground would suddenly go „Burp!“ and a roaring sea of lava would eat up Palatine Hill and the rest of Rome. This was the slavemaster of the world, and they wanted Rome to turn into a sea of lava.

So, here you had all these people running around – they… oh, operating and chopping and shooting people with things and… and oh God! on and on and on and on and on – without ever having taken the problem apart.

And at first when they talked about Hell, they weren’t talking about any personal Hell, they were talking about fire would occur. And they were trying to sell everybody on the basis of the disappearance of Rome. This was really – a bunch of press agents probably got – I’ve got a friend that says, „You know,“ he said, „I finally figured out how all this happened. There was a bunch of the boys got together in Rome and uh… they worked this all out – something like a bunch of hot advertising men or something – press boys – and they worked this all out and they sold it in an effort to undo and bring down in a crash the Roman Empire.“ And it sure went in that direction. Of course, he’s just joking. (It’s all true, in actual fact.)

Well, all it required was, we took the problem apart, just compartmented it. All right, we find out… oh boy! were there some crews operating on this! There were a lot of people working on this. How do you change mental behavior and structural action by treating structure? Oh, they were shooting… they had people out of these Japanese prison camps and so forth, and they were shooting them and they were giving them narcosynthesis uh… and doing all sorts of weird things in various directions. And it all boiled down to a structural address to the problem.

And uh… when uh… when uh… they got uh… Rome all burned up and in flames, they thought, then they’d all be in fine shape. Well, that was the level of salesmanship at that time. It had dropped down from a good, aesthetic, beautiful desire, down to a desire that had to do with pain directed toward a certain object (Rome) mixed up.

Well, to an engineer it’s appalling for anybody to work on a problem… to even work on a problem if he doesn’t even have the design. „Let… let’s work on this thing before we answer the question „What’s it for?“ – you know?

Now, people still weren’t buying pie in the sky the way they ought to buy pie in the sky, so the next step down was, „You know we’ve been a little bit…“ Uh… by the way, they… in Nero’s time a bunch of criminals set fire to Rome and uh… this ambition was almost realized. And then they all blamed it on Nero. And uh… said – attributed it to the sympathic vibrations of his violin strings or something. And uh… we got uh… pie in the sky as a glut commodity.

It sounds so idiotic to an engineer. We say, „What’s it for?“

You know there hadn’t been – they first expected, you know, just heaven to suddenly open up in this lifetime and there they’d be – there they’d be, right there. Oh, no. That wasn’t what happened, so they finally were saying it was after death that this took place. Oh, bunch lot less people started buying it.

And they say, „Well, there isn’t any reason for it and there’s no goals. We’re all in apathy anyhow and it doesn’t matter. And the problem’s too complex.“

So they said, „We’ve gotta make this commodity saleable,“ so they turned it into currency and enforced it with bayonets… – but spiritual bayonets. They said, „The hell of which we spoke is an actual hell, and you have your choice between going to that hell or going to heaven after death. And it all depends on whether or not you were a good boy before you died. And we can reach you after you’re dead – which is a temporal justice of kinds that uh… we enjoy.“

You ever ask somebody about this: „How about working on the problem of the mind, trying to do something about the problem of the mind?“ „Well, that’s too complex.“ You say, „Rut you’re working on the problem of the mind.“

All right, next step then – people didn’t buy that worth a damn. A lot of people rushed in and uh… they had to make it a little bit better. And do you know, before they got through, they had seven hells?

„Well yes, I know. But it’s too complex – there’s no s… real solution to it.“

Once in a while you’ll pick up this magic number „7“ on the track. It’s a prime number and therefore interesting to mathematicians. And there were seven this and seven that and seven stars and seven something or other. And there are seven hells.

In other words, you’re in a complete defeatism on the problem. Well, how does anybody ever solve a problem if he knows it can’t be solved as his first postulate? Nuts to you brother! And I didn’t realize that it was even… it was that bad for a long time. I… I just found out it was that bad just increasingly. I started out first believing that there were a lot of people who were doing something on this. All right.

Now very often you will find some preclear who is doing a bad spin on religion on account of religious implants, and you’ll find these confounded seven hells sitting there. And they’ve forgotten they ever heard of Dante’s Inferno and the Seven Hells – they’ve forgotten this utterly. There was a hell of ice and a hell of fire and a hell of something or other, and I don’t know what all the hells were but it’s an interesting study in sadism.

I turned around and I had hypnotism. I had a little advantage there because I was using hypnotism that I had learned in India. And that doesn’t bear too much resemblance to Western hypnotism. You’ve got variety of hypnotism there. There are ninety thousand ways of putting a guy out – I swear there must be that many ways. I mean, you can just run on and on and on. There’s various things you do; you treat the perceptic lines in certain ways and guys go „Ka-boom!“

But uh… that was enforcement. We’ve gotten down tone scale to enforcement, you see.

For instance, I had a… very amusing one time; I talked to the staff at Saint Elizabeth’s. If you can place somebody in time and space – we can put it out now – if you can place somebody in time and space with great accuracy and then put a monotony on it, damnedest things happen.

And then they came down tone scale, finally got to a point where nobody was believing that but it took an awful long time for that curve to fall. And that curve finally fell at its lowest ebb of enforcement on earth – I mean, the heaviest ebb was the autodafé‚ in the hands of the Grand Inquisition of Spain under an infamous dope by the name of Torquemada whose life I have read in a book bound in human skin – how fitting.

So I talked to these people from Saint Elizabeth’s, a spin-bin down around Washington, talked to the staff. And I was very careful to talk to the staff in a certain way – and put ‘em to sleep.

Now Torquemada, Grand Inquisition – boy, they couldn’t be convinced that people weren’t convinced about these seven hells. Nobody’d ever come back and told them about ‘em. Uh… they… they couldn’t be interested too much in pie in the sky; they got much more interested in action here on earth and a lot of other things. And so the autodafé‚ really was a convincer. They’d put ‘em on a stake and they’d put the… put the stakes around them.

Uh… hypnosis bears a considerable resemblance to sleep and a person knows… any auditor knows when he’s dealing with a hypnotic subject. Any auditor should know something about hypnosis because it’s a very standard set of something or other. There are various things that will happen. The breathing will become shallow, and uh… the next thing that happens is their eyes will roll back up in their heads, like that, or roll down like this. And their eyelids will go flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker. And uh… if you do anything that makes people do that, and you’ve got them hypnotized, that’s all.

The only… the only crime was whether or not you accepted Church Doctrine. And a man could become a heretic for carrying his prayer book backwards. It was just getting to a level of idiocy on enforcement. Anything you did that was even vaguely to the disinterest of uh… the Church was greeted by an autodafé.

There’s various methods used. You just capture their perceptic line and you’re the only one in whom they’re on agreement. You’ve just separated their agreement from the rest of the world and they think you’re the only one, see? Very simple.

British seamen uh… caught in a… in port or something like that, arrested, „Oh, uh… you don’t believe in God exactly the way you’re supposed to, therefore you’re an heretic“ – what do you know? They burned ‘em, just like that – that was all. Put ‘em against the stake.

Then be careful never to remind them that there’s any other part of the world with which to agree – don’t do as I do here. I talk about this field and that field and some other field. And it spots it around, and it requires… you… you go all over the doggoned space area, see? Well, that keeps people awake, and it keeps them alert and they keep learning. Otherwise they just get to be a phonograph record. You could just turn them on and they go „Yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap“ and they run the whole lecture off verbatim and they haven’t got anything there at all. All right. Now hypnotism could then selectively vary structure. Anybody for the last 120 years could have carried out this research project. This is not a special project and it’s not anything unroutine. This was carried out as a routine piece of research. Routine.

They had hell of fire then which was personal, highly personalized hell. And there it was.

What do you do to a problem to solve it? First you ask the question. Before that you have to assume there’s probably a solution. No reason to work on problems if you don’t think there’s any solution. You just assume there’s a solution, then you go ahead and solve ‘em.

They had brought it down to an enforcement and their havingness of it had become so scarce that it was no longer an idea; it was an actuality which was an enforced actuality and so on.

And then you take the bodies of data that you have and you cut them up in compartments and make sure that the compartments don’t get confused on you. In this case, we cut up structure and function; we didn’t say, „What are we going to use this bridge for?“ and then neglect completely uh… how… what we were going to build it out of. And we didn’t uh… we… we… we… we chopped the problem in half, in other words, so that each half would be all: structure down to function and structure. Function down to function and structure. One or the other probably did it. It certainly wasn’t both, although it could be this third one – it’s a team. Does it respond to teamwork? The hell it does!

That was the grand tide of enforcement of the Christian Church.

Guys sick and dying and brokenhearted and insane and unable to heal their bodies and everything else, so it isn’t working as a team.

And, what do you know? After that they got down tone scale to inhibition. They inhibited your having God unless – that was about the punishment level, that they inhibited you having God unless… you had to think a pure thought, or you had to spit pure spit or something of the sort. And uh… you… you were – there you were, and you couldn’t have God unless you were a pure soul and you wouldn’t know anything about it at all, and you had to have God at a price of, oh, I don’t know, 30 talents in some cases.

All right, then therefore, they’re probably separate functions. So let’s… let’s see if we can solve it that way. Hypnotism varied the hell out of the endocrine system; the endocrine system apparently was some kind of a meter. You could look at this meter called the „endocrine system“ and you could tell whether something was happening to somebody.

Recently some dame uh… some babe uh… pardon me. I… I keep classifying her correctly. Uh… some „lady“ uh… paid His… His… His uh… Royal – uh pardon me, uh… His uh… I don’t know. What do you call the guy? Oh, yeah. His… His uh… uh… Pope Pius? Pope Pius, that’s right. Paid him a million bucks-dollars cash to ratify her divorce properly. I mean, it had all been granted by states and bishops and everything else, but she finally had to pay him a billion bucks-dollars to knock it out.

So if you varied their mind, you varied their structure. Oh boy! Could you vary their structure. You could take hypnosis and you could selectively shut off, by knowing what these glands influenced, you could shut off that function in the individual.

But inhibition… inhibition, it’s got scarce. The mercy of God became very costly. It became more and more costly and more and more costly, more and more costly until it isn’t available at all now. You know, practically outside of one or two guys like Pope Pius, and I suppose there’s some whirling dervish up in the middle of the Stygian wastes or some place that you could go in and give ‘em a quick buck and they would say, „All right, we’ll give you a God – there you are, signed receipt.“ And it would be about the level.

You know you can hypnotize somebody and tell him his nose is running? And… and his nose is running. You can just get torrents of mucus running out of his head, just torrents. He could just take handkerchief after handkerchief after handkerchief, and he’ll just get them sopping. You can start a person perspiring on command, and he’ll sweat and sweat and sweat. You can turn him hot; you can turn him cold; you can extend his hearing; you can contract his hearing. You can do anything of these with hypnotism. And boy, it’s just no good at all to find out what something’s wrong with somebody because they’re non compis mentis when they’re hypnotized. They’re just an effect.

Christianity has gotten to the point where it’s terrible scarce. You wouldn’t think so with all the churches you’ve got around, but I was talking about Christianity.

But you set up this thing and you use this and you use it as a meter – a specialized form of use of the structure/function mechanism of the human body. You become the mind, let them be the structure and the somatic mind, or something of the sort.

Now people have run many other things into this field. They have run practically every way you could think of to do something or be something or act some other way into this level. And you can get all sorts of things from a church now – anything but God.

Now, can we vary it? Boy, can we vary it! We can make guys fat, we can make guys thin. We can do all sorts of things if you use good hypnotism. But we can’t do it all the time. Why the hell can’t we do it all the time? We find out in the field of structure we can never do it – that’s advisedly stated. It’s just never.

You can get basketball, bridge, bowling alleys, dances, bazaars – almost anything you want to. But don’t go in and ask for a hat full of God, because they haven’t got it to sell. It’s got an inhibition and then scarcity, but if they gave you any God it wouldn’t be the idea, the spiritual idea at all. It would be a piece of MEST. You can buy God – you can go down and buy a cross – and it’s MEST. It’s all solid now.

Take the structural approach of electric shock, that’s structural. They give people electric shock. Do you know they haven’t got a record of electric shock ever doing anything for anybody? There isn’t any record. But they do have a record that says that if they didn’t give people electric shocks, they get out of institutions six weeks earlier.

Isn’t that interesting? Where we have Desire, Enforce and Inhibit and out through the bottom. And you have a dying, if not dead, religion. One whole nation swallowed in blood to get rid of it and bought another slavemaster much worse: Soviet Russia. Uh… other nations have a level of tolerance and fortunately never abandoned that thing which Rome abandoned.

You know that these figures were never collected? You want to know about criminal acts against humanity – go ahead and practice something without ever getting any statistics – hmmmm. That’s interesting, isn’t it?

Rome died the day it denied itself. The principle of self-denial is a very interesting principle. The fellow starts buckling up the day he says he didn’t say it, when he did. You know, he keeps saying… he keeps disowning, disowning his acts, disowning his acts, no responsibility, less and less responsibility and he’s gone.

You know that I have the only survey that was ever impartially – and it was really impartially – done on the subject of electric shock. And I hired a guy to do it. He was not interested in Dianetics; he was not interested in psychiatry. He was an investigation publication man and all we did was get all the results there were on the subject of electric shock, wherever they were published by anyone, anywhere. And we collected them all together and drew them up on charts. Didn’t cast any evaluation on them at all, just drew them on the charts to see what the statistics would say. And I’ve just given you the results. We couldn’t find a case anywhere – just a case nowhere – where electric shock had ever improved anybody.

And Rome was founded on the secure foundation of religious freedom. All races could worship anything they wanted to worship. And on that basis it thrived and it absorbed any country because Roman law was superior to any other law there was. There was more fairness, better courts and better protection under the cloak of Rome than in any other governmental system on earth at that time. And people were even happy to have a Roman rule in preference to tyrants, fascists – something of the sort.

We couldn’t even find out where it had selectively quieted people down. We found out that there was a „three-day period“ in electric shock. You gave them a shock every three days; they stayed very tractable, you know – „Duhhh!“

Romans were tough. They didn’t mince about things, but they had law and a province or a newly acquired country could, in time, become fully accredited so that they would have Roman citizenship which was right to right under law.

Now anybody can make a corpse. You can do it with a bullet, but you don’t call bullets therapeutic. You see? So we had to define what’s therapeutic. But you say you can make the person better. Well, did it calm him down and make him happy or anything? No, definitely not.

And people actually would surrender up to Rome on this bait: justice. And she became powerful under this. She became powerful under it because she respected man, she respected the right that man should have, including the right of religious freedom.

It gave him a terror of electricity, though. Fixed him up so he wouldn’t use force in any category, made him shed all responsibility for everything. Uh… did interesting things.

By the way, that is a very, very relative term. You, for instance, today sit here with a constitution which guarantees religious freedom but, by golly, what would happen to you if you started to worship Baal? Man! How that would ring in the tabloids. If you started to worship Lucifer, if you started to worship any of the various gods…

You can rehabilitate an electric shock – by the way, the way you repair elec… electric shocks aren’t serious… the way you repair it is just rehabilitate the guy’s ability to mock-up force, that’s all. You don’t even address the electric shocks. He’ll feel a buzz in his head once in a while when you’re doing this, and you just keep mocking up force – standard routine mock-up processing. Electric shock is simply electricity.

One fellow, Allistair Crowley uh… picked up a level of religious worship which is very interesting – oh boy! The press played hocky with his head for his whole lifetime. The Great Beast – 666. He just had another level of religious worship.

First thing you know – Room! There goes all the electric shocks in the bank. They don’t go suddenly or anything. They just cease to have any effect upon him. So they are really pantywaist when it came to hurting people too. They weren’t even tough enough to hurt people. Prefrontal lobotomy? Fix the guy up so he gets another body.

Yes, sir. You’re free to worship everything under the Constitution so long as it’s Christian.

Uh… okay. Now uh… they’re not dangerous. I talk about it merely because it’s a…

Don’t become Mohammedan. Nobody will come around and shoot you because you’re a Mohammedan, but don’t try to start Mohammedan churches. You’ll be discouraged very definitely.

There… there’s only one thing that really outrages me. I… I get outraged just because I can’t believe it. It just won’t fit into the frame uh… uh of reasoning. It… It’s just one of those things that I’ve always been completely unable to see, is why can’t somebody solve that problem? Uh… this… these problems are all easy, they’re just… just so easy. And yet, something like… you… there’s somebody… he’s in… he’s in bad trouble, see? He’s in bad trouble – he’s starving to death. He… he’s… he hasn’t got anything to eat and he’s getting skin and bone and there he sits. And all that he’s got in front of him is a whole ham and loaves of bread and so forth. And he’s unable to solve the problem of how to get it into his mouth.

As such, the freedom which man is guaranteed in the English-speaking world today is really not as wide as the freedom which he had as a Roman.

You say, „No! That’s complete idiocy!“

‘Course, part of that freedom was if he got too badly off and too far into debt and unable to protect himself and if his friends all deserted him, he could be sold into slavery. Or soldiers taken in combat could be sold into slavery. They did not take these soldiers in combat and put them in a stockade and make them work for farmers (there’s no slavery in the modern world).

So you go at that problem. Anybody who wants to backtrack on that work will find them very interesting material on it. And that’s covered rather full in Book One. It tells the various things you can do to somebody to stop this and start that. So it means what? That there’s some kind of a mechanism by which, if you can get some guy to agree, why then anything can happen. You could make him believe anything if he’ll agree with it. Haaaa! Hmmmm! He has to be in a special state.

Uh… there’s no slave camps in Russia. Slavery’s dead. Uh… what they do is… is… is… is they get these fellows on a want and an inhibit and – in… on an enforce and inhibit cycle and say, „You get your Saturday paycheck if you worship at the right time clock.“ That’s the God of the modern society: The time clock. He has a face the same shape as the dollar.

All of a sudden you just take a look at the human race – we’re trying to unhypnotize people. We’re trying to wake people up, and it’s simply that: we’re trying to make them higher and higher alert.

And uh… your society in Rome, then, suddenly denied itself. There was a race which was teaching certain doctrines – Christians, unwanted uh… unwanted gentiles, came into the Hebrew countryside and studied that religion and took it back out into the world. And uh… the people in those areas around Jerusalem and so on, didn’t have a pioneer spirit with this world… with this, they disowned these people, but these people still went out and preached this. And it had an interesting ingredient in it that no other religion up to the time had had in it. And Rome was unable to understand this. And that ingredient was hate. It’s perfectly all right, it… it… it… it’s uh… another thing to have in a religion. It’s neither bad nor good. These people were not trying to do a messianic job on the rest of the world, but gentiles used to come in there, and they’d join the church and then they’d go back to Con… well, Constantinople didn’t exist then, well, but go back to other places and start beating the drum for this new religion. That was before Christ.

I… I dare say someday we may have a process which… by which some magical formula or other we simply say… we simply say, „All right, now here you are in a hypnotized state with regard to life and existence, and you’re in a little bit better, more awake condition at this moment than you ordinarily are, but there’s a much awaker condition than this, and the way you awaken somebody out of this condition is to count from five to one and snap your fingers. And if you count from five to one and snap your fingers, a person wakes all the way up. Now when I count from five to one and snap my fingers, you will awake. Five, four, three, two, one – wake up!“ The guy comes into full consciousness. There might be such a… such a process. It would head in that direction.

And then this legend of Christ came along and people really started to beat the drum. Again the Hebrew didn’t keep this rolling, this people rolled in there an picked up this legend out of the rich legends of the Hebrew races and out she went – Ha-wham! And people went mad on this. They spun, they went up and down the pole like a… so many firemen at a five-alarm fire. They were… beautiful condition. They’d rush into Roman Courts and say, „Okay, here I am! Execute me!“ The Roman judge would say, „Well, really! Now after all. Can’t we just take this under advisement?“ And they kept getting justice and they didn’t want justice; they wanted blood, death and murder. They wanted to be a martyr!

By the way, you once in a while do that to a preclear and he gets very startled. „Doiing! The lights just turned up!“ Something like this. All right.

Oh, that’s a fascinating chapter and Rome finally said, „We’re so damn tired of this that hereinafter aforesaid Christianity is not going to be accepted by the Roman Empire,“ and what do you know – crash! Down came the Roman Empire – denied itself. It denied its principles and freedom and had begun to inhibit something. It had inhibited… inhibited God in one respect or another and down she went.

So that’s the kind of modus operandi in which we worked and out of this we discovered something which you can use today. There is a gimmick in the environment called a restimulator. You give a guy an hypnotic implant and you tell him to play with his tie. You tell him any time you play with your tie, he’ll do so and so and then you wake him up. So you adjust your tie, and he does so and so. And pretty soon he says, „I wonder what I’m doing this for? Well, I explain it this way…“ And he’s got some wild explanation that has no bearing on your tie.

Interesting, it… You know that empire still kept going for another 800 years under various guises, but it certainly went up and down after a while. In the year five hundred and something A.D., the total population of Rome consisted of two wolves walking in the ruins of the Forum. Right back, the cycle had turned all the way.

For instance, you’ve said, „Every time I touch my tie,“ when he’s hypnotized, „every time I touch my tie, you will now… you will cough.“

And we had this, then, as a descending spiral. And the reason I’m punching all this stuff up, I’m demonstrating something on a national, or Third Dynamic, level. It came back to this line-up: Here you had a philosophy injected which first entered with a desire, became an enforcement and an inhibition, and the first moment somebody had agreed, agreed on the level of ihihibition it died. And the first time there gets to be a heavy inhibition in any line, a thing dies because that inhibition level is, itself, death.

Okay. So every time you touch your tie he says, „Aha-ahum,“ he says, „awfully drafty out, don’t you think?“

This tells you, then, your preclear starts in this way. First dynamic, second, third, and forth – doesn’t matter where you pick him up. Here you’re looking at him.

And you say……

You know that your preclears were a part of this whole picture? This dwindling spiral of religious freedom became part of the woof and warp of the life of most preclears, who actually followed through that period.

And he says, „Aha-ahum.“ Fascinating. And he just keeps this up and you finally wear the button out.

And now today they’re left with, then… there’s just the ashes. There’s… there’s nothing more sterile today than… than religion. It is dull, just dull beyond dull. It can’t be had – it’s too scarce.

Two things you learned: the button can be worn out, and you can have some kind of a gimmick like a tie which will start a guy coughing. Hah!

You could go around any place you wanted to and set up a soap box or something of the sort, and start giving people God, and you’d survive. Evangelists do that on about the cheapest… cheapest guitar, git-fiddle level imaginable. They get over the radio and everything else. They’re just perfectly willing to give somebody God. And… and… by the… the communication lines that are set up are just fabulous. And yet this isn’t general at all; this is not a religious revival. This is the last flick-flack sparks of the fakir who is picking up at the pitch stand something that was once very grand.

But what’s he do? First he rationalizes very generally, then he narrows the rationalization – decides it’s in the room. Then he narrows the room to you and starts to find a little bit of fault maybe with your clothes. And all of a sudden he’ll look at your tie and he’ll suddenly remember and he’ll go „Boom!“

I have no partiality with regard to religion. Anybody who wants to sell pie in the sky or hot air needs no license to survive from me.

„Oh, it’s that tie! You told me when I was asleep so-and-so, that I would cough every time you touched your tie! Aw, nuts!“

Uh… now, when we get down to cases, we find that this happened to the preclear. First he desired, then he finds out that he’s GOT to have what he originally desired, and then he can’t have it. And it just goes flick-flack down scale.

Now that means then that behavior can be transmitted to somebody who is put under a heavy current, and so on, a monotonous current inflow. And he could be put into this state. Doesn’t matter much whether you shot him in the face with a gun and said, „You’re dead“ or you shot him in the face with a gun with a blank cartridge in it and said, „You’re dead.“ Most of the time he’d die if you said, „You’re dead.“

So as you run a preclear up scale, you’ve got to run him back to, to get rid of his knee, really, by mock-ups or have and have not or any other way, you’ve got to run him up scale to what? Desire to have the knee – he had a desire to have a bad knee. So let’s get him to have a desire to have a knee. And we’ll find out he made it a bad knee so that he could preserve it and so he could have a knee. He made it a bad knee so nobody else could have it. That’s your origin of chronic somatics.

You get the level of operation, then. It’s just an inflow – boom! It doesn’t matter whether it happens fast. If it happens very fast, you could implant it quick. If it happens slow, you implant it more slowly. It operates in any case.

He makes the body sick so it won’t be too desirable. In other words, he’s clear down bottom scale with this body: He’s down in inhibit.

A man can be knocked out with drugs, he can be knocked out with a blow. He can be hypnotized by physical pain, or by over-perception. Any of these things. So we add these… all these things up and you say, „For heaven’s sakes, these people are going around and they’re falling down and they’re getting unconscious and people are saying, „Well, he’s pretty bad off, and he’s awfully sick! Let’s see if we can dig up any of these experiences when somebody’s unconscious and find out if this is a hypnotic state.“ And you say, „Look at these people are going around and they do act as though they had restimulators in their environment. They… somebody comes in a perfectly warm room and says, „My, how cold it is,“ and that’s terribly aberrated behavior. And I keep observing it at all hands. And I wonder if it has something to do with this ‘pin mechanism’, the restimulator, which is the tie in the hypnotic incident.“

And what do you know? We look up on our tone scale and we find out inhibition starts in at about 1.1 and goes right on down scale from 1.1 – and it’s death all the way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let’s knock ‘em out colder than a mackerel with physical cause and physical reasons, and we’ll just avoid all the ritual and mumbo-jumbo of hypnotism and we will say, „Whenever I touch my tie, you will cough.“ And they come out of it groggily. And you know, they… they… they just don’t quite uh… you touch your tie and they just look a little uncomfortable – nothing.

So look up neurological illnesses and that sort of thing, on the SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL tone scale, and that’s what you find there. He’s got to inhibit the havingness of somebody else so he won’t get it.

And then you say, „Well, uh… speaking of ties……“

He’s saying in another way, „Don’t eat me.“ He can’t say, „Don’t eat me“ with a club or a lightning bolt. He can’t say that. And up higher up tone scale he can’t – he’s very far from being able to say, „You don’t want to eat me, do you? You have no desire on the subject.“ And of course whatever it is that was trying to eat him would say, „Well, no, come to think about it, I don’t.“

And the fellow says, „What? Ahem!“

That’s all – no force involved.

And you say, „Well, I was just talking about clothing – ties and that sort of thing.“

Now we go down tone scale a little bit and the fellow had to be able to say, „Oh-ho, you’re going to eat me, huh? Well, there’s your head“ – handed to him on a silver platter. „Oh, you’re going to eat me, are you? Ny, you taste good!“

„Ahem!“

And we get down tone scale from that and the fellow can no longer say this, so he says, „Look, the reason you don’t want to eat me is because I’m really poison – boy! Am I poison. Look at the arthritis in that knee. Boy, would I disagree with you.“ He gets all sorts of reasons why he has to protect something.

And you say, „Uh……“

So you get somebody who starts out with great beauty. What do they do? They have to start protecting this beauty to maintain it. Now that’s a beautiful one, isn’t it? They can’t recreate the beauty; they can’t create it again. They know that another specious fact they can’t create anything. They can’t create the beauty, they think, so they sort of have to enforce the beauty of it. And you’ll get somebody going down tone scale on the subject of beauty. First they desired beauty, they were beauty – there was nothing to it. Uh… other people desired beauty, and then the other people – they still might have had the idea, but other people had decided they weren’t beautiful anymore.

And he goes, „Ahem!“

So what do they to do? They have to enforce this beauty. First they do it with powder and paint. Then they do it with exhibitionism. You’ll find in the cycle of somebody’s life, a period when he’s actually tried to go around and practically flout himself under the noses of other people. It might have happened quite early in his life, but that period’s always there – in a dwindling spiral. He’s just flouted himself. And he’s saying, „Look, you better think that I’m good-looking or else!“ Big row about it – „You don’t think I’m pretty anymore, that’s the trouble. That’s the whole thing. I’m going to cry unless…“ Enforced – enforced beauty.

There’s another condition necessary then. Ho-ho! There’s a thing has to happen called a key-in. When the unconsciousness is way deep, in order to get it into an action strata, there has to be a lock sitting on the very deep one.

Now what do we get down at the bottom of the tone scale? – They finally wind up by making themselves uglier than they need be. They inhibit the existing beauty. „Oh! You don’t think I’m beautiful anymore? Well, you can’t see me beautiful?“ That’s all there is on this dwindling spiral.

So you’ve got the engram but it doesn’t key in; it just sits there until somebody comes along and mentions it in such a way as to sort of trigger that into a higher level of consciousness. But it’ll still lie there as an unconscious experience.

Now we keep looking at these spirals, looking at these cycles of action. What are we doing? We just keep comparing data with the same data – agreement. In order to have any of the desire communicated, you have to have an agreement that it communicates. In order to enforce something, you have to have an agreement that it can be enforced. In order to inhibit something you have to have an agreement that it can be inhibited. And above that level of agreement, there has to have been postulates that this sort of a thing can take place – postulate, and then you agree with a postulate.

Do they wear out like hypnosis? Oh, yes, yep! You can wear this button out just like you can wear out hypnosis. Hmmm. Well, let’s just have him go over it again. And the guy remembers it all. At first he remembers just the beginning, and then the end. And then he remembers the rest of it. And then there’s more of it and then more of it. And what do you know! The button wears right on out.

Now you get agreement… agreement itself then, because it turns into flows, becomes eventually Agree and Disagree. And that is reality itself. You agree with it or you don’t agree with it. If you don’t agree with it, it doesn’t have reality. If you do agree with it, it does.

And you finally says… you finally mention „ties,“ he doesn’t cough. You touch your tie; he doesn’t cough.

You can agree with it too much and you’re it. And you’re not you anymore.

And what’s he do when he finally discovers what you’ve done to him in the hypnotic incident? He says, „Aww, nuts! That’s why I was coughing!“

So we get all these fascinating, fascinating uh… complexities arising out of what? The principle of the cycle of action, resulting from Q-1.

And with that same incident, you can turn on streams of mucus out of somebody’s nose. You can… you can completely regulate their endocrine system in the most selective way. You could say, „Now, look. This stuff testosterone is bad, see. Your body can’t absorb it. When you get a shot, it gives you no lift up sexually. Sexually, you’re dead, fellow.“

Now how does Q-1 exactly tie into Desire and Enforce and Inhibit? Very simply. Here we have theta, create, space, energy, objects, locate energy and objects in space. That’s what it really amounts to. And we get, under desire, we get an expansive thing. Desire is a created space – funny isn’t it? – at the first level that you get it in this universe.

Two ways to do it: one is kick him in the genitals – that’s correct. Just as an injury of that selective line, all of a sudden interrupts the testosterone balance of his system and keeps it interrupted long after you’d think that injury should have been set up. Or you can simply slug him out and tell him so. Two methods – both of them highly effective.

Of course, above that level it’s a postulate. Just below that level it starts to be a flicker of agreement. And then we get this expansiveness. First moment we enter the MEST universe. Desire can be a very wide thing, high on the tone scale – high on the tone scale – very wide, expansive, so forth. The harmony and beauty of beauty nowhere shows up like it does in a BIG space.

As long as we have the mind going unconscious when it happens. Otherwise, nothing happens, except some kind of a little key-in or something.

If you want to really knock somebody’s eyes out if you were a painter and you really wanted to ruin somebody’s… make them just so interested, you’d take a great big hall, and you take enormous curtains. And you take one picture that you painted, just that. And you put it down at one end of this hall – fix those curtains so they’re ready to drape across the thing. And then just a little brac-a-brac. Let’s put a little carpet on the floor and some curtains on the window. But by golly, let’s not have anything in there that even vaguely shows up, like the curtains around the picture.

Well, if we run it through enough times it wears out, the endocrine system turns on again. Function is monitoring structure. What do you know, we got engrams.

And then let people come in at the far end of the room and see this great space. And sitting at one end of it, this small picture. They can’t help it, they just sort of cave in. They say, „Look! My God, that thing must be valuable.“

Now we can operate on this guy; we can shoot this guy full of hormones; we can talk to him about this; we can talk to him about that. We can hypnotize him to heal it, or we can feed him religion. And he doesn’t get well!

Value is in terms of space, you see.

You can go out and you can say, „Now look. If you just believe in the great god Throg-Magog, and so on, you can put this whole god over alongside of you and he’ll monitor you and he’ll tell you what to do after this.“ And it’ll just work out fine for a couple of days and then the guy will spin – zing! He’ll really spin because he’s made something else responsible, of course, as we know now.

You know that a fellow who is big and expansive and can reach around a lot of things, and so forth, has, initially, space – he’s operating in lots of space. If he tries to operate in smaller space, why uh… he gets to snapping around it quite a bit. He operates in smaller space, he’s much worse off.

All right, the great god Throg-Magog, then, could handle him for a couple of days and then handle him no more. Then he just goes downhill and downhill.

Now let’s take… let’s take space, very little contact, big anchor points, so forth. Boy, ha… have you ever seen a… a… have you ever seen a waterfall, for instance, that fell a hundred and fifty feet? Anything like that. Just that big space. Now have you ever seen a waterfall that fell 150 feet and had just one plume fall all the way. There’s some such falls on the banks of the Columbia River – I don’t… And there’s some Yosemite that do this. They fall through all that space – just one plume of water comes all the way down.

So what? All of these duress or control therapies – structures, unconsciousnesses, hypnotism, medicine – in no case would alleviate a condition. They would hold it in suspension or hold it in abeyance in some fashion or another. But in the presence of a mental block on the subject, nothing could be done!

Gee, people stand there and they wonder why they’re so enthralled. All of a sudden they’ve got anchor points and they’ve got bigness and they’ve got simplicity. And out of this they get harmony. You can practically feel their souls just sort of smooth down and go „Purrr.“

If mister has gotten his back broken because he’s got an engram about his back, it would be the same thing as though you told this fellow under hypnosis he had to go out and get his back broken. Same thing. And you told him forcefully enough and that he had to have an injured back, and it was necessary to his survival to have an injured back, and everybody feels so sorry for him to have it, and make it very desirable to have an injured back, he’d go out and break his back.

That’s one of the big traps of this universe, is it apparently has all this space, see. And having all this space why uh… anything like a sun, you know? Little suns, that’s all. Must have… you say, „It’s too tiny.“ No – you take a…

And what do you know? You heal it up and you could strap it up and heal it up and fix it up any way you wanted to and it wouldn’t get well, and it wouldn’t get well, and it wouldn’t get well until you pulled the doggoned incident.

Let’s take a bucket full of 25 carat diamonds – the purest, most unflawed diamonds possible. Let’s take a bucket full of them – put them right there. No, no. Let’s take one – knock that away and take one great big velvet, black velvet cloth and set it on a table and put one light on it. And then take one one-carat diamond and put it on there. If Tiffany’s ever changed their policy they’d wreck their business. But they quite customarily put nothing in the window but one simple stone. And there it sits – one stone. People go by and they say, „Screeeee!“

Now you can ha… do that. And the tests… we’re on such things as a cut finger. You’d knock the guy out and cut his finger and then tell him how valuable that finger cut was, and tell him he should get his finger cut. Just put a little pain in it, don’t hurt it any. But give him enough pain so he’s got pain on the unconsciousness. And out he goes, and hurts his finger. And he’ll hurt his finger, and he’ll hurt his finger – and he’ll hurt his finger, and he’ll hurt his finger. And every time he hurts his finger he gets another engram. Hmmm. He gets more sympathy too. Hmmm.

And the boys who run these other… these… these uh… two-bits-for-a-collar-of-diamonds jewelry stores with those racks and racks and racks and racks and racks of things, have to actually, really to attract any real attention and get the passers-by to stop, they have to put in value, value, value, value, value in terms of lots of money so that people get to looking at a mass and it’s a curiosa. It’s not an appreciation at all. They get the appreciation, „Junk.“

In other words, it’s getting deeper and deeper and deeper, and worse and worse and worse, all the way down the line.

And… and you get this – in the front of one of those windows you can have big diamonds rigged up, five-carats diamonds, ten-carat diamonds in rings and everything else like you see on New York, Broadway. You see those right straight up close to the window glass. And uh… there’ll be a rack of them sitting there and people’ll go along and say, „What do you know? Five thousand dollars! What do you know? Ten thousand dollars! What do you know? Twenty-five thousand dollars! Isn’t that interesting? You know, it’s funny how much that thing costs. I wish I had something like that. Well, let’s go over to the show.“ No interest level. No space, so of course it can’t be of any value.

So we’ve got the same mechanism at work and they can be worn out. But they require key-ins just like hypnotism does. And you can run all of these various experiments and you’ll find them very productive. And you’ll find out you can run incidents like locks, and you can run locks wholesale. You can scan ‘em, you can run all sorts of things all over the place, and you won’t have any trouble with them.

Now uh… you could get something very tiny and enclose it in a very tiny place of very exquisite workmanship. You get sort of the idea of a theft when you do that, when you… when you see this little, tiny ivory worked castle, you see. Little tiny castle, and it’s got a little, tiny thing in that offsets. You sorta get the idea that somebody stole something, when you look at this thing. It… it… it’s… it’s… it gives you kind of that feeling. You d… you don’t get really the feeling – you get the feeling of beauty and exquisiteness a little bit, but – somebody swiped it.

Now on the assist, for God’s sake, don’t forget the assist because it’s one of the best ways to handle something – an immediate injury. Boy, you can get that thing down, bang!

Why? It’s very simple. I mean, somebody has taken and out of a space that he shouldn’t have, he’s worked in some beauty into it. You see, that’s too small a space to have that much in.

But there’s what’s known as a creative processing assist. Give him new thumbs, if he’s hurt his thumb. Process parts of the body: mock up parts of the body, get superfluity on parts of the body, lots of ‘em. Break the back of the MEST universe motto, „It shall be scarce!“ And break the back on it. And the way you do that is just that, by giving the guy an abundance of mock-up.

Now uh… let’s go in some other fields: What… what’s your great singer? The first criticism of a singer: „Oh, he has a parlor voice.“ How much space can he fill with sound? That’s the first requisite.

You see, the mock-up is more real than actuality as some people here are finding out. „You know, this MEST universe isn’t very real. But these mock-ups I’m getting are beautifully real.“

Caruso was the greatest singer of all time because he could knock out the back of any auditorium practically. Also he had force in his voice – he could crack wine glasses, hold a true note. And you say, „This is truth of note.“ No, that… the upset of that was there was – must have been enough force in that voice to crack wine glasses. He had perhaps great beauty of voice, perhaps not. But boy he was sure loud.

Now of course, you get somebody… you back somebody up, you have to know where you’re backing them to. And we find out, all of a sudden, you’re backing them to a high level of self-determinism and yet we find out to stop at a short point on self-determinism is almost… is quite undesirable.

Want to become a great singer? The hell with shifting notes. Don’t even bother to carry a tune. If you were just to go out and practice so that you could take the biggest auditorium in the United States or the Hollywood Bowl and get to a point where you could fill that Bowl with sound without any electronic equipment, boy, they’d elect you. You’d get elected right then.

So you have to get him up to a high level of self-determinism where he is a good, ethical being as well as a very strong one. And we find out he has to be a very strong being in order to be an ethical being. And uh… so that sort of has to solve itself in that direction.

Now, it’s a funny thing: What’s the difference then between the great singer and the hog caller? Both of ‘em can fill a lot of space with sound. Well, look… look them over – look them over. There’s a different intention behind the sound. The intention is to call a hog in one case, and to be loud; and the intention in the other place is to interest people and create a desire.

And we’ve moved right straight out of structure entirely. The second the guy can handle all force, he can handle structure. He can have it or not have it at will. He can step out of his head and mock up some structure, and he can do it well enough so that somebody will have to accept it. You can do a much better job than this universe, by the way.

Big difference. Where do you find your biggest difference then? Your biggest difference is up in the postulate intentional level. That’s… that’s the difference – up there. And then a little bit lower than that there’s an agreement that the singer is… is a singer, and an agreement that a hog caller is a hog caller. And we’ve agreed to laugh at hog collars and we’ve agreed to be very serious about singers – very simple.

Now, you could continue to live in confluence with your friends. You could continue to live in the MEST universe. You could continue to do all sorts of things. But with this knowledge and this information you could bail yourself out. That’s important. With the data which has been accumulated on this, you can bail yourself out. There isn’t much that you can get into that you can’t get yourself out of, even if you’re all by yourself. These processes will work actually, on yourself, all by yourself.

That’s right. That’s about all there is to it. You go out to be a great singer, you make sure that everybody knows that you’re a great singer. You wear the trappings of a great singer, that’s all. I’ve seen some pianists sitting in dives that could tear the keys off the piano with any classical music – beautiful, just beautiful playing. But they didn’t have on a tail coat, they did not have an air, they didn’t have the style, they didn’t have all the symbols and trademarks of the great pianist.

So we’ve gone on up the line to a collection of data, and this data is very brief, but really – it’s there. It’s just all roads lead to Rome on the thing. Self-determinism and that’s Q-l.

How do you act as a great pianist? Hah-hah! We know how you act as a great pianist – you’re very impressive in the first place. You come in, you ignore the whole audience. You sit down, you sweep your coat tails out of the way in order to sit down at the seat of just one piano sitting on this huge stage, see? And you sit down, and then you wait very patiently until everybody deigns to be damn quiet. And you start in. And make sure that you have the grandness of gesture. That’s all it is.

And… but – look at the basic datum: what was Man trying to do? He had the answer to that: he’s trying to survive. That sounds kind of silly, „He’s just trying to survive,“ but that’s right. That’s all he’s trying to do. There’s no reason why he’s trying to survive. It’s just a game, it’s something to do and he got in too deep. And then he got to be a broken piece and then nobody could help him out. Then he couldn’t help himself out, so somebody had to bail him out. I think he could’ve helped himself out, myself.

The poor guy sitting down in the jukebox playing with his derby hat over one eye, maybe can play rings around that guy on the concert stage, but he doesn’t know one fact – one fact he doesn’t know: that he has to act big and great in order to be big and great. And if he acts big and great and with the proper mannerisms to be big and great, he’ll be big and great. Because he’s what? He’s not putting on anything but the agreement.

Now, uh… the data accumulated showed us a heck of a lot of things and all of these things were of the highest importance maybe, at one time or another, uh… as processes. But fortunately, you don’t have to know all these trick processes. But you do have to know the phenomena, because you’ll encounter the phenomena and their… you have to know that direct address of phenomena is an agreement with the MEST universe that it exists. So you have to back up from that phenomenon.

If he refuses to act within the frame of agreement which is assigned to bigness and greatness, or if he has some purpose in not acting in that frame of reference, he won’t be.

So under processing we get, of course, the Auditor’s Code, how is it done? It’s done from a high level – that could also be called the Code of How to Be Civilized – it’s done from a very high level of ethic. Not from a moral… when you start to get victimized by the Auditor’s Code it has become a moral code to you, because it’s no longer reasonable, because it’s damaging one dynamic. But don’t bust it as a straight break, because that is even more damaging. There is an ethical way of handling all of this. And the best way is to be so strong that you wouldn’t have any inclination to. And you start to help somebody out, they just get helped out, poor fellow.

You can really pitch it any way you want to. You can just throw it in any direction. But if you’re going to throw it in any direction you want to, you’ll have to be able to initially feel that you can command space and energy. It’s all well and good to just fake in and know you’re faking in. It isn’t that people read your mind, it just shows up in the manner; the manner isn’t there.

And the fellow says, „Well, yap, yap, yap.“

Calli-Curcy never came out and looked at the audience apologetically – never. Neither did Caruso. Caruso came out and he’d look them over. „All right, you people are privileged now to hear me sing.“ He’d say, „Now you’re going to hear me sing.“ There… it wouldn’t – nobody would have stood a chance if they had decided not to hear him sing. Nobody would’ve stood a chance.

And you say, „Huh?“

Now there’s… there’s you… there’s your difference. What is greatness? It’s simply that: What a beautiful language – „Great-ness.“ Big-space.

„Well, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“

If a fellow fills up all the space he has, he’d better find bigger space.

You say, „Poor guy, you really mean it.“ It doesn’t bother you.

Now there’s the quality of action, and that mostly has to do with consistent quality of action. He has a consistency and a control – increase and decrease – at will. It isn’t enough to sing loud. One must sing loud and fall off to a softness, and sing loud again at will. He must also be able to stop and start singing at will. He follows this… this whole cycle of action.

He runs all around the neighborhood, he says, „You know that auditor down there, he’s just terrible. He does horrible things,“ and so forth. „Beautiful women go in there day and night. You know, he really, all horrible things happen in that place – terrible. Very immoral and all that sort of thing.“

And at that level of big space, there is desire, and people see that as the space and they also will see it instantly as desire. There we have desire at work: Big space, certainty and if any force is there at all, the force is subordinate to the agreement that there should be force there.

If you’re tough enough and you radiate far enough, do you know that the neighbors wouldn’t uh… wouldn’t even be disturbed. Doubtful, though, in this society. One has to assume there’s something there, and so on.

You get the complete feeling at that level that a person would not need any force in order to carry out his mission.

All right. Now in page 38 here we have the Theta Entity and the Theta Entity is a misnomer. There is no such thing as the Theta Entity. It’s a typist error, uh… and it might not be in the book. It should have been caught. What’s meant there is the Thetan. We know about that. Uh… the entities? They’re ridges on which facsimiles are planted and I was drawing you some pictures in a recent lecture about all these squares and – compartments across the top. Each one of those things can be a thinking entity. It thinks it’s alive. It can think as a being as long as energy is fed to it.

Now what do you know? Do you know you could walk down here and take the star of a cup you could just walk down and take his badge away from him… and have him agree perfectly to do it, that you should do it. You just assume that you have the right to, not the right you have to defend. This is sort of a God-given right. You walk down and talk to him about his badge, and you’ll have it in your hand in a couple of seconds. You don’t have to use subterfuge to get it. That’s the way not to get it.

Always remember that one: as long as energy is fed to it, it can think and act as a being. Therefore, if you, quote, pay attention to it, it will think and act. You start talking to an entity and, of course, it talks back. With what energy? Yours.

Now there are much easier ones. Do you know that… how they tell a shoplifter in a store? How they tell a criminal on the street? They don’t have his description. He looks suspicious. You know that people… people… cops arrest a criminal on… away from the scene of the crime a few minutes afterwards ordinarily because they look so suspicious. They just weren’t big enough to do what they did, because they knew they didn’t have the right to do it and that was the first requisite of criminality, is knowing one doesn’t have the right to do it. The second one knows one has the right to do it, it ceases to be a criminality and becomes a right.

Now the auditor can actually start talking to an entity and energize it, just as people in a person’s environment energize his entities very often. They come in and energize an entity and they get him dispersing and doing this and that. They actually are blowing energy at an entity. And it’s apparently thinking, acting – that’s the way they control him. That’s a beautiful control mechanism.

And the difference between a right and the difference between a criminal act, is simply knowing one has a right to and knowing one doesn’t have a right to. In other words, knowing one has a right to, one would have to command enormous space and enormous power to know so completely that he would have the right to any item or object in an entire city.

The entities will have the damnedest facsimiles on them, and they’ll apparently be stuck on the time track someplace. Each one different from every other one. That’s because of the various ridges on which facsimiles are planted. And that’s all an entity is.

Boy, would he have to be big. He’d have to be a hell of a lot bigger than that city – big. To the petty thief who knows he doesn’t have the right to pay a nickel to ride on the subway, and the second after he’s paid his nickel he still looks like he doesn’t have a right to ride on the subway. And, what do you know? He paid his nickel! Now that’s an interesting point, isn’t it. Fascinating.

You can blow an entity to pieces any time you want. Every once in a while you get the strangest spooky notion that there’s other thetans. And every once in a while in a preclear you’ll get some very, very decadent thetan out of him.

He knows he doesn’t have the right to. He knows he doesn’t have the right to do anything. He has no space and no time, no havingness. And as such, he comes right on down scale.

You take a look and he’ll say, „You know, that’s a funny thing. There’s a glow that’s of a very low order on a ridge and I can’t seem to handle that ridge. And I don’t seem to be able to do anything with that ridge.“

Now there are some people who have the right natively to have a… a space bigger than a galaxy, easily. And who have come down in their own eyes to a point where they know they can’t have a space bigger than a planet, and they don’t have a right to any space bigger than a planet. And they go on acting apologetic about the whole deal. And you’d… you’d swear – they aren’t on… out like a petty thief, but they’re down in their own estimation to that degree. The very great on earth have had that feeling.

You say, „Is there anything else on it?“

They’re scaled way down and they still have enough of this to spare. Well, there’s a… what’s the difference then between a petty thief and a person the size of the MEST universe? Well, your petty thief possibly could be, some day, the size of the MEST universe. But it would mainly depend upon his knowing he had the right to be.

„Yeah.“

And when you get a postulate-changing session going on with some preclear, you will be astonished. They’ll realize they don’t have the right to do this, or to do that or to do something else – because they agreed not to have the right.

„Well, now detach that thing. Well, you got that thing detached there? Well now detach the whole ridge and throw it away.“

And one could call the whole dwindling scale of stuff, „Agreeing not to be able to.“ That’s the saddest story ever sung: „I agree that I do not have the right to…“ And there are a lot of understoods back of that, a lot of postulates that have gone before. „I agree that I do not have the right to…“

They actually will be occasionally, but they’re not active.

The first day you ever said, „Well, all right. I see that other people are using these things and so forth.“ Just nonsensically you said one day, „Well, I agree. I uh… well, I agree that other people have the right to…“ Oh-oh! That’s the same thing, isn’t it? „I agree other people have the right to…“ is the „I agree I don’t have the right to have a right more than other people have a right.“ Oh boy!

Preclears will also have the idea that they’re hanging around the backs of their necks. They’ve got old currents and old ridges will go into vibration. And they start thinking about the backs of their necks and, of course, any ridge that’s on the backs of their necks will go into vibration. And they get the idea that entities or… or en-thetans – ah, that’s a wonderful word – en-thetans are creeping up on them and crawling up on them, and that they’re being mobbed by this and that and so on. They can be very convinced about this, by the way; and that they’re… they’re about to be attacked, or the whole town is about to be blown up or any damn thing you could think of. And uh… they’ll get very worried about this.

„I agree that other people have a right to manage this or do that or square around something or other, and that I have no business monkeying with it.“ Oh-oh!

The truth of the matter is, no matter how dark it is there’s nothing can touch you. Unless you sit down and carefully determine that something’s going to. And if you carefully make up your mind that something is going to happen to you, you can undoubtedly fix it up so it will.

Everywhere you look in this confounded, upset, cock-eyed society everybody is saying, „I don’t take any responsibility for this. And that’s not my fault. And that’s not my responsibility, and I’m not responsible for that, and I’m responsible for something or other“ and they get down to a level, they don’t even vote. That he don’t… he can’t even take that responsibility for having elected the government of the United States because they recognize it’s kind of specious. They realize they have the perfect innate ability to own an area the size of the United States and to be an area the size of the Unites States, and yet here they are, they won’t even participate and vote one vote. They couldn’t take the responsibility to that degree.

Now, that’s the sum and substance then of entities. As far as running engrams, I’ve just given you a dissertation on it. That’s really all you have to know about running an engram. Spot the incident where it happened, and make the guy go through it so many times he is so sick of it.

Now there are two ways that they do that. The fellow who was as big as the size of the United States would never go near a polling vault or a box – never. He wouldn’t vote, he… because he’d be into an agreement with all these other people who were voting and he wouldn’t see that. But on a lower level a person won’t vote simply because they won’t take the responsibility for who is president. And that’s way down.

It’s very strange to people sometimes. They’ll be quite amused at the first time they ever discover a this-life engram. They went all the way through the operation; they were completely alert all the way through it. Or… or there are parts of the operation that they’re not alert in.

And everywhere you look, „I don’t have the right to do this, I don’t have the right to do that.“ There’s a screwball attorney uh… who is uh… fouling up like a fire drill – some little hick town someplace. Uh… and… and he’s busy trying to figure every way he can figure to lose some little two-bit court case – in Scientology. He’s doing this. Why, it’s the most fascinating thing you ever saw. These… these guys… these guys are so low they haven’t… they haven’t got any responsibility for any fellow human being, and they have no responsibility for themselves at all. Why? Because such a person has had it demonstrated to him very adequately by having his wife who was a cripple for many, many years made again to walk and play the piano.

Don’t be too surprised if there’s chunks of engrams that ought to be there that aren’t there. Don’t be too surprised at this. You’re dealing with energy and concept of energy, and the fellow had a concept that it was there once upon a time, but something might have caved that ridge in. There might be a heck of a scramble of energy in the vicinity of this thing. A piece of it might be missing.

Hah! He didn’t have any responsibility for her, did he? Didn’t have any responsibility for himself – couldn’t possible have done so. Why? Because it isn’t any responsibility of his that everything’s going wrong, and so forth. And this trial – he’s the only one that’s there. It’s up to him to say anything at all.

Now sometimes during an operation a whole ridge will blow. Don’t think that a preclear suddenly… by the way, never make this mistake, that this is a sudden and strange manifestation that occurs – these ridges and flows and things like that; they’re… they’re sudden manifestations that occur the moment the person became a preclear and never existed before that. Don’t make that mistake. They put a… put a patient on an operating table and they come down with that knife or that machine or something of the sort, and there’s a bad shock. And this shock results in an electronic flash. And that’s some ridge blowing up. They don’t have anything connected to him to demonstrate what’s happening. But he comes out of that and he’s a vastly changed being. They’ve blown his bank up. And scrambled his incidents and ruined him. And he’s got to be rehabilitated in the handling of energy.

It’s very interesting, isn’t it? The guy could actually fail to recognize his beingness to the extent where he can’t even be the size of his own family on responsibility.

Very often an operation produces results solely because it merely shifts a person on a time track. Probably that’s the only reason it does, I don’t know. But uh… I wouldn’t say so far as that. You can still patch up a broken leg, although you’re a hell of a… you’re a hell of a thetan that can’t fix up a broken leg, let me tell you. Well, throw that one away and get another one. That’s right, it’s a better looking leg anyway. I mean that’s… that’s about the way it goes.

In other words, he couldn’t continue his support of something which has relieved him of the terrible burden of having a cripple in his family for the rest of her life. You understand, that would cost him just days and months and so on of misery on his own part.

All right, uh… the running of engrams, then, can become complicated by manifestations of energy and the fact that one tries to have the engram so he can run it. And of course there are vectors in it, so the second he tries to have it the thing will very often go away from him and he doesn’t have it any more. Or he tries not to have it and, of course, it moves at that moment right in on him.

And yet – yet that’s happened for him. And yet his level of responsibility is so low that he’s just figuring out any way he could possibly figure where Scientology could possibly go by the boards right in his own home town. Isn’t that fascinating?

There’s one way of doing this, is sort of emanate in the direction of the ridges. You emanate in the direction of the ridges, they’ll start lighting up. Just blow in their direction. Don’t emanate anything except a… a flow – not a agreement or disagreement or anything else – just… just emanate in that direction, and look. And, what do you know? Engrams will come into view.

His level of responsibility can’t be any size at all, then. ‘Cause he knows it works, it works for him, it works in his hands, he’s fully trained and yet he’s got to lose. Never had enough processing to put in your eye. But there… there’s… there’s a level of responsibility.

You just postulate yourself a little higher up tone scale, see, than you have to be. You don’t agree or disagree or have to have or not have to have, and so forth. Just emanate a little bit in that direction. Just feel yourself flow in that direction a bit and engrams that are otherwise……

What is the essential difference between what I’m doing in res… in Scientology and other people? Is it because I’m brighter? No, no. Uh-uh. Is it because I… I… I know more? Naw. No there’s really only one thing, is I recognize that it’s… that it’s my job, I recognize anybody has this job. You see, anybody has this job. And there was this great big pair of boots and they were sitting right in the middle of this universe, and they were awfully big boots, and you could get down amongst them with… with telescopes. You could look the length and breadth of them and find absolutely nothing inhabiting ‘em.

The guy says, „I can’t run that incident,“ and you know he’s sitting in Mama’s death and so forth. You can just get him to emanate kind of out in front of him or around back of him or wherever this engram’s parked. It’s parked geographically. It… because… he… it’s just one that he didn’t say, „Go into yesterday“ to.

And it says in these boots, it just simply said, „These are the boots which go down a road which leads out of this joint.“ And other people had been diving spaceships through them and playing hopscotch in them and… and so on, when they ever did see them, and so on. They were sitting right there.

See, you have to actively say to an engram, „Go into the last five minutes,“ or it won’t go. And then you have to hide from yourself the mechanism of doing that in order not to know you do it. Automaticity enters in on it and you’ll forget you’re doing it.

They sat on the doorstep of every door that has ever been covered with crepe. They sat on the doorstep of every bank that ever reneged on a pledged agreement or refused a loan to somebody who was desperate. They sat on the doorstep of every church which itself was pretending to take vast responsibility. They fell across every single boulevard and progress that Man ever thought he could make. He could go ahead and take responsibility for destroying culture, but not for helping a single individual in it. Ho!

Actually, it’s a completely conscious process. Every instant of time is a completely conscious process. So that if you… if you… if you’re not just saying, „Time. Time. Time. All right. Don’t have. Don’t have. Don’t have. Park. Park. Park. Park. Park. Park“ of time, you haven’t got any time track.

Fascinating! Why, those boots – well, you look at these boots, and they… they weren’t even big boots. They were little boots – little kids’ boots. Wasn’t anything to them. And what’d you do? You just threw some space out that big, that’s all. I mean, you narrowed the space down to the universe of one man and you found out he was a highly representative man, and then you took a look. The boots were very wearable.

A guy sometimes gets into the state of not doing anything with it, see? And he wonders, „Where’s my sonic?“ It’s all stacked, right in front of his face. It’s all right. He can stretch it out and he’s got it all again. Only he’s got to stretch it out. He’s got to say, „Well, that’s in last year. Now we’ll string it from there.“ And he’d have a track.

And they’re very, very simply boots. But what do you know? These boots have a catch to them. They aren’t just one man’s boots. They were every man’s boots. And because I assayed to take a few steps in them and square them around and find out where the road was and what leather they were made out of, didn’t absolve a single individual who cared to benefit from those boots from wearing them. And that is the grimmest joke of all.

But you have to do that, you see? And it’s not spatial. YOU DON’T SHIFT SPACE. You have to… you… it’s the same space as the thing occurred – in. It’s just disappearing in that space. And when he’s mastered that trick, he’s mastered time. It… it’s simply time… time past is „not have“. It’s just „not have,“ that’s all.

A person has to come up the scale so that he can take responsibility for himself and all of his fellows and the whole cock-eyed condemned universe before he can walk down that road out. Isn’t that fascinating?

And time that isn’t is just „will have“. And time that is, is „have it“. It’s so simple. You can go on like this and explain like this. And it’s something like trying to explain ad nauseam that golf balls are white because they’re white. That’s all, they’re just white.

He can’t even run his engram bank unless he says, „It’s my business and I mean to make it so.“ Isn’t that interesting? Because he’s down tone scale on inhibited, he knows all knowledge is inhibited, he knows all things are inhibited, he knows every thing he is scare, he knows death is inevitable, he knows all these things. He knows he has no space. He knows that life is an object, not an animate, glorious thing. And as long as he knows that, then he will know no more. And at that level one knows practically nothing.

Now you run secondaries, grief charges, and you’re into the subject of loss. And what do you know, right back into time again. Loss is what? No time. You run a secondary the same way you run an engram. You start them in at the beginning. They can be in terror, they can be in fear, be in any of those things. If you just tell the preclear, start him just like this.

The bank will sit there and some of the little incidents in it might be quite bright and it might be interesting. But boy! is it of narrow scope! It’ll be a little tiny bank.

You say, „All right, when was the first moment you received news of your father’s death?“

Those great big ridges standing out there have to be handled by a big guy, if you’re going to handle them all the way. Now we have the modus operandi of how you get to be a big guy. There isn’t any gimmick factor whereby you all of a sudden discover you have to make up your mind to be self-determined.

And the preclear says, „Well, I remember clearly that so-and-so,“ and he’s doing a big pretense. The engram is sitting right in front of his face and he’s saying it isn’t there. See? „Well, I recall this, I know this. Yeah. And, uh… somebody told me……“ That’s a lock on it – „that.“

You could take a preclear by the nape of his neck and hold him up there and bang his head against the wall with these techniques until he is cleared – if you start him on the line, you never have to explain a thing to him. He’ll finally wind up, but he’ll never walk out of this universe with your help. He never will.

And you say, „No, no, no, no, no, no. When is the first moment you can pick up there that you heard your father died?“

He’ll only walk out of this universe if you permit him to recover enough force so that he can have responsibility for what’s going on.

„Oh, um, I guess it was a telephone call.“

There isn’t any hidden gimmick; there isn’t anything else he has to think; there isn’t anything he has to believe in, really, to amount to anything to go this way. And you can boot him up this line quite artificially, but what you’re really doing is taking him and putting these boots on him. He has to be fitted with these boots and these boots are called Responsibility.

„All right. Answer the phone.“

The ability to handle force and take the responsibility for the use of it, the ability to create and handle space of any dimension and take the responsibility for handling it.

„Well, I can’t remember that far…“

He’ll find himself going up the line automatically. There isn’t any funny little gimmick on the thing. It’s just a grim joke you’re playing on him. He thinks he’s been diving and ducking and jumping into the weeds and hiding under the house and so on. And he says, „Well, this is just another way to hide under the house“ – you’ve got him by one ankle; you start pulling him out.

„Now just a minute. Pick up that telephone. Where does the telephone normally sit? Take a look at it. All right, you got the telephone? Well, now answer it. Now what is said to you over the phone?“

And what do you know? He has to stand eventually. Not by any determinism of his own, really, if you really wanna make it that way. He’ll be standing out in the bright sunlight fully visible before he goes anyplace. He’s gotta be able to take responsibility for all enforcement, and all desire way up the line, and all space before he’ll walk any place.

And the guy runs it off, and all of a sudden, „What the hell,“ he says. „I’m hearing this again.“ He runs it on through and at first he’s very vague and he gets upset and it’s very thin. And then he gets closer in and closer in to the thing. And then cries maybe or gets terrified or gets upset and… and it all goes by the boards. Well, that’s solved by having and not having. You could say, „Now get having and not having on the subject of Papa, having to have a father, not having to have a father.“ You do the same trick by running it on a flow so these processes are not disrelated.

So we’ve got that scale going back and forth, and up and down and we find out that there is a bigness which has to grow in the person. And if you don’t see that bigness growing, he’s not on his way out.

Now, running locks, you can just scan those wholesale. A lock requires a heavy incident to sit on. There’s got to be pain and unconsciousness in the incident before locks started gathering on it.

And the difference between the preclear that has to be chained down to have the boots put on him and me is, is I never wanted to be a slave and I never had to be. That’s all. I never agreed.

So when Joe Jinx comes in the room and he says, „Eeeeeowwww! A black cat!“ you say, „What’s the matter with you?“

It was very interesting – somebody was talking about science fiction the other day, I wondered how much of all this was science fiction.

„Oh, I hate black cats! Do you know every time I see a black cat, I get a black eye? I’m going to leave. I get terrible sinusitis too. Ohhh! You’ve got a potted geranium! Oh, I can’t stand geraniums! I’m……“ and so on and so on. As he goes down the steps he sees that somebody’s left a roller skate on the steps. He can’t abide anything like that. Why aren’t people…… „Oh, a newel post on a ban……“

Well, there’s science fiction and science fiction. Some science fiction’s bad, some science fiction’s good. Unfortunately, for your sakes, this isn’t fiction. I wish it were. If it were just a pleasant afternoon, we could all go on being slaves.

What is this guy trying to do? He hasn’t found his restimulator. He’s looking all over the environment, see, trying to find the guy with the hand on the tie. He knows there’s a signal and he’s supposed to do something, and he fu… lost the signal. And he just starts jumping at the whole environment. And you get what is known as associative restimulators. Because it’s a hand on a tie he’s looking for, any tie hanging up anyplace drives him into fits. And because ties hang on shirts, any shirt hanging up anyplace turns him into fits. And because shirts go on bodies, then any body hanging up any place turns him into fits. And because bodies hang any place, then any place turns him into fits. You get how this is working?

But unfortunately – unfortunately it doesn’t happen to be fiction. Like the professor – I mean, the chair of physics up there said, „The diabolical accuracy of these predictions will be borne out by the most exacting research and investigation.“ Well, they’re diabolical because they take slaves away from those who would have slaves. And they set man free. And they’ll even set men free who don’t want to be free at all. And I think that is the most… grimmest jest.

All right, you can actually sit a guy down on an E-Meter and look for the restimulator. „What’s the gimmick? What’s making you jump?“ You could just search for it relentlessly. It’s rather a long process but you just search for it and you’ll find that the reason this guy’s nervous and the reason that guy’s eyes are bad – for instance, why is the guy’s eyes bad? You could look in the real universe, laughingly called, and find out exactly what he’s hoping he won’t see.

And when it comes to… when it comes to any of these techniques, any of these techniques, they… they add up all the way up – something I talked to you about before, time and time again – uh… freedom. Freedom.

So the first drop you will get is, „Are you afraid you’ll see something“ – crash! Now what is it he doesn’t want to see? He doesn’t want to see one of these restimulators. Because if he sees this restimulator, then he has to do a Saint Vitus Dance, or something, see, he knows that.

And that freedom is lots of space and ability to use it. That’s freedom – that’s all. That’s all freedom is. It’s… it’s exactly what it says it is. It is the most idiotically literal thing imaginable – freedom. Lots of space and the ability to use it.

All right, so we’re right back on to the same basic formula that we were on before – the environment is upsetting. Well, he has certainly agreed that it would be upsetting so you’d better gradiently break his agreement with the whole darned environment. Because if you don’t, there isn’t any halfway point.

And then complete freedom is above the level of not needing space. And not even having to agree. That’s… that is above the level of freedom. That is cause itself. And you never saw cause itself ever being worried.

Oh, get that envir… that… get that environment beautifully unreal. Get him absentmindedly walking through walls, tipping his hat to his hostess at night and walking through the front door and out, forgetting to open it. Going out and sitting down comfortably just outside of the curb, and turning on the switch and driving home – not remembering that he didn’t bring the car that night.

It… Prime Cause has nothing which could enslave it, except itself. Just like there’s really nobody ever going to really pick up this preclear and carry him out of this universe. Nobody’s ever going to do that. He can put boots on; he’ll still have that last mile he has to walk himself.

Life could be beautiful. Of course, I don’t guarantee what’s going to happen to other people. You see, in view of the fact that this is all science fiction, it’s so incredible that uh… nobody will believe it anyway. And a fellow says, „Oh! This big tough guy at the party. He’s always the life of the party, you know. He’s big and he smokes cigars, you know, and he drinks heavily and he was a boxer in his youth. He’s strong, knocks the girls crazy. He, oh, they’re for him. And he tears telephone books in half, you know. Throws them negligently over his shoulder. Tears packs of cards in half – real tough, see? Real strong.“

And that means that he’ll have to take responsibility for what he does and his force. And not only that, for everything that goes on around him.

It won’t hurt this fellow’s reality any after he’s torn telephone books in half to have them lie on the floor and then tear ‘em in quarters – without anybody touching them.

And we look at the thing that does happen, we look at these people, we look at somebody – gee. He… all he’s got to do is walk into a court and put on the proper defense which has been outlined for him. But he says, „No“ – he can’t do that. He can’t do that. „That’s not possible because all is lost. We all know all is lost.“ He hasn’t taken responsibility for his own profession or his own pride in himself or anything.

So, it’s a good thing we’re… we’re operating completely behind the mask of any reality.

What are we looking at? Carrion? That’s how low one can get and that is actually a degradation of sorts which goes below the level of being degraded; because a person who knows he is degraded isn’t very badly. It’s a person who’s terribly degraded and isn’t even vaguely aware of it that’s dead. And you can look around and see these people on every side. And they’re going through and they say, „Nobody has any right to give me any responsibility. I have no responsibility for anything. I… I take responsibility – I’m to blame.“ – something like that. „I’m responsible. This isn’t any job of mine.“

You’re gonna bust somebody’s reality to glory with this sort of thing. You can already bust their… if you just took one of these processes here, you could still bust their reality.

They’re going around like that. If you said to him, „Do you feel degraded?“ They’d say, „No no-no. Just now married to Marxism.“ The hell they are. They’re lower than the dogs, because they’re gone and they don’t even know they’re gone. And that’s the horrible part of being gone.

„Everybody knows that after a certain age, such and so couldn’t possibly happen and the body couldn’t heal about this and that.“ My God! We’ve turned off cancer and diabetes and leukemia and… and so on. The… actually auditors have hauled them off of death beds now for two and a half years and braced them up and put a couple of spikes through their hair to hold them up on the wall until a better process came along. But they are still alive!

When one is all the way gone, he ceases to know anything at all. And he doesn’t even know he’s dead.

Actually Dianetics and Scientology have probably saved several thousand lives – I don’t know. I would say so because I kept… I started keeping a case history on… a long time ago, and it got too numerous and I couldn’t keep it. Guys would just keep writing in. I wish I had it now, the… the… just what letters I had on the subject, and so forth, were once in existence. And they’re not now.

Now on this level, there you see that dwindling spiral adding up, adding up. And it’s the track of agreement all the way down the line. And the agreement leads from Desire to Enforcement to Inhibition in each case. And that requires force and space and as you go down that spiral, you’ll find out there’s less and less space, and less and less space and finally a solid object.

But, uh… gee, they just kept coming in and coming in and coming in and coming in. It’s a very funny thing. There are an awful lot of book auditors out in the field who did a tremendous amount of good, really used it down the line.

Let’s not have that solid object you.

Some of… sometimes these auditors study a technique, they’ll find it too fast, they can’t charge a preclear enough for it. They’d rather have a slower technique than these new techniques. Boy, that’s really… they’re really in agreement with the MEST universe when they figure that there’s got to be scarcity. They’re creating a scarcity themselves.

Let’s take a break.

You see, if they suddenly took up… took ten people and took ten days and cured all those ten people – oh, no! The… the horrible reality shatter that would occur in their neighborhood would be such that there would be Aunt Mamie and Uncle Joe up there, the relatives, saying, „You know, I have a friend. And I wanted to know if you couldn’t do something for this friend of mine, because uh… uh… of course, that friend wouldn’t be me.“

Now, that’s all very simple, this business of running concepts and feelings. You can get any kind of a concept and just get the guy to hold it for a little while – and it wears out.

And uh… then there’s running ridges, running circuits out, there’s blowing up circuits. Well, your thetan can run around the body and pull these things off, you know, and hook ‘em up to light taps or digest the energy or squash ‘em, or light fire to one corner of the ridge and blow up the rest of the ridge. It’s very fascinating. You can handle a ridge any way you want to. You just simply get out and take a look at it and do something with it. Ground it, or turn it purple or change it around or fit it across the back instead of across the back of the head. And then finally you’ve changed it often enough, you said, „To hell with it. We won’t bother with this ridge any more.“

All right, let’s put another ridge on, and then mock up one and put it on, then fasten that one in good and strong. You say, „Wait a minute. I’m fooling with my own body, and the ridge which I just mocked up is a perfectly good, solid ridge.“ We’d better come off of this. We’d better not do this any more because that’s getting just too real.“ And then one day you say, „I wonder, if I put a ridge between those two E-Meter cans, if it’d short out the E-Meter?“ And you sigh deeply because there are the E-Meter cans lying several feet apart, and you’ve got a line between them and the needle registers.

You say, „I thought I was handling just… just imaginary things, and here I was handling real juice!“

And running a live flow, that’s running present time flow. You just manufacture energy and blow things up with it, that’s all. You just say, „Let’s see now. There’s a lot of ridges on me, or there’s a lot of ridges on this preclear, or there’s a lot of flows going on, or a lot of dispersals going on. Let’s see – what do we do about this? Hmrrrnmm, well, let’s just throw a beam at it. Let’s throw a beam at ‘em and burn ‘em up.“ And boy, you don’t want to get too fancy with that the first time your power starts coming on. You’ll blow the GE up – really. He’ll just go… start going „Ka-paw! Pow! Pow! Pow!“ And the preclear’s sitting there.

If you wanted to be real ornery, just take a bead on his ridge – on a front ridge. It’s bad to blow ridges, to hell with blowing ridges. Just put them in yesterday or something. Why worry about blowing ‘em.

Uh… but… uh… you put a beam on this ridge he’s got across his face, you could really raise hell with him. Just kind of tune it and say, „Kok! Wave length is so-and-so.“ You don’t have to say wave length any more. You say s… „Now match the wave length now. Okay, there’s the ridge. Now, an energy flow will flow – ker-whap!“

And the guy’ll go „Booo!“

And you’ll say, „My God! What happened? What happened? Did a lightbulb blow up? I’m kind of blind. There was a flash.“ And it really will. We’re speaking in a term of reality, now, that you test with great ease. Those are the easier things.

Now as far as freeing a thetan by concept and feeling is concerned, and freeing the thetan in various other ways, present and future, by dichotomies and tone scale – all of that, we’ve been covering all this.

„Get the concept that you need a body. Now let’s get the concept that you don’t need a body. Let’s get the concept that you do need a body“ – you’re not running a flow, really, and so…

And the guy says „But I DO need one.“

„Well, get the concept that you do. All right, now get the concept you don’t.“

„But I do need one.“

„All right, get the concept that you do,“ and you say, „For Christ’s sakes! Get the concept that you do.“ And the guy runs it.

Two hours later, „You still got that?“

„Yeah – got the concept that I do.“ Two hours and fifteen minutes later, „You know I’m getting the idea that I don’t need this body!“

Well, you don’t just abandon it at that moment. You say, „All right, get the concept you don’t need the body.“ He’ll run that for an hour. „Now, get the concept you do need the body.“ He’s changed his mind again, flows reversed, you see? You’re not paying attention to the flow, you just hold the feeling and God knows what happens – or hold the concept, rather.

Now the feeling is quite different than the flow. Aesthetics are very good. You are right on solid ground and as far as by dichotomies, why, there’s nothing easier than dichotomies to run – positive and negative. I mean your flow comes one way, then goes the other way.

Dichotomy means yes and no – positive and negative. It says, for everything… now, somebody was saying, „How would you run Agree and Disagree on having?“ Well, get your agreement to have, get your disagreement in having – positive and negative. And you’ll get flows and they’ll flow around. Of course, that’s slow freight. Actually running flows and that sort of things or running engrams has this… has a bug in it, as a process, and why it was always a slow process.

The preclear has to postulate that he’s an effect of them before he has anything happen to him. He has to say, „All right, now I know that it’s there,“ and maybe this is just admitting it’s there. But at the same time he’s waiting to be an effect of an energy flow, never a cause of an energy flow.

So you’re processing somebody down scale, and when you’re running mock-up processing you’re postulating your preclear as cause continually, and never as an effect.

He says, „Now look,“ he says. „I keep getting these mock-ups!“ He says, „My God, do you know the back of my neck is about to burn! I can just feel the flames coming on… off of it!“

And you say, „Well, no, no, no. That’s just all right. All right, now get this anchor and put it back through the bottom of the boat. Now lift it up. All right, all right. It’s a lot of work.

„You know, my neck…!“

You say, „We’re worried about an anchor. Now how about that?“

Now don’t think, really, that your mock-up has to be very similar to the ill the person is running, because as he gets better and better, you can test whether he’s getting better and better because at first when you’ve got Mama, you had Mama – identification, see? Mock-up identified with reality. And then next you could… you could get something dressed up in women’s clothes and so forth, vaguely the same period, and that could be called Mama. And then… he’s perfectly satisfied with that. Now the next time he gets something and he’s got a broomstick. And he can… he can call that Mama. And now the next thing he’s got out in front of him there, uh… he’s got a… his mother never had anything to do with church and he’s got a hymn book. And he can call that Mama. And then he’s got a crumpled-up sheet of paper – no significance, you understand. I mean there’s no symbolized association.

Now, Freudian psychoanalysis halted people in the association band. It at least permitted them to associate instead of identify, and then stopped them in that band, by insisting that it was an association and that their symbolizations associated with real life. And then having gotten them into that band, took them downband again by making them agree.

And if the IQ were ever taken on a patient undergoing psychoanalysis, daily tests – that sort of thing – if there’d ever been any thorough work done on this field…

You think I’m just being sarcastic. Well, for any field to stand around and pretend we do thorough research. Oh, my God! They never did any. You look in the books and all you’ll find is opinions, opinions, opinions, opinions, opinions. „Where’s the data? How many people were run to get this opinion?“

„Well, we never ran anybody on that opinion that’s… the aesthetics wouldn’t let us. Let’s go into the aesthetics before we go into any reason. Let’s not get to the aesthetics afterwards.“

Uh… and – by the way, what’s wrong with most young writers is when they’re trying to make this society agree with them and buy their stuff. They fail to get a reasonable bone structure with which to be aesthetic. And they insist on being aesthetic without a bone structure.

Psychoanalysis did that – Freudian psychoanalysis insisted on being very aesthetic, without any guts. And uh… they didn’t know what this was and yet they tried to dress it up. This society and Man at the state he was, wouldn’t stand for this. And that is not just the failure of psychoanalysis. I would not say it failed – it never got started.

Anyway uh… the point we’re having for supper tonight is simply this little slight datum. And that is that you want your preclear to be cause all the distance you can, so even though he starts to get into a period… First he’s identifying. He has to see Mama in the mock-up to have Mama in the mock-up. Mama has to be live and breathing and everything before he’s… she’s really satisfied that he’s there. Of course, if he’s negative, he can’t even get Mama in the mock-up, it’s below that.

And then he gets a broomstick and then he gets a prayer book and then he has a crumpled piece of paper. And then he’s… he tells you he’s got a whup. And you say, „What’s a whup?“

He says, „Well, you can’t see it. Well, yes, you can. See?“ And you look at this thing, and it’s a nice piece of Picasso design work – that’s Mama. No significance.

DON’T EVER, ever, ever, ever, ever, exclamation point, underscore, in italics in 18 points caps, ASK YOUR PRECLEAR TO EVALUATE WHAT HIS MOCK-UP MEANS IN TERMS OF REALITY. If you do that, you have missed the whole point of 8008. You’ve just missed the whole cockeyed show.

Never ask him… you… you know damn well, you say, „Isn’t that interesting? Every time we talk about his boyhood he gets this factory chimney – ha! Phallic symbolism. Every time we do.“

Well, you know something? If you were to suddenly point this out to him or have him find it out, you know he’d go down tone scale on a meter and in IQ. The work in this field has been carefully done – extremely carefully done. And I wish somebody had done that careful work before, because I had to do a lot of work that should have been done.

That made me mad, by the way. I got awful mad about that. But… I went on a tearing fury about five years ago. I found out all of a sudden there wasn’t any statistical data in the field of psychoanalysis. And I – unhhhh! It’s been in existence since 1894 and nobody’s ever done statistics. And I kept asking people and I went around to psychological departments and I went around to other people and they said, „Why, no. It doesn’t exist.“ And they said, „Well, we have experimental psychology.“

And I said, „No, no, no, no, no. I want to know what’s happening in the field of psychoanalysis. I’m not interested in anything else. Now where’s the statistics?“ Ummmph!

I’ll be damned if I didn’t have to sit down and for 30 days – I would have been much rather out there pushing a car on the desert, or I would have been much happier down in a hotspot or someplace else. I have to sit down and run people on libido theories.

You say, „Well now, how is your guilt“ – and by the way, I did this very well. I’m very well educated and so on. „Yes, Mrs. Jones. Yes, life has been hard for you, hasn’t it. Well, now supposing you just go on talking. Uh-huh. Just go on talking – that’s right. Just go on talking some more.“

And you all of a sudden said, „Oh again. What was that again?“

„Ohhhh, why, you seem to be fixated on the Grand Canyon. You’ve mentioned the Grand Canyon eight times. Now what does the Grand Canyon mean to you? Oh? Tch-tch-tch-tch-tch.“ Just go ahead on this line.

Now let’s find out that – I… I didn’t know what I was doing to this degree: I didn’t know a lot of things, but I knew this, that I could get people who had had analysis, whose college within the last three or four years, had been – therefore psychometry was fully in existence at the moment of their leaving college – who had then had an analysis.

God! Getting the statistics together took about 30 days of precious time and the statistics were damning! Oh, they were just grim! Terrible! It said 25% of them went spinny. Hah!

It said some percentage I won’t mention committed suicide because of it. And you know where the gimmick is? They, made the patient agree with the real universe and it spun him in. And they showed him that every dream he had, every dream he ever could have was really caused by the real universe. And that he wasn’t free to have an illusion of his own, but that every illusion was motivated by the real universe. And that’s a control operation that kills them. It slaughters them in their tracks. That’s right.

So, don’t ever let me catch you pulling the same operation. The course runs the opposite direction entirely, Get them to disagree with the MEST universe. And not even by fighting it, just „to hell with it!“

And you’ll find out their differentiation above the association level – they differentiate more and more and more and more and more and more – until there isn’t any relationship between what they’re mocking up and the MEST universe.

Okay. Let’s call it an afternoon.

Hope you’ve learned something this afternoon.