This is January the 20th, 1954. This morning I want to show you this E-Meter, tell you a little bit about E-Meters. Although a man very often becomes an expert on airplanes without ever taking a lesson, he sometimes flies with his left wing slightly low. And it’s true of E-Meters.

And this is January the 19th, 1954, first morning lecture.

Very often an individual starts working with an E-Meter and works with it quite rigorously and so forth and some essential part of the problem hasn’t been called to his attention or he’s reading something a little bit off.

I want to give you a very rapid summary of the elements of the theory which you are supposed to know. It’s very simple and you have had an awful lot of data.

I know nearly all of you know a great deal about E-Meters, but this particular meter is a model which Volney and I put our heads together on, as is true of most of his work. The equivalent to this meter is the E-400. That’s the newest meter he has.

Well, I like to go at this data every once in a while by giving you the central pins of this data to show what we’re walking out from, because we are walking out from a held citadel, you might say. And this goes into this: knowingness-just knowingness. The fact that knowingness is not data and that knowingness is the top echelon, that knowingness is that which we’re trying to achieve. And confidence, competence, certainty and all the rest of these things stem out of knowingness and these things are similar to knowingness.

Now actually, the more complex one of these meters is, the more it will tell the auditor. But the more complex it is, the more it is liable to baffle an auditor. The ideal E-Meter has nothing but one electrode and one switch. And you turn it on and a little red light says “falling” and a little green light says “rising.” And that would be the end of the meter. It would have no needles, it would have nothing else. It’d just have two lights and a switch and it would adjust itself and so forth. And it would need one other device, which would be a little light which went on opposite a Tone Scale. There should be no adjustments, there should be nothing else with the meter than just that-it’d tell you the tone, whether it was rising or falling.

Philosophy was not without good sense when it studied knowingness and it was with very, very bad sense when it departed from a study of knowingness. If you will read in philosophy, you will find that the main lines of philosophy make knowingness only one compartment and they cover that under epistemology. And right next to epistemology, they talk about ontology and they talk about rah-rahology and blah-blahology, bub-bubbology and yap-yapogy and it goes right on down the line. But they don’t put knowingness first, last or anything else. And yet, every philosopher there is, is simply trying to know or trying to tell people what he doesn’t know. And if they’d put epistemology up there and made a study out of it, they would have gotten somewhere with philosophy.

Now, in the absence of such simplicity, it’s up there to a point where a fellow has to be practically an electrical engineer to get all there is to know out of one of these E-Meters. But the funny part of it is, if you do know the sets and know what this E-Meter is all about, it will tell you a fabulous amount of things today.

Funny part of it is, they didn’t get anyplace. There have been an awful lot of things said by philosophers, but somebody said one time, “There is nothing so absurd as cannot be found in the books of philosophers.”

Now, nobody has really gone into it, at any length, and put out comprehensive material on all the things this E-Meter will say.

The entire field of philosophy is actually a study of knowingness. And when we depart from that, why, we depart from anything sensible. We immediately depart from things that are sensible. We get into Kant’s transcendentalism and where “Everything that is worth knowing is above the realm of human experience, so why try, you little pup, you?” That was just about his attitude, too-1792-put the brakes on almost any reasonable endeavor in the field of philosophy, I suppose because he’d made it so ridiculous that nobody else wanted to be associated with it.

Volney, in his last textbook on the subject, An Electropsychometry Manual, uses Dianetics and Scientology a great deal in it. That manual is designed for doctors. He hopes that the medical market and so forth, that it will be quite alert to that. Dianetics and Scientology, by the way, are not mentioned in it. And this was before Volney got a lot of validation here at the last Congress and so on. He refers to me in it as a “controversial lecturer” and no further, which is amusing.

You take Zeno’s Apatheia-let’s go way back in philosophy and we find out that Zeno wrote a little book called Apatheia. And he was very popular, he was one of the most popular men in the later Roman Empire days-fine, fine fellow. His philosophy went this way: “You can’t win anyway, so why try?” That’s right, that was the most favorite philosophy of the later Roman Empire.

Anyway, you cannot, by the way, ever curry favor with an organization, like the doctors or something of this sort, merely by omitting controversial material. The actual method of stirring up interest is to be as blunt and take as firm a stand as possible. And it’s a little tough that way, but you will find, gradually, that the professions which fight you will have to close terminals with you.

And then we get to Schopenhauer and Schopenhauer is ramming around saying, “Well, there’s only one way to defeat it and that’s quit. Refuse to procreate, just go on and die, die quick, then you’ll defeat the whole thing and then it will have lost.” We do this double take on this and we find that he’s over into some other compartment.

This is true of a great many things. This is true of religion. The Catholic Church is now closing terminals with psychoanalysis. Of course, it’s taken them sixty years to do that. But they’re closing terminals in this wise: “You mustn’t go too far with your psychoanalysis.” The Pope has issued several bulls. Always been amusing to me why they call them “bulls.” Anyway... Short form of the word, I guess. [laughter]

And here we go, left and right, and we get on up-the only fellow that really ever said anything sensible in this field that amounted to anything was Herbert Spencer. And Spencer said, “Well, there’s the knowable and the unknowable and we’ll take off from there.” In other words, he introduced the compartmentation of problems. And we are rather indebted to Herbert Spencer for his method of approaching a problem rather than anything else. Then he went ahead and he wrote a formula which is not very workable.

We have here the first thing-although this is the E-AR-400, that merely means it’s audio, it’s an audio 400. It has considerable additional skills on it and I’ll go into those, but basically, nearly everything I tell you here applies to the E-400, which is this meter without an audio. This not only has audio, it has inverted audio.

But there is no such thing in philosophy as “not very workable.” Things either work or they don't work. I mean, let’s make an Aristotelian problem out of this and say that there’s black and white, yes and no, two values-let’s crunch on the thing and just be arbitrary as the dickens and see if we don’t come up with something and sure enough we do, we do come up with something. We find that Man is trying to climb the ladder of knowingness and he has tried to climb it by philosophy and he’s tried to climb it by mysticism and spiritualism and “this-is-this-is-ism” and “that-is-isms.” But the final analysis demonstrates that he has made his greatest progresses in the field of knowingness alone. He has done modus operandi, you might say, on this MEST universe and all things are actually secondary to his knowledge of this universe-just as a purity, not as a knowledge of data. Science itself is a knowledge, it’s a classified knowledge. And when we attack the problem with knowingness there at its highest echelon, we get solutions.

Now, this particular meter here, as you can see, has two dials. And one of these dials is in tone. And the other dial is a surge meter. The one there on the right is a surge meter. And there is a way of zeroing this meter. You can zero this Tone Scale. And there’s a little additional gimmick here and what you do is have the individual take hold of the electrode, with this additional gimmick plugged in, and zero the meter.

And so it is that we can take “know” and “not-know” and no matter how crudely, run them out of the preclear, we get him exteriorized. You got that? I mean, if we just turn around and take what we’ve already learned about philosophy and so forth and we just apply it straight to the preclear, we find out that immediately, crunch, we can exteriorize him if we specialize and just come down with a hard hand on know and not-know with the preclear.

We won’t go into zeroing the meter. These meters are, most of them, zeroed already. And they don’t vary enough to bother with. But you can, of course, zero the preclear. What you do is you just put a standard set of sets on there and get him up there until he reads 2.2 and then flip it off and you’ve got him zeroed On the meter.

Now, if you’re looking for fancy techniques that will slide somebody surreptitiously out of his coco, you’re not going to have to look any further than that, because it will do it.

But that’s almost beside the point. There’s no reason for you to go into electronics as to how you zero a meter. What’s more important to you is the relative tone.

I took a case that had been stumbling, stumbling, stumbling-going out and getting in, and effort and tin-cupping and tricky methods of exteriorization and finally I just made him Match Terminal “don’t know,” “I didn’t know.” “Match Terminal the first time you discovered you didn't-know something and back and forth, all kinds of bric-a-brac on the subject of not-knowingness. All of his operations turned up in a jump-he didn’t know what happened during them. All of the puzzles that he had run concerning this MEST universe and its composition turned up and went poof! And with it went his fear. I exteriorized him, he exteriorized very stably with full perception. A very short time before that he’d been a completely black case.

But the funny part of it is, is that Tone Scale is accurate. That is the tone of the individual now in the E-AR-400. It makes former meters sort of horse-and-buggy. But that is the tone of the individual, particularly if it’s properly zeroed. But even if it isn’t zeroed, why, it comes so close to being the tone of the individual that it’s quite remarkable.

All right.

And this Tone Scale here, then, isn’t interpreted the same way the first E-Meter Tone Scales were interpreted. That was merely just a relative idea about more or less where the preclear sat. The funny part of it is, is this tone registered here goes exactly against the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation. And you’ll get the same manifestations out of the preclear as you read right here.

Therefore, if we say that certainty and knowingness are themselves synonyms, if we can approach knowingness by saying it is certainty, we find out that the greatest mechanism that has ever been used against Man is to introduce uncertainty into his knowingness.

Now, you notice there’s А, В, C, D. Well, the reason for these А, В, C, D scales is you’ll find a preclear registering-he just merely picks up the electrode and sits there. And as you swing this А, В, C, D scale back and forth, you’ll find out that he will be on one of these scales, А, В, C, D, that’s all there is to it.

Therefore, we have a direct index for any individual as to what he considers his relative knowingness should be-not what his knowingness is, what his relative knowingness should be. He thinks his relative knowingness should be tremendous and his certainty is terrible, you know? That’s because he’s got to know so much and his certainty is terrible.

And you will notice over here that we have these scales marked А, В, C, D. All right. You merely read, then-let’s say he was on the D scale, which is the lowest tone of the scale, and it’s way down here at the bottom-the D is over here to the right and we read on this and we find out that he’s going on the scale here at .6.

We get some other guy and we drag him out from behind a plow in one of the more barbaric tribes of Iowa and he does know what a clod is, it’s something you hop. And we say, “Be three feet back of your head” and pang he does with perfect certainty. This guy is idiotically certain of the darnedest things, but he has no horizon of knowingness.

Now, this meter will register on .6 and that is not true of earlier meters. They don’t register that low. A preclear is off the bottom of those other meters. Well, a preclear can be on here and be given an active needle.

And we get some other fellow that’s eighteen thousand times the guy and ninety thousand times as valuable and we say, “Be three feet back of your head” and he says, “What head?” Well, he knows there’s so much more to know-the essential difference between these two people and it breaks down to certainty. So, knowingness itself becomes a relative problem and, as such, should be more understandable to you.

People down around .6, 1-something on that order-actually, it’ll go below this, it’ll register on a dead man, really, if the fellow is not quite dead.

A fellow can go into the field of butterflies and suddenly realize that he doesn’t know anything about the field of butterflies. Nothing wrong with this, but he can move right on into the field of butterflies and know something about the field of butterflies. But the first day or so that he’s in the field of butterflies, he’s the most uncertain of guys. He doesn’t know a Lepidoptera from an Aphrodite. His uncertainty is magnified many times, so he’s quite uncertain.

But the point here is you get down very low on earlier meters and over here on the surge meter you merely get a stuck needle. You have to take a magnifying glass to notice its flick. Interesting. With the sensitivity control all the way up and everything else, you have to have a magnifying glass to see that he has moved.

Now, that’s data-knowingness. It is more important to have the potentiality of knowing than it is to have the datum. These two things are quite significant in any case. Cases which have a tremendous potentiality of knowing are generally balked by society, not by blows but by denial of knowledge.

The one particularly notable character who is today running all over the country administering-or here-administering CO2 to everybody is a terrific case. You wouldn’t think of it because he isn’t balky or anything, I mean, he doesn’t look any other way. But do you know that that man, who is the most violent foe of the E-Meter there is, won’t register on an earlier meter. He’s off the bottom of earlier meters. And he won’t register very sensitively on this one.

Some fellow thinks that if he went to the university and learned about a great many things, then he would be a very educated man and he’d be very knowing. Well, he might be a very smart fellow and he goes on up to the time he’s fifty years of age knowing that he’s not smart, because he didn’t go to the university. This is an idiocy of itself. What he doesn’t know is that in the university they don’t know. He has taken the assumption that someplace, somewhere, somebody knows.

But on the earlier meters it would take a magnifying glass to show a supercharge if you hit it on his case. And on this meter, you would actually see it recorded rather well over here on the surge meter. You see, you could see-you could detect the motion of the needle.

All right.

Now, people fight this meter, by the way, in those brackets, naturally. Those people are afraid of energy and have fought energy and are massed energy and have themselves associated with energy to a point which has caused them to close terminals and become a mass. Now, it’s people of this character, by the way, who use such things as electric shock and so on.

Looking at this field of knowingness again, we find something very, very interesting about Units such as yourself. And we wouldn’t even approach this problem if we couldn’t solve it, you see? Your cases flounder along for the first couple, three, sometimes even four weeks. You’ve just entered the field of butterflies and you don’t know a Lepidoptera from an Aphrodite. And you feel then that you don’t know and that there’s a lot of not-knowingness in the air. See this? And so you have a less certain aspect for existence during that early period than you would ordinarily.

If you were to turn this meter loose on most psychiatrists, you would find that the bracket I’ve just been talking about is applicable. I’m not kidding you about this. I mean, I’m not trying to make a point here and say psychiatry is all bad and so on. I’m just giving you a little word of warning. You have to turn that sensitivity knob up here, this red one, all the way up. And turn that scale over there to the D scale and you’re off. But on this meter you’ll be able to read them.

Any one of yous’ cases, of course, would progress far better if you weren’t entering a not-knowingness problem. But what do you know? Just as the fellow who enters the field of butterflies can know about butterflies and finally becomes the cockiest fellow you ever saw-somebody points out and says, “That’s an Anistopholese.”

And on the Keeley lie detectors, they don’t read. This meter, now, is senior to the Keeley lie detector. It makes the Keeley lie detector look like something that’s being pulled around by a dinosaur, just because of that.

And he says, “I’m very sorry, that’s an Aphrodite.”

Now, when you consider that criminals don’t register on the Keeley lie detector to a certain percentage-it’s something on the order of about, let’s see, 17 percent incorrect responses and 10 percent no registry. By the way, Keeley has never wrapped this up, as many, many years as they’ve been in business up there near Chicago making these lie detectors at enormous cost. A lie detector is the most fabulously expensive thing that you ever tried to put up to the city council. At enormous cost, their coordinated data-because they lack the material of Dianetics-failed to disclose any of the reasons why, or the coordinated material, as to why this 10 percent didn’t register at all and this 17 percent registered incorrectly.

And we get an immediate result then, through what? Through having tackled the field o£ butterflies and brought himself through to a confidence about the data of butterflies.

Now, the reason behind that, of course, is simply this matter of low tone. When you’re running an instrument consistently and continually on criminals, you are, of course, taking the lowest-toned strata of the society and, as such, you can expect that there would be a tremendous number of them that don’t register.

Now, that’s just in the field of data, you understand that?

Now, personally, I believe this to be true because I’ve done some work with police lie-detector operators, I believe the percentage is much, much higher than that. I don’t even think they’ve done a good index with their percentage.

All right. Let’s get the difference, then, between your case as it progresses in this Unit and the case of the preclear which you process in a Clinic somewhere. He walks in off the street, you process him-three feet back of his head-he goes off and he’s very happy about life. And you don’t spend too much time with him. He finds out a lot of things, he thinks about a lot of things, he’s in pretty good shape.

Well anyway, you can get this fellow down here on this little dial and you can get a registry. That’s important to us because many a psychotic is apparently in good condition, excellent condition. You can put him on one of these meters and, my gosh, he’s down there ticking 1. You just say to yourself “Oh-oh!” Because the meter happens to be telling the truth now.

And you say, “Gee whiz. I wish my case would run like that.”

It’s taken Volney-this is quite a trauma, but it’s taken Vblney quite a little while to coordinate that Tone Scale up there. And it’s interesting that he took the Tone Scale, which was done by symbolic logic, as his monitor on the thing and that it continues to hold true through all experimentation. Tone Scale is holding true and then this meter is registering against the Tone Scale.

Well, you’re a slightly different breed of cat or you wouldn’t be here. That’s the long and short of it.

Now, that’s important for you to know because one of these days you’ll pick up somebody who says, “I’m Clear,” see? And he’s “clear,” all right. And he’ll be registering around 1.5 or something. Oh no, he’s not. Because an able tolerance for the body, operatively, is between 2.5 and 3.5 and a body just doesn’t operate well below that level.

Your potential knowingness or thirst for knowingness must be much greater than that fellow you pulled in off the street. Must be. And to Clear you, “Be three feet back of your head,” get certainty, get perception, that’s all very well. Yes, that would increase your potential of knowingness, that would boost you way on up the line and leave you without any assembled data. And then what would you do? You’d start to run the same dwindling spiral that you got into when you first got into the dwindling spiral. And it’s a spiral of not-knowingness.

And a thetan exteriorized would-he actually wouldn’t be able to get adequate responses out of a body which was registering below 2.5. So he would certainly patch it up, whether he was having anything to do with it or not. If he was going to manage it rather consistently, why, he would patch it up to the point where it would register above that level.

You start ramming around, you run into a theta trap. What the hell is this? Never heard of this. But isn’t that music beautiful? And here you go. And you aren’t amongst our ranks anymore. Cute, huh? You’re wiser than most.

Now, that’s quite low (2.5 to 3.5) and it’s, however, an admissible low-reading level for a Theta Clear. It’s admissibly low. You’ll find out that Theta Clears register ordinarily much higher than this, the main reason being that they’re in pretty darn good shape physically.

There’s the fellow who has great courage but still wants to know before he goes. Now, when you get into this theta trap, why, you say, “Oh, it’s a theta trap-it’s a pole-type theta trap, what do you know? Ha-ha! What do you know, pole-type theta trap.”

Now, let’s take another look at this and find out if there’s anything else that would tell us anything about our preclear immediately that might be interesting to know. Yes. This meter, above all things, will run a basal metabolism on a preclear. And it will run a BMR more accurately than BMR machines. This is interesting. It requires its coordination scale and that has not yet been released.

“All right. Be three feet back of the theta trap.”

But the point is that this machine actually will run a basal metabolism on an individual and rather rapidly.

“Okay.”

Now, as you know or maybe you don’t know, very often they will take somebody into a hospital and keep them there overnight and wheel them out very carefully on a wagon and put the cone over their face-not let them move or exercise or get up in the morning or anything and then take this terrifically careful reading and then finally let them go.

“All right. Now, I’ll put a spot of beingness three feet above the theta trap.” “Now grant beingness to it very heavily.” “Now be it.”

And that is their basal metabolism, which is to say, the burning rate-let’s just call it the burning rate of oxygen in the body and carbon. They get it by measuring the breath of the individual. And after they’ve done all this, it’s quite silly that somebody can simply walk into your office and you can get his BMR the moment he puts his hand on the meter.

“Well, this theta trap sure looks funny from up here.”

Volney wasn’t even going to put this together, because it’s kind of shameful toward these big BMR machines because there are just thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of stuff, you see, and tremendously complicated. And it takes years to run one of these things and he wasn’t even going to get the front scale together on this.

You’re not up against a wall of unknowingness. If you’re going to continue to live in this universe, you have to have a lot of its data. Well, several of you have already adventured out and snapped back in and so forth, because of what? No more, no less, you ran into something that was strange and apparently, as far as you were concerned, quite unknowable. All right.

But it’s very, very important to an auditor. We don’t care what the artificial numbers are on the basal metabolism scale. We don’t care what those are. But we sure care that if we’re going to process this preclear-if he is in such sad and sorry condition in terms of burning rate-that he is in chronic or acute fatigue. Because if we process somebody who is in chronic or acute fatigue with any kind of a heavy process, if we just process him without making him rest, we’ll have somebody who is worse off after the processing than before the processing simply because he can’t burn enough energy physically to be processed. The energy isn’t there.

So let’s just cut this problem across and realize that we’re not-while we are almost the same as studying butterflies, we’re actually tackling the problem at the darnedest level that anybody ever tried to tackle this problem, which is just simply this: The total mechanics of livingness. I’m not saying we’re attacking it there, we’re trying to attack it theremechanics of livingness.

Now, how do you run this mysterious BMR test? Well, you have the preclear take hold of the electrode, you put him on the tone meter over here (that is to say, you’ve just adjusted these on the А, В, C or D scale). You adjust that and you tell him to take a breath and exhale. And if he’s in good shape, our surge meter over here will fly, with good action, down to the bottom of the pin.

Now, there’s several holes in what we know. Let’s not blind ourselves to the fact that there still exist certain holes.

If he’s in real good shape, it’ll hit the bottom of the pin and sort of go ping, ping, ping, you know? It would have fallen three more dials. If he’s in real good shape, it’ll do that. But certainly it’ll swing the entire width of the dial.

We do not know, absolutely for sure, that the MEST universe is being placed there as an automaticity. This we do not know for sure. Everything seems to incline to that, demonstrably, but we don’t have a final proof of this. It doesn’t happen to matter if you can handle the MEST universe. Because if you can handle the MEST universe-that is to say, if you can go through a mountain without getting stuck and if you can have a couple of mountains fall on your body and yet go out and make or get another body without much disturbance, certainly the MEST universe doesn’t kind of get to be the big problem it was. And if you can materialize at a far distance, why, the problem of distance itself doesn’t become the bone crusher which it always was. You see that?

Now, you know that after you put him on the dial, you touch this little center button here and that brings our surge meter over here to the extreme left of the dial. And as he’d take the breath, you would see the needle go over here to the right side of the dial. If he’s in the kind of shape which would tolerate processing, that needle will go all the way across and hit the pin and come back.

So that the final point in that will turn up someday. Someday we will know for sure whether or not-absolute certain-we make it! Or absolutely certain, “My God, there was a fellow named God after all and he’s sitting up on Planet Eight.” See? I mean, it’ll be that type of answer. It won’t be a bunch of balderdash which we stir up and mix up and so forth.

But if he is not in good shape-this is really all you need to know, you don’t need to know the relative scales-but if he’s not in good shape, it will go slowly across the dial. He’ll go [inhale, exhale] and you’ll see that needle go slowly across the dial over to the right and slowly return. That man can be processed with care.

But that is knowingness in a category of data. Now, when we get potential knowingness, we get how much spread is this fellow willing to take on in terms of how big? In other words, how much knowingness does this fellow conceive to be knowingness, potentially? And that would be area knowingness, which is to say, he knows everything that’s going on in this entire solar system or he knows everything that’s going on, on 42nd and Broadway. See, an area of knowingness. Now, he’s got just this little area or this big area and the next fellow comes along and he isn’t satisfied unless he’s got the whole potential of knowingness of the entire MEST universe from end to end and what everybody’s got in his pocket on every planet, see? Now, that’s his potential of knowingness.

But it’s also telling you right over here on your tone meter what kind of shape he’s in, because he’s probably reading about 1.5, ordinarily. Unless, of course, he’s a runner or something that, has just been ten times around the track and you could find his burning rate and his fatigue was way down, you see? This would be the other deciding factor.

So, he goes into area knowingness and he adds to that data knowingness. But he might be carrying along wonderfully with potential knowingness and his potential knowingness might be very great, but because of data knowingness-you see, absence of data knowingness-potential knowingness great and the absence of data knowingness great, too, so we get him uncertain.

That fellow, too, shouldn’t be processed. You should let him sit there and rest up and get his breath back. In other words, if you got a bad reading here on this breathing test, you just wouldn’t process the fellow.

This is, again, relative knowingnesses.

Now, what is a really bad reading on the test? The fellow heaves a sigh and the needle slightly vibrates. Doesn’t go anyplace. That man would be practically dead. As a matter of fact, it’d be doubtful if that individual could have walked himself into your office. Now that’s how bad the reading could be.

Now, if you’re going to play a game, it’s a good thing to know all the rules. The MEST universe is a game consisting of barriers. And when you get all the rules assembled as the rules are and as they exist, of course, you can play a much better game.

And the critical reading and the no-process reading is when it won’t go over and hit the pin. It won’t go over to the right side of the meter. He takes a breath and it doesn’t go over to the right side of the meter, doesn’t reach that pin over there, you let him sit there and rest for a little while. Don’t even talk to him. You just tell him to take it easy.

Did you ever run into a football player who didn’t know any of the rules of football who played a good game of football? Well, you never ran into a football player who didn’t know the rules of football in the first place. But the next thing we would get to that is a spectator of a baseball game who didn’t know anything about baseball. It’s a kind of a silly-looking hodgepodge to him.

Now, the funny part of it is he might look like he’s in a state of agitation. You know, I mean he’s animated and so forth and yet the needle doesn’t go over and hit the pin. This guy is riding one of these burn-them-all-up manics. So it does a very good job of detection on this guy.

Well, imagine being a player in a baseball game and not knowing any of the rules of baseball. Boy, you would be impressed every split second of the entire nine innings with your complete unknowingness. You’d finish up those nine innings feeling the most stupid person that you ever heard of but maybe with a little hope.

Now, if it goes over about halfway and slowly comes back, this fellow will just have to rest up. Otherwise you’ll get yourself in trouble as an auditor. You’ll process him there for an hour and he’ll be worse. And you process him for another hour and he’ll be much worse.

And that’s approximately what you’ve been doing, life by life by life. You see, you play the nine innings and then wind up with a little hope: “Well, maybe next time.” And each one is very convincing that you don’t know the rules, because somebody is always inventing some new rules or some more rules that they say are the rules. And the entire passion of other players in this particular game is “hide the rules.” Science has the single virtue of being a game called “find the rules.”

The reason for this is, in its early stages, the individual is dependent upon the residual energy in the body to be processed. And that’s why you take Bj and so forth. This body is a carbon-oxygen machine. The thetan is not a carbon-oxygen machine, he’s joined up with one.

So, where we get a little boggy is just on this knowingness. But remember, perforce then, we must be making a different type of Clear out of you. It’s not that the state will be any lower eventually or it’ll be any higher. As far as this guy in Iowa; you see, you pop him out of his head and he’s perfectly Clear and he can do all sorts of things. He doesn’t know how he’s doing them and that’s the big hole that would be left all the way along the line in his processing.

And exteriorized, however, the thetan still can pull energy out of the body. And you start to run an engram on this individual, you reduce his havingness (which is to say, you reduce the number of terminals which he has) and you’re throwing away a certain amount of his energy. And as a consequence, if you process him a little bit more, you’ll blow a few more locks and you’ll just make him a little more tired, because he is not at this point.

Now, don’t mistake it, you’ve made him better than anybody has ever been made better. So it’s no small gain that you’ve made there, but how about you?

There is a make-break point on a case. And that is the point where the individual can process locks without marked loss of energy and where a preclear, when he processes locks, experiences a marked loss of energy.

All right, by the time you get out of your head thoroughly, completely, with a tremendous certainty and have nothing left kicking around inside the body that you’re still trying to hold on to and no old mock-ups that you’re trying to hide from you and this and that and so on, you’ve got a terrifically clean vista. You are the thing which has never occurred before: a wise thetan. And so it takes just a few weeks longer to make a wise thetan than it does just a Clear.

Now, the difference between these two preclears-one that can run locks without any marked loss of energy and the other one who, when he runs some locks, experiences a marked loss of energy-is, in the first case, an individual not depending upon terminals. He’s simply creating energy. And the other fellow is so terribly dependent upon the dichotomy, the modus operand! of the MEST universe, that only residual or stored energy is used by him to run the machine. He isn’t furnishing any energy to the machine at all.

Now, here’s what we’re up against, then. We’re up against knowing a bit before we go. It is actually a different type of clearing. You’ll run into this when you’re training people. You’ve just shown them all the things they didn’t know and then you say, “Be three feet back of your head.”

Now, the make-break point on that happens to be about 2.0 on the Tone Scale. People below 2.0 on the Tone Scale are using terminals. They’re getting the interchange between two masses in order to get their energy. They have to eat to live.

And they say, “What fog?” You see that? All right.

Now, at above 2.0-and increasingly, as it goes on up-the individual can create sufficient energy to replace the energy which has been exhausted. You find these individuals will go on various sprints of activity sometimes and they forget to eat and it just doesn’t bother them particularly. And some other fellow goes on a sprint and forgets to eat and it practically kills him! Well, the difference are those two things: On SOP 8, the individual who needs to eat, exclusively, exclusively dependent upon eating for energy, is IV down. SOP 8-that’s a Step IV, V, VI, VII. And Steps I, II and III create a certain amount of energy.

Theoretically you could approach this on the basis: as the person comes in, you just merely assume that he knows everything there is to know and you convince him that he knows everything there is to know and that he has the answers to everything. You can say, “Be three feet back of your head,” he would be.

Now, once in a while, one of these fellows who is still creating his energy as a thetan and putting it out gets into an interesting condition. He gets tired of creating energy for the damn thing. He just gets tired of it. And he’ll quit! And at that moment he steps into the category of IV, V, VI and VII. See, it’s just the difference between whether the thetan is creating energy or not creating energy and that shows up on your dial over here as telling you he’s either below 2.0 or above 2.0 and that shows up over here again in basal metabolism if the individual is tired.

Only trouble is, he wouldn’t have the answers to everything, because we have, again, at least two kinds of knowledge. We have data and then we just have knowingness-ability to know. But don’t mistake it. The ability to know a datum goes through the route of finding out.

If the individual is tired or hasn’t been eating well, who is a IV, V, VI or VII, you’ll find that the needle won’t go over and hit the pin. And when it comes back, it’ll come back rather slowly.

Now, you’ve been looking for “spontaneous prefrontalizing” whereby you suddenly and completely know all the data that there is to be known about livingness. Well, it’s possible to do that, but it’s unfortunate that you never will. It’s too much fun finding out. And if you lost the game of finding out totally and completely, you would feel pretty lost, see? We always put a little more horizon.

Well, you tell that fellow to rest up for a little while or get himself a bite to eat and you come back and tell him to take a long breath as he grabs on to the meter and you’ve set it again over here on your Tone Scale and zeroed it by pressing this middle button and you say, “All right. Now take a long breath.” He does. It goes over and hits the pin and comes back again.

Now, if knowingness is the top echelon, then you always would like to croche just a little bit further into knowingness so that you get up to potential knowingness. I can tell you in a breath what potential knowingness is: potential knowingness is that there’s nothing. And when you’d know that with entire certainty, you would be a very, very, very wise person with not a damn thing to do. The ardures you go through to convince yourself there is something is, in itself, the game called MEST universe.

Now, an individual in the I, II, III category, you tell him to take a long breath and let it out, just like this: uuh-hhhh or uuuhhh-huhhhhhbhhhh (you don’t care exactly what the moment of breathing is), and it goes over and hits the pin and goes ting ting ting ting ting!

So, we’re getting there. But we’re getting there on a much higher level of certainty because we’re getting there in terms of modus operand! as well as just beingness.

You know, if you’re really riding this center button here-your reset button right in the middle of it there-and you were catching it every time it was hitting the pin, it’d keep on going across the dial and hitting the pin. In other words, he’d fall maybe three dials, four dials, five dials. You know, that means when he takes in some oxygen, boy, does it take off in terms of energy. See?

So when you step down one space from knowingness, you can get a beingness. There’s nothing cockier, for instance, than a six-months-old pup. He has elected to be a terrifically cocky, confident character. And he goes around and he’ll fight with any dog, he’ll walk up to anybody to be petted, he will eat anything.

Well now, if Volney will get busy on this coordination and index against the BMR coordination and index, the remaining data would be set up down here: Where do these things have to be, you see, in order to get a read? And he’d get all of the lower basal metabolism readings, because with this machine just set at average, the behavior of the needle is not numerically exact. And when people are getting their basal metabolisms read-that is, their burning rate read-why, you’re interested mainly in low-toned characters because they’re sick. And doctors would like to have that reading on the very lower one. I don’t know what they’d do with it, but they’d probably put it down in a report so they can sit and look at it.

Well, you look at this character and, as a matter of fact, a little bit of nostalgic sadness always comes over you because you know very well what this state is, since you pretend to it every time you hit that age. And you know how many guys are going to boot him in the skull before he’s very much older and how many meals are going to disagree with him. But the nostalgia is, is look at all the fun he’s going to have finding out.

But the machine should have that because it’s a better machine for basal metabolism than basal metabolism machines. Okay. So much for that.

Therefore, data becomes at once happy material and regretted material. Now, when we cover this subject from that standpoint, when we cover a person from a standpoint such as that, a great clarity of what we are trying to do, a certain singleness of purpose, immediately emerges in our work.

Just to go over these steps again: as your preclear sat down, he would take hold of this electrode-just hold it loosely, limply. You’d set him on the Tone Scale and you’d zero the meter and you’d say, “Take a breath and let it out.”

The human mind was a storage vessel and computer for knowledge—Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health. You know, it didn’t say it was knowledge. The thetan is himself knowledge. We’re closer to it, you see? So that we fulfill the goals of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, we know the anatomy of the human mind, as a human mind. You’re no longer working in the human mind, although occasionally you think you are. You’re working in the high level of knowingness of the thetan. And, of course, his potentiality of knowingness is total.

He would. It goes down, it hits the pin, comes back rather readily.

As you get up the line, you’ll have a harder time keeping yourself from knowing something than you will otherwise. For instance, every once in a while somebody gives me a wrapped-up present. I just have to construct a box around it and put an enormous piece of black space inside of it. I have to actually do a flinch and opaque the box in order not to know what’s in it. And then I open it up and I’m so surprised. But, of course, there’s always a little tiny lock shows up on it earlier. It’s just the instant that black space was going on there, of course, I saw it, so that had to be occluded. Well, that blows when I open up the package.

You say, “Fine.”

Thetan is always doing this sort of thing. You have a little tiny black box or something of the sort and he’s got it all rigged up that when he opens it, boy, will he be surprised. And a lot of your preclears have stashed all around their anatomy, you might say, these little boxes and little hampers and junk-just junk. They’re afraid they’ll get bored someday and they’ll have this stuff to open and, boy, will they be surprised! As a matter of fact, that’s one of the drills of 8-0: teaching a fellow how to surprise himself.

Okay.

Well, when we get on the level of what we are doing and integrate from that level, we find that Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health, the mind was the vessel and computer of knowledge. All right, if it was the vessel and computer of knowledge, why, then we were studying a vessel and computer and so we did study a vessel and computer. And we know pretty much-practically all there is to know about that vessel and computer, weirdly enough. I mean, in terms of theory and practice, you can do an awful lot of fabulous things with that vessel and computer, using, you know, most any of the technologies which we have. Whether it stays that way or not is actually beside the point. We can cause an effect.

Now, there’s two things you can do here which are of interest. If you really want to do E-Metering for blood, you will take over the automatic machine which is making that hand flinch that is holding that electrode. And thereafter you get steady readings.

People get very tricky on that electrode. They’ll hold it loosely, they’ll hold it tightly. They will try to lessen their grasp on it up to the ratio that the needle will fall so that the needle won’t read when they speak of a certain subject and so on.

We have knowingness, then, as the top echelon of what we’re trying to do and the Ц synonyms for it are confidence, certainty, competence. But as we introduce these other words, we introduce other facets of knowingness. Now, let’s take competence. Competence is no more than this: it is the ability to predict or move into line and predict the new position or new consecutive positions of two particles. That’s competence.

Honest, a fellow who can fool a good E-Meter operator just hasn’t been born. But they will try to do this and it interferes with your readings. So you simply take over the automatic machine which makes them clinch and so on, on that electrode.

If you don’t believe that’s competence, go through this simple drill sometime: Drive your car out on a flat somewhere where there’s a lot of desert-you know, a lot of cleared space or a vacant lot and put up little flags (if you haven’t got any desert space) and just weave your way in and out amongst these flags doing this: you predict where you’re going to put the car before you even start to turn it in that direction. And you keep predicting you’re going to put it there and then put it someplace else and then put it someplace else and put it someplace else and then you’re going to put it someplace else and then you’re going to change your mind and put it yet another place.

Well, if your individual is reading too low, I would not advise you to take over that automatic machine, because any automatic machine you try to take over will simply flip his valence and you’ll get him doing nothing. He’s too low to have you reach for and grab a machine, so you want to remember that.

You have a tremendous competence. It’s great, it’s not slight.

But once in a while an individual who is nervous or something of the sort is giving you an unstable grip. You know, he’s giving it a grip. Well, right at that point, just as a matter of routine, you could put into it, “All right. Squeeze the electrode now and let go. Squeeze the electrode and let go. Squeeze the electrode and let go.” Do it about fifteen times and after that you’ll get a steady needle. You have run out his impulse to vary the reading one way or the other, by squeezing the electrode.

When you have employed your competence in the past to injure your fellow man or to injure animals, you have regretted your competence. And there is where your competence went. With great competence you took this bone knife and slit somebody’s throat, very expertly placed the knife blade exactly where it was supposed to go and slurrpp! Gone. And then you regretted your competence.

Now naturally, you wouldn’t have to set the machine any further to run this exercise.

Actually, you saw the fellow sink before you and you had to duplicate sinkingness. And so you didn’t duplicate the sinkingness and you’ve never duplicated it since, accurately and adequately, and so you still regret that tremendous competence. You aren’t actually regretting competence at all, you see, it’s just the fact that you didn’t duplicate it. And in such a wise, we get this prediction of particles.

And the thing you would do after that is find how lively a needle you have. There is nothing more horrible than trying to sit and read a needle which is all over the dial and which is reading with every breath of the preclear.

You can do this exercise, I said, by the way, you can do it with a horse, do it with a motorcycle. Again, you just make the postulate you're going to put the animal or the vehicle someplace and then put it there and then make up your mind you’re going to put it in such and such a place and then change your mind and put it in another place. And after a while, the vehicle will start to do things vehicles aren’t supposed to do. Your competence can just go up that high.

Now, it shows you there that the needle does read with every breath of the preclear. You see that clearly. All right. If it is, why, naturally it’ll vary your readings. So when you get a deep surge, did the preclear just sigh?

That would be the essence, by the way, of making a terrific jet pilot. You’d be surprised how much feeling there is in any individual that the vehicle or anything is itself acting. And an individual is as incompetent as he believes these particles are themselves self-determined.

The funny part of it is that the Keeley lie detector depends to a large degree-it depends on a tape and it has a blood-pressure indicator and a respirator and that is to say, it measures the input and output of the lungs and-what else does that thing have?

Knowingness and competence. Of course, knowingness, that’s sort of knowing where it is going to go and so we’re into flows and energies and so forth. But this is the universe we live in. It is composed of flows and energies, so we certainly better have competence regarding them. If we’re going to deal continually with particles, then let’s be able to handle particles-not “let’s just shun particles.” All right?

I always state the thing it should have (to myself) because it’s too close to a truth that the machine ought to be built that way and it isn’t built that way. It’d be the galvanic reading of the individual. Machine isn’t built for that, though. So we’ll just skip what the third one is on a Keeley. For some reason or other, every time I look at a Keeley, I say, “It ought to be rebuilt.” So I guess, finally, now I’ve rebuilt it.

I’m giving that a wider coverage this morning because, actually, we don’t have too much summary on knowingness-not as much as we have some of the other material which stems from it.

And it works this way: You see these three needles and you track one against the other. Well, you’ve got all these three actions occurring here on this one needle, so you haven’t broken them down. Well, you don’t care whether the individual is sighing or whether he is suddenly a little bit tenser or whether an engram has moved in, actually, you have put this individual under stress.

Very rapidly, the elements which are most important at this time, just as a quick summary (I might have left one out here, but probably not), as a quick summary, the other elements that we have been studying are knowingness and then we have duplication. And “duplicate or not to duplicate, that is the question.” And that’s the only question there is, in terms of form. See, the second we put knowingness down into terms of form, in terms of flows, we first get into competence and then we get into duplication. We also with competence, by the way, get into convincingness and proof and other aspects of knowingness itself. But when we get down to just plain modus operandi-I mean, just bric-a-brac and mechanics and that sort of thing-we’re immediately into duplication.

The moment you said “Mother,” the individual went under stress and it reflected in the needle. That’s all you wanted to know. There isn’t any reason to say that “Well, it reflected against the breath” and so on.

Exact communication is one which is exactly duplicated. A communication is as good as it is exactly duplicated.

Well, it’s important for you to know that because there’s-several funny little readings. Two important ones are the “sigh” reading-you know, the individual says, Uhhh-huhhh! Yes, Mother!” And of course, it goes down eighteen dials. Why? Because it was Uhhh-huhhh!” See? And you’ve got this basal metabolism reading all over again-a brief measure of his air. All right. They do that too.

So communication is a specialized thing which uses space and uses duplication. It is a certain way of making a cause become an effect. You see, it’s a very certain, specialized way of making a Cause become an effect. In just plain knowingness there are other ways of making causes become effects. So, then we have beingness which is space and we have doingness which is energy and we have havingness which is time. And then we have everything we know about beingness, of course, just as such, and doingness just as such, and havingness just as such, and space just as such, and energy just as such and time just as such.

And the other fellow is the fellow who is rather line-he’s not quite line charging, but he, you might say, is giggling. Or he says, “Well, I guess I’m not over there. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Well, um-no, I-I’ve never been married before. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” And you’d think there was something funny if you didn’t know you were still reading the BMR rating. See, you’re reading his breathing.

But we have that coordination of these six elements. And that coordination is quite important because you can translate, id terms of experience, some of these things. And many a time you’ll be looking blankly at a preclear, wondering what the devil he’s doing, when it will suddenly occur to you that this individual’s laziness has something to do with energy and you will begin to probe jus't a little bit on the subject and you will find that the individual, early in life, perhaps, was a lineman for an electric company. Oh-oh. And now he’s lazy. Why, that’s peculiar. And these two data are immediately and intimately related. And there is where the case crosses and there is where his cross-up is. He’s worried mainly, and so are you, about his laziness. He can’t work, he says and so on. And we find these two coordinated data and we clear it up and he starts working like a steam engine-he’s just going in all directions. You just merely cleared up the fear of electricity across a line.

And the difference here is the difference of a lag.

You’ll say “Mother.”

Now, we have this individual who hasn’t got enough time to assimilate data. And we immediately discover that this is a symptom of havingness. So there must be something wrong or aberrated, in some way or other, about some havingness or other about this individual. See, we could just process endlessly, in the terms of clocks, in the terms of study, in terms of examination. And we could just go on and plow, plow, plow, plow, plow and we wouldn’t get very far in the case unless we realize this person is having trouble with time. All right, if he’s having trouble with time-having trouble with havingness. Well, let’s translate it immediately into havingness and do some Remedy of Havingness. Soon as we start remedying havingness, the person has enough time. See, it’s so very simple. So, we’ve got that as the experience which is comparable to the MEST universe.

And then he’ll go “Huhhhh, well no, she’s dead now. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

So we’ve got the parts of the MEST universe, of space, energy and time. And those are the component parts of the MEST universe. And those component parts in human experience translate over to beingness, doingness and havingness and as long as we remember this and use it, why, you’re going to get a tremendous lineup.

I don’t know. Not necessarily that silly. You’ll find some fellows who are perfectly reasonable who will have a tendency to laugh and discount everything they’ve said, with a laugh, after they’ve said it. It’s sort of an apology for having said something.

The fellow says, "Well, you know, I...” his name, by the way, is Custard, and he’s very pasty. Man’s having trouble with beingness. Why? He’s trying to be his name. Immediate adjudication: he’s trying to be his name. And this name is not a very desirable name and so help me, this fellow’s not going to be able to be his name after all, unless he gets eaten. And this is idiotic, so the man must be having trouble with beingness, so he’s having trouble with space.

So your needle will sit there for a moment, inactive. Well, that means the question was inactive. You know, right as you asked the question the needle was inactive.

So, all right. "Well, be the space back of your body.” "Be the space of your body.” "Be the space of the room.” "Be the space back of your body.” "Be the space of your body.” "Let’s find two spaces you don’t object to having together.” So we’ve got space and time locking together. All kinds of material immediately shows up. "Let’s hold the two back anchor points of the room.” Yeah, that’s it, that one we could slug into with this fellow and chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, right along the line on that and we would get a remedy of his trying to be custard.

You said “Mother” and you got no action.

And we never touched his name. We didn’t have to be specific at all. Now, you see, you can get very clever knowing this, as long as you remember the theory and the rules back of the game, to that degree.

But then he said “Well, she’s dead now. Ha-ha-ha-ha!” And then your needle went zoom!

Now, part of the rules simply say, “All right, your beingness is as big as you can occupy space,” it says-it sort of says here on the MEST universe.

Now, what are you reading on that second zoom? You’re just reading the amount of air that went in and out of his lungs. So the reading itself is not important. So you read the meter against the preclear. You see that? Many an auditor, by the way, has been a little bit baffled by this-why he gets these late sinks.

This isn’t necessarily true in every universe, you see? But it’s sure true in this universe. Your beingness is as great as you can occupy space. In other words, you can be as much space as you can occupy and that’s all and that applies to the universe. And you can do as much as you have energy. That’s a lie, by the way. You don’t do because уou have energy, but this universe says, “You can do if you have energy.”

Now this thing, this E-400, reads when-and so do all E-Meters that have an alert needle-they read the instant the question is asked. There’s no lag. The electronic impulse reads the instant the question is asked. And then other manifestations walk in on it such as a sigh, a laugh, a sudden relaxation or a sudden spasm through the body.

You see that again. It doesn’t apply to every universe, but it sure applies to this one. I say it doesn’t necessarily apply to every universe. You can Sit back and think how it might apply to another universe and you’d probably come up with the same answer, but there might be some variations on it, but we’d certainly know that here that energy ... so on. “Wheaties, the Breakfast of Champions”-this is how-so on. “You can do if you have energy.” I mean, they dramatize it all over the place. This is balderdash. “You can do as much as you can create” would come closer to the truth, but the trouble with your preclear’s doingness is energy. If he’s afraid of energy: “Now, give me three energies which you are not.”

You asked the question and it produced a spasm in the body. Well, the first reading is the one you want: the electronic surge which was produced in the body which preceded the mechanical convulsion or sigh or giggle in the body. And you want that electrical impulse and that’s the first thing it reads.

This fellow won’t go out of the house. We say, well, he’s having space trouble. Well, he can’t touch space. Well, he isn’t doing anything. He’s staying in one place. He isn’t doing. He isn’t moving around. Well, this requires energy and you’ll run into this problem very often. If you didn’t know this, you’d find this a very confounding problem-has to do with the walls being too thick or something of the sort. No, it just has to do with this: “Give me three energies which you are not, which you don’t have to be afraid of at the moment. Three energies which aren’t touching you at the moment”-almost any kind of a process-Straightwire or any other kind of a process which would get him into handling energy again and get him familiar with energy and get him over being afraid of it.

And you say “Mother” and the needle goes zing.

Now, we take this-I just gave you an example-havingness.

And then he says, “She’s dead. Ha-ha-ha-ha” and then the needle goes zong. Who cares about it going zong afterwards? We want that first moment it went flick, see? And we got a bad jar on the needle right there at the first moment. Well, that’s how you’d get around that fellow. By the way, it just reads rather uniformly, on most people it doesn’t do this. But people who sigh-you know that every time you look at a preclear who is sighing, you’re looking straight at a grief charge that’s sitting right on the surface. There is a grief charge there.

This individual has to have, has to have, has to have and he doesn’t like anything he has. Well, you remember in the Doctorate tapes: anything you get in this universe you don’t want, anything you don’t want you get, anything that you agree with will disagree with you and anything... It’s a rather sad picture, but that’s when you get into flows. Well, you know that’s the case, so that the fellow is getting into havingness, he’s going to have a rough time of it. Then, must be something wrong with his havingness, so you remedy it. You can sometimes hit a specific example with Creative Processing, which immediately snaps him out of it.

As I said, the first thing that you would do about the thing would be to run out his impulse to squeeze that can. Just say to him, “All right. Now, squeeze it and let it go and squeeze it and let it go and squeeze it and let it go.”

For instance, havingness. I found that an individual one time couldn’t have a school. He was very stupid, he thought. He couldn’t have a school. Why couldn’t he have a school? And we traced it back to his being expelled-you can laugh if you please, but he was six years old and he was expelled.

And the next thing you would do would be to set your needle to get the relative action you wanted on the case.

Well, he was expelled under terrific duress and they made a great deal of it and it meant as much to that six-year-old as it would mean to an admiral to be court-martialed. And he had just covered up the incident and buried it up and hidden it carefully and it was sitting there as an automatic machine that told him he couldn’t have schools. And it also told him he didn’t dare fight anybody, because that’s why he was expelled. And he was in fear thereafter.

Now, there’s two ways to go about this and the first way is not the most optimum, 9 because it involves a touch of the preclear. But if you want to get a rather big reaction on the machine, you just touch him on the back of the neck and say, “Has a girl ever kissed you there?” Or touch her on the back of the neck and say, “Has a guy ever kissed you there?” And you get a reaction on the machine every time. That gives you a reaction. Gives you a big reaction.

You, of course, are on shaky ground when you try to solve a case with one little button or something of the sort. But here we found the main trouble with this individual was havingness, because his time was all out. He couldn’t start anything, that was the main trouble with him and so there he was. And the solution of that havingness materially advanced his case. All right.

Well now, if you want that reaction and you would ordinarily in processing people-auditors like different kinds of needles, but if you’d had that only drop five units on this surge scale, you would be reading a very tight meter. I mean, it’d be very small action. If you set it to read 10, you would be reading an E-Meter about the way I read it. A test like that, resulting in a drop of ten units.

Then we’ve got communication, which is the A-В line, and something that starts through space is В duplicating A or not duplicating A. And one end of it, the A or source end, we call Gause and the other end we call Effect. And we have a Cause-Effect graph and that is Cause-Effect.

Many an auditor tries to read this meter where that test would drop two dials because this machine can be set so it’d drop five dials. You see that? You could set this machine a lot of different ways.

Now, we turn that same graph backwards when we get a tzwversation and you’ll find all sorts of peculiar manifestations occurring on this communication line. We find the individual who can’t have space has A and В or C and E (A and B, just the nominative letters, they’re actually Cause and Effect), we get C and E immediately together. Well, what’s this tell you? This tells you if he has C and E together that everything he causes he’ll be the effect of.

Well, how do you do that? Well, let’s look down here and over to the extreme right and we find two knobs. And the one at the top is called the “energy input” and the one at the bottom is called a “surge needle damping.” Now, this red button is really the same old needle-this doesn’t change its reads, this just changes its action on this machine. They changed the read on the earlier machine, but this changes the action on this machine-at least it’s supposed to. All right.

Holy cats. There’s your overt act-motivator sequence, which has been so puzzling for so long. Individual cannot act because of the consequences. Well, what’s this all about? Well, it goes back to a problem of beingness, then, simply must be a problem of beingness, because he doesn’t have space. If he doesn’t have space, he can’t have any space between C and E and that’s a necessary condition to communication. So we get overt act-motivator sequence, we get motivator hunger, we get all sorts of weird things. This fellow, for instance, every time he puts out a mock-up, it hits him in the face. Well, he can’t put any space between two terminals, that’s all, he can’t put any space between C and E. He’s cause, but he puts something out there and he becomes the effect of anything he tries to put out there. So he is the effect of anything he tries to cause, so he won’t act anymore. And that’s immediate result of just looking at that communication graph.

This is the same as your sensitivity needle-this red needle. And it works the same way. Of course, it turns the machine on and off over here just like your old red sensitivity needle did on the early E-Meters.

Now, we go into this whole band which goes down from Knowingness, Beingness, Perceivingness, Emotingness, Effortingness, Thinkingness, Symbolizingness, Eatingness and Sexingness. And we look at that whole band and we find out that there’s more darn processes on that band and the funny part of it is, is we process somebody, he’ll run through these condensations. And there’s a funny way of checking a case that will interest you. There’s an odd way of checking a case: Is he moving up the band otdown the band as you process him? Is he becoming more interested in, or is he getting more pictures of, the upper or the lower manifestation on that band?

Well, you bring that up here to about-a person who’s all over the dial-if you tried to bring that off of its reading at 2, which is down there at about 8 o’clock on this dial, gee, you wouldn’t get much of a read at all. It’d be a real poor read. So if you touched him on the back of the neck and said, “Has a girl ever kissed you here?” you’d probably get a drop of about one unit on the surge meter. That’s just no good.

In other words, as we process his thinkingness for quite a while and all of a sudden he gets very interested in symbols. Oh, no. No, no. We’re processing him south. We don’t want to process him south. We’d better start processing him north. We’ve probably given him too much somethingness processes. We haven’t given him enough nothingness to process. We’ve been validating symbols just by talking to him and analyzing words and so forth and we’ve driven him south. Well, he’s getting further and further from effort. We want to get him up through effort and force, objects, way up the line up there.

So let’s see what the extremity of it would be. And that is, we turn it clear over here to about 5:30 or 11 or 12 on the marked dial and we find out that a touch on the back of

Well, let’s take the emotional band. I’m going to give you an example in a little while on some processing on the emotional band which is very interesting.

Note: This section of the lecture contains sound distortions caused by faulty equipment in the original recordings. the neck-“Has agirl ever kissed you here?” something on that order-would immediately demonstrate several dials’ worth of fall.

The straightwire-type process that you find in 8-C, negative orientation-type processing, is applicable to this whole band. “Give me three efforts which you don’t have to make right now, just take one at random.” “Give us three sexual manifestations you don’t object to.” The next half-hour will be spent with a preclear’s having a hard time-but the next half-hour will be spent waiting for that preclear to come up with the answer or trying to assist him in coming up with an answer somehow or another.

And these little tests I’m giving you here are with the upper needle just set at 12 o’clock, just set in the middle-set on its unit reading of 6. I’m giving you bomber positions for these needles. I find them very superior to just arbitrary figures-you know, a clock face, because everybody knows a clock face. All right.

Every once in a while you’ll really put both feet in it. You’ll wish, “For God’s sakes, why did I ever ask that question?” Because you didn’t estimate the person’s position on the tone band, you gave him something which was too tough.

Now, this upper dial reads just backwards to the other one. With the upper dial-you see, this is input and this upper dial over here-energy input-if you were to set the lower dial here at 6 and you were to set the upper dial all the way on, oh, clear over to 11 or 12, you’d get your minimum surge-needle response. And you get your maximum surge-needle response on this upper dial over here with it set at 1 or 2. In other words, if maximum on the machine would be the upper-the “energy input”-set over here at 6:30 or 7 o’clock, see, over here at 1 or 2 (in other words, not on at all, hardly) and your sensitivity needle, your output needle, set clear over here at 11 or 12 o’clock.

This preclear should have had Opening Procedure a lot more minutes, or tens of minutes, than you gave it to him. You said, well, you felt good that morning-the preclear didn’t, but jazz felt good that morning. And you said, “Give me three kinds of sex that you don’t object to.”

In other words, those two dials set in reverse there would give the maximum wildness to this surge-meiter reading. That would give you terrific action.

“Three kinds? Let’s see, one-no-no ...” You’re in for a picnic. You’ll just have to work with him then. You’ve asked him the question. Well, by golly, if you’ve asked him the question, get an answer. All right.

And you as an auditor would sit there and you’d ask the fellow, “Did you ever have a dog?” and you get a dial drop. “Have you ever run an automobile?” and you get a dial drop, see? And this would leave you in this kind of a position: You’d have to keep reaching up here and punching that surge discharger every time you turned around, to get the needle back to zero. And you’d spend so much time doing that, you wouldn’t get the reads on the meter. So that’s-be too much.

You can take that whole band, then, and apply this type of Straightwire, you apply it in brackets and so on. But remember, as you’re applying that type of Straightwire that it can get off into a subjective process. It gets off into a subjective process the moment that you start getting the rest of the bracket. See that? The rest of the bracket and here we go, it’s into a subjective process.

Too much on this, then, would be the upper dial set at 1 or not on, really. And the other, the lower dial, set at all the way on-the red dial set at all the way on-that gives you maximum response. All right.

So, every time you’ve run a subjective process for a while, let’s run some nothingness.

So where can we read these things just for an elementary sort of a set? Well, let’s just put them both at 12 o’clock. Now, preclear to preclear, that’s too much or too little. Doesn’t matter. But let’s just take it from there.

All right. Now, let’s look at the cycle-of-action of the MEST universe as one of the factors which we’re dealing with and we find that it is Create-Survive-Destroy, which is in the Vedic-it was stated: birth so, so-and-so. Actually that cycle goes Nothingness-Create-Survive-Destroy-Nothingness. Nothingness is on both ends of the band, it’s just understood to be. You see, it starts here at create and goes over to destroy through persist or survive. And you have understood at that moment, without stating it, that a nothingness was ahead of the creation and nothingness was behind it, but we’ve just always omitted to state that supposition.

And now we find we’ve got too much action. Well, let’s just leave that top one alone and take that red one and cut it down to 11 o’clock. See? Cut it down to where it reads there-3 or 5, somewhere in there-3, 4, 5, whatever it reads, which is 11 o’clock on a clock face-9, 10, 11 o’clock.

Actually, the nothingness before and the nothingness afterwards are more important to you as an auditor than the Create-Survive-Destroy in the middle of the cycle.

In other words, let’s follow a good engineering rule-is vary as few things as possible. Then if you say to somebody, so-and-so and so-and-so, and he’s very active, well, your word “active” means something if one of these is held as a constant.

Well, out of that we get cycles-of-action. We find this individual can’t create anything. Well, if he can’t create anything, it’s probably because he can’t destroy anything and he’s probably bent upon surviving. We can run end of cycle on all sorts of things or run beginning of cycle to back his track up. And that’s a cute little trick-you run beginning of cycle: “Now get something which you haven’t created yet. Now get something else out there in a mock-up form which you haven’t created yet.”

You say, “This fellow is very active on the meter and I had to carry him on his sensitivity down to practically nothing in order to keep the needle on the dial.” Well, that makes sense.

The guy will wake up to the fact that he has to put nothing there, he has to start with a nothingness. Well, in the whole business of existence, you’re always trying to start with a nothingness and are being confounded by the fact that there’s so many somethingnesses around.

Now, this will read with any reading that an earlier meter would read and the only thing that really confuses auditors about these later meters is they try to read them too live. They try to read them much too live.

You’re going to build this housing project and you’ve got it all drawn down on paper and you’re just going to have a wonderful time building this housing project and, oh man, it’s just tremendous there. You’ve just got all this nothingness and you’re just filling it in, in all places, you see. And you’re going out there and you’re going to assemble new lumber and “Oh boy, this is going to be a beautiful housing project.” And then you drive out to the place and find there’s a tenement sitting on the ground you’re going to use. “Well, that’s all right, but you can tear all it down,” you say, “and we still can start with a nothingness, you see?”

On a big control case, you’d probably take all the damp off of it.

And they say, “Well, you can tear it all down but those two buildings over there and they’re on a ninety-nine year lease.”

Yeah, you just take all the damp off of it and you’d read it over here, down here on a clock face, at about 7 o’clock and on this meter you’d read it at 1. And this would give you your maximum control case-I mean, the fellow who is reading down here at 1 and one-half or something like that, to get a good read down here. That’s too much needle, by the way, to give it-you’d have to cut him down. I don’t think a case could be so bad that you would read this inverse. That is to say, you’d read it where your sensitivity is all the way on and your damping all the way off.

You say, “How do we integrate those into our housing project?”

Now, if you find your needle is still too active, you just turn on this damper. And you can just damp the needle and damp it and damp it and damp it. The more this upper button is on, why, the more your needle is damped. All that does, by the way, is just damp the needle. It just slows it down. And you’ll finally get a very stiff, stodgy needle that doesn’t tell you any of its inner reactions at all. And you’ll find these are not significant.

“Well, I don’t know, you’ll just have to.”

But if you’ll carry that upper one at 6 and your lower one down here at 6, which is 12 o’clock, clock face-just carry them, each one of them, straight up-why, you’ll get a read. And if you kind of start in that way, why, you can vary it from there and you’ll be happier in the long run for having a constancy.

Oh. You’re already starting with a somethingness, so we can’t run a clean cycle.

Now, it’s important for you to have a meter constant and to get used to a meter-get used to your own meter and get a constant on it. That is to say, this preclear, then, is more active than another preclear. You know, you’d say, “Boy, is this guy wild!” Well, you wouldn’t ever be able to judge one preclear against the other preclear unless you had a constant read, you know? You had to set these buttons down here rather constantly, preclear to preclear, in order to get a relative reading in preclears. So just take it, each one, at 12 o’clock and you got it. All right. Too many dials here.

A clean cycle is always run from a nothingness through to a nothingness. The preclear’s difficulty is that he can’t run a clean cycle. Death is not a clean cycle. His tremendous effort to have death remain death is simply this effort to start with nothing so that he can create something cleanly, out of whole cloth, which will not be influenced by earlier structures.

Now of course, we have up here “surge needle set.” On the old machines, we had a lower dial, you know, that did this sort of thing, but this upper one, you notice as I swing it back and forth here, even with just the can lying there with no more contact than it would get on a piece of wood, I can get the needle to read, see, with this set.

The painter starts in with a piece of clean canvas and he’s going to paint something. And he says, “You know, I’m going to start in with a complete nothingness-look at this beautiful piece of white canvas.” And there’s a letter there saying, “Dear Mr. Petty, This time we want a girl with slightly longer legs.” See, he can’t create it. That’s the somethingness. The somethingness is the order. And no telling what he would do if he could start with a clean canvas, but he never does.

Well, what’s that do? All that does is just bring your needle back. See? That’s just a way of partly bringing your needle back. You know, you just turn that center knob here, exact middle of the upper face of the machine, and you just turn that back just a little bit and it’ll bring your needle back from 10 to 5 for instance, see? You’ll get that, see? You can turn that back here. So here’s your needle riding there at 5 and the preclear has gone over here at 10. Well, you want to get him back in this black area here. Well, you just readjust that delicately and you’ll get him back in the black area, which, actually, you can take the charge that’s running through the preclear off. And you hit that on the discharge machine and it brings this baby clear back to zero. See that? Now, I’ll show you how that is.

But once in a blue moon you’ll go into a painter’s place and you’ll look around and you will find some particularly magnificent startling piece of stuff, you see? Oh, it’s got verve and everything. Oh, it’s just tremendous.

Now, we’ve got that needle all the way over there. And we bring that back to zero by simply discharging it. And here it goes again. See? Now, we want to know how many dials that fellow is dropping, we keep dropping that discharge needle. And we’ll see him going on down.

And you’ll say, “What’s that?”

But you notice that it’s operating here without any variation on the table itself. It tells you that this needle and the meter is simply set up to read just as it’s set up to read this moment and it’s just going to go on reading that way regardless of how many times I touch this discharge button. So don’t keep fooling yourself with the discharge button. You see that?

“Well, I don’t know, one day I just knocked it off, not for any reason or anything of the sort and never put it up for exhibition or anything, it’s just there.”

It’s better E-Metering to take that center pin and bring him back with it, instead of touching this discharge button all the time. Well, you see why this is. The thing is sitting on the table now. The table isn’t varying in potential. There’s a slight trickle going through the electrode because it’s sitting on a piece of wood and every time we touch that button, it comes back here and then it falls again. Well, the table isn’t getting different charges.

And you say, “That’s terrific. That’s got a lot of... ”

So the only argument I would have with this meter is the relative lack of value of that discharge button. I would meter it and would continue to handle it.

“Well, I don’t know, maybe they like it and maybe they don’t.”

The other night, when I was running Volney on this meter-this is a brand-new production, this is the first one of the series. And I kept avoiding this discharge button because I’ve had some experience with the earlier machines that had them, I just didn’t do anything about it. And he’d keep reaching over indicating I should touch the discharge button, you know, thinking I wasn’t accustomed to this new invention. I’d keep readjusting him up here on this button. I wasn’t interested in having it come back to the pin, I was interested in getting how far he was going to drop now. You see that?

He isn’t anxious to sell that thing. That’s the only one he ever started with a nothingness. He had no reason, no purpose to paint it, no significance about it. He just up and painted something. And that’s very valuable to him.

So if you keep handling this center-of-the-face button up here, way up, just below this big “M,” why, you keep handling that, you know, and bringing it back. Well, you bring that to the black and the guy still falls. So you have to bring it back some further, you know? He still falls, and bring it back again. This tells you, “Boy, is this guy falling!”

Many a young writer is much better off than many an old dog who is a terrific craftsman, because the old dog is always starting with a somethingness and the young writer is terribly impressed with the fact of his own nothingness. So we get the elan and the dash and verve of a new writer’s material and the tremendous perfection and rhythm of an old writer’s material. It’s tremendously perfect, there are no errors in it-there’s no spark, either.

If you just keep sitting there hitting the discharge needle, you’re simply getting the same charge on the preclear every time and you’re seeing lots of needle action that tells you the preclear is falling and he isn’t falling!

Then we have just plain nothing-something, as a basic. These are all just basics I’m giving you, just basics. There’s something and nothing: betwixt the two they make a “maybe.” And almost any something that you see was, theoretically, according to the Theta-MEST Theory, the halfway line between an absolute something and an absolute nothing. That was the Theta-MEST Theory: absolute something to absolute nothing. And you’re hanging up somewhere between. You see, that wall over there really isn’t a something and it really isn’t a nothing. It’s at least an idea and it’s got space in it and you might not be able to find the electrons, but the space is there. And there’s a lot of questions come up about it. Well, the reason the questions come up about it is because it isn’t an absolute something.

Well, the machine would be better off if it didn’t have that discharge button on it. So if you leave that alone-it’s fun and looks very effective and efficient and it’s quite a gesture and so forth-just leave that alone and set the meter here with this upper dial button, you’ll get an accurate read from your preclear and you won’t get told any lies. Because that doesn’t tell you-this button here—that he’s going on dropping, dropping, dropping.

Well, we falter by the wayside when we try to find this absolute something. It is not obtainable, not according to my experience. There is no matter which yet does not contain some space. I know of no matter which does not yet contain some space. I know of no real particle of energy-nothing that actually exists-I know of impulses, but I don’t know of any particles.

I’ll show you again, that’s not the case. You understand that that button is—that that is now reading constant, isn’t it? That must be reading constant because it’s sitting there with a tiny trickle going through the wood of the table. All right.

Now, we’re talking nuclear physicswise. And that’s been awfully thoroughly investigated recently and, although the boys are pretty well off the track on a lot of things, that one hasn’t seen any reason to vary. It just keeps getting proven more and more and more so.

Here he is over here. All right. Now we’re going to discharge it. You see your needle? Your needle is going right on over there to read 30 again. And if you kept on punching the pin time after time after time, you’d think your preclear was falling dial after dial after dial. He’s not. The table isn’t falling dial after dial here. See? And yet doesn’t that look impressive?

But theoretically, according to the Theta-MEST Theory, there is somewhere an absolute somethingness. And it would be halfway between this nothingness and this somethingness that you get this kind of a MEST universe “maybe.” And the reason why the MEST universe remains a maybe is because it is a maybe. You can’t know the MEST universe utterly and absolutely with great certainty because it is a maybe.

All it does is, while you’ve got the button down, it interrupts the charge going through the machine and then the machine reads again, just as it read before. It doesn’t reset the needle. All right.

And that’s the Theta-MEST Theory. That isn’t necessarily true or false, that is the theory on which we were proceeding a couple of years ago which brought up a lot of other stuff here. Still has validity, though, and it hasn’t been supplanted. Still predicting data and when looked for, the data is found.

But look at this. We twist that little dial there and it comes back over and stays there.

Absolute somethingness. What would that be? It would be something which actually had mass and didn’t have any space between its mass, which actually did have particles. And boy, that would really be something, wouldn’t it?

That meter is set real interestingly. You know what it’s reading?

A pinhead of it here on Earth, theoretically, would weigh enough so that if it were dropped, it would pass straight through Earth. It wouldn’t stop on the surface, it would wind up at the core. The gravitic action of that pinhead would probably be greater than the total gravitic action of Earth and yet, theoretically, it exists. All right.

Female voice: Me.

Something and nothing. Always-you can always make a process out of something and nothing and certainty. I don’t care what kind of a process it is, it’ll have workability. Just like you can always make a process out of something about time. And that’s the next one: time.

Hm?

You can directly process time in terms of particles and spaces. The individual is objecting to time and all you’re interested in is what he’s resisting about time, not his theory of time. He’s either in apathy about having rejected some time or in fear of some time being rejected or just objecting to time in general. And that’s always because something has occurred to him in terms of havingness which he doesn’t like.

Female voice: It's reading on me now.

And so there’s particles which are apart that he ought to have together and particles which are together that he ought to have apart back in 1066 and he’s still trying to prevent the Norman charge or something at the Battle of Hastings. And here are all these particles starting to come up the hill and he’s trying to get these arrows to go down the hill and it hasn’t taken place yet, because he got killed at that moment. And you’ll find him stuck right there. But do you have to look for that incident, really, or process it? No, you just get particles that he has to have apart and particles that he has to have together and particles he doesn’t object to being apart and... “Now get two particles you wouldn’t want together” is another variation of this.

See that? It’s not, it’s reading my beam on it. I’ve been talking about the electrode down here and it more or less had hold of it. Interesting.

A nuclear physicist always comes up with the answer very surprisingly and very pleased all of a sudden, "Two plutonium particles-don’t want those together, they can stay apart just as far as they want.” All right.

Well anyway, besides that, if we want to go on about the E-AR-400, we get into some very interesting material in terms of probes and so on. Now, the audio part of this machine is tremendously impressive to a preclear and is one of the reasons why it is extremely useful to a doctor or chiropractor. Impresses hell out of him. It tells him where he hurts.

And from there we go on into the eight dynamics, which is just compartmentation of what we’re trying to create, make persist and destroy and then we get into ARC and the Tone Scale. And they have not departed, ARC and the Tone Scale, just because we don’t pay much attention to them.

Well, right now I could give you a very nice dissertation on the subject of pain. You know many of your preclears are in pain because there isn’t enough pain. If you want to work this over and you want to understand this very thoroughly, you’d certainly better waste pain in a bracket on some preclear or get the pain wasted in a bracket on you. Don’t avoid pain to the point of not running pain on somebody. It’s quite important to do that.

As an example of that in the last lecture, “Give me three things you wouldn’t object О to communicating with,” would be the proper way to get it. “Three things you wouldn’t g» object to communicating with.” “Three things that aren’t trying to communicate with you.” “Three things you’re not trying to communicate with.” “Three things you don’t have to have any affinity for.” “Three things that don’t have to have any affinity for you.” A Such variations as that will process the guy up the scale and will actually change his position on the meter.

[to student] The machine still reading?

Now, the Tone Scale itself, as you will find there on the back wall, that is the most complete available Tone Scale.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

Now, you’re trying, essentially, to predict human beings.

Yeah, it’s running.

In order to live with human beings, you have to predict them or predict MEST objects or predict spirits or predict something. You want to know what they are going to do. That’s where people get hung up in this universe and the Tone Scale is a prediction of what people are going to do. It’s unfortunately quite, quite accurate.

It’s quite important to run pain in terms of wasting it in brackets to understand it. The stuff is valuable! And your preclear is much sicker-your preclear is much sicker for having it taken away from him instead of having more made for him.

All right.

Here’s your pain problem. Fellow comes in to you, he’s got a toothache. His tooth hurts like the devil. His tooth is hurting like the devil on some high level of protest against pain, so you’re going to take the pain out of the tooth. So you work for three or four minutes and the pain is getting more intense in the tooth. And you take more pain out of the tooth, you start running it out and you spend another fifteen, twenty minutes on it and it’s getting more intense and it’s not going away. And the fellow is getting sadder.

Well, if you were to mock-up-have him mock-up the sensation of pain in his tooth and mock it up in the teeth next to his tooth and to mock it up above the tooth and below the tooth and push it in on the tooth, you would find with this added sensation the tooth would stop hurting.

Here we have Acceptance Level Processing. A person is denied something continuously. Your family, all the people around you, have told you all your life you mustn’t have pain. Therefore, they have made a scarcity of pain. That which is scarce, the thetan desires.

The hardest thing for an auditor to swallow is the value of agony, until he himself has had some pain wasted on him.

When he’s had some pain wasted on him, he begins to understand it. “You know, that stuff is valuable.”

Now, as a thetan, he goes down to soothe this poor body which is writhing in agony and, boy, is that a lot of pain, see? Slurp! Slurp! Pain. Slurp! He makes this big protest of how awful it is.

Now, a lot of people, when you tell them something like that, they say, “Why, this Can’t be true. Pain is something you can’t have.” Well, they’ve bought the social package that pain is something you can’t have and that it is not valuable and so on.

Well, boy, it is really high-level sensation. You realize a thetan can only survive. He can’t do anything else but survive. Pain can’t do anything to him, he doesn’t have any anatomy. But he can enjoy the sensation of pain. Or he can block pain when it is hurting something he’s trying to protect. But the very scarcity of it creates a starvation for it.

So this fellow walks into the doctor’s office to brag. And he says, “I have the awfullest pain in my chest.” And now the doctor gives him something to take the pain away. Well, that’s perfectly okay with the individual. He knows that he shouldn’t have a pain in his chest. The funny part of it is that the more the pain is taken away, the more chronic it is liable to become.

If the auditor in this case were to mock-up large masses in agony and push them together and push them into the preclear-I mean, just the auditor do this-he would see that the preclear experienced release. I don’t mean have the preclear do this. I’m just talking about things that you really shouldn’t do. You just mock-up, oh, real good, hot agony, see, and shove it in the preclear’s chest. And the next thing you know, why, you’d say, “Well, by double terminals and other necromancy, it has happened.” No, it hasn’t. It just happened on the mass of pain. The person has gotten up past the pain band, finally-got a satiation for it at the moment. It’s like hunger. You do it that way and these chronic pains cease to be chronic.

So this machine is fixed to detect pain. This means it’ll set up in a doctor’s office or something of this sort. And you take this probe meter here-you take this probe meter and you tell the patient to hold it in his hand.

[whistle] Boy, is that hot. Don’t do that, by the way, to a preclear-he’ll hate you forever-that is to say, turn that probe needle on when you’ve got the rest of the machine on.

Now, we want this thing on “audio” and off of “meter.” Now, it says down here in the middle bottom dial-big, middle bottom dial-“surge meter,” see? Then over here on this side it says “audio.” And then way over here it says “inverted audio” on this machine. All right.

Now, let’s bring it down here to “audio” and we take it off of “surge meter” and actually at that moment your surge meters are dead. They are not now operating. But the audio is operating.

Now, here’s “audio volume,” is over here. It says “audio sensitivity” and so forth-is the big dial to the right. It’s the one which is immediately adjacent to the words “surge meter.” All right, it says at the top of this dial “audio sensitivity.”

All right. We have to bring this over here. Now we’ve got “low” and “high,” which gives us two levels of volume to go on. And then we’ve got “audio volume,” which tells us how loud this thing is going to scream and here we have also-well, this is an “oscillator cut-off.” That’s beside the point on this instrument. Okay.

Let’s go over here on “audio.” It’s pointed straight down now because this needle is hot. This probe needle is hot. That is to say, it’s got an electrical current and I have it against my face, it’s still hot. Now Volney, what have you done to us? Ha-ha! It’s grounded against its own case. Well, that’s fine. Okay. Now, you touch the case and touch the probe and-that’s right, that’s true of this meter.

Now, what we’re interested in doing here ... Come here, Jeanette.

Sit over here on the seat because I can’t handle the meter and handle the probes too. Now, just sit down and hold that very nicely. Now, we’re going to show you some of the fallacies of this machine with regard to pain, but we’re also going to show you its terrific power to do some very interesting things.

[to student] Is that hot?

Female voice: No.

All right. Just hold on to that. All right. Now we’re going to find... Usually somebody is hot around here someplace.

Now, let’s see. Did it bite?

Female voice: Um, sort of.

Did it bite? By golly, it did bite!

Female voice: Didn’t hurt.

All right. Audio high-low and gain oscillator control. This thing has a bit of a bite in it. He told me it had. But he was trying to work it out.

Now, your audio sensitivity over here ought to holler like mad, right about now. Here, put it against your face, somewhere around here. Just tap, tap, tap around your upper lip. Hm. Come around with your face to this machine. [high-pitched electronic tone]

Now we got it. Thatagirl. Now, touch it against your upper lip.

[fluctuating electronic tone] Now just touch it and hold it there.

Now take it off. Now put it back. [fluctuating electronic tone]

Female voice: It's howling and I didn’t even touch it.

Thank you. I’m resetting the thing.

Now touch it against your upper lip. Are you touching it?

Female voice: Mm-hm. [high-pitched electronic tone]

Okay. Now untouch it. Now touch it again. There we go. Hope I can take this howl out of here. [electronic howling sound] Different, huh?

Female voice: How come?

Yeah, how come? Okay. You know, that’s probably picking up that howl from this television station that’s right behind us.

Okay. Now, we’ve set this needle here, so we got your audio volume on. And got this pointed down to audio and got your audio volume control set properly. And then your oscilloscope-pardon me, your oscillator dial set up here about zero someplace. But the most important thing about it is, is we have this one knob-big knob furthest to the right at the bottom-this big knob is turned just on.