This is the third lecture of the afternoon, December the 10th. I wonder if you’ve all recovered from have and uh… agree and… and so on. It just shows you the liability of flows, and if flows have an enormous importance to an individual, he will fall, of course, into this horrible uh… track; he… he… that’s a trap. Uh… you’ve agreed to flows, then you’ve agreed that flows are dangerous.

This is December the 10th, the first hour of lecture. Today we have quite a bit of material to cover here, and I believe I should cover for you – in some detail such things as flows and brackets and so on. I… I think that would be helpful to you.

Have you ever protested to anybody that their talk to you was destructive to you? That’s all; you’ve said at that moment, „A flow can destroy me.“ Why don’t you just change that postulate right now?

The… the uh… flow action is what I mean by covering some more about flows. How many actions are there in a flow? And in interpersonal relationships, how many interactions take place amongst flows?

By the way, who did you have to convince that you were working, not playing? You see, you agreed that there was such a thing as work.

Well, now, I’m going to work that out here. I haven’t counted them for some time, but there’re quite a few. But you should know this pattern of interaction. If you don’t know this pattern of interaction, you can slip your preclear into a boil-off. Why? Very simple. Because any flow run too long in one direction will result in a boil-off. Any flow.

These things don’t creep up on you in the night, by the way, and slide in sideways by telepathy and all of that sort of thing. You have to say good and loud, „I agree that…“ and you say it in various ways, such as: „Oh, that is terribly destructive and that’s very dangerous to me.“ Or „I am going to destroy you and you need to be punished.“ Or „Pain is a terrible and horrible thing, because look what you’re doing to me with pain,“ which is the same thing as „You’ve got to obey the rules, and if you don’t obey the rules I’m going to apply pain to you.“ Pain you wanted, oh boy, pain was valuable.

What is a boil-off? It is a state of unconsciousness produced by a confusion of effort impinging upon one area. It is a slow-motion unconsciousness. The fellow doesn’t go out because of a direct blow; he simply slides out gradually and rather painlessly, because of a small application.

How… what… what do you do? You’ve got this game you’re trying to play and this guy keeps rushing in and saying, „We’ve just uh… we’ve just got all this upset and we’ve got these uh… changed this whole thing around,“ you know, like me changing techniques, uh… „and… and you’re not playing according to the rules.“ Well, the only reason you really didn’t have any… protest too much when I was changing techniques is I was just learning more rules that already existed. So that wasn’t changing the rules, although to some people who didn’t know we were tracking rules, that appeared to be a violation of the rules. They were used to dealing with mock-ups. The rules were so sacred and so deeply hidden and so terribly desirable, and they had to agree with ‘em so thoroughly that you were supposed to operate as far from the actual rules as you could operate. And when you start moving in on the rules…

If you were to take somebody on an operating table and simply press them with… or press upon them a heavy pressure and keep that pressure getting a little heavier and a little heavier and a little heavier, they’d pass out. It’s the aggregate pressure of one sort or another that causes this boil-off.

By the way, I’ve seen people in audiences and students, and so forth all of a sudden jump and their eyes get kind of pop-eyed and the horrible feeling comes over them, „My God, he knows!“ And that’s very interesting when you get all of this added up and squared around, that the rules are so important.

How do you stop a boil-off? You simply reverse the flow line. If you notice your preclear starting to boil off, get something in the mock-up or whatever you’re doing – see, this applies to mock-ups – get it to go around and flow the opposite direction.

The rules were important only because you had to protect your postulates after you made your postulates; and the reason you had to protect your postulates after you made your postulates, you wanted to have what you had had. And uh… it made for randomity and you went down the line a little further, and you had to protect the thing that you had protected with postulates and protect your right to make postulates. (By that time you were kind of getting dim on the subject of making a postulate.)

Now, sometimes you’ll be rather mystified in a mock-up. Your fellow’s running mock-ups and he starts to pass out. And he passes out again and he passes out again, and you say, „Put it behind you; put it in front of you; put it over to the side,“ and he keeps passing out. Well, just keep feeding him mock-ups. That is the remedy for that. If he gets excited while you’re feeding him mock-ups, feed him more mock-ups.

And then somebody came along and changed the rules on you, and said, „Look, dogs hereinafter walk in the sky and uh… birds uniformly are found in little burroughs underground.“ Uh-uh… And he said, „Therefore, because I do this, then all of your dogs are going up in the sky, and there they go.“

But don’t, under any circumstances, suddenly plunge in and reverse – the formula Scientology 8-8008 and suddenly go into that great stuff, that wonderful stuff called ‘reality’, because you’ll knock him flat if you do that, and you could really foul him up like a fire drill. If you suddenly start running mock-ups and then suddenly insist on… It becomes much worse than if you were just running facsimiles and locks and so forth; he’d get better if you were doing that. But you’ve started him on one course and now you’ve suddenly reversed direction on him and you’re putting him back into this universe and you’re giving him less freedom than he had before.

You say, „Oh, my dogs! My poor, precious dogs! Why it took me… it took me microseconds to make those dogs and I’ve become terribly fond of them, because every time I put an emotion on them of fondness and loyalty and cheerfulness and… and helpfulness, I feel it right back. And they’re very good for that sort of thing. They’re so soothing to my nerves.“ And there went your dogs.

All right. The fellow will start to slide out. You give him mock-ups, he starts to slide out on a boil-off and slide out on a boil-off, and you put mock-ups behind him and above him and below him. You can just make up your mind that some kind of a flow has started to run out of an actual facsimile and it keeps slugging him and he can’t do anything about it, and evidently you can’t do anything about it.

And you said, „Listen, fellow. Did you ever hear about a rule that had to do with pain?“

What ‘is the answer to that? It’s just give him more mock-ups. Don’t worry about it. But normally, if your preclear is groggy, you’ve just got the thing running the wrong way. If you have him doing something to somebody and he keeps boiling off, why, the probability is that he has overrun the DED or the DEDEX.

And he said, „Uh… what’s pain?“

Now, a DED is something that somebody did without provocation to somebody else; that is a DED. Uh… it’s a… they say, „He deserved it.“ They had no other reason to do it; they say, „He deserved it,“ so we call that a DED. Fellow, he’s never been… Joe Blink has never hurt him; Joe Blink has never done anything to him, and yet he suddenly, just out of hand one day, blows Joe Blink’s head off. Then somebody comes along… he didn’t have any reason at all. Somebody comes along and says, „Hey, uh… what… what’d you do? What… what was the idea?“

„Oh,“ you… you say, „it’s another sensation, of course.“

„Well, he deserved it.“

And the fellow says, „A sensation? Gee… You mean there’s good sensations, too, like I haven’t heard about?“

„Well, why did he deserve it?“

„Oh, yeah. This is a very good sensation.“

„Well, uh… he had dirty fingernails,“ or „I… I… fellow like that!“ He’ll build up a long, involved rationalization, justification as to why he did this to Joe Blink, and there is no reason.

„Now, I tell you, there you’re standing there in this body you’ve got there; this is a beautiful mock-up. This beautiful body, and so forth, actually has the ability to have sensations, doesn’t it?“ You could prove everything by logics, and… „It has the capacity to feel sensation; isn’t that true? And it has an unlimited capacity to feel sensation.“

So he will do many of these things perhaps and then one day you come along the line and uh… somebody comes along and doesn’t blow his head off, but somebody taps him lightly on the temple. Well, he knew darn well he didn’t have a good reason – this universe requires reason; this universe, above all other things, must be logical. And of course it is logical, too; you saw that yesterday, with… with haves and so forth. And above all else it must be logical and non-contradictory.

„Why, sure it does,“ he says. „That’s the way I mocked it up.“

And so uh… he tries to put this DEDEX ahead of Joe Blink, the DED. He tries to scramble the track and put it in a… in a logical order. Something happened to his head, therefore he did something to Joe Blink. That doesn’t work that way, so you call it DEDEX, and this could be interpreted as several things. Uh… ‘deserved action explained’ would be one interpretation of DEDEX, a DEDEX. Uh… ‘the deserved action’. This is why the action was deserved. This is why he blow… blew Joe Blink’s head off, because 20 years later a fellow by the name of Cuffbah tapped him on the temple. Well, it just doesn’t add up.

„All right. Now, if it has the unlimited ability to feel sensation, then it can feel any sensation; isn’t that true?“ „Yeah.“ You say, „All right. Then it could feel pain, couldn’t it?“ „Well, sure – what’s pain?“

And yet he’ll try to make it add up. He’ll go around and he’ll say, „Now, look. Look, this… this… oh, my head! I mean, I’m just having terrible pains in my head and so on, and that’s… that’s a very horrible injury,“ and if you really probed him on it, he’d say, „Well, when Joe Blink did that to me…“ You see, Joe Blink never did it to him and that’s what’s wrong with a DEDEX. It’s completely fallacious.

And you say, „Now, look. A pain has to do with attention units and various flows and so forth going this way and that way, right away, see?“ And the fellow says, „How?“ And you say, „Look. I’ll show you.“ Uh… „Okay,“ he says.

And its fallacity, fallaciousness is represented by the overemphasis the individual puts upon the action that happened to him. Whenever an individual’s going around saying, „Look what’s wrong with me,“ really, what he’s really showing up is a DEDEX. He’s saying, „Look, it really happened to me and… and so forth. Therefore, I’m not guilty.“ Universes, this universe is terribly interested in justice. So he’s saying, „I’m not guilty; I’m not guilty,“ and uh… „because here, 20 years after I blew Joe Blink’s head off, somebody came along and tapped me in the temple, and that made it all right for me to blow Joe Blink’s head off,“ which it didn’t at all. So that’s your DEDEX. DEDEX.

So you got the attention units going this way and that way and he didn’t jump very bad. And you say, „You see. You can’t feel pain.“ „I can too,“ he says. „I can feel anything.“ „Well, you can’t either. You can’t feel pain. You didn’t jump.“ And he says, guy says, „I can jump.“

Well, how do you use this in mock-ups? Nah-hah, very interesting how you use that in mock-ups. You have… you… let’s mock up George and let’s mock up Bill; now, your preclear’s George. And uh… we’ve got George and Bill out there in front in two mock-ups. And we have George picking up Bill and throwing him out the window and George picking up Bill and dumping him down the chimney and George picking up Bill and busting his face in. And George has been mighty worried about this guy, Bill, but now you have this mock-up and you give him a real workout.

And you say, „All right. The next time I do this, next time I do this, let’s make sure; let’t prove that that body can actually feel pain.“ It could; he jumped.

See, one of the reasons mock-ups are beneficial is because a mock-up is not an imagined action. In the past, an individual sometimes worked this out in imagination. He would think of what he would have done to Bill and he’d… and so on. And then he keeps halting from it and says, „Oh, well, I couldn’t of uh… t mean, people would’ve interfered with that, but there… I’d sure get some satisfaction out of wringing the guy’s neck. I’d just love to wring the guy’s… but I… I just couldn’t do that.“

He said, „Isn’t that an interesting game.“ So he went down the line and instead of changing people’s dogs, he went down the line. And started to prove to people that they could feel pain.

He’s really in agreement with the MEST universe. He’s imagining it, which is entirely different than mock-ups. Imagination’s one thing; mock-up is something else. He really is putting a picture out in front of him in space which has dimension with which he is doing something. That’s a mock-up. And an imagined thing is just vague and I guess.

And the motto of this universe could be, amongst all other mottos that it has, „Prove it.“ Every time you can prove it, then… then there’s a difference between rightness and wrongness, you see, and a fellow can be uh… disqualified if he doesn’t uh… Well, of course there’s no disqualification except to demonstrate to him his stupidity. And you demonstrate to him his stupidity by making him being proud of being gullible. So, if he was very proud of being gullible, then he could da… demonstrate it to him that he was stupid. But then he’d decide not to be stupid by accepting your agreement and agreeing to it. And then you could have pain. Boy, was that valuable! And after that you pulled your dogs down out of the ceiling. And he went around… all around the neighborhood, you know, around the various other little patches of this or that that existed, and proved to everybody. And the next time somebody came back, you say, „I’m gonna hurt you, if you leave those… if you don’t leave those dogs alone.“

Now, they… so therefore the two actions are not the same. We… we don’t have… we actually have action taking place in time and space, and if it’s really done well, it’s all pegged down with anchor points. And you’ve got actual images which are taking their action out there, and they’re going through this action. And you have a flow interchange in the mock-ups, but you don’t have to have a heavy flow action.

„Oh, don’t do that,“ he says. „Don’t do that. I’m not disobeying the rules.“

As you interchange this flow in the mock-ups, do you know that the basic energy pattern of your preclear shifts? You can put… you can put a detecting meter – not an E-Meter, but a… a meter which detects flows and ridges around your preclear – and put several points out here and tune them in selectively as he runs mock-ups, and what do you find? You’ll find out that every time you reduce the size of the mock-up and bring it down to a very solid, small object, that the ridges move in on him. You can see the ridges move in. And when you put… give him larger area, reverse-scale mock-ups which are going up tone scale and you’re working up tone scale and so on, the fellow’s ridges start to move out for him. In other words, your preclear is getting better off. You want those ridges out, you don’t want them in.

And he didn’t care, and so you say, „All right. I… all right.“ And then he’ll treacherously make your dogs go and walk up in the sky anyhow.

All right. So there is an actual flow takes place with this mock-up situation. You’re really not just using up energy and all that sort of thing. What you’re doing is shifting postulates contained in the middle of effort by demonstrating that the effort is ineffectual. There’s a lot of explanations for this; there’re a lot of reasons why mock-ups work, and they’re all good, solid reasons. They’re electronic reasons and they’re postulate reasons and there’s causation reasons and everything else. And a mock-up done right will relieve any kind of a situation.

And you’ll say, „Damn these people and these dogs! I mean, they… they just keep… won’t leave my dogs alone!“ So you blow his head off, and he has to go to all the trouble of mocking up a new head, but he felt pain when he did it.

But we have, he’s… George has been mad at Bill for a long time and here he… you’ve got him bashing Bill’s head in and all of a sudden he goes ‘nyahr’. Boil-off. Well, you try to do it just a little bit more, mmm… boom. ‘What’s wrong? Well, you’ve… you’ve beat up Bill beyond the point that uh… Bill deserved it, really. Ah… what you’ve got to do now is have Bill turn around and knock the hell out of that body out there you’re calling George, and have the preclear thrown out the window and bashed in the head and dropped down chimneys and… and increased in size and decreased in size and smashed down to a small, little statue and have pins stuck in it by… by Bill.

And he says, „Yes, you see, I’m really in this game, because you see, I arrived.“

Now, this might be very indigestible to George, your preclear; he might not like this, but after a while he doesn’t give a damn what George does to that body. And uh… if you kept that up too long – if this was really a tough situation, a real tough situation, extended over many years – you would find that your preclear, if you started beating up George, the preclear, out there in front, what do you know? The preclear would eventually boil off. He’s eventually start going ‘nyahr… bong; swoop, thud’. And you’d pick him up again. Now what’s happened? Now, Bill has beaten up George too long.

Now, one of the… it’s gotten to a point where one of the tests of being human is: Can one feel pain? That’s right; that’s right. One of the tests of being human is can he feel pain. One of the things that really worries people… you’ll get people walk into hospitals, doctor comes in and says, „Now, let’s see. What is your ability, what’s your sensitivity in various areas of the body? All right, let’s…“ Sticks you with pins and so forth, and s… all of a sudden, he finds a place where you don’t feel any pain. Feels an area in the back; there’s usually an area in the back that does. He thinks this is unusual; he only finds it in practically every patient he tests.

Now, of course you, as the auditor, in auditing can go ahead very neatly and to that extent agree with the laws of flows. You… you could just override the laws of flows and maybe it would be better, maybe, if you did. There is no compulsion on your part, just because your preclear starts to boil, to go ahead and do something about it. Maybe your preclear, if you kept on having George beat up Bill ad infinitum, it’d… might… might work right on out, and eventually he says, „Well, to hell with it. I don’t even need to boil off over this! So the guy’s a skunk. I don’t care. And… we… he’s dead and gone. I don’t care what happens to him.“

But uh… he… he says, he’s carrying the mission right along, boy; he’s doing that good. And uh… he says uh… „Oh, that’s an anesthesed area.“

Or, „Ha, ha, ha. I hit him in the head again.“ Uh… you… you… you’re not… remember, you’re not trying to agree with the physical universe; you’re trying to disagree with it. But in… within these limits, a preclear who is having a little bit of a rough time, something like that, you just shift the personnel around and you will find out that you’re working the situation out. You see, there’s just so many reasons why George should beat up Bill and all of a sudden you’ve flipped those things out as postulates. Now George doesn’t have any further reason to beat up Bill, but Bill is left there with all kinds of reasons why he should knock the hell out of George.

And the fellow says, „I’ve got an anesthesed area; I can’t feel pain in it.“ So he thinks if he can’t feel pain, he can’t feel anything. Naturally, he wants to feel sensation, so he has to feel pain, too, so let’s get that area alive! That’s the thing to do.

Now, if you just quit the session at this point and you just left it at that, why, uh… what do you know? It’ll sh… it doesn’t necessarily, ‘cause you could carry this situation along to a point where the preclear just abandoned the whole species of computation. I mean, you could just beat this thing to death, „Wrong Way To Corrigan“, fly it backwards and run up against the gods and kick ‘em in the teeth and blam ‘em over the head. That doesn’t matter if you do that. I’m just giving you the mechanics of what happens. It’s not mandatory to go ahead and obey this DED-DEDEX proposition at all. But you want to know what’s happening to your preclear, I’m telling you.

And sure enough, the track of agreement dictates that law. When a person is below 4.0, if he he can’t feel pain, he can’t feel anything. If he can’t feel pleasure, he can’t feel pain. If he can feel pleasure, he feels pain. You get the identification between those two waves and two ideas and two agreements? Shouldn’t be identified at all. A fellow should be able to go out and feel unlimited quantities of endless pleasure without ever once feeling a slightest twinge of pain. Why, there’s no reason why he couldn’t! It is… there is no such thing as the Emersonian Law of Compensation, fortunately for us all! A-uh!

Very simple. You just… you get the flows going… the flow goes overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward… snore – boil-off. You get up… get him up and you boot him around and shake him up and say, „Come on, come on, let’s get some coffee down you and get going here.“ And uh… more overt act toward Bill, more boil-off.

These guys that go around and try to make up new agreements in… in the substance of… saying „No, look. It all works out for the best in this best of all possible universes, and it’s all for the best in this best of all possible universes,“ didn’t know about agree and have and not… and disagree and not have, simultaneously. They just didn’t know about that, they didn’t see lying right underfoot the dirtiest little trap that ever existed, because this all pulls the whole thing into a mass, and is designed to make a solid object. All of that contradictory flow business winds up as a solid object.

Well, you don’t have to explain to your preclear what’s happening. You just turn around and you just have Bill… change the bodies around. You don’t want to use actual bodies any more than you have to. Use something else. It’s… it’s always preferable.

So, as your preclear grows older and older and older, you have a harder and harder time running incidents on him. It just gets almost impossible with a very old person to run a single incident. You just take the case and you start to run this single incident, and the bulk of the cases that you try this on, they just can’t do it; they’re solid.

The insouciance, really, of setting up this magnificent creature, Father, and then giving him a donkey’s ears and then changing ‘em off to a rapwoof’s ears. What’s a rapwoof’s ears? That’s up to the preclear. And then having father… then having father pregnant and uh… just change around the real universe, and so on, and you’ll find out that to the degree that you do that, as strange as it may seem to you, the more successful it is.

What you should do, you see, is work on space and work on reversing the cycle of action till you get ‘em up curve a little bit, and all of a sudden all this loosens up. It doesn’t matter much how old they are; you can do this.

It’s more successful to beat up Papa, who has uh… uh… a rupwuf’s ears and uh… is wearing uh… a St. Patrick’s Day hat and uh… snow shoes and has the body of a goatwuffer (that being a special kind of goat which grows in the 81st Universe) – it’s more successful to wham the dickens out of that mock-up than it is to take Papa’s body and mock it up, because, you see, Papa probably should’ve looked like, to the preclear, like he looks. The preclear was forced to look at Papa the way the MEST universe said he looked at Papa.

But it takes a little more time. But the identification level, it’ll come down to a solid object. If you can feel pleasure you can feel pain. And if you didn’t have pain, you’d have no contrast so that you could feel pleasure. What the hell do you need a contrast for so you can feel pleasure?

All right. Uh… there isn’t any reason why he should look at Papa that way. He says, „That’s Papa; that’s good enough.“ Well, you know, sometimes your preclear can be very original and once in a while you’ll find a preclear doing this.

I sure know when I’m feeling pleasure. It happens to be utterly true that when you are in horrible condition, your GE is all worn out and your body’s all drooping and you’ve been doing something for a long time and… and something like that, that any comfort and so forth is about eight times as welcome. You’re about 20 times as… as thirsty for a pleasure, because it’s been so long since you’ve had one. That’s all. And the reason for that is… is because you know that’s true.

„All right. I’ve got a mock-up. It’s completely empty space; that’s Papa.“

And… and the actuality is, the… the fellow has a jaded appetite. Oh, I don’t know; he’d been running around the stewpots and… and helling around and raising the devil and with sensation and all that sort of thing he finally got to a point where, well, and everything jaded, bored, so on. He had nothing left to live for, really. Oh, boy. Think of the number of moralists that have been hanging on that guy’s shoulders saying, „If you drink, you are going to get a hobnailed kidney.“ I would love to have somebody show me a hobnailed kidney sometime; I’d use it to fix my boots with for my mountain climbing.

No, don’t say, „Get a mock-up,“ and get him all… Let him work with a completely empty space. That’s… that’s really… see? Nothing there. You’ve got other things there; there’s other props around, other mock-ups around and so forth, but he just insists on an empty space for Papa. Well, that’s all right. Have him turn the space blue or put some blue light in it once in a while and move it around.

But uh… uh… he says, „You shouldn’t hell around and have a good time with women, because that’s scarcity; it’s all got to be scarcity, and it has… if there’s no scarcity, I can’t sell it to you.“ I didn’t mean that in relationship to women. Uh… I was talking about… about anything in the MEST universe. If something has no scarcity, the law of supply and demand (which is a law, really is a law; it’s a law that works for anybody that has anything to sell) uh… he enforces that law. The law of supply and demand.

You’ll find out that’s quite a trick, by the way, handling empty space and knowing it’s there and then knowing it’s not there. Nothing to tell you. That’s really good; that really takes a good preclear.

He says, „Now, look. You’ve got to have a demand, and the reason you’ve got to have a demand is not because you have to have a demand but because I have to supply it.“ So any time you have a demand to supply, you’ve got to sell the idea in reverse that there’s gonna be a demand for it. You can actually go into advertising and logic and everything else and tell people, and there isn’t a real good, big, observable demand. Really, even… even advertising done by J. Walter Thompson uh… would possib… wouldn’t… wouldn’t possibly sell a product.

All right. Then your DED-DEDEX action results in boil-offs. And if you want to solve these boil-offs, you reverse it and run the thing the other way to. He’s beat up Bill too long, have Bill beat up George. Have this sort of thing taking place and it’ll work out. But, with an additional proviso, there is no reason under the sun why you’ve got to play it off on a DED-DEDEX.

Actually advertising, trying to advertise these demands into shape, has only a small degree of success. The law of supply and demand is based on the law of scarcity, and if you want to settle supply and demand, whether it has to do with the inflation-deflation of money, all of these various principles and so forth, you could break down the whole field of economics very easily. Economics is not a serious study; it’s a rather humorous study. You start looking at inflation: Why do you have inflation? You have inflation because there’s too much money and too few things to buy. Too much scarcity, in other words. And when you have deflation, that is when you have too many things to buy and not enough money to buy ‘em with. That’s interesting, isn’t it?

Now, your overt act motivator situation is quite different than a DED-DEDEX situation in that there’s very little blame or upset, really, in an motivator-overt act. So he got his own head knocked off, so he went down the street and he took this dear old lady and knocked her head off. Well, he had a perfectly good right.

When I think of old FDR and Harry Hopkins and his aide Stalin and… that wasn’t on that staff. Uh… Harry Hopkins was in Moscow, that’s right, I made an error. Uh… and they… they get all this, and we’ve got to boondoggle and we’ve got to… got to put everybody on relief and then fix ‘em up when they’re on relief so they can’t work for themselves, and as long as they’re on relief, they’re… got to be complete slaves to the government so they won’t work, and… and uh… let’s take away all the self-respect we can take away and then not give him anything, and then tell him the thing to do is to be taken care of. Now, let’s see. Freedom from, that’s a new idea. We’ll give him freedom from everything.

And you say, „Don’t you feel sorry about that?“

And uh… they go along the line… they created practically a socialist state ahead of its time. The US was no more right to be a welfare state – it just wasn’t. And so they dreamed up all these horrible pump-priming things, and so on. The truth of the matter was, there were too many goods and there was too little money with which to buy them.

And he says, „No,“ he says, „I don’t feel sorry about that.“ „Why don’t you feel sorry about that?“

Of course, don’t let anybody on over on Wall Street hear that.

„Well, I got my own head knocked off once.“

‘Cause, you see, the way you have to create money, that’s pretty arduous. Somebody on Wall Street gets a… has a big ledger, and that has to do with the Federal Reserve Bank, which is a private company which prints all of your money, because it says in the Constitution only the US can print money. By the way, are those… those two statements disconnected? Well, they shouldn’t be. It’s all a legal country, and it’s in the MEST universe; it all goes right into and travels in agreement perfectly, all of the way along the line. Everything works out in this best of all possible worlds.

That’s justice in this universe. It’s logical, you see. Cause-effect, cause-effect. Don’t try to run it effect-cause, effect-cause. Uh-uh. That… that’s all wrong way to. Uh… and what you’re trying to do with DED-DEDEX, you see, is run it effect to a cause, and that’s just all wrong. So, your… your overt act-motivator situation, the act is… happens to the preclear and then he does it to somebody else. He really doesn’t worry about that, not very much.

That’s a fact. It says in the Constitution that only the US can create money, and your money is printed by a private company known as the Federal Reserve Bank. That’s not a US institution. The US owns some stock in it, that’s about all.

So uh… overt act-motivator situation. However, the same thing will happen on this boil-off. If you run more of an overt act than you run motivators you will get again a condition of grogginess resulting, so… because incident for incident, you’re really handling flows. And there is what you would call the whole flow of a DED, as opposed by the whole flow of a DEDEX; and the whole flow of a motivator opposing the whole flow of an overt act. You see, that’s… that’s… that’s whole flows, by incident. Your whole incident is one… one flow; you… you could say that, you see? It isn’t. That incident is composed of many, many flows, but you could break it down into these gross packages of, „This is an incident that is outgoing: it’s overt.“ And „This is an incident that is incoming: it is a motivator.“ And „This is an incident that’s outgoing: it’s a DED.“ And „This is an incident that is a… it’s incoming: therefore it’s a… a DEDEX.“ You see?

Well, anyhow, they write in a big ledger and they write in a big ledger 8 billion dollars, and then they send this down to Washington: „We’ve just written in a ledger 8 billion dollars,“ and Washington says, „Oh, you have? Oh, goody, goody, goody!“ And… and… and they get a whole bunch of certificates and these are stock certificates of some sort or another, and they fire them back immediately to New York and they order them in New York and they look at these certificates and they say, „Now… now, we have been loaned this much money. Now we’re gonna give this money; now we have the right.“ And so they send these back to Washington and then… then they… they print up all this money.

So, your motivator and DEDEX are incoming incidents and your… your overt act and your DEDs are outgoing incidents. Your overt act is an allowable, in the law of justice (which everybody has agreed upon); under the laws of justice, it is allowable to do an overt act. Under the laws of justice, it is not allowable to do a DED. No provocation, no motivation for an act. And the facsimiles will sit that way.

I… I hope you’re following me. Nobody, since Alexander Hamilton dreamed up this horrendous scheme, has been able to follow it. Any time you see hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper, books and so forth, written trying to explain the banking system of the US, you know they aren’t showing where they argufy and spewdify. There’s a dog in the machinery there someplace.

So, the overt act is a whole motion out and the DED is a whole motion out. Just the intention of the action is outward, even though it has a lot of internal flows. You get how this would be. Now, your DED and… any of the rest of ‘em, overt act, DED, uh… overt, all contain a complexity of flows, and all that monitors this is what is the average of flow in the incident.

Well, there’s just a question of flows. That’s all it is. All they had to do, actually, is when… when guys have lots of money they’d like a deflation so they can buy hamburger for 10 cents a pound. Then that makes them have more money. So that’s a very simple trick, you see? Guys who have money don’t want money created and the guys who have money don’t have any wants anyway so there’s no pressure on the thing. „Let ‘em eat cake.“ Same philosophy: Marie Antionette. „Oh, they are starving for bread? Well let them eat cake.“

Well, the average flow in the motivator, it has more inflow than it does outflow. You know, here’s a fellow, he’s standing there and somebody hits him in the head with a stone ax, and there’s a lot of inflow there. So it makes the whole incident an inflow incident. It’s predo… it’s dominated, the incident is dominated by inflow or it’s dominated by outflow. And then you can treat the whole incident as one.

Uh… meantime, big humanitarian principles going around; we all give ‘em all freedom from. All they had to do was turn their damn printing presses on and throw some money out so that you could buy the existing commodity. That’s all. There has to be a dollar in existence in currency for every dollar of item to be purchased, minus the bank credits outstanding because of checking accounts. Now, you… just works out. I mean, it’s too simple.

This is… you understand that there’s a number of flows involved in every single action. The swing of that stone ax hitting his head, the swing of the ax itself, is a complexity of flows, and I’ll show you how many here in a moment. There’s an exact number of flows. Now, any flow is an exact number.

When that varies and you have two dollars of currency existing for every dollar’s worth of commodity to be bought, you have a condition known as inflation „which is very dangerous, and which is solved by you denying yourself.“ Silly isn’t it?

All right. So, what does this add up to? This adds up to the fact that… that a guy’s whole track can be too many motivators and not enough overts. What kind of a guy do you find this fellow? He’s overt as hell. He’s got all this inflow and he’s trying to get rid of it. And he goes around and he, just for no reason at all, he’s mean and he kicks little babies in the crib and… and… and he’s just ornery and… and so on.

And if you have a deflationary situation, it’s because there’s only 50 cents there to buy a dollar’s worth of currency. Do you know that this town, one time, in the days of old Ben Franklin, was almost ruined? It was in a terrible state of affairs. The Crown wouldn’t issue any money, and the doggonedest system of trade was existing between Phila… Philadelphia and the backwoods. They didn’t have any money; the Crown wouldn’t send any money over here.

And somebody says to him, somebody says to him, „Well, I think… I think your grandma is a good… good old lady, nice old lady. She’s always nice.“

So Franklin and the rest of the boys finally turned some out (he was a good printer) uh… and the situation resolved itself. There was all kinds of commodity and there was no Crown money with which to buy it. Inflation – deflation.

„Yeah. I’d like to strangle the old bat!“ You know?

Now, you get then that flows have a tendency in this universe to equalize, but in the process of equalizing, they compact; they make their space smaller. Now, the reason why this is is because a flow – particles and so forth – as a flow continues, the space in which it is flowing is seldom increased. New thought for you.

He’s running… he’s, actually, he’s a fairly safe guy to have around, if the truth be told. He’s really… he’s really safer than the other one. Why? He’s quite outspoken about it. He… he’s… he’s got an enormous reserve of motivators. He’s got all this big reserve of motivators and he’s all… got ‘em cocked there like… like crossbows. And uh… they’ll fly out in the fellow’s face, but there’s really… he can be at a lower band on the thing and have too many uh… he’d be real down in the band and still have too many motivators, only the balance has shifted again and… and… be only covert in getting rid of his motivators. He’s… he’s not safe; he’s… he’s kind of dangerous.

You’ve got a space here that’s 8 feet by 8 feet; it has 8 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet and it has two men in it. And one of them has a little handy jim-dandy emanator ray pistol, see? And he fires at the other man. The space does not increase, and yet you have into existence suddenly a lot of brand – new particles. It isn’t old particles splattering out; I mean, he’s making new motion, new particles, and it’s going into 8 feet.

Uh… but uh… there’s… see, there’s a harmonic action here. You… we have… we have a guy way up scale and he’s got all these motivators, and they came around and they burned his castle and they did this to him and he became a bandit; and now that he’s a bandit, God help anybody. Boy, has he got a lot of motivators.

Now, they’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. And they’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. They’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. But he’s still… he’s not handling time very well and he’s not handling flows very well. What happens? That 8 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet starts to get the pictures of more and more particles in it and the shadows of particles in it and more particles in it and more particles in it, and it gets solider and solider and solider and solider.

And they say about Jesse James, the railroad drove him out and busted up the old folks and that sort of thing. It’s probably true, because the guy essentially wasn’t a badman. He just was mad at railroads and he was mad at bankers, and he sure did take it out on ‘em. And it says something, that his entire area and the whole country, actually, was all on the side of Jesse James. Everybody was on his side. And it took a banker and… and a guy who was glory-hungry to shoot him in the back.

Now, just because transactions continue to be undertaken in the United States of America (at least somebody calls them business transactions; they’re laughingly called that), uh… the Federal Reserve Bank writes in this ledger and it forwards a stock or a bond or something to Washington and then it forwards some currency back and then it’s issued, and so on.

Uh… but the point is that uh… everybody goes all out for that kind of a bandit. Why? They realize that he’s… he’s just operating on too many motivators, that’s all. And he’s got all these overt acts and they did it to him, and so it’s a sense of justi… justice, this time, is running away from the police! I mean, it’s going the opposite direction. And people say, „Yup, that was just. Sure. Robin Hood and all that sort of thing.“ And people recognize it.

By the way, did you ever look into your pocketbook and… and… and find out that the money you had is not redeemable? The silver dollars are and there’s some fives that are – they say „silver certificate“ – and the rest of the money says „Federal Reserve Bank.“ Hasn’t got anything to do with the US Government except the US Government permitted it to be published, and that’s backed up at the Federal Reserve Bank.

They say, „Well, the reason why uh… so-and-so was a bad man and so on was because…“ And now they give a long list of personal injuries which he himself suffered. For instance, Billy the Kid, who had had lots of good friends, and he had this kind of a reputation. He’d had a lot of bad things happen to him when he was a little kid. And uh… truth told, Billy the Kid couldn’t do anything wrong, really, in the public eye.

And, it says right there, very clearly, that in return for it, that it’s legal tender and it’ll be enforced by the bayonets of the United States and… if you don’t take it, and the Federal Reserve Bank at any time will give you Federal Reserve Bank paper for it. Isn’t that fascinating? It… it sort of says… sort of says, „As long as we have bayonets and as long as we have a government, we’ll have money.“ It says it doesn’t have any dependency on much of anything else. Money depends upon force which can be directly applied for its consumption, plus agreement to take it.

And yet this fellow… this fellow was… he… he… was so overt act happy that he came up to a ditch one day where there was a couple of Mexicans digging the ditch – you see, he never counted Mexicans. No… no… no… no telling how many Mexicans Billy the Kid killed. He killed 21 white men, but Lord knows how many Mexicans, ‘cause he… this incident like this. He comes up to the ditch and there’s a couple of Mexicans there digging the ditch, and he just simply draws and shoots ‘em dead. His pal wanted to know „What’s… what’s the matter with you? What’s… what you doing that for?“

Sometimes you turn the bayonets loose on people, you s… you don’t believe agreements are higher? You can turn bayonets loose on people and they still won’t take money. They did that in Italy. The US laughingly, all this „freedom from“ dopiness, wound up practically in a revolution that lost us all of Italy in spite of the battle gains. It had a sheath of wheat on it, the money that was being published and sent over there – „freedom from want“ money – and by God, there was not a… there was not a kernel of wheat to be bought; that money could not buy wheat. And it was just because they put wheat on the money, it was just that upsetting, and nobody could spend the money for anything.

„Oh, I don’t know. If they didn’t do anything, they would have done it.“

The only way you got anybody to work for anybody was to feed ‘em; and you’d give your laborers chow, they’d work. And you let them take home a little chow to their families, they’d work a lot harder. So that was the way they got paid, commodity, because the money was no good; nobody’d take that money. It didn’t matter how many bayonets you’d called out, this big sheath of wheat mockingly stamped on the back of these lire notes prohibited its exchange. People knew they couldn’t buy wheat with it; they knew they couldn’t buy bread with it. So therefore, Italy was without money. Give you some kind of an idea.

So, as irrational as this may seem, justice shifts over very easily into the lap of the outlaw, and what he does then is… is justice, just because he’s… he’s… he’s motivator-rich, which means he’ll… he’ll indulge now in overt acts.

So the agreement is always higher than force. And you look all through this MEST universe and you’ll find that to be the case: the agreement is higher than force. The MEST universe hates to admit it though. They try to use force to back up agreements, but actually, unless there was a real agreement existing between two contracting parties, not all the courts and all the force in God’s creation can make that agreement come true, if there was no real agreement. If one of the guys was sitting there saying, „I’ll sort of hook this contract around here, and I don’t intend to live up to it,“ and so forth, it wasn’t a contract. I don’t care how much paper it was written on or anything else. You could write it on paper and fight for it in the courts and the courts can enforce it and pass judgments and phooey!

Now he goes down tone scale and he does a lot of these and he does more, really – just in terms of sheer quantity, arithmetical quantity – he does more overt acts now than he has motivators to account for it, so naturally some of them become DEDs. Now, instead of doing overt acts he’s doing DEDs. He’s used up the bank; he has done more… more things TO other people than have been done to him, so now he’s in a situation where whatever he does is a DED, not a deserved action. He’s used up his credit.

It won’t exist and it… finally, you wind up, there’s nothing there but enMEST. It’s a horrible mess, because there was no agreement existed in the first place. All the force in the world couldn’t make it come true. And if the force was used to make it come true, then we got laws of flows: that which was acquired was not worth having.

Something like some fellows in Scientology: they had… lots of ‘em had lots of justification for doing lots of the things, because I’m a pretty mean, ornery guy. But they’ve used up their credit.

You saw an example of this right in Dianetics and Scientology. Somebody didn’t live up to an agreement, and all of a sudden there wasn’t any agreement there. Force was used and force was used and duress was used and duress was used. All we wound up with was some enMEST and they’re still sitting there wondering what happened to ‘em.

And uh… well, now, let’s look at it the other way around now. What happens when he gets too many DEDs? Well, he’ll really rig it in such a way that he’ll sooner or later get a DEDEX. And one day he’s out and this little Mexican boy hits… hits Billy the Kid with a beanshooter – too many DEDs by this time – and he says, „Ow, ow, ow, what a terrible bruise. How I am injured. Uh… oh, my. Look what’s happened to me. Look how terrible this thing is.“ What he’s saying is, „Yes, I know I’ve done too many DEDs. Don’t punish me any more, because look, this beanshooter did all the punishment that I deserve. Heh, heh.“ Nobody else looks at it that way.

All right. Now… agreement is always senior to the flow, but when a person gets immersed down in courts, for instance, he knows he’s being affected by flows. And the more flows flow in an area, the more particles are… could be said to be in that area, and the solider it gets, therefore the less space there is per unit particle. Remember, what we’re talking about is space per unit particle.

So there he is; all of a sudden he’s sitting way down tone scale from where he was before. Now, you get neurasthenia, uh… hypochondria, uh… all sorts of weird manifestations, uh… you… for instance, you ever look at a preclear and ever have… the preclear obviously is not in bad shape at all. Obviously, they don’t even have a bad headache uh… or anything of the sort, and they keep saying, „Oh, my head. My headache bothers me so and this bothers me so and this… my,“ says, „my big toe. I have cuticura or something,“ and uh… uh… so on.

If you were as big as from here to the moon, what do you think you’d be worried about of the number of ridges which surround the MEST body which you have now? It’d be space per unit particle. You’d have to search awfully hard in the space between here and the moon in order to find that body. You’d have to search with microscopes, believe me, till you finally had located this body, and so on. And as far as those ridges were concerned, its ridges would be very, very thin.

And you start healing up this thing and healing up that thing, and they… they go out and they bark their shins and they… they’re just very, very DEDEX hungry. They have a thirst for DEDEXes. They’ve got to have things happen to ‘em because they’ve used up their credit.

Now, if you expanded these ridges out to fit you, what do you suppose the density of ‘em would be? Why, good God! You could fly an airplane… you could fly a spaceship at thousands of miles a second through the thing without ever collecting any dust on it, these ridges that you’re worried about, and so forth, that sit around and prohibit you from getting out of your body. I’m just giving you the relative viewpoint in space, the relative viewpoint of anchor points.

This simply, if you understood banking uh… elementary banking or elementary bookkeeping, you would have a complete command of this type of exchange and interaction. It’s just a matter of credits and debits. He… he’s done too many things, therefore he’s in debt, and he has to be paid. So they pay him.

You get your anchor points away… you… you got your anchor points real up close and said that was from here to Jupiter, you of course would be that much bigger. It’s an awfully simple problem.

Well, he’ll go out and pay himself if nobody else’ll pay him. There will be guys… these guys are dangerous. They’ll all of a sudden show up in the middle of the road asking to be run down. They will find it so impossible to get paid adequately that they have to practically kill themselves and take you with them. And they’ll come around and they’ll… they’ll stand right straight in front of you and say, „Yap, yap, yap,“ and you look at ‘em a moment and you get very puzzled.

You say, „All right. My anchor points are here and here, and the distance from here to here is the distance from here to the sun. And the distance from here to here is the difference to… the distance to the outer orbit of Pluto.“ And if you just shut your eyes and visualize that as your anchor points, you’ll feel crowded, but you’ll feel that big.

You say, „Aren’t you aware of the fact that if you continue to stand there and continue to say the things you’re saying, you’re gonna get your silly head knocked off.“

That’s why you get an action cycle, is per unit space: you get more and more particles, so it gets more and more solid, so it finally winds up to be an object. Therefore, where flows take place and space is not increased accordingly, you get solidity. and as solidity continues, the flows which go through have more and more conductivity: they can go through old flows, they can go through old particles, they start multiplying. They will actually for a long time gather in force. They will transmit and act as conductors of force, because they’re force.

And the guy says, uh… „Well, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap…“ Pow!

So therefore, you wonder why at length somebody down in the street can drop a pencil and you start like mad: it’s because you have a very, very close conductivity of the force of impact of the manhole cover, or what it… whatever it is down in the street, hitting you. It’s being conducted through actual, solid relatively solid matter – which isn’t solid, really, compared to air, but is solid enough to act as an optimum conductor. Therefore, it can drive you into action.

And what do you know? He gets up and he says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap“ some more. This is a weird one. This is… this is… this is really beyond belief. So you take the guy and… and he says, „Yap, yap, yap“ some more, so you take a club. You fracture his skull. He goes to the hospital, he’s non compos mentis for a while, he comes back. The next time he sees you he goes, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ Boy, he has found a source of payment. He’s not going to leave you alone. And the bigger and more important you are, the better your reputation is and so forth, the better that payment is. Isn’t that interesting?

Furthermore, that mass itself goes into action, and there you have the reactive command level of engrams at work. You inc… increase conductivity in the space.

So he’s gonna come around… so your poor old gunman back in the early days, good God, they always had some damn fool standing up in the bar and saying, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ And the fellow said, „If you say that once more, you’d better start grabbing leather.“

All right, we’ll fire a pistol in a vacuum. If this room were a vacuum and I fired the pistol, the sound won’t travel through the vacuum. But as you get particles in the room, more and more particles in the room, that sound begins to travel more and more clearly until, if the room were made of solid… if it were fluid, completely fluid, as in water, boy, that pistol fired would really deafen you. Now, that’s another example of this.

And the fellow says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap,“ and pulls out his gun and hi.“… the gunman watches him pull the gun out of the holster, cock the thing, level it, and then the gunman shoots him between the eyes. I mean, paw! He draws and fires.

Now, you wonder why electronic flows can exist in force. They set themselves up an ion beam and then they flow on the ion beam. They actually make paths of particles. And you… you’re traveling with a wave length which can go through paths of particles. Don’t think that this whole folderol and nonsense about ether ever existed or ever will exist. To say empty space is empty and then there’s ether in it was the silliest theory anybody ever got ahold of. Empty space is empty, and when you put an electrical beam through it, an electrical beam has sufficient potential in the formation of particles that it can then thereafter throw the particles out there and then conduct on ‘em.

He’ll say, „Can’t understand it. The guy wasn’t a fast draw; I didn’t do anything to him… I’ve only been in town an hour; I haven’t stepped on any toes; I don’t know a friend he has…“ And yet there he lies dead. It’s completely baffling. And the gunman feels a little bit silly about it. He… he feels upset. He’s been made to use one of his credits.

Furthermore, space is just full of particles. Oh, it’s… it’s… it’s just stuffed, MEST universe space. The MEST universe is not only expanding, they hope, but it’s getting more and more solid, more and more solid and more and more solid all the time. That’s because flow, flow, flow, flow, flow.

So, now, this fellow who comes home from the hospital with a fractured skull, he’ll fracture his skull again, and he’ll still „yap, yap, yap.“ So there’s just no curing him of this till all of a sudden one day, you’ll just ruin him. ‘Course, he’s ruined you, too. But you’ve just ruined him utterly and he appears to be very happy.

Now, your preclear gets more and more solid, more and more solid. He flows and flows. He thinks the best thing to do to overcome force is use force. So he gets a new flow and then he turns around and he adds a flow to that, and then a flow comes back at him and he adds a flow to that. And he’s believing thoroughly in flows, so he gets solider and solider and solider.

You say, „For Christ’s sakes. Now he’s not even going to take out any revenge. Now he’s happy. The hell with him!“

Then one day… one day you come along and you say, „Get rid of that ridge.“ Ho! Well, he kind of feels like calling up the three A’s and getting ahold of one of their rescue trucks with the big cranes on the back of it to come and lift that ridge. Yeah, it looks that big and solid and heavy to him. It’s just a collection of particles no longer in motion which serve to conduct particles.

What… what… what is this? This is the mechanism of life continuum; it’s another method of survival; it’s another method of borrowing identity. It adds up to this: If a person can make one do enough to him, then the person who does it to him has to do a life continuum for him, which is another method of making identity survive.

And therefore, a particle hits the ridge; it’s very easy for that particle to get to the preclear, because it’s just… it’s just zoom! It just goes straight on through. One of the fastest ways to concentrate and get electricity is to shoot it through copper. That’s why you have copper all the way through one of these machines. There isn’t any real reason why you couldn’t have that machine operating without a single wire. All you’d have to have is an intensity of flow and a wave length of flow which could travel in that wise. Nothing to that.

Now, let’s go over that again very slowly, because it’s quite important and it will explain a very strange thing about human behavior to you. It will render a lot of behavior comprehensible. And that is simply this: we have here a situation where your… your fellow’s life, let’s say, is going from point X over here across the line. And he gets along all right to there and then he starts taking a dive and he knows he’s not surviving. He has done too many DEDs; his credit is all worked out.

But uh… in order to use low-order energy, low-volume, low-order energy, uh… why – and direct it surely, without thinking about it and so on – why you of course put wires in. Let it flow along the wires, and you put it into tubes. It’s funny that the tubes have to operate in a vacuum, isn’t it? Uh… all sorts of partial vacuums, all sorts of things. You get a partial vacuum, you rarefy and condense with it, and they rarefy and condense, and they pour it along a wire and they condense it and they rarefy it, they make it do skips, and then they change its wave length and its quality, and throw it through a transformer, change its power output, and… and then so on. And by the time they’ve got through with the thing, they can make this stuff do practically anything. They can certainly make it hear and talk.

So he’s… he’s not gonna survive as his identity. He knows that he goes off and he gets knocked off between the between-lives area, these mannerisms his body has are cute, all these various things are sweet and nice and he doesn’t want to give these things up and he wants somebody to carry the ball. Now does he get somebody to carry the ball? He encourages somebody to do against him some DEDs, completely undeserved actions. There’s no… no deserved action at all.

Fortunately, there are easier ways to make it hear and talk, otherwise you would never be able to hear and talk.

If you were to look at a graph as in A, here, on the life continuum… I mean – pardon me – this is your cycle of action and it starts in at… at uh… this X over here and goes over here to X1; this is uh… start, that’s stop. This fellow might be… might be a wide-open case, he… he might apparently even be young, he might be in all manner of… of uh… you wouldn’t think he’d do this. But he, on his wide spiral, is right over here toward stop, he’s way over on the are. He’s over here at point B.

Uh… you take the spectrum of wave length… I wish I had a good spectrum of wave length worked out. I’ll have to write around and see if anybody has done any of this fundamental work. I… I seriously doubt they have; it’s too fundamental. What is the gradient scale of wavelengths? I s… I uh… worked these out once or twice, uh… sketching them over, but I haven’t seen a full, full rundown on gradient scale of wave lengths. What’s the biggest, grossest wave measured and how does this skin on down and get smaller and smaller and smaller?

And there he sits at point B and he knows he’s passing in his chips. Don’t be fooled because a body looks vital. The thetan and so forth may be on his last legs of the spiral, and you’ll get these strange, strange manifestations. And they become very unstrange the second you understand this particular line.

And certainly nobody has measured the speed of ‘em. Oh, this is wonderful. In engineering, do you know that they… they’re handling rockets all over the place and they’re thinking about spaceships and they’ve got liners uh… airliners now with jet motors and everything; you still go around to these projects and you say to the boys, „Have you got a table of orifice pressures?“ Orifice is the hole through which the flame comes.

So here he is up here in uh… figure 1, and he’s coming along here. This character in figure 1 is at point B on this spiral in figure 2, and he’s… too many, right here at this point, here, this point G; that would be called ‘too many DEDs’. He’s done too many DEDs. He’s also on his way out in other ways, mostly because he’s done too many DEDs. He’s used up all his credit.

And they say, „Um… well uh… what do you mean?“

Now, he’s got to accumulate a DEDEX, and he’s got to have somebody do a life continuum on him. Another method of survival; survival as self, survival as an identity. How does he get that identity to survive? He gets somebody to commit overt acts against him and DEDs against him because then they’ll have to do a life continuum for him.

And you say, „What is the optimum velocities for unit size of hole?“ Now, that’s a simple problem. You have a fire hose, you have a fire hose and uh… how do you make that fire hose kick the hardest? By making the hole smaller, make the orifice smaller for the unit of water that’s going to go through it? And you can finally rig it out, and you’re changing the orifice – that is to say, the hole through which the water’s coming – you can change that for the velocity of the fire hose so that it’ll practically knock you halfway down the block every time you turn on a fire hose. In other words, you can get propulsion out of a fire hose.

So, here you come over here, Y, and you come along this line and you’re just as happy as can be, and you’re… and so on. And your life cycle’s about here and you’ll get at this same span in time, and all of a sudden, this character shows up. And he stands there and he lets you knock his block off. And he falls down and you knock his block off again. And you say, „Look. For Christ’s sakes, be reasonable. If you keep that up, I am going to take your guts out and string ‘em 32 feet away and torture the other end.“

And if you were to change the velocity of the fire hose, you’d have to have a different size hole, wouldn’t you? Change the velocity of the water cooing through the fire hose, why, you wouldn’t have any kickback, so you’d have to adjust the hole again and what would you have for a new hole to kick you halfway down the block?

And he says, „I dare you to. You’re just looking for an excuse. You’re just being mean because… Uh… the trouble with you is, and people like you, that…“ Pow!

The firemen are interested in this, because they don’t… aren’t interested in being kicked halfway down the block. And they’re also interested in this, because they want the water to go as high as possible on a building, most pressure, and so on. I mean the most concentrated beam of water, beam of water, beam of any other kind of particle; there’s no real difference.

So you take him down to the torture chamber and you put him on the rack, and he’s even passing out, he’s still insulting you. But what happens to you, Mr. Y? What happens to you? From this point in time G, you go downhill, too, but you’re strong (which he knew anyhow) and you’re Mr. XY, or Mr. YX, from there on. See here? From point small ‘a’ to point G, why, you were Mr. Y, and from point G on over here to the end of time, you are Mr. YX. Your behavior and activities is modified by having to do a life continuum for this fellow. You’re expiating for his crimes, actually. And he makes you do crimes against him so that you’ll do a life continuum for him.

So what do you know? What do they tell you on these big fancy projects where they have the English professors working under the guise of engineers? What do they tell you? They say, „We use the same ones that we’ve been using.“ And you say, „You mean what ones?“ „Well, the fire hose tables, of course.“

Isn’t that neat? It’s… I mean, it’s just… there’re several methods of survival and one could be called, in figure 3 here, one could be uh… self plotted against time, and that’s many identities; and here could be uh… your other dynamics, your culture – and your culture’ll go also through many periods. And, then, in addition to that, you have uh… your uh… personal one-life self; that goes on through its cycle of action. And then you have your personal objects one-life; that goes on. And then, what do you know? You’ve got your life continuums on others. Life continuums, actually, for self by others.

You say, „My God, man, don’t tell me that you boys haven’t gotten an ‘ electronics flow table that tells you the proper pressure for the proper velocity yet?“

Now, a fellow’s always… always, these guys are always leaving wills, as though MEST objects had some importance. Oh, everybody’s always worrying, „Who’s going to inherit what and who’s going…“ He… all he’s saying is, „Who’s going to take care of these objects for me? Yeah, I’ve got to continue in survival through these objects.“ He’s saying here, uh… his personal one-life self is „Who cared for this body“ and „I cared for this body“ and now we’ve laid the body to rest; now we’ve got another one.

And then they’ll look kind of ashamed, because they’ll all of a sudden realize they must be talking to somebody uh… somebody that must’ve read something about it some time or another, and they’ll… they’ll… they’ll get sort of all… ill at ease, and they’ll say, „Well, I understand there’s a project that’s north of Los Angeles…“ Every project that never does anything is just north of Los Angeles, by the way. Um… um… „The… there’s a project there that is measuring all this.“ I heard that for about five years. If at this time somebody finally has figured out an orifice table of pressure, it’d be quite a surprise.

And then we’ve got a life continuum by others and we’ve got personal objects, one-life. And one of those personal objects is one’s name. Oh, you can… you can always get a rich man to in… to fix up some Mountains of the Moon or something of that sort on the strange feeling he has that you’re going to name a peak after him, and this makes his name survive. So that’s a survival of identity. His direction of survival: the great thirst for personal identity. The man… the man recognizes that he has an identity and he wants this thing passed along.

But understand that they’ve got planes flying through the air madly in all directions and they don’t know the optimum size of the hole that the flame should shoot through. Hah! Wonderful job… wonderful job of… of disagreeing with the MEST universe. WE’RE supposed to agree with the MEST universe; THEY’RE supposed to… I mean we’re supposed to DISAGREE with it and they’re supposed to AGREE with it, you see? And they shouldn’t be disagreeing with it; otherwise they’ll get processing done. They’ll get theta clears! Quick!

Identities have two uses: one of them is to group and label something and another one is to do a vicarious survival for somebody. The… the first one is working; the second one, of course, is just idiotic. I mean, a man’s name; that… that’s very a… very amusing, when you come to think about it, this name.

Just like they’re getting theta clears, right this minute: flame-outs. It never occurs to ‘em to fix up their pilots so all the pilot’s gott’ do is shoot a beam in there and light it again. They’d think that was a silly thing, until you did it one day.

You look back, past the past and you see this… you’re very impressed; you read the word Lucretius. Well, he’s probably named Johnny Jones today and uh… or he’s maybe a very smart guy down at Bell Labs, or something like that. He’s going along the line. And uh… yet, the only reason you’re really using the word Lucretius is not for any other reason than it’s an identification of a piece of work which keeps it identified as that piece of work; and as long as it is so identified it cannot be corrupted or confused with the work of uh… I don’t know, Pope Pius, or something. You see? So it’s a differentiative mechanism; it’s a label.

You see a barrel of fuel sitting there and you say, „Well, you could not only light a… something that had done… just done a flame-out; you could probably fix all kinds of things up about the plane this way. And therefore, it’s an optimum thing, and you ought to pay a hundred dollars a pilot in order to have this thing done,“ or something like that. „We’d make a good contract for you,“ and uh… so on. „You ought to do this.“

You uh… find that in making products all the time. You go down here and you get the… the Gee Whizzer Electric Company’s refrigerator. The truth of the matter is, it might be some good, but most of the time is, it’s NO good. There’s no real reason why the Gee Whizzer Refrigerator Company isn’t well-known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and that’s mainly because their refrigerators are lousy. And you go down here and you get a refrigerator which is a GE and you know their refrigerator’s going to sit there and go pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa; it’s gonna refrigerate.

They’d say, „Well, no uh…“ and so on. „How do we know?“ and so forth.

So, GE, that’s… that’s an identity of a great sprawling organization, and uh… it’s just a… it’s just there. Uh… it’s a label, however, which can extend over and identify and serve to differentiate for people, objects. It becomes a symbol for many things.

And you’d say, „Well, I’ll show you.“ Room! There goes their gas dump.

The word Lucretius becomes a symbol for these many things. So it identifies a piece of work. And as long as that piece of work is grouped under the word Lucretius, it’s like saying any other combinations of words. You could say it was an ‘anaten’ or a… an ‘alertopad’ or anything of the sort. But people have got this spooky notion about personal survival with regard to a name. That’s very weird.

Say, you know, I don’t think we ought to be doing this sort of thing. It might be dangerous. We’ve got to remember to protect the MEST universe. We haven’t any right to go around, this sort of thing. You shouldn’t use flows, anyhow. You know it’s bad to use flows; you mustn’t use force.

For instance, there’s been considerable insistence, continuous really insistence on my part that techniques developed and grouped under the heading of Dianetics and Scientology and so forth, well, they have my name on them. That’s very… very interesting. But you notice how this is… has uh… slowed down the squirrels. A piece of work was a piece of work. And look at the techniques which have existed in the field: those didn’t have my name on them. No time was spent on their research or they weren’t a body of data; some of ‘em were good, some of ‘em passable, and so forth.

When the cops come to arrest you, don’t draw a gun. When they rush up the steps, don’t knock ‘em all back flat at the bottom with a look. That’s not done. It is outside the rules, and so forth. They’re the only ones supposed to carry pistols and they’re the only ones that’re right. That’s right. So I’m just warning you that someday, when maybe Los Alamogordos blows up or something of the sort and somebody comes around to arrest you, please restrain yourself; don’t knock anybody down the steps simply by looking at them.

Well, we were sitting here with a body of data. I knew what I was doing: I was trying to get together a body of data. I wasn’t trying to make 8 million, 655 thousand bucks. Uh… I… I wasn’t trying to do a lot of other things. And then, of course, the joke of it is… is that… that although this body’s name is Hubbard, my name is not Hubbard. And probably nobody will ever know my name. And uh… it’s very amusing, when you come to think about it. It’s a jest.

Or don’t change an agreement that you’ve set up at the top of the steps that there’s a… a German tiger tank sitting there with 88’s.

But uh… once a person realizes that, he realizes some of this life continuum mechanism by others is so much… so much bazwaz. It’s… it’s just… it’s just an identified object. The guy… the guy goes over in the level… he’s pretty low tone scale when he does this. He gets way down tone scale and he goes around insisting that people do mean things to him. And then he’ll come around to you as an auditor and he’ll tell you all these mean things people do to him.

„Incredible!“

He… I know several… several rather risqué stories which I have heard at various places in space and on Earth, something about… „Are you bragging or confessing?“ Now, that’s… that’s very much to the point here. You want to look at this preclear when he comes in and tells you all the things wrong about him and how sad he is about these things; you want to look at him very, very closely and you want to say, „Are you bragging or confessing, Mister?“ He’s not confessing; he’s bragging.

All right. Flows, what’s the subject of flows? Flows proceed… flows flow from agreements. They don’t flow from the agreements; you just say they’re there and they’re there, and then after a while you say they’re dangerous and they’re dangerous. And then after a while you say, „There’s all kinds of them. They have great… great complexity and they follow certain rules and they have very great complexity and they follow certain rules.“ After that you say, „You couldn’t live without them.“ And then, „You couldn’t live without having things that have flows.“ That’s the damndest one. „You couldn’t live without having things that have flows,“ then you’ve put it out into an automaticity bracket, and then you say, „And those flows are so dangerous, you really don’t want too much to do with them,“ and then you go down more scale. Then „I have to have much more done for me,“ and then one day you say, „Ouch. My corns are hurting.“

He’s saying, „Look at all this. I’m… I’m fully… I’ve… I’m… I’m… I’ve got all these credits here and I’ve had all these dreadful DEDEXes done to me,“ and the only reason he’s talking about it is he knows he’s lying in his teeth. He really basically knows he’s telling you a big lie when he tells you how bad off he is and that he’s been adequately repaid for all of his sins. ‘Cause if he’d been adequately repaid, he would feel no compulsion to brag about it; he would simply go back on the new cycle of raising hell with a whole flock of DEDs and overts.

Is there anything… relation between these two things? Yes, sir. You mean you’ve set up flows and you’ve agreed there were flows and then you agree they hurt like hell and then you agree that all of this goes on down scale and finally you agree that you can’t handle ‘em too well. Somebody proved that to you. And uh… then somebody came along and you… Your level of flow handling is very low, believe me. And the number of unit particles begin to collect around you.

So when he comes in, what do you run on this guy? He’s got a headache, he’s got a footache, he’s got an earache, he’s got… he’s… he’s got lumbagosis of the medulla oblongata and he’s got a distortional uh… he’s got tortional G space uh… all through his arithmetical ability. And there he is, and you’re expected to straighten him out. And what he’s really saying is, „Look how bad off I am. I have to go see a practitioner. Yeah, I’m really bad off. Yeah, look what they drove me to. Shows that I paid, I paid and I paid. And I’m all paid up and look at all these credits I’ve got. Here I am sitting here being given Scientology.“

You see, you could just say, „All my flows are now in yesterday.“ If you just drilled on that, if you take mock-ups and put ‘em in yesterday and mock-ups and put ‘em in last week and mock-ups… and just get so you really knew those things… Mock ‘em up, put ‘em in; mock ‘em up, put ‘em in. Engrams shows up, you say, „That was in Tuesday. That was a… hey, what do you know?“ You’d have to be tough enough to disagree with the MEST universe, that’s all. And it’ll work. They’ll be in last week and they’ll be in last year and they’ll be 10,000 years ago, and you just string ‘em down, and make ‘em disappear, that’s all you’re doing. It’s a fast method of making ‘em disappear, saying they had time on ‘em. That’s the greatest pretense of all.

Isn’t that cute? „And…and that demonstrates and that proves to everybody that I have therefore a superfluity of DEDEXes. I’ve got all of these motivators, all these things have been done to me, and I’ve got too many of them.“ And you take one away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another… another motivator away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another motivator away and all of a sudden he gets divorced. And his life starts going out of balance like mad, and you say, „What on Earth’s happening here?“

And that out was left because nobody could crack it. After they hid that rule, then they insisted that it’d never been made.

Well, boy, what’s happening is but easy to trace: You made an incorrect evaluation of his credit-debit ledger. You said, „This guy has too many things done to him.“ You bought his evaluation. His evaluation was made in the MEST universe and therefore it is in reverse. Just therefore, it’s in reverse.

You just try to take an instantaneous proposition and then tell somebody there’s such a thing as time. Won’t work. So you have to run into a disappearing act to prove it. And time has stayed just that: a disappearing act, gradual disappearance or sudden disappearance. You can cultivate the quality of making sudden disappearances. You can. You can disappear out of existence your whole doggoned engram bank, boom! And there, you’re just handling flows, you’re just handling lots of flows; and you’re handling ‘em suddenly and with great ease.

So if he came in to tell you how all these things have been done to him and that’s why he’s in horrible shape, oh-oh. You just run him doing things to people and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get pleasanter and calmer. And he’ll keep telling you every once in a while, „You know, we… we really haven’t done anything about my gluteus maximus which my father used to kick all the time,“ and he’ll mention this less and less and less, and he’ll get cheerfuller and cheerfuller and brighter and brighter.

The only thing that really holds a preclear in the body is ‘cause too many particles have occupied the space immediately in front of him or behind him or around him, and he can’t occupy the body anymore because it’s already been occupied too often by these particles. What is a particle? A particle is a little tiny thing which is going on one corner of one electron which is in one atom, or it is an electron which is going around a proton, or it is an electron and a proton and… or it is several electrons and several protons, or it’s a… a formed molecule, such as a drop, molecule of water, or it’s a drop of something, or it’s a brick, or it’s a building, or it’s a planet, or it’s a universe.

And you’d think it was because he’s just realizing that he actually can stand up to life; you might rationalize it that way and say, „Well, by mock-ups we have convinced him that he could stand up to life.“ Oh, no. By mock-ups we’ve straightened out all of that superfluity of DEDs that he did. We’ve straightened that up very nicely and now he’s got a bank which has more motivators than he has overts and less DEDs than he has DEDEXes and so he’s become a cheerful, comfortable, calm guy.

What is the difference between the first particle and the last particle? It had too much in it for the space which it held. Isn’t that simple? And you say, „Too much what?“ Too much postulate, of course. Postulates don’t occupy space. You say, „Something is there,“ you’ve made an postulate it’s there. And then by successive chain, you say it flows, it dispersals, it gathers in ridges, and that’s a particle.

He knows that if somebody sits in front of him and says, „You’re a bum,“ that he has enough credit on the ledger in order to reach over and quietly and cheerfully and calmly garrote them. And he has now that right so therefore…

And then those particles interflow with other particles and then you’re all set and the next thing you know, you get all these particles. And gee, it was a lot of work to do it. It took microseconds to build all this, so we’ve really got to hang on to ‘em, ‘cause they’re awfully precious, and we’d better not explode ‘em or say they don’t exist.

For instance, we got a… a… a… a preclear here, who… who is… who is actually… demonstrates that whole… that whole principle. This… this preclear has really had to slow himself down to a walk. But what you ought to run is this preclear doing things to people. This preclear is really in pretty good shape.

And all you have to do is just go back up that track and the particles go kaboom, kaboom, kaboom; you wonder what’s happening to all this. You can blow things up, you can blow things up and shake the neighborhood every once in a while, by the way. Don’t blow your mock-ups too emphatically near gasworks. They might not… you might say, „Well, they’re just real to me,“ and you might find out someday that’s not quite true. You might forget and go up tone scale very fast, you see, and forget all these things you’d agreed to, and one morning walk out 12 feet tall and knock off the top of the Washington Monument, or something.

But they will feel degraded; degradation, loss of self-respect and that sort of thing, comes out of this credit-debit ledger. Degradation is having asked somebody for a rank – that’s degradation enough – or having asked somebody for a category and then having had it taken away. In other words, force was so small that one had to apply to somebody else for force.

Now, the whole study then is a study of impaction of flows or a thickness of flows. And flows do those three things: they flow, they disperse, they gather in… in solid, lumps, ridges. And you get enough ridges together and enough ridges go against enough ridges and then a little enough space gets in between them and a little more… less space in between them, and what do you know. You’ve finally got what? You’ve got solid matter – visible solid matter. Anybody can see it. It’s got… it’s been agreed upon so often that it’s all shopworn and you can polish it down and make it into a car, or something.

And then having applied to somebody else by force, even then he had it removed from him. He no longer had that force. That is degradation, loss of force on that scale.

All right. Now, wherever we… we get these flows, we have then a problem of space. And where these particles of the flow are too close together, that means the guy has too little space for the amount of flow he has. And it’s your business as an auditor either to dispense with and throw out or take the kick out or the postulates out that made the flows or just increase the space with regard to the flows or suddenly get the terrific knack of making chunks of flows, energy and so forth just disappear.

First he was of course his own authority: The guy goes out and by his own warrant tangles with the universe. Somebody comes along to him and says, „Where’s your commission?“

If you were to be able to do that with the engram bank, you actually could do this. You see, in present time… you’ve agreed that anything that can happen in present time will if… influence the future. Any change of havingness in present time is in your capability to do without too… taking too much responsibility.

And he says, „My what?“

You would have to take responsibility for a great deal to change a past havingness. You’ve agreed that something can be a past havingness. So therefore if you change that then you’ve got to remodel a lot of determinism. But right now, there’re very few future determinisms, so you could change anything in the present time… time you wanted to change.

„Where’s your commission? Where’s your license to survive?“

So you could suddenly get to this point where you could make facsimiles go away, and lots of facsimiles’d go away. You could suddenly take a look over here and see this chair, and you could say, „Poof! That’s in yesterday,“ and it would’ve been in yesterday, so you put it in the year 922. As long as you put it in the year 922 A.D. where it did not particularly influence the uh… will and determinism of many others, and ba… making the whole world backtrack on this agreement’d be quite chaotic. Enough to do that to blow up the universe, by the way.

This guy’s liable to lean on them rather heavily and they go down to a small splash and say, uh… „Do people around here need a license to survive?“ He feels mighty tall: „All right. I’ll give you one.“ He’s his own authority and operates by his own warrant. He executes in complexity; he does not feel that he needs anybody’s permission.

It’s… the handiest little destructive mechanism known is to have the enemy at breakfast the day before at the middle of the battle.

And then, being in this universe, this debit-credit justice-injustice something comes in. The reason it comes in is purely because of flashback, you understand. When he hits Joe, he gets the reimpact of Joe’s pain. And this gets mixed up in every impulse to hit Joe. And his own feeling of… great feeling of competence and everything will disintegrate because he feels very competent and all of a sudden he feels pain. He feels very competent; he cuts Joe’s throat, zzzt, and he feels pain.

Uh… the chair, you would look at the chair and you’d say, „I put that in the year 922 A.D. Good.“

The reward, then, for cutting Joe’s throat is pain. So he gets this double-flow action and it convinces him at last that there is a debit-credit system at work in the MEST universe. And so therefore he has to have justification in order to do what he does. But that’s silly, too, because the flows still keep catching right on up with him. It doesn’t matter how much – quote – ‘justice’ there is behind one of these flows, really. It’s just a little bit better if it’s motivator-overt, and so on. A flashback is a flashback. When you fire a gun, it kicks. A guy accumulates too many kicks and after that he gets his credit system all upset.

There’s a better way of doing it. You say, „Well, now, disappear.“ And it disappears. It won’t be there. Now, if somebody else equally up to you and on your team and playing the game or something of the sort said, „The chair is now sitting there. Now, you shouldn’t do that. They need that chair.“ That’s… and so you say, „Well all right. They need that chair. The chair will now disappear and a golden chair will sit there,“ and it’ll be solid gold, rubies encrusted on it.

So, let’s look at this, then, life continuum. Realize that there’re a lot of people around asking for things to be done to them and a lot more people around asking to do things for somebody else. Those two things alike have to do with this credit-debit balance of flows.

There’s no trick to that. Honest to Pete, I… I… I mean, you… I’ve… I’ve heard auditors say, „All right, now. I’m a… I’m a theta clear. I can get outside of my body and I can go around in circles and I can do all these things and… I wonder what a theta clear can do. Yeah. I… I don’t know. I haven’t been able to figure out that he could do very much more than that,“ and so forth. And here’s the guy, all the time he keeps… every time he gets up the tone scale a little bit he goes back, zoom! And he tries to run flows or tries to run processes of some sort or another, process the real universe. He has to get back in there and agree and agree and agree and apprit… pitiate and propitiate, and then he goes out and for 15 minutes in auditing he runs a flock of mock-ups and he feels a lot better for it. And then he goes out and he agrees and he agrees and he agrees and he propitiates and he propitiates and propitiates for the next 23 hours and 45 minutes. And then he gets 15 minutes of mock-ups and he feels a lot better for it. He’s still climbing up three inches and only falling back two and three-quarters. He’s still making it. And he can make it on that scale.

And wherever we look on this cycle of action we’ll find out that a person doesn’t start asking for a license to survive until he’s gone past center on the overall MEST universe cycle. He’s… he’s got to be past center before he starts worrying about this.

But uh… don’t let me hear anybody saying one of two things. One: „Gee, it certainly takes a long time to get up toward cleared theta clear.“ You’re damn right it does! Drill, drill, drill, drill, mock-ups, mock-ups, mock-ups, mock-ups, work, work, work, work, play, play, play, play.

If a person worries about flows, or if flows have entered in, and he’s at a point of the tone scale where flows badly influence him, he can then count more and more upon being responsive to flows. And of course the flows are all backwards and he eventually winds up in a heck of a mess.

And it’s… the other one is, the guy goes back into action in the universe; he goes back into this plane of action and he’ll halt himself right there. He just won’t have anything more to do with processing, he won’t try to develop himself anymore. So, he… he just won’t try to develop anything else, so he’ll hit that and then he’ll sag a ways. And then one day he’ll say, „You know, I’m sagging. I won’t be… I’m not able to do this and that and so forth like I was. I’ll have to get a little processing.“ So he gets a little bit of processing and he comes back up here again and then he goes along that way and he sags a little bit. Well, he could go between those two points till hell froze over. He’s a lot better off than he ever was before. He’s got those two: the high point and the somewhat lower point that he can vacillate between.

Now, when you’re doing mock-ups then you have to pay attention to this, with preclears who are low on the scale. It’s actually much… really more important, the way I view it, uh… to pay attention to space rather than to flows. It’s more important to stake out space. If you’ve got a preclear who’s kind of bad off sometime, just have him practice with anchor points and maybe just have him put out… put out eight anchor points; you know, eight corners, make himself a cube.

But when it comes to coming on up the tone scale and out through the top and following this thing through, you bet it takes a lot of processing. It takes a lot of things. We’ll go into all that it does take. And one of the first things that it takes is picking up and learning how to handle the smallest units of force, and force of course has space connected with it. And you learn to handle this and you get better and better and better and better and better and it’s a very easy route out. Doggone road is just studded with milestones, direction posts, everything else, and it doesn’t need a single one of ‘em. It’s just a straight-ribbon highway that goes straight to glory. And it says all the way down along it, „Be willing to handle force and never depend on it for a second. Be able to use it and never need it.“ Fascinating, huh?

Just make him practice that, and hold ‘em, no matter where he is, and just snake him hold ‘em for a little while. You’ll get the strangest manifestation takes place: the guy starts to get calm. He recognizes instinctively, really, the only space there is for him is the space he makes. The anchor points that are made for him are not anchor points for him.

That’s… that’s all there is to it. What do you do? You drill on handling force and he gets better and better and better and better and better and better.

So, when you get your preclear mixed up with flows, why, you can expect all these silly things to take place: life continuums and DED-DEDEXes and he comes around and he’s got a headache and he’s got a headache because he kicked somebody in the head when he was much younger, and it’s all backwards. He complains to you that he needs treatment, so you run out of him all the mean things he’s done, and he gets well.

Now, I understand that we had some… about this. SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 is a road map. Every time you start a guy on this road and try to turn him back onto the other road of „let’s face reality“ all over again, you’re gonna have a crash. Don’t let him start running flows as such, facsimiles as such or anything else. SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 is named SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 because it is the road map of a process. And it says „The attainment of infinity by the reduction of the MEST universe… apparency of the MEST universe is infinity to zero and the increase of one’s own apparent zero to an infinity of his own universe.“ It’s a road map; it’s a road map.

Now, if you want to repair a marriage… you can wreck marriages, as an auditor, with great ease. Just process one of the marital partners without processing the other one. The thing’ll fly out of balance like mad! And you’ve got to put it back in balance again somehow or other; you just keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t go too bad before you pick it up.

And when you reduce the MEST universe’s infinity toward zero, you do it by reversing a cycle of action. And I want to show you something very interesting about that. Here’s your cycle of action and here’s 8008. And those first two 8’s… this is the MEST universe, this is the MEST universe, and this is your own universe and your own universe. And that’s a curve that goes from here to here and that’s a curve that goes from there to there.

All right. Now, let’s get this uh… you… overt act-motivator. So we process out of somebody a whole lot of… we process out of him a whole bunch of DEDs. Oh, God. We… we get… we get him doing acts out here with mock-ups and boy, we get him bashing people’s brains in and bashing people’s brains in. You’d think automatically that this would bring him way down scale to a point where something or other was going be bad, or something. Oh, no. He gets brighter and brighter and more alert and more alert.

And this first curve that goes across these two things here, that Curve right there is stop, change, start. And that curve there is start, change, stop. You get that? So this is death, alteration, creation. This is identification, this is association, and this is differentiation. And any other cycle of action we have including this one. Desire, enforce and inhibit – that’s the DEI cycle. You could call it the God cycle: Latin D-E-I.

You see, what you’re doing is really running out all the debits. You’re putting him, as far as this universe is concerned, so he can go out and raise hell. And he does. And he goes home and he… frying pan, customarily, as he usually gets inside the door, frying pan usually greets him, hits the wall alongside of him. And he gets inside the door this time, he usually says, „Thank you dear,“ and creeps over to the chair and sits down and says, „Is supper ready, dear?“

Desire, enforce and inhibit. And do you think you’re gonna ever get past the point of desire on this action cycle between infinity of MEST? You’ve got to go: inhibit, enforce and desire, and that is right here: inhibit, enforce and desire. Now, how do you think you’re going to get out of the MEST universe if you keep saying „I don’t want it?“ Its vectors are all backwards. If you say to the MEST universe „I don’t want you,“ it’s gonna hold on. „I don’t want you,“ it’s gonna have you.

And he… frying pan hits alongside of the door this time and very cheerfully he picks the frying pan up and he goes out on the front walk and he sharpens up one side of it… And he goes to work. And of course this is a great surprise to the… to the girl in the case, and she decides all is lost because she sees her control mechanisms unbalanced and she has a stranger in her midst. She gets really upset.

How do you get out of that bear trap? You have to want it. I told you yesterday you had to be able to limit yourself in nothing in comparison to what you… your desire level was. You have to want to live; you have to be willing to use your… your beingness and so forth in all the living there is to do. That doesn’t mean in evil things or… or all this sort of thing. You just have to want this universe, that’s all. And then know at the same time that you don’t want it too much.

And she doesn’t take into account – because the GE is a family man; the GE is lost without a family. Uh… it’s very strange, but homo sap is a family unit. The GE is built on that basis. It’s fascinating, fascinating. If you wanted to study the GE, you… you’d really get yourself some data about what could happen in this universe. It’s not important for you to know it, but a lot of your urges toward families and so forth are not thetan urges at all; they’re the GE. The GE can’t survive at all without a family unit. He’s just as dead as a mackerel if he isn’t a family unit, whereas your thetan is just as dead as a mackerel if he gets too mixed up in family units.

You have to be able to want and experience the sensations of this universe. You have to take, as a high level of tolerance, its speed. In other words, you’ve got to be able to live in order to back out of the universe. You’ve got to reverse the cycle. You’ve never got out of the universe and nobody ever got out of here by wanting to get out, because of the reversal factors. It’s quite important, and that’s the most important thing there is to learn about a flow, I think, is that this universe goes backwards.

So you get this terrific starvation, family starvation, and so forth, for the GE. Your GE runs… you see, he’s lost… he’s lost his independence of action and so on, and for uh… passing along this line and uh… so on, this terrific dedication that he has, fabulous piece of dedication; he feels this terrific responsibility for getting this… this life continuum going. He’s got to continue himself.

Now I’ll tell you another little trick: who’s the guy who’s never seen any engrams – never been able to see an engram? Well, I’ll tell you what I want that guy to do. I want that guy to outflow like hell against these things he was trying to pull in. Just pour an energy at… out in front of him. He’ll see something very peculiar: he’ll see incidents turning up.

That’s… you find that in cells. When a cell divides, what do you know? it duplicates its memory bank and hands it over to its progeny. Well, Man thinks he’s doing this; when he duplicates himself, the GE duplicates itself, it thinks it’s handing its memory bank over, and maybe it is. Who knows? You can’t talk to GE’s; they’re kind of psycho. They’re really monomaniac. Boy, are they conservative, too. Whee! They’re really stuck.

Sure. He says, „I don’t want ‘em,“ they’re gonna move right in on him and righten up. He’s sa… been saying in the past, „I want them so I can run them,“ and of course they moved away and went blind. He didn’t see them. So he flows against them, all of a sudden they turn up, fresh, ready to be run. And if he outflows just a little bit longer, they’ll blow. Isn’t that horrible?

They’re very able, though, terribly able. This thing can come along and it builds a heart and it’s a good heart. Gosh! If somebody was a master craftsman down here working in a machine shop that could build as uniformly, pistons, as the GE can build hearts, that guy would really be at the top of his class for all time.

So, in order to get out of the universe, you have to desire it. Now, this mechanism is, incidently, one of the interesting points of hypnotism. When a person gets very groggy in hypnosis, he’s been put down to a point where he’s very obedient to flows, which is the worst thing wrong with hypnosis. He’s been put along that strand, then he… they had no way to bail him out. But if you told him to try not to do something, he would do it. Every time, when he got that low on the tone scale when he tried to use his will during his hypnotized period, when he tried to use his will to prevent himself from doing something, it happened.

So, you see, the GE has his capabilities; they just don’t happen to be necessarily the finest capabilities there is. And by the way, you can fall into this dreadful trap with a GE; you see, he uses the MEST universe with which to build. He’s gotten very s… very bad off and he… he has to use MEST universe materials all the time, and the protoplasms and so forth which have been developed back across this… this protoplasm line back there, he has to use that, and he has to use all of these various things in order to construct and construct and construct.

„Try to stop your hands from moving like this. Now, your hands are going around each other. Now, try to stop them.“ And his hands speed right up. Brrrrrrr and he tries to stop them. „Uhhh,“ he says, „To hell with it.“ See?

He jumps around on lines, by the way, but he’ll… he’ll give the initiative to the protoplasms and some of the blueprints which he finds on the protoplasm line. So you get similarities of appearance in families but complete changes of character, as far as the body is concerned. And then you add a thetan in on it and, boy, do you get some wild ones. Another identity.

Now, you say, „All right. S… all right. Now, speed your hands up.“ They slow down.

So, you… you get this… you get this uh… situation here with uh… the GE, and your GE is busy, uh… build, build, build, build, build, and of course he’s got to have a family to build with. And your GE has lost out completely as far as the First Dynamic is concerned. He isn’t worth hell room on the First Dynamic. He just isn’t. He will lie down and perish rather than work alone, for himself.

So when a person is grossly affected by flows, very grossly affected by flows, he runs in opposites. The little girl wants to be bad, she’s good. She wants to be good, she’s bad. She wants some candy, she can’t have any. That’s the level we’re talking about, lower band, homo sapiens band. When she’s well down that band and heavily affected by flows and quite frightened of flows, everything’ll go in reverse. She wants to say no, she says yes. She beholds herself with horror, because she can’t trust herself. Yeah, she can’t trust herself. You mean, she can’t trust this universe. It’s the universe doing it. She’s running in opposites.

Guy goes out here and he sits down in a little… little apartment someplace, and he reads, reads, reads, and he writes down this poetry, and he reads, reads, reads, and writes down the poetry, and he goes back and he works someplace or another in order to get enough money to go back and read, read, read, you know. Not your GE, no sir.

Now, that happens… you put a communication line on somebody’s head. A thetan, you put a communication line on somebody’s head and you’ll get a flow up and down this line, just as nice as you please, nice flow up and down the line. Well, supposing you want sensation on that line. And supposing you’re so bad off that you’re identifying communication flows with sensation flows with effort flows. Oh-oh. You try to pick up sensation from the beautiful sunset, you try to pick up a communication from somebody, you try to pick up sensation from this lovely body, and you cave the bank in. You literally cave the bank in. You can practically crush your skull in, if you get low on the tone scale and you desire sensation up a communication line.

A thetan’ll do that, and the guy could be driven to do that. But if he’s in close association with the body, he just finds it impossible to do that. He feels he has no motive. That’s because the body has no motive. That’s because he doesn’t have a family unit. That’s what gives him his goals. He’s… he’s got a goal then, a MEST goal, a lineage goal, and all that sort of thing. You get this terrific family thirst. And you get your GE surviving best and being loused up the most because of interfamily relationships.

Now, you ask a preclear, when he puts a communica… have him put a communication line on hims… on… take himself and somebody else, and have him put a communication line up. Don’t say anything else, just say, „Got those two bodies? All right. Now, put a communication line up.“ And then you say, „What body did you put it to first?“ „Oh,“ he’ll say, „the other body, of course.“ „And then you put it on your body?“ „That’s right.“

That doesn’t necessarily mean that your thetan is even vaguely aberrated on this line. Your thetan is much more interested in a higher level debit and credit system of what he himself has done to himself, by himself, and for himself. And your thetan, by the way, can much more easily go into a group. Families are not good groups; they’re bad groups.

This character is reversed on flows. He gets right and left direction reversals; he gets upside-down things when they ought to be right-side-up. Why? When he put the communication line out, he put it out to pick up sensation. He wanted sensation from the other person leading to him. His desire in life was to obtain a flow on that communication line from the environment to himself, and when he did that, he decided also that anything else could come up that line. Therefore, he is an effect and therefore he is not putting out heavy power.

So, all this stuff applies more to homo sapiens, because of the GE, than it applies to a thetan. You’ll see this whole picture change in an individual after you have theta cleared him and brought him up toward cleared theta clear.

He is skipping over the initial steps. The initial steps are, is you have to put the emotion there to feel it. How do you cure that with a preclear? Not just by running flows in space – that’s easy – but by putting emotions on things and then re-experiencing them back. And he’ll finally get over the necessity to string communication lines in that fashion to get flows. He’ll realize he was doing it all the time anyhow. One of these days he’ll realize that.

Until you’ve done that, remember this debit and credit proposition and the gross nature of flows. if the fellow has been flowed in upon too much, he’s gonna outflow. If he hasn’t been flowed in on enough, he’s gonna inflow. That’s all there is to that.

You don’t have to force that on him; just do it until one day he knows he’s doing that, and he’ll be very amused. And his ability to handle flows comes way up the line – because what is the sole thing that is wrong with a flow, is it’ll contain sensation, it’ll contain very welcome things. A person wants the flow. And as long as flows are very valuable and as long as a person is identifying every kind of flow with every other kind of flow, he becomes the effect of every kind of flow, so his whole bank caves in on him.

Okay. Let’s take a break.

The remedy is to differentiate amongst flows and to demonstrate to him clearly and conclusively that the flow is unnecessary for the receipt of sensation. You do that with drills, not by educating him. Then you do these drills by mocking up and running emotions from the bottom to the top of the scale, see; from the bottom of the scale up toward start. And the way you do that is to run from low base emotions on up to higher base emotions. I mean, apathy, grief, to fear; not fear to grief to apathy, because that’s agreeing on this cycle.

Let’s run it from apathy, grief, fear, anger, resentment; only let’s get it up there to a point and drill him, please, to a point where the… the sensation he gets is much superior to any he gets or he thinks he gets from the MEST universe. Let’s get it to that point. Why? Because he’s putting the intensity on it all the time.

Huh! All of a sudden he realizes he’s doing this and he also realizes here you have this high-tension, high-velocity sensation on these lines; to hell with the low-base, „have to get that stuff,“ „have to get sensation from the environment.“ Why do we have to get sens… well, we can’t get sensation from the environment, because we put it there to perceive it. Oh what a terrible trick!

When a person gets way down tone scale, his time factor and his occlusion factors are such that he doesn’t know what his left hand is doing when his right hand is doing something else. He really doesn’t. He does things in opposites. He’ll say, „I want to be good, then I’m bad. If I want something, that’s the first reason I can’t have it.“ Uh… he’s… gets all these reversals of flows, and when you’re dealing low on the tone scale with flows, you get all these very undesirable conditions of reaction.

And you get in addition to that this thing about communication lines. Now, the guy wants good news, the guy keeps wanting good news from the environment, good news from the environment; he wants the environment to grant him a license to survive. He keeps wanting good news and good news and good news and good news and good news from the environment all the time. Boy, the first thing you know, there’s nothing, just the tiniest little flicker of bad news’ll knock his brain out.

Well, there’s another drill for that: just keep handing him bad news. Think up all the bad news you can possibly think up in order to hand him. Get telegrams that this one is dead and that that one is dead and other people receiving telegrams that he’s dead and mangled and bankrupt and broke and everything he cherishes and thinks is wonderful in the world is gone to hell. And… and just keep any kind of a mock-up you can think of that is dull, dismal, horrible, bad and shocking news. And you know what’ll happen? That guy’s communication line’ll reverse. He’ll stop fearing the other end of the terminal. Just keep giving ‘em to him.

„All right. Now, get a… get a telegram… get a telegram that your wife just strangled a baby. Now, read the telegram. Now, get a tactile on that telegram. Okay, let’s read it again. All right. Now, let’s lay it aside. Now, let’s pretend like you didn’t see it at all and you’re feeling happy and then, all of a sudden, you get this telegram. All right. You got that? Your wife strangled a baby.“ And so forth.

He’ll finally start to read it, „The wife strangled the baby and uh… the wife strangled a baby and the clothesline is therefore all frayed. And I’m mad as hell about that.“ Uh… he’s… he’ll just start to run off the hinges, and it actually solves a person’s terror of getting bad news. The reason why most people are going around in – just in terror, really in terror, is they think they’re going to receive bad news.

Every tune they walk into the job in the morning, they think there might be a pink slip there waiting for them. Every time they come home at night, they think maybe the landlord or a… an officer’s… of the law or somebody’s going to be waiting for them there with some bad news. They… they get away for a weekend, they can’t enjoy the weekend because they forgot… they knew they forgot to turn off the electric iron. Uh… what would this result in? This would result in loss of house and all the possessions.

What you’re doing, then, is curing the fear of receiving news of loss. Loss is not important; you can always recreate loss.

Okay. Now, I hope you know all there is to know on the subject. There’re component parts of these line flows that I said I would cover; they’re four in number. There’s the line flowing out and you trying not to flow the line out; there’s the line flowing in and you trying not to let it flow in. Those are four actions.

There’s somebody else making a line flow in, him trying not to let it flow in; you trying not to let it flow in and you trying to flow it out. More four actions.

A bracket, the definition of a bracket: A bracket is the individual does it himself, somebody else does it, others do it, or the individual does it to somebody else or somebody does it to him or others do it to others. And that’s the technical definition of a bracket. Therefore, you should use brackets in all of your mock-ups. Being done to the preclear, the preclear doing it to somebody else and others doing it to others, and you would be running a completely bracket on a mock-up that will solve all possible flows per incident.

Now, I hope you’re very learned. You look very… a few of you look very sa… sad, but there’s no reason to look sad. Okay?

Uh… see you later this evening.