This is December the 12th, first afternoon lecture.

I uh… understand you want to hear some more about these games. That right? Okay. I’ll just give you then a breakdown on the list, which I gave you at the end of the last hour, and explain this thing just a little bit further, so that you’ll have a good grasp of what we’re doing here.

I think that we had better cover Standard Operating Procedure this afternoon. But I’m going to give you Game Procedure first. In this first hour or some fraction thereof, I’m going to give you game processing. And the reason why I’m going to give you game processing, just above this level, is because there is a spirit of play – a spirit of play which has to be recovered for your preclear.

You see, the first thing that should be sorted out on any operation is the intention or the goal. This was a practice of the ancient magician. He would become an effect if he had not stated what he was trying to cause. If he’d just cause, cause, cause, at random, without ever analysing what he was trying to DO, he was doing at random and heading toward chaos.

And unless you understand this… The guy’s got no goal when he steps out of his head. He has no goal. He doesn’t think there’s anyplace else to go.

The difference between thought and matter is that thought aligns in its highest echelon, and matter is chaos. Now, the chaos of matter is quite in addition a chaos which came about from thought hitting the particles too often and misaligning them. So let’s… let’s look this thing over, from this standpoint: To have a goal in processing, and a stated intention in processing is itself tremendously important in processing. And it’s very very important for the auditor doing the processing to know what he is trying to do and for what he is aiming. He doesn’t have to make a terribly full statement of this, but he had better have something so that he can make a full round statement of his overall, unlimited goal.

And one of the reasons why you’ll see a theta clear hang up as exteriorized and stable outside, but no higher up the line, is that he doesn’t find there’s any reason to do anything. There’s no goal. He says, „Well, so what? Well, it would mean I’d disassociate myself from all of my friends if I went on and did all of these things. So the best thing for me to do is just kind of stay out here and just be a little freaky.“ Nothing to do and no place to go.

I don’t care if he is… if… if he… it’s an indifferent goal, or a not terribly desirable goal, or this is the effect toward which he is heading. He wants to achieve this effect. Now oddly enough uh… you can run this in a circle if you want to. You can say, „I am trying to cause this result. I am trying to get the preclear up to a point where he can be cause.“ Well now, that’s all right. But it’s kind of nebulous. It’s part of the ingredients of the intention, but it wouldn’t be all of the intention. Uh… were you ever part of a group that just went on acting and acting and acting and acting, and never got down to saying what they were trying to do?

He doesn’t realize that there is a sensation above any physical or mental sensation he has ever felt, and that is, called the spirit of play. And that is more absorbing, more engrossing and headier than any other kind of activity he can do.

Now if you get into any group, political, social, anything like that, it doesn’t matter, and you find out there’s a terrible lot of random motion going on – there’s nothing happening, but there’s an awful lot of motion, but nothing happening, you’ve sat down in a piece of MEST. You haven’t sat down in theta; you’re sitting in a MEST. Random vectors.

It is the first and foremost ingredient which causes a thetan to come into this universe or start to build his own. That’s the highest level you’ve got.

The difference between a piece of chaotic matter and thought is that the chaotic matter is without goals beyond those goals which somebody else impresses upon it. An orange is a living thing. It knows what it’s trying to do. It has been persuaded that it should produce itself so that it will be eaten. And it has found this actually is a good way to plant orange seeds, and get them well fertilized so it’ll grow, make itself quite edible. But it’s trying to produce new oranges. It has a goal. Very well aligned.

Now you’d think that was very strange, wouldn’t you, that we’d have as the highest level something a kid attains easily, and which we don’t pay any attention to his having attained. And yet all of you remember about the vividness of play. You don’t remember it very well, though, or you’d never have deserted it.

And one of the things in which you’re in awe, in the process of life creation, is not so much the complexity of steps and alkaloids and chemicals used in life creation. But there’s that goal. That single, clear, starry goal. And it is simply the goal of „produce another thing like myself, and lots of ‘em!“ And what you look at there, you… you’re not looking at MEST, or the process of complexity, but boy, there isn’t another goal that compares to that, to direct beeline intention. And so a fellow, the human race has sort of bowed down to that, and they sort of take a look around them and see this enormous obsession going on. This… this… this fixity on a goal of reproduction of self. And they say life is a wonderful and mysterious process. It is so wonderful and so mysterious, that you when you get upscale and so forth will be able to embue something with life.

Now what a child feels as vividness of play is so minor and is so beset by the hectic environment in which he has to dwell that there’s hardly any comparison between the most vivid and interesting and exhilarating instant of a child’s life and what is simply the commonest feeling of being alive high on the tone scale.

That’s really not what life is doing at all. It’s just using an existing impulse. It’s not making new lives. It’s setting up these channel lines. And… so that things can travel down them. It’s sort of like a road-building crew.

You would call… you would call a child’s headiest, most exciting moment of play uh… below the sensation known as ‘being alive’, high on the tone scale. See, Spirit of Play is the only way we can translate it here.

But get the interest people get in a well-aligned and fixed goal. Now if you just have the preclear there, and you nebulously say, „I’m going to make this person well“ and then… then you don’t even bother to define what ‘well’ is, and you don’t know what… what is ‘well’? Well you don’t have much of a goal for your preclear. So you could merely state, and always should state, what you are trying to do for the preclear. Not leave it understood, or half thought-out, or say, „That was part of a lecture sometime and I’m sure that somebody else knows about it but I don’t.“ You’re being an effect when you’re saying that, and you’re not going to cause, not worth a nickel.

Now there’s an aberration, really then, if you might call it that. An enforcement and a necessity above just havingness – that’s time – that’s above time. There is something above Time. And that is this: There must be a game. And that is on Desire, and that is your highest level Desire there is. There must be a game.

To cause things one must be cause, and the primary requisite of cause is a statement of intention and goal. Primary requisite to be cause, is a clear statement of what you’re trying to do. And only when you clearly state it can you avoid being yourself an eventual effect. „What am I trying to do?“ If you can’t answer that, you’ll foul up.

Now this DEI I’ve been talking to you about – Desire, Enforce, and Inhibit – can exist way up, and not quite so high up, and then not quite so high up. And then start DEI all over again.

Well, let’s put it to this limited degree. A preclear comes in, sits down, says, „I uh… so-and-so and so-and-so… I want uh… so-and-so… and I’ve always had this bum lock of hair and I want it to be trained flat.“ That’s his goal. Who was it that had a goal, he got this, oh… tremendous amount of processing on something just so he could grow a couple of hairs, or something like that. Or we ask this preclear, theta cleared, and everything else, and what was this preclear trying to do? Well, this preclear was trying to uh… make it so she wouldn’t mind it if her husband scolded her. I mean, merely… really limp! But that’s better than not having any goal! Most preclears come in, they say, „Well, I…“ – they’re not happy, and so on. „I want to be happy.“ Oh, boy! That’s nice and nebulous too. Beautiful.

So let’s have action goals, huh? For our preclears. All right, one preclear comes in and he sits down and you see this preclear is loused up like a fire drill and he doesn’t know how loused up he is, and he says, „I want to fix it up so ties fit me better.“ You don’t care what he says! The second you accept his goal for him, you are an effect of him. The hell with what he wants! Oh, that’s strange! The guy’s in a very aberrated condition. And he isn’t going to want what he says he wants after an hour’s processing. He isn’t in any state to make any goal, or any decision about a goal. He really isn’t!

The sequence of the whole is similar to the sequence of any part of the whole.

You take a look at him, and say, „Now, let’s see…“ You don’t have to tell him. Make a statement. Write it down. Keep… keep one of these ten-cent store ledgers, like I’m always threatening to do when people steal. I’ll keep a few cases in… in a ledger and make a few notes and the next thing I know I look around and I say, „Where’s my ledger?“ Uh-uh! There’s more of those things parked around the country! People looking for some magic secret or something, I… what do they find in it? They find, „Effort Processing. Lecture so-and-so…“ so on. Just routine processes. Routine as the devil!

Now here is the whole from 40 to 20. Now, we’ll fix this here with a bracket. And we’ll have here, Desire, Enforce and Inhibit. Now that’s all… all very well, but that’s… that’s the cycle of the whole.

All right. Every once in a while they find some experimental data, like we… we uh… worked with this preclear on action goals. We had him go down to the dime store, and uh… buy uh… fifty sets of glasses. And then come back and break them in a number of different ways. Something like that, to see if this improved their vision any. Just… but what’s the cause? So you have this little ledger book, and you write down, „Jones, Mrs.“ And you put at the top, age, rank, serial number? Nuh-uh! You don’t show this case book to Mrs. Jones. The dickens with what she thinks about it. After you’ve talked to her for a couple of moments, you put down the hour she reported in; that’ll be of value to you later on. Tells you how much time you spent on her, in case you want to add up your ledgers. It’s quite important. Tell her how long you’ve processed her. Also you can have that in the book, so that’s quite important too.

Now let’s look at this again and find the cycle of part small ‘a’ to part small ‘b’. And, what do we find? We find Desire, Enforce and Inhibit. See, here’s your little tiny part. Now you have uh… it’s on the same scale, you’ve got another small part and that might be down here and that would be from point. small ‘c’ to point small ‘e’. And maybe it’s Enforce, Inhibit, Desire. Enforce – same sequence. You can take this sequence any place here, then, and it could start out Inhibit and then go into Desire and Enforce.

But uh… how long s… length or… or amount of havingness of Mrs. Jones, this could be a list of. That’s really what you’re marking down. Uh… now, Mrs. Jones doesn’t have you, you understand. That’s… that’s the way to be a terrible bad auditor. How’re you going to have any effect upon a preclear, if you’re asking the preclear all the time for a license to survive? You don’t get many preclears either, by the way. They… they sort of notice this. You can give them sympathy, but you can only… their… your sympathy’s only valuable if you give it from an altitude. And the only way you gain altitude is simply to be cause. And you’re cause by locating them in time and space. You tell them when they’re supposed to be there and when they leave.

What is the difference between area marked ‘1’ and area marked ‘2’ on this tone scale? We’ve got small cycles running in big cycles. And a big cycle is composed of sequences of small cycles which are identical to it, see? We are examining now the cycle 40.0 to 20.0 and we find out that that is the grand cycle. And the grand cycle is composed of what? Sequences of itself in smaller portions.

Make a practice sometime of telling ‘em to leave. You ought to drill yourself on it. „All right, you leave now.“ And by the way, if I were… if I were really… had the thumbs down around here on processing good and solid, you could get little assignments like that. But I’ve had to be on deck to straighten them back and forth.

So we go up here to the top and we find out it’s Desire, Enforce, Inhibit and then re… it’s Desire, Enforce, Inhibit; Desire, Enforce, Inhibit; Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. We take a section of that cycle at any time, any small section of a cycle, you might find a cycle of action in this case, ending and beginning. You can take that section of it. See how that is?

I gave a fellow an assignment one time, „Now, I’m giving you five hours of effort processing,“ and uh… so forth, and his trouble was a tremendous uh… physical infirmity which demonstrated enormous embarrassment. I gave him the assignment of making everybody he met, or knew, demonstrate that infirmity. Tough assignment! He knew he couldn’t do it. He knew he couldn’t. So what do you know! A week later, he’d gone around and put it into action. Instead of being embarrassed himself, he had managed to make everybody embarrassed that he knew. This guy was a cock of the walk. He was in most wonderful condition! In just gorgeous condition!

The part in this case is similar to the whole. If the part is similar to the whole, then you will find that from 4.0 to 2.0 you have a Desire- Enforce-Inhibit. DEI then fits on a small cycle, you see? Uh… enthusiasm would be making somebody desire, and uh… Conservatism would uh… would be something on the or… order of uh… rather inhibiting a desire. And just below that level somewhere there would be a desire. And then it would go into the enforcement of Antagonism.

For instance uh… he knew that he would never have the right to talk to a woman. Much less embarrass a woman! So I made him go around and selectively embarrass women. By remarks to them. Not… not bad remarks, you understand. But just tell them something or other and… that would make them nervous. Just a little bit. That guy came back and he was feeling benign toward the feminine part of the race, patting them all on the head, and they enjoyed him a great deal like that; he was fun. He had been able to command these objects.

It tells you that this… this… this is just a way of plotting.

All right, when you’re trying to command objects, be cause. And always be cause, and everything else but cause, and when you put down that ‘Mrs., Jones, 2:15’, why, you also put down after you’ve talked to her for a short time what goal you intend to achieve with Mrs. Jones.

Now you’ve got… anger is a hold, really. It can be an inhibition. People are afraid people will get mad, so therefore it can be an inhibition. It’s also an enforcement. So it’s translatable according to Its direction and intention, see? It’s translatable according to its direction and intention.

And then she says, „Well, I can only spend a certain amount of time. I can only spend a certain amount of time,“ she says, „on this and I only have five hours that I can be processed,“ and so forth.

All right now we take then – this is made up of little tiny cycles and this line, this cycle here – this bracket – is the DEI grand cycle, and it is composed of what? It is a gradient scale of small cycles which are the same as itself. And, just to think better about it, it’s not only the same as itself, you could put on the grand scale here, DEI grand cycle, you could put chunks of any other cycle and just fit them in on the thing.

It’s always a good thing to tell them in no uncertain terms uh… „You have as many hours as you need. And if you only need three, you only need three.“

And this way you can get the most fascinating complexity of interactions. Let’s take the emotional scale and put it in here in little sections. Fit your emotional scale where it belongs on the grand cycle, and it’ll spot emotions which don’t have names. And yet you know they exist. Such a thing… such a thing as uh… uh… Beautiful Brutality – you know there’s such a thing as Beautiful Brutality. That would be somewhere along the emotion of Brutality and uh… with the aesthetic perception band. And that’s what you would get out of that.

And so we have a condition resulting here of a preclear who is going to get well. Not a preclear who’s going to come in and burn up some time and pay you a fee and go out again and monkey around.

So you could… you could dub in any part of another cycle into any part of this cycle. And you can just keep interchanging cycles, or interchanging sections of cycles. This doesn’t need to upset you. You’ve got a grand cycle and those grand cycles, and you work with those alone – you’ll come along all right. You don’t have to iner… but if you want to understand human behavior, interplay and so forth, completely, you better realize that right up here at 40.0 almost – there’s a DEI. There’s an Inhibition setting in way up.

Let’s get down to some of the niceties of how you handle people. I may not follow my own rules, but I sure know the rules! And to a large degree when I am extremely successful with somebody or other, I have followed the rules – I look back over it.

I’m jarring you a little bit. Some of you look like you’ve been backed up against the wall and kinda like you’re being brutalized. But that’s because you have yourself all beautifully set up in a gorgeous static called a cycle of action. And you didn’t allow any fluidity in this cycle of action. You said this cycle of action always goes from 40 to 20, in spite of the fact that your experience with preclears tells you there’s a complete cycle of action between 4.0 and 2.0, from sanity to insanity. And from 2.0 to 0.0, which is relatively sane and strictly fruitcake. Little gradient scales.

He says, „I only have enough time, I’m going home… Here is… I’ve got a hundred guineas,“ or, „I’ve got five hundred bucks,“ or… or whatever it is, and, „I want so many hours of processing for this,“ and so forth.

Why? This thing is made up of what? When you say Desire, Enforce, Inhibit, what are you saying? You’re saying Flow, Dispersal, Ridge. Now you could look at that in several ways. You can say… you could say your ridge… your ridge is desirable and enforcement of it would be the flow and the inhibition of it would be blowing it up.

You say, „Well, the processing fee happens to be 250 dollars an hour, and you have as many hours of processing as you need, and if you only need a half an hour, that’s all you’re going to get.“

Let’s take… let’s take those three things on an automobile. Here’s an automobile. It’s desirable because it’s a chunk. So we get a flow to obtain the desirability – and somebody blows it up before it can be obtained. That’s one way of looking at it. That… that is in terms of objects. And we’ve got these ridge, flows and dispersals.

And they say, „The man must know what he’s talking about! He must be able to do things!“

All right, now let’s look at that… let’s look at this again. As we come up here, we find now Desire has to do with space, RELATIVE space. So, your object is big there at the top. Your object’s got lots of space in it. And that space itself is Desire. And Flow is change of state. And Dispersal is dispersing the existing thing.

You think that’s offensive language – no, no! Don’t bother to be offensive about it. But it is better to be offensive, that way, real mean offensive that way.

Now I could start up at the top. You could figure this whole… whole schema of things.

„I don’t care whether you’ve come over here or not; it’s nothing to me whatsoever whether or not you come over here to get processed. That’s… that’s… all you can possibly pay me is money. And that isn’t worth a damn, and you know it, and you probably aren’t worth saving anyhow!“

Oh, by the way, there’s a cute way of figuring this. I MUST tell you about this: Somebody’s going to figure this out. After the other evening I… I gave you this talk about… about rarefaction-condensation of electronic waves? People are ready to blow their brains out over that until they realize one thing about it. It’s: Space is just full – MEST universe is just jammed and crammed with minute particles. If you don’t believe it, there sit’s the sun. Once upon a time there was an explosion there at the center, and your sun made a whole bunch of rarefaction- condensation ridges and then something brought it to a fast halt. And it left particles at exactly the harmonic distances from the sun that you now find planetary rings. Those rings evidently solidified and you have a planetary system, solar system size. It’s a very easy thing to explain.

You could go to that limit, and it would be better, and you would get more preclears, and you would do more for the preclears, than if they came over and you said, „Well, yes, that’s right,“ and, „We’ll see if we can do that…“ and, „That’s right…“ and everything is all very calm, and uh… and uh… so on. And uh… „Well, if that’s what you want, why, we’ll give it to you.“

And furthermore, there is a harmonic in distance. You’ve got an intensity of that sort. And what happens? The sun keeps putting this out. It’s got a certain harmonic wave length. And it keeps putting into this band, ridges. It puts into the band of Earth, ridges and more ridges and more ridges and more ridges. How does it do that? Photons hit the Earth, they hit Earth. And every time they hit Earth, they splash.

No, no, no. Don’t be so damned agreeable. ‘Cause that’s inflow. Be disagreeable; that’s outflow, and they’ll want you! Say, „Yes, you come over here at 2:15, you be over here at 2:15, and we’ll give you enough hours… as many hours of processing as we can.“

You’ve got then, Earth going around the sun and photons coming out of the sun and hitting Earth. And therefore on the orbit of Earth you have a continuous impact of particles. And as you get this continuous impact of particles, the Earth stays more or less in that orbit and all these particles being in balance with the solar system and native to the solar system, you of course, get Earth going around and not only being hit by all this, but what dust remains will gradually be collected by the Earth as it sweeps around in its orbit.

They say, „Well, I only have two hours, and I want to spend it…“ and so on.

See, Earth’s sort of a big vacuum cleaner. These photons… photons are actually particles. They’re not mythical objects. They’re… they’re particles. And uh… that was a great shock to the boys when they realized that a cyclotron – that an electron had mass – awful shock when the… they first realized this.

Uh… „Well, I’m sorry. I can’t say how long you’ll be. You’ll maybe only be here an hour, and maybe I might keep you six. Who cares?“

All right, so these mass things – it would be like… what happened if a whole bunch of airplanes were flying out of the sun and hitting Earth? And then Earth kept going around and around the orbit, and these scattered, crashed airplanes were staying more or less in the orbit. Earth would gradually sweep them all up, wouldn’t it? If they didn’t stay on Earth initially.

Give them no margin of placing themselves in time. Because you are much better off in control of the preclear than the preclear is in control of himself during the period of processing him. And the way you do that is place him in space and time. And never let him get the idea he’s placing himself in space and time.

Same way with the photon. Photon comes out of the sun, just like that airplane, hits Earth and then either escapes from the gravity of Earth and is picked up later as a fragment; and Earth is on a harmonic point for photons. And for sun energy.

Once in a while suddenly call the guy up and say, „Drop over here at eight o’clock before you go to work.“ Rattle him on the subject, if you’re having trouble with a preclear. And you’ll find out he’ll respond better to processing! This is how you build altitude.

All right, so you’ve got bands building up. Earth could not help but get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And the sun could not help, as it loses its photons, getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. And so it is: The sun is getting less and less space, more and more dense.

But under the name ‘Mrs. Jones’ you put down the goal. „This squirrely old dame ought to be fixed up so that she could possibly live with her husband.“ And you just work, right straight toward that goal.

How dense can it get? It can get so dense that it can no longer… it is no longer possible for an electron to escape from the surface of the sun. Gravity of the sun is sufficient to overcome the impulse of the electron to leave. And the impulse of the electron to leave requires an impulse, you see. So as that impulse slows and as electrons leave slower and slower and there are less and less of this type of fissionable material to react on the sun, you get this strange phenomenon of a dark star, which isn’t dark at all. It’s a terrible thing, a dark star. The electrons go out from it and then turn around and fall back on it again.

And she says, „…and my lumbago, and my arth… arthipedics, are uh… are all sparthlicated…“

And of course, the thing doesn’t shine. It couldn’t possibly shine, because any photon that gets into it, doesn’t get out of it. And any photon that’s in it trying to get out of it, can’t escape from it. So you no longer have a sun shining.

You don’t care. That… if that has to do with her getting along with her husband, and that’s what you’ve decided she’d better do, that’s what’s going to happen to her! And what do you know! You’ve decided what’s going to happen to her, she’ll never gonna… he… she won’t affect you. She can sit there and rattle off aberrations and exude glee of insanity and… and feed out engrams that would ordinarily be terribly restimulative, and… and all that sort of thing, and that won’t have any effect on you at all. You know what you’re doing with her. It doesn’t matter how limited your goals is, or how extended your goal is, just go ahead and do it. Don’t even be practical about it. And don’t mind changing it.

That is the way suns go out. Their electrons find it impossible to emit beyond this gravity point and are pulled back in, so the sun doesn’t shine.

The next day she comes in, you’ve changed your mind. Don’t shift the goal! But know that YOU changed YOUR mind, on receipt of more data. You’ve decided she ought to be able to live with her son. That she’d probably be happier doing so.

But as long as the sun is shining and as long as any sun shines, as long as the Milky Way shines, the number of photons per cubic centimeter in space – if you were really to do a job of counting – would be beyond an individual’s ready power to add up on a modern calculating machine.

Now that sounds very funny, making peoples self-determined by dominating them and controlling them. That’s telling you you’d better be responsible for your preclear, and you couldn’t be responsible for this preclear at all unless you were willing to control and dominate him during the session. See? If you aren’t willing to do that, you… you’re not willing to handle the force of a preclear. ‘Cause we’re not trying to handle that preclear for bad cause. You’re not trying to be bad cause.

There are just lots of them out there, and they’re flowing like mad in all directions. Arcturus’ photons are flowing through that space; the Milky Way is composed of suns bigger than, most of them, sun 12, which is our sun here. And the fact is that all these stars are flying photons off in all directions, and these photons, actually, because they are not measurable, not being an electron mass – it’s just like swimming. I mean, it’s not empty space.

But maybe you are bad cause. Maybe you move her out of her body and she does a bunk and they bury her. Well you know that you did your best along the line. You know what you were trying to do. And you know what you were trying to accomplish. Things like this can happen. Probably never will happen, but they could happen. Be willing to take the consequence of it. If you are, if you go around propitiating, and say, „Give me a license to survive,“ to everybody you meet; every time a preclear walks in you say, „Have you got your license to… the license you’ve got for me? Oh, please, sign me a license to survive,“ and you won’t make ‘em well. Steel yourself up. Just on the basis of being cause. And most of being cause is stating the goal.

It isn’t even vaguely empty space. If it were empty space you wouldn’t have any sunlight at this minute. You see how bright that sunlight is out there? Well, that’s photons. It looks bright because the photons are hitting air particles and they’re making the air particles shine. Or they’re hitting fog particles and they’re making the fog particles shine. And if you don’t think that’s lots of photons…

You’re willing to state a goal on something.

Well now, we’re clear out here in the one, two, three – third planetary ring from the sun, and yet the sun is putting out enough photons to make this air do this trick.

Now to give you here a goal, we’re going to make a theta clear. A person who is going to be stable outside of his body, and who does not have to come hack in because the body is injured. That is a highly specific, but very broad goal. That’s what you’re trying to make. There is no ‘why’ you are making a theta clear, you see. You know that in the process of doing this an awful lot of a guy’s upsets and viewpoints and educational malfunctions and all kinds of things will spring. Matter of fact you can sometimes take somebody and move him out two feet back of his head, takes a look at himself, drill him a little bit, orient him in space. You don’t even stabilize him outside of the body. He comes back in like mad. He wouldn’t hardly know the guy from the beginning to the end of the session. He’s so much better, he’s so much more alert, and so forth. That’s just the theta exterior.

Now you wonder about radio waves getting to the sun, or radio waves getting across space. „Well, radio waves couldn’t get across empty space.“ But they haven’t got any in this universe. There isn’t any empty space.

All right, you make a good theta clear, you could kick him in the shins, or an automobile could run over that body, or anything could happen to that body, he would stand there and be outside, not trapped. What you’re doing is making a thetan trap-proof, as far as a body is concerned. And pea… I love these… these short-gap no-synapsis characters that go around saying, „A theta clear is uh… just a theta clear, and that’s nothing, why, anybody could be that, or do that uh… because uh… the astral walkers have been uh… been skidding around on their feet uh… for a long time on this subject, and everybody knows that they’re theta clears, and anybody can…“ Oh, piddle! It isn’t even vaguely connected!

Now there’s your rarefaction-condensation at work. You want to go out and test this with Geiger counters or something easy, do it. It’s very simple to do. You couldn’t exhaust, for instance, out of a bell jar, all the photons – you could exhaust all the air, but not all the photons.

You’ve got the individual EXISTS, and IS without a body, and no dependence on one, beyond his contact and communication lines, as long as he wants to stay in contact with the bodies. But the body doesn’t command him, he commands it. That’s a terrific goal, right there! You’ve got a human being, made into a new kind of human being. It’s a body being monitored by a trap-proof thetan. And that makes quite a guy! Quite a guy. There’s a big difference between that guy and homo sapiens. An enormous guy! This goal is so far beyond the goals of the first Book that I don’t think you could measure ‘em with light wave… meters… light-year meters. It’s just… be… way beyond anything. Because the bird’s immortal!

So the boys really got fouled up on air. They’d fire a pistol in an empty jar and say, „See! You can’t hear it. But light shines through it. So if light shines through it, the light is waving on linear waves and there’s some kind of a spooky wave called a linear wave and we don’t know anything about it but we can kid everybody that we do. It doesn’t work in formulas and it’s unpredictable, and we don’t know what these statics storms are and they couldn’t possibly be dispersal areas moving across Earth.“ And so you get a foul-up.

Maybe you hadn’t… probably… many of you taken even that into consideration. That you’ve just made a god! What is the definition of a god? It’s an immortal. Since time immemorial in this language, the gods are immortal. The immortals are gods. This guy can be… body can be bashed in, so forth, all he’s got to do is pick up another one. Knowingly, full knowingly.

Now what’s all this got to do with our subject at hand here? Simply means that this is the doggonedest, crammed, jammed-up space imaginable.

You’ve given him his identity, his own identification inside himself as much as he needs it, and his own state of beingness and stepped him sideways off the track, completely, of having to flick back through between-lives areas, and be this effect of God knows what-all. The body got killed, it’d be a sad thing because he would not be able to collect his social security as himself. That’d be real tough, wouldn’t it? So don’t… don’t sell this goal short. You’ve just made an immortal. So that… that’s a good enough goal! All by itself.

Now if you were to deal, then, with totally empty space you’d at least have space. You’d at LEAST have space. And that space is desirable. Right now you’d say, „Gosh, I wish I could fix up some totally empty, unassociated space that had nothing to do with the MEST universe. I sure wish I could – my own space.“

Well, if you make your intention of a person… you say we’re going to make a theta clear out of a person, that’s what you intend to do with that person. Just by definition. But if you don’t intend to do that much, let’s do something short of that. Let’s still state what it is. „I’m going to fix up her left hind leg. Work till her left hind leg is fixed up and then drop it. That’s the end of that.“

All right, that means that space is desirable.

Or if you were to put down you’re going to make a cleared theta clear out of somebody, oh no! How can you state you are going to do something of which you do not know the scope and dimensions? With an individual you’re going to say, „I am going to research the business of being a cleared theta clear, with this pc, and find out some more about it.“ Well, that’d be all right. But, „I’m going to make a cleared theta clear out of somebody,“ you might as well write down, „I am going to make a Thee-X-Epsilon“ with no idea of what a Thee-X-Epsilon could possibly be. It is not a goal. Because it has no scope or meaning.

Now something will happen about that to a gradient that is almost indescribably faint. The second you’ve got that space, there’s a slight enforcement to have it. You enforce it on yourself. You say, „All right now… now uh… now I want this space. Now I’m putting out these anchor points, now keep those anchor points right there.“ That’s enforce. „And uh… now I’ve got to put force on those anchor points. And look, those anchor points show a tendency to move out or move in. Let’s stop their motion. Heh-heh.“ In other words, inhibit.

What can a thetan do? Now, we’ll say cleared theta clear. You couldn’t put down such a goal. Because that’s the postulated outer line unattainable absolute. Probably anything we understand it to be is probably attainable already, but what is the outermost limit of it, Lord knows! Haven’t got any idea and you haven’t either. You won’t have for a long time!

And that would all be practically in the same thought breath, the same instant of thought. You would say, „I want this space. I have to put out the anchor points to enforce its existence and I’m going to inhibit the motion of the anchor points.“ And you’ve talked about a little tiny cycle of action that would take place clear up here between uh… ‘F’ and ‘G’. And between ‘F’ and ‘G’ here is a complete DEI.

But what… what do we get then, when we look at this? We say, „This is… we’ve got a theta clear, and we’re going to do something more. We’re going to process him some more.“ So you put down as your goal, „I am going to process him some more.“ Sure, you can go process him some more. You can just process him and process him, and… to do what? „Well, I don’t know, make a better thetan out of him, or…“

Now that’s true of any of your cycles of action. How vast a pattern do you want to work on? Or how vast a game do you want to play?

No, you could say, „I’ll process him some more to get rid of’ these ‘can’ts’ I found on the E-Meter as follows…“ All right, you got those ‘can’ts’ out, end of track! Otherwise you don’t get any… any end cycles on anything. You just keep going on forever, and your whole life gets dragged out to an interminable piece of endurance.

Now there are fellows that go down to the old men’s club and they sit over the chessboards and they play a good fast game of chess. If you were to give them adequate sized pieces, they would just squirrel. The way to play chess is to play it with live players… play it with good live players and uh… play it on a board of some size – oh, 200 feet by 200 feet – something like that. That’s good aesthetic chess. He can sit up above that and he can play chess.

So when you say, „I’m going to…“ here, you’ve got a… got a cleared thetan, „Now what’s my next goal for him?“ You could put down what the next goal is: „I’m going to fix it up so he can lift his body.“ See, you make a statement, to yourself. I don’t care if you write it down. Make the statement to yourself at a clear moment. „What am I going to do for Doaks, now that he’s a cleared thetan? I’m going to fix him up so he can lift his body.“ And that’s a specific drill, and you fix him up so he can lift his body.

But a guy has to sort of reduce down in mass so he doesn’t have as much space-mass ratio. And they get these little tiny boards, and so on.

Then maybe the next time… next time you process him, a few weeks later, you give him a few hours of processing, and he gets a what? You’re going to get him up to a point where he can lift up a taxi cab. Now, a taxi cab would be an entirely different project than lifting his body, but they’re consecutive on the same line. You get the idea? Specific statement of goals.

Did you ever play chess on a miniature pegboard? Well, if you will plot the games played on a miniature pegboard and if you could plot the games played on a big board, you’d find out they’d be different games. There’s a little more bravery and dash on the bigger board. And a guy gets pretty conservative on those little tiny pegboards. That’s just relative size.

Now let’s look at the overall in… statement of why we are doing this. Why? Well, the reason why we’re doing this would and should be codified before we could adhese, or cohese, as an operating group to the extent we would like to be one. Because that would be what the group goal is. What are we trying to do?

All right, then, the magnitude of the game – we move right into it – depends upon the space-mass ratios involved. If you’ve got very, very little mass for lots and lots and lots of space, you’re going to play a game that is very airy and of very quick duration – very fast duration. I mean, it’s just Zing! Swish! Swoosh! – fast game. All kinds of space and very little playingness.

Well, the group goal to a large degree depends upon the group. I don’t happen to be uh… either inclined to or in a position to tell you what the group goal should be. But I can sure give you the data so you can work it out. And if you all put your heads together and decide that’s what you’re trying to do, all of a sudden a lot of spirit and spark could come in on this.

Or, because that’s such a fast game, hardly any game at all. Or it could be an infinitely slow game, because, my God! Once you’ve got that much space your viewpoint, as far as time is concerned, is just all haywire. You’ve got all this space and practically no mass in it. And that would require… that would require a lot of airy, wide playing.

I told a preclear one time… he said, „Well, I can’t understand why I’ve got to originate all this energy.“

Probably if you were playing a game like that and it had speeches in it, or something like that, there would probably be all kinds of things to do in order to try to balance off this small particle mass. Nobody would be trying to do anything fast. They’d be trying desperately to do everything slowly. And the slowness with which they would operate would just be like flashing lightning. Lightning bolt flashes, the game has begun and ended.

And I said, „Hey, did you ever stop and think of this one thing? You could probably attract waiters in restaurants much more easily simply by reaching over and taking them sharply by the ear, or the shoulder, and turning them around and pulling them forcefully into the table.“

Uh… the… the uh… for instance, a speech of proposal of a game with all that space and with that very little mass would probably be very lengthy, it would have lots of ideas in it, it would be terribly complex. It would probably have an awful lot of grave courtesy in it. All backed up by a terrific spirit of play, see? And it would probably, this ornate, long, involved speech and probably each move would be accompanied by sweeping flourishes and uh… there would probably… they’d try to have to put together rituals to take the place of mass – no matter there, you see, to amount to anything, so the fellow says, „Well now, let’s see.“ The ritual by which we lose a particle. Of course, the value of a particle in all that vastness of space becomes great.

He said, „I could?“

This is to demonstrate, if you ever go into the heart of Africa or someplace and find a white man… Or did you ever go out in the desert anyplace and find somebody who’s been living there for a long time, and he hasn’t seen very many people. And you show up, you get treated like a prince – terrific ceremony and great courtesy, and he’s so really, genuinely glad to see you. You see, you’re valuable – you’re precious to him. I mean, he’s very happy to see you. You’d think it would be the opposite. He’s out there because he hates things, and so forth. That isn’t the case.

And he worked and he worked and he worked and he worked and he worked. And he came back to see me one day, and he says, „What do you know!“ he said, „I not only dragged one clear across the restaurant, but I also dragged the head waiter over to the table, and I made them stand there, and then I convinced them that I hadn’t done it. And that they were mistaken, that I didn’t want anything, and I wouldn’t let them go away!“

You can go rattling around the world, hit the sparse places, because the welcome mat in them is always out and you are valuable, your opinions are valuable, your news is valuable. All this is value. So you get terrific value per particle.

I told another preclear, „Do you realize that you could reach over with a couple of energy beams like this and make any girl smile at you, you wanted to smile?“

Now let’s crush it down to about half, and you have the space and the particles balancing in value, space at the top, at the beginning of the game is completely without value. There’s so much of it, and value is established by scarcity. So there’s all this space, so you’ve got all kinds of space. Nobody would dream up a top scale game for fighting for an area of space.

He said, „You could? No!“

You get a bunch of boys together, you know, a lot of minds and so forth. And they… they oh… „How about – let’s have this game and we’ll have this boundary line.“ They say, „What?“ „A boundary line – you have half of this space.“ „Half of what space?“

So he worked, and worked, worked. Force, see? Energy, energy. Had a big goal. Force, force, work, work work work work work, work.

„Well, half of all that area. And we’ll take the other half of that area, and then we’ll defend these two areas.“

And he finally goes out and pssww! „Yes! What do you know!“ he says. „It’s an awful artificial smile, though. You can make any girl smile at you,“ he says, „It makes them feel so silly. They walk down the street and they look at you and they wonder why they’re smiling at you!“

The guy will say, „You must be nuts! There couldn’t be a game like that.“

So, I said, „Well, you know, if it makes them feel silly, all you’ve got to do is put those same two things on their motor controls, and say, ‘Feel pleasant toward me.’„

And you’d say, „Yeah, you could play a game like that. You divide this space in half, and you defend…“

He says, „You couldn’t do that!“ I said, „Well, try it! Try it!“ „Feel pleasant toward me. I don’t… don’t…“

„You must be nuts! You couldn’t possibly do that. Uh… this… what’s the point? What… what’s… what’d be the point in this game?“

I said, „Try to get back up the line, how pleasant it is to touch them. Skip that. Just ‘Feel pleasant toward me.’„

And you say, „Well, to take your space, and you try to take our space.“

And he says, „You know, they do. They exude an awful lot of enthusiasm in my direction all of a sudden.“

Uh-uh. You’d never get it through anybody’s head at that level, or through your own head at that level. You’d just look at all this space and you’d say, „Winning space, that’s nothing.“

He’s been going around this all… for some time. He hasn’t got any goal of his own. You just have to keep giving him these little piece goals, and so forth, and uh… figure out things that’d be interesting to do, that he all of a sudden says, „You know, that’s awful interesting!“ And he’ll find out his process will just skim forward. Just take a terrific rush! You’ve given him a goal.

Now, all right. Right there at that level you’d say, „All right, now you see this small particle? That’s one electron. That is the wienie in this game. That’s what we’re all going to be after.“ That’s a Hollywood term, by the way. In the old movies with – they always had a treasure or something of the sort. And uh… this big treasure uh… that everybody was after, if everybody in the movie was after the girl, or if everybody in the movie uh… was after a position, or what anybody in the movie was after, old Hollywood writer slang was that was a ‘wienie’. And by the way, you take the wienie out of a picture or a story and it just goes right straight out of the game classification and ceases to be a story. Inelegant term, but quite expressive.

Now a group goal is a very necessary thing if your group is going to get interested and go forward. A person’s cause is motivated by future. Motivation’s in the future. It’s, ‘What I want’. ‘What do we want’. That’s cause. And if it’s interesting it sort of pulls us forward to it. You’re making the cause be motivated by something you want to have. And so when you postulate the goal for Mrs. Jones, make it something you want to have. Something that’d be interesting to you.

All right, one particle. And you say, „Now look, your whole team is after this particle and our whole team is after this particle.“

I don’t care what you do to Mrs. Jones. I don’t care if you drop her off the top of the wall… Woolworth State Building. That’s your preclear. ‘Course, if you drop too many of them, why then as a group we have to take a hand. Not to punish you, but to placate the police! And somebody’d have to drill up on how you pick the locks on cells or something in order to get your body back out, because there you are, trying to whisper in all your fellow auditors’ ears, „Hey! The body’s down in the clink!“ And, „I… I’m so rattled, I… I can’t zap any of these cops!“

And they’d say, „Gee, that’s a good game. Oh boy! Yeah, let’s go! Now how do we do this?“

So, what’s your… what’s your goal level as a group? Well now, it frames around this pretty well, truth be told. There’s games to make and games to unmake. And there’s one thing to play a game, and all games have umpires, and it’s quite another thing to be an umpire to a game, and it’s quite another thing to unmake games. You say that sounds like a very destructive goal. Oh no it’s not! ‘Cause what you do when you unmake a game is you get the players together, and you say, „Hey, what kind of a game would you like to play now?“ You haven’t busted their game up willy-nilly; they were perfectly willing at the time you unmade the game for it to be unmade. Actually you could play the game of unmaking games.

„We’ll make it so this one particle is unchangeable, it’s unalterable -so no matter who gets it, he couldn’t stash it behind him or something of this sort. That one particle can’t be altered. Ha-ha.“ So therefore it can’t be destroyed so that it can be won. Because if it could be destroyed, then at the moment the other side was going to win, why they wouldn’t have any… any… any game. So it’s got to be an indestructable particle.

Or you could play the game of umpiring a game. As a group, do you realize you could set up umpires to the group called MEST universe? It’s very strange, isn’t it? It sounds, it just sounds so flamboyant that you probably don’t think it’s completely attainable. But this is an easier one. You could actually set yourself up so that you just simply say, „Well, we’re the… the umpire squad, and uh… we decided this Earth-Venus-Mars triangular game here… gotta know more… something more about this, so that it could be played a little more equitably and so on, and with a little more interest. And uh… let’s find out what rules you’re playing by so that we can enforce them.“

So, here we’ve got all this space and this indestructible particle. All right, now let’s sit around here and see who can think of the biggest idea or the smallest idea, and the one who has the best one – we’ll put the judges over there – and the one who has the best one wins the particle. Wouldn’t be any action to amount to anything, you see. There’s just too much space. Action – what… what’s the idea of floating around in all this space? On, no! You don’t mean we… we’re supposed to MOVE in this stuff? There’s just too much space.

Or there’s the game called U.S. and Russia. And you simply set up a nice, conservative quiet 22.0 tone scale association, that simply starts monitoring the situation between the U.S. and Russia. And you say, „Well it’s all very well for you boys to have conferences, and uh… that’s all very well, but uh… unfortunately you… not… don’t realize it completely, but you’ve got to have an umpire present. And you’ve got to have more conferences, and these conferences have got to be wide open to the people of both places.“ And they’d say, „Well, why? What do you mean?“ „Well,“ you’d say, „It’s like this.“

Well, let’s go down scale from that and at 20-20 we find out that space and particles are equally valuable. And that the space… to make the particles in the space equally valuable, boy, do you have to have a vastitude. You have to have a vastitude of particles and a vastitude of space, really, to start making this game interesting and really get action.

And then… then Stalin and a couple of other generals, and things’d be finding themselves meeting in a small swamp in the middle of Korea. Yeah! I mean that literally! Pick ‘em up by the nape of the neck and slam them into the middle of Korea. And you say, „Okay, boys. Now we said there’s going to be umpires in this game!“ All right, it doesn’t appear immediately attainable to you. So it’s not within your framework of workability. But it’ll get there soon enough. And if it gets there and you want to do such a thing, go ahead!

But you get these and you get terrific action. Fast motion – now that game could be played brutally, which is heavy wave, or aesthetically, which would mean very tiny wave. And it could exist brutally or aesthetically at around 20.0. Either way – brutally or aesthetically.

Or, you can suddenly turn this way: You can just walk around and pick up teams, or set-ups, who’d gone all to pieces. Or they’ve dwindled down to nothing, where you have no game. Do you realize the cruelest thing that can happen is for a game to deteriorate to a no-game state? Where there isn’t any game possible, and everybody’s stuck in it? And they’ve forgotten their rules, and they don’t know anything about it, and so on. You could as a small association simply go around… (I’m going to petition to the city of Philadelphia to take the wheels off their street cars, and use some gravity bolts or something. Every wheel on those street cars is flat as the motorman’s head!)

And very often you will get the aesthetic team versus the brutal team. And they set that up today in their little miniature games called wrestling. You’ve got the brute and you’ve got the hero. And your hero is usually very pretty, and your brute is very crude, and so on. So this… you just play dichotomies when you get to the middle of the scale.

Anyway uh… you’ve got a makingness of games inherent in ending games. You have a responsibility for doing something about broken pieces, pieces and players, if you decide to end games. Well, you could suddenly put your heads together and say, „What do you know! What we’re going to do here is we’ll set up and just for practice monitor a few of the games going on on Earth and find out if their games are going according to our Hoyle. Whose Hoyle? Our Hoyle. Well, we’d have to have Hoyle. We’d have to write Hoyle on the subject of games, or Sudrow on the subject of games, or something of the sort.

You have the top of the wave band at the center of the scale, aesthetic wave at scale center, versus brutality at scale middle.

And uh… you decide that uh… this or that was happening, or people weren’t interested in this game, this game could be pepped up and become more interested. So you’ve just become game catalysts. You should pick up… (You see? I ran regret on that streetcar and it backed up all that distance!) Uh… there is a goal, which is an attainable goal. If you were to take, in the United States, and set yourself up as game umpires, that’s just what it’d amount to. Is… is the game called business and industry, is the game called militarism vs. politicianism, are these games running so that they’re interesting? Sole consideration! Is the game interesting? No! Well, let’s take and adjust a few factors that make it possible for the game to be interesting.

Well, let’s got down scale and look at this game called ‘being a human being’. And we find out that there’s damn little space and terrific numbers of particles and that the game is rendered utterly haywire by this factor: In order to get any kind of scarcity, people are so used to the idea that space has no value; they still think they’re top scale, you see, space has no value. So particles must be valuable – and good Christ! They’ve got bodies made out of billions to the billionth power of particles. And they’ve got all of this terrific space – I don’t know how many particles there are in the body. If you just start talking about a particle… a particle, and you make that particle an electron, God knows how many electrons a person’s got in his body. I don’t think even the smart boys could calculate it up.

Okay. Now. The limitation in the rules of games, the limitations on self and others, is necessary for there to be an interplay. There’s got to be a limitation. There’s got to be some frame of reference. That limitation can only be as light as an ethical understanding. We’re going to operate within ethics. And the reason why there has to be a limitation is not terribly obvious to you now, but it’s obvious to you from the theory which you have studied for some time.

Now you’ve got all these particles, these electrons, here on Earth, in Earth, in… you’ve got mass, objects, objects, objects and that’s cheap. Rrrrrr! You have to work and work and work. And we have to invest an idea in an object to make it good. We have to invest a lot of time and craftsmanship to make it good, in order to increase its havingness. And to increase its havingness more and more and more we finally get to – a wienie.

And that theory is simply this: Our whole activity tends to make an individual completely independent of any limitation. That’s right. You can get so much bigger than anything you are, and so disconnected from anything you’re in contact with, and so completely careless of the fact that this is what’s happening. If… you can go straight on out, and one person is capable of himself being a universe, hence you could do the whole thing yourself. You’re that big. But the second that you are that big, you would be imposing limitations on yourself, in order to scale down to a size which made you able to play against yourself. And then you’d impose limitations on the two sides of yourself. And you’ve gone into the same spiral of limitation.

Guys have to own lots of particles. Space is still of no value. That’s really aberrated, because. boy! it’s so, they’re… we’re so short on space. Do you know of a single place here on Earth where you can go a thousand miles an hour – except right here at this spot on the surface where you are at this moment, going a thousand miles an hour – do you know anyplace on Earth where you could turn loose and go a thousand miles an hour? That’s on the Earth’s surface. Well, you sure don’t. The uh… various things… the… out there on the deserts and down at Daytona Beach and that sort of thing, and your sea… waves make it impossible to really step up to any speed like that. And you just don’t have ‘length’ to really travel fast.

You see, limitation is necessary to that degree because there is no limitation, basically, and the limitation itself is an idea of limitation. And when you have an unlimited thing, in order to produce any action or randomity you’ve got to limit it to some degree. See, it’s not fair. Any one of you people could go ahead and rule the whole confounded shooting match all by yourself. So you’d make up a team, and say these are the limitations in which we’re operating and they’re so-and-so and so-and-so, and such and such, and change it around as you will. Do you follow me?

As far as your upper atmosphere’s concerned, the stuff is jammed. Boy, this is really packed in. Air – 15 pounds per square inch. And if you don’t think there are a lot of particles of air, you’re crazy. They talk about the wall of sound. Every once in a while some plane goes 650 miles an hour, or whatever it is, and he suddenly slows down and goes through this ‘sound barrier’ – crash! Everybody’s windows go „Boo-oo-oom!“ miles away.

Old Alistair Crowley had some interesting things to say about this. He wrote a book of the law. He was a mad old boy! I mean, he… you’d… you’d be surprised though, that Crowley, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Aristotle, all the boys, practically, along the line, except the real screwballs like Kant (He was insane! That’s why people bought him) – they all talked about the same thing. And actually you can find all these ideas we’re talking about, someplace in the writings of practically any philosopher who ever thought things over. He couldn’t fail to fall headlong across the most salient facts in the case. He never organized them or was able to evaluate or use them. But he had ‘em.

So, not a lot of motion involved in this game. Down here they can play chess and think it’s a game. Now the game has therefore gotten very serious, mostly because it doesn’t have any point. They… you… you can’t actually… you… you’ve got to work and work and work and work and work. In a depression they have to burn oranges with kerosene and pour milk in the rivers in order to starve the kids in order to make milk and oranges scarce.

Schopenhauer, THE WILL AND IDEA. Try attempted breakdowns of this and that. You read this fellow now and „By God,“ you’ll say, „this guy really made sense.“ Don’t… don’t forget, you’re talking from an aligned viewpoint of knowingness. And you can make anything make sense now. You could even make Congress make sense!

And what do you know? There is no such thing as scarcity. There is such a superabundance that men have to sit down and work overnight to try to dress something up to make it valuable. There is no scarcity. There is such a superabundance of particles that this Earth could feed at this moment over a hundred times its present population with modern equipment – photosynthesis.

Now, if you’re going to have rules, if you’re going to have a game, you’ve got to have rules. And if you’ve got rules, they must be obeyed. An… a rule which is not obeyed, or is obeyed just some of the time, or is so bad that it can’t be obeyed all of the time, it shouldn’t be there at all! And a game which has no rules has no game. It’s chaos. No alignment. Nobody to agree on anything or… so on. After you’d won something you’d never want it, you see; there couldn’t be a goal in it. So it has to be some sort of an agreement.

A photon… they thought the algae converted 28 percent of sunlight. The boys were going around thinking this, and they thought this and they’d never made a test, so they just went on thinking this. There was a doctor by the name of Warburg. Hitler – clever old fellow, Hitler. Oh, he was a smart boy, he was. He was just as clever as hell. Uh… he wrecked more games in less space of time and provided less games than any man I’ve ever heard of.

It’s only when the agreements become compulsions on individuals that the game gets very upsetting. And a piece then degenerates into a broken piece, and it… nothing is making any sense to him. He knows it’s no fun. He isn’t a participant, really, he’s just kind of used. And nobody really wants him or needs him. One of the things your broken piece asks continually, he asks to be needed. He wants to be wanted. He gets way down scale, and he hits that bad. That’s sub-zero on the tone scale. Imagine having to be needed!

And yet he was apparently trying to go in the direction of games, whereas actually he was uh… merely a despoiler of games. He set up games which would wreck. And that was the only goal at the end of each game that was set up – wreckage. I mean, his own wreckage too. I mean, he set this up very carefully. Terrific inventive power and productive power of the German people, and what’s he do? He uses it to try to knock apart everybody else’s game in the world, instead of playing a game. He would not permit it, that anybody could play ball with Hitler – nobody. He had wrecked all the games – boom-crash! „Und herring und garbage. Ach!“ Boy, he was a great boy.

And uh… so your obedience to the rules of course makes it, the rule, possible. But if they were bad rules they couldn’t be obeyed. What’s a good rule? It’s a rule which aligns action, and permits compliance. That’s all. It uh… you can’t have a rule that doesn’t permit compliance, although we’ve got a lot of ‘em on the statute books. There are a heck of a lot of rules you can’t comply with, by the way. There’s a rule in South Carolina says you have to beat your wife with a stick one inch in diameter. Just try and find a stick that’s exactly one inch in diameter! Furthermore you’ve got to have a wife to obey that rule. Furthermore a rule that doesn’t apply to all hands isn’t much of a rule. Then you’ve got a specialized caste system going which is too complex.

Anyway, a guy like Hitler comes along and he takes all the aesthetic value, everything else that he can possible mass together, and all he does is crash games.

Now unconsciousness of rules to add reality. And after you’ve got the rules, if they’re real good rules you can duck ‘em. You say, „Well, everybody obeys these author, statically.“

„Oh, you’re here in this area? Itchy, of course, in this area we do so-and-so and so-and-so. Naturally! Nobody’d think of doing anything else.“

Hitler chased out Warburg. And War… Dr. Warburg, 1933, ‘34, went to the University of Maryland, where he has since conducted tests on photosynthesis vats. And the algae converts something like 88 percent of the sunlight that hits it, not 28. And this gives you a green yield per vat acre of 500 tons of food per annum; the highest yield we have today on an acre of ground is alfalfa at 5 tons an acre per annum. And the usual yield is about 2 tons per acre per annum of the very arable land. Isn’t that fascinating?

„Well,“ the fellow says, „you mean you got a law about this thing or something?“

And al… and algae eats minerals and we have all kinds of those. Minerals and water and you’ve got lots of water, don’t let anybody kid you you haven’t got lots of water. There are methods of refining sunlight – I mean refining sea water – to such a degree that you could have all the fresh water you wanted.

„Yes,“ they say, „natural law, yeah. God gave it to us.“

For instance, even in California. The governor there… the governor there, of course, keeping up the law of scarcity doesn’t make it possible, offered a prize of a million dollars to anybody who could invent a process which would turn sea water cheaply into fresh water. Who’s he kidding? Himself or the public, or who? Because it can be done with considerable ease. He’s got nothing but solid deserts back of him – the damnedest, biggest desert you ever saw in your life – huge, natural filter plants, HUGE. And uh… the… the… the… all he needs is pumping systems. It doesn’t cost very much to pump water around. You could filter salt out of salt water and put fresh lakes back of Los Angeles until hell wouldn’t have it.

They just left the conference yesterday where they formulated it. „God gave it to us.“ That’s it.

Only trouble is it would spoil the scarcity. Everybody’s very well aware of it here on Earth that we must have a scarcity of particles in order to increase wantingness. And they’ve increased it and it’s gotten out of gear to a point where there can be no real game for the majority of people here… they’re not even aware of the fact they’re in a game until they’re pretty solidly processed. They’ll come up the level and they’ll… all of a sudden they’ll get back their spirit of play. They’re practically dead because scarcity is space, really, but space has no value. And scarcity… enforced scarcity of particles when there is such an abundance of particles and an abundance of potential food production that you couldn’t keep up with it.

Now you’ve got to have ARC with others to play, and reverse ARC with others to play. There’s got to be another team. And you have to have teammates. But you could go up to a level where your need for ARC didn’t exist at all. But you’re making a game now.

Now as far as birth control is concerned, you say, „Well, yes, birth control, we’ll just overreach this food supply.“ Oh no it wouldn’t.

Now pain is penalty which will be obeyed. You’ve got to have the rules obeyed. How do you enforce the rules? You put an automatic enforcement around that everybody desires to use. The second everybody desires to use the enforcement, they will obey it too. They obey it to set an example. Pain is the enforcer in this universe. But don’t think that’s the only one. It could be: You disobey the rules… you disobey the rules, you are immediately surrounded by smoke. And the smoke continues till you’re able to obey the rule. Just like that. I mean, you’d have no pain to bother with, but it’d certainly be annoying!

Uh… the auditors who have discovered this to date have asked me not to mention it, but theta clearing provides uh… pregnancy termination uh… at will. We mustn’t mention this because, God help us all, there goes the moral code. Penicillin took out the disease level and uh… now if a person… a girl can take a couple of beams of energy, just move out back of her head and take a couple of beams of energy and terminate a pregnancy…

Now, agreement to rules and penalties is necessary to continue a game. Fellow has to agree to a game before he can participate in it. And the reason why things have gone bad here on Earth, and in the MEST universe at large is simply that… that people didn’t agree to this game. They thought – they did. This game started out in a very strange way. And uh… of course went off its rockers sooner or later.

Now it didn’t… nothing… nothing wild or forceful or upsetting or anything like that. Just make sure that the tube opens. That’s very simple. There’re uh… there’re muscles, and so forth, and that sort of thing, and pregnancies that were as much as three months advanced, and that sort of thing, have been terminated this way. In how long? 24 hours. With what kind of a set-up? None. What kind of repercussions? None. Isn’t this fascinating?

It started out in an effort to never be unmade. Its goal was eternity. Its dream was forever. Can’t have anything. The guy that made it up didn’t know anything about the necessity to have rules to have a game.

So you’ve got something like birth control sitting right there in theta clearing. A lot of experimentation could be done with something like this, in order to get it all down fine. But the three auditors who have had anything to do with it have discovered that it was just deadly: One-two-three.

Deterioration of game until no game is inevitability in any game. All games come to an end. This game tried to set up for an eternity. Like he’d yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, ‘Eternal, eternal’, boy, every time you turn around in this universe you see ‘Eternity’, ‘forever’, ‘infinity of time’. They don’t exist.

Well, if you’ve got… if you’ve got birth control under control, if you have food in plenty – gosh! It looks to me like the game could get very interesting and very easy here on Earth. Yes, it could. Because look at… look at what people are mainly concerned of. Uh… it’s all right for us in this country; we’ve got plenty of food, but uh… gee! They’ve got an abundance of babies as the goal of the society of India and China. Oh, no! It’s just… just… you just don’t…

All right, when a guy is unable to play, it’s because he has never agreed to play the game, and somebody’s lied to him and said it isn’t a game. And how you do that? You convince a guy he has to work by creating a scarcity. And then d… making his existence, his continued existence, completey dependent upon it. And that’s work!

Puerto Rico with one of the heaviliest populated areas in the world is playing a game down there now of having 18 children per family. Oh, it’s just grim! Well, you provide a superfluity of human beings like this, they get so cheap that there’s no role for them in any game.

Now, the game of complexity and levels – of course you’ve got to have complexity in a game, otherwise it becomes monotonous. Okay, we’ll run that on down the line.

And do you know that nowhere here on Earth do they have a Games Umpire, nowhere here on Earth do they have a Games Supervisor, nowhere on… here on Earth do they have an Office of Maker of Games, Substation Earth – noplace. There’s nobody going around thinking about games – nobody. So what do we do about something like this? Why you can just upset this old applecart left and right, by studying what is basically a game.

Now, necessity to have a new game coded, before one ends the old game, otherwise everyone else becomes a maker of games with no game. Every guy’s trying to make his own game. And you just get a general wild scramble. Well, you start ending a game, you kill something without putting something in its place. And the darn thing won’t die. Not worth a nickel. It just won’t die. What exists has a persistency in its existence. If you’ve ever tried to knock a group off you would recognize how unwilling that group is to die.

Now in the first place, everybody… there’s another right that other people might contest, is: Anybody has a right to play in a game, some game. That’s right. Now people who are playing a game have a right to exclude people from playing a game, but they do not have a right to set it up so that those people can’t play in another game.

I swear to Pete you could take every member of a military company and stand them up against the wall and shoot ‘em down, and you’d still have a military company! Proof: The massacre of the Seventh Cavalry. We’ve still got a Seventh Cavalry! How could you have a Seventh Cavalry? The Seventh Cavalry was massacred by the Sioux Indians, at the… Little Big Horn, in 1876. Still got one! Persistence of existence.

So there’s a lot of rights of games. And when you’ve… when you have examined and expanded rights of games, you have overreached and much more than restored and outlined the rights of man – much more. Because it adds something else. All the rights of man do is give a man a right to be bored. If they gave him the… gave him the outermost freedom of action, all these ‘freedom froms’, it would wind up with its final goal as the right to be bored, because there’s nothing with which to gain… engage his interest. Nobody’s taking any responsibility for engaging anybody’s interest except a handful of artists and a few entrepreneurs here on Earth. They… they’re just of no… they’re… they’re given every single kind of roadblock.

Well the way you do that, you have to get a more interesting game, before you end an old game. Now you want to know why your preclear stays around his body, and hangs around and doesn’t do anything and doesn’t go anyplace? Two things happen. He hasn’t found, one, that his mock-ups are more interesting than reality, laughingly called. And the other thing he hasn’t found is communication in the state which he is in with others. So he feels there couldn’t be any ARC and he’s liable to cut himself off completely. These things then have to re… be rehabilitated. See?

It’s from these people alone, really, that interest in existence stems. Oh, they’ve just set this game up so haywire that the game is just completely out of control and the whole game MEST universe is going about in the same direction. The game was set up with a 180 degree wrong vector and, of course, as it comes out along the line it drifts further and further over on to the wrong side for the individuals involved in the game. And that’s no good.

And he’ll go on, and he’ll hold himself kind of static because he doesn’t see any… any upper goal. He doesn’t see himself going anyplace. Therefore it really… really is of considerable interest that he sees that he can go someplace. Well if he’s just going to the stage of theta clear, that’s fine; let him go to the state of theta clear. That’s pretty good. He can still operate as a mortal, and be immortal. And boy, that’s sure having your cake and eating it too!

So, at the start of it, however, the feeling that there must be a game would be your highest echelon of compulsion. There isn’t any reason why you have the feeling there must be a game, but if you’re here, you’ve gone through that strata, and you still have that feeling there must be a game. And I’m not telling you to get rid of that feeling; I’m telling you to rehabilitate the spirit of play. And then you can look over the upper strata and find out if you want to get rid of the other one.

So, we have then uh… as far as the group is concerned, quite a wide variety of choices. What does a group do which has in its hands the capability of making games? Ending games? Umpiring games? You found the rules, you see? I mean, here you sit, you’ve got a good group, and what do you do? Well if you want this to be a group, you want to cohese, you kind of have to get together and put your heads together and get some kind of agreement on what you’re doing. And then – and only then – can the group be cause. If you just idly spin, this way and that, and not think about it any further than that, the group will not become cause over any large area, but is apt to become an effect of a lot of things. So even though it’s a poor goal, it’s better than none.

But you’re not going to get rid of the other one until you’ve rehabilitated the spirit of play. You’ve got to go up through this cycle of action you see on the board here, up through the area I’ve marked ‘1’ there, at least the ‘AB’ strata, before you could even know the sensation Spirit of Play. It doesn’t take too long to get to that stage, but it is gotten and attained by drilling in emotion… putting emotion on things and taking it off again. And not forgetting exhilaration and way above that, Spirit of Play… Spirit of Play.

And you can put that down as a beautiful maxim, that sounds like one of these horrible truisms, but boy it’ll fish you out of more holes than you could possibly imagine you could get yourself into. A poor goal is better than none. You’ll find yourself very often squirreling around, and spinning around, and you won’t know which way you’re going or which end is up, because you’ve decided all the goals you could put your eyes on were too vague or too poor, or too unwanted to try to attain. And that itself is a bad aberration, and it shows a misdirection on your own part, and a misestimation on your own part, and a lack of understanding on your own part of what you’re doing.

Now somebody who gets up to 40.0 and hits serenity – nobody ever put serenity at 40.0 – it is ABOVE 40.0 and it’s ABOVE ‘there must be a game’. And a guy who can get it up to feeling serenity without feeling ‘There must be a game’ has simply gotten… it’s just one of these things has happened; he’s gotten on the subway at 42nd and Broadway and has arrived in the Bronx without travelling on the subway. He just… it just… in this agreement pattern, and in the pattern of backtracking out of this universe and rehabilitation, it just can’t happen. You couldn’t hit REAL serenity without having gone through the most hectic, compulsive aspects of Spirit of Play – unless you’ve known Spirit of Play in its heaviest sense, there could be no serenity for you, because Spirit of Play would still lie there as a basic underlying compulsion.

There is no goal vast enough to absorb your total capabilities. Because your total capabilities are so vast that they make goals. You are, yourself, cause. So how on earth can you set it up so cause can have anything else but cause? Unless you come downscale a little bit.

And you talk about Serenity, you better know what you’re talking about, because there isn’t anybody in this room has ever felt it, I’m sure of that – not… maybe, for 74 trillion years anyway.

A goal, any kind of a goal, is better than none. You say, „What am I going to do?“ Oh, worry about it. You… you squirrel on it and squirrel on it: „What am I going to do? Oh, how am I going to handle myself? What are going to be my goals?“ and so forth.

Serenity – oh, brother! You can… Serenity. You… you get next to somebody who’s really serene, you feel like you’ve, on a hot summer day, walked into a beautifully cool lake of water. You just feel like „Uhh-huhh!“

Set one up! Any damn thing! Say, „I’m going to become…“ or „I’m going to be…“ or „I’m going to have…“ And goals set up in the capacities of Be, Do and Have. And the start of a goal is beingness, and the end of the goal is havingness, in this universe. But you don’t have to set them up like that.

But there’s HIGH, FREE feelings in these upper scale emotions in the games. Boy! This feeling about 22.0 – it’s… you’ve got… you’ve got a flock of teammates and there’s a… all this thing is running this way and that. I mean, everybody’s so dead serious. Oh, they… they… they are serious too, to a point of brutality, if they are playing on the brutal side of this thing. You talk about playing for keeps! Because there isn’t very much to lose, you see? I mean a guy can’t be hurt bad. A guy who can be hurt as bad as homo sapiens couldn’t play such a game. They really play for keeps.

You can set yourself up a cycle of action in any direction you want to. Supposing you are… you just don’t know what to be. Well, just think about it for a while, and think about it, and then think about the strangest thing you could be, or something like that. And all of a sudden you’ll say, „Say, you know what? I’ll bet I could be the doggonedest minister of a Baptist church you ever heard of!“ Well, silly, but it’s better than just sit around and mope! It’d be silly for you, ‘cause it’d be a relatively insincere goal. Or would it?

We’ve got this Team A, they’re the Whites, and Team B, they’re the Blacks in this game. And they consider themselves teams, they’ve got divided sides and this and that. And boy, the code of ethics that goes for a team- mate is tougher and bigger than anything you ever had when knighthood was in flower.

Uh… they… they have a formula on how you become the minister of the Baptist church. And I’m afraid that you’ve gotten just a little bit above the standard formulas. One of the ways you do it is go around and find the Deacons, is to have them elect you. Sounds strange, but that’s all. Another way you can do it is pick up some poor divinity student who’s better off dead anyhow, he’s practically dying, hang him up, and make him up… patch him up a little bit, and parade him on down like a doll and put him on the pulpit. It’d be interesting. You could run him part-time.

When we picked up the chivalric condition of knighthood and its vows – was probably picked up back on the track from some team or some degraded uh… bit of team ethic. And uh… yes, that’s superlative. And, oh, a guy would do anything on a team basis. He’ll get himself killed to save a teammate, and that’s all. Teammate’s in danger and he can prevent that danger from occurring, he’ll get himself killed. And that’s just expected.

You know, a guy came in one day who had a lot of… had… oh, he’d just been ennuied, just so bored with existence, all of his existence. Very conservative and so on. I saw him a few days later, and this guy looked like he was a… he looks like a… a quarterhorse, or a… or a short-distance runner. Panting, big bright terrific look in his eye and so forth, and he was… I said, „What’s happened to you?

That isn’t heroic. Down here on Earth a guy goes out and gets himself knocked off to save the company, or something of this sort, Christ, they give him medals and they string it all over the place and he’s in all the war savings bonds ads and… and uh… the government…

He said, „Well, there wasn’t anything worth doing, so I made up something to be worth doing.“ „All right, well what was that?“ „I won’t tell you what it is, because…“ It’s very amusing!

By the way, this government never commercializes bravery. I don’t want you to get that idea. This government has not cheapened every medal and honor it could offer. This government would not cheapen anything. This government’s a pure, upstanding, noble group, and it has no ulterior motive in being… a politician in the government, there is none of those. Nobody ever gets any graft or anything like that.

And he’d thought up that one and then thought he could do something else simultaneously, so he was working on each one part-time. And boy, keeping those two straight was more than he could possibly keep track of, and he was really going all out. He was going to bring about the confederation of two completely impossible opposite polarities. And merge them. And he was proceeding to do so. And then one of these days you’ll see a very strange circumstance happen in some department or other. You’ll see a lot of ‘em happening.

You know the country’s in apathy on crooked government right now? They even let the Republicans in.

Now you call this interfering with peoples lives. Piffle! What lives? Now you’ll find out there’s a certain number of people that go for broke. And there’s a s… lot of them say, „Oh, boy! Gee! These beautiful, beautiful slave chains! Gee! Oh, now nice! Nice, nice, big chains around my neck and my ankles,“ and so forth.

Well, anyhow, here’s team play. And… and you talk about playing for keeps: They’re playing for this particle, or they’re playing for this planet or something of this sort. It isn’t covert play. You see, Earth really isn’t being played for. There is a crew that would like to think it’s playing for Earth, but they’re pinned down. They’re pinned down like a soldier with 88 millimeter shells passing over his head at the rate of one per millisecond. And there’s… there’s… they… there’s a covert infiltration, and you pick it up in preclears every once in a while, monitoring action that takes place here on Earth from a between-lives area. And you’d think this was very powerful and it’s REALLY getting some place – naw. Because it isn’t a game. Because the people who are doing that are too degraded on team play to stand up against the team that’s playing the other game. There isn’t any game going on here. Unless it’s a game called ‘rehabilitation’, or it’s a game called ‘exit depot’. Now uh… – which it could be.

The hardest thing for any liberator to face is the fact that a large percentage of the people he was trying to free wanted desperately to be slaves. And it’s broken the heart of every liberator to date. To date! Hardly any exception. A man’d have to be awfully stupid not to see that. But he would be pretty dull if he didn’t see this too: Sure, sure, but. the guys he didn’t liberate were worth liberating.

All right, now here we have, then, this whole… this whole sphere of interest and activity called the MEST universe which started out as a game. But don’t think the MEST universe is the only game there is. This would be something like saying, „There is only the Rose Bowl.“ They think of this in California and I’m sure they’re convinced of it. Every five Californians that you picked up with and met, you would ask, „Is there any other stadium in the world?“

Why… why try to get these allnesses? That’s typical MEST universe. „We have to do it a hundred percent – I used to fall into those traps too. Uh… „We have to do it all, we have to do it a hundred percent.“

He’d say, „No. The Californians invented stadiums and they invented football. And they built the Rose Bowl and now that they have built the Rose Bowl, this is the only bowl in this world, besides being the biggest bowl in the world.“

The Christian goes about it in the opposite direction. He says, „The one that goes away from the flock and we had to bring back was worth all the rest.“ Flow he’s just obeying the laws of flows, don’t you see? The guy walks away, so he’s got to be had back. That’s not clever! Uh… as an insane thing. But sure!

Now California is second only to Texas in the naivity about its uh… environs, and so forth. That’s not the case. The… the games played in the Rose Bowl are not the only football games or ball games played in the world. I don’t want you to get the idea there are just because you talked to a Californian.

Uh… another fellow’d take a refuge in this… if he sees this happen, all of a sudden says, „Well, maybe fate decided it. Maybe it was all for the best, and maybe fate decided it.“

But that’s kind of like the MEST universe. The MEST universe would have you believe this is the only game there is anyplace in the whole of anything. That’s not true! Not even vaguely true. Games are going on with all kinds of rules, terrific interest levels and so forth.

Your fate! There is no other fate but thou! That’s true! And so you say, „I’m going to free all and every…“ No you’re not! Unless you were willing to become all and every, and then be yourself free. That’s the way to do it. Why bother? No randomity!

All right, I’m going to read off for you this paper just so we’ve got it on the tape. How many minutes we got? – five minutes. That’s plenty.

So pick up what you can get as freedom, and then if the other thing is too much in the road still, it’s still got all them thar slaves in it, and those fellows that are saying, „Oh, boy, gimme… gimme that MEST, gimme those chains. Let me haul on the bottom of this tombstone so I get it good and heavy so I’ll never be able to crawl again out from under it.“ Let ‘em stay there! The hell with them! That’s their hard luck! And the other thing is… the other thing is, there’s the guys that go for broke and the slave who wants his chains. You can always use a slave. Gives randomity. They never do anything for you, they always pull you down. Gives you randomity.

„The aberration above time is ‘there must be a game’. Now there’s a postulate up there, ‘there must be a game’ and there’s an interest level and therefore it enters into a flow. And ‘there must be a game’ and ‘there must not be a game’. So you have the Un-maker of Games quite as important as the Maker of Games.“

You know, in every Roman triumph they had a slave drifting along, trotting along back of the… the… the great victor’s chariot. He came home in triumph, he’d just conquered the Basques, or the Lion’s Club, or something of the sort, and they always had somebody, a slave, standing there telling him he was just mortal after all. He was just mortal after all. You can’t control everything. That’s right. In every one of those triumphs they had that guy behind the victor.

Now we get „The rules of games are as follows: Limitations on self and others, obedience to rules, unconsciousness of rules to add reality“ – we pretend the rules are real. „ARC with others to play. Pain as a penalty which will be obeyed“ – you have to have a penalty that will be obeyed. Otherwise, nobody will stick with the rules. „Agreement to rules and penalties is necessary to continue a game.“ And boy, are they! „Deterioration of a game until no game“ – cycle of action shows you the whole game is an object with no action. You know, the… the… the wienie finally becomes everything there is, and there is no action even to get the wienie.

Well, that’s fine, that’s fine, uh… that’s what a slave does, essentially. He’s saying, „Look! You can’t make god out of everybody. You can’t do it. I’m proving it. Look at me!“ Uh… and he gives you randomity as a result. So why worry about those things? Why worry about those things? It is a game. It is not serious!

„Work is admission of inability to play“ – if you have to work, you can’t play, obvious. They really yap about that here. „A game of complexity and levels“ – the Tone Scale is such a game. It’s just a map of MEST universe games.

But what is serious is unmaking a game and NOT HAVING a game. That’s kind of serious. Unless you are just willing to go clear on up, shoot the works, straight or, up to the top, into the beautiful serenity, and just be above beingness there. Straight on through.

„Peculiarity or liability of a maker of game, people attempting to play the game of Maker of Games“ – it’s a game itself. Your big capitalista or commissar will do that. „The game called Maker of Games results in No Game. And the game called Unmaking Games results in a game. 8008.“

There might be spheres and areas on theta that you could then move across into that would be different than game areas. If they are, I do not know about then. And I know many areas in which theta’s operating, and whether they know it or not they’re operating on the laws of games. One way or the other they’re operating within these laws which I’ve read to you. And they don’t know these exist, which is the beautiful joke on the whole work. There are universes which know every law you’ve got in the MEST universe. And don’t know the rules of games. So you could set yourself up to be an inter- universal empire… umpire team. You could. And get away with it.

„There’s a game called freedom,“ which is what you’re playing right at this minute. „And Games contain trickery and misdirection to win“ – your 180 degree vector of Have and Agree.

But what do you want to do? If you have these rules of games, you can tell yourself that there are all kinds of things to do. But the first thing you’ve got to do is because a good, solid theta clear. Let’s take a break.

„The prize of winning is making a new game“ – what do you know? „Or permitting a new game to be made or making it possible for a new game to be played.“ Those are all prizes, and that’s all the prizes there are. „The necessity“ – oh, of course, there’s these gimmicks, these wienies and so forth. But everybody just knows that they’re spurious as hell.

Uh… „The necessity to have a new game coded before one ends the old game.“ Otherwise, everyone becomes a maker of games with no game.

Now, „The value of pieces. Ownership of pieces may be also the ownership of players. And the difference between players and pieces, and the difficulty of pieces becoming players“ – boy, when a piece becomes a player, there’s really a hell of an upset in the game; it’ll just blow. Oh, the quarterback walks out of the football game and all of a sudden starts to run the whole football game, and nobody can tell him „No.“ That football game’s dead.

Now… so you’ve got to hide the rules from the pieces, otherwise this is going to happen.

„Now the caste system of game consist of this: The Maker of Games, he has no rules, he runs by no rules. The player of the games, rules known but he obeys them. And the assistant players merely obey the players. And the pieces obey rules as dictated by players, but they don’t know the rules.“ And then, what do you know. There’s broken pieces, and they aren’t even in the game, but they’re still in the game. And they’re in a terrible maybe: „Am I in the game or am I not in the game?“

Now, „How to make a piece. This is how to make’ a piece: First, deny there is a game. Second, hide the rules from them. Three, give them all penalties and no wins. Four, remove all goals“ – all goals. „Enforce them… their playing. Inhibit their enjoying. Make them look like but forbid their being like players“ – look like God but uh… you can’t be God.

„To make a piece continue to be a piece, permit it to associate only with pieces and deny the existence of players.“ Never let the pieces find out that there are players.

Now out of these you’re going to get games. Now here’s a process that has to do with the making of games, and all this process adds up to, is you just address to those factors which I just gave you, oh, run and change postulates and any creative process that you can think of and shift postulates around, you get a whole process.

But remember, that up at the top of it there is a big postulate, „There must be a game.“ Therefore if you want to regain the Spirit of Play, people have got to unmake postulates they’ve made all along, saying, „There mustn’t be a game. There mustn’t be a game. It can’t be a game. Don’t play with me. I mustn’t be played with. Life is serious. This isn’t a game. We’re playing for keeps. I’ll never get out of this,“ and so forth. In other words, the postulates which they’ve made to convince themselves that these are the rules and the only rules that can be played, and these that I’ve just read off to you.

I’m going to have this typed and you can figure it out more or less as you want to. I could, of course, give you even further rundown on this, if you wanted me to, but it takes… takes a little while to do so. It’s actually the backbone of what we are doing. But let’s take a break.