This is the third hour afternoon lecture. It’s December the 18th.

This is the last lecture of the Philadelphia Lecture Series, and the name of this lecture is „Your Own Case.“ And this is addressed to you, the student. Not to your preclears.

The… uh… graph which you see up here is a graph demonstrating present time, and uh… third part of the graph we have here, and all it is is just uh… the… the amount of energy a person uses to think. That would be the lowest level on this picture: the amount of energy a person uses to think.

You as a student are, we all know, a difficult case. And the reason you are difficult is we decided and agreed upon a long time ago in Dianetics that you were a difficult case because you knew all the answers yourself. Therefore no auditor could have any real altitude with you and you knew all the ways to dodge.

Of course, A PERSON DOES NOT USE ENERGY WITH WHICH TO THINK! That is the essence of nonsense. Because if a person uses energy to think, a person could only think then with facsimiles. And how can he only think with facsimiles?

Another thing, a fellow works it in this way sometimes, when he gets rather bad off and he said, „The only reason it is working upon me is because I have heard all about it. And I have agreed that it works, so it’s working on me. And then I don’t know whether it’s working on me or not and I don’t know whether I’m any better or not, and I don’t know…and I don’t know… and…“ the next thing you know he’s sitting right there on the Chart of Attitudes, „I don’t know“, what do you know! Apathy!

Well, because if he uses energy to think, all he’s doing is introducing automaticity. He throws out a little energy beam and that restimulates something or other and then that tells him what to think, and that’s the way he gets into this. He starts trusting his uh… facsimiles and experience rather than trusting his ability to be.

Now, the way to get over this is to take the responsibility through these next periods of lecture, review when you’re hearing these tapes, having seminars, you as an individual take the responsibility for the fact that your fellow student knows what he is doing. Because not only you but the fate of what you’re interesting in, are in his hands.

So, he’s up there on a gradient scale, and we see well into the future there, no energy, no ‘E’. There isn’t any energy there used to think, a person postulates, a person decides.

You perhaps can be more or less sure what you’re going to do with it, but can you be sure that he knows what he is doing with it? Let me inject that insidious question! Can you be completely competent yourself, and yet be the only competent auditor in your immediate area?

Decision. There is no higher decision than… than… than just saying so. You… you say so and it’s going to be true, so therefore you say so.

You might think that this is desirable from a standpoint of economics, you might think it’s desirable in numbers of ways, there is reverse vectors on this, and your best intentions sometimes might go awry. But, uh… let me ask a not insulting question. Can you be absolutely sure of his competence? Because till you can feel some confidence in his competence, you’re not a group. And you won’t have any security about being audited.

Now, there are a lot of little sneaking tricks a person plays on himself. He says, „Well, that wouldn’t be any fun if you just said it was the case, and then it turned out to be the case; there wouldn’t be anything to expect, you see, and therefore I wouldn’t get any…“

If you think there’s one person in this class who will never become a competent auditor, then you have not reached an optimum. And you have not made very sure that that auditor knows what he’s doing. That sounds like that’d introduce a lot of randomity. But that won’t introduce any randomity; what’ll introduce randomity is this: Trying to prove that you know and that he doesn’t.

Oh, what a… what a trick. That… that is just a trick, by the way, it isn’t the case. When a person gets up to a point where he’s… starts to think with no energy, boy things really start to get smooth, and he starts to enjoy things in a calm, beautiful way and he can introduce all kinds of randomity, his interest level gets very high; his interest level’s very high, he doesn’t have much liability for anything.

That’s the way homo sapiens goes about it, and look where he is! Try to prove that you know and he doesn’t. No, no. You’re not interested in proving that you know. You’re just interested in making sure that he does.

But then he falls into these various tricks. He has an experience, and this experience quote teaches him unquote something. And in being taught something, he is in a state whereby he will then use the experience instead of acting, and so he goes down tone scale and he starts using a light deposit… I mean, a light amount of energy to think. He wants it to flick over to that old facsimile over there that he’s got, and that’ll flick back in a certain way, and then that will square him up in some other way, and he gets it all worked out, whereby he will now be prevented from leaving a situation in one condition when it should be in another condition, and he’s figured out some kind of a method to use force on himself in order to be sure that he complies with the rules. And he made… probably made these rules to that extent and he’s complying with his own rules, or somebody else than himself, and they’re not very savage rules.

You take that sort of an attitude, you won’t calmly let something go by the boards. There isn’t any reason why you should let anything go by the boards. There isn’t any reason why you or three or four of you shouldn’t take that auditor which you’re not secure in his knowledge, and back him up against the corner and make darn sure that he is. Of course you’re making the old deal that used to go on on the track a lot of the time; it’s on the basis of „Prove it! You’ve got to prove that you know. Proving that one knows is quite aberrative. Unless it applies to procedures which can be articulated with the ease that these procedures can be articulated.

Then he’d drift downscale which is back toward present time, and uh… he’d use more and more energy with which to think. That is to say, he’d use facsimiles more and more. Instead of using just little locks and things like that to think with, now, why he uses a little heavier brand of facsimiles.

In order to get a block and tackle to work, one must know how to rig one. And in order to get a preclear up the scale, one must know the fundamentals of auditing so thoroughly that it becomes a completely automatic proposition, in a complete scale of knowingness with no automaticity. You either know data, or you don’t. There isn’t any half-way point about it, you either know what a cycle of action is or you don’t. Because the answers which have been dug up here are not vague answers. They… not talking about me, I’m just talking about this subject line. They are… they’re not vague answers. And if there’s a vagueness which exists, it was either a vagueness of communication, ‘cause a communication, to be a full communication, has to be received, or you’re fighting something that would make it seem non-survival to you to know that datum.

Life has not been good to him. Life hasn’t been good to him, indeed! How could life be anything to him? He is life!

In either one of these two lines, then, an auditor could fail. But he could mostly fail if he did not have confidence in his auditors. Not one man, not one girl, in this room, but has had the rather sorry experience of being part of a team of homo sapiens. College. High school. Your gang, and everything was going along fine, until all of a sudden you found out one day one… somebody was cutting your throat. Or you wore the old school tie, and you found out that the moment you were no longer in the old school, there wasn’t any team anymore.

So, he’s starting to reverse, And when he gets into present time – ‘course, present time is a consistent and continuously existing equation which this is the solution of the interdependency balance of all dynamics as represented at this instant for your future look at things.

You’ve gone through a continuous process of falling away from teams of various sorts or another, or seeing them break up. Seeing groups not reaching their goals. And it is no wonder that you would feel a disgust for groups of homo sapiens. But it would be every piece of curiosity in the world if you began to develop one as a group of auditors, who have, in your hands, all the skills to come up the tone scale and to be and to make good team mates.

Of course, present time itself becomes something one needs. He has to have the solution of all eight dynamics at any moment in order to get himself a higher level. See? I mean, he’s already said, „Look. The eight dynamics are not myself. I couldn’t be eight dynamics. I need to be informed by eight other dynamics of some sort or another as to the existing state. Now, the first dynamic informs me very easily by pouring my own facsimiles in on me, and the second dynamic informs me with equal ease, by demonstrating to me the existence of this sensation. And the third dynamic tells me this, because uh… here are all these people, and uh… I am in agreement with them, and they’re in agreement with me.“ And so on, we go on up the line.

You know it can be done all by yourself and by nobody else, by the way. You don1t need any help. And that, I know, is the best reason why you should have some team mates you can trust. Coming up all the way up the line, however, necessitates that at no time you will ever stumble or fall, in any way whatsoever. That precludes that… that you must not stumble or fall. Anywhere. You must get up the line, by your own bootstraps, and remain stable there, and then never one day blunder into a theta trap, or get into a parahelion around something or other, that has an undue field, and you can’t quite manage it and you get rattled. Something or other.

Now, here are all these eight dynamics then, and this is present time, MEST universe. Any given instant of interrelationship of, is present time.

No, no, there’s no great danger waiting on it. But there is this: If you weren’t perfectly confident in your own mind that you can progress and do the entire job of the reclamation of earth, or the reclamation of yourself, it doesn’t matter much which, if you’re perfectly confident that you are competent to do that, then you can. There isn’t any doubt about that. One man can do this whole job. Any one of you can do this job. I could do this job. It doesn’t have to be passed on. There’s no pressing necessity that it happens that way.

Solution. The solution is represented in a solid, more or less, mathematical form.

But there’s two factors that enter in. One, it’s more fun when one has fellow members of the group trying to accomplish a common goal. And two, there’s a lot more certainty in it. A lot more certainty.

It’s as though you had an enormous electronic computer which had an enormous number of data being fed to it, almost at random, continually, and it was bringing out what the balance was at this instant. And that balance is in your hands at any instant. That’s the balance of havingness. And the more worried you are about that balance of havingness, the closer you are to it. And some people will get a thirst for it to be TERRIBLY REAL!! And they get this thirst for it to be REAL! That means: „My God! I sure have to inspect that solution. All the time. I just have to keep my feet right on that solution.“

Now, when you look over this situation, you’ll find out that s… a lot of group activities are quite limp. One of the group activities that’s most limp is trying to group audit, with mock-ups. It’s bad, because the variation from preclear to preclear is bad. And some guy there is going to become invalidated or upset. He’s… he’s invalidated by your commands because he can’t accomplish them. Group auditing is… is kinda weak. Individual auditing isn’t.

You’ll get somebody, the poet, he is going up the street, his body is starving, he’s in terrible condition financially uh… any other condition you can think up is liable to be visited on him at any moment, and what is he doing?

Uh… there are other group activities. There are group political activities. Other activities are kind of weak. Uh… and a group is as weak as the individual finds a scarcity and finds he must have. Or must not have. That’s the weakness of a group. Havingness. Spoils the time duration of the group. Because the time duration of the group cannot be made to depend upon MEST. It must depend upon the top of the scale. And that of course has no great time duration. It doesn’t have much havingness.

He is going up the street composing a poem that has to do with something he saw down the street. And the world comes along and they look at him and they say, „Look at that fellow. He’s in rags. He… he’s this way. He’s that way uh… something or other.“

A group can own a great deal, so long as the individual members of that group here and there through the group do not have as their sole and only goal, pronoun-capital – I alone must have. „I want the power of the group, I want this, I want that.“ You have to feel that way, you see, if you haven’t got confidence in the rest of the group. If you can’t have confidence in the competence of your fellow auditors, then you have the necessity of taking the job on your own back.

He, by the way, is less perishable than the much solider citizenry.

So it’s to every single, slightest good end in yourself to make sure that the members of your group are competent. That they are able. And that they are high enough up the tone scale so they do not have to have. So they cannot and do not run into that horrible cul-de-sac „I am the only one who must be,“ and they’re the only one who can control. The only place where that condition of mind exists is above the middle of the band. A group on earth is on a decrease spiral, homo sapiens. A decrease end of the spiral. They seldom increase any. You want to go up and run the spiral backwards up into the increase band, and if you want to do that, then don’t get somebody nailing down everything in sight, and cross-currents, and putting out bad information. ‘Cause if they bring you bad information, they’ll take bad information away about you. Believe me, believe me, it’s true.

A song can racket down the ages. It doesn’t corrode. It doesn’t have to be polished, maintained, oiled, shelved or put in a vault. It happens that a song is far more powerful than any blaster ever invented.

My grandma had a statement like that. She used to say if a dog will bring o… a bone, he’ll take one away. If people are easily stampeded, or people are easily upset about this and that, they aren’t just, quote, basically weak, and therefore to be abandoned at the nearest crossroads. Their case is in a hell of a condition. And that’s about all you can say about it.

I wanted to write a story one time about a fellow, an alleged son of Genghis Khan, who took a… took a town with a song when the Khan had failed.

Now, there isn’t an auditor here, there isn’t one here, that could not become sufficiently competent, aesthetically, rationally, to do the highest level of job that can be done in these United States. There isn’t one who couldn’t do that. And the only reason that couldn’t happen is if the other members of that group did not make absolutely sure about it. It could happen that people of this group could fall short of that goal. And the only way they can fall short of it is that the other members of this group didn’t make sure he could. So then that tells you that each member of the group could, if he makes sure that anybody in the group could. And makes it his concern that the rest of the group can.

The only thing you really remember about the great conquerors is a song somebody wrote about them. The thought was the poet’s.

It’s all very well to stand as little island universes. A single candle in the middle of a huge, huge room can be an artistic thing. But it’s also an awful lot of dark in that room too. And that room’d look pretty good, if there were a half a hundred candles in it. Would look a lot better if there were half a thousand. Up to about a certain level, it becomes too many candles, aesthetically. It does. And there isn’t any reason why this subject has to be passed on and on, and people trained and trained and trained in this subject until we have hundreds of millions of auditors.

And the solid citizen says, „Now look. We sweep you away. It’s so easy. We throw you in the Bastille. We do this. We do that. We do something or other with this MEST of yours. You see! You see! Now, we can do this to you. And we can do that to you. You see! You see!“ And he just doesn’t see at all.

We don’t even vaguely want hundreds of millions of auditors. How many universes do you want to control simultaneously, for heaven sakes? What kind of a thirst would this be? Probably there is a natural tolerance level for this much action in the field of knowledge, in terms of numbers of people applying same. I’m afraid that is the case. It doesn’t mean that there’s the sheep and the goats; it just means that you push a certain balance forward and it’ll hit it after a while.

Voltaire writes a very polite letter to the people who threw him in the Bastille for a year because he had been waiting, and working and having an awful time trying to find the time in order to write one of his better works, and he discovered in jail the calm and peace necessary to devote this time, so he wrote them. And he was probably quite sincere about it; it didn’t worry him. They couldn’t do anything much to his MEST that put him in any very permanent state of disrepair. And he was in a condition of mind where he didn’t use very much energy to think.

And what is it? A guy per planet? A guy per town? What is it? It’ll… It’ll hit, somewhere along the line. It’s got a chance of doing that, only If you become responsible for the group. Because it can’t be a group unless every member in that group is responsible for the whole group.

And a fellow does quote good thinking or quote good solutions about to the rate that he doesn’t use any energy in the line. Just about in that ratio.

Somebody comes around to you, and they say, „You know, there’s an auditor that – down the street… and so forth… I understand that uh… class so-and-so, Scientology, and… and we understand… and… and… class…“ You see, you’ve got a wide open field. You’re not up against Dianeticists. There are a lot of Dianetic auditors around. You’re not being rated as Dianetic Auditors. You’re being rated as Scientologists. That’s something else. I don’t care how snide anybody gets, I don’t care how snide I get when I drape a flag to the effect that it doesn’t work.

The best solution is simply a postulate. What is a better solution on the whole problem of light than to be able to say, „Let there be light.“ And there’s light. No real reason why there had to be light, by the way. That would make a solution necessary.

Uh… the point is that you’re not into that level of competition. You couldn’t be into any level of competition at all, because there is no competition. There is no end of cannon-fodder. For your auditing phrases. No end of it. Any more than there’s an end of mock-ups. But there is this, there is this: There’s somebody coming to you and saying „That Scientologist down the street, so-and-so, and such-and-such, did this and did that.“ And such a thing as you having a pretty good idea maybe that Scientologist did. Beautiful girl, quiet auditing room, nobody else there… maybe he did. I don’t advise you to go against every mores and that sort of thing, and support such a horribly terrible story as that… might have some slight grain of truth, all I ask you to do is to look at this preclear and say, „You happen to be talking about a member of my class.“ Boy, do they get propitiative in a hurry. They’ll probably give you an extra five!

Why people ask about „Why?“ all the time, and demand that we have a reason for everything is a very simple thing, you see. They’ve got to have a reason because they’ve got to have the solution because the penalty is so great and there is present time, and they’re holding grimly onto present time.

That’s right. It’s… uh… bad medicine. Because the greatest of degradation is brought about by this mechanism: You get a member of the group to degrade himself by going against the remainder of the group. And then that degrades the whole group, and therefore the group is shattered. So regardless of the irrationality, and regardless of the fact that you have ample precedent for not supporting anybody in the group, go ahead and support ‘em! That’s all there is to it, I mean it’s very simple.

Well, as they drift back to present time they’re all right. They’re at least standing around saying, „What’s a solution? What’s a solution? What’s a solution? What’s a solution? What’s a solution? I don’t see it very well. I wish I could see it better. I wish I could see it much better, but I can’t see it very much better. But if I could just see it a little bit better…“

You don’t have to have a precedent, an overt act-motivator combination, you don’t have to find out that there’s a fellow who… who was a part of your class, and was a friend of yours, and was that… part of that group, that is saying this and saying that and doing this and doing that, and that it’s all wrong. You… you found that out, yes, he was, he was doing that, yes, he is doing that right at this minute, and somebody comes along and says to you „…and you’re no good ‘cause you’re so on and so on and so on…“ I mean, so what they’re really saying is „You’re no good,“ uh… and it… when they say so-and-so, and you say, „Well, that’s… that’s up to him. That’s up to him. But at the same time, I think it’s perfectly all right.“

Or, „I am really bored with it, I – uh… ‘course I need the solution all the time, but I don’t quite know what to do with it. Let’s see, how solid’s the lamp post? How solid’s the sidewalk? How solid are the walls? How solid are the…? Am I going to eat tonight? Well, yes, I am going to eat tonight. I eat tonight. I’ll have to eat uh… I’ll get to eat that. To eat, that’s present time. That will keep me going in that… in the… that… that is right.“

They say, „Why you degraded being! How could you possibly think such a thing?“

Havingness. Havingness. Havingness. Havingness. Not-havingness. Not-havingness. Agree-agree, disagree, want, not-want, not-need, need… wirrrrrwwww. It all goes on the monitor of how much he needs, isn’t it?

„I don’t know. Maybe it’s because uh… I have a right to think that too. And maybe it’s ‘cause you don’t have any right to think anything about it at all. So the fellow hung up advertising signs twenty feet high, all along the side of that building. Well, I might think it’s wrong, but you haven’t got any right to think it’s wrong.“

I told a producer one time that my leisure time was worth seven-hundred dollars a week, and he fainted. He almost literally did faint. Any salary drawn would have to be in excess of that, because that was the price of leisure. He couldn’t figure this out. Maybe you can’t, but it makes good sense to me. It makes very good sense to me.

„Oh, gee!“ Terrible approaches.

There’s no use working at all, I figured, on a job that one didn’t have much of his heart in. It was better to have nothing to do. Up to seven-hundred dollars a week, and that was the level of havingness which would make it interesting!

I’m not trying to ask you to do anything that you would not do of your own determinism, I’m just trying to point out to you that as you float along on an island universe basis, detached by Lord knows how many light-years, one from another, that it can be a long track and a dark room. Because there is our first consideration: The case. Your case.

Now, you can actually plot pay that way. You can simply ask yourself, „All right. Let’s see now, I wonder what uh… how long… this… I’m… I’m interested in this preclear. Therefore, I’ll do this preclear for nothing.“ Or, „I’m interested in having a few things.“ Or, „I’m interested in buying a few things so I won’t have to have some other things as solutions. And therefore I’ll have this preclear for three hours and I don’t want the preclear for three hours, so therefore I’ll have to bring it up to a level which makes it interesting to me to have the preclear for three hours.“

And you know, it’s a shockingly low number here, in terms of results, and I know you haven’t had much time. But do you know how long it takes to make a theta clear out of fifty percent of the people? Takes about twenty minutes. If you really got the horsepower on, and you know what you’re doing. About fifty percent. It doesn’t take any time. There isn’t any time to it. You de-have the guy, and of course that reduces time. Did you ever figure that out? I mean, you’ve taken away an awful lot of MEST, suddenly, so it… of course it couldn’t take any time.

Don’t omit that. Don’t ever consign yourself to a drudgery. Because, when the interest isn’t there, it’s just drudgery. There isn’t any reason why you have to do anything. Brim it out.

One day you’ll find yourself auditing for five hours and have been gone for fifteen minutes. I mean it… it isn’t uh… a joke I’m trying to put over on you. I… I’m just talking about that, I talk of this in a very extreme fashion. I talked in this extreme fashion for years, of reducing people’s time on them. That’s a mean trick! Of giving them too optimistic a result. That’s a mean trick. Up to the time when you accumulate sufficient overt acts to get a reverse vector, to push a whole show across when you’ve got a full package, and get it on its way.

Now, the energy used to think by the psychotic is of course no personally manufactured energy at all. It’s just glue of energy once used. And he’s just got it all pulled in on him like mad, and of course he obeys only the commands in it, only the commands in it, only the commands in it, only the commands in it, only the commands in it.

And everybody who’s done an overt act, that is still standing down in the sticks, you see, everybody who’s done an overt act, and said a mean thing, got everything all upset, and here’s… demonstrations, and activity, and all this sort of thing going on in every hand, oh boy, do you get support! That’s a fact. Why don’t you try it out some day. For twenty-four hours make people do overt acts against you. How do you make them do it; Just be over-optimistic. Go around and say, „Well, you will be all right,“ and „Ha ha! I guess there’s nothing wrong with you! I mean… ha ha!“ „You say you got a toothache? Well, that’ll be fine, that’ll be fine.“ You just look at them, they Grrrrrind! Grrrow! Snarl.

It says, „Not do.“ It says, „Do.“ He does, he does not. That’s all there is to it. Energy potentials.

They’ll do plenty of overt acts against you. Because a criticism unspoken, to most people, is an overt act, and they don’t realize it. They just think a criticism, and they’ve done an overt act. They’re that wobbly on their pins. That’s the truth.

Now, let’s look at that, then, and lets find out that uh… you’re going up toward no-energy to think, when you’re going up to postulates. When you are going up to Postulate Processing, when you say „Postulate Processing“, you’re processing somebody toward future.

Now there isn’t a tough case present. There isn’t a tough case present. I’ve looked over this series of cases here, and this is very very… we’ve all agreed that people shouldn’t know this subject to be audited by it very neatly, we’ve all agreed to that very thoroughly, but there isn’t a tough case anywhere in this room! That’s the truth!

Well, you… of course, you don’t think in the future. If you’re in relationship to the solution, which is present time, you say, „Now, let’s see. Uh… let me think uh… I don’t know whether my car will be outside or not, or whether or not I can possibly drive or not drive in some other direction, but if I go down to some other direction and do something or other, then so on. But if I did that, why…“ That’s just stream of consciousness, for a lack of energy to think.

I look around here, and I spotted two or three cases as being rough. And in the course of this, of asking them a question here, and talking to them there, and listening to them some place else I’ve spotted every one of those cases. I don’t mean to eavesdrop. But I spotted every single one of them.

„Tonight I shall dine at the uh… Russian Pentagon Building,“ or something. You just say that. You see, make a postulate.

Uh… for instance we have a boy over here, you don’t mind my mentioning it, all he’s got to be given… all he needs is a little black and white control, that’s all. Spot control. I audited him too heavy one afternoon, standing over there, wondering if he could take it. Practically shut his mock-ups off. Put a tire down the manhole cover, and a few other things. You could still throw him through on standard mock-ups. He kept seeing two bands of light through a dark field – isn’t that right?

Now, if you’re hot enough on this line, it will come true inevitably, because ten minutes before you eat, you’ll make it; it will appear. You get the idea? There… therefore you go up on Postulate Processing and making your own universe, you’re completely independent of present time solution – present time solution.

Voice: That’s right.

Don’t… let anybody kid you, that your interest in existence is dependent upon the present time solution, because it’s not.

All right, what do you do with those two bands of light through a dark field? Have him start mocking up communication beams someplace and tying knots in them. Just give him more bands of light. He’s worried because of two bands of light. Give him six to worry about. Real tough, isn’t it? Sounds tough. And un… unfortunately, that is exactly what toughness is, high on the scale. We. we don’t… we find ourselves unable to handle one area, and so instead of doing the natural cycle thing, and reducing the area we’re trying to handle, we just double the size of the area. That’s the way theta works. You don’t find out, „Well, how many times in your life have you decided, „Well, let’s see, I couldn’t handle so-and-so and so-and-so; I guess I’d better handle just a little bit less.“ And then the first doggone thing you know, you couldn’t handle that less! What if you’d said… what if you’d said, „All right, now let’s see, I don’t seem to be able to do this, where’s two of them?“ And yet, that’s processing in present time.

Most of the things a person is clinging to in the present time solution are not important, because the present time solution has a habit of being very, very badly upset and erronified.

I recommend it to you very thoroughly. You can’t crack this case, you say. Find a couple of worse ones! Go next door, and crack that morgue there, and see what you can do! Loss of Time Magazine misquotes me as saying that it revives the dead and dying. So I guess we’ll just have to revive the completely dead! Of course… course I don’t recommend… I don’t recommend going in with the… starting with the magazine, ‘cause… I… I… I have some respect for your aesthetics! Things can be dead, and things can be DEAD!

You see. The Russians are about to attack you at any minute. The United States is about to attack you at any minute. Um… the amount of bank banditry in uh… Little Keokuk uh… on the 2nd of January has averaged out to the figure of.7623. You’re don’t… don’t even have any money in the bank. What are you interested in a bank account for? Eight robbers were shot today on Rop-Rop Avenue. So what! You weren’t on Rop-Rop Avenue!

But the point is that you… you go in reverse, you see? You… you’ve decided already, long time since, that it was rough handling a MEST body; you’ve got a preclear who’s fairly convinced that it’s tough, and you’ve got him out there, and he’s apparently a stable theta clear, but he. he gets kind of anxious about handling this body; he knows he can only do one thing at once. He knows this. He knows it completely. I don’t know, let him go down the street and work two bodies at once. „Oh, no,“ you say, „no, this isn’t the right road out. This couldn’t be. That’s just more quantity, that’s…“ Ok, I’m afraid that is the road out.

But you take that in as assessment of the situation: are we going to have more robbers or less robbers? it looks like we’re going to have more robbers, but the cops said there’d be less robbers, therefore the cops were… It was a good thing the cops were there.

And you say, „That case can’t be cracked,“ sigh, because it isn’t a tougher case! You actually don’t have a representative strata of tough cases in this room. I’m not being… I’m not joking now, you just don’t have ‘em. I’ve seen some roughies! I know of one, two, mock-up instabilities here that I would call difficult, a little bit difficult, for an auditor. And they go on the basis of the black spot, the white spot, and you just work with that. That’s all. A little bit difficult. Take a little time. When I say difficult, take a little time. Standard process. But I don’t know three! And I don’t know a six. There isn’t a six here. And there wouldn’t be a seven here anyhow. But there isn’t a six present.

Oh, is it? In other words, present time solution! Present time solution!

Aw, that’s a hell of a note. Reverse vector’ll make somebody say here, „Well, yes, there is, I must be.“ But the point I’m making is, you don’t have an adequate starting level here. You haven’t got enough to go around. So be careful of ‘em. Conserve ‘em!

What are you interested in? Well, about the level when a person has sunk to the point where they’re only interested in the present time solutions, they’re not interested, they’re frantic. They’re getting to a point where interest is being displaced by fear of penalty, and this all comes about because they use energy with which to think! And that’s… that’s all there is to it.

Now you’ve seen some example of processing, and I should have given you a lot more processing, I should have audited a lot more of these people. One of the reasons I didn’t is I kept looking at you and you’re all in good shape. You’ve had a lot of Dianetics, had a lot of this and that. Well that… there is… wasn’t any point in it! But let me count up the number of hours that it would have taken. Not an optimistic estimate.

And if you were to process this, just… just process this on a pc it’d straighten him out and he’d feel quite a bit better.

I’d… you know, there is a sly insouciance of malice that has run through quite a little bit of this. Sometimes I have blandly stood and told an auditor, „Look, you’ve had the guy in there a whole hour. What’s the matter with you?“ And then you know what? I knew very well he couldn’t crack the case in thirty hours. But he probably could in thirty hours If he applied himself. „… whole hour,“ I’ve said. And then find myself faced with the necessity of doing just that! Oh, no!

Most pc’s have energy deposits around with which their energy to think is deposited. And where is that? Is that in the future? No, that’s not in the future. There isn’t any energy in the future. Is that in the past? No, that’s not in the past. There isn’t any energy in the past.

I used to shoot circuits on cases just out of desperation. That was one of the reasons… one of the ways I started in shooting circuits. And that’s a very interesting process. You take a guy who can’t see, and he hasn’t got anything at all, and you make him feel better suddenly by simply clipping a circuit out, by realizing he must have this circuit. How do you know what circuit it is? No meter’ll tell you. There are too many circuits to classify them, how do you know? Well – go on to another subject…

Well, where is it, then? Well, I will tell you where it is then. It is in present time. And it has a little sign on it and it says, „This is the future.“

But I’m not being this… I’m not being malicious, when I tell you that you haven’t enough tough cases to go around, because you simply haven’t, and I haven’t got a… I’m not trying to show you what’s being done elsewhere by telling you that in England this deep into the class we had advanced tougher cases than you are, further. Maybe it’s just because you’re too easy.

Now, the person who can’t get it is resisting the future. He’s trying to pull out of the future and he’s got a reverse vector going. He’s more concentrated upon not having the future than he is upon having the future. And if you want him to get to this deposit, simply ask him… ask him uh… „Let’s… let’s try not to have the future. Let’s try to avoid seeing this deposit,“ and so forth. And you’ll get him back and forth.

I imagine it would take somewhere in the neighborhood to get a thetan exterior s… here, it’d probably take me somewhere in the neighborhood of about fifty hours of auditing, to get this whole class. Probably. Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of about two hundred hours of auditing to get theta clears for this whole class. Something like that.

Now you can always trick your mind… your energy levels in this wise. You can always trick them very satisfactorily by saying, „All right. Now, let’s try not to make it green.“

I’ve been struggling and messing around, with one or two cases, but… but I’ve just been messing around with them. I do that with friends of mine. I… I’m… I’m very bad that way. Take some poor trusting individual, uh… I know exactly what the case wants, I know exactly what the case needs, but I don’t happen to be working on that at the time! I worked on that last… last month. And I say „all right, so and so and so and so,“ and it… there’s also this stress. They sometimes will dive in with enormous confidence, into doing something weird because I ask them to do it – they figure out it probably is doable. That’s not always true! But they always do it, isn’t that funny?

You’ve been trying to make this green, trying to make this green. It’s impossible for you to make the green.

I… I run into very few can’ts. But here… here we have techniques which are essentially so easy, you haven’t found it out yet. You just haven’t found this out yet, that’s all, to the degree that you could find it out. A lot of you know that there… must be fairly simple, but you’ve got theory and you haven’t got it digested at all; a lot of the information’s lying around sort of like big lumps of dough, and uh… you haven’t shifted it from the right side to the left side and turned it red and blue yet! That’s all.

You say, „Try not to make it green in order to make it green.“

And you’re liable to sit down, and look at some fellow who’s… your first thought’s liable to be „I wonder why he’s trusting me!“ Or when you’re on the couch, you say, „I know very well he was sitting right there in the same room and he doesn’t know any more about this than I do!“ Well, if you don’t want to, if… if you want to… to fool around with this information, that is up to you. It’s up to you what you can do with this. Aside from auditing, I leave to your imaginations…

You say, „All right. We’ll try not to make it green.“ It’s green – bang!

But I would not mess around any auditor here with any of the cases here. I really wouldn’t. It isn’t that you’re dealing with precious cases, or these cases couldn’t be solved, one way or the other, if you did louse them up. It’s that the results you’re getting are not very satisfactory to you. Your preclear has a half-gone idea already, if he’s a student here in this class, that what’s going to happen he knows it’s going to work, kinda, more or less, he hasn’t realized it’d work like that, kinda, because an intellectual… you haven’t gone into an action yet. You’re auditing somebody who knows more or less what to expect. And which way it’s gonne to go. He’s liable to find… you’re liable to find special randomities in him, such as he realizes he must take all this seriously for him to do any good. Of course you couldn’t more patently reverse a vector if you tried!

„All right. Let’s try not to see it. You wanna see it. You know you wanna see it, so you just say, „Try not to see it,“ and bong! It’ll turn up.

But he can still take it all seriously, and it will still work. Don’t doubt that. What I would do, if I were you, advice on a situation, is to use Standard Operating Procedure Issue V, use One, direct exteriorization, Two, by beams, Three, spacation, Four, flow balancing, Five, black and white spot control. And I’d test around on these things and I’d test your preclear up for the automaticity of his mock-ups. And every once in a while you’ll find somebody going by who has uh… such a terrific jiggle on any consistency that they’re shocked to death to find out that they can’t get a simple black spot. When they can get a whole army marching neatly in rows up the road.

Because that’s the not-have and the have. You can do those both ways. You can just say, „All right. We won’t uh… we’ll pretend not to do that. Okay, that’s good. We’ve got it now.“ And we can go right on. And it’s a method of handling things.

That’s because just them has to get that black and white spot, no circuits pick it up or anything, it’s just them. That’s all that’s going to get it. There are no marines that can be called on from the year umpty-umph dash umph, that will suddenly turn up in the form of automatic buttons long since installed by this same preclear and do, by experience, this whole thing. Uh-uh. It’s just a black spot. That’s all. And buttons won’t turn it on and off. They go jiggle, zoom, zong, crash. They don’t tell it when to move at the right time. Highest level of precision there is. It’s a black spot. You might think a white spot is but a white spot isn’t anything. A white spot is known area. And a black spot may have something in it, and it may not. It is unknownness which may or may not contain something. It has no light in it. And so you can’t tell. Guy can handle a black spot, he can handle anything.

But that only goes a very short distance before the person just simply discards it as a crutch. But if you were to ask somebody, „Let’s take a look at your future.“

If you could handle a black spot completely, and make the thing expand, three-dimensionally, into a sphere, and spread over the whole body, and then contract to a small black billiard ball on the top of your head, and then go out in front and then stay consistently out in front, and then gradually and quietly and without any effort whatsoever expand as a whole sphere, and cover your whole body again, and then go up to the top, and out the back… – you’re all right! Nothing to that.

The fellow will say, „What do you mean?“

And I would just take those techniques, as I have given them to you and you find on these mimeographed sheets of paper, and you’ve got in your own notes, and there’s no randomity in ‘em at all. That’s what you do. And you might find out that you will adjust to doing a couple of the steps in reverse, or something, you happen to decide this is the case, that’s all right. But I’d go kind of soft with that in the class here.

„Well, do you have a little… anything around there when you think of the future, you… you see this, or change this or try to make it green or black or white or something of the sort. Do you see anything like it? Do you have anything like it?“

First place, it’ll upset the guy if you’re doing it wrong, and he knows what you re supposed to do, and that’s the only liability. And the main liability is… when auditing an auditor, is that if the fellow is a complete noodlehead on his techniques, the auditor is the first one that finds it out. There is no liability in auditing an auditor if it is done by an auditor who knows his auditing. There’s no such thing, really, as altitude independent of data, to auditors and to preclears. And the reason why it seems to work so well on the people out in the street, is these people out there in the street, they’re just… just… they’re just walking around and they… they… the… you… you hit them with any of these things, it’s like shootin’ rabbits with a sixteen-inch gun. And it is on this auditor too, but the auditor’s got a ritual. He thinks you ought to follow this ritual, and he’s very critical if you don’t. He knows how he’s supposed to be brought up before the altar, and carved.

„No. No.“

And so I would be very and particularly careful to know Standard Operating Procedure Issue V in this class, and consider that as the standard of auditing which you’re going to receive, and either… though I might send you a cable, uh… in two or three days, saying I have a brand-new technique, I’ve just issued Standard Operating Procedure Issue X, you go right on using V, huh? And the reason for this is you… you know V, it’s. it’s… you know. Sometimes… sometimes a fellow could have a whole palace, gorgeous palace, all paved in gold, and everything else, and fellow gives it to him, and he walks down, and he looks at this gorgeous palace, and… and… and so on, and he himself, at the… he’s living in this little game-keeper’s cottage down there at the corner of the grounds. And he goes up, and he looks at the palace, and gee, it’s a nice palace, and then he goes back to the game-keeper’s cottage.

„Well, let’s try to avoid having any future. Just get the thought of avoiding any future. Now, what do you see?“

Why? Well, it’s HIS cottage! It’s HIS bric-a-brac lying on the mantle, he knows how many inches to reach over to the right to pick up a pipe or a snuff box, or anything that he might care to want, he knows how… he knows that the water tap in the kitchen leaks, and uh… he knows that you have to give it an extra twist, and he’s got all of these little gimmickgahoojits of handlingness worked out in it. It’s not a new strange space to him.

„Well, what do you know,“ he says. „There is one. Yah. Yah. Yah.“ Well, he’s trying not to have anything there in the future. There are things which he’d hate to have happen and he is trying to avoid them happening.

That’s why people hold on to Book One, for Christ sakes. People trained in Elizabeth, in 1950, are still auditing by Book One. And they’ll get better results by Book One, up to a point where they would use this by rote, practically. There’s no substitute for knowingness. And what’s knowingness consist of? Well, in terms of use, in terms of use, it gets in… out into space and energy, and my God, uh… you’ve got… you’ve got – of course this type of knowingness can’t be beat. You… you know the space, and the energy and object content of that space, which is to say you know the auditing room, and uh… the preclear, and you know how that body is going to move and twitch if you say so and so to it. And this is what you expected. And so you get into a nice quiet calm rut about the whole thing.

And of course, a person who is way, way, way up tone scale wouldn’t have any such deposit at all. But he wouldn’t be in a body, either.

Well you’ve got to be in pretty good shape to change fast. But let’s take out, immediately, the question mark which is going to be in the mind of any preclear present, by not agreeing to be audited by anything but Standard Operating Procedure Issue V. Let’s establish that, and it… has a… a consent, an agreement. And I’m not going to issue anything else on that, and let’s just chew right ahead.

So the mechanism in it is that anybody who can be influenced by the flows is a give, at which time you would say, „Try to avoid the deposit which is the future. Try to avoid the deposit which is the present in thought energy. Try to avoid the deposit which is the past in terms of thought energy.“ And they’ll light up like Christmas trees.

Now we’ve got a certain course schedule, that has been laid out, and that is all very nice, but the people present are not fair game. Let’s just knock that out as fair game. The world’s lousy with preclears! Why would we have to test any locks or engrams or anything elseses upon anybody here? Why?

And a person who is a TAKE, at „Let’s have it“. Whatever part of the cycle they’re on, let’s just have the… let’s ha… just have the future, let’s not have the future, and you’ve got it.

I submit to you. There’s practically anybody can be made better with these techniques, why should you just test on somebody that isn’t going to benefit by them? Why not spread yourself out a little bit?

And what do you do with this? Well, then you turn it green, you turn it pink and you turn it yellow, and you… anything he can do just keep him handling it as energy in present time which has future labels on it, and the thing’ll blow up. All of a sudden he will experience an enormous feeling of relief.

You might have information, or recommendations to the contrary. I notice a little wave of ‘Oh no!’ on that coming back at me. Nah, it isn’t important. It isn’t important, really, that you do anything but get your cases in the best most possibly wonderful condition as fast as possible, and get Step 1 completely out of the road, including all the lifting exercises. And just get it out of the road, that’s all!

Why? Is this energy the future? No, it’s not the future. It is a deposit that is labelled ‘future’ and the deposit exists in present time.

And then if you want to know what facsimiles look like, look at some! Pick ‘em up and sort through a couple of card packages’ worth. If you want to know what locks look like, why spread a few out. Or go down the street and push somebody’s face into one to see how he acts. And then say, „What do you know? It makes him cough.“ And you can do your research completely in reverse, rather than on a couch. If you go at it in that fashion.

Is this energy the present that he’s looking at? No, it’s not. It happens to be just a deposit which he calls ‘present time’ and is in present time.

That schedule is laid out against a longer course period than this. And it is laid out in the hope that you won’t use class members to finish off that experimental line. They happen to need your skill, and you as your own case happen to need the skill of your class members.

And is this energy the past? Yep. It’s facsimiles being carted along because he is existing in a dependent state upon his facsimiles. ‘Cause he knows he has to have experience. He goes down to get a job so that he could feed the body.

Right away, and as soon as possible, and daylight and nighttime, and S… the MEST universe is burning. There isn’t any reason to loaf around on a case. The essence of any auditing is learning how to handle something. And if you can handle something you can handle something more. There’s a much tougher gradient scale that a guy like me follows. I don’t follow the gradient scale as closely as you might think.

He has to put the body at a desk so that the body can then be paid, and then the body can eat, so that it could be put at a desk, of course. And uh… nice and circular ambition, you see? So, he goes through this whole situation and when he gets through with it, he knows very well that he has a body, and uh… he’s very definitely dependent on flows, isn’t he?

If I fail at something, I set up two. You say, „Yes, you can fall flat on your face doing that.“ Yes, sir. But when you make gains, you sure knew you jumped a span. You didn’t wait for the realization to sneak up on you. You found out you couldn’t drive such and such a car, because it so happened that it had a very, very bad kingbolt. And the front wheel went kerfluppity flup every once in a while, and every time you’d skidded into a turn the doggone thing just went fluppity flup and you knew damn well that that was not going to work out that way. So you pull the other kingbolt, give it a good solid rap and a bend, and put that back in, and then drive it. And after that, you know, it doesn’t matter what a car does, when you go around a turn, and it goes fluppity floppity flue, you just go right on around the turn. With the complete conviction that you could probably pick up the front end anyway, if it fell off. Pick it up and sort of run alongside of the car with one hand.

Well, the… the dependence… his dependency upon flows is… is… his utter dependency on experience is a dependency on flows.

The way to do it is not to go back to the garage and have the kingbolt repaired, because that thing is just MEST universe. The mission of the MEST universe is ‘Fail, fella.’ And then we are more MEST. ‘Unless thou failest, thy shalt not be,’ says the MEST universe, ‘so you better fail.’

The fellow who says, „Well, let’s see. Experience is very important, terribly important,“ ought to modify it this way: „Experience is terribly important to people in a body who are thinking in terms of flows. Then good experience becomes extremely important, because when they put out energy in the direction of their flows, then good experience will come back in and they will do the right thing. And we have a good puppet and an excellent marionette, and this is therefore what we want.“

The only way to fool it is, is just look… take a look at it, and say, „It’s just MEST.“ All right. Your own case isn’t serious, then. Your own group could be serious, though.

So, the fellow who gets this job to put the body at a desk so the body can be paid, so that the body can eat, so that he could put it at the desk, so that it could be paid, so that he can eat – is always asked this question: „How much experience do you have? Is it good experience or bad experience? Or is it some other kind of experience? Well, experience – experience…“

D… I… I don’t think anybody’s given any… any thought to something, merely because it’s too far out and beyond one’s thought. The incredible and the fantastic are the best safeguards that you possibly could have. The best possible safeguards, ‘cause nobody’s really going to interfere with you.

They don’t realize that at… somewhere in the career of everybody, you get a reversing vector. You get this fellow with wonderful references, just rave notices – he leaves with the boss’s wife and all the dough in the cash drawer.

What do you think… what would you think, uh… of a precaution that caused you to write down three numerals on a piece of paper and make your preclear memorize them completely, as an identification tag, and then you threw it in the top drawer of your desk? What would you think of that? You’d think that was being too cautious, wouldn’t you? Well, you know, in the course of averages, I would say, over a course of five years, there will be at least once, if not five or ten times, if not a… five hundred times, when you’d be damned sorry you didn’t do it.

If this fellow has been exceptionally good, and exceptionally honest, that is the best reason in the world to believe that sooner or later this guy is going to be the foulest crook that ever lived!

Who guarantees this fact? The thetan is used to communicating with the body, right? And a new thetan suddenly grabbing a body, or something of the sort, which was left and abandoned, could make it emote, couldn’t he? But the guy’d look like your friend, wouldn’t he? Dramatic, isn’t it? Think about it for a minute. Fellow could say, „I’m John Jones“ ‘cause lying all over the place is the name John Jones. Why sure, sure, sure, there’s nothing to that at all. And yet he could say, „My auditor was so-and-so, and such-and-such, ‘cause it’s right there on the ridges, pictures of same. Must be on the ridges. GE knows something about it, sort of a dim recollection here, and I can plow around in this dim recollection and scatter enough stuff up. Find all sorts of things out about the whole deal.“ Identification. Who’s going to identify you as the thetan?

And it’s… it’s not monitored, then, by experience. What they’re searching for in all these factors is just this one thing, is: how much energy is this person using with which to think? Now if you can establish how much energy he uses to think, you’ll establish how important it is for him to have experience. Because if he doesn’t use any energy to think at all, it’s not even vaguely important for him to have experience, but boy, would he be valuable in an airplane plant.

Where would you go if something happened to you? What if… what if you were walking down the street, and… and you got halfway across the street, and you had your body down there in the middle of the street, and it was walking from curb to curb, and a fire engine came around and you didn’t even happen to notice it; you were a long way away. And all of a sudden, crash. You didn’t have any body anymore. And you could go to the hospital if you wanted to, and pick up this kid that was going to die anyway, and he wasn’t in bad shape, and there’s another thetan there, in a kind of a stupid state of mind, so you tell him „Oh, go on back to Mars, another implant won’t hurt you.“ End uh… and you walk around and you come around to the Foundation, and you say, uh… what are you gonna say? „Can I come in?“

He has no experience whatsoever. He goes around to the airplane plant, and he says, „Hey uh…“ Uh… you say… why, the… that boy could draw down much more than any president of any corporation in the United States in terms of MEST, but the trouble is, nobody’d ever be able to pay him unless he was interested. The only pay would be interest.

You obviously are Johnny Jones, just obviously as hell. Except you re really Mary Stevens. And you want to find somebody who’s in charge of the thing, and you say, „I’m 3-1-1-3-1-1-3-1-1. And you better arrange to get my office and gear back in a hurry, and let’s see if we can’t collect the life insurance on that body!“ You think I’m being facetious. It sounds very dramatic. Very dramatic. It’s above the level of your experience, maybe right now, to some slight degree; we’re really climbing into the realms.

He would go around. Why? Because after the plant had manufactured the airplane and had it all beautifully manufactured and everything else, they wanted to know whether or not this plane would fly, this fellow could simply take a look at the airplane and say, „Yeah, it’ll fly.“ „No, that one won’t fly.“ „Uh, that one’s got something wrong with its motor. It’s the lower side of its motor won’t function. Uh… there were two mechanics had a fight out on the right wing tip, and there is a strut cracked out there or a strut will crack out there, and you had better replace that.“ You would practically have uncrackable airplanes. Why?

And so you’ve got a lot of things to do besides audit. You’ve got a lot of things to be interested in. And you poke around enough, and fool around enough, and monkey around, and let your own case be pushed this way and that, and not insist on Standard Operating Procedure on it, and get tacit consent and patty-cake, not go through this line-up, you can waste all kinds of time! You can just have a wonderful time, and you can finally wind up by not having had to do anything at all. That’s a hell of a state of affairs, isn’t it?

Well, he could just simply pervade through the airplane and he’d sort of feel around in the airplane, and… and… and he’d know what the future of the airplane was. And if it didn’t have a good future, if your fellow was really good, why, if it didn’t have a good future at all, he would merely say, „You will have a good future now, airplane.“ It sounds crazy. But you’re actually moving out from simply causation in the future to causing future.

Is Standard Operating Procedure Issue V hard? No. I’ve had an awful hard time talking to you about it this many hours. You think there’s an awful lot of data here. Well there is. There’s an awful lot of communication here that’s communicated from eighty different ways. But the whole truth of the matter is when it finally becomes yours, it’ll sort of go Boing! And you’ll say, „Well, I couldn’t possibly have spent all that time wondering about this! I just couldn’t have.“ There it is. Because it’s so simple. And of course you’ll go over to somebody, and you’ll say – well, you… you crossed the abyss. That magic, mystic operation happened, at that moment, see. You went from just a shnook to ‘I know’.

And you still have a ghost of this in witch’s curses and earth still remembers these things. No matter how dimly they might be, they s… they still recall ‘em. Curses and damnations and good gifts and, „You may now have three wishes,“ the fairy says. Sure, he can give away three wishes, any fairy can give away three wishes. So could you. But I’d think before you give away three wishes, I think you’d better be able to give yourself three wishes, and I think that would be a good thing, and it isn’t necessary for you to sit down and wish hard. It isn’t how hard one wishes that counts, as they teach a child. It’s how lightly one wishes, and how interested he is in having that for which he wished. So, you see what our three wishes would amount to in terms of… in terms of postulates.

And you’ll go around, and you say to the grocer, you say, ‘You know, there’s this stuff called Scientology, and… and all it is, is really just…“ and you’ll give what your concept of it is, and he’ll say, „Huh?“

Well, look at no-energy up there on the track and you’ll find this fellow’d be very light-hearted and very serene and he could be quite intense if he were interested – if he were interested.

And you’ll say, „Well, it’s like this: like this, you see, there’s space, there’s energy, and there’s havingness… And so on… and so on… and I want to explain to you why you don’t have any Time doing the whole thing.“

But you can be as intense with an upper band as you can a lower band wave. You can use very light energy to accomplish ENORMOUS things. It’s only with a very heavy energy that you can’t accomplish a doggone thing.

And the fellow’ll say, „What are you talking about, mister?“ Yeah, that’s right, „What are you talking about?“ That doesn’t fit with his frame of experience. You can go around, and explain to somebody about this, and he’ll look at you so intelligently. Boy, they’ll just look at you so intelligently, and they go on and on. And you finally find out they’ve picked up that when you said that time wasn’t as long as it is now, when you were a little boy. And they finally agreed to that, because the reason they agreed to that is that they had a sudden recollection of how long they thought a piece of ice lasted when they were young, or something like that, and now they’ve got the whole subject down, and they go around and they explain it to somebody, and they say, „You know, when you’re young, pieces of Ice don’t last as long, uh… they last longer than they lasted now.“

Just… just try and accomplish anything by telling somebody what to do, forcefully. You do that often enough and customarily enough, and you eventually won’t get anything done.

And this girl says, „Oh, they do? That’s very interesting.“ And go on about his work.

Be a much happier thing to be at the stage of the tone scale, where you simply knew they would do it.

That’s the way knowledge dwindles out. But you don’t have to go at it that way, the hard way. Your own case is quite important. It’s important to this group, and it’s important to Scientology at large, and it’s also important for your own peace of mind. ‘Cause as long as you poke around and in unreality about actuality, things that come along, people can do this to you, they can do that to you, they can do something else to you.

Did you ever go around and say to somebody, „Well, we know that you’ll do that,“ and so on, and just leave them stuck with that? You’ve actually laid a postulate on top of ‘em.

I learned something, really, by experience, for the first time in a long time, the other day. Something happened here. My… I just realized this. I’ve been pretty busy. Well, I’ve been pretty busy, I’ve been having a good time about a lot of things, and so I’ve been working very hard, I haven’t had as good a time as I might have had about a lot of things. But uh… I all of a sudden realized something. I… I realized that it would be too bad if I suddenly had to kick the mooring lines off, but uh… it didn’t really make any difference. And not… that is… wasn’t the decision of idleness, but it was a decision that that wouldn’t impede the action in any way whatsoever. It was too easy to go ahead and pick it up elsewise. And I… you know something? I hadn’t ever realized that before?

Well, a little bit higher than that is, you just KNOW all of a sudden. You just have a conviction in energy terms. You just know the waitress is going to walk to the other side of the dining room. She does.

I mean, really to know, I was in the field of action with knowledge. And that’s the place you know. And… and suddenly it was there, and I had a complete realization on that fact, and with it came this realization, it couldn’t be touched! That’s a fascinating thing, isn’t it? And you look at these great big solid trucks, and you look at these great big solid walls, and… and all that sort of thing, and you say, „Boy, it sure is prettied up, isn’t it? Looks practically real!“ But it’s not.

You kind of know here and know there and you know this and you know that, and nothing happens.

And that was action. Worked for a long time, and worked very hard. And actually entered the frame of reference that I was working sometimes – believe me, it was hard. Because I thought I was supposed to think it was hard, too. There’s a little over eighty thousand hours of work, and there’s a lot of things I would have rather done a lot of times. But I had never come up along the level of estimation… it’s something like walking into one end of a tunnel, and suddenly coming out of the other end of the tunnel. And you… you can walk in that tunnel for so long you don’t know you’ve been in a tunnel. And you say, „Well, it sure is pretty in this tunnel. Yeah, sure is pretty, in… in this uh… tunnel. It sure is pretty in this place. Sure is pretty around here… yeah, it sure is pretty in this great, big tunnel.“

You can’t get down and pitch with flows very long before you come down below that level again. Energy flows are very dangerous to use. Even communication flows basically trap you in and you have to bail yourself out.

„Yeah, ‘tunnel’, that’s the name for ‘universe’. That’s what you call a tunnel. And that’s one of the vastest parts, and that’s uh… oh, I don’t know, two tunnels make an infinity. That’s right, that’s the width of a tunnel, that’s uh… well, maybe the tunnel goes up to infinity. Yeah. And there’s lights, and suns, and stars, and everything in the tunnel,“ and… and you go on about this thing. And… and what’s ‘tunnel’ mean? It’s changed its evaluation entirely and there it is, there it is.

I’m always having to sit down and run out… and pull myself uptrack one way or the other. But, of course, I’ve never used any energy with which to think. And the only reason I’m telling you about this, I’m telling you about this is almost… it’s all extrapolated, but it’s almost a new discovery, although I’ve been kidding about it for two-and-a-half years.

Then one day you’re… you’re standing outside something and it hasn’t got anything to do with the tunnel. And you say, „Holy Cow! How did I… what is all this stuff out here? It’s space! What do you know! Why, it couldn’t po…“ Gee, you know, it… it’s something that you… you… you just all of a sudden… then remember, that there was a time when you weren’t in a tunnel. And there was a time when I was not working on Dianetics or Scientology. That’s a fact. There was a time.

I just put a few attention units down in the GE to find out if the GE could think, and I found the GE thinking. He was thinking. I thought that was wonderful. I thought it was so cute.

And another symbolism of it is shoving across an abyss. Well, you better get shoved, that’s all I gotta say! There isn’t any reason fooling around with your own case to learn something. Phooey! Learn it off somebody else’s case. Standard Operating Procedure Issue V will crack your case. I know that. It’s about time you did. ‘Cause believe me, the best way I know of for you to know this subject now, is to find out that it works on you. And that’s the best way.

But if any of this stuff had to be THOUGHT about lengthily and so forth, nothing would have happened. The only place where it had to be thought about is: compare it. You compare one flow to another flow, you’d have to kind of mock up a couple of flows and hook them together, and uh… you think about this, and think about that. That’s what’s known as ‘inductive thought’. But you’re not operating, and you can’t operate in order to investigate something; you can’t operate from the basis of postulating to make it so, ‘cause then you can’t investigate it. You see how silly that would be. That… that’s just gruesome. How could you investigate anything if you were postulating all the time?

And it’s a funny thing that we… we’ve boiled it down to about five techniques. Five major techniques. That’s funny, isn’t it? Uh… for the very, very bad off, we’ve got that, but we’re… we’re doing essentially the same techniques, they’re all backed against the same thing. It’s really only about five techniques there. It’s fantastic! We’ve only got one process that is key process, and that is we handle space and energy.

In other words, it’d be impossible to find out anything by carrying on investigation which is car… occasionally called ‘scientific’. See?

And how do we do this? We handle space and energy by mock-ups. And then we get actual space, and then one day we’ll be looking at actual energy. Well, we say, „You know, it’s the funniest doggone thing, but every time I make a piece of space, the mock-ups in that piece of space…“ And you say, „Well, that’s no good! Well what do you know! Look at that mock-up! You know, that’s the funniest thing, there… there it is…“ and so on. You’ll find out they appear, and disappear, just like, Bang! When you can make space. Why, There’s nothing to it.

You postulate what the conclusion will be. You’ll find scientists, by the way, are hipped on this. They’ve still have got an aberration on the subject. They’re afraid to think what the conclusion will be for fear the conclusion will be that, and they will then be swayed by the conclusion. And here these fellows with one-sixteenth of one grasshopper-power brain cell left with which to postulate… t… they could make a postulate at a ping pong ball and the ping pong ball would stay right there. It wouldn’t go any place. And yet these fellows are very careful not to make a conclusion before they finish their experiment. They’re getting away from a fear which has now become impossible.

The value of MEST starts getting lower, but the value of randomity is such you continue to hang around it. Your own case is very important to you from a standpoint of knowing Scientology. Now I can tell you, and tell you, and talk to you and talk to you, and persuade you, and say, „Yes, it works on you and uh… it’s this way and it’s that way, and it’s some other way,“ and so on. That doesn’t do any good.

There’s nothing wrong whatsoever with saying, „Well, the way this thing is going to work out is this way,“ and then mixing up the MEST universe ingredients this way and that way and finding out it works some other way.

A sudden change in your case, a sudden difference, will do more for you than any amount of study. Now as you review these tapes you should also be doing a lot of auditing. On what? To repeat those class records? No, you go out and get… you go… go send… Western Union sends you a messenger boy, if you want to do that. You do that otherwise. The thing for you to do is get your own case in shape, as you go over, and review. You really get it in shape. Of course, that’s your responsibility. Not really your auditor’s. It’s your responsibility, that his case is in shape and it’s the responsibility of every member in this group, to make sure this group’s in shape. From there on you won’t need anybody to prop you up in any way whatsoever, or tell you anything more about it. You’ll know. And that’s the best way I know to know, is to get up the Chart of Attitudes, toward the level called ‘I know.

You say, „Well, it didn’t work that way.“

And I invite you to climb that ladder as rapidly as possible, not by esoterics or aesthetics or something of this sort, but by using just exactly what we’ve got here, Standard Operating Procedure Issue V. And you apply it to the preclear in liberal quantities. And get it applied to you. I don’t want to have anybody in this class really, if I had any thought about it at all, who goes around saying, „I helped everybody, and therefore l didn’t get it.“ That’s MEST universe. Phooey! No good.

„All right. We’ll postulate that this is going to work this way, and then we’re going to mix all these things up together and they’ll work some other way.“

There isn’t any point in my trying to stress the importance of this, because the best place to know is at the level of the Chart of Attitudes, ‘I know’, and the best way to get there is to use Standard Operating Procedure Issue V, and when you use Standard Operating Procedure Issue V, you’d better find out that you get there. And that’s… that’s simple.

And you would say, „Ah, to hell with that.“

And there isn’t any piece of knowledge I’ve left out. The case of an auditor above a certain level does not need refurbishing continually. He’ll keep it squared away. But the case of an auditor below that level requires constant attention, so it’s better to get up above that level – that’d be the level of stability, the level of tolerance. And it’s in the tolerance that he can get into action or he doesn’t have to, at will.

Uh… that would be sensible, because sooner or later you would come either to an apathy about the whole thing and skip it, or you’d find something which, when mixed up that way would accomplish the result which you postulated. Well, you’ve given cause to the MEST universe, that’s what would happen.

And that doesn’t say that you’re dependent, then, upon the economics or other things of this MEST universe; you are not, not even vaguely. And the sooner you learn it, the stronger and happier you will be and this group will be. I recommend to you very strongly, liberal doses of this.

All right, now let’s look at the preclear in terms of energy and he has decided he is an effect of everything. And I was thinking about this Egyptian cult that… white was cause and black was effect. And if you were half black and half white, you were all right because then you were half cause and half effect and you were the effect of your own cause if you were that, and if you looked at the future and found the future black, the future would be an effect. But, if you looked at the future and found the future white, then the future would be cause. But, that was better to have the future cause than to have the future effect. So, what you tried to get was look and see a WHITE FUTURE. How do you like that one? You had to look and see a white future. And if you saw a black future that was bad, and you should abandon that course of action immediately, if you saw a black future.

What the devil are they monitoring? Well, the funny part of it is, it has a workability. They’ve just aligned all the facsimiles which gave the experience of badness, up, and then hooked ‘em up to a circuit which has a flashboard on it, and that flashboard says ‘Black!’ That means, „These thoughts are passing through bad experience, don’t monkey with it.“ And a white flashboard which simply says, „These thoughts are passing through good experience and so the chances of them taking place are very good.“

It’s not very reliable, because it depends on an automaticity of flashboards. But if you want to do intuitive or instantaneous thinking with flows, that’s the way they’re rigged. You see the future is black, or you see the future is white, recognize, for the love of Pete, in yourself or your preclear, if you’re not seeing the future and you still know you are affected by flows, you’re just trying to avoid that sight or perception in some fashion.

All right, let’s look this over then, and we’ve… possibly this is one of the ingredients of occlusion. They made implants in people about this at one time or another, by the way. And uh… you just turn… you don’t run an implant, you just turn the future white, and you turn the future black, and you turn the future purple and then you put some red crosses on it, and then you turn Saturday green. And then you turn these other things this way, and then shift them this way and that way, and then put the future behind your head. And let’s see if you can find the present – what the sum of energy is of the deposit called the present. And that isn’t out here, that’s just right in front of your face, practically, or maybe it’s your body. Uh… anyway, you turn the present white, and then turn it green, and then turn it purple and turn it yellow. And you’d probably be able to park it some place or another by finding another present and postulating it there. Who knows?

And uh… the… the past, as I say again, would be a very heavy deposit, because that’s all composed of facsimiles.

BUT there is a little light deposit that says, „We’ve got to think about the past,“ and that’s the… the deposit accumulated of having to think hard about the past. And you turn it red, and you turn it green, and you turn it blue and you turn it purple. And you try to avoid seeing it, and you avoid seeing it, and you turn it orange and,. and you put it under the left foot.

‘Cause what is it? It’s your own energy which you’re holding onto, by which you’re trying to estimate change of havingness in the future.

A person who tries to estimate change of havingness… rate of change of havingness in the future, by comparing it to the past is gonna fall flat every time.

That is why law is such an interesting profession. Because law depends almost wholly upon precedent, rather than justice or chancery, anything. Precedent, precedent, precedent, precedent. The past is good. The past is good. The past is good. The past is good. The past is good.

And, of course, it moves with incredible slowness. It has enormous heavy massive tomes and buildings and courts, and… and there’re the guys that practice it uh… in terms of police and that sort of thing, they get heavy and everything is slow, and they have to stop motion, and hold it and so forth.

Naturally, because they’re running on the principle: the precedent, the precedent, the precedent, the precedent, the precedent, the precedent. And that means the past is the measure by which we measure the future.

You cannot take the laws of Holland in the year 1213 and pick them up and apply ‘em against Holland in 1952. It cannot be done! And you can’t take the laws of 1928 in the United States, and apply them to the United States in 1952. Different year.

I know this comes as a shock and surprise to many of the governmental agencies, but it’s not 1928.

Now, being down the time track is simply trying hard… down the time track is trying hard to agree with the past so that the present will go all right. If you agree with past experience then the present will go all right. And of course that’s a completely dippy one and brings about insanity, and everybody does it.

Let’s agree with experience and have nothing to do with the postulate.

Well, I talk quite a bit about this because it’s possibly for you an analysis of what Postulate Processing is. It’s trying to get far enough uptone, which is to say use and be influenced by energy so slightly, and be in control of it so s… forcefully and so heavily, and be able to go up so high above any necessity to need it, that one simply says, „Let there be light.“ That’s your theoretical level.

So, you have a process in this in asking the preclear to find these levels and turn them red, blue, green and wink. You’ll find out you’ll solve a lot of his troubles when you do that. ‘Cause all he’s really interested in is: „What is going to happen to me?“

And you see, what was going to happen to him in 1913, as adjudicated by what happened to him in 1912, is not good experience to measure what happened to him in 1952, and even the experience what happened to him in 1832 has no bearing, really, on what happens to him in 1952. And yet we’ll find him making it so. You’ll find him adding this up.

„Let’s see, in 1832 we had a cylinder of this size and it was used for a hay mow. Now, automobiles have cylinders. And therefore I can’t fix an automobile engine. And the reason for this was, is my father back there in the 19th century didn’t like this thing he used in the hay mow. He couldn’t handle it and once it fell on the calf. And I liked the calf, so therefore automobiles are no good.“ A=A=A=A would be a past time engram kicking in because of the geometric similarity of form, and that’s all there is to that.

Well, I’ve actually just beat this thing to death as far as that’s concerned. I could give you an awful lot of… of examples of processing one way or the other… and I probably should.

There’s the Positive and Negative approach to processing; there’s trying not to have the engram, and trying to have the engram. There are four flows really. And there’s trying not to have the engram, and trying to have the engram. And there’s trying to restrain oneself from not having the engram, and trying to restrain oneself from having the engram. In both of which cases, one is trying to have the engram, trying not to have the engram. Four flows. A halt on trying to have clear on over to a halt on trying not to have, to trying not to have. it’s a gradient scale itself.

Now uh… let’s see here, would uh… well, let’s… let’s… let’s find out, let’s… I… I… I… let’s sit down. I am not going to give you anything very rough – nothing very rough. You… you can… you can estimate now what your havingness is in terms of the future because of this process in terms of the present.

PC: (Chuckles).

LRH: Now, what… what… how is this going to alter your havingness in the future? It won’t.

PC: I don’t think so.

LRH: That’s right. That is what I figured. No change.

Okay, now let’s look in front of your face there for a moment and let’s see if you can see anything even vaguely resembling energy as a deposit.

PC: It’s blackness. Plain blackness.

LRH: There’s a lot of blackness there, huh?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Uh… it’s easy to get that?

PC: It’s fairly easy.

LRH: Uh… well, now is that blackness uh… past, present or future?

PC: A combination. I think mostly past.

LRH: Uh… it… the blackness is past?

PC: Uh-hum.

LRH: Okay. Yeah, let’s take a look there to see if we can see anything even vaguely resembling a uh… color or a darkness and so on that might be present.

PC: I don’t think I’d be able to tell the difference.

LRH: Hum. No, don’t confirm these theories that way. That… that’s not… not good. You… you realize… you realize how much a newspaper reporter – sad to say, if we ever had him on an E-Meter, and found out all he could think of was rape or something.

All right, just uh… take hold of the cans here. And I guess have to ask the little handy jim-dandy meter. You don’t have to have mitt on there. That’s a beautiful mitt. Volney is… thinks that this will blow out, and he’ll think it does all sorts of things, and as a of fact it won’t. I… I can’t hurt one.

Okay, let’s take a look if you don’t mind too much here, and find out what tone scale. There we go; why you’re in pretty good tone, alive, breathing.

Okay, what’s that deposit you’ve got there? Is that past? Is that present? Future? It’s not the future.

What about the future? Something wrong with the future.

PC: Too many obstacles.

LRH: Too many obstacles in the future? All right. Get your eyes there for a moment. Let’s look around and see the obstacles. Can you see them? Are they visible?

PC: On a reality basis, no.

LRH: You don’t see them?

PC: Uh-hum.

LRH: Well, okay, that is all right. If you don’t see ‘em, you don’t see ‘em. Got it?

Let’s take a look at the… at the past again. You know, that’s just plain murder, you sit there and look at a theta bop – you’re trying to do something else obviously. You realize you’ve got a theta bop.

PC: I have?

LRH: Oh, that’s a rough deal. Be careful not to make a postulate about it.

PC: All right. I won’t do that.

LRH: All right, too many obstacles in the future.

Well, let’s uh… take a look at that blackness in front of your face there, and let’s put a little ring of whiteness around it.

PC: All right.

LRH: Got a little ring of white ness around it?

PC: Yeah. Urn-hum.

LRH: Well, put a white dot in the center of it, too.

PC: Okay.

LRH: All right. No turn it black again.

PC: All right.

LRH Now, let’s see if you could turn it white, all of it.

PC: Gray.

LRH: Gray? Good enough.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, turn it back a little darker gray.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, a little bit lighter gray.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s get it down to… to quite black again.

PC: I can’t get it too black.

LRH: That’s all right. Just toward black. And uh… now let’s get it up the line toward a bright gray.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s get it down to a dark gray.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s roll it up the line to a… a little bit more toward white than before.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Do you have a feeling like you’re holding that off or holding it in?

PC: Holding it off.

LRH: You feel like you are holding it off?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: How about holding it in?

PC: It’s standing still.

LRH: It’s standing still.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: You’ve got it in balance? All right, let’s turn it to a, uh… by the way, is there a matching one behind your head?

PC: I don’t… I don’t know. It’s hard to tell.

LRH It seems… okay. Okay. I just want to know.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Uh… now let’s see this white one in front of your face.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Got that white still, or grayish?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Have you got it white this time?

PC: Grayish-white now. It’s fairly white.

LRH: Well, let’s turn it darker.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s turn it lighter.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s put a little tinge of red in It. Put a tinge of red in that grayness. Let’s just get a little…

PC: I must not like red or something.

LRH: It’s not like red?

PC: I must not like it.

LRH: Oh, well, I don’t blame you. How about getting a little tinge of green going through it.

PC: All right.

LRH: Hum. Okay. Got a little tinge of green going through it? Well, let’s turn it back to white, whitishness now.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s turn it back to reddishness. Any tiny little flick or impression of it being red. Let’s try not to get it red now.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Did it get red? It did?

PC: Slightly.

LRH: Oh, well, what do you know. All right. Let’s turn it green.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: All right, let’s try not to turn it red again.

PC: All right.

LRH: And let’s turn it green.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, can you increase the intensity of that greenness?

PC: A little.

LRH: All right. Now let’s decrease it.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s decrease it way down till it turns a sort of a whitish, muddy color.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: All right, let’s turn It down toward black.

PC: I got it.

LRH: Well, let’s turn it into a black curtain.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Now, let’s turn it into a black curtain with little spots of white in it.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s turn it uh… whitish as a curtain.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s make its t… texture silky.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s just start taking curtains off the e… edge of it or the face of it furthest away from you and throw them away. Let’s have a whole stack of curtains there In front of you all white, and whitish silky curtains and start throwing ‘em away. What happens when you do that?

PC: Uh… I’m peeling them but they have… I’m having a difficult time peeling them off.

LRH: Well, just… just loosen the corners this time.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s loosen another corner.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Now, let’s loosen another corner.

PC: All right.

LRH: And now, let’s install a flutter device that sort of uh… flutters them. Make them flutter a little bit. Just make them ripple a trifle.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s fill them full of glue and let’s make sure there’s glue but for… all through there – good heavy glue. And let’s perceive this glue in there. Well, just get the feeling like it’s glued.

PC: All right.

LRH: Have you got the feeling about them glued on?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: All right. Now make them glued on tighter.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And make them glued down much tighter.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: All right. Now let’s just decrease the glueyness of them a little.

PC: All right.

LRH: Let’s increase the glueyness of them a trifle.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now let’s decrease it a little more.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s make ‘em good and gluey. Oh, really make those things sticky now.

PC: I’m having a difficult time holding the uh…

LRH: Well, let’s try not to hold it now. Now, let’s hold it again. Let’s get it very sticky. Now, let’s reach out and pull the furthest white curtain away now.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And another one.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s go and get about 15 or 20 white curtains and let’s plaster ‘em on this thing – the back of it.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s stick them on there heavily. Now, let’s get about 500 more. Plaster ‘em all over your body. Lots of ‘em. Oh, but the tonnage.

PC: All over me but they’re not coming toward me.

LRH: Where are they going?

PC: Out to the left.

LRH: They’re going out to the left?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Well, pour ‘em out to the left – lots of ‘em. Enforce that line. Got ‘em going real good?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s speed it up. Now, let’s slow It down. Did you slow it down a little bit?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. Let’s speed it up a whole lot. Now, let’s slow it way down and stop it… Did you get that?

PC: Ummmm.

LRH: Did you get ‘em stopped? Well, just speed them up again.

PC: They’re just changing again.

LRH: Huh?

PC: It’s changing.

LRH: What’s changing?

PC: I don’t see the curtains.

LRH: The curtains are gone?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Oh, no. Now turn that… turn that deposit black in front of your face. Got it real good?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, let’s put another deposit of black on it.

PC: All right.

LRH: And another deposit of black on it.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And let’s put much more in the way of black deposits on it.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And let’s cover the whole thing with tar.

PC: All right.

LRH: All right. Now let’s… let’s wrap it around the head real tight in so it won’t get away. Can’t you tie those things down on the head?

PC: No, they stay away.

LRH: They stay away?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Well, how far is it away from you?

PC: About 10-20 feet.

LRH: Way out there?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Is it all black out there?

PC: Just a black spot.

LRH: Well, is that all?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Well, turn it green.

PC: All right.

LRH: Turn it purple.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Turn it yellow.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Why don’t you put it over about 10 feet.

PC: All right.

LRH: Why don’t you put it up about five feet.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Why don’t you put it down about 10 feet.

PC: All right.

LRH: Why don’t you put it on top of the door down below as you come into the lobby.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Now, why don’t you glue it down there.

PC: All right.

LRH: Okay. Let’s put another black spot out in front of you now.

PC: All right.

LRH: Let’s put that one down on top of the door.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Let’s get another one and put that down on top of the door.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And now, let’s get a white spot out there’ in front of you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: And put that down in front of the door.

PC: All right.

LRH: And uh… now let’s put all of those black spots in last… an hour ago. Got it?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Hold that Okay. Now, let’s be two feet behind your head…

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Got it. Okay. Now, let’s take a look at the front of your forehead – now the inside of your forehead… What do you see?

PC: Nothing.

LRH: Nothing there? Okay. Now let’s uh… put a little anchor ball out in front of you – an anchor point.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Hold it steady.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Did you hold it steady?

PC: Fairly steady.

LRH: Sort of steady?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: It doesn’t hold completely steady. Well, let’s put one behind your back at the same time.

PC: I don’t know that I’m doing that.

LRH: Okay, now let’s take all of the nice fellows you ever knew.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Got ‘em all? Do you see them out front?

PC: No.

LRH: All right, let’s take a house that you’ve lived in.

PC: All right.

LRH: Got that house?

PC: Pretty well.

LRH: Okay, now let’s move it over about a foot.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s move it back about a foot.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Now, let’s turn it upside down.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Let’s turn it right side up.

PC: All right.

LRH: Let’s put it behind your back.

PC: All right.

LRH: Let’s change it somewhat.

PC: All right.

LRH: Put it above your head.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Let’s put it out in front of you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Let’s put about four more houses out there.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, let’s take the last one you put out there and ram it into the body you have right there. Pick it up, push it into the body.

PC: Uh…

LRH: What happens when you do that?

PC: There’s a black line In front of the houses.

LRH: There’s a black line?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Okay, put one of those houses way away from you.

PC: All right.

LRH: Put another one way away from you.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Put all four away from you.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, mock up a whole big… mock up a whole big circle of those houses. Did you get a circle of ‘em around you?

PC: Yeah, but they’re floating.

LRH: They are floating? All right. Now just send them away from you.

PC: All right.

LRH: All right. Let’s mock up another circle of them and send those away.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Well, now let’s just mock up all around you and above you and below you houses of various descriptions, no matter how big their detail is – just mock up lots of them in a 360-degree sphere.

PC: All right.

LRH: All right. Let those go away from you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Got ‘em?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Keep ‘em going. Is there any area they don’t leave from easily?

PC: Uh… directly in front of me.

LRH: They don’t leave directly in front of you. Well, mock up four or five there and slam those into the body… What happens with those now?

PC: I don’t see them.

LRH: They’re gone?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: They disappeared?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Well, for heaven sakes, mock up about five more out there.

PC: All right.

LRH: Turn em red.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Turn ‘em yellow.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Turn ‘em blue.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Put ‘em behind your back.

PC: All right.

LRH: Put ‘em in front of your face.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Put ‘em behind your back.

PC: All right.

LRH: Put ‘em underneath you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Put ‘em above you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Push ‘em all together into one house.

PC: All right.

LRH: Now, take that one house and start pulling off of it all kinds of houses, various assorted descriptions of houses and throw ‘em out around you. What’s happening?

PC: I don’t know, I get an awful confusion of things now.

LRH: Oh, you do?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Well, just keep pulling those houses out and stacking houses around you now… Can you do that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. Now let’s just take all of those houses and let ‘em move away from you.

PC: All right.

LRH: All right. Let’s mock up every dwelling in which you’ve lived for the last Lord knows how long – any duration of time – and mock ‘em all up around you in all different directions… Make you nervous?

PC: Slightly.

LRH: Well, turn ‘em all red.

PC: Yep.

LRH: Turn ‘em all blue.

PC: All right.

LRH: Let ‘em be any color they please.

PC: Okay.

LRH: Uh… move ‘em all away from you.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Mock up another set similar to them… Mock them all up again.

PC: I can’t get houses anymore.

LRH: You can’t get houses?

PC: Uh-uh.

LRH: Mock up one house. One little tiny house and put it on your knee… One little tiny house and put it on your knee, got that?… What’s happening?

PC: It’s just this big black spiralling mass in front of me, whatever it is.

LRH: Well, don’t put the house there then. Put the house upon your shoulder… You get that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Got that? Well, now put two houses there on your shoulder.

PC: I can see quite a number of them.

LRH: All right, let’s get a lot of houses up there on your shoulder.

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Have you got ‘em?

PC: Um-hum.

LRH: Drop ‘em into that spiralling mass…