We have so much material here to study. We’ll just keep barreling along. And there was no third afternoon lecture today, so this is the first hour of the evening lecture of December the 16th.

At first you won’t believe it. Third afternoon… second afternoon lecture. December the 16th, 1952

And we’re going to talk about Memory. And when I say ‘memory’, I do not mean human memory. I’m not even vaguely interested in human memory, because human memory is a sort of a weird combination of stimulus-response. Somebody else remembers something and they bat it out, and a beam or a noise hits a ridge and the ridge re-echos and it goes into an entity and the entity says, „Let me see. I’ll have to think about it.“ And then it goes over into another circuit and then it goes into a little other circuit. And then it goes around a couple of loops in space, and then it goes into another ridge.

The remainder of the day, as tempting as it is to talk about aesthetics and this aspect, we can perhaps leave that to later, to another commentary lecture. I’ve got to go on with Standard Operating Procedure, Issue 3… Issue 5, or we’ll never get through it. Somebody stuck me on a time track. You got me thinking about flows here during the intermission. And it was very interesting, just as a comment, that the statement that there is really no such things as a DC flow is a very, very strange one to make until he added the rest of it, and that is, „There is no such thing as a DC flow, unless you change your viewpoint as fast as the flow shifts poles“ – hmm.

This ridge, by the way, is about 180 feet out and it has to travel in the interim through a great many ridges before it starts getting into the thousands of ridges in the head.

So that if you insisted there was such a thing as a DC flow, or a single flow, in order to get a flow at all and not change your viewpoint on it at all with the terminals, you would simply have to start putting up lower and lower potentials, which would bring one right straight down through the reasoning band, bring him down through the emotional band, and bring him down into the effort band and bring him down to matter, and maybe that is the cycle of action: An insistance on a one-way flow. Because flows happen to be a very aberrative thing and I’m going to take up flows here.

The course of the thought in homo sapiens in a very aberrated state is almost unplottable. Nobody could plot it because there just isn’t that much paper. It just goes here and there and everywhere and it kicks in and kicks out.

The Standard Operating Procedure Issue V has as its fourth step the following. This technique is really known as either relocation of anchor points or flow balancing.

Now you basically used to take off of homo sapiens the first ridges. You used to take the facsimiles off the first ridges, and if you shot a circuit, you were shooting those first ridges. We were getting excellent results doing this and we were making something that was a darned good homo sapiens. We did this.

Now, when you start talking about flows you are of course talking about terminals. And when you’re talking about terminals, you’re talking about a special kind of anchor points. And, as a result, when you go down through these various steps of Issue V Standard Operating Procedure, you find in Spacation that a person is able to hold a point quietly before him, if he can do that – hold this point quietly before him – you just go on with a complete Spacation and of course he’s out and pretty stable. And then you go on to Step One again and finish it off, or Two.

All right. We’re not making a darned good homo sapiens anymore. We’re making a theta clear. And not only that, but we’re making an operating thetan, which is the next immediate level. The levels would go, as we had on an earlier lecture: theta exterior – he’s out, but if the body were to be injured he would be back in; theta clear – the body could be fed through a mowing machine and he would simply say, „Well, there it goes.“ And uh… the level that – he would probably feel kind of sad about it… but it would… he would still be there with his identity. You’ve made an immortal, that’s all. I mean, minor goal.

Now, that… that tells you that this person has a terminal. This tells you this person has a… a flow potential which can be maintained because he can hold the terminal still, if you want to get to that, he can go in for the mechanics of electronics which require… which require first and foremost some place from which to postulate into a space in which can be postulated a flow, which must of necessity run between two or more terminals. And in order to get a flow running you get a… have to have a stable terminal.

Now let’s go up level and find an operating thetan. If you take a theta clear (and when I say ‘stable outside’ that is very far from an absolute term, because a theta clear does a rollercoaster). Sometimes he’s better and sometimes he’s not better. And the first thing that you do when you run all this – theta clearing consists of, of course – just all you have to do is run everything it says in Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, that’s all. You can omit Steps Six and Seven. But you can even do those, if you want. And you just run everything there is in Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five and you’ve got a theta clear. That’s all the processes we… we’re working with, really. We’ve got a lot of other processes, and you can vary… vary your processing with them once in a while and find out what happens with them, and you’ll find them all junior to such a thing.

A fellow has to be able to locate his facsimiles. And the reason he has to locate his facsimiles out in space around him is not because he can’t postulate and locate newly, facsimiles – he can do that too – but because he’s accustomed to using his old facsimiles and they gradually caved in and he’s lost their orientation point. And he is trying to work on, oh, all sorts of things: flows between ridges, and, oh, most enormous amount of automaticity contained in this. And if he can’t locate his terminals anymore, he isn’t going to be able to get a flow.

Once in a while, by the way, with one of these Fifth Invaders, you’ve got little trick processes such as you mentioned there. You… you get the guy to dis… you drill him on hands until he no longer is just going, ‘Yaaaahh!’ on the subject of ‘hands’. And uh… and then you make him stand up against the wall, see. You face the wall and… and make him put these hands at the side and then take his ‘beam directors’ off of his arms and put ‘em over against the wall and feel the wall with the beam directors right there. He’s… he’s got beams, you see. They run like that.

Now that’s all very esoteric, but it happens to be quite oh… it uh… follows very easily. A person has less and less energy to the direct degree that they are unable to locate their facsimiles or hold a terminal still. And when you put this point out in space in Step Three, this is essentially an effort to cut down automaticity. You don’t have to know the electronics behind this thing, but there are electronics behind it and you’d better know that there are some.

Uh… thetans use various methods, for instance, in dressing up a body so it’ll work. And this accounts, in a large measure for the different postures and actions which you find from person to person. They’re rigged differently. They’re… they’re tied up differently. The cables runnin’ differently and so on. My body runs on a rod principale. There’s a supporting rod underneath these arms, back of the arms, back of the legs. And a nullifying stretcher here and there in order to bend the knee. And uh… so on. And what the muscles are doing, I… I’ve very often wondered. But I know that when those rods are energized, I get pretty fast action. And uh… that’s… it’s a very handy way to handle a body. And I suppose it got put together that way because of stress and strain in action. I suppose that would be an action system of putting a body together.

It’s just sufficient to know that uh… the pc who can hold that point in space before him easily without a great deal of automaticity setting in is then capable of getting a good, solid energy flow. Why? He can set up terminals. And he’s doing this all the time automatically. And so we’ve got a… a situation there which is quite simple.

Now there’d be somebody like a… a dancer. Well, this person would have a much, much more complex thing. Action: What are you interested in action? You’re interested in being able to act fast and being able to control speedily various implements… instruments and, of course, the body itself.

And uh… your next boy down the line is having trouble with anchor points. And that’s why the next step below „get a point and hold it still“ is Step Four and that addresses itself to anchor points and flow balancing.

Uh… when I say ‘action’, you take pushing a racing car around the track. You just take that and if you don’t… if you don’t think that’s hard work? That’s hard work. It requires instant thrust, see? Bang! The body has to be rigged with pistons in order to do that.

And it says right away, uh… if this fellow can’t hold a point still, then he’s missing some of his points. And he has his anchor points, probably, stacked out in his current lifetime childhood, and therefore he is trying to operate on these anchor points at some vast distance, and they’re no longer serving him as anchor points. So you’d better get rid of at least the most important anchor points on the case, which would be the anchor points in the proximity of the best beloved childhood home he had. The one he liked the most. The one he was accustomed to call his home and to think about in later years as the ‘pleasantness of childhood’.

All right, somebody else has an aesthetic angle. See? When I make that gesture, I can’t make it anywhere near as well as a girl for instance who is a dancer. She… she would make the ge… gesture much more expressively. There’s a limitation on that because the rods just aren’t… Of course it’s no real limitation. You probably couldn’t tell the difference unless you saw a dancer do it, you see? I mean, you say, „Gosh! How could there be that much difference in a rig?“

And uh… that is, of course, the scene of anchor points. He’s stuck on the track, in Book One terminology. He’s parked there in childhood and everybody knows that everybody gets parked in childhood, and everybody knew it all the time and uh… so forth. They didn’t know why or how to free him, but everybody knew this anyhow.

So when the boys are sometimes talking about hot rods or they’re talking about sailing vessels or yachts or something of the sort, they talk about differences of rig. And one rig’s good and one rig’s bad and that sort of thing. You’ll find bodies rigged up all different.

Uh… and the reason for that is… the reason he’s locked up on the track is he’s got a couple of anchor points. And then everything’s piling up on these anchor points, and the whole track is jamming in an effort to retain these anchor points.

Now it’s… it’s interesting, but when you start pulling ridges off the preclear, he will sometimes just pretend to pull off some of the ridges. Ridges are not bad. The preclear who has recovered his power and force and so forth isn’t even vaguely bothered by a ridge. It’s one of the things you have to educate him into to make an operating thetan.

So we get the most fascinating thing in the world. Now the… the… the… we get a picture of somebody maybe in his middle life, operating perhaps in… in Miami, Florida, uh… working on anchor points of his boyhood home which might have been in Brussels. And believe me, you can’t find anything in Miami, Florida, by orienting it against the anchor points of – Brussels. You can’t find a darn thing in New York City if you are… if your anchor points were in Brussels and your business was in Miami and you went to New York for a visit. You’d start to get losteder and losteder, and that’s true of these individuals below Case Three. They get lost very easily. They get lost very quickly. And uh… they get very confused about being lost, too.

All right, he has these terrifically complex systems, perhaps – criss-cross systems that you’d think this stuff just… Uh… you ever see a marionette? Some of them are rigged like marionettes. And some of them are handled this-a-way? Right straight across the face, see? With a pressor at the middle of the back. And then the body is supposed to walk. Did you ever see anybody do that? You ever see anybody with a completely smashed face? Huh? And… and if you watch them really close as they change their expression they would… you haven’t got one. Let’s see if we have one here. You doing that to your body? Somebody here is probably doing it to his body. One person or another.

So, of course, Step Four then really devotes itself toward tearing up the anchor points. You do that by getting a mock-up of this childhood home that he liked the most, and just multiplying it and dividing it and changing it and moving it front to back and around and putting it in yesterday and altering it. And that simple operation may itself stabilize him. That just might do that., at which moment you would go back to Three and so on. But there’s a lot more to Step Four than that. If you have a Step Four, you might as well do right then what is necessary before he’s a stable theta clear, and that is balance his flows, relocate his anchor points.

Kish isn’t, fortunately. He’s got a lot of horsepower and he’d… he’d snap his head off if he did that. I think that boy over there probably is. You’re… you’re probably snapping it with a pressor beam. Have you got a hollow in the middle of your spine back here? Is there a hole, sort of? Feel back there and see. (Sees all, knows all.)

Now we could call this process ‘Give and Take’, or we could call it a technical name, ‘Flow Balancing’. And let’s call it both. ‘Give and Take’ is the better name because it says what it does, and describes the process.

Uh… now here, then, is a variation in what? The rig-up of a body. Now there’s all kinds of little systems that you’ll notice like this that are of interest to somebody, and it’s really far more interesting than anatomy. Because from the earliest years, the baby has some definite characteristics and demonstrates that somewhere on the timetrack, here and there on the timetrack, somebody’s operated a school. And the earliest school I have any recollection of a preclear mentioning was about 70 trillion years ago. And these poor thetans would come in and they’d manufacture energy and they’d walk around on beams and they didn’t quite know what they were doing. And a fellow actually ran a college way back on the track that taught thetans how to operate.

So, here we have what has happened to an individual that causes him to start saying, „What room?“ „What wall?“ „I can’t be in my head. I’m not even in my head.“ Uh… dispersal – negative space, if such a thing could exist.

Thetans would get up against these huge gaseous masses, which were later to become planets, and they’d get up against these things and they’d get scared stiff and they’re afraid to touch them. They’d wait for them to solidify. And they might wait a million years. And this fellow took pity on this so he opened a school. That’s right. And uh… went all through this, by the way – one of the… one of the auditors did in England, and he came back with some very fascinating stuff. This fellow didn’t have information on this subject, but he’s talking… he’s… he missed one type of thinking, the only thing he really missed. And the other is how to move as a thetan. And it’s the drill that he would give these thetans in order to move.

Now we have all these various manifestations from Step Two down. The worse he is, the more he needs Give and Take Processing. It has several aspects. It is done very precisely. It’s done by formula. It is necessary because you have to do this in order to give the thetan back his memory. And the thetan without his memory is not in very good condition. And the rehabilitation of memory, then, is quite important.

He was no more sprung as a theta clear without any education on this subject, than he started to inform his auditor as to the proper methods and modes of teaching and training a thetan to move properly around in the MEST universe – just like that: curriculum.

But the resolution of your low-toned case which is sitting at ‘I’ on the smallest and last end of the cycle within the cycle, DEI… you know, right down there at the bottom, you’d find a ‘desire to be dead’ right down there, and this person is two steps below that. They desire to be dead and they can’t even die, and they’re raving mad at the same time. That would be the lowest level of that. And a little bit higher than that the guy who can’t have anything, who wants everything and has to hold on to everything he ever had.

So don’t think your thetan is without education. By the way, the way they got away with that, he would teach them to ‘think’ themselves a little further away. And teach them to ‘think’ themselves in another direction. And then he’d teach them to ‘think’ themselves around – uh… pardon me, go around the planet and then go back to where they started again. And then ‘think’ themselves from there, and then ‘think’ themselves around the planet and then go back. ‘Think’ themselves back where they started. Drill, drill, drill and finally the fellow would say, „What do you know? Gee! I… I can recover my postulates!“

Now, unfortunately, we’ve solved the capitalist. I… I… as a matter of fact, I wasn’t going to give up this technique, but I see so many bright and shining faces before me that are unwilling to admit defeat and there isn’t any reason why I should cause you to do the extra 80 hours of auditing on the Five, Six and Seven that you would otherwise have to do. So let’s be big-hearted today and let these, too, into Valhalla.

Well, there’s a terrific amount of automaticity left on your case – anybody’s case. Any thetan’s case. He has built in automaticities. He has training and skills which he would… he’s afraid to touch. But they’ve gotten automatic.

Now there are people… there are people who have a great certainty that although the number of steps we have here are Seven, that their case sits at Eight. And as Herr Doktor Noiga has stated, „If we had a Nine on the chart, they’d be sure they sat at Ten.“

And the second training becomes too automatic, throw it out. If you’ve got a preclear who is having a lot of trouble handling this body of his, by George! he probably has got it rigged so automatic that it just goes around like a doll, or something, and he can’t make… he c… he hasn’t got it under control! You’ve seen ills like that, haven’t you? He hasn’t the body under proper control.

And as much as one can find randomity and interest and amusement in this extreme opinion uh… and as… well, as hard as these people try to stay the way they are, in view of the fact that I’m very tired of auditors coming around and telling me, „He just doesn’t WANT to get over his aberrations, that’s all that’s wrong with him.“ In view of the fact that I’m tired of that and these other considerations, uh… I wanna… I’m forced to give you this technique. I was going to save it. I was going to save it and uh… at the end of track on the preparation of Scientology, which by the way is not my end of track, but this has got an end of track somewhere on the track. Uh… you… you can’t go on for the next 85 billion years in the MEST universe saying, „Yes, yes. Well, now I tell you. This is the way you do it, auditor.“ It can’t be done. No randomity; you get the static.

What do you do? Tear all the ridges out of it and start all over again. Take out the automaticity. Any piece of information which you have which is an automatic basis, you don’t want or need.

Why, uh… I’m going to have to give up this technique. I was going to save it, though, and have it put in a tomb, see, and then mock-up a body like this and have that buried in the tomb too, you see? And then people would… – people would be able to go by when it hadn’t solved their cases or something. And they could say, „Well, there is a technique in that tomb, but unfortunately it is written in international Morse, a dead language which existed in the middle of the 20th Century and nobody can decipher it. And uh… they got the first two or three words out of it and it was something like uh… Gaitah, uh… Gaitah, and uh… we finally figured out that what was meant by that was you… you hook up this guy wire tower and you hooked up a boom for the preclear’s head, and got the thetan out with… with something else they used to talk about in those days which was „auto-magnetism.“ I thought that would be a very good joke.

Well, when a thetan takes a look at his body and says, „Well, for goodness sakes! There’s ridges there and there’s lines there and something or other, and they’re built in against the back, and .they’re built in against the back of the neck, and they’re there under the chin, and… and… and they run down. And there’s a sort of a criss-cross lattice system on the arms and legs that’s kind of like Japanese things that come off of a… their… they catch your finger with. And he says. „Look at all those horrible ridges!“

But however… however, when I think of these fellows having to go on any further along the track in all this agony, and I think of your agony as an auditor in trying to solve their cases, why I take pity on you. But I… I want to know that in this one you owe me a favor. All this other stuff is yours for free, but this one you owe me a favor, because uh… I didn’t have to give you this one; the other techniques work.

Well, of course, the worst thing that will happen to him, he’ll just have to retrain himself. But he’ll… he’ll get a little bit sloppy in handling the body if he starts tearing these ridges off. He doesn’t know they’re there. He built it. That’s his level of automaticity.

I… I may need a favor one of these days at the rate the rumor line goes. They… they have a special rumor-machine. It’s hooked into an ENIAC that is kept at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has some of its branch parts at Bell Labs in New Jersey, uh… and this turns out rumors at random. And uh… and these rumors are picked up and they apply to anybody. You just put anybody’s name on them, you see, and you’ve got a rumor. And it’s quite a scientific accomplishment.

He operates so automatically that he doesn’t know what he’s doing from one minute to the next. He really doesn’t. He does all this thing, conditioned response, as a thetan – training.

But one of these slots got stuck and started to deliver everything that it was manufacturing into the middle of United States and it kept coming out that – one of the stampers on it got stuck too – and it kept coming out „Scientology.“ And I’ve got to write a letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology or some of these other organizations and ask them to please turn the machine off for a short time until we get the rumors sorted out and get them properly distributed, because they’re jamming and contradicting each other.

Where’s he carry it? Gets interesting when you ask the question: Where’s he carry all this automaticity?

I understand that today I was jailed by the FBI uh… for uh… inciting uh… I don’t know, a veteran to go into a foreign war or – I… I’m not quite sure what it was. Oh, yeah! For not being a Communist, or… I don’t think that… because my party card is in good condition. I belong to everything: I’m a Democrat, a Republican, a Socialist, a Communist, a ‘I will arise’, uh… Birmingham Burying Society – I’m a member of everything, Baptist Church – I’m for everything too.

A lot of thetans move out and they immediately begin to think themselves around in space. College graduate – of the year four trillion, MEST universe.

So, uh… these rumor machines get to work on this. And uh… one of these fine days you, as an auditor, may get some preclear up to a level where he doesn’t believe each rumor which is handed to him, because your preclears get very confused when eight or nine of these rumors are handed to them in a group, from the same source, each one contradicting the last. And the having to believe all nine almost splits their skull open. And when they fall into the category of a Step Four or Step Five or Step Six, or Step Seven case, of course it does split their skull open. And where this is an easy way to get the thetan out, it gets the carpet bloody, and so forth.

Another thetan was suddenly born into this life and he takes Mechano sets and he puts them together and he tears them apart and he puts them together and he just has the finest time, but he kind of… the paucity of materials will upset him or something like that about it. But, gee! He really builds like mad! But the kid down the street gets a Mechano Set and he looks at one of the bolts and he looks at another bolt and he puts the two bolts through the wrong holes, and then he bends the girder and then he gets it all set up… but that wasn’t what he was supposed to be building anyhow. He’s just rambling the structure.

And it’s not a recommended process: Blow him up by feeding him rumors.

And you say one has a natural talent and the other one doesn’t. One’s been to college and the other one hasn’t.

So uh… when we get into this uh… Gita Processing here uh… – I actually hate to give you this. I mean, I… I do. I do… I… I… it’s uh… well, it spoils something. It spoils your… your randomity, but there will always be… Voice: We don’t want it. LRH: You don’t want it?

Now you don’t care where you went to college or where you got the information. You need a memory. Now you can argue with this all you please, but the fact of the matter is, you do need a memory – as a thetan. It’s all right to remember back to when you were two years of age a la MEST body memory, which are patterned. But any time a person has… he’s able to, more or less, control space, he can move around in space, he can do this, he can do that and so on.

Voice: Don’t bother.

But he does everything kind of automatic. You know, it just sort of happens that way. And if you chug into him with this question, „How are you doing that?“ he just goes „Ummmmmmmmm-crash!“ You go around to an actor some time, and you say, „How do you speak these lines?“ You go around to the championship tennis player and say… you’re going to play a match with him, you see, or something like that just for his practice. You just ask him, „How do you hold your racket?“ And he shows you, and you say, „How’s that again? Yeah, but what do you do with your index finger, hmmm?“ You’ll win. There isn’t any – you see, all of his very necessary training is because he’s down tone scale from instantaneous learning and application.

LRH: Good! Good! Good, I won’t… I won’t bother to give you that, but I’ll give you this other. Well, I want to tell you about this:

Instantaneous learning and application: You observe, pervade, know, apply, act. And, you know? It sounds arduous, but do you know that a man can actually go through all those steps and enjoy everything like mad, and play a championship game of tennis if he’s never seen a racket before. He just… there’s a racket and that’s the way you kind of do it. But he figures it out every time… every time he hits that ball, the ball comes over, see – a high-speed ball comes over across the net – very rapid, you see. And he says, „Let me see. How do you hold this racket? Well, you hold it this way, this time. Let’s see. And the angle of incidence about so on, and he want to gear up that ridge there, and when it gets in there… now we’d better move the body over this way. All right – bong! It’s an interesting thing, if that ball spins it’ll jump back across the net.“ And so it does. I mean, he could think out every stroke like that, because he’s thinking fast. He’s not thinking…

Now the hero who… this is more important data. We’ll forget about that other one.

And when you see a man who’s frantic, remember this about it: He’s only frantic because he can’t think fast. He doesn’t think there’s enough time to figure out and apply the solution, and he gets frantic. And that franticness is a result of automaticity.

You’ll find many preclears in this kind of a condition (it says right here). Did you ever hear of uh… winning much better than winning? The way you win much better than winning, is to win while wounded – it’s used in every novel. Uh… the hero gets wounded just before he finally knifes the villain in the back which is a heroic act because he’s the hero. And you’ll find many of your bodies playing this role. The hero who plays the game while wounded – if he’s really a hero. And this guy will come in and he will be winning, vaguely, just because he’s… and he comes in… and… and he… the only reason he comes in to see you is so that everybody will know now that he was wounded but he was winning anyway. It’s just to make the game tougher.

A memory which becomes automatic is not worth having. And if you were to take the best race driver in the world and rip off every doggoned ridge he had on his body and let him put ‘em back on again, he would drive a faster, more able car. But when they get to a point where it’s 99 percent automaticity anyhow, then they have to ‘learn’ how to do it by training and practice and experience.

You’ve put more restriction on yourself, see, than uh… anybody could possibly stand, and then still win, and that increases the nobility and the glory and the purity of it all. And this comes under the heading of, you’ll find a lot of preclears under this heading, ‘the glory of being restricted and still winning’.

And training and practice and experience are no substitute for knowing. And when we say ‘knowing’, we mainly mean capability of knowing. He’s capable of knowing. For instance, he goes down to the archery range, and he sees somebody down there. He can do an instantaneous mock-up in mimicry. He’s the archer down there – instructor – and he takes the bow this way and he throws it this way. A man, homo sapiens, can’t observe that arrow in its flight and the handling of the bow itself fast enough to observe what’s going on. So he just has to look at it and be trained, and look at it and be trained and look at it and then he digs one into the turf five feet in front of him. Uh… an operating thetan should be able to look at that set-up and watch that bow draw back and then go forward on the arrow, see? And look at the arrow turn. „Oh,“ he says. „When you release it that way, that thing at the back there“ – he wouldn’t know its nomenclature too well – „that thing at the back, that hits the thumb there and that feather. So when we fire it, we will make sure that when the feather goes across the fingers, we simply lower the fingers and don’t give it a spin, and that won’t misdirect it. And then you can fire it directly at the bow. Yeah, that’s very interesting.“ Bonk! Bull’s-eye.

A lot of people who spent half the last war in hospitals and so forth, were solely there because I swear they saw the bullet coming and they just moved sideways and into it, you see. So that they could win and be wounded at the same time.

Furthermore, he could probably do this: The arrow is going wrong and going a little bit awry, so he could get over there and straighten it up.

Now another item. Uh… the greatest pretense there is is the pretense that it is not all pretense. Pretending that it is not all pretense. That is the biggest pretense there is. And you’ll find everybody, more or less, doing that. They’re making sure that everything is real instead of actual. And they’re… they know darn well they’re pretending.

Now, you see the difference between automaticity and memory? Now if you have a thousand square miles of ridges or something vague or terrific, uh… uh… actually, I mean, you ask somebody how far his… how far is his… his furthest ridge, and he’ll start telling you ‘infinity’ and then maybe ‘eight light-years’ – something like that. There’s… space becomes meaningless when you start talking about ridges.

You start cracking this, you’ll get that feeling off of ridges ad infinitum.

Your thetan thinks that his horsepower and other things all stem from the havingness of old energy. Hah-hah-hah! No, no. No, it doesn’t! If he can adequately locate terminals, anchor points, facsimiles and lines in space, he can have current. And it really… when he is depending on automaticity, he really can’t have much current. The amount of current which’ll flow on these old ridges is light, small. But the amount of current which he can get by simply setting up, willy-nilly, and then holding – you get how important holding something still is, and having something else move – and hold still two terminals…

Now we’ll go on to some other things here. Well, you said you didn’t want that technique.

All right, let’s hold still two terminals. Now we’re going to throw an anchor point down at that power line – bang! There’s an anchor point there, you see? Now we’ve got another anchor point here of a higher potential. Wowwhaapp! There goes the power line.

Voice: Who said that?

Well, frankly, I mean, that… it’s not dependent upon any other mechanism than the ability to postulate the origin and destination of a flow. You can say how much flow it is, too. It’s fascinating. It doesn’t matter how accurate this is. It’s whether or not it gets the job done for him.

LRH: Did somebody?… Oh, nobody said that? I must have been getting… I must have been getting a backflash on the side. Voice: Well, we’d like a chance to… disagree with it. All right, that’s pretty good. He’d like a chance to disagree with it.

Now your thetan, therefore, who has a great deal of automaticity and very little memory, or very little action, capability, but is all trained and he kind of „knows that you think your way from one point to the other,“ see, this other fellow had memory, he’ll say, „Yeah-yeah. I was trained in that one and it was at such-and-such a place.“ He wasn’t depending on the E-Meter to tell him it was 70 trillion years ago. He’ll say, „Yeah, it was about 70 trillion years ago,“ and the E-Meter goes „bop!“ And he says, „I“ – he wasn’t paying any attention to this, see? And he says, „We were having a lot of trouble at the time, and… and the MEST universe was quite new… and so forth. And so we trained them up in the curriculum of so-and-so-and-so.“ He’s remembering. He had, evidently, stayed pretty clear on the whole track.

Well, now this will be mimeographed up, but I’d advise you, uh… in view of the fact that I haven’t spoken to the management about that, to take down some of these steps. And this is really Step Four. He mocks up his childhood home in order to recover those anchor points. He puts it under control by turning its colors, by moving it in various ways, by putting it behind him, ahead of him, around him. And finally by putting it into the past and then mocking it up again, and getting a lot of them. And then he sits this thing in various locales where it couldn’t possibly be. He puts it in Washington, he puts it in London, he puts it in Birmingham, he puts it in Scotland, he puts it in Ireland, he puts it over in uh… New Jersey, he puts it in Alaska, he puts it in China, and he gets it carefully oriented there each time. And then puts it into yesterday and puts it into last year and so on until he’s really blown those anchor points up.

Of course, it was indicative of the fact that when the auditor said, „Be three feet behind your head“ – Bam! At that instant he had a theta clear. This fellow showed no likelihood to dive back into the body just because the body was disturbed.

Now there’s some refinements that he can do on these techniques if he’s pretty good and you’re working a higher-toned preclear for this and you find ones that are lovely. Just take all the anchor points you ever had in the MEST universe. Now connect each one to the next one. Now connect those lines all together. Now turn them upright and have ‘em run into the sky. Now bring them down and condense them into a ball. And oh… now put that anchor point where you would like to have an anchor point. Now that’s an interesting little variation on that, but that is not Give and Take Processing.

Now these ridges, then, are neither good or bad. But they contain an enormous amount of automaticity. If you’re really tough and really big and really strong, you don’t have to pick up a single ridge or blow a single line of ch… handle or change a single terminal.

Give and Take Processing becomes so excessively easy on you that any girl who is even on the lower band or kid that is on the lower band – he’s giving everything up, he’s unstable uh… abandonment, runs away, fright easily – homo sapiens. Or the fellow who is chunky and big and beefy and so forth, and is holding on madly to everything and won’t let anything go away. – Life is very serious for him. They’re your rough cases because they’re your lower toned cases. And that applies from cases from Three down.

I said once upon a time I’d tell you about end of terminal processing, so I will.

What’s wrong with them? Well, the same thing’s wrong with them that deprives them of their memory. And I’m going to give you, as I told you in a little earlier lecture, a whole rundown on memory.

Once upon a time somebody had a communication line to somebody and he built it up as an energy line. This was t… from his body to his mother’s body. And then Mama went away and abandoned the opposite end of terminal. So he took it and fastened it on his own body. And a lot of the loops and coils which you find around a body are actually these old communication lines which a person has actually and actively used between himself and another body as a routine procedure. Then he’s lost the other end of terminal and of course, you don’t get a flow.

But this process, I will tell you, just as a process and whether you ever remember anything about the memory or not is beside the point. I’m simply going to read this off:

But he gets a flow from one part of his body to another part of his body, and so you get circuits. One part of his body is Mama, one part’s Papa. And another part’s something else. And he says, „I wonder what my father’d think about this?“ and it… he gets back on the same line, „Well, let’s see, Son. Uh… we’ll have to go into that a little more.“ See? And you’ll find those things festooned on the body or sometimes coiled around and around.

„A pc who can mock up his childhood home and bring it under control can regain many anchor points. He is then able to remedy his main difficulty: Too much loss, too much havingness.“

What do you do with them? Well, you don’t have to do anything with them, but if you do anything with them, find the end of terminal that used to be fastened on to somebody else, go fasten it on to something. And then have the pc take it off. Take off his end and throw it away.

Sounds non sequitor. It won’t, but I’ll give you a rundown on this.

Now he’s got old end of terminals, old anchor points. And you’ll find all kinds of lines coming down from space to terminals, his body. And he reaches up and he finds all these terminals around his head – something like that. And actually they’re… I… I’m sorry to have to say this, but they’re to bodies in pawn and they’re control mechanisms and every other darned thing. And he’ll say, „I don’t know if I ought to touch that or not.“ You say, „Ah, go on – touch it.“ He’ll say, „Well, there’s a great big line here marked ‘agreement’.“

„The pc finds it necessary to take hold of everything and thus lose nothing, or he finds it necessary to give everything away in order to hold at a minimum his own body.“

And by the way, make a note of that. They’ve… they’ve all got a line marked ‘agreement’, if you want to find it. You… sometimes he can’t get his waves length high enough, or something of the sort, to find this line. But sooner or later he’ll run into it. And it’ll either blow or show up or something. But he’s got this big line and it’s just going on and on and on up in space. He can see it go. He knows it’s a terminal of some sort.

„The Four’s basic trouble and the basic trouble in any case from Two down is the necessity to obey MEST anchor points and to obey MEST flows.“

What do you do with them? you say, „Reach up and give it a yank.“ Well, he can or can’t pull it down. But if he pulls it down, he’s liable to get a horrible shock in his head. It’s no uh… no myth, you see, handling these lines. They’re there. The preclear may be feeling very, very vague about these lines. He may not really know whether he has any lines there or not, but uh… all of a sudden you say, „Well, all right now, in taking these lines off your body,“ you say, „now get ahold of that line that’s on your left shoulder. Okay, now you got that line there? All right, now where does it go to?“

If you were to run ‘obey flows’ as a concept, an individual would practically cave in because it’s all over the track. He’s supposed to obey flows; he’s supposed to obey perceptic flows. He’s supposed to obey flows of speech; he’s supposed to obey electronic currents. He’s supposed to obey all these things. And „obey flows“ is his basic difficulty.

And he says, „Right hip.“

Now all right. He gets down to a point where his only actual anchor points are bodies, and the only objects he cares about, really, are bodies and things associated with bodies. Think of that for a minute. His anchor points are bodies. This guy is sort of hanging off in a negative space aspect and looking around, and there he has a body. And uh… he orients everything where this body is, and everything is kind of blurred out and beyond the body. But up close to the body he can…

„Okay. it goes to the right hip. Now, which is your end of the line?“ the auditor says.

You don’t believe this? You know… I mean, you… you don’t… you don’t… you don’t get the impact of this and when I say when he perceives his body and when he knows his body, and when he’s using his body as an anchor point, I mean just that! And if you don’t quite see that, how many people in this room felt that streetcar motorman go by this instant? Nobody. That’s within your perceptic area. Nobody tasted the workman’s lunch box that was on that streetcar. Not a single person here.

„Well,“ he says, „Uh… I don’t know. It doesn’t take much. The right hip! Yeah, yeah.“ That’s no-no, it’s the shoulder. I don’t know who that line used to go to. Oh, it went to my father.“

As far as the… the wall back there is concerned, none of you have had any tactile on that wall for a long time now. Some of you might have felt it.

„All right,“ you say. „Well, take it off the right hip and go throw it into the wash basin,“ or „take it out and throw it in the damp grass“ or „just pull it loose and throw it away.“ You don’t care what happens to it.

Uh… very few of you would… would uh… I’ll bet you nobody has felt the… the silkiness of that tie in looking at me – if you’re obviously looking at me. That’s within your field of perceptic experience. Just looking at something is not really experiencing it. That’s a sort of a ‘Let’s draw back and be coy’. But there are very few of you here who haven’t felt the beating of your heart or your lungs or the warmth of your body or the position of your head or your face. And that is the limit of experience in a body – and that’s pretty narrow.

By the way, it’s liable to lie out there for a while and writhe and spark when you throw them out, but you throw ‘em out. And then take off the other end. Splonk! Throw it after it. That’s the end of that line – line handling – very difficult. You’ll sometimes find strange things happening too. There’ll be a line that starts there and ends there. And sometimes there are lines… that’s in the stomach. And sometimes there are lines that start back of the ears and come around to the eyes, like big bananas, and things like that. And then he just takes them and he pulls them off. And… and when I said, it’s no joke, you see, the first few times he does this he’s very adventurous. „Oh, well. I… I’m kind of seeing them sort of foggy anyway, so they’re probably three-quarters imaginary. And uh… I mummm – uhhh – well they keep staying there. I wonder why I don’t see these on other people? Oh, my! Everybody’s got ‘em. I guess I’m just seeing end of terminals and lines and… and ridges and… Gee, I just guess I’m just looking…“ and then he changes his waves length of sight and he doesn’t see it again. And then he changes his wave length of sight by postulate – he just…

Therefore, that anchor point which is the most reliable is the anchor point which lies within the limit of experience and which is the limit of experience. And a true anchor point is the limit of experience. What are my anchor points? „Well I haven’t got a lot of points out there,“ you say. What… what are my anchor points? Well, my anchor points are actually the boundaries of what I am experiencing. That’s my space.

Now do you change a wave length of sight? You say, „I’ll now use higher wave length.“ You just sort of… just say it. And he’ll come around here and he’ll get ahold of this one on the right side and just sort of put a beam out against his face, or something of the sort, and he’ll put a grapple on this thing. And he’ll reach out and he’ll go ‘yank!’ and of course his eyeball will go out – ‘Bong!’ He’ll say, „Ohhhh-ohhhh! What are you doing to me?“

If you’re in the MEST universe, you’re living on borrowed space. So you just simply… you… you would throw out your limit of experience and this would be the limit of experience. And that would be your anchor points. But you’d experience everything out to the limit of the anchor points to the degree that you know that your mouth at this moment is wet.

Another thing – sometimes you ask him to prowl around inside his skull looking for ridges and he’ll hit the pineal and it almost blows his brain out. I did that to Nibby one day and it’s very, very funny. He said, „Now, I feel like I shouldn’t do this.“ I say, „Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Be brave – it’s your head.“ And uh… and he said, „I feel I shouldn’t do this.“

You know, that might give you some kind of an idea of what it feels like to be alive. That’s not said sarcastically. I… that’s the first… first… first time I’ve had an adequate communication phrase to describe that feeling of ‘being aliveness’, you know? You go down the street, and… and the whole street is alive from side to side. That’s it. The bricks on both sides of the street are in a sphere of experience. That’s how big you are; you don’t talk to somebody, you experience what the person is experiencing. And that’s communication. And that person then experiences something aesthetic or extraordinary just to demonstrate to you that he is experiencing.

And I said, „Well, go ahead and do it.“ And he reaches in and POW! Of course, he activated the pineal gland.

You get an interchange, then, which is the… It is the up-tone level of what talk might be – speech. Speech is trying to tell somebody, „I and you are experiencing. We’re co-experiencing something or other, or we’re discussing the co-experience of something. But just by speaking, we are co-experiencing, and by speaking, you see, you are saying you’re alive and I’m saying I’m alive. And we’re demonstrating it by keeping up a communication flow. Now this is very simple.

And… uh… it has sort of a force screen over the top of it or something of this sort, and it really… really went bong! You… you could practically see his hair bounce when he did it. And then he dived back inside. And it took an awful lot of coaxing to get him out. I had to scan it and work with it and be calm about the whole thing. And he kept looking at me distrustfully.

So, what do you… what do you do on a higher level than that? You communicate by experiencing what the other person is experiencing at the moment. That only gets to be uncomfortable when a fellow gets to be very very shy and when he’s so unethical as to be burying all sorts of memories and experiences, and he wants to hide things and he’s not strong enough to hold and protect himself and other things. He has to be pretty strong in order to have a completely wide-open front door, wide-open memory bank and so on.

Well, these things will happen once in a while and when they do, just use anything to straighten them out – change a postulate. Or scan ‘em. Tell him to move out of his head, scan it out. He will, and that finishes it. Sometimes he has to go through it with full somatics. Or do a mock-up of it and run that a few times – faster method.

Then somebody comes along and steals something out of the memory bank, he has to be strong enough to say, „Zzzzzap!“ and take it back and put it back properly in the memory bank. Or make something new to take its place. Or play an awful good joke on this fellow by getting ahold of him and making him take five more.

So, all of that is just… that’s… oh, uh… not important, really, to… to know this material. You’ll get into this; you’ll… you’ll find these things to be the case, you’ll… you’ll say, „Well, there’s a ridge. What do I do about it?“ and… and… and the preclear… and you say, „Well, what’d the preclear… What do you want to do about it?“ the auditor says.

That is what we mean be ‘experience’ and that is what we mean by ‘communication’. You’ve had no adequate technique to reestablish this, and you’d better reestablish it in terms of „What is my sphere of experience?“ Well, my sphere of experience is the boundaries of my own anchor points, really. You see, there could be primary and secondary anchor points. There’d be anchor points which denote the space in which I own things, or have things. There is… the anchor points of that space which encloses all things, which I am not necessarily experiencing. And there would be the boundaries of what I am immediately experiencing. And those would be the primary anchor points. Any others would be secondary anchor points. And the only reason you’d ever have those secondary ones out is so you could find, once more, what you had, that’s all. That… they don’t even become very important.

„Well, I don’t know. It’s not hurting me.“ Or, he’ll keep saying, „There’s a ridge in front of my eyes. There’s a ridge in front of my eyes. There’s a ridge in front of my eyes.“

That’s part… the horrible part of this universe is, is the less you need something… the less you need something, the more valuable it is. The less you need something – actual, it is. I mean a fellow who doesn’t even vaguely need anchor points has the doggonedest strongest anchor points you ever ran across. I mean, these anchor points are stretched out about eight light- years in that direction and ten in this direction, and there’s some havingness over there about 20 light-years back. And he could go and find those things just bang!

And you go on, talk for a while, audit for a while. „There’s a ridge in front of my eyes.“

Any moment he knows everything that’s going on if he has to anywhere amongst them, and uh… his immediate line of experience is maybe a couple of hundred feet – just because it suits him not to experience anything further than a couple of hundred feet.

Several ways to handle it. One of the easiest ways to do is „Turn it blue. Turn it black. Now put a duplicate out here in front. Now a ridge. Now turn it around. Now put it behind your head.“ And you get pong! The ridge in front of his eyes is liable to blow up. Very fascinating. I mean, you get real action out of this.

Here on earth, of course, a person has contracted his experience sphere (new technical term for you). His experience sphere is contracting continually until – what is it? It’s a body.

Sometimes he’ll go in and out of his body and he’s just doing beautifully, and now we’re getting into the field of the operating thetan. If you get a person’s energy level up, he doesn’t care how many old lines or anything are hanging around. One day he’s… one day he’s just buzzing around and he’ll… clears up the whole kit and caboodle and explodes the works. I mean he doesn’t pay any attention to it much.

Therefore his primary anchor points are in the limits of the body. So bodies mean an awful lot to him. And you take anybody below Two and take his body away from him, or threaten to take his body away from him, why, he can’t do a thing. He… he knows, with the body gone he knows nothing. And sure enough, although we can turn on that E-Meter and find out that all the facsimiles are there regarding all sorts of existence, uh… co-existences going on at the present instant, uh… all sorts of facsimiles that represented some sort of past existence and all that sort of thing, for a fellow to remember any of these things very directly and say, „Well…“ Or a couple of fellows could be yarning along and accept each other with complete confidence and truth. The fellow says, „Well, I remember there at the Battle of Hastings uh… we had a fellow name of Bilk and uh… uh… he was, I think, a lance corporal. And uh… yeah, he was a lance corporal. And anyway this fellow… and the captain’s horse…“ and a big anecdote goes on.

But if he’s too fixed or fascinated with ridges and flows and dispersals, there’s only one thing wrong with him: He isn’t high enough up the tone scale to adequately handle energy. How do you remedy it? You put him high enough up the tone scale to handle energy – simple. I’ve told you that several times in earlier lectures.

And the fellow says, „Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I knew a fellow once that knew this fellow Bilk. Yeah, that’s fine.“ I mean, that could be ordinary conversation – if you had direct memory on these things.

Now there… therefore, an operating thetan… an operating thetan is a problem in getting him over being jumpy about being a thetan. And consists of the step of recovering to him as a thetan his memory and his personality, his ability to emote and, in particular, his ability to obtain adequately good, solid sensation – that’s very important! He won’t have any goals if he can’t do this.

Well, why haven’t you got direct memory on them? Because you haven’t got a body to orient the facsimiles by. And if you haven’t got that body with which to orient the facsimiles, you haven’t got those anchor points, so therefore that experience doesn’t exist. You’ve just got a picture of it parked someplace and you can’t get ahold of it because the anchor points there… So… And furthermore you wouldn’t have enough capability of re-establishing anchor points to just recapture and uh… view the experience with complete actuality in the absence of pre-established anchor points. You’d just go back and pick up all the old anchor points. And you experience it in that wise. And that’d be very simple then.

You can also show him, if you want to as you go on up scale, that he can acquire MEST independent of his body’s acquisition of MEST. Of course, you really don’t have to have him doing that, he… but he can do it. He can do it.

So, anchor points, and bodies and things. Now a person much less uses corners when he becomes aberrated for anchor points, the corners of spaces than he does the things in the spaces. For instance, you orient this room ordinarily with this platform, or that table, or this white board up here on the wall, or those seats – not by its corners. And of course those seats and the white board and the platform and the table are just objects. They are of the least possible importance where it comes to orientation, because anybody could fool you with them. They could kick this platform over many inches, and move that board over many inches, or lower it many inches and shift that table around – without your beginning to notice it.

Uh… that fellows Step One, you know? The lifting exercises of the body, and that sort of thing? Of course, when you do a Four with the balancing exercises and all the girls poured in and all the girls poured out and right on down to the… to the sensation in and sensation out – they’ll show up as lines probably, or blow by that time. You go right on up the tone scale and take each step above the scale until you get to One.

But more important than that, you might notice that in relationship to your seats and each other; but they could shift those anchor points called the corners out there three, four feet, if all these other things remained constant, and nobody’d ever even notice it. Move them in, shift them out; they… they could have been going… these anchor points up here in the corner actually could have been going like an accordian all during this lecture and I don’t think anybody would have seen it.

Now you get to One, lifting and handling the body around finally teaches him that he can handle a body, without rigging it up like a Chinese puzzle. He can handle it. He’s got to put minimal response lines on it, just enough to hook it up.

The importance, then, of the object as an anchor point denotes a fairly low action in perception and experience. Object becomes the anchor point. Instead of just putting out anchor points, the fellow looks for an object to be his anchor point.

And after that when he wants to do something with a body, he does something with it. And he won’t go and do some careless automatic thing with it that would press the wrong lever accidentally because he doesn’t even know it’s there.

One of the most confusing anchor points there is, then, is a body, because it’s in motion and it’s an object. This almost drives a baby batty. He looks at Mama, and Mama is on her way this way and off there again that way and she’s someplace else. And when he thinks of ‘home’ or he thinks of the room or something of this sort, he thinks of Mama. She’s a more valuable object.

You know what’s happening with somebody with a tic? They just keep pushing the wrong button on some ridge, that’s all. They… they can’t handle energy, and this facial expression just keeps going and going.

Anything which has already been conquered by life is more valuable than those things which have merely been molded by life. Anything which has been animated by life is more important to a living thing than those things which are merely molded by life. And therefore bodies are quite important. Live things are more important than wind-up things. They have to be imbued with life before they become valuable. And as a consequence a valuable object has now become, in our aberrated preclear’s state… frame of mind, an… an object has become an anchor point.

Somebody with an automatic response – he blushes or something like that all the time. All he’s doing is he’s driving down the road with this… with this 16 cylinder Hispano-Suissa, and uh… every once in a while as he’s travelling 90 miles an hour, throws it into low gear and wonders why… why there’s a sudden crash and spatter of gear teeth. That’s all he’s doing. He’s just… he’s so automatic he doesn’t remember where anything is. Hmmm.

Therefore, let’s take the most valuable object around and call it the anchor point, of course. Solved? No trouble at all. Except complete and endless confusion from there on because the anchor point will then up and die, it moves around, it disappears. Look at a child: A child gets frantic when Mama and Papa disappear over a long period of time. He’s lost his anchor points. He doesn’t have anchor points in the corners of the room, because he doesn’t feel free enough to pervade this room and experience it in any way… And… and he… he isn’t putting out anchor points of his own. His disability in this is… is terrible.

So your thetan has a level of not remembering where anything is and of wanting to hide things on the theory that it makes it much easier to do. So when you get him to lift his body you will find out that as an individual he is then capable of handling MEST – when he’s lifted his body and he’s very well and he’s good at the production of energy.

And so Mama disappears for the afternoon; the afternoon then is completely lost. If somebody came along a few days later and asked this little boy, „Johnny, what did you do the other afternoon when your Mama was gone?“ he’d say, „I don’t know.“ That’s right: He… he’d lost his anchor point. In one way he’s trying to get away from a lonely and painful period, but the more pertinent answer is the fact that he… How does he know? He didn’t have his anchor point.

I don’t know, actually, how far a thetan can go this way. I haven’t got any idea. I keep hanging bodies around and old police stations and doing research work on US marshals, and… and uh… trying to find some bug low enough to psychometrize. And uh… it’s very interesting.

Now you wonder why people believe what Mama tells them. Now we get this horrible extremity: A communicating anchor point without which one is not only lost, but is not fed, not clothed and, in short, lost in terms of all havingness. That’s… that’s… that’s just the end of track as far as the baby’s concerned – the disappearance of Mama.

By the way, I did a full little piece of research, one time, as a special officer of the Los Angeles Police, on criminals, marijuana and so forth. I just took a weekend beat as a special officer on South Main and on Alvarado Streets in Los Angeles, of which there’s no tougher anyplace. That’s really tough. Besides being the most aberrated city of the world, Los Angeles also has the toughest areas of the world. And I got a good look at police. And it was there that I learned the criminal is solvable, but that the cop is a contagion point in the society which brings criminality straight through to the, quote, ‘decent citizen’, unquote.

Now this is true of a child who has been with his mother as little as two or three weeks after birth – and then loses her. It’ll really… it’ll show up on the child. It really will. Of course, Mama’s been the only anchor point this body had… the GE had for months. And naturally we just swing in there on that, and it just continues. And then all of a sudden Mama isn’t there anymore.

And the problem of psychotherapy in criminality and police work, out of pity, should be addressed to the police who have to associate with these people continually. Uh… that’s just out of pity, because they’re really butchered. They can only spend about six months on a criminal division and they practically blow their stacks. And then they have to go over to the traffic division for a while and they peel off that way.

The process which we were talking about, then, peculiarly fits everyone from Three down. And in just reading this over…

But cops are scared. They’re real scared. Look at their eyes sometimes. If they’re in a tough neighborhood or something like that, their eyes are just very… they’re… they’re… they’re all ready to cave in. And that’s… nobody should be put through that consistently.

„A pc who can mock up his childhood home and bring it under control, can regain many anchor points. He is then able to remedy his main difficulty: Too much loss; too much havingness.“

And so psychotherapy and criminality, to a large measure, would be the resolution of police problems – police cases. You can remember that some time if anybody ever asks what we have done in the field of police work. I got my skull almost beat in many times for the sake of dear old Dianetics.

I’ll go into that.

Now, on this whole level, not wandering from that point any at all – what was the point? Uh… we have automaticity as an antithesis to memory. So how do we come by automaticity? What covers up what in order to make automaticity?

„The pc finds it necessary to take and hold everything, and thus lose nothing. Or, if he finds it necessary to give everything away in order to hold at the minimum of his body, he does that.

Flows make automaticity. As long as a thetan can remember without any energy – new thought to you? – as long as a thetan can remember without any energy he can remember the whole bank, everywhere, everything.

The Four’s basic trouble is obey MEST anchor points and flows. He feels he must obey them, not originate them.“

Did you ever sit down quietly and calmly to recall something and not care whether you recalled it or not? And recall it? Memory runs a hundred and eighty degrees wrong when it’s run by flows. Those things which you don’t want to remember, you remember and those things which you do want to remember, you can’t remember. And the fellow who goes around saying, „I have a bad memory,“ if he says it often enough, and believes it hard enough and pushes out flows in that direction long enough will eventually one day all of a sudden have a good memory.

Now, this main trouble, as I was explaining to you, is that bodies are used by him as anchor points and are communicating anchor points. And these bodies, being ambulant, make it very confusing. Thus, we have him holding on to bodies as hard as he would ordinarily hold on to anchor points.

And the person who has a very, very good memory and is very proud of his good memory and uses it all the time will wake up one fine morning and wonder, „Let’s see now. Is my name Jones or Smith?“ Amnesia is a case of a stretched flow.

And the confusion between these two, bodies and anchor points, is at the root of the Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven’s inability to have enough space to exit into, to exteriorize into. His lack of space, which is to say, his lack of anchor points, and his tremendous havingness with regard to objects, stick him. And you find him stuck in his body but thinking he’s outside of his body, but maybe he’s never been in his body. He’s in negative space. And this gets very arduous to him. He gets very upset about this. When you suddenly say to him, „All right. Be two feet back of your head,“ he’s got the idea he’s never been in that head in the first place. He knows he’s really not ever been in the head, somehow or other, because… cause uh… well, he’s kind of the body and he’s sort of holding on hard and he’s doing a lot of things. But uh… well, he can feel all through the body and that to him is a grasp of reality, and actuality too. He confuses the two. And quite in addition to that, it’s his only anchor point.

Now, here… here we have… Yeah, we can’t get any traffic over the flow any more. So when we’re… we’re remembering by flows or operating by flows, we’re using energy. In order not to use energy a person has to use and generate tremendous amounts of energy. Why? Because he’s got a tremendous backlog of automaticity which will come in and interfere with his memory even as a thetan.

The body goes around and finds anchor points for him. Without a body and without an identity he wouldn’t have an anchor point.

So unless he’s very capable at handling energy as energy and can really put it out with a comparable horsepower to any ridge he has, that ridge can command him. If he can put out a tremendous quantity of energy and handle it well, of course there isn’t any energy there to command him.

So you’re suddenly asking him to shoot the moon in a grand way. And the guy says, „NO!“ And you’ll find practically anybody that will do anything to trap a thetan is from Three down. And your people from Three down do not necessarily, by far, operate in this direction. But a few in this category will go to extraordinary lengths to make a preclear intensely uncomfortable, to upset him, invalidate him, evaluate for him – particularly the last. Almost anything.

Beingness is essentially a problem of postulate and space. Postulate… postulate type agreement, not flow agreement, and space. It is not a problem of energy.

And, uh… the job on a Three, if you were to directly address theta clearing and were to assist this way and that was his goal, he would just continue to go down in tone, down in tone, down in tone, down in tone. Unless you had these processes to keep picking him up, up, up, up. Because he would recognize basically that there was considerable truth in what you were doing. And he wouldn’t be able to face that truth. He’s well below 0 on the sub-zero tone scale as a thetan, and his whole beingness rebels at something he cannot accept readily.

And therefore very high on the band a person is capable of a great deal of remembering, and a great deal of action, and a great deal of postulation, and a great deal of creation and also a great deal of destruction where things have to be destroyed, such as old mock-ups and things like that that have gotten too old and so on.

But with a technique, of course, which makes him spot a point, if he can spot a point, mock up his home and the remainder of this balancing technique… well, he’s all .right. Because… then you get down to Five, and you get control-dot. You’re picking up his reality. Something or other is happening… something is happening all the time to him, right along the line. And he is perfectly content to sort of greet the idea of a theta clear as quite unreal and probably not applicable to him. But he’ll go along with it because you seem so interested. And he’s liable to have a very patronizing attitude toward it all. And he’s liable to just dote on telling you failures, too – depending on where he is. You see, these steps don’t place a man on the tone scale.

Whereas he has all of these things and so on, he isn’t depending on flows. And one day he begins to depend on flows.

They put these people uh… the condition… other things place him on the tone scale and we haven’t gone into that. So, you get a great variation in there.

And flows, way back on the track, were taught to you. And they were taught very arduously, and they were taught in this fashion: „Now here’s the way we do it. Around here we don’t use force. We use facsimiles. Go over to that pile and help yourself to a few.“ I mean, it’s just about that silly.

Now, „The process consists of causing him to take in, in the order given below, large numbers of things. And by bringing them into his body, condensing them and then sending them out. This remedies excessive holding to articles, facsimiles and old sensations.“ Now that’s mock-ups.

By the way, you run that on a preclear and he starts feeling awfully sad about his having to go over and pick up some memories. These weren’t his memories at all.

Now if he can do the old home and handle the old home as a mock-up, no matter how poorly, how thinly, with what degree of struggle and unreality, if he can do that, he can do the rest of this process. Because this requires no great exactness in the construction of a mock-up. And the… you’re making the mock-ups do exactly what every object does in flows in his vicinity, as I will show you when I finish this.

So he was made to depend upon an old energy deposit and solid in order to remember. Whoo! Now you’ve got the facsimile in the ridge. Well, of course an energy deposit cannot exist in the presence of heavy electronic horsepower! It simply blows! So when the fellow starts to develop any energy at all, he feels like his whole memory is going. And he thinks his automaticity is of tremendous value, even though he doesn’t know what he’s doing. And so he keeps it all beautifully masked. And he hits the wrong button at the wrong time and has himself a glorious squirrel – runs cars off roads and all sorts of things.

Now, when the preclear must give up everything, you know, lower the ‘I’ – inhibit – part of the scale, they have to give up – abandon. You know, one fellow holds on and he’s sometimes quite beefy and some fellow is very thin and he’s got to give away everything. Now, people who are on that give-away are in a highly propitiative level most of the time. But you understand, of course, that this… the inner cycle of a big cycle. You got a grand cycle. But this fellow who is trying to hold on to everything may be up there around 4 – homo sapiens. And another one, trying to hold on to everything – uh… pardon me. He wouldn’t be trying to hold on to everything at 4.0, he would be holding on to everything at Three. Excuse me.

You know the accident-prone, and so forth? He’s just the fellow that’s got a wrong button permanently connected.

And uh… the fellow at 1.5 is trying to hold on to everything in a similar way.

Now, how do you settle this? This is awfully easy. Generate energy. He has to be able to generate energy, not obey energy! Because if he puts his memories in form of energy deposits, he is not just obeying the recording, he’s obeying the energy as will, and he’s waiting for that energy to come in and be hit before he remembers. And then he gets to a point where he can’t generate energy anymore and he wonders why he can’t get a flow out to his past track or a past body.

But the person at fear is trying to give everything away.

Let’s say we had something that was dissolvable… something that was… sugar and it was dissolvable only by water. And we still wanted the sugar. We wouldn’t dare use water; we’d have to start using some substitute like gasoline or… or something else if we were going to wash this sugar around, or use this sugar without losing it.

And now we go right down below fear and we find out a person in grief is still desperately trying to hold on to everything. And right down below grief, before we get to apathy, we have a flow there, a dispersal rather, where he’s trying to give everything away again.

So actually it’s a trap. The standard MEST universe trap with regard to memories – that memories should be engraved upon energy ridges. Then every time the individual starts to, quote, ‘recover his memory’, he starts to come up tone scale in some way, he gets swamped with old energy – which is more powerful than he is.

And when we don’t… we don’t get into the next emotion below that until we’ve gone through that give-away. And then we get into apathy – one level of apathy – which is hold on to everything again. And then it sinks into a flow and dispersal emotions which aren’t named where they’re trying to give anything away again.

So it’s a dwindling spiral. At first his energy level was very high and his recording were made on terrifically high potential energy – big, big kinetic there, ready to hit him when he got any lower. And then he got lower and he got lower and he got lower and he got lower and he recorded his energy levels – facsimiles – on less and less high potential energy and, of course, they become more and more concentric and he became smaller and smaller, and smaller and smaller and made the pattern of ridges which you saw earlier in this series of lectures. And that is withdrawing his boundaries of knowingness. Once upon a time he was that big, and he’s not that big any more. He’s tiny. And then people are so tiny that they are negative space and they say, „Use force? Use energy? Oh, no, no, no! That’s bad!“ They know if they started to generate any energy, they’d blow what they laughingly believe to be their total memory bank. And there’s nothing in it but MEST universe facsimiles.

So you „see, whether or not the fellow receives these things in or sends them out again isn’t spotted by his place on the tone scale. It’s just this manifestation.

And of course you can always use a facsimile with which to remember, always. Providing you’re so chuckleheaded you can’t remember it.

But if he is fairly strong as an individual, and he has fallen into one of these ‘hold everything’s’, he is liable to be fluctuating between a ‘hold’ and a ‘give away’, or a ‘flow in’ and ‘hold’. And you don’t care where he is. You just start with this process and you take a look at him and just make an estimate: Is this person in propitiation, or is he trying to. is he trying to give everything, or is he trying to take things.

You know the habit of… that some people have, they go to the grocery store and before they go, they know they’re going to have a can of soup. They’ve got to have a can of soup and a pound of sugar. Now there’s two ways of doing it: You go to the grocery store and say, „Can of soup, pound of sugar; can of sugar, pound of soup uh… so on – repeat it all the way to the grocery store – or you sit down immediately and take this great big sheet of paper, you see, and right up in the corner of it you write „Can of soup. Let’s see. What was it else I wanted? Oh, I…“ That’s the end product you see. He can’t remember it long enough to get it down on paper. The guy gets frantic when he gets into that state. I mean, he’s… he’s… he’s… he’s got to write it right now because if he doesn’t write it right now, it’s gone! Why is it gone right now? Well, it’s gone because he’s obeying flows. Every time he generates energy or he tries to generate any energy, he gets hit back with an energy flow. And of course, that swamps his memory, because we’ve got automaticity sitting in.

Now, uh… that’s all you establish. And then you make up all these mock-ups, however unreal, at a distance from a person who is trying to take things and you have them move into his body. And then you mock up duplicates for all of them, and have them move into his body.

And let’s look again at Step Four, and let’s find out something about Step Four. And let’s put down as basic laws right now. „You’re supposed to obey flows, not use them.“ And outflow sticks and inflow sticks and any item outflowing brings about a loss of memory. You’ve got to… continual item flowing out, flowing out, flowing out… flowing. Of course, you’re pushing the facsimiles further and further and further away. And if you’re depending on note paper, which is to say facsimiles, with which to remember, you’re swamping the notes. And of course it brings about a loss of memory.

And once in a while they won’t move into his body. So how do you hold this? You… you get a mock-up and then you make him turn it red, and turn it blue, and it’ll jump in, jump right into his body – Boom! Almost an automaticity. And you’re using that automaticity and putting it under control.

So what happens to the ‘give’ case? Whew! They say, „Yeah, yeah. I remember, I was a little girl once. I have a distinct recollection on it. Well, most anybody who is my age has been a little girl. They’ve been in their teens too. Let’s see, uh… in college uh… yeah I uh… oh, I was an ‘A’ student. Kept good notes. Let’s see. Uh… oh yeah! I majored in chemistry. Umm… um… yes, my uh… oh, I have to go now. I’ve forgotten something.“ They don’t even know they’re there.

Now the next thing that you… you do, uh… he’s got e mock-up and it won’t move in. And he turns it red and turns it blue and nothing happens. Make up another one and another one and another one and ano… and bing! The last one will jump in, the next one will jump in and it’ll just run off Brrrrrrrr! And he’ll have them all in.

That’s how bad they can get. Their childhood, teenage, education – pow! Because they’re on an outflow, you see. Give, give, give, give, give. And they haven’t got any facsimiles in proximity in order to read. And of course they need facsimiles. Anybody who’s gotten that low on the tone scale has to have facsimiles. So any time they want a facsimile, how do you get a facsimile? You outflow agreement to get it.

Now, when the fellow is trying to give things away, you might have somebody who is taking in, as I said, various points on the scale, but you’ve got other people who are propitiating, trying to give away. And every time he mocks up anything it disappears. And you’ve never quite traced, „What happened?“ You look over there, he… he mocks up something something then… then – gone. And he’ll mock up something – gone. You say, „Where are these things going?“

Oh, I hope I didn’t step on anybody’s toes in the class. You actually do outflow agreement. They… they reverse on their vector.

Of course, you know where he is: You’re trying to do orientation. He can get a mock-up; you know exactly what you’re doing. You’re doing exactly this: Your single discernment necessary on this is, have you properly brought him to that point by making these other tests; is he really Four? And, when he makes up a mock-up and when he’s doing the old homestead, watch for this: Does it tend to fly and hit him in the face? Or does it tend to get smaller and go away? Every time he mocks it up, which? And the only reason you want to know this is because, do you get him to create in his body, mock-ups, and then push ‘em out in all directions? Or do you get him to make mock-ups out there and pull them in from all directions?

Now, they have to agree with the fact to want it, don’t they? More or less? Or even if they’re arguing they have to agree that they want the fact in order to use it in a disagreement. And… and so there they go! There they go. And it’s a dwindling spiral, and as those ridges get bigger and bigger and further and further away, and they generate less and less energy, they say, „It’s because I’m getting old.“ Huh-hmm. It’s because they’re getting old taffy on which to put their stuff and they can’t budge it anymore. Well, ridges start to look awfully solid to these fellows.

Now you put them in a body and they won’t move out. That’s quite a trick. You say, „Right where you’re standing now, mock up… mock up a… a beautiful young man. Oh, a very, very gorgeous young man. Now mock him up right where you’re standing.“ She’s telling this girl this, see?

What happens? Did you ever notice this phenomenon: In the early days of Dianetics that one fellow would charge in and he’d start to run the facsimile and it went ‘whirr-rip’? And you said, „All right, now let’s go over it again.“ And he said, „Go over what again?“ „Go over the facsimile again.“

And she says, „So-and-so,“ and nothing happens to this young man. He… he stays there! It didn’t go away, you see? That’s what you want to do.

„Oh, I can get it. Uh… yeah, ha??! There was a little bit left. All right, what’s the next one?“

So you say, „Put it out in front of you now.“ You’re not trying for the actual people; you’re trying for mock-ups. You’re not running facsimiles; you’re running built things in present time with live mock-ups, you understand. I mean, let’s not get facsimiles mixed up in it because the preclear who does this with his eyes shut at this level of the tone scale gets facsimiles, not mock-ups. So eyes wide open on that step. Eyes wide open on Four.

You said, „Oh, no! No, I ran a m… much easier somatic on myself about four days ago and I had to go over it 12 times. And then it just barely reduced. Wheee! What’s the difference between this fellow and me?“

All right, it still doesn’t move out. She can’t move this young man on. Then two conditions exist. She either must mock up one out there and bring it in, or she just changes the hue, color and characteristics of this young man. And if she does that a couple of times, it goes Wham! It’ll go away – it’ll leave. And you say, „Well, push it way out there.“

He’s just developing live energy and you’re not. That’s all. He’s blowing… blew a facsimile with live energy and he was high enough in energy output that he’d just take that facsimile and go „Rip!“

Of course, that’s going way out there, and so she says, „Okay, I’m pushing.“ Now you say, „Mock up another young man…“ „Yeah – no, he’s not leaving either.“

Now fellows do this with ridges. A fellow starts turning up horsepower, and there’s billions of facsimiles on these ridges. And he starts turning up energy level, turning up energy level, turning up energy level. And all of a sudden one day he decides to look at this ridge and it goes „Whooom-whooooo!“ „Hey, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Where’d… where’d that go? I… gee! Now I’ve got to remember it myself. Let’s see, what was it?“ Verbatim account. That’s because there isn’t any past! But the facsimile stacked up says there is. And so if you were to start reading a facsimile then that convinces you there’s a past. And if you don’t know there’s a past, then the facsimile tells you what is past.

„Well, make him blue. Make him green. Give him purple hair“ – anything. And uh… it doesn’t move out, make her mock up another one in the body alongside of him, and another one in the body alongside of him. And all of a sudden the last one she mocks up will go Wham-wham! and the first one she mocked up will go out too.

Another thing you can do with a facsimile is you take a picture of that which you have lost and then keep it. And if a person who does these mock-ups, a Four who starts doing these mock-ups, he’s a ‘hold’ case, oh brother! He’s got a picture of everything he’s owned for the last fifteen million years. And he’s got every one of those pictures stacked up on every one of those ridges and then he’s got every one of those ridges in at stretch – chunk! He’s creating an energy vacuum here in the middle. He… he reminds you of a 360 degree vacuum cleaner. And you… you get in there to pull off this ridge, see, and you go in there and you… you say, „Well now, let’s see. Uh… let’s get out of your head.“

This is automaticity and you’re using it.

And the fellow says, „Head? Head? Let’s see. Uh-oh… Uh… what’d you say?“ And you say, „Your head – let’s get out of your head.“ „Uh, oh yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.“ And you say, „Well, are you out?“

Why can’t a fellow get ahold of his facsimiles? And why can’t a fellow, no matter how hard he tries to get those facsimiles, why can’t he get them? I’m going to give a long talk on this as soon as this part of this lecture’s finished.

And he will say, „Out of what?“

Or, if he doesn’t want his facsimiles, why can’t he get rid of them? It’s all answered in this.

What’s the matter with him? Well, he doesn’t dare use any energy on memory because they’re all in, because they’re too close in. And every time he tries to, quote, ‘reach for a memory’, it is of course right there. And it… would you like to read a newspaper which covered 30 million years of news which was printed on a postage stamp or something like that, and read it a half an inch from the right eye? Would you like that? It’d look black, wouldn’t it? Uh… you would… wouldn’t see it at all.

And here’s the list of things that you do this trick with. You do them in this order.

Well, he doesn’t dare use anything vaguely resembling memory, as represented by facsimiles because he doesn’t have ‘em available. And you get in there with a ridge with this fellow, and you say, „All right, now get out of your head.“

1. Vast numbers of the opposite sex: First in, and out.

And it’s „What head?“ He’s… he’s… he’s uh… got ‘em all in on him. He… he’d say, „Why, that’s nonsense. You really couldn’t do that.“

2. Now, the next one, vast numbers of friends. Just bodies that he labels ‘friends’, you see. They can be actual friends and will turn into friends.

You can tell this fellow. He’s very beefy. He generally holds on to an awful lot of things and he has various characteristics which you’ll come very rapidly to recognize.

3. Bodies which might have been his own. They’re just mock-ups, you understand. You’re not trying to get the old… the old body. You’re just trying to get pictures of bodies, mock-ups of bodies.

All right. Now what’s the remedy? Well, let’s take Standard Operating Procedure 1950 – hm-hm-hm-hm-hm-hm. I used to do it by trying to make them recover a sound of something and a… a sight of something and work with them and work with them. And, by the way, by the time they’d recovered some of their perceptics, they naturally would have turned on some energy and after that they could operate. And that was the bug involved in the early book. Auditors hadn’t been articulated properly.

4. Hordes of parents and relations.

We got this evaluation now. Oh boy! These six-foot rearview mirrors are really wonderful – yeah, if we’d only known.

5. Many graves. The girl who is trying to give away will have the graves flowing out. The girl who is trying to hold in will get those graves slapping her in the face so fast. And then all of a sudden she’ll say, „Wait a minute. There’s a grave there that isn’t snapping in.“

Well, anyway, what’s he got then in terms of energy? Every time he starts to run energy it’s hanging right up, and as a matter of fact he has ridges clear on in and attached to him as a thetan inside of himself. And then he is dispersed madly out through this whole body and he is his ridges. And he could be over here a foot on the right of his face. He could be over here a foot on the left of his face. Because he can’t be anyplace. He’s not in a unit formation. He is perceiving through his own ridges, and can have the weirdest manifestations, sometimes quite accurate about being one place and then suddenly being another place. You try ridge running on this fellow and he comes out of his head in eight different directions and can perceive his body from eight different quarters simultaneously. And you say, „Oh, no!“ Of course, he isn’t doing it with any degree of reality, or something of the sort. He becomes very confused.

And you say, „All right, make another one like it. Make another one like it.“ Or „Turn it red, turn it blue.“ And if it’s still difficult, do both: „Turn it red. Turn it blue. Make another one. Make another one“ – Brrrrr! She’ll get all three of ‘em.

And you just do ridge running. What are you doing? You’re running out on good operating perception lines. Did you ever look through lucite? Did you ever see light go down around a curved piece of lucite and go out the other end of the thing, and go in spirals and all that sort of thing?

And what does she do with these, by the way when they come into the body? You can tell her to pack them down – pack them down real tight. And she’ll begin to feel like she’s exploding after a while. Or you tell her to make them go way away, with this kind of a case. Yeah, make them go further. Make ‘em just get out there and disperse.

Well, his perception energy, what little there is of it from the MEST universe, is coming in and hitting one or another part of a ridge and he’s registering at the point of impact. You will see this manifestation once in a while? He’s not out of his head. He has to have Step Four run on him, but good – badly. He’s in brutal condition. And loss of memory. That’s . odd, isn’t it? His memory’s bad and yet he’s holding on to everything.

Next, 6. An enormous number of buildings and homes. And of course, that’s your mock-up there that you start with. And all kinds of castles and huts and – he… just make him mock up anything and everything. Do this whole thing for the whole track, you see.

His primary illness are arthritis, various other conditions, uh… glandular upsets of one sort or another, having to do with impedence of all outflowing glands. Fascinating, isn’t it? And his level of sensation is all hooked up too close. For instance, he seldom has the lower line I showed you on a graph there one day, going down to the genitalia. It goes into his throat! The one that’s supposed to reach all the way down to the genitalia ends in his throat. He… he’s just short-circuited like mad, see? He’s even pulled that line too tight. He’s holding everything in and he pulls everything in too hard.

Now, 7. Vast quantities of food.

So when he pulls in a facsimile, he of course pulls in half of a hundred facsimiles or half a’ thousand facsimiles, all crowded together in one little spot. And you start to get him to run one facsimile and you say, „Let’s get one picture of your father.“ Now many things can happen to him. He can get an automaticity going – brrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not of his father; of George Jones, of Bill Gates, Of… of… of Tom Esso – all these people, one after the other will go brrrrrrrrrr – only go so fast he can’t see them. That’s automaticity. It’s enforced havingness. He is enforcing him… havingness on himself, because too many things have been taken away from him.

8. Enormous quantities of rainment. A girl with no appetite, by the way, is not able to bring food in. If she had food it would simply leave. You would put a loaf of bread where her head is, and the next thing you know she’d see this loaf of bread flying out behind her at a mad rate to a considerable distance. She wouldn’t be able to hold on to this loaf of bread. Or she’d be having difficulties handling it in a flow level. Enormous quantities of rainment.

So, now when you get these two conditions, then, of excessive departure and give, and excessive take, you get invisible engrams, you get invisible facsimiles. How do you remedy ‘em? Step Four, just as I gave it to you.

9. Vast sums of money in many forms, bills and coinage.

Now, let’s put this one down here. We have here ‘desire’ – this is a cycle of action. ‘Desire from self, from others, to ourself, to others’ – that’s uh… all under desire. All right, now let’s look over here in the middle. Now we have in the middle bracket. (I’m just going to put it down here in a… in a ‘V’ below because there just isn’t enough space.) ‘Enforced conviction of need by self, by others’ – enforced conviction of need by self, by others – that’s by self and by others. And ‘enforced conviction of not need – enforced conviction of not need by others, by self and by any object – by others, self and objects’.

10. Great numbers of jewels.

It does not matter, then, whether you’ve got a give or a take. The ‘take’ case is the ‘need’, he’s the ‘have’; and the ‘give’ case is the ‘don’t need’, ‘do without’, and ‘have not’, you know? Give it away – have not. And they’ll make a scarcity for everybody else they get in connection with too, by the way. They make a sc… make things scarce for others without realizing what they’re doing. They won’t have items available for people that they’re supposed to supply and they’ll just short-circuit, in other words, all of these needs. And they’ll get everything boiled down. And although they might hold on to a bright bauble every once in a while or something like that – or they wouldn’t be operating at all if they didn’t hold on to something – why they’re making a scarcity.

11. Weapons and energy beams. A person’s gettin’ awful well off by this time, believe me. 12. Communications, like letters, voice, anything. 13. Emotions.

But the other fellow makes a scarcity too. He’s the ‘have’, but only he can have.

And 14, last but not least, Sensations. Get sensations flying in, sensations flying out and so on.

And so anything he gets hold of, oh, it gets sort of colored this way. And uh… you get this as the center scale here: Enforced – he’s got an enforced conviction of need by self. Boy, when he needs something, he’s got more reasons why he has to have it. And every one of these reasons is absolutely logical.

Now, „Each item is run in or out and then made to go in the opposite direction. It will be found that the pc will let the action continue so far, at which moment it is reversed in direction.“ In other words, you say, „All right.“ Now this fellow is just holding ‘em. You say, „Got all this packed in. Now we’ve got ‘em all packed in; now start them leaving“ and they go two steps. And he can’t move them a bit further, and they won’t go another step. He’s got eight billion women by rough calculation have been packed on this and they go two steps, the first layer, and that’s all.

And when he starts needing something, he can’t stop. He has no control over wanting, needing or having.

You just make eight billion more women and pack them in. And the next time he can go four steps – pretty good. You’re gettin’ there. Now we take 82 billion women and bring those in practically singly, and then they start coming in flows, and lots of them, and so on. And then we start them going out. And what do you know? They go ten steps before they suddenly falter and start slapping him back in the face.

Very early in his life a fellow with a pattern which is all set to roll that way might not be all stacked up with ridges yet, and yet he was demonstrating this, because when he’s… when he started eating he couldn’t stop eating. He’d get this appetite – it’d go „amph-amph-amph,“ and… and… and he’d drink anything good, it disappeared – gulp! Heavy greed line without an energy level sufficient to handle it. Now if he could manufacture energy, he could want, need, have, all he wanted to – because he’d be able to outflow too. But he’s stuck on an inflow.

All right, the girl who has got stuff going out, and so forth, wait till she can bring something in comfortably. And then make her start bringing these things in, ‘cause she’s gonna do what it says here.

Now people enforce his having, he enforces having on other people and then he creates a scarcity to further enforce their having by taking away from them anything they have. He makes any object that he gets hold of collect only items which he forces upon it, not items which do it any good.

„Change and drill all mock-ups. Use them in a 360 degree sphere.“ In other words, don’t just process out to the front-back, above the head, below the feet.

If you will look at one of the pieces of equipment that such a person is running, you will find that it is adorned with all kinds of gimmickgahoojits and mechanisms which do not promote its running – but it has to have them – he knows that. And every time he gets any kind of an idea or something of this sort, it gets super adorned with all sorts of irrelevancies. He just gets these terrific irrelevancies. He doesn’t stay on any… any type of line of logic at all. He’s really quite scattered.

It’s very funny, but blanketing starts showing up on that first one like mad. Angels start to fly up from below and down from above the second you start to mock up women, for a man. And for a girl, other kinds of angels will do the same thing.

Now when he manufactures something or he produces something, he will produce it, and then he won’t deliver it. You’ll see these people around in business. They’ll take orders, they own big establishments, they take lots of business and they’re all on the brink of ruin all the time. Always on the brink of ruin. That’s because they have to have so badly they can’t give anything in order to have some more. And what’s that result in?

Uh, „Continue the process, adding the items which the pc thinks undesirable.“

All right, now here’s your conviction of ‘not need’ and this is your… your conviction of ‘need’ is the ‘have’, ‘want’ and uh… ‘will have’ case. That’s one type of case and that is the… the „take“ case. And down here is the ‘give’ case. And the ‘give’ case is a ‘have not’ – really ‘wants not’. But that’s… this is all in a gradient scale because you can see that ‘have… give’ cases is at various levels of the tone scale, and they still follow the tone scales out of the Science of Survival. You just look on that tone scale; you recognize these people.

Now, go on the reverse – instead of bodies he didn’t want. Now we’ve got the reverse. Because your fellow that’s holding is also trying to select out. And now you make all these enemies, bad communications, just the… the negative of that, and make these fly out away from him. He’s trying to hold in; now you go… enemies. They’re on their way out.

And the ‘won’t have’. Now these people run on the tone scale in gradients so that one is above the other. So here we’ve got the ‘enforced’ in the middle of it.

Okay, now, „Items that think – uh… continuing the process adding the items which the pc thinks undesirable and send these, for a Take Case, out. And for a Give Case, in“ – just reverse ‘em.

And what’s it all add up to? It adds up to a loss, which is ‘inhibition’. That’s all at the end of the cycle – that’s all. You go on either of those two cycles with an imbalance of flow and it results in loss. The one thing which has this man terrified is loss – the ‘have’ case, the ‘take’ case. He’s TERRIFIED of loss. You would be utterly amazed at what loss will do to him.

„These would include enemies, harmful things, ugly and disgusting things as demonstrated by the assessment.“

Now he can get so bad and low-toned that he… you see, there’s many of these cases, there are harmonics on the tone scale, because there’re the various inflow lines. There’re the inflow lines, see?

And here’s your assessment suddenly showing up as tremendously valuable. You want to know what this fellow’s trying to hold on to. You want to know what this fellow’s trying to get rid of. And what he’s trying to get rid of, he’s trying to destroy. What he’s trying to hold on to, he will show up on the Create or Grab or Hold level. So you just… you can just take that as part of your assessment – these lines.

And here’s a little heavier one. But they’re these heavy inflows. And… and what… what have you got here? Uh… this is… this would be the ‘take’ and that’s a heavy inflow in Figure 2. And here’s a ‘give’ – figure 3 is your flow-disperse. And then disperse – get the idea? These persons are your dispersal people.

„As the direction for either a Give or a Take will eventually shift, the Give becoming a Take and the Take reaching a new level of Give, the process must be continued until the pc is simply, quote ‘cured’, unquote, of wanting, having, or not having.“ – not until. Mustn’t be continued just until that happens, but until he is splendidly lighthearted about the control and its possession.

And the people who do flows on the track are the people who keep the universe going. And for those people, the ‘give’ case is… scatters and makes a scarcity of things and won’t use. And the ‘take’ case grabs everything in sight and won’t put it into circulation. You put something in their hands that has to circulate, it’s not an object – „Oh, no!“ you say, „This is impossible!“ You say, „This thing has to circulate. Otherwise, it has no commodity.“ And they’ll sit there and they’ll hold on to it. And then one day they’ll wonder why. As little… little children they possibly held on to the kitten so caressingly that it died. And the other one didn’t want to have anything to do with anything.

Now you just… just BEAT this one to death! I don’t care how many hours you put in about it, because the number of hours it took in the past to free what we had at a level Four were a great many – there were 50, 80. You could easily put in 30 hours of this kind of auditing on one of these people with great profit, ‘cause this is just a technique.

Now your ‘take’ case is holding on to every death, every death, every grave in facsimile, a facsimile of every dollar, of every coin, of every jewel – the whole list there – of every member of the opposite sex, of every friend and, unfortunately what predominates in all this is what he’s trying to get rid of. He wants these other things and he’s trying to differentiate and when he gets too low on the tone scale he can’t differentiate anymore.

Now let’s look at something else. What about the overt act? Every once in a while when he starts to run kind of sticky, throw thousands of women out there and start to have him pass around his body. And of course there are four flows, four pressures on every flow: The outflow, the restraint of the outflow, the thing that’s trying to arrest the outflow from the opposite end, and the thing that’s trying to inhibit the arrestment of the outflow from that end.

So what’s he do? He’s trying to concentrate on those things which leave… which must leave, which is bad things, bad communications, enemies, bad incidents, pain. And he starts concentrating on these things. Why? One reason is ‘cause he wants the other. He wants the pleasure out of this so of course he gets the pain. And then he’ll concentrate on the pain and he’ll want to push the pain away from him because the more he pushes the pain away from him the more he gets it. Because he’s dependent upon flows.

Now if you want a good gag, mock up a body out here; and now try… put a belt on it and try to pull it toward you. Good gag, isn’t it? All right, now this is the MEST universe. 180 degree vector: Now give it a push that way. Isn’t it interesting? All right, now get it trying to resist being pushed that way. Now get it trying to resist being pulled that way – and you’ll see this thing at work.

And what’s in common between both of these cases? Well, I write it right straight down here: Flows.

Now it works four flows out like that too. Now as these women or men all walk out from this pc, they’ll all of a sudden get out there so far and struck ‘em. You don’t know how to make them… go any further? All you have to do is put a big loop around all of them and give a slight tug – and they all go out further, of course.

And that is what’s wrong with it and, of course, flows have a dependency on what? Anchor points.

And if they’re coming in too fast and you want to stop them from coming fast or something of this sort, just put a hook around the inner ring and open it up a little bit. Of course, they come in like mad.

So we have Step Four working like mad – to do what? Let’s be just a little bit more precise here and put way up at the top of this draft now „Loss is similar to forget, is similar to not have is similar to“ next line „uh… forced ownership – forced owning, is similar to not knowing“ – see, you get your identification here – „is similar to an obsession, is similar to not know – well, is… it’s similar to a possession, have“ – just scrambling this whole up – „is similar to not know.“

So you can just govern these flows like you would handle puppets. And that accounts for and eradicates flows as an obsession, a compulsion, an inhibition or a desire on the part of a pc. And everything that’s wrong with a Three, really, a Four, a Five, a Six and a Seven is they obey flows, and MEST anchor points. And they thoroughly have anchor points mixed up with ambulant points – bodies.

That’s the key-note, then, of all those similarities. I mean, it doesn’t natter which way you write these similarities. The ‘not have’ is similar to the ‘have’. He’s just going in an opposite direction. ‘Forget’ is ‘have’ or ‘not have’ in extremes. ‘Forget’ evolves from the ability to handle flows. Automaticity is set up because the fellow becomes afraid that he’ll have to use too much energy, and he thinks there’s a scarcity of energy. So then he starts setting up automaticity that runs on small amounts of energy which, of course, obscures everything he knows and starts up this condition of being terribly dependent upon flows.

Now that is the technique: That’s Give and Take Processing. And you follow this list of things with the preclear with whom you’re having trouble – don’t care how accurately he gets them, what happens to these things, whether or not he gets them into the past, what you do with them; it doesn’t matter what you… how… how good you do this process. Just do it well enough so that each time he knows he’s got them coming in himself, and he knows he’s got them going out himself.

So he depends on sensation and everything else he depends on flows. If he can’t manufacture flows in order to obtain sensations and all the rest of that, he just… he just won’t obtain anything.

And he’ll start to get very interested and very original about this whole thing. There’s things you can mock up when you say jewels, also things like medals. You can use a great deal of virtuosity.

Now, you could unscramble that at the top by saying ‘loss’ is ‘forget’. And you could put in here… „abandonment and forced ownership, abandonment, not knowing or obsession, have, not know“ – it’s the same deal.

And then there’s a whole list of hateful things which the Johnson Office wouldn’t permit me to write – used to be the Hayes Office.

What… what do you remedy then?

And that is Give and Take Processing. Now you understand the theory of flows. We covered that earlier in the course. You just do this with objects. And not to run flows. At first he’ll identify with the flows, then he’ll merely associate it with the flows, and then the flows won’t have anything to do with it and you’ve sprung him up the scale and got differentiation and that is what you are trying to achieve with your preclear. And this solves any case that was tough beyond the level of One. Amen. Let’s change the reel.

Why can’t this fellow remember any women? Well, he can’t remember ‘em because too many have flown in on him and he doesn’t want to push away any of ‘em out.

And why can’t this other one remember no women? Because it’s a ‘give’ case and they all fly away the second they try to put their finger on something about it. Same difference. You’ve got the scarcity and the ‘to have’ and you remedy it on opposite vectors and flows, use the mock-ups for the flows and you have what happens to memory.

And this is how you equalize flows, then abandon flows and have no more flows and do memory straight on a pervasion basis, on an approximation basis, or an actual data basis. And that’s all there is to it. Let’s take a break.