Okay. And this is December the 15th, the second lecture of the day, the evening lecture.

And this is December the 15th, first lecture of the day. And we are going to go over Step V, SOP 8 - C, independent of any earlier data you've gotten on the thing. I just want to give you this one, because this is not the case necessarily that you'll have a lot of trouble with, it just happens to be the case which at first glance appears to be the most resistive. And people can get sold very easily on a case being unmovable and so on, including the case itself, and so it'll just sort of putter along and putter along, putter along.

And today we're going to take up just a little bit more of what we were talking about in the earlier lecture, and that is to say, this occluded case.

You should get fast results on a case early in the case, so it — the case never has time to make up its mind that it can't move. Because it makes up its mind "can't move," and after that, why, you have difficulty with the thing. It's a good thing to run on a case — "I'm not going to get Clear." And have him dropping dead because he's Clear, and End of Cycle and that sort of thing. Remedy it in various ways, if you find this case isn't moving.

Now, the only reason the occluded case gets any attention at this time or at this level, is simply because many auditors get balked and tripped in auditing, and many cases bog, at a certain point. That is to say, a certain type of case bogs, and it has a tendency to make an auditor be very leery of his techniques. He's very certain they exist, and then he runs across some case who just sits there.

If you don't get a perception change in any ten minutes of processing, you're up against some kind of a decision which you better find out about. I mean, if you process somebody for about ten to fifteen minutes and you don't get a — no matter how minute, some tiny perception change or something with SOP 8-C, why, then you're just running into something where the fellow isn't either communicating with you, or he isn't doing what you want him to do or — you know, there's various things here which are occurring which are outside the immediate realm of what you're doing.

So I was talking to you today about the covert responses and about the problems of havingness of this very occluded case. I didn't have too much opportunity to give you all of the data, so we're going to go into it in the first part of this lecture this evening.

Now, you could go on and beat at the case with SOP 8 - C and you would get there eventually, but what I'm talking about is that a smart auditor, when he starts auditing this case, he realizes — when he gets some faith of technique in there — he realizes that this case is probably held up for some very, very obvious reason which he isn't looking at.

Now, I talked about energy. His problem is one of energy consumption; energy consumption rather than energy production. A person is causative as long as his energy production is greater than his energy consumption. That is, a thetan is in good condition.

I'd say, if I didn't get a communication change or a change of aspect in a case after about fifteen minutes of SOP 8-C, my first assumption would be that the case was not doing what I asked him to do. That would be my first assumption, and being suspicious of that, would immediately go into — that's a certain type of case, you see, that is a certain type of case — I would go into manual contact or something on that order.

There is a ratio on this: A thetan mustn't exceed his inflow/outflow ratio of 50 percent. That is to say, he's got to inflow as much as he outflows in order to be in concourse with the rest of beingness, and to have effects himself. And he has to outflow as much as he inflows in order to maintain a constant size with relationship to other particles around him — not that he's a particle, but the constant size relationship, particle to particle.

A case that does this is not well off — just put that down. So if something doesn't happen, ten or fifteen minutes, you — the most obvious answer is that you're running, immediately and bluntly, into a communication problem between you and the preclear, and a preclear performance problem.

He is maintaining, let us say, a body. Well, actually, he would have to put out as much energy in maintaining the body himself as the body consumed, for the thetan to be in good condition. And there you have the formula of how to handle a body so that it does not deteriorate.

Unfortunately, we enter all cases at the hardest end. That's an unfortunate fact. We take the fellow in the worst condition that he will be in and go from there. And it gets easier as you go on. But if it isn't getting easier as you go on, you'd better do something about it. It's probably, as I said, some kind of a communication setup whereby the case doesn't trust you enough to permit performance.

And that's maybe too fast and too quick, but if you can get the body to put out 50 percent of the amount that it takes in, why, it's in good condition. And if the thetan is running the body — that is running the body — received no more than 50 percent of his effects from the body and puts out 50 percent of the outflow toward the maintenance of the body, the body remains his, and he remains balanced and in good condition.

And you say, "Give me three places where you aren't in present time."

But of course you get a thetan who has long been below this ratio, and he gets into all sorts of situations where he himself doesn't feel that he can handle energy.

And he says, "Okay." He got no places.

The reason he can't handle energy is that energy handles him. There is no more explanation for it than that.

"Give me three more." And you say, "Well, that wasn't working too well because he — it isn't checking against it. Give me three places where your condition isn't in present time. Give me three places where your body isn't being responsible" — something to intrigue him a little bit rather than to be therapeutic, because believe me, the less significance you have in a process the better the process is.

Now, a thetan gets outside of his body, and he goes — oh, into various difficulties. He grabs hold of the wall and sticks to it. He puts out a beam and he can't let it go. He gets back of the head and he can't let go of a beam. His trouble is line trouble, whether he recognizes it or not; it's not terminal trouble, so much as line trouble. He gets up these lines and he can't cut them. He can't arrest electrical motion going through them.

And he still says, "Yep," and he'll go on that way. And he's sitting there dead calm — I mean, there's nothing happening, nothing happening.

He gets in trouble, in other words. And each time, he is convinced of his own inability. And the moment he's convinced of his own degradation or inability, he'll make some sort of a postulate regarding his own inability, having watched his performance with the energy, and very often pop back into the body, sort of in apathy. This is a routine reaction on the part of a preclear simply because the auditor has not specialized on the production of space and other things while exterior — while the thetan was exteriorized.

Well, after that goes on a little bit, why, I realize that we're up against a communication problem, so I take the most obvious (my old pal Bob Heinlein coined a beautiful pronunciation — "supervisory") — I take a "supervisory" type of process whereby you or me can see the guy perform. Now, there's lots of these, see.

You have to run through 8-C pretty well. If you do run through 8-C pretty well, you rehabilitate to a good extent the ability of the thetan to outflow.

And you don't have to look at his bank to see that he isn't performing. It wouldn't do you any good to look at his bank. Because if you were to tell him that you could see his facsimiles and see what he was doing, he would become very suspicious of you and very upset.

Now, SOP 8 -O specializes in outflow. And it specializes in the receipt of effects on a 50 percent basis. But it first goes in for outflow, and it specializes overall on outflow and inflow.

If you in a Group Process, for instance, were to take somebody up in the front of the room and have him do something, and then let the other people imitate what he did in some fashion or other; even that level — he said what he mocked up, and then you have everybody else mock this up — even that level comes close to copying or seeing or duplicating, that a person cannot permit, and the case will break down. So you do something that he won't be upset because it's observed. You get the idea. I mean, you get a — one of these techniques that you can supervise.

Now, what is the problem of a thetan? His agreement with the body is such as to bring to him the pattern of agreement to which the body has agreed. In other words, the thetan, one step removed, has now agreed with the process of energy consumption, and having agreed with this, he, of course, is getting an almost total energy consumption and no energy production. And as a result, he becomes degraded.

Well, now there's a lot of these. And the most acute one for such a case — although the case will very often be insulted if he knows Scientology — is you say, "All right. Let's feel that wall. Let's feel that wall." I'll only fool with a case for a very few minutes before I'll just go right on into that. Either the case — something's happening on the case obviously and so forth, that I can observe bankwise and otherwise, or I just say, "All right, let's start in with the chair. Let's start in with the wall. Let's start in with the floor."

Now, the actual emotion of degradation — the emotion itself, degradation — is not being able to handle space and energy. A person who can't maintain two terminals and a line between, feels degraded. Various things happen to his energy — it gets too thick, it gets unmanageable in one way or the other — and when this occurs or when he starts sticking to walls and things like that, he feels degraded. And it all comes about from a recognition of the absence of power, and this recognition results in this emotion called degradation.

And once in a while, you'll hit the break point on a case. You'll just keep insisting that he gets certain there's something in the room. He's perfectly certain, he knows that, that there's something in the room. He isn't complying with any of your commands, he's doing it wrong if possible, he's checking himself at every turn so that he won't do anything, and yet he thinks that he is not too bad off. And he'll become very insulted if he qualifies Contact as a psychotic technique. It isn't. You're asking him to be certain of something.

When you have an individual degraded as a thetan, he has recognized this once too often. Therefore, self-respect and pride go immediately back to the necessity of energy production. Not energy produced for one, you understand, but I mean actual energy production.

And the best way to make him certain of something is to pick up things and put them down. In other words, reach and withdraw from mest itself. And you walk over to the wall and tap it and say, "Come over here and feel this now. Is it there?"

Now, what kind of energy production? If we have space, we must have barriers. See, it takes the anchor points to delineate the space. So space is almost immediate with energy in form of production. You — it would be very difficult to produce energy without producing space, to produce space without producing energy, if one were going about this any way at all.

And he — just sit right where he is, and he'll look . . . Generally a — cases perform like this, they say, "Sure it's there. I know it's there!"

And the thetan who starts putting out power in space which is not his, is trying to ignore the fact that he hasn't made space, and is using some other space in which to make the energy, and doesn't believe then that the energy is making any space — it's just sort of being used in some fashion or another — so he falls into immediate competition with the mest universe when he makes this energy.

You say, "Well, come over here and make sure you know it's here."

He, in other words, is making it in mest universe space, and he goes into competition with it, and if he does this too quickly and too immediately, he finds himself very — feels very bad. He feels quite degraded about it, because it isn't as (quote) "beefed up" as mest universe energy. That's one of the first things that's noticeable about it. And it isn't as controllable as energy in electrical lines. Well, that's not important.

"Huhhh! No, no." And then finally he'll break down and go over and feel the wall and hit it and, "Sure, I know it's there."

The point is, the thetan exteriorizes, starts to handle some energy or starts to handle some space one way or the other, and can't handle it and feels degraded. But if he gets down to the point of putting out an energy beam and then getting it stuck and not being able to get it unstuck or something like this, he's — he immediately feels terribly degraded and he makes an immediate postulate like, "Well, I'm just an invader from space," is a typical postulate. "Well, I'm — I've seen better days." That's another typical postulate. "Well, I guess I was all through and washed-up in my last life." I mean, he's quite alert, by the way, to what he's doing, he's quite conscious when he does this, but he just feels like he's worthless. He's saying he can't produce energy.

You say, "All right. Now let's feel the floor there on the other side of the room." Stamp! You show him — you stamp, see? You walk around.

So our problem in auditing is not so much to prevent this from happening, but to know how to remedy it. And the best method of remedying it is to use SOP 8 -C, and then before the person has too much chance to get fouled up by being out and scouting around the universe, we drill him into outflows. And we get him to a point where he can make energy beams and various types of outflow such as sound, and that he can take in inflows of sound. And we make it possible for him to make space and make this energy in space, and then educate him around to a point where he can actually make energy in this universe very easily, by a gradient scale.

And he stamps on the floor. "I know it's there," he says. "What's the matter with you?"

Normally, it's when an individual is trying it himself that he runs into this big problem of very degraded and going downhill and being very upset and popping back into his head again.

And you say, "All right. Now let's look around the room, find the realest object in the room."

Well, if an individual has the computation that he must do it himself and everybody else is going to prevent him from doing it and he can only exteriorize himself, then the ordinary course of events is that he exteriorizes, tries to use some energy — doesn't really recognize what happens to him, it happens so fast. He starts to use some kind of energy, he can't handle the energy, it sticks or it won't stretch or it won't hit the terminals or there's some miscomputation, and he recognizes his own inability, his own weakness, he says, "I'm no good," and bang! goes back into the body again.

And he says, "Well, any of it — the whole room is real!"

Now you come along as an auditor, and you try to audit him out of the body. Well, it's very silly of you to put in much time on it — if this person has been cognizant of Scientology for any length of time, of course, what you ought to do is just find out about these effects.

"Well, find one that's a little more real than the other."

Now, I've said that before, but let me specify this one particular effect of having been out and popped back in.

"All right, anything. The doorknob."

You always should find out from the preclear what peculiar effects there are in his bank — what peculiar things have happened to him this lifetime. He'll tell you very many strange things if you ask him very closely — he knows all about them. Or the E-Meter will tell you, certainly.

"Well, go over and grab ahold of the doorknob and rattle it, make a noise with it."

Now, one of these effects is, for instance, quite ordinary for somebody to get an explosion somewhere in his vicinity, an electrical explosion. Big resounding explosion in his stomach or in his face or something, that's completely unexplained. He's just shattered after that. Maybe he even has a nervous breakdown as a result of it. He goes around jittering, and he's very upset. Some incomprehensible thing has occurred to him, and now you as an auditor are very happily sailing into the case, and you already are sailing into the big "I don't know." You're asking him to do something electrical, or you're asking him to change terminals (which is the same thing, practically), and he's had this enormous effect and you haven't encountered it.

So he does this, see. (sigh) "When are we going to get down to processing?" is all he's asking himself, see? He rattles the doorknob, and then he walks over to the other side of the room and does something else that you tell him to do.

There are very many ways to handle such an effect — and don't think for a moment that you are badly investing time to use a light technique, because a light technique will do it faster and more permanently. But don't underestimate the amount of time it requires to clear something like this up. It's well invested, beautifully invested.

What are you doing with him? You're moving him in space. And when you have moved him in space enough, he will break down enough to permit you to evaluate for him and will then perform the techniques you ask him to do. You have beat a communication line through with a hammer and an awl. Now, you get how covert that is? That's real covert.

Now, the easiest way to handle such an automaticity is, of course, just to make it handle as an automaticity. But that, for your purposes, when it comes to an electrical effect or an incident like exteriorization — sudden exteriorization and interiorization again — really, the shortest method is apparently the longest one. And that is a Straightwire on "Where is the incident?" — in other words, "the incident is not": "Give me three places where this occurrence is not in present time."

Well now, the funny part of it is, is very often a secondary aspect occurs. He finds out that he didn't know it was real. Yeah, he finds out all of a sudden. Walls — certain. He's kicked the wall, and he's beat the chairs around, and he's done this and he's done that in the room, and all this time he's been kind of sore at you, and — or just sullen or apathetically compliant and so on. All of a sudden he gets interested — "There's a wall here!"

And you just go on and handle like that, and you'll finally — you may have to go down into the past, and you may have to go into the future with the incident. But eventually, the one you're looking for, and which will arrive in due course and will occur inevitably, is simply, "It isn't in present time." Great conviction. It isn't in the past to amount to anything except where it is, and that's properly placed on the time track — something did occur, so what? And it certainly isn't in the future. So he won't expect it to happen again. So you've straightwired it in, through and past "it must not duplicate." And so if this bad influence mustn't duplicate, then, you see, a good occurrence can duplicate.

You keep asking him, "You sure that's there?"

If he has too many bad things in the bank, you see that he must think that all things must not duplicate, so he can't have good things again. And he must keep the bad things from duplicating to a point where he must keep everything from happening again. And so we get a case which is badly bogged down.

"Hm! Sure I'm sure it's there!" Then he's getting a little more interested. "There is a wall here and I, a thetan, can feel it."

Now, you audit this case, you pick up this individual and without asking him any questions at all, you just start in at the beginning and you start sawing on through, and half an hour passes and nothing very much has happened, and another half an hour, and you decide to get experimental. You decided to outflow some more, and you decide to outflow some more. Another day goes by and you audit this person again, and you decide — some more outflow at him, and you run through some more techniques. Well, you're getting there, but boy, you're getting there the hard way.

Up to this time, he's been looking at everything with his mest eyes and he — believing what the body tells him only. And now, as he gets a sufficient impact against mest, he's getting a more or less direct contact with the mest as a thetan, and there's where you're driving the communication line through.

The easy way to get there is say, "Did you ever pop out of your body and have anything happen?" Ask him this on an E-Meter and you've got it cinched!

Now, a case that's terribly occluded will go on and sleep away a lot of hours of processing simply because the case says, "Yes, I know the wall is there."

The normal reaction is, when a case is having a rough time, "Yes! Yes, I did." Or "I started to once, and I was interrupted in auditing." That's another reaction that you're liable to get. Or the next reaction would be, on the electrical effects, "Yes, I remember it was just about two weeks after I was brought back of the lines and I was sitting there minding my own business, and all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion in my chest and it just shook me, and it shook me terribly, and I've never mentioned it to anybody, but I had a terribly frantic feeling. I had to get up and walk a lot, and — I haven't had to do that for years," he'll assure you quickly. He's still waiting for another explosion in his chest, you see? He's still holding on to that other one, saying it mustn't duplicate, so no effects must duplicate.

Now, a person doesn't have a certainty with which to compare a certainty. You see, he is as certain as he thinks certainty is; and therefore, it's very surprising to him when he finds out that there are higher certainties which he can attain. But he doesn't know he can attain these higher certainties until it's demonstrated to him, and it's demonstrated to him with all the techniques of SOP 8-C. But the case that is hanging up with you is a case which is occluded and is out of contact and is simply relying upon mest vision and relying upon mest touch to tell it anything is present.

Well, this is what's happening to your preclear. He's (quote) "stuck on the track." The anatomy of being stuck on the track is "this part of the track must not duplicate, and I must stay here to make sure that it doesn't." And, of course, that's nonsense — the fellow's tied down.

In other words, you have a thetan, in this case, that is out of contact and is running total responsibility as far as the body is concerned. The body has total responsibility, total evaluation, and he's willing to accept the idea that all these techniques are valid — but you're processing a body, and the body isn't being processed. He's sitting back controlling the body, actually, and you're processing the thing that he's controlling. When you give him a command, then he makes the body perform the command, if he makes anything happen. See, you're not getting a direct process. You are not processing a thetan. You're processing a body and the thetan's in contact with the body and the body evaluates. There's a middleman in there, in the processing session, which you're not immediately cognizant of and — ten or fifteen minutes nothing happens, well, the middleman is too big and so let's just take the middleman apart.

Well, that's "stuck on the track." All phrases which stick an individual on the track are secondary to these occurrences. This is the exact occurrence it's sitting on. You see, it is a kind of an engram, and a highly specialized kind.

Let's make him move his body under your command. And make him move it around visibly and so on, so that he can't get away with it in any way, shape or form. He's just got to move around. You tell him to and he does. And you've eventually evaluated for him to move the body around, and he will start to give you some attention, rather than take the attention you're giving the body.

Well, if you scout those down and then find out where they aren't in the present and where they aren't in the past and where they aren't in the future, in that order, why, you'll get them. And I remind you again, you find out where something isn't in the present many, many times, and then you ask him where it isn't in the past and he's sort of foggy and doubtful about it, the next thing you do is to go back and find the places it isn't in the present. The order is present, past and future.

See, you've gotten on a different circuit — you're from you the auditor to him a thetan; rather from you an auditor, to him a body, to a thetan.

Now, if he's able to find it in the future and he's very foggy on that — after you've done the past, you ask him about where it isn't in the future and he, "Nrrrr, to God . .." — kind of doubtful about this, you slide back into the past and ask him where it isn't in the past again, and then ask him once more. In other words, you go back one step, and that is the way that's handled.

Now, he's taking in the whole mest universe on this one basis of here he is — here he is, a body, you see. And he's willing to accept the reason and logic of your argument that he is not really a body, but he knows what he sees with — he sees with his eyes; and he knows what he hears with — he hears with his ears; and he feels with his hands and so on.

Now, how long can you expect to do something like this? Well, let me assure you that if you cleared up, in the majority of cases which you've handled, one such piece of frightening, horrifying automaticity, you'd clear the case.

Well, if you work him around for a little while, you'll break right through this, simply by giving him a direct contact of one sort or another. And you should actually work till you get such a contact. I don't care what technique you use.

So how many hours are you willing to spend on it? It doesn't matter how many hours you're willing to spend on it, it's whether or not you clear the case.

A person can be very, very sane indeed, and very reasonable indeed, and yet not have an immediate and direct contact with the mest universe. Everything is via the body and via the body communication lines. He is not convinced that he is a thetan, even though he may have been out once and popped back in. See, he just holds on to that moment for his certainty. And then he doesn't move off of that moment, by the way, and something might have frightened him half out of his wits, so one of the things to do is to handle that moment.

Now, I call to mind a certain preclear, some time ago, who had an interesting incident occur. Had a leg immobility occur. The legs — this girl's legs went into a convulsion, and then an immobility, and she was paralyzed for about a week. Very nervous, wasn't expected to walk, and then gradually and very carefully working at it, began to walk again.

Well, how do you handle that moment? Well, he didn't know what happened. Well, "Where isn't that moment in present time?" is a wonderful way to do it. "Where isn't it?" That's a slow way, but a very positive way. "Where isn't this moment of shock and surprise as a thetan? Where isn't it in present time?"

Well, this girl comes along just out of the blue as a preclear and I start to process her, and just go on with these techniques, and just run just the most solid techniques — you know, just good Creative Processing and anchor points and so forth — and very little, very slight communication changes.

And he'll start in usually on Arcturus. I mean, it's that far out. And then he'll finally come down and he'll all of a sudden say, "It isn't in present time at all!" And when he has made this decision, that thing is keyed out.

Gee! Just about the — has about the same effect on an auditor as if you were standing there throwing dynamite into the middle of the street, you see, and he knows there's going to be a big explosion and he keeps hearing a cap pistol go off. You get the idea? I mean, he just parades the works, you know, and just hardly anything happens.

But your problem is to establish a communication system between you the auditor and the preclear, a thetan; not to establish a communication system between you, an auditor, and a body to the other person as a thetan. Therefore, using mest symbols as communication actually does slow down your process to some degree, and it is something like a considerable triumph to be able to use MEST language and MEST symbols and achieve results on a case.

Well, he's very prone to say, "Well, there's something wrong with these techniques." Well, we've got techniques strong enough now so that if you merely kept hacking and hewing away, you'd eventually get there without this other data. But how do you shorten that up by about steen dozen hours, that's the important thing. You communicate with the preclear.

Well, there's one type of case and one level of case in SOP 8, which is Case Level V, where this is rather acute. Now, the name of that whole step is "Terminals" in SOP 8, and just because we have 8-C doesn't mean that these step numbers change process. They don't any longer mean, particularly, evaluation of a case in SOP 8-C — see, they aren't evaluating a case — but that doesn't mean that we've thrown things out.

You want to find out — you want to find out what happened. Because obviously, if the techniques you're running on the preclear are not getting rapid effects, as they would on the usual run of preclear, this preclear is preventing a duplication of some sort, and it will go into all facets of this preclear's life. It will go into this preclear's sexual behavior or energy production, the amount of space the person can have. No space is, usually, is what occurs as a result of it — no space in which something can duplicate.

Now, if there's a Step VIII in SOP 8, it is Duplication. Now, the — SOP 8 has — at level V, has terminals as its keynote. And this, of course, goes right over into SOP 8 - C and at 8 - C, we have Step V, exercises of the thetan on the subject of terminals.

You see, the best way to fix it up so nothing will happen again — you know, won't duplicate — is to have no space. And if you don't have any space, of course, nothing can happen. Simple solution, isn't it? Very agonizing one, just between ourselves.

Now, we'll find an individual unable to see anchor points inside his body. This is because he long since has decided that any anchor point is better than no anchor point, and that other bodies than his own were anchor points in the past; and he has used these bodies as anchor points in the past to such a degree that he does not believe himself capable of creating anchor points. And when he's lost these anchor points in the past, nothing takes their place. And the anchor points of his own body are not visible to him — he doesn't consider these anchor points anymore. His anchor points are ambulant: they're other bodies, they walk around, and they're here and they're there.

So this girl went along in this line; I processed her, I guess, for a couple of hours. I got her exteriorized, somewhat on the basis of hooking up a truck winch, you know, to the thetan and a team of horses to the body, and pulling both ways. And got her out, and got her doing some things out, and she was a little more able out, but not much. Boy, it — real slow, you know. And apparently quite able — that was the fooler, you see?

So what do we have here? We have a problem in relationship to anchor points, when we have terminals. Now, an electric motor has a positive and a negative terminal. Actually, positive terminal is both positive and negative, and the negative terminal is both negative and positive in order to produce a crosscurrent. The problem has not even vaguely been studied. The field of electronics is an almost virgin field; it's hardly scratched. And we have this imposition of space between these two terminals as a necessity.

Apparently good communication, good response, apparently quite able. But gee, the person wore glasses. And after hammer-and-pounding away, there was no change in the MEST eyesight. Oh-oh! Gave her another two hours — still no change in the mest eyesight. So I just said, "Whoa! What's this all about now? Well, whoa!"

Now, why is this? It's the matter that in order to have energy, you first must have space. We must have an imposition of distance between two terminals. A person must be able, then, to maintain or impose a distance between two anchor points in order to build up what you consider energy. Now, he's bought the idea of the mest universe on a two-terminal basis.

Well, she came up with this incident. And I ran it and chewed it up, spent about two hours doing this, and after that, every technique that was used on her simply increased her ability.

A thetan actually doesn't have to think about it at all. He can simply say, "There is energy," and there is energy. He can say, "There is a beam going out from here," and there is a beam going out from here. He doesn't go into a large mathematical wingding just to get himself a couple of anchor points or to have himself some space. He doesn't think about it, in other words. This is not necessarily built in — he can do this in numerous ways. But what he can do is mistake the mest universe anchor points which he has run into, for anchor points he has created or owns actually.

Why? She was keeping her legs from being paralyzed again. So what was she doing? She was fighting paralysis. Well, this isn't a special case — I mean, all cases work like this. But what you'd call "fighting paralysis" would be fighting no-motion, which would wind up in a no-motion. And essentially a thetan has been doing that, he's been fighting paralysis.

Now, you know, he's got anchor points. So he's done a change there. This girl, for instance, has said, "My husband. My husband. My husband." Now, she might as well have been saying all this time, "My anchor point. My anchor point. My anchor point." She gets lost when the husband is too far away. That's her anchor point. And a man — "My wife," you see. "My anchor point. My anchor point. My anchor point."

The one thing which frightens a thetan is to be pinned in one place and fixed in one space. This is frightening to him, he doesn't like this. And then he goes on the basis that he has to be there; that's your first type of inversion. That is, after he's pinned there so long then he gets frightened the other way around.

"My mother, my father" — these are anchor points. And these people are actually used in the same way as one would use anchor points to create space. A person creates space with Mother and Father. He hasn't any home, except where Mother and Father have made a home. And if he's too sold on Mother and Father as anchor points — as vitally necessary anchor points — then ever afterwards in his life, he will not feel capable of making a home.

What they call "stir-crazy" comes from the social psychosis that the best thing to do with a criminal is to make him crazy so he's really dangerous. You fix somebody in space like that so long, and they're afterwards not able to control space, and so they really do weird and incredible things.

You've heard of the girl who was always going home to Mother. The boy — that's what they do today. Today, the boys cut their hair in a sort of a duck part in the back, and, I think, wear little ribbons on it and they're real cute — they're real cute. The teenage boys you see around don't look — they don't wear their shirts open because there's no hair on their chests. But they have bought "momism," Philip Wylie's "momism," to a markable extent.

Most of the criminals who go around killing people because of simple burglary, shooting cops and that sort of thing — two-, three-, four-timers, and — they've been driven mad by the state.

A hot country, by the way, which kicks in a number of prenatals, will "effeminate" — to coin a word — the male sex quite rapidly. And you'll see that they become quite feminine in their characteristics. And the women will reverse the other way to. For instance, the only real mean, vicious warriors that you read about or hear about in Arabian countries are women. That's a complete reversal. By the way, the kingdom of Semiramis was in the Middle East, the area — that's a semimythical kingdom, it actually existed. The Amazons, the women warriors and so forth — that's hot-country stuff, see? Kicked around in valence.

Well, anyway . . . Well, I guess it's almost anything so you can have a police force. It'd be all right if the average citizenry of the state wasn't disturbed by all this ruckus, and if it didn't crowd everything readable out of the newspapers.

Well, to be very practical about this, it's the boy today who goes home to Mother. There isn't the girl so much anymore — the girls are getting a little tougher.

So the problem of this preclear is he's preventing duplication. Well, of course, essentially this is the problem of any preclear and the problem of the mest universe itself. So we've got Step VIII, which is remedying this.

But here you have this pathetic picture of a couple — they get married, and their fathers and mothers are to such a degree anchor points for them that they themselves are incapable of making a home. In other words, they can't have any space. Why? Because the anchor points are elsewhere. And they sort of get the idea, "Well, we ought to live — ought to live with Papa and Mama and so forth." This is — the only way they could have a home, you see, would be to have it with anchor points. That's how they build space. Because they've made the prime error of saying that an anchor point is a person. And what do you know, a person who has done this can't see the anchor points in his own body; they're not visible to him, that's all. He's in a very bad way in this respect.

But when you take off a couple of minutes — when you've gotten through outflowing at the preclear for a long time, just take a couple of minutes off to find out how he's getting along. It very often helps. And you'll find out he's in no better condition than when you started processing him.

Well, let's say he loses somebody that he's been very close to for a long time but has fought with considerably, and he loses this person. Well, we have a situation there where he feels that one of the terminals of the GE vanishes. We're still talking about Step V, you see. The terminal vanishes and he's missing some anchor points out of his body which were never in his body. That's interesting, isn't it? He'll be missing the whole anchor-point terminal, you might say — the whole front terminal of the body is missing.

Well, I don't care if you've only been processing for fifteen or twenty minutes — if you're going to continue processing this preclear and if you expect any results, you better find the "nonduplicator" — just call it that. And this won't be duplicated. He won't duplicate it, and he won't do anything that'll even vaguely get it in there. So one of the better methods of getting rid of it is to get it out by negative orientation — where is it not? Where is it not, present, past and future?

Well, he knows he can't create any energy, and that's the thing that makes a fellow level V — he knows he can't create energy. He has to depend upon the stomach to create energy. He has to depend upon other animals to chew up mest and by some necromancy turn this into energy which life can use. Although life — the amount of actual energy which life burns is quite slight indeed. You see this? He's — must depend upon the body having the proper number of terminals, for him to have any energy.

And you'll find out that you can get so monotonous about this — if you yourself are still upset on the subject of duplication, you can get so upset about this that you practically would rather shoot this preclear, finally, than to see him cleared. Because you can keep this up for five hours on this type of incident. Let's say — this girl, for instance — to run enough techniques to clear up that tough incident was heroic. It's just about all an auditor could do, he just nah-nah-nah. See — well, the auditor isn't doing anything to amount to anything, the preclear isn't reacting hardly at all, and it's just timeless pinned-downness.

He doesn't know just "I can't create energy," by the way — his motto is, "I can't create." Fellow gets down along V, that's the big sorrow of his life; that's his own shame and so on. It's just this motto, and it says, "I can't create" — that's what it says, right there.

So — however, how did this show up? Well, we'll take a similar case, was processed by an auditor who was pretty good. I mean, this auditor, very good, but with a large tendency to be very flashy. You know, flashy techniques use — very flashy patter — and with a considerable inability to pay any attention to the preclear. This auditor's — not too cleared up at the time. Well, he got ahold of a similar case. Only this other case was a Step I that remained in apathy. You know, Step I — he exteriorized this case, and then it just didn't matter what he made this case create, it didn't matter what he made this case destroy, it didn't matter what registered type of performance he seemed to get from the case in terms of technique performance — nothing was happening. I mean, it was — he was just sort of looking at the idea of going out there for the next fifteen hours of nothing happening.

So he thinks he has to have a proper number of terminals to interchange one to the other, like an electric motor or something, in order to have sufficient energy in order to make something. And he must get that energy from his stomach — he's running on a backwards system, in other words. He's — his stomach is much more important than his head; having enough to eat is more important than having some space and so on. He's — this is a tremendous dependency. So that his entire economic problem is one of food, and is — that's the way he goes, he — "Well, you have to eat" would be one of the first things that he would assure you. "You have to eat."

Well, he kept on hoping and he went out there those fifteen hours. And about the end of that time, he got me on the phone and he said, "This is incredible. This is the first time I've ever had this happen — but I've had this person, I said, 'Three feet back of your head,' and she was three feet back of her head, and the case hasn't moved since. Person exteriorized easily, the person is in all the places I ask this person to be, and nothing happens. The case doesn't improve, external perception's fair but it doesn't improve, motion of the case doesn't improve, no communication improvement — nothing. And I've been at this now for about fifteen hours and there's no change."

Only, do you? Well, it's pretty hard for — to take somebody at Step level V, and say, "You know you actually are competent to furnish enough energy for the body to go on functioning for some time." He's — "Well, that's theoretically possible," he says and so forth, "but personally, I'm not going to try it."

I said, "Why don't you ask the case why they don't change?" And he took this as a gem of wisdom, and he did so! And the girl promptly told him. She was desperately afraid that an incident, more or less the kind I described, was going to occur again. You know, walking down the street, blue sky, nothing wrong, no emotional upset, nothing — and all of a sudden she caves in, nervous breakdown, three months in the hospital. The one thing that she wouldn't expect to happen, happened. Well, evidently what had happened — some kind of an anchor point blew up, or a ridge blew up in her face, or something happened, you see.

Of course, this universe is — can only exist as long as you don't create. Its motto is, "If you start creating, why, I'm done, so you better not create." And therefore, you get people who have agreed with it very thoroughly saying that they're incapable of creation, that nobody ever gets a new idea. They even get down to this point: "There are no new ideas, they're just remade ideas that one learns from the mest universe. And we can find all these ideas actually, natively, in nature and we can trace back every idea there is. And this proves conclusively that you're mud, you're mud, you're mud, and no mud ever made energy, so you can't make energy." And you have these boys, you could call them the "priests of fear," giving forth in practically every educational institution in any civilization on Earth today, teaching people that they can't create.

And I've run into other cases which — and by the way, don't take this as data, this is just the foggiest supposition — who gave every symptom of having been blanketed in this life. You see, I mean, they just give every symptom of it. I don't say that they were, because in each one of these cases they blanketed themselves. But they — as far as you could tell, they'd been blanketed in this life. It finally worked out that they were so much in control of the electrical energy contained in blanketing, that they might as well have blanketed themselves and actually supposed they probably had, and it was of no further interest to them; because that was the way the case had to be worked out.

Well, there's also this one: teaching them special methods of creation. You know, if they do so-and-so and if they paint with their left hand and hold their brushes between the big toe and the little toe and so forth, they will be able to create someday.

But here's this person — be sitting still, doing nothing to offend God or the Devil or anybody and just sitting there. And all of a sudden, crash! tremendous electrical explosion somewhere in their vicinity, and headache, shattered morale. They don't walk out of the house for the next five years.

Well, all you have to undo is this chain of agreement on the subject of "cannot create," and you will have resolved the havingness of a V. It sometimes can be rather arduous for you, but there are many techniques by which this is possible. Simply this technique: "Certainty I can create; certainty I can't create" in matched terminals.

See, nobody has ever asked what a "nervous breakdown" consisted of. "Everybody knows," so nobody had to ask. "Everybody knows a nervous breakdown is caused by overwork." No, it's — by the way, that one's wrong, because it's caused by people sympathizing with you for overworking. That's what causes nervous breakdown. It never occurs to anybody to break down because of work until somebody tells him he's liable to, and tells him he'd better take a rest. So then after that he'll break down — when he stops work. That's the fatal thing to do is to stop work. They never correlated this between the death rate of men who have retired. Right after they retire, they die — nervous breakdowns, all sorts of things occur.

Now, if you could only get him to work it long enough, you would bring him out of the bushes with old Self Analysis, but it's a long, long, long road. Why is it a long road? Well, it's because you're getting — at V, you see, it is a long road — other step levels it isn't. But we get him up there to a point of where we're putting — he's putting up terminals, and all of a sudden he says, "You know, this energy which I seem to be employing here and putting terminals together with . . . You know, it's not coming from anyplace else. This is very peculiar. You know I must be putting it there?" And he eventually learns that.

It's because the handling of effort is a pleasure, not because it's a sin or a punishment.

He learns that all he's got to do is say, "There is a man there and there's that many watts of energy contained in that image," and he's got it. Now, he's proven it to himself. So what Self Analysis does really is prove to somebody they can create.

Well, so we get into this problem of what happens to the preclear, and you hear vaguely that this person's had a nervous breakdown. And you just discount that, and you don't inquire any further into the case. And you — then you process the case and you get away with it. Well, just nothing happens that's unusual at all. You tell them to be three feet back of their head and they aren't. And you run mock up their body and destroy it a few times, tell them to be three feet out of their head and they are. And then they drill all right, and they go through this and that, and they're finally quite able. And they handle themselves beautifully, seem to be quite happy and content with life, and they go right on.

Well, what about a V? Because he's got an unmocker that unmocks the terminal before he can see the terminal. And he gets to a point in working Self Analysis where he sees the mock-up for a — oh, the tiniest instant, and then he gets to see it longer, and he gets to see it longer and longer and longer. If he just keeps at it, he'll eventually get an image. And this image, of course, to him is a terminal, because he has made an anchor point. The moment he has relearned or realized that he himself can make an anchor point, then this tremendous dependence upon mest universe anchor points and their scarcities, dependence upon other bodies to be these images, devaluates. And when that devaluates, he comes up to a realization that he himself can put up terminals.

Well, you've done your job — a Theta Clear, and that's that. And you get to the next case, and they're maybe a little difficult or a little easier, and you get right away with it. And you didn't ask them anything about the past, you just pam! pam! — the techniques worked, bang! zing! — worked perfectly.

And if he's still sold on the idea that he has to put up two terminals and they've got to interchange in some weird fashion like an electric motor does for him to have some energy, why, that's still a very marked and remarkable gain.

Particularly true if you get to working with kids. You get into sort of a rut. You say, "Be three feet back of your head. Okay. Now, be in — find an ashcan, now be in that; now be in an electric light bulb; now be in the middle of the Sun. Now roily-coaster down one of the blades of the Sun. Now you got that? Now, that's fine. Let's be over on the Moon. Now let's be in front of a meteor. Now let's pass through it. Now let's chase one down the sky."

Now, you wonder why people, as they drift down in havingness, have this Assumption engram in front of their faces — this Assumption body. Why do they have this Assumption body in front of their faces? Hanging on to their mouth and hanging on to the throat — a black body. Many preclears have this. You can run it, it turns on considerable heat.

And you go on like this, and pamity-pamity-pam! "Now, be out in space some­place and make a noise." And you just go like this, and they just do everything you say, and that's perfect, and all of a sudden you've got a tremendous guy on your hands, see? He may be only eight, nine, ten years old, but it's tremendous.

Well, one of the fastest ways I know to run the Assumption body is just have a fellow get the idea of being — all of a sudden losing the front terminal of the body and quickly grabbing the first thing he can lay his hands on, and putting something in its place. You see that? So, of course, the first thing he grabs hold of is his own Assumption body, which is a black body, which will sit there and operate as a terminal.

You say, "Now, fish over the bank and get your Oxford education out — oh, you went to Princeton. Oh well, that's all right, fish your Princeton education out. Okay, now sort through that and get what you need out of it. Throw out the unpleasant incidents. You got that? Yeah, okay. All right. Now, say something in Latin. Yeah, that's good, that's real good. Say something in French. Okay, that's real good. Now — oh, you want to play the piano. You say you can play the . . . Oh, all right. Fish that out, now plug that into the body. Got that all set now. All right, that's fine." And you've got a very surprising individual on your hands.

And then you as an auditor come along and try to plow away these black curtains. Well, you're not going to plow away the black curtains — it's one of these circular problems — so long as he has to have a front terminal. Because if he doesn't have a front terminal, then he knows he won't live, because he has to have energy to live, and so he isn't going to get rid of this. So, the shortest route through this problem on such a case is just the exercise I said. Get the idea of his body standing there, and all of a sudden, no front terminal; and quickly grabbing and putting in the place of this newly missing front terminal, the Assumption body. He'll throw the Assumption away after a very short time, because he realizes in the first place that he didn't ever have that many Assumption bodies.

So you do that, and you go on to your next case and this is very successful. And you go on to the next case, and by this time you're getting real nice and cocky, you see. And you go on to the next case and crunch! You say, "Something's broken down."

You'll get him to do this fifteen or twenty times — you're putting up black bodies, and he can get those, you see, with ease, and he says, "Where the dickens are all these black bodies coming from? Well, I must be making them!" And you've made him take over the automaticity which does create them for him.

Well, the first thing you want to blame — you're apt to blame — is technique. Because that, in the past, was occasionally — not been adequate to the situation. And the next thing you're liable to blame is the preclear.

Well, he has an automaticity which uncreates his ability to create energy. This is the "Frankenstein effect." During his life, he has created things which kept on going but of which he had no further control. He created something and then ceased to control it. But that's kind of how this universe gets there, you know? Everybody sets everything up automatic, and at length, the whole universe is automatic.

Well, why don't you blame you? Why don't you blame you? Now I can — I'm in a position where I can say that. Because what you did was accomplish a sin of omission.

So we have this problem with such a case: the fear of his own force. Not just fear of force, it's fear of his own force.

There are two kinds of errors. There are two kinds of crimes. Governments and universes in general which have to have havingness and so on, all specialize on crimes of commission. But the truth of the matter is, the only really bad one is the crime of omission. Omission — that's the important one. Nobody gets in trouble, however, in most governments and most police systems, with crimes of omission.

We have with this case, along with create, we have beauty. He can't create something beautiful. This is what is upsetting to him, and is the most upsetting condition which you could mention to such a case — the creation of something beautiful. So you'll ordinarily find that the front terminal which turned up missing some time in his life and made everything go black, was something which was to him beautiful. It was possibly her mother or his mother. It was a loved one, something on that order, or a beautiful animal, or could be a lot of things, but it will be in — connected in there with beauty. And he has replaced that with ugliness. That's sort of to teach himself a lesson, you know.

Fellow forgot to warn somebody or other that something's taking place and somebody gets killed as a result and so on. And they say, "Well, all right. Well, he forgot to warn him," and so on. He — it's just as much his fault as though he'd gone out and shot somebody, you see, but it's not a crime. So it's very easy to look over these crimes of omission.

To ferret out exactly what the individual is doing in this is quite a trick, because he doesn't invite you into his confidence because he isn't in his own confidence. He doesn't trust himself enough to inform himself. You want to know why he's so blank on what he's actually doing, well, he doesn't trust himself with that much information. That sounds awfully silly, but it's true. Self-trust is gone. He feels that if he suddenly started creating a great deal of energy, he would in a very, very short time destroy his whole beingness.

And failing to assess a preclear is a crime of omission. And you can get away with it, and it's not recommended that you assess every preclear you run across. You can get away with it, an awful lot of cases. But remember every time you're — you start auditing a preclear without a good assessment just along the lines that I have been giving you just now — I mean, about electrical incidents and explosions, and you want to find out about various types of things that have occurred, you want to find out what they're not ready to duplicate. The easiest way to do it is with an E-Meter.

Now, as you run almost any technique on him, after a while he will become suspicious — I mean any technique directed toward the rehabilitation of his creation of energy. And he's liable to become a little bit suspicious and shy off and turn it all off again after you've worked so hard. Because, you see, if he generated the energy of which he was natively capable while he is still inside the body, he would blow its brains out. So we get the limiting factor, and again we get this little circular effect. I mean, one factor leading to another factor, leading to another problem and back to the first problem again, as though they're all tied in very neatly.

Remember, every time you process a preclear and don't do an assessment, you are guilty — whether you get away with it or not, you're guilty of the sin of omission.

Well, where can we enter this neat little circle of problems and find a point which is vulnerable to auditing? Well, there are fortunately a great many of them. An easy one is just the straight remedy of the idea of terminals. You know, this exercise I mentioned to you there. He gets an idea of his body standing there — I don't care where it is, you'll find he's always got a missing face. He's got a missing front to his body. That's a peculiarity with this case. When he starts to get bodies, the fronts of them are gone. Furthermore, he has very little feeling in the front of his body — his nose is usually anesthesed and so on.

Now, most of the time when I start processing these days, I sail into a case without an assessment. And the only cases which have bogged under my auditing, momentarily, for one year, happened to be three cases that I sailed into without any assessment.

Well, you see, he had a collapsed terminal with some other body, and then what he got was this effect of this other body leaving him. An anchor point must be predictable, and this other person proved unpredictable. This person proved unpredictable and left him and so forth, and now he doesn't have an anchor point there.

I audited one girl who was an easy case — obviously an easy case — audited her for four and a half hours, till 2:00 in the morning, after I'd had a long, hard day. I thought that she would solve in about a half an hour, merely because an auditor had been having trouble with this case.

Well, the first action that he did on the loss or the threat of loss of this person, was to pick up the nearest body he could lay his hands on — which was the this-lifetime Assumption body with which he joined the infant — and he slams that in place of the terminal. Now, he was pretty bad off by the time he got to that baby, in order for him to do this trick. In effect, you're running an engram. It's the engram of the loss of a body which he considered a necessary terminal. You could just treat it like that and run it as an engram, because it is an engram which will run on the V. It'll run as an engram because he's stuck in it. He stuck himself in it.

And instead of taking an assessment, I just simply sat down and started to audit this case. Listen, by 2:00 in the morning a preclear is too tired to audit them; they're too tired. And this auditor had the preclear in restimulation at 10:00 that evening and sent her over for me to swamp up.

Now, you could make him make black curtains, you could make him do all sorts of things, but a very much more effective method of handling it — I point out to you again, I pointed out very early in this course — is you get spheres of blackness, one after the other, new spheres of blackness. We'll take — around his occlusion we will put and drop one sphere. And we'll call that sphere 1. Now outside of that, we will drop another black sphere. (He can do this, by the way, it's quite interesting.) And you drop this second black sphere, and now he looks through sphere 1 at sphere 2, and by numbering them, your auditing clarity is much increased — you don't get too involved with it.

So I started to swamp this preclear up, you see, and here I sit at 2:00 in the morning, still trying to swamp up a preclear.

Now you have him put sphere 3 around his head and shoulders and have that outside sphere 2, and now have him look through sphere 2 at sphere 3. Now have him put sphere 4 out there, and so on. You're expanding his space, of course. More important than that, you're setting up and making barriers disappear.

Well now, that's something — that is stretching it too far. Anytime you audit a preclear past midnight, you're in trouble. That is the truth I'm telling you. That's just the way GEs work. You audit a preclear past midnight, and you're in trouble. Because the greatest incidence of death is at 2:00 in the morning.*Reference to the medical fact that human beings die most frequently at 2:00 in the morning. For more information, see lecture 10 October 1951, "Axioms 14 — 32," in Research & Discovery Series Volume 7. And even though they'd run very smoothly in the morning or afternoon — 10:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the afternoon, that's nothing — they'd run very smoothly at that time of day; this same case at 2:00 in the morning will bog. They won't be able to release locks or anything else.

Now, when a person has gotten into an automaticity or has had this technique worked upon him, you may have to handle it as an automaticity. In other words, he got into grief charges or something of the sort — you should look those over as possible hang-ups. And a slow but very thorough method of getting rid of something like that is "Where isn't that condition in present time?" — three places. Until he finally achieves the complete certainty that it is not in present time.

Well, I was still, with the tiniest, lightest techniques trying to bring this case out of it enough so that we could quit. And found the resolution to the case, which I should have had four hours earlier at 10:00.

Another method of handling it is to handle it with Step VIII, SOP 8-C, which is Duplication. How do you handle it with that? Well, the least significance, the better. You merely handle duplication by putting out space to this degree: You have him locate places in his environment, and put in those places the thought that the place or structure or whatever is there, or the body, can duplicate or must duplicate, cannot duplicate or must not duplicate. And you do this monotonously, just one after the other.

Now, here was the case, all beautifully goggle-eyed and superrestimu-lated — less so, true, than they had been at 10:00, but still in horrible condition — at an hour of the day when a GE just won't audit. And what can you do? What can you do?

By the time you've solved "can't" or "cannot duplicate," you've solved creation, because creation itself is nullified by the continuous carping criticism of people that what has been created is just like somebody else's or something else's. And that is the first and foremost insidious level of criticism. It is the mission of the critic to keep everybody original. And if everybody can be kept original, you'll get a declining race of artists; and the one thing a critic cannot be is an artist.

Well, I sent the preclear home in a taxicab. She had something on the order of a nervous breakdown about 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning, was going to take the nearest boat for Siberia or something, was corralled and shipped back to my office by the husband, and arrived there at about 11:00. And at 11:00, when she arrived, I sat her down and I put E-Meter cans in her hands, and we did an assessment. And twenty minutes later, she was as right as rain.

It's like people say — what is an editor? An editor is a failed writer. What is a critic? A critic is a failed artist. And it's the mission of the critic to keep others from being arty. And the way he does it is to explain to everybody that it's been done before — and make duplication a condemnation.

What was wrong with this case? One person — one person — was really the key of the case, and that was Mother. She couldn't touch Mother, she couldn't go near Mother, and this particular case, of course, by what we're doing right now, couldn't duplicate Mother. And Mother was one of the most able, sane people on Earth. But Mother unfortunately was consistently blamed by Father for Father's complete failure in the business world and every other world. And the girl was the ally of the father, you see, and trying to buck up the old man all the time, and so didn't dare be Mother. And Mother was probably a pretty right guy, and Papa was hypochondriacal.

They say of some old master, "Well, it's just a copy." This flabbergasted me one time when I was a boy. I saw this nice painting which was a copy of a Rembrandt, and it had been done very well, and it wasn't all filthy dirty and cracked the way the original Rembrandt was. And it looked very good, and it was bright and fresh, and it — you couldn't tell the difference between it and the original as far as the line and color was concerned, except the color was better. And it was a copy. It was very well done. And the guide in this museum (he had a bad time with me, I think I was about eight or nine) he said, "This is the Rembrandt, and this is a copy of it as the original must have looked in its original coloring," and so forth.

So, couldn't touch Mama, couldn't be like Mama, couldn't do anything with Mama, and I just ran a gradient scale whereby she mocked up — which is to say created — we had to create Mama by footprints and shoes and a stocking at a time, and we finally created Mama. And then created enough Mamas so that we could knock off one Mama, and then we could mock up Mama in the place where the preclear was. She was exteriorized, you understand, all this time, which was what was incomprehensible about the case. And we mocked up the preclear exteriorizing out of Mother's body, you see, and "Well, I — znnn-tnnn-ta." The only live member of the family was Mama, and she was trying to prevent Mama. Total computation. She'd worked at it — this woman had worked at it for about twenty-eight years, solidly, ever since she was a little tiny baby, and that was the story of her life — not being Mama! One of these cases where you hit one point in it.

And I looked at this copy and I said, "Gee! That's a good picture."

Well, I would have gotten the point immediately if I'd given her a create-destroy assessment on people. All I had to do was just start calling off the standard members of any Homo sapiens family and I would have gotten a drop on Mama which went, when I did get it, fifteen dials. But this case could mock up everything, do everything — perfectly able case.

And he said, "Yes, but it's only a copy" — squelchingly.

What's this case doing, then, going into a flat spin on anything I asked this case to do? Well, the other two cases, same thing, same thing — just didn't do an assessment. So, it isn't necessary for you to do an assessment on the majority of cases, but every time you omit it, remember that you are omitting something! Remember that you're guilty of a crime of omission.

"Well, it's a better picture than the other one!"

The safe thing to do and the practical thing to do, as an auditor, is not to try to get out there at a flat run and super-speed with each case. Process swiftly when you process, but go at it by knowing what you're processing and then finding out how the preclear's doing every once in a while.

And the other people who were in that museum at that time got interested in this argument, because I did not care who I argued with when I was very young; I argued very loudly, too. And I won — if by winning, the other fellow simply shuts up and walks away with a sort of beaten, confused look. Because the truth of the matter was, the copy was better than the Rembrandt.

And if you start your session with an assessment — you just say, "Sit down. Here are the cans. All right. Now, let's take Mama. Did you like Mama?" Needle sits there.

"Well," one says then, "but the fellow who did the copy of the Rembrandt didn't conceive the original idea, the composition, the thought, the mood and so forth, which went into it." Well, that's true — did Rembrandt? Well, you don't know that one.

"Did you like Papa?" Needle sits there.

But they say this fellow Shakespeare — you know, they tried to damn him down the ages by saying, you know, "Why, he just took this old Dutch play — he took this play from the Netherlands, and he took this and that, and he stole from everybody," and so on. But you know, the guy could write too well. He is too good! And his wealth and flow and rhythm is such, and — honest, he just could have just copied ideas line for line and word for word, and nobody ever would have been able to have made anything stick. So, you see how invalid — or maybe you don't — how invalid criticism is, that something is a duplication. They've tried to damn even Shakespeare, in that he duplicated old plots.

"Did you like — you have any brothers?" Needle sits there.

They teach, by the way, these poor devils that go to the university to learn how to write — a big survey demonstrates that practically the last way to become a writer is to go to a university. It is the last way. That's the way you become an editor and starve to death. So the main trouble with all creation, according to these people, is that you can only duplicate. And then they make duplication a condemnation.

"Did you have any sisters?" Needle sits there.

Well, let's now assume that you can only duplicate — just for the word — and just, you know, let's just assume that you can only duplicate; that someplace there is the prime idea and you can only duplicate that basic idea. Well, would this mean immediately that there would be no art anyplace? No. It wouldn't mean that. It might be true, you see, that you can only duplicate. But why all the condemnation about it? Why do people come around and they say, "Well, it was a very good movie, but it was an old plot," and so on. The only good movies I've seen lately had very old plots.

"Do you like boys?" Needle sits there.

They teach in the modern university — huh! teach! — they drive down people's throats, the idea that there are only eight basic dramatic situations and fifty-seven plots. I've said this several times, and I purposely scramble the numbers, because this is the most idiotic thing you ever heard of.

You take a look at that needle. It's stuck! When?

Several of us sat down one time and wrote down about eighty-five dramatic situations. And we demonstrated to a professor who was in our midst — he was a literary agent, and he was sort of scum, he kind of hung around New York. He had PhDs and GDQs and he'd been the Professor of Literature at Princeton and Harvard and Yale and so forth — oh, he was just a tramp. So anyhow, this fellow had dared open this argument. So a bunch of us sat around half — I'm afraid in my artistic days, that I rather followed the fashion of the Village — half-drunk. The others were — myself, of course, I never drank — used a fire hose. Anyway . . . (audience laughter)

"Well, all right. Now, did something occur to you, that upset you and so forth, ten years ago? Twenty years ago?" Needle trembles.

The whole problem, all of a sudden, revolved on this fact: Well, we had played it unfair! There were only thirty-six dramatic situations, but the fact that we had made up eighty-five merely proved that we had originated the remainder! And what was meant by the only basic dramatic situations there were which an author could possibly have, were these thirty-six dramatic situations and so on. And just because we had gone and added some new dramatic situations did not make the statement that there were only thirty-six dramatic — basic dramatic situations incorrect!

"Fifteen years ago? More than fifteen years ago? Little less than fifteen years ago? Well, a little more than eleven years ago?"

After we had unraveled this and thrown him out, why, we had an insight into why people go through universities and give up writing as a career promptly. Yes, it's marvelous. But there is the same logic.

Sometimes I'll keep this up until I get the exact hour of the exact date.

Now, you may think I'm just telling you an interesting story, but I'm trying to tell you something about a preclear, believe me. Trying to tell you something about life. You see, they use some kind of a specious or spurious logic to prove to you that you cannot be source. And they get "you can't be source" mixed up with "you can't be original." Just like you don't dare own anything if you didn't create it — that's unreasonable too. You can own anything. It doesn't matter what you own. You could have created it or not have created it, you could still own it. You can still have things you didn't create. There's no great liability in this.

Say, "Come on," by this time, talk to the preclear, you know. "You remember what happened — what occurred."

But again, let's untangle this with a preclear — he'll untangle it, by the way, as his processes continue, but the — that being original is not duplicating. You see, he's got the idea that you can't duplicate and be original. Oh yes, you can! You can duplicate van Gogh in 1936 and be the person in 1936 who did a duplicate of van Gogh, and you therefore have been original. You're the "only one." And that's what everybody wants the artist to play: the "only one" game.

"Well, yeah. Yes. I was in the automobile wreck which killed my parents. Yeah, I'd been reading the funny paper and it blew off the front seat into my father's eyes and he swerved into the oncoming lane and the car was wrecked and . . . Otherwise, I'm all right." (audience laughter)

And that's how you get people to play this game, the "only one," you see? Is demonstrate to them that they can only duplicate, and this challenges them into being original. And as soon as they are sufficiently challenged into being original, they become the "only one" with all of its liabilities and fall off on about three-quarters of the dynamics right at that point — pam! They can't have friends, they can't associate with people, they have to be careful, they don't dare duplicate the people they're talking to.

Well, now what do you do with the incident? With SOP 8-C you just saw right into the car wreck, that's all. You say maybe that's real fatal. The person isn't anyplace else. You say, "Well, there's ways and means of building up his morale, doing this and that, Straightwire, build them up." Yes sir.

Another thing runs through the society — it's just the same equation, but it's on a different level — and that is, "Well, he's very weak, he just takes on the characteristics of whoever he's talking to." Oh boy, there's a dangerous man; there's a dangerous man. Real dangerous. He talks to a tramp, he talks to a race driver, he talks to a business executive, and immediately afterwards, any one of these people could just swear that this fellow was a business executive or a tramp or a race driver. There's a dangerous man. Be careful of him, because he doesn't care what he does. He's willing to duplicate anybody.

If the case looks like it'd tip over if you mention the incident too much and too solidly, well, of course, you've got that second-to-the-last list in Self Analysis, "Remember something real," and "Remember a time you were in good communication," so forth. Just hand them that every once in a while, and then just keep plugging on with going exactly where you're going.

Now, how much knowledge does it take to do this? None, if you're good. If you're real good, all you have to do is read the other fellow's bank. You can be yourself and everybody else too, and that's a very happy frame of mind. No slightest lack of action in that.

Now, you can run "Where isn't his body in present time?" or you can run almost anything, but they're going to get a big uncertainty on everything — they're very uncertain. Because where are they? They're in a car wreck which happened exactly — maybe April the 3rd, 1933 — whereby they caused the death of somebody or their parents or something; there they sit.

Then there's the fellow who's perfectly willing to be his own attack. There's also a dangerous man. He's willing to be the source of entheta as well as the source of theta concerning his own activities.

Well, there's no sense in running that as an incident, because this probably would bog a case. I mean, that's — this case is stuck that heavily, they'd probably bog on it, and it'd be a lot more trouble than it was worth.

There's one famous director out in Hollywood (I won't mention his name, but — because I promised him I wouldn't give him away) who is terribly interesting.

You can unburden the incident. You can run all the locks resulting from the car incident that have piled into it, but that again is very crude because it's validating that bunch of energy.

He goes down — he puts on an old, decayed-looking, almost Shakespearean outfit, you know, a suit of clothes kind of black and moldy — obviously an actor out of work. And goes down into the bars of Hollywood and spreads all the bad rumors about himself. The most vile and violent rumors he will put into motion. And the reason he does this is because nobody is good enough to dream them up. He just has lost all confidence in the ability of this society to properly keep his name in abhorrence, so he does it himself. And you'll go up to see him some night and he'll say, "I'm sorry, I'm busy tonight." Now, he's one of these fellows that changes around easily, and one of these fellows who is actually a terrific individualist.

And the best way I know of at this time, and a very light way to handle the thing, is "Give me three places that car isn't in present time" and just go on from there. And just take up the personnel in the wreck, and take up themselves and so on.

You see him on a set — see him on a set directing actors, something like that. He goes through this action, and he walks through the action. And you wonder why in the name of common sense he doesn't play the part, because he's got the exact nuances, everything — all the meaning and intelligibilities of the entire part is right there. He's showing some girl how she should walk in and offer a flower to this soldier, you see, and he walks in and offers a flower to the soldier.

In other words, just pry the whole thing loose and blow it, and look at the needle every once in a while and see when it gets free. But you really won't have to look at the needle — when you see that incident go free, your preclear's free. He's free to run on the track.

Now, society condemns such a person because he's dangerous. But they condemn him this way: They condemn him by saying that that is weak. It is weak. That's wishy-washy. It's sort of condemned. They've dropped the gate on that.

Now, by the way, if you did this expertly, you could run engrams on him. Who wants to? I mean, that doesn't happen to be our goal anymore. We're bypassing results which we could have used desperately three years ago.

The only way to be safe from a burglar is to be able to be — bang! — the burglar. Have him put his gun in his pocket and walk out the door. Be out on the sidewalk and then have him — just leave him at that point, and he wonders what he's doing outside the house. That's the time for him to do some thinking.

Yes, you could with this type of Straightwire and so forth, straighten somebody up. But there I'm talking about a case which is, you might say, has a basic simplicity. It has a basic simplicity — most cases are a little more involved than this.

Now, it's not weak to do that, because every person I know who does that extremely well backs it all up with an enormous individuality and a great deal of originality. In other words, there is a direct line between the ability to duplicate completely anything and everything, and to originate. And if one can duplicate anything and everything, one, by the experience I have — all the observations of such people, I know many such people — they originate; they originate ideas. Furthermore, they don't run reliably a cycle of action. They're not reliable on the cycle of action line to this end: They can't be forced to complete an unsuccessful action. It doesn't bother them a bit, when the action is unsuccessful, to abandon it.

And if you get a case at level V, it won't be a simple case of stuck, in most cases — a lot of these Vs are just a simple case of stuck. They're stuck in the between-lives area or something and they free up, just like I said. I mean, "Where isn't the incident?" You nail it on the E-Meter and then run it and they — all of a sudden, they don't have occlusion.

All they've got to see is that the motion picture is just not getting box office. It's been out, they reviewed it in the little theater out at Sand Point, and the audience sat there, and some of them were seen to hold their noses. And the fellow would take a look at this, he'll watch it through fifteen frames of this sort of thing, he'll take a look at that audience reaction, doesn't even wait for the cards. He doesn't sneak out the back door, he simply walks up the aisle and gets into his car and goes home and sits down with his notes, trying to figure out what this next picture is going to be — not having learned a thing, except that audiences are unreliable. That's all they learn, by the way — they learn that mest is not always reliable. It — mest is reliable when it does what they say it should and it is unreliable otherwise.

Well, people get occluded and unoccluded and they play tag with this occlusion because they're still worried about seeing.

Now, contrast this state of mind with a fellow who's being terribly careful and very afraid that he will duplicate somebody, who is very careful that he has authority for everything he says. Contrast that man, and contrast their cases. You'll find the first one — back out of his head rather easily. He may not be as careful of his condition as somebody else, but he sure can mend it in a hurry. He can change it rapidly.

But there is one shotgun technique on this occlusion, and on a V, which quite often produces results. It'll be some variation of putting fear into the environ­ment. That is to say, making the walls feel afraid and so forth, repetitively one after the other. Not afraid of being uncertain, but afraid of just — it's fear, fear.

Now we'll take this in comparison to somebody who depends upon an authority on agreement, who would sit in that theater after that box office fiasco, see — he would sit there and carefully look over the reaction of the audience to discover what it was in the play that they did not like so that he would not repeat the same thing the second time. That's what that fellow would do. And that fellow will fail. Because mest is very unreliable; it doesn't agree with one a lot of the time. But this is just so much the worst for mest, according to the first person I was telling you about. And the other person says, "Well, you know, I just don't seem to be able to agree with mest anymore — I'm failing." Get the difference? And he doesn't get out of his head.

Now, you can tell physiologically, quite often, if this particular thing is wrong with a case. Now, I won't go so far as to say that this is wrong with every case, I won't go that far. Theory dictates that it is wrong with every case. Theory says that it would be wrong with every case, because it comes right back into the theory of energy. But I haven't run enough cases to tell you whether or not — with this particular technique, to tell you whether or not it is true of every case that is having difficulty. But it's certainly part of the difficulty of any case. It's a little thing called security. Fear of the future is born out of the economic stress of the past and present. And this security is in itself the uncertainty of anxiety; anxiety is an uncertainty. And this is very simple, really, to figure out.

Now, the case you're looking at can't create, but if he did create he would care desperately about what he had created. He would nourish it, he would work with it, he would pet it. And he wouldn't bother to create anything else — he'd just make that one thing endure, endure, endure, endure, endure.

Now, if the fellow is dependent upon consuming energy, he of course is then dependent upon the economic structure of the social order in which he lives, since he must agree with that economic structure, ordinarily — even if it's a hunting economy, you see, he has to agree, to some degree, with that structure — in order to continue to consume energy.

It is completely tolerable to the first kind of person I mentioned, who is liable to be most anybody, it's completely tolerable to him that something he's doing — he goes on doing, he goes on duplicating doing it and that it survives. This is completely tolerable. I mean, there's nothing wrong with this, he doesn't have to destroy it just because it's going on surviving. And it doesn't become particularly boring, it has its moments and it has its points, but it doesn't stop him from being something else at the same time elsewhere. I mean, he doesn't have to then slavishly follow, and he doesn't have to depart into some other field just for randomity. In other words, he doesn't have to. And there we get the main difference.

It's like animals that eat locoweed. You see them in the West sometime. After they've eaten a little locoweed they have to eat more locoweed and they have to eat more, and they just stagger round and round and they go crazier and crazier and they die. They eat it once and it becomes compulsive.

The fellow who doesn't have to can accomplish more things in less time in more fields — see, just because he doesn't have to. He also has the idea that it isn't important. But he is the fellow who, although things are not important to him, he actually gets things done — mostly because he can't quite help getting things done. That's probably the only thing that's wrong with him. He starts to set up something, it gets done.

The same thing would occur to a dope addict. A dope addict who would take up something like cocaine, or heroin — not opium, opium doesn't seem to be this same order, it's merely a sedative. But heroin or cocaine — someone starts in on that line, and they have to have more and more cocaine, and more and more heroin, whatever it is, in order to continue in the same state of elation. And of course the state of elation gets less and less and less and less; it deteriorates.

Well, now let's take the other fellow who has to do something. He's under a compulsion that if he starts a course of action he's got to finish it. He's got to carry everything through to its inevitable end. Therefore, cycle of action is something that does wonders for his state of mind. You can remedy anything that's wrong with his mind, if you're just remedying that, with just cycle of action. Just sit there and get imaginative on how many kinds of actions could this person have engaged upon in his lifetime.

Well, now compare this — now, I hate to have to mention this — but com­pare this to things which have become so rabid for attention that they must condense attention in order to have life; condense and consume attention in order to have life. They eat each other's bodies. They're so anxious for attention that they eat each other's bodies. That is essentially eating. And the basic mechanic of eating for our uses here is — they crave attention so much that they have to consume any deposit of attention. And of course the body, in this classification, could be called a deposit of attention.

Now, we remedy his stomach trouble by having things eat his stomach. We have wolves and babies and fathers and so forth, eat his stomach. We get it et up in quantity, too. And after we've had his stomach eaten enough, we've solved the overt act-motivator situation on eating. That's generally the trouble, down-on-the-havingness cases. They have, in addition to everything else, some trouble with their stomach, some trouble with eating. Why do they have this? It's because they're already into overt act-motivator sequence, and the stomach commits an overt act every time it growls. Every time it digests a new piece of food, it's committed an overt act against some animal or some life form someplace, so it's terribly overburdened on the subject. And the fellow — stomach is actually motivator-hungry. I don't care what shape he's in, if his case level is that, he's motivator-hungry on the subject of stomachs.

So here is the problem of the consumption of energy. Once they start depending upon exterior energy, and depending upon that energy in order to have energy, this puts them into the economic structure but solidly — since a man will starve to death ordinarily in a few days, puts him into the economic structure so solidly that he must then continue to agree in order to continue to eat. And the continuation of eatingness and the continuation of agreeingness compound each other until he is entirely dependent on the economic structure, and so sinks below it and becomes a slave.

Well, the one way to solve this which is the simplest, stupidest way to solve it, is just have him — just getting the idea of — he says, "Well, I can only get a black mock-up."

You are looking, then, at the deterioration of self-determinism, drawn against the curve of the deterioration of the individual's production of energy. And when — as his — he produces less and less energy and consumes more and more energy, his self-determinism follows on the same curve.

"Okay, get a black stomach sitting there in the blackness. Now have a black wolf eat it."

So that when we have security in the future, we are back to a problem of energy, as I discussed earlier today. And this earlier lecture posed some of the problems, just as this lecture tonight has, but it hasn't given you any rote solution. I told you there are many possible solutions.

He can get some perception of this happening, by the way. And we just go on and have his stomach eaten, and his stomach eaten, and his stomach eaten, on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And what do you know? He'll get off the overt act-motivator sequence enough to get less compulsive about eating. And when he's less compulsive about eating, he's less compulsive about having to have energy from the world around him, and becomes a little more capable of giving the energy out himself.

Here you have the problem of a stomach. What does man obey? If man is consuming other bodies in order to live, then the most craven part of him would, of course, be his stomach. And this is true — the stomach is a fairly cowardly entity.

Now, this is an inflow universe. Everything flows in on the thetan. To be source, as I've demonstrated to you before — I gave you a trick question on an examination, "What's the source of sunlight?" And the answer to that is the sun. It's nothing else but sun, merely because it's the start of the photon. Source — start. Don't look deeper into significance.

And when we go into the entities, we find that that entity which is most afraid is the stomach entity. We start examining them with an E-Meter. It's very cute examining entities; the GE's entities will endlessly put up with being examined. They'll just go on and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie. And they are all pretty decayed, and the one thing they can do is withhold information from the analytical self. That's the only thing they're doing; they're holding back information.

Now, the thetan has to be able to outflow energy to be convinced that he can create energy. Because if he creates energy, he's going to outflow it. So this outflow of energy, as it goes out, of course can furnish energy to other things. So he gets into an interchange of energy problem rather than total absorption of energy.

They say, "The awful things which you did made it impossible for us to release to you any further power than you have." And this is a big joke, you see, because they don't release any power; they haven't got any power to release. And they — there aren't any incidents that have occurred, you see, but they keep saying, "Well, that awful thing you did and so on, and we're not going to tell you about that, but. . ." This is typically an entity sort of an operation.

And a thetan is in as good a shape as he can outflow, and is in as bad a shape as he is being inflowed on. And that's very, very crude — it isn't — doesn't hold true all the way up the line. But as far as a person here on this universe, the thetan — this level, Homo sapiens and so forth — a person is as well off as he can outflow, and as bad off as he's inflowed on. I mean, it's just a rough rule; doesn't particularly mean anything.

Well, you don't have to worry much about entities, what they are and where they aren't and so on. It's merely an interesting fact that when you start investigating the entities with an E-Meter, that you'll get a set pattern of responses, you get the same number of entities per body. And this is very interesting investigation. It, however, is in para-Scientology — what these entities are, who they are, and who put it together and that sort of thing; that's completely beyond our "care-how," rather than our know-how. We could go in and know-how about it, but it's beyond our "care-how."

Well, the thing that you've got to convince this case level of, is that he can create. There are many ways to do that — I've given you a lot of them.

But we don't happen to know — need any of the data. It was tracked down and exhausted; I just beat the stuff to death trying to find an answer which was a broader and more applicable answer in clearing, in that particular field. And it turned up a lot of good laughs, but until fairly recently had not yielded any great gain, until I equated energy consumption as the degradation point, and the entity of the stomach as that thing which begins to be a model for the person who is too sold on energy consumption. And it gives us a technique, because the body starts to eat itself up. The stomach entity starts to eat the rest of the body. The body itself starts to turn into the shape of a stomach.

One of them is Certainty Processing by changing postulates around. You have him put the postulate up "I can create," and move it all around, but stop it each time and fix it. You know, move it to three new positions and stop it and fix it each time in those positions before he moves it on. That'll give him double exercise on it. And he moves "I can create" around, "I can create" — even though he knows he can't. And then you have him put this postulate up, with great certainty in it, "I can't create," and you have him move that around. And you have him push that around all over the place — starting it, moving it to a new place, and then making it stick there for a moment; and then moving it to a new place and then making it stick there for a moment; and moving it to a new place and making it stick there for a moment; and back again, over the same course or on a different course. "I can create. I can't create."

Now, this sounds awfully crazy to you; as a matter of fact it is crazy. It is crazy, and that's why we are talking about it.

"I can manufacture energy" and "I must have energy manufactured for me," and "I need energy" and "I don't need energy." These are all ideas that are moved around in this fashion.

Well, there's a definite method of running it — in Creative Processing, we immediately have. You take that blackness that this preclear who has a lot of occlusion has around him, and just have him feed to this blackness, bodies. You'll find out they'll mock up for a split instant and disappear. We just let this area eat up bodies — his body. I've known for a long time that if a V would just sit there and mock up his body long enough and often enough — just a couple of his bodies, particularly — just long enough and often enough and just go at it and on and on and on and on, just hours and hours and hours of doing this one thing, he gets to feeling kind of soft in the head and kind of stupid and awfully upset, but all of a sudden he'll start to get mock-ups. But that's funny, because it's his body that is the trick.

Now, they make a fellow kind of sick. Why — why do such techniques like duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, "I can't duplicate" put into the walls round and round and round, make a fellow sick at his stomach?

The stomach entity has been denied havingness to the degree that it has taken over the control of the individual and so controls his future by continuing to compress him into the economic and social structure which demands that he continue to consume rather than to produce. And you get a society going down Tone Scale, you get it consuming more and more and more and more and more, and producing less and less and less and less and less per unit in the society until you get the corn and games type of government of the Roman Empire. Corn and games. Rome could loot the world, and the way it kept its own population in order was simply to cater to the stomach entity — which was lots of dead bodies in the arena, and lots of corn in the belly. And this, of course, solved the problem of revolution continually and consistently.

Well, a fellow depends upon his stomach for his energy. If a fellow is dependent upon the stomach for energy, why, then of course, techniques which rehabilitate his energy will first off — bing! — make his stomach, which is motivator-hungry as well as food-hungry, sick.

So there's one solution in Creative Processing, and that does — that is a solution.

So he, of course — duplication goes straight into the stomach.

Now, here's another solution in terms of duplication: You start putting into the walls "Afraid I will starve. No, I won't starve." Like, "No, I will eat." Just keep it up, round and round and round. Not adding in any uncertainties into the thing — you always run these things on the two certainties. To run out an uncertainty, you don't run an uncertainty — you run the two certainties of positive and negative. That is, the certainty that something exists; the certainty that nothing exists, and you'll get the uncertainty which results from these two positives. Because no juice is running midway between two electrical poles. The juice is at the poles, as far as you're interested in. All right.

The second dynamic, sex, is secondary to eating. The wisdom of the great circles of thinking of this world has been a very great wonder to me ever since I was a little boy, and for a long time before that.

We have, then — actually everything that we can use as a technique would be used in this fashion. But you'll find it'll run this way: "I can't have money. I must have money. I can't have money. I must have money." Or we start wasting food, and wasting future starvation. Wasting, you know, in brackets, on Step IV. We can do it in all these steps, but the most effective one that changes perception fast enough, is to run it as in Step VIII — just to keep putting it monotonously in three set positions, and put it back in three set positions again, and go over it and over it and over it and over it and over it and over it and over it. And if you were to run out the maybe on the situation, you would simply continue with this.

It was just this idea that Sigmund Freud was right or wrong because he said, "Sex was all," and others said he should have said that eating had something to do with it too. And in the biggest psychiatric centers of the world, they would demonstrate that sex — that Freud was wrong, because they would say, "Now here is a man who is sex-hungry, but he is also hungry for food, and you put a beautiful naked woman alongside of him and you put a plate of food in front of him, why, you'll find out that he will eat the food first. And so by this, we have determined whether or not Freud is right or wrong."

Now, some interesting and strange things occur. The body is guilty, as I have said before, of many more overt acts than it has received motivators. It continues to consume bodies, and is not itself consumed. So any Creative Process which permits the stomach, or the body and the stomach, to be consumed exteriorly — by Papa, by Mama, by wolves, by sheep, by cows, by pigs, by chickens (anything that's food, you see) — reverses the overt act-motivator sequence on the subject of eating, and so relieves the anxiety about the future, and so relieves the "can't stand it; something bad is going to happen and I will starve," which runs also back through, up from degradation, and which rehabilitates the ability to create.

Well, from such great wisdom from such little tiny kernels of action, perhaps something can grow. But I rather doubt that it will. But when you're using these postulates which I just gave you, remember to put them into buildings, walls and so forth, so that your preclear is permitted to make space with those very postulates.

The only thing wrong with commercial art occurs when the individual writes to eat, when he paints to eat. And we get an anxiety in — eventually, concerning his eatingness. And it's very, very unreasonable; there's nothing he can — unreason.

Okay.

Now, you notice that the moment you did duplication, some of the cases — a certain level — the second they start doing duplication, why, didn't matter what they were duplicating, the place it kicked was the stomach. That's chronic.

Now, you can expect some preclears to get really sick with this. So what? That sickness is what they're trying to bypass. That sickness is what they don't want duplicated. And that's the worst thing to fight, is one of these anxiety stomachs. It can get so bad that I have seen a criminal being put in a cage, you know, and being treated with all the humaneness of the metropolitan police force — just being put in a cage — become so violently ill, I've seen him . . . But this guy — boy was a tough boy, you see (this amuses cops a lot when they see this happen — they don't realize that they have nothing to do with it) — seen him get down and beg and plead for the means with which to kill himself.

Why? It's not because he's scared, as they say, or because he's yellow — they've keyed in one of these anxiety stomachs. And it is one of the most fantastic sensations that a man has ever experienced. It has volume! And there's where fear ordinarily hits and resides, is in the stomach. Because the stomach is the center of contest; the stomach is the thing which registers the incoming eaten energy which is replacing the thetan's ability to produce.

Now, you'll always find this particular mass of energy on a preclear who's having any kind of trouble: You will find some sort of an outflow from the skull, forward. There'll be some kind of an outflow pattern from the skull forward, out to in front of the body, and it turns back and then runs back in on against his stomach. He's always got tubes and things, and channels, and communication lines, which are running from his head to his stomach.

Now, he's got others that have to do with his mouth. And when he has created in order to eat, he's probably laid him — I mean, created MESTwise, you know, and created with MEST energy, believing all the time that he is using the body's energy — and he keeps creating in order to eat, he just drives the body into the overt act-motivator sequence of "eating and not being eaten," just deeper and deeper and deeper. "Creating and not being created" is equally so, because it's mest facsimiles. That's just a type of facsimiles made through mest and so forth by the GE which are very aberrative. The others aren't particularly. The thetan can handle his own facsimiles easily. All right.

The problem resolves on "starvation" pretty fast, and it is a — recommended procedures. You understand that isn't the only technique there is to do this, and this isn't the only thing you'll find wrong with the case in the long run. But his fear of the future is a fear of not eating in the future. And the fear of not eating in the future drives him back compulsively away from creating energy, because he's so fixed on the idea that he has to have energy manufactured exterior to himself to consume — so that he can work, so that he can create. He always has to have energy exterior to himself.

Now, if you can make him anxious about it and fixate him on this, of course you take him completely away from creation. So he doesn't produce anything. So he doesn't exteriorize. Because he thinks he's sitting there mobile only so long as he can drain the body of its energy. So we get the most basic effect that there is, is not sex, it's food.

Okay.