This is, I think, the eighth of December, the first lecture afternoon class.

Here in the third hour of the Monday afternoon lecture, December the 8th, I want to cover now, ARC. When I told you about automaticity, and I’ve told you about cycles of action, told you about space and energy, and time, and how that compares with be do and have, you must realize something, that we have been talking about energy.

I want to talk to you today about ARC and finish up all this… things and stuff about these cycles and uh… get squared around with theory here so that we can take off on a breakdown of Standard Operating Procedure.

When we talk about this universe we’re talking about energy. The only way an individual can be held in to this universe is by a conviction that he cannot handle energy. Because this is a universe full of energy, and is composed only of energy, which operates in a thing called MEST universe space. If you cannot handle energy in its fullest extent don’t think you can be free of this universe or any other one.

The word is… spreads very fast on this material. I’m getting printed notices now from clip joints and little two-bit outfits like the AMA saying they now realize that they… that their approaches… their approaches and my approaches weren’t in terrific disagreement after all and to prove this they’re presenting Standard Operating Procedure Theta Clearing Issue Three, but they don’t have that yet so I don’t know what they present. So what I… what I give you… what I give you in these lectures I’m sure of and what’s manufactured by the squirrels nobody’s sure of.

Force begets force, and he who lives by the sword will die by one. I promise you! But, funny thing is, you have to be able to have enough force to use an unlimited quantity of force, before you can pass over into a higher band of ethics. One cannot retreat from and cower back from force, under any pretext whatsoever, and still have a beingness above the level of this universe.

You know what a squirrel is? A squirrel is somebody you know… you know… the medical professions since time immemorial and all these various professions have had on their coat tails uh… squirrels. Everyone of them. There hasn’t been a single branch of human endeavor that doesn’t have its lunatic fringe. We’ve had more than our quota, much more than our quota. And uh… they… the damage that can be done by them is fortunately minimal. But occasionally they get ahold of somebody and they louse them up most gloriously.

When you stop and think right now, perhaps, of being hit in the face, in the MEST body, with a hundred thousand kW lightning bolt, it possibly is not a comfortable thought. But I assure you that that is a small amount of juice, compared to what you as a thetan can take. You ought to be able to pick your teeth with a million kW lightning bolt, theta wise.

It’s a… actually a comment upon Man today that an effort which is made without using any of its horsepower could actually be mauled around to the extent that Scientology and Dianetics has been mauled around. ‘Course I’ve done some of the mauling around myself. I write under the pen name of Ira Wallace and uh… my Hop-a-long Freud did a good job.

If you have ever seen the mercy of the very strong, compared to the sympathy and fear of the very weak, if you’ve ever watched these two things, you will see the mockery of bottom scale trying to echo the top of the scale. A person has to be very, very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will. At the bottom of the scale a person has been forced to be, and everything affects him. He has been an effect of this and an effect of that, and so on. He’s still carrying along with him some of his capability; there’s still theta there at the bottom of the scale, but not much of it. He has crossed over, you might say, crossed over the span of force on the band, successfully. But bluntly, nobody ever crawled out of this universe through the bottom of the hole. Nobody ever got out that way. That’s a grave. The only way out is through.

Uh… but all joking aside, you as auditors are going to be beset by squirrels. You’re going to look with the most aghast expression at the fact that Mrs. Pongerbung has come over and she’s gotten much better. She’s in pretty good condition. She ceases to pick those cockroaches off the wall all the time, and uh… she’s in pretty good shape, her… uh… it’s been weeks since she strangled any babies and you’re going to find her husband who has witnessed this improvement and Mrs. Pongerbung coming over to say, „You know uh… we have uh… just been talked to by an auditor who uh… who uh… practices a subject known as uh… Squirreletics. And uh… he’s decided that we’ve decided that uh… probably that treatment is much better.“ Well of course that treatment consists probably of putting the preclear down on the couch, putting a knee in his throat, and banging him over the head with a small mallet or something of the sort in order to secure a good solid theta clear.

You have to be able to conquer the full use and control of any factor of the first dynamic, and having conquered that, the full use, control, of the factor of the second dynamic, and the third and so forth. You have to be willing and capable, and in full control of those dynamics, before you are free of them. Because always lingering in the back of your mind, no matter how esoteric you may think your ambitions may be, always lingering in the back of the mind is something you can’t do. Which is always a disability.

You will look at this just aghast and uh… you will say, „Look, uh… no, no intelligent civilization could witness such a thing as this going on.“ Don’t kid yourselves. It’s not an intelligent civilization. We’re trying to make one out of it. And you got a long way to go.

The capability of a thetan is not simply force. You take every Saint on the calendar as represented as having a big bright aura. What do you think that aura was representing? That was representing something very interesting. Raw energy.

Uh… Man has been playing this beautiful tune of all is best in this best of all possible worlds, and with rape, and murder, and arson, and a terrific thirst of havingness all up and down the alleys and by-roads, and trying to call those alleys boulevards. He’s… he’s just barely out of the trees.

Now whether or not these boys could wield energy or not, I don’t know. But they certainly represented them that way, and have continued to do so ever since. Tell you something interesting: Right there. Force. You want to be able to heal somebody at a distance, you have to have the capability of charring them into charcoal at a distance. And don’t mistake that one, either. Because the ability to produce force is the ability to make a strong postulate. And the ability to make a strong postulate alone is capable of controlling the health and beingness of others.

Now uh… when it comes to… when it comes to the humanities, there have been no humanities. Don’t make a confusion of that. There haven’t been any. We are doing a pioneering job in that direction which is very far from done to any great distance, but we have won this… we have won techniques which have a workability and if adhered to, and if practiced well, can do the job. Because you can make something more than homo sapiens and in my opinion it’s about time.

So all force is, is the shabbiest shadow of what can be done. But unless you can make a postulate strong enough to handle force, it is highly unlikely that you can make a postulate strong enough to pervade all through the beingnesses which you would like to help. Tells you a lot about force. This is a force universe. And don’t EVER make a mistake about that. And if it was the only universe there was, God help all of us! It is a force universe. It’s built on trickery, and it’s built on force.

Okay, those… those snide and bitter comments, probably, uh… are uh… completely unwarranted, but uh… once in a while, once in a while I tell you the truth, I get bored. „I wonder why, Ronnie,“ I say to me, I say, „What the hell did… what you ever start this for?“

Every single item that you see in a store is condensed energy, existing in space. Every single brick that you see out on the street is a condensation of energy. Any action you see on the part of a MEST object is some manifestation of force at work in this universe. And don’t think for a moment that a low, low scale action in this universe will be greeted by anything but force.

Well, let’s go in immediately into another pair of cycles. There are two more cycles compared to the ones which we have had. The most important of those is automaticity. Automaticity ties in a little bit into what I’ve just been saying because automaticity is the gradient scale of, „It’s all being done,“ or „It must be done for me.“ This state of mind, this is an aspect of experience, and this state of mind is something which is going… which is going to appall you in a preclear.

You can protest, reason, agree, grovel, beg, it does not matter. Force is there, heavily and solidly, to greet the BEST of intentions to help. This universe does not care anything for brightness, for aesthetics. You could go out and make the prettiest planet that ever existed in this whole universe, solely by your hard work, and application and genius. And the force that is this universe could simply roll it up and blow it away. Without the least tremor.

Automaticity is something which has only vaguely been added into human experience. And yet it is right there to be added into human experience. The fellow who says, uh… „I have to do it all myself“ is an aberrated point at an aberrated point on this scale. But he’s not nearly as bad off as the people there who are below the point, „It all has to be done for me.“

The strong man who uses force, fort main, as his sole criteria of existence is nothing but a brute. He is nothing but a brute. Nevertheless, the strong man who is able to make something in this universe must be able to protect it. ‘Cause this universe doesn’t care. And that’s what breaks the heart of man. It doesn’t care. He looks around, no matter what he does for anybody, no matter how much he tries to help, or anything else, in this universe with MEST force on the loose, and relatively uncontrolled, it makes no difference whatsoever. It is that remorselessness, that crushing capability, without discernment as to a finer quality, that breaks him at last.

The thirst to have it done for me, that is… that is evidently inculcated into Man in earliest babyhood. He… he requires to be waited upon to an extent and a degree which demonstrates actually a very low level of culture. You’d be surprised how this automaticity is played upon by the modern businessman, by the manufacturer, and so on.

Lie thinks in this universe there ought to be such things as love, and goodness, and he thinks these things ought to repay. And you find somebody working himself to the bone, trying to be a good guy. Trying to be a straight guy and so on. What do you find around him? You’ll find pitfalls waiting for his tiniest error. And he will go crashing down.

Automaticity could be said to be the gradient scale of action, stemming from oneself down to having everything done for oneself. The catatonic schlitz is at almost the bottom of the scale; the dead man is at the very bottom of the scale. The dead man can’t even embalm himself. He has to have other people do that and bury him.

And who will push him? The people he helped the most. It’s a great universe. It is so debased and degraded, really, that the better capabilities of theta, the better capabilities of beingness, almost can’t exist in this universe. They are here in the flimsiest possible form.

Uh… now you get upscale just a little bit, you look over automaticity and you will find it in the creation of illusion. People start creating illusions. Instead of creating the illusion they put it on an automatic circuit and homo sapiens is very good at rigging up these automatic circuits so that he won’t have to pay attention or think about it. And that is the entrance point into automaticity.

Let’s take an aesthetic. What does this universe care for an aesthetic? You’re going out and looking at the beautiful sunset; it’s… that’s… that’s… very amusing. Expecting a sensation of aesthetic from this universe? Have you any idea what composes that beautiful sunset? It is dust hanging in the air from some old volcanic explosion, where the earth convulsed and vomited and shot rock and ash into the air. And it’s a sun of such a violent temperature that it is shooting sheets of fire out two hundred and forty thousand miles. Radioactive fire which if you even vaguely approached it and got a tiniest burn you would thereafter rot. Beauty in this universe.

The person is perfectly powerful, sane, able, all-pervasive and capable of enormous goals up to the first moment that he says, „I’ll rig it up so it’s automatic.“ The first instant that he says that, he has said at the same time, „I am insufficiently powerful to concentrate on more than one point at once.“ You see, there is no… no slightest doubt about this fact. A man can think in twelve different spheres of action and dictate twelve separate and not even related actions simultaneously.

You go out and look at the butterfly, and you watch him flying around through the grass, and you… so forth, and uh… you say: Isn’t that pretty? Did you ever follow the fate of a butterfly? It’s an interesting game. But it doesn’t have any room in it for the beingness called man, really.

In the first place there isn’t any such thing as time. One of the easiest ways to do this would be to rig up a time track for – let’s say we’re running twelve dogs. All right, let’s rig up a time track for each one of the twelve dogs and then let them play simultaneously. Rig them up in series. Let’s fix up the time track. We’ll say dog one is going to do this and dog two is going to do that and dog three is going to do that. And we… we go at it on that… on that level in series. One right after the other and then we could just take those time tracks and put them all in… in parallel and… and have them all run off simultaneously and have the dogs act on those postulates simultaneously. And they would do so. But it… that is dictated action and that is a step down from the desirable state of being able simply to dictate the actions of twelve dogs simultaneously.

Here you have an unlimited universe, of force, and debased force, and the solidified results of force, and man and thetans in their small way try to add into it the ingredient of love, of beauty, of appreciation, of fair play. Nothing happens, really, just more force.

Man has gotten to a point of concentration, or the thetan who has come down here and the thetans out in the universe are actually at a point of concentration which is appalling. Uh… they think they can only do one thing at a time. Some people have got this so bad, they think they can only listen and look and so on. You want to make a test out of a preclear, have him look out the window and… and… and… and start figuring out which one he is doing.

So don’t go moaning and moping around and saying, „There is no goal for this universe,“ and don’t go moping around ‘n saying „Nobody appreciates what I’m doing“ because the truth of the matter is this universe is too strong and too forceful and too powerful from the standpoint of MEST force, to permit it to happen.

He… he gets pretty groggy, you say, „All right, now le… let’s… let’s look. All right, now you’re looking? Okay, now, as you look, listen. Now as you listen, feel the weight on your feet. Now as you feel the weight on your feet, feel your heart beating,“ and about that time you will see him start reeling. You’ve asked him to come off of some terrific point of concentration that he is fixated on by aberration, and he reacts to this by uh… becoming unbalanced and unstable just in its most literal sense. I mean he physically becomes failed in his balance and stability.

The only thing which you see out here in this universe that is worth seeing, is what you and people like you have put into it to perceive back. And if you have ever counted the number of beautiful cities which have gone by the boards here on this earth, and which are no more, the hopes with which they were built, and the ardures and depths of their fall, and the plight and agony of their final days, you would no longer sit around and worry about „Let’s make this a good universe.“ That’s how you got trapped into it in the first place. Trying to make this thing a good universe. You’ve got lots of universes, and you can make one of your own. We’re not worried about it any further than that. Lots of them.

That’s because you’re asking him to do more than one thing at once and he knows very, very well it’s utterly impossible to do more than one thing at once. Well, of course a fellow couldn’t run a universe of his own without introducing some factor of automaticity.

Theta’s greatest potentialities happen to be the ability to agree, which makes for groups. The ability to have an affinity, to love and appreciate, and to feel sensation. And that is affinity. And the ability to communicate. And that’s communication. And the communications which are here in this universe are done through MEST. And these three manifestations are in action in this universe, in the form of MEST. But it is theta, handling MEST in a peculiar way, that gives us ARC. And the MEST handles to give us three conditions of energy, which become Affinity, Reality, Communication.

He starts a planet going around and he says, „This planet hereinafter shall go around. Here it goes.“ Or he builds a wood and he said, „Now this wood is now inhabited by… by gophers and uh… rabbits and uh… people from Fairhope, Alabama, so that the squirrels will have something to eat.“ And uh… then he… he just walks off more or less and leaves it with a confidence that it will continue to run.

The characteristic of the energy, whether it exists in terms of a flow, a dispersal or a ridge, determine the degree of affinity. Now affinity means essentially in this universe „To stick to“. „To hold together or not to hold together.“ Above that level it does not need to have energy. And simply exists as what you might call love. It doesn’t have to have energy. But when it moves down into this universe, or is worked in this universe, or perhaps one that you would participate in, you would have, then, a manifestation for its various phases. And it could go through three phases, three characteristic actions in energy.

Well, that is entering into the first stages of automaticity and only becomes bad when he starts to play this game, and this game is one that spins in very quick. He says… he comes back the next day and he starts pretending for his own interest and enthusiasm, „Isn’t this a nice wood, I wonder who made it?“ He… he feels that he has to do this. The second that he starts splitting up and saying to himself, „I didn’t do it,“ he’s got a piece of woods for randomity, and all you have to do to produce randomity is to fail to take responsibility for something. If you’ll just refuse to take the responsibility for having done something or just deny having done something you’re going to get randomity. And the end of that curve is lots of randomity.

When I’m talking then about affinity on the broad theta level, I’m not necessarily talking about… about theta at all. I’m talking about the manifestation of theta in energy in this universe. You see? Get the difference of that. ‘Cause affinity can exist without energy. But when it gets into an energy form it exists in three levels. Flows, dispersals and ridges. And those three conditions make what we call sensations and emotions. And we have our full scale of emotion, from apathy at the bottom to serenity at the top, runs immediately below serenity… and by the way, there are other manifestations than serenity up there in theta. But immediately from below serenity, right on down to the apathy of matter itself, are these gradient… these harmonics.

The end of that track after a long time – it can get pretty low. It can get down to politicians, and squirrels, that’s pretty, pretty bad off. Now very often a fellow is persuaded that he is setting himself up as an automatic piece of machinery when he’s just being himself. He’s just going on a reverse on this deal. He’s not self-conscious.

There’s flows up near the top, and dispersals and ridges up near the top. Then as we come on down the line we find out that there are flows, dispersals and ridges, and we finally get into the bracket that we can know very well and easily as homo sapiens, which is to say the flow of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a flow. That is energy going from one point to another point; that’s enthusiasm. And it’s a… a characteristic flow.

Uh… he all of a sudden just enters into doing what he is doing and he simply goes on doing it and then he says, „Look, this is so good, this is so good; there’s no time lapse there of my saying, „Now you do this and now you do that and now you do something or other“.“ Tha… that’s so good, it’s so fast, it’s so convincing to him that he doesn’t recognize that that is action. That’s action, the other is automaticity being played across two or three circuits.

And the next point down from enthusiasm is uh… there’s a 3.5, somewhat a dispersal, right in that area there, a fellow is sort of tracking back from enthusiasm. He just doesn’t quite like enthusiasm. And then there’s conservatism, which is „Hold that line“. And that’s a ridge. Now we go down below that again, and we’ll find below conservatism there’s actually a uh… little dispersal, and then there is the… a f… a f… pardon me… a little flow, and there’s a dispersal. But the most important dispersal in that point, as you know very well, is boredom. Scattered attention, idle, scattered, attention.

Here’s this fellow all set up. He’s got a lot of circuits and one… one of his circuits is to be able to drive a bus. And he goes up and down the bus route, back and forth on the bus route, back and forth on the bus route, back and forth on the bus route. He knows he’s driving a bus. His circuit responses actually are… are minimal. You’d think they’d… they’d be terrific but are… they’re actually minimal. He… he knows he’s sitting there driving a bus.

Now we’ll have to go below that. You see, man hasn’t even vaguely named the number of sensations that exist between 4.0 and 0.0, which is a bad… is bad communication, then. There are a whole lot of emotions that lie in there. And uh… you get down to another flow. And that is antagonism. And then you get down to the most prominent ridge… yes, antagonism is an outward flow from somebody. He’s being antagonistic and it’s a certain characteristic of a wave.

It’s only when one day he would say, „All right now this body’s going to sit here and drive this bus automatically and I’m not going to have to pay any more attention to it.“ Or uh… he sits there driving the bus and dreaming he’s someplace else and thinking about something else.

The wave characteristic you see in each case is different. But it’s the same kind of energy, a characteristic of it. So anger is a ridge. Now we go down below anger as a ridge, and we find the next prominent emotion is really prominent emotion… is fear. And fear is a dispersal. You could actually get somebody to say when was the last time you were afraid, and watch that E-Meter just start to climb right on off the top of the scale. You… y… he wanted to be somewhere else. That was… that’s a characteristic of that. Dispersal. Anywhere else. Not flow to some other place, but a real fear is be anyplace else. Which is a dispersal.

There he’s removed himself from the environment and he is setting it up with automaticity in order to secure his own freedom. That’s the wrong way to secure a freedom; what’s he doing driving a bus in the first place? Now when you have… when you have a problem then with a preclear who is doing mock-ups and the… the preclear says to you, uh… „Oh look uh… yeah yeah, I get that black spot all right but there is a green banshee keeps wailing every time I get that and isn’t that cute? Look at there forty-five, uh… forty-five tires just rolled in the room and saluted and uh… aren’t… aren’t they cute, and uh… yeah that’s very funny. And uh… this building you just said to mock up, it is now waltzing.“ You are looking at an automaticity.

And now we go downscale from that, and we find our next ridge. Some people think it might be a flow. But that’s only the tears. The ridge is grief, and it is this little effort to try to hold on to at least the memory of what one had but doesn’t have now. And down below that, we get another flow and another dispersal, and another flow, and apathy.

The fellow has a terrific desire not to be responsible for what he himself creates. And that terrific desire reflects itself in creative processing in a randomity in the objects created. He… you say, „Mock up your body.“ You want to watch this, by the way, very closely, and understand what this is, because it’s something that you must not tolerate but must work toward the end of actually controlling the created object, and if you’ve got a vast amount of automaticity going on in the created scene, work to get it out. Increase and decrease the action in that scene, and change the location and set-up of that scene until you’re no longer confronted with this… this random action, this automaticity. Things happening without, apparently without his consent. The actuality is, they are happening exactly with his consent because he consented on some other by-line, some other past, and it’s arriving there at center with the scene all out of adjustment. Now you’ll say to some fellow, „M… mock up your body.“ You say, „All right.“ You say, „Put it out in the street. And put it back here.“

Uh… that whole scale makes up out of just that… those… those three characteristics. And we have named some of them. We… some of them are named. But the bulk of them are not named. And they’re actually emotional sensations which would be found to be various manifestations of experience, which man experiences, but doesn’t much bother to name. He knows that. He knows the feeling of „Just before you get scared.“ That’s a flow. Or he knows the feeling of „Just after you have been afraid.“ You know, the „(pant, pant)“. He knows those feelings. Well, he calls that relief, but shucks, there’s relief from pain, there’s relief from all sorts of things.

And then he says, „Okay, okay, okay, fine, yes, that’s right, another place, oh yes, fine. That’s…“

Now there is a peculiar ridge, up at about 1.8… pardon me… dispersal. Up at about 1.8, just above the ridge of anger. And it’s a little ridge there called pain. It’s an emotion. It’s a sensation. Now it has harmonics, all the way up, and way up above the level it has „exquisite pain“, is up at about 6 or 8, or something like that. And you’ll find people fooling around with this once in a while on the track. It is to production of a very fine pain, that is, uh… they consider quite a sensation.

And you… you think he’s going right on with this. Uh… you ask him what the body’s doing when it gets out on the street.

Now actually, in your lifetime, you’ve fooled around with a very fine pain. It kind of „hurts so good“, uh… and so on. These are various manifestations of these characteristics known as affinity.

„Oh,“ he says, „it’s standing there twirling an umbrella. Uh… now it’s playing hopscotch, yes, I have it back here now,“ he said. „But when it got back here, it was wearing a plug hat. It had suddenly changed its overshoes, changes into Momma, changes into a green elephant, and changes back to the body again. Then it does a jig.“ And he says, „Yes, I have the body here. That’s fine.“

Sympathy is one. Sympathy is a co-flow. I mean, it’s… it’s a sort of a… a… a co-beingness. And that sort of thing. But one individual goes on to the wave length of another individual, and he flows the same wave length back and forth on it. The fellow’s hurt, so the fellow says „You poor fellow.“ Now this is an… actually a mockery of a higher manifestation of theta. On high on the wave… uh… on the tone scale, an individual says „Oh, you hurt? Well, what’s your wave length? We’ll patch it up.“ And it gets patched up!

And now you say, „Put it up on the roof.“ And uh… he hasn’t told you it’s doing anything, but if you had asked him, you’d lave found the moment it hit the roof, the body started making little paper airplanes, and… and throwing them out into the street. Well, this is automaticity.

But down in the sympathy level, all they do is take the fellow’s wave length and find out what it was and then say „You poor fellow, you’re so tired,“ and put him into the automaticity thing, and „We’ve got to wait on you.“ And then they really make that stick; they can cut him down to no speed at all, then. See, it’s used as a control operation, as most things below 2 are. Now you get that then.

This is action outside the control of the individual. I suppose that really is the definition of automaticity. Desire to have action outside the control of self, even though one has initiated the action.

We have a characteristic whether a thing is a flow, whether it is a dispersal, or a ridge. And that determines the emotion or sensation. We haven’t said anything yet about its wave characteristic.

Automaticity is a principle with which randomity is produced but if automaticity comes up to such a point as to be uncontrollable, an individual finds himself extremely uh… perplexed after a while because he’s set up so many circuits he don’t know who he is any more. Well, he is the fellow that can make the automaticity increase and decrease in those images.

Now we have communication. And we’ll have to draw a picture of this so that you can see it somewhat, but let’s draw the tone scale on its side, here. 40.0, 20.0, and 0.0. And let’s draw this… this tone scale on its side. Now, we know that the… the flow… actually, it’s flow, dispersal, flow, ridge, flow, dispersal, flow, ridge, if you want to be very technical about it. And here it’d be flow, dispersal, uh… flow, ridge, flow, dispersal, flow, ridge – pretty, huh? Well, it goes right on down scale like that. That… that would be the… be what we’ve just been talking about, here. And that would continue right on down. Each one of these characteristics, except that we’re really… I haven’t got this quite as exaggerated as it should be. We get flow, dispersal, flow, ridge, flow, dispersal, flow… that’s matter! You get the idea here? See, we’re going down, very light, on down the line. And that would be A, for affinity. We call this e… emotion.

Body lands out on the street and starts twirling an umbrella. You say, „All right. What’s the body doing out there.“

And uh… now, let’s take the… we have to do another trick here, to get communication. Communication is actually the wave band. And… and communication as a wave band doesn’t sit the way that 0040.0 sits. It’s a rather complex thing, not entirely worked out at this moment, but it does sit this way.

He says, „Well it’s just standing there twirling an umbrella and so forth.“ And you say, „Did you start it twirling the umbrella?“ And he says, „No.“

We have here uh… communication would be for instance high band… heavy band… and it would sit at any one of these places the same way. It could sit up here at 40.0 the same way. See, there’s no difference between these, I’m just trying to draw them more or less similar. Same difference, see?

„Well, make it twirl the umbrella faster. Now make it… twirl it slower. Now make it… twirl it much faster.“

I mean, if we were to turn this tone scale on edge here, we would again find 40.0, 20.0, 0.0; we’d still have this coming out here, and the same… same difference. That’s how theta gets tacked on to any of this. Because this area in here is the no-wave of theta. And this area up here is no-wave of theta. It’s not tacked on this way, see, to the no-wave of theta, it’s tacked on this way.

And he’ll say by this time, „Well, it’s put the umbrella away by now, and uh… it’s… it’s put on some skates and it’s skating.“

Now this could match theta. It’s uh… so close to 1 over infinity a wave when we get out here, to point X… point X in each case; it’s so close to uh… an infinity wave, uh… that uh… for all intents and purposes it has no wave. Now down here would be the heaviest, grossest waves. You might take uh… I don’t know, there’s… guess there’s some kind of electronic waves that are big, heavy… what’s the heaviest electronic wave? Solid one. I don’t know, they’ve been uh… we aren’t down at the bottom of the band yet, though, by the way. That’s amusing. There are heavier force waves below where we’re operating than anybody is operating with.

Well, you better start in with the simplest geometric forms, if that sort of thing happens. Simplest geometric forms, geometric form one, of course, is a point, geometric form two is a small circle or a disc. Three is a square, four is a triangle, any… any one of these little… little figures. And have the fellow take that and put it up someplace, or back someplace, or under, around and so forth, until he can hold it still. And uh… till he can hold it still and then move it at will. Hold it still and move it at will, hold it still and move it at will. All of a sudden he’ll say, „What do you know, I can – I can control these gimmicks which I create!“ And he’ll take a considerable jump up the tone scale at that moment.

But we’ll take just one little sector in here, and let’s take… let’s take this little sector here, we’ll find out that this is the photon band.

Now another effect of automaticity is that the individual has a developed disability in order to have something done for him. Now you’re just looking right straight at the service facsimile chain there. He’s… it always has to go this way. I… he has to tell himself, „All right, I can’t do this,“ so he can do something else. In other words, he says, „Now“ – he’s… he’s… he’s tired of this set-up and instead of saying… instead of saying… saying, „Well, the devil with it!“ Or blowing it up or something like that, he wants it to continue in some fashion, so he says, „Well, I’m incapable of taking care of this segment of it. And uh… therefore we’ll set that up sort of on an automatic circuit.“ Anytime anything is done for one, there is an incapability demonstrated by the individual. Look at modern advertising. Save yourself a hundred and ninety steps a minute. Use Squirrello straight from our laboratories in Colorado Springs, an electric shock in every package.“

That’s light. Down in here some place, is a radar band. Now, you take uh… I don’t know what the wave lengths of light are offhand, I’d say about .503 centimeters, something like that. Long would be the wave length of uh… light, middle band light. Somewhere in there. But it’s point-many-many – several-zeros, uh… 3. I think ultraviolet’s about point-six-zero’s, if I remember rightly, 3 centimeters. There’s that little infinitesimal distance between each wave point. See, between here and here.

Uh… you know very well that you couldn’t possibly be able to exist without a whumpacator, a tumpapator, uh… a little handy jim dandy can opener, you know you couldn’t exist without these things. Well, stop and look at it for a minute. You can exist without them.

All right, here’s your waves. But your wave could be smaller and smaller as it gets up here. Now, down… down this level, down here, you’ve got the heavy band, that’s the effort. Now really, this band up here would be something on the order of the emotion band. See we’ve been doing it just a little bit wrong, in not drawing it properly. And you use this wave length for human emotion, or something on that order.

„Yes,“ you say, „well, I can. All right, I can do without a can opener. I can sort of bite them open with my teeth.“

And way up here at the top is aesthetics. That goes up, clear on up, to point-twenty-five-zero’s 2 centimeters. Oh, boy, that’s… th… that’s a t… hmmm! Very tiny wave length. It’s so tiny that it just fits right on in to about one over infinity. Now there are a lot of empirical data turned up to confirm this. Uh… it was demonstrated that theta has no wave length, and if you worked out this and that and so on, if you could work up here in the aesthetic band when you weren’t working in any other band you’d produce higher results. And all sort of things happened.

„What the hell are you doing with a tin can?“ He’ll say, „Well, you have a tin can so you’ll be able to eat.“ You say, „What the dickens are you doing eating.“ The fellow says, „Well, uh… you got to keep the body going.“ „What are you doing with a body, fellow?“

And we found out that the effort band depended wholly upon interest or aesthetic to exist. Of… only reason a fellow would hold on to the effort wave lengths and bands, and ardures, and pain, and all the rest of the thing, is because he thought he might have something afterwards. He wasn’t holding on to beingnesses just blindly, uh, he actually thought that there might be some interest in life to pull him on along the line. When all of his interest or aesthetic in life was gone, he was gone.

„Well, you… you have a uh… well I couldn’t get along without a body. I… I tried it the other day, this theta clearing and stuff and I didn’t have enough force in order to push things around or… or… or do anything. I… I… I just didn’t.“

Well this is a crude way of demonstrating it, and is not even… not even uh… completely accurate there, ‘cause you have a two-dimensional graph. But it gives you an idea of what we’re talking about.

You say, „What are you doing without force, fellow? Huh?“ And he says, „Why, I don’t know. That’s right. I don’t know.“

Then it says that at 20.0 you could have a wave length of… of… you could have a wave length of aesthetics; you could have a wave length of effort; you could have a wave length of light; you could have a wave length of sound; and all of these things would be at 20.0.

How the dickens did he get into such a state that he can’t produce a kilowatt. I mean all you’re asking the fellow is to produce is one lousy stinking little kilowatt of energy and direct it. That’s all you’re asking of him. And jus… can he do it? No. You… you say, „Well, all right, how about pulling the electric light line down there and there’s only 110 volts on it and uh… shorting it with a wire so it will crackle and go spit.“

Now it so happens that as one descends the tone scale, and these flows here, emotion, get heavier… I mean, that’s volume. Get the idea? And it also is… depends upon contracting space. How much space you’ve got. You go down tone scale, we go from… from lots of space, to no space. Now what… what’s that wave length doing? I mean, how much space is the wave length operating in. It’s operating in less and less space, so apparently your volume of energy is getting more and more and more, you see?

No, no, no he doesn’t want anything to do with that. Why doesn’t he want anything to do with it? Well automaticity a long time ago said, „It’s better to have something else produce force for me than me to produce the force, because it’s more fun that way.“ It’s not more fun that way, but it’s a better operational control that way for somebody else.

You could have a light which is going at wave length X. It’s going at wave length X, and that’s just a certain wave length of light, and now we hook up some new machinery on to this thing, and put a lot of new batteries in it, and we really soup the juice to this light – we would do it, by the way, by contracting the space of the filaments – we would just soup the juice up in this light, zong zong zong, and it’s travelling what? at the same wave length, but it’s actually gone down tone scale.

I can just see somebody from Batten, Barton, Durstein and Osburne now, walking into your home universe saying, „Now, what you need… what you need is a little more automaticity. We’ve got a couple of boys and uh… they’ve drawn up this little operating schedule here and uh… all you have to do… all you have to do is… is just set up this little dynamo and it makes all this force over on this side, and then you don’t have to make the force anymore.“

Now we’ll soup the juice up and contract the space some more, volume per unit of space, we’ll soup the juice up some more; actually the light’s gone on down tone scale again. And let’s soup this… it hasn’t changed in wave length. Wave length has not shifted or altered. It’s just going on down tone scale, because there’s more energy per unit space. And if you try to maintain the same number of unit spaces, boy, do you have to pack in the energy! And what do you get at the bottom of it? Boy, you’ll get a busted piece of MEST! That would be the end product. Or you’d just get solid matter or you would actually have a light beam that was going out there, and which somebody could lean on! And it’d just push over. That’s right!

Now the fellow who said… it possibly never occurred to somebody, such as the wantingness of a thetan… probably never occurred to him to say, „Now wait a minute. Why do I want something to make force for me? I’m just getting along just fine.“ It probably never occurred to him that, he said… he probably said, „Well, that’s cute, that’s interesting.“ That’s all set. There’s no difference between that theoretical and highly postulated operation – BBDO doesn’t operate in the theta universe. Yes, there’s a fellow by the name of, well, I won’t go on about that, they… they burn coal down there anyway.

Now, cathode ray tubes, they… they get one stream of light as’d be deflecting against other streams of light, and you can get the most interesting interplays of making streams of light lean against streams of light, or streams of magnetism lean against streams of light, and all sort of things like this. But in order to produce a real good effect, if you… you’d s… have to step up the magnetism until the light has to hit something to go around it. In other words you contract the amount of space for the amount of power. And that… that’s a bad use of the word power, per… per energy unit.

Uh… here we have… here we have one of the most marvelous operations, „You look tired. Let me take your slippers and uh… you just sit there and read your paper. Oh the work was hard today, was it?“ Automaticity in another guise at another position on the tone scale. These people that go around and say to you, „Poor fellow you look so tired.“ If you can’t furnish a kilowatt, you’d better learn how so that you can zap him, because he’s trying to kill you and cut down your horse power. That’s it. I mean he isn’t just doing this out of uh… sheer stupidity or something of the sort; he isn’t doing it out of automatic circuits. Actually lurking right back that in the level of knowingness is, „How can we get this guy quieted down?“

You see how that would be? And the final product down here is completely contracted space, or practically completely contracted space, and it’d be a very heavy metal. But up the line a little bit further if you were working on… on matter, and matter is below our 0.0 scale, we just contact it in preclears as apathy, and boy, it’s as gluey as any matter you ever want to run into!

„You look so tired, you poor fellow, you are overworked – what you need is a rest.“ Tell a fellow that often enough and he’s all set.

Uh… you come on up tone scale and you’ve got space, and you… you… before you get to that level you have the… you have such light things as hydrogen. That is below apathy. But It’s running on certain vibrations, and certain uh… matter, and in certain spaces, and that’s what your matter band would be.

Now, you’ll find every once in a while somebody DOES need a rest. Every once in a while somebody’s worked himself to a sizzled frazzle, and uh… he’s all set. Let him go someplace and take a rest. You’ll have to. Automaticity is mounted up on him to a point where the best and easiest way to combat it is to actually give him a rest, but that is long after the first germs were planted.

All right, that tells you, too, that at various points on this tone scale you might get aesthetics suddenly cutting in. Suddenly. You have an aesthetic automobile. Well that’s a heck of a place for the aesthetic band to suddenly appear, isn’t it. There’s actually a combination of wave lengths and wave forms, and so on, that give you a very tiny vibration that’s quite attractive to a thetan. And he’ll buy one. He’ll sell his time, which is to say his havingness, in one department, to pick up his havingness in another department to get that automobile. Because it’s got the aesthetic band run in on matter.

Here’s this fellow. Let’s take the young playwright. He’s… he’s maybe twenty-two, he’s writing plays like mad. After he writes them why he goes around and he has a… a whale of a time, and… and uh… figured it all out this way and that, and getting a producer, and he… he’s around the parties, and he’s doing this and he’s doing that and squaring things around, and finally the production gets on and geez, he’s half the cast too. He’s working day and night continually continually and… and that he… that play goes over and he gets another play. And he’s got that one and he’s sitting up all night long, writing that one. He’s going out on a party and… and… and so forth, and making contacts with people, and he’s coming back in and he’s making contacts with his business agent. And he’s work, work, work, and that telephone is ringing and he’s writing with his left hand, he’s… he’s just going like a rocket!

Now let’s take 20.0, action. And let’s take… let’s take a bunch of fellows who are having a… oh, they’re… they’re real tough, and they’re crude and uh… and they’re uh… they wear long scraggly mustaches, and they’re dirty, and they smell foul, and… and so forth, they’re still running at 20.0. But uh… their aesthetic isn’t there. And now let’s take a fellow, a lot of fellows running at 20.0 and they’re… they’re very neat, and they’re travelling like hell, and they keep their equipment in good shape, and… and uh… so forth, and there’s an aesthetic goes along with them too, completely aside from their orderliness. A real aesthetic. And they’re uh… just for no good reason at all, uh… their armbands and so forth, and uh… other bric-a-brac and items which they are wearing are pretty. See, you don’t have to have a reason for anything to be aesthetic. It just is.

How long could he go like a rocket without blowing up? Well, nobody’s ever given anybody a chance to find out. They DON’T blow up because they’re working hard and using energy. They do not do that! Let me emphasize that, because you want to know what to do for the tired business man who is facing a nervous breakdown, it’s contained right in this process. And you’ll find plenty of those. What’s he… what happened?

But uh… higher uh… order of approach, the less energy you’ll find such beings using to produce more results, the more aesthetic they are. You see? The infantry is always dirtier than the cavalry. The cavalry has a little higher level of aesthetic because it rides to war, doesn’t use quite as much effort. But the cavalry’ll go downhill and become awfully enMESTed awfully fast. Well-known disorganization of cavalry. All right. That’s a principle in war!

Well, he was twenty-two and he was twenty-three and he was twenty – four and he was just doing fine. Then all of a sudden you find out that he slowed down. He had to protect himself. He thought he had to take care of himself and do a little bit better. Find the character who slowed him down, because he didn’t slow himself down.

Now, we have then, down here at 4.0, we have the fellow who is enthusiastic about his slot-machine business. He’s still enthusiastic. But then we have the fellow who is enthusiastic about something aesthetic. He’s still enthusiastic. He is giving this manifestation of a heavy band flow, on an aesthetic level. What is the quality of the wave, and what is the volume of the wave, are two different things. The quality of the wave and the volume of the wave.

Now you could say, „Sure he went through a failure and he went this way and he went that way, and there were lots of reasons for it.“ Oh, no, there weren’t any reasons for it. A guy can ride over forty thousand failures and come up shining, put the machine guns on the parapet and go back to work, unless there’s somebody there. Some serpent in the garden of Eden who is ready to twine around his neck and choke him to death with this clawing statement, „Dear, you’re working so hard, let’s take a rest, shall we? What you need is a little vacation. Oh, you’ve just had a failure? Well let’s get away from it all now, and why don’t you just forget it for a week or two and have a little rest and it will be all right, and you’ll be able to come back fresh and shiny.“ Phoohy.

Now we’re dealing with all these various characteristics of waves, and we’re finding out, then, that a fellow at enthusiasm is pretty easy to work. But a fellow at conservatism isn’t. Why? The fellow at conservatism is actually specializing in a certain kind of ridge. And a ridge doesn’t flow. So you get your fellow at conservatism, you’ve got to go right into the need of pulling a ridge. Or find something he can get enthusiastic about, or something he can get afraid of. In order to get a dispersal or a flow, be… in order to blow down ridges. You see how that is?

What do you do? Why do you locate this character? Why do you locate automaticity number one for current life? So that you can take this person and start handling this person with mock-ups very adequately until the person of this person seems to be so easily handled that one does not afterwards have to do anything… have to do anything that person said. How do you bust out every engram momma ever laid in? Work the preclear up with mock-ups until he can chuck momma uh… the length and breadth of the city. Use her for a football, roll her up into a hedge hog, and… and fire her from cannon balls and then also be very nice to her and put capes and create things for her, and put her in big palaces, and… and blow them up and uh… so on. But you’ll find out that somebody entered into his life, this young playwright’s life theoretically, who wanted to tell him just one thing, „I want to eat you and I can’t do it right now because you’re running too fast for me. But in view of the fact that we’re very, very low tone scale we can get you running slower, we’ll be all right.“

So every time you hit one of these bands that has a ridge, you have the anger person, the conservative person, the person in grief or the person in apathy, you know by experience as auditors that they’re your… they’re your terribly… terrible cases. You say, „Oh, no! Don’t give me another one of those apathy cases! I ain’t… you know…“ and you… you hear them talking around here. You say „Oh, he’s one of those apathy cases,“ or „He’s a typical anger case.“ You don’t much talk about fear cases. One in a while you’ll talk about a dispersal case, because you can’t get this preclear near any engram.

Homo sapiens hardly has a chance, he’s glued down to a gravity field which is very heavy and he can’t get up to speed. The fastest acting fellow you ever knew is operating at maybe a hundredth or even a thousandth of what would be considered a normal speed in space. It’s real slow.

But uh… the rest of the cases don’t worry you. Why don’t they worry you? Because they’ve got flows to work with. And the guy flows this way, and flows that way, and some other way, and the ridges go down, and he changes in tone. But whenever you have a case that is sitting on a ridge, you’ll find out that you have to somehow or other mock up or find or do something with a flow, to get him off the ridge. That should tell you how to process your conservative case, and your anger case, and your grief case, and your apathy case. Find something they can flow on. Run flows. Something they can flow on.

I mean homo sapiens reminds you of the fellow, the diver walking in the bottom of the seas, slow motion against the water. It’s just almost agony to look at him. You wonder, „My God he’s walking down the street!“ You see some guy in one of these go-getters walking down the street. Evidently his feet are going chop chop chop chop chop. No they’re not.

They are just as happy as could be, by the way, to put a mock-up out there and leave it. Sure they can get real persistence. They can hold two facsimiles apart until they explode. Those people can do all sort of things, particularly the guy at anger. He delights in holding two facsimiles apart until they explode! Sure, he can do that all day.

You say, „After he’s picked that foot up is he ever going to set it down again?“ You know, you just watch this slow agonizing… this fellow thinks he’s walking, he thinks he’s moving in some direction or other. And you watch him pick that foot up. Now you watch the foot go through. And you hear the joints creak and so forth. And he gets over to the midpoint of the stride, and then it goes down again, slowly, slowly and about that time he shifts the weight of his body and he gets the other foot starting to come up and you say, „Oh, Christ! How is anybody ever going to get there that way?“

You get your fear case: „Well all right, hold these two facsimiles apart until they explode.“

It’s like… like all the pavements are made out of glue. Automaticity got to them, they’re running slow and it is a speed level which is very dangerous. The fastest that homo sapiens moves is a speed level below the point of high danger. It just can’t move that slow and live. And homo sapiens doesn’t live – three score and ten.

„I don’t know, they keep coming together!“ Smack! Smack! Person can’t stabilize anything. The person in fear does a jiggle, jiggle, jump, jump, on the uh… automaticity. So you get these various actions here, of flow characteristics.

All right, now that’s like the… a snap of your fingers is in the… in the length of eternity. It’s not even that. Let’s see, I guess it would be an infinitesimally small instant, or an infinitesimally small part of the length of time necessary to snap one’s fingers. Yes.

All right, and we got this aesthetic band, now, we’ve got light, and all of the perceptions are on this band. These are then called what? They are called perception bands. Sound, sight, perception. Sound, sight, heat, cold, electrical, every perception your MEST body’s got, plus about eight thousand more, are locatable on this band. On… anywhere on the wave length.

All right. Automaticity, how do you recognize it, what do you do about it, and how does it apply to processing? Homo sapiens, your preclear, he’s running slow. Lot of people… lot of people say, „Well, all right I’m out of the body, I stay out of there stably, what do I do now?“ Well, they… it’s something like… something like taking a quarter horse out there and you finally got this quarter horse so that he can lounge over to the other side of the stall. And say, „Now we have fully rehabilitated this quarter horse, let’s go and find something else to do.“ Yeah, he can… he can cross his legs and lounge over against the other side of the stall so you think he’s fully fast enough and active enough to be a quarter horse.

And what determines the kind of perception you have is the wave length of the perception. That’s all. That’s all. And the… depends to rehabilitate the perception, your thetan is active at one or another parts of the band, and not active at other parts of this perception band, and he’s at the same position on the tone scale. And it should strike you as rather interesting.

When you get him up to the highest point that you possibly think that anybody could get up to in terms of speed, thought, ability, ability to move, reaction time, and ability to create energy, realize that you are just about at that point looking at the lowest safest level he could be at if nothing else ever happened to him to shake him up. You’re scraping bottom then. Now let’s get him up to speed from there. Just take the uttermost super limit that you can think of in terms of speed and action and consider that as below what is a safe margin, operating margin.

It’s anyplace, then, anyplace then on that band, he’s got perception. So what’s… what’s communication? Per… communication isn’t talking, or hearing, communication is perception, and communication is energy, in this universe. To rehabilitate good communication you’ve got to rehabilitate energy. Now you can talk around this MEST universe, and somehow or other MISS all of this perception line, but your guy’s going to be deaf in one department or another. He’s not going to see quite as well as he might, or he’s going to have a little bit of trouble feeling something or other, or uh… so on. He’s… he’s blind, deaf, dumb, something, on one of these perception bands.

And the way you handle this is to knock out all the automaticity.

Boy, nail that fact down, will you? Communication is perception. Very secondarily talk and ideas. Fact, thetans can handle ideas. You don’t have to process that too much. Although there’s a cycle of ideas, of increase and decrease of thinkingness, that is a honey of a process. Get a guy thinking about one thing, then tell him to increase it, now decrease it, now stop thinking about it. And he’ll say „Nnyyaaooow!“

It seems to be to you, that if you could get your preclear to do everything automatically he would then and there – everything automatically he would be then and there be in the first best possible method of training. He would be trained.

But you’re dealing here, then, primarily, in perception with energy. And you get your thetan outside, and you say… you say „All right, how do things look to you?“

This goes to such an idiocy that they actually, mind you, the planet Earth where they train athletes. They get fellows out there and they get them pushing things around with their shoulders to play football and they get… get them trotting around tracks in short pants, and if they smoke a cigarette, that’s – no no no no. That’s a lot of hog wash. It was brought in here from Sweden – a new method of slowing people down.

„Yeah everything’s all green and pink, and I’ve got the sky… and I… I don’t know what I’m looking at. I don’t think I’m even outside, I can’t see.“

What do you build up with all those things? You build up this very glorious lot of new facsimiles which pass for muscles. If you ever want to see the ultimate in training just take a look at one of these boys that has built up all these muscles with barbells. He… he’s really wonderful. He hasn’t got any sphere or motion, action, anything else of the kind that he ought to have. Why? He’s done nothing but build up facsimiles in the exact spots that he ought to build the facsimiles up in. And people have never coordinated this. Why is it when a fellow trains up on barbells he gets unhealthier and unhealthier. He looks, he looks muscular, muscleder and muscleder but he is actually getting less and less able to withstand bacteria or anything else.

Now the time for you to pat him on the hand, and say „Well, that’s right, uh… so and so and so and so, and I wonder how we would get around this, and let’s run out the phrase of your mother saying „I can’t see anything.“ If I had ahold of you in that auditing session I’d shoot you. Because of this – this is too simple, so never miss it: Perception is energy. Perception is energy. Energy is perception. Perception is energy. And the ability of the preclear to handle energy depends upon his ability to perceive, and his ability to perceive depends upon his ability to handle energy. And energy is force. And force is random effort, and effort is directed force, and… force… and if he’s unwilling to smash grandma with an axe he won’t be able to see, believe me.

You go out here one of these football squads sometime if you really want a laugh. My… my God! You’d think you were looking… you’d think you were walking down the ward of a hospital. These guys, these guys are just, they… they… they get more and more delicate. The coach practically goes around and starts feeding them sugar and… and uh… and uh… one of the first things he’d do if you started auditing some of these boys is uh… he’s come in with terrific anxiety. „Don’t break up my quarterback now. Don’t sneeze in here, don’t do anything else, because he’s liable to sprain his back or something of the sort.“

Use of force. Use of force. He has to be able to be free to use force before he can perceive. He has to be able to perceive before he can locate himself well in this universe. Well let’s get that, once and for all, and even though you are terribly timid about the use of force yourself, at the moment you listen to these golden words of wisdom and advice which I’m giving to you, don’t forget it! Because that’s going to be ninety per cent of your trouble in theta clearing. Ninety per cent of it is wrapped up in perception.

You look at them as they go out on the playing field and they’re all taped up, and wrapped up, and strapped up and splinted up until if it… they put this uniform on them after that. And the reason they wear uniforms and so forth is to cover up the bandages. Because all this fellow had to do was open his car door and he practically broke his arm. It’s wonderful; they get them up to a real high level of automaticity.

The fellow gets outside, he says „I can’t see, I don’t know what I’m looking at, I… towards… ffmm… da…“ Or he says „I see, all right, hut it’s another planet.“ Or he says, he says „I… My perceptions are very, very good,“ and so on, uh… and so on, „But, uh… there’s about three-quarters of the room is completely black.“

All right. How do you… how do you cure that? You just uh… handle mock-ups until the fellow can really handle a mock-up. He knows what the mock-up is doing. He can place it where he wants to place it and he doesn’t wait for somebody else to place it there for him.

He… what is… what is missing is his ability to handle force. He doesn’t want to look at anything, he knows what’ll happen if he looks at something, he knows what’ll happen if he moves out into a space all by himself, and… and looks at something. He knows what’ll happen. He’ll get hit right between the eyes, with a… with a… with a Mark Six VM Pistol, or something. Now he knows! He’s done it! He’s got a big engram right there, he keeps right here handy in his hip pocket, that he can take out and look at every once in a while, and says „Look: When you perceive things, you get zapped!“ He… he knows. That lesson he learned, fast!

Now there is a level of automaticity where you can get further with your preclear if you have him mock up somebody in order to move something around. You can actually go at it that way if you have to. You… you mock up, you mock up a fellow by the name of… of uh… uh… Jones Whiler or something, or Bessie Ann, to go over and push the mock-up around and uh… he’ll get tired of this after a while. And all of a sudden he’ll come to this astonishing realization, he’ll say, „You know I don’t need Bessie Ann.“

So you say „Well now, let’s take a look at the windows.“ And there’s just a little tiny trickle of sunlight over there in the windows, and the trickle of sunlight is leaking into the room, barely perceptible anyway, and you say „Can you locate the window?“

And you’ll say, „No.“

„NO! I can’t locate the windows.“

What we’re working with here is a level of self-sufficiency which is really a little bit out of the imagination of Man. He’s built up things to such an interdependency and he thinks this interdependency is so vital that the fellow who can stand up on his own two feet is looked at like a freak.

Why? Force. It’s energy that you’re asking him to use. And 1f he can’t use energy, he won’t be able to perceive. So the solution to the perception problem is the rehabilitation of the preclear in the handling and use of force. Okay?

What, you mean this fellow doesn’t buy General Food’s products? He doesn’t buy… he doesn’t have to have eighteen uh… hot and cold running bellhops every time he goes in the hotel. He carries his own baggage. He… he… he says, „To the devil, what the devil does the maid keep coming in here for? Uh… the bed’s already made! I’m…“

Also… also, the responsibility happens to be force in this universe too, because objects in this universe are made out of energy. So, if you want to rehabilitate the responsibility of the preclear, you’ve got to rehabilitate his ability to handle force. What are we talking about? We’re talking about ARC. We’re talking about space and energy. We’re talking about livingness and beingness. We’re talking about space. We’re talking about beingness. And if a fellow’s space is packed so full of inaccessible energy, he can’t possibly get to any of it, you’re going to have a bad time with him.

„Got up when they come in,“ he says.

So we’ve got to have… we’ve got to have a complete ability to use force in all directions before we get a… the completest ability to perceive. It goes by geometric progression. It goes slow at first, and then faster and faster. But if you’re on the line of rehabilitation of the use of force, you’re on the main track. And everything else in this universe is subsidiary thereunto.

They say, „What’s the matter with you? I mean uh…“ They kind of look at you. They say, „Well, he… he made his own bed, humm. Huh.“ That’s bad you understand, that’s real bad.

When you’ve mastered this universe utterly, you’ll never afterwards have any doubt about your ability to make a universe. So you’d better learn how to master. ‘Cause if a fellow’s down on his ability to use force, believe me he won’t even look at it.

Now out in China they have an organizational set-up all through the longshore societies of China which are fascinating to behold. And that is „Pou chea.“ Don’t break your neighbors’ rice bowl.

You see, what’s nice, a thetan’s got a body, and he can look back of the eyes, and anything that’s going to hit those eyes when the Mark Six VM zap-pistol hits the face, he can already disconnect. He has the warning of it hitting the eye first. See, he’s… he’s sort of a fellow standing behind a… a huge barricade of a body. He’s dug in. Uh… he gets a signal before he’s burned. But supposing… supposing he’s in the horrible position of being out in empty space? There’s no warning. So he has to be uh… be uh… able to withstand energy. Otherwise he’s never going to look.

When I was a little… when I was a kid out there I used to look at this and I’d say, „Oh, no, things just can’t be this bad. Don’t break your neighbors’ rice bowl.“ All right, we… how do they go about this?

All right. So we get perception band, tells you that this is communication. Now we get communication… see, you have to have an idea before you communicate. Communication is perception bands in MEST universe. Communication is. Now those are the various sc… scales of it.

All right you… you’re a shipper, you see, and you order a ton of freight to be laid down on uh… on the jingo jetty, and you’re supposed to have this ton of freight laid down on this jetty and it’s just down the river and you’ve got another ship there and it’s going to pick that ton of freight up at that jetty. Well, everything’s all going to go out very smoothly except Pou chea is going to step in your road, and that consists of this: The boys who bring the freight down to the jingo jetty don’t bring it to jingo jetty. They haven’t any vested interest in this at all except they know there’s another longshore crew up river that isn’t working and they have to have work to eat. They know that, they know that so thoroughly that they’re spinning out the bottom as a civilization so darn fast they look like a rocket pointed straight down.

Now this becomes very humorous after a while, by the way, it’s more that you can know about this is, as a guy starts up the line to perceive, his sight’ll go off suddenly. What’s he doing? He’s just hitting those ridges as he goes up scale. He gets on ridges. And he hits areas as he goes up scale, and his perception turns off for a moment, and he gets real upset. And he thinks that’s the most horrible thing. Well the next thing you know it’s flowing like mad. And then it starts to disperse slightly, and then he’s up scale again. And then he’s doing a nice, smooth flow and he says, „Oh, gee, boy! I’m sure glad I got there!“ Bong! And off goes his sight again! Each time it goes off a little bit lighter, and it goes off a little bit lighter, and it’ll go right on up scale.

They take that ton of freight they’re supposed to be hauling for you and they put it up the river a mile and then they walk off. Oh big mistake, big mistake. They… there’s very – they… they couldn’t possibly have done this and uh… they remedy the whole thing, but uh… they can’t move anything on the river. Uh… that’s uh… there’s uh… they know a fellow though, they know this fellow, and uh… this fellow uh… he can get it moved for them. The next thing you know you have to hire another longshore crew in order to take that ton of freight and take it back down the river a mile to jingo jetty.

All right. This leaves, then, the simple ingredient called reality. And boy, is that simple in terms of energy! In terms of energy it is the simplest thing amongst the simplest things amongst the simplest things there could be. It’s which way did he go? Is it flowing out from the preclear? If it is, he’s disagreeing. Is it flowing in to the preclear? He’s agreeing. Agreement would be a superfluity of inflow. Too much inflow is what’s wrong with the guy. He’s become the effect of energy. He agreed and agreed and agreed and even though he told everybody he agreed they still made him agree and they still used force on him. So he agreed and agreed and he agreed some more, and he still agreed, and they still told him; he agreed, and so they used some more force on him, just for variety.

And perhaps if you were standing there with the coppers in your hands or something of the sort, and say you just won’t pay a dime unless it’s laid down on the jingo jetty, the package, the ton of freight will be delivered a mile south of the jingo jetty. And actually they’ll take something like that and they will shift it up the river and down the river and into this sampan and into the wrong boat and over on the wrong side.

So at this time he gets frantic about agreeing, and he says „But I’m agreeing! But I’m agreeing like mad! I’m a conformist to end all conformists!“ And so forth so just for variety’s sake, the MEST universe just uses some more energy on him. It has no valve on it that said „This person has agreed enough.“ The end of that track is „It doesn’t matter what I agree to, I’ll be wrong,“ and the real end of the track is „Well I have no responsibility whatsoever, I’m completely insane.“

You watch your boys… watch your boys unloading a ship of rice, let’s say. The guys, your own crew, will start picking up rice bags and they’ll start over the side with the rice bag and they will go down to the bottom of the gangway. And here are a whole lot of urchins, and beggars, and people down along the docks and they’ll just take and bust a small hole in that: rice bag as they reach the bottom of the gangway. Bust a hole… a small hole in rice bag and pack it across into the warehouse, and of course it’s leaving a track of rice all the way along behind him. Little… little tiny thin trickle of rice, and they’ll stack up that sack and they’ll go back and they’ll get the next sack. And the little kids suddenly burst out of nowhere and so on and they’ve got dust pans, uh… little brooms, something like that. And they’ll sweep up this rice – zzzzzzzz. Don’t break your neighbor’s rice bowl.

So what… your… your agreement levels are flavored by emotion. You see? I mean a fellow can agree, in some form or another, he can agr… agree, but that… that is flavored then by emotion, and he can agree on a certain communication level. He could agree by radio, and not ‘like it a bit.

Never occurs to any of them, you say, „Now look, I don’t want all those rice sacks broken, we’ll just take two rice sacks and sit it over there and all the beggars can have that.“ Oh no. You see it’s… the theory is they have to make work for somebody. They have to make work, and they run it in exact opposites too – they won’t let anybody work that possibly can be restrained from working.

Now the ridges and dispersals are nulls, and upsets, and confusions about agreement and disagreement. Now you get a dispersal right up there above anger, where the terrible-tempered Mr. Bang explodes. He goes Boom! Well, he’s trying to disagree in all directions simultaneously. So the environment explodes back at him. And it… it starts trying to disagree in all directions simultaneously, and it gets a very confused and chaotic picture.

Just walk down off a ship, or walk out of a hotel, or just try and reach down for your hat which you dropped – or… or… God, some of the boys… some of the boys out there, fellow who’d get to be old China hands and so forth, they… they just go to pieces. These fellows will sit down in a chair and actually some of them will go to the extent of separating the thumb and fingers wide enough for a glass to be put in it. N… none of them have their wrists lifted to their mouths. But it’s just about that bad. They are surrounded by service, service, lots of service, big stuff.

So we have, then, the emotional band monitors the character of the flow. And you only really have agreement and disagreement where you have flows. Good orderly agreement and disagreement. When you hit ridges you have nulls, and dispersals you have an… implosions, you have franticnesses of some sort. Agitations, idlenesses, and things like that.

Well, you say immediately, „Why, how could we possibly do without a lot of this service.“ And again we go down and, „Am I expected to bite the tin can open with my teeth?“ What are you doing with a tin can? If you’re going to support a lot of objects which aren’t yours anyhow, you can get into a dwindling spiral on this.

So you get this reality level – really goes out, thunk! Every time you hit a ridge. So what do you get with reality is – a guy comes up tone scale, from 0.0 on up tone scale, he comes up the line, up the line, and all of a sudden he doesn’t believe it. Now you work him for a short time, and he believes it. Everything’s going along fine, and then all of a sudden he gets very frantic about, „Well, is it real, or isn’t it real, or is it real, or… or… I… I’m not sure, uh… so on.“ Just work him a little bit longer, and he’ll just be fine. And then work him just a little bit longer, and he’s saying, „You know, I don’t believe it.“ He just hits this gradient scale with less and less emphasis, as he comes up the tone scale. You can start down here with belief, and then you get into disbelief. And then you get into belief, and then disbelief. And each one becomes lighter. Very interesting, the variation.

You wonder why the rich, and rich families, last about three generations in America at the absolute outside. The great fortunes of America go on that rolly coaster at… on an average with great regularity. That’s because of service. They have, they have, they have and then people make sure that they have. And people make real sure they have. And then one day the third generation is so dead that it couldn’t be moved around with a derrick! Automaticity.

But you get the wave band, the direction of flow, and the characteristic of the energy, whether it’s a flow, a dispersal or a ridge, makes up ARC in this universe. So let’s go over that again. Affinity is emotion – let’s get what these things are. Affinity is emotion, sensation, uh… communication is perception, and uh… communication is perception, and perception of course is wave lengths. Any wave lengths for any position on the tone scale. Communication is energy, and it has to do with perception. And then we get „Which way did he go?“ Out from the preclear, or in, or null.

Well, way up the level we get at automaticity… we get allowable automaticity, which we could say is allowable automaticity. We say, „This operation is going to continue.“ And you’re saying at the same time, „I am continuing this operation.“ Next allowable automaticity is, „We are a… a group of individuals and we have a subdivided uh… set of functions here in order to smooth this out, we will stay by our own functions… divided functions. Not because that is efficient, and not because a specialist should stick to his last…“ this… the whole field of medicine.

Out, in, or null, and we get the level of reality he has on something. And uh… that’s just his degree of agreement with what’s happening.

The only reason… the only reason medicine finally blew up back there in the twentieth century was actually because of specialization. Somebody went in and… and if… if there was a spot on the center of the tonsil and they’ve just gone to a tonsil expert why they had to go to a center of a tonsil expert, and have the spot examined.

So we get these three things in combination and we get out of that the randomity which we call human emotion. Laughingly called human emotion. Boy, it’s really… it… it’s… it’s like a dead snake trying to move. I mean it… it’s way down low. When you get anything that’s as heavy a volume to move around – the guy doesn’t much feel like being happy or being enthusiastic – he’ll just sit. At one place on the tone band with one characteristic using… using one direction of flow, and using one set of the wave lengths, he can see good. He… he knows that, he can see real good with his MEST eyes, and uh… he knows that if you accept things cautiously, you know, he agrees cautiously, inflow, receive caution, and uh… he… he… he uh… knows then, too, that uh… if you’re… well, if you accept things with caution, you’ve got your emotional scale, why he’ll get along. And you come along as an auditor, and you say do this and do that, and do… heh-heh-heh – heh-heh. It’s too much work to change any of those characteristics. And you get at it with mock-up processing, and it works very effectively. Extremely so

Uh’… that thing set in and uh… specialization but here it’s on the very allowable thing to set up spheres of action. Not on the phony excuse that there are people there who are specialized and strangely skilled in these actions, not on that theory at all but just on the theory that we’ve… we’ve’ uh… want to produce some randomity.

Now, let’s look over, then, these three things, affinity, reality and communication, and see how you use them in mock-ups. And we find out that ridges are approximated by brick walls, solid objects, unmoving things. When you’re trying to run ridges or handle ridges, teach him how to handle solid, walling barricades, unmoving things, and so on. That handles ridges.

You’re setting it up on the theory that each person there uh… is segregated into a sphere of action. Not to have things smoother or anything – who wants things smooth? That’s just to produce greater randomity and it becomes unallowable the moment when we say, „The reason we have done this is these people are particularly skilled in these lines and could not handle the other functions.“

Explosions add up to bursts of water, bursts of… of energy of any kind, flares, flash-ups, sudden increases in energy, any kind. And flows add up to something going from one point to another point. So you do mock-ups to handle those things.

When they’ve said he couldn’t handle the other functions we’ve introduced a disability and we’ve said therefore the group has to be served.

I notice I put in here your dispersals hanging in the middle and dispersing at both ends. The funny part of it, there’s actually another… dispersal points, just before you hit the ridge. And you get somebody coming off a ridge he’ll very often BLOW off of a ridge. He’ll BLOW right off a ridge. This is when a guy decides he’ll do a bunk. He shoots out of his head and he’s on his way. He hits the dispersal just adjacent to a ridge.

Automaticity, the group has to be served. Hogwash! That is no reason to go downscale to pick up these excuses. What are you doing it for? It’s fun. That’s all. There isn’t any heavy pressure of necessity on this line.

But uh… remember here that your mock-up is approximating these various bands, and behind every inability to use force. And all of a sudden you’ll find your preclear is unable to use anything that has any sound in it. And he tries to run like mad. You have to rehabilitate his whole perception band. And you give him mock-ups for the whole band of perception that he can reach even vaguely. And you just work on rehabilitating the perceptions alone, however, you won’t get anyplace until you rehabilitate his confidence in force, and his ability to handle force, and his ability to use force. And his confidence in standing up to force. Then the whole band starts solving.

All right, now you… you have in that same strata, the communication of knowledge. Uh… you start in at some low strata like Earth or something like this. Somebody might have a little more experience along in these various lines. You’re trying to dig out of something – get back through.

And you get this fellow, and his sonic is off. And you say, „All right, now let’s hear a bell, let’s put a sound into that bell and listen to it.“ He says, „I can’t.“ Uh… „Let’s do this, let’s do that…“ „I can’t.“ Sound off, sound off.

An automaticity set-up or a functional set-up which heightens self-determinism is not only allowable but desirable. Because you can heighten it at a greater speed but an automaticity, which is entered into to depress self-determinism or demonstrate a disability, becomes highly aberrative and will wind up with this dwindling spiral into something like the MEST universe.

You must know that the only time you ever get sound out in space is in the middle of an explosion. Space isn’t rigged for sound. Sound requires air. And so the electronic flow itself could be vibrating in sound when the ship blew up or when something else happened, or some other universe blew up or something of the sort.

So when you look this picture over you’ll find out that studying spheres of knowledge, quite allowable, as long as those spheres are then not used as control factors, on the rest of the group. Get that one, just as long as they are not then used as control factors on the rest of the group.

He got for an instant the impression of sound, and ever since, every time he’s heard a sound it’s held keyed-in the explosion of some time long ago. So he doesn’t have sonic. ‘Cause it’s been proven to him adequately that sound is very dangerous.

That big long knife which you see gleaming slightly behind my back is one which I am going to sink straight through the whole cult of, „The reason I am important is because I am an authority.“

Now you rehabilitate use of force. To rehabilitate use of force it’s only necessary for his ability… it’s only necessary to rehabilitate his ability to handle solid blocks of energy, energy that is flowing, and energy that is dispersing or contracting. That’s all that’s necessary. Now it should be handled going out from the pc and going in to the pc. That could be done in mock-up by mocking the pc up out there. So those are three necessary characteristics of mock-ups.

„And I can stay important“ this groups says, „just as long as I can convince you that it is difficult and succeed in withholding some of the information from you.“ That’s a… a control operation. Knowledge in that sphere then is saying you’ll get the vectors on this in a moment very clear. That group… the person who does that is saying, „We must have automaticity. I am sitting here and I am the only one who knows and therefore being the only one who knows possibly, why, I have to hold back information and use part of what I’ve got to reduce the automaticity uh… to heighten automaticity and reduce the self-determinism of others in this group.“

Now you start putting the perceptions in the mock-ups, you will find that those perceptions get better and better and the preclear gets better and better on this line, as you add in these perceptions, IF you are primarily taking care of force, raw force itself. You have to get him pretty good with force. You have to get him down, and… and… and really drill on the subject. And you’ll finally… you’re all set, you’ve been knocking the room to pieces with lightning bolts, and you’re having lightning bolts come in like mad, and the preclear all of a sudden says „Yeah, the room’s all full of lightning bolts.“

Now that… that operation winds up in disaster! Fortunately it winds up in disaster for all hands – including the authority.

You say „Now wait a minute! Heh heh! That’s… I said ONE lightning bolt.“

And uh… then there is allowable level, allowable levels all up and down the line. It is true that homo sapiens has an interdependency which must – be served so long as he continues to be homo sapiens and that he is just as capable of digging himself out as homo sapiens as he can buy a breathing space from the terrific onerous necessity levels which have been thrust upon him throughout time.

„Well, the room’s all full of lightning bolts.“

Now I mean by that, we wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance of digging ourselves out right now unless homo sapiens actually had slugged up from the mud far enough to a point where he had a little leisure time. If every one of you was forced to handle with your bare hands the blocks and so forth of buildings, if you were able only to secure manuscripts which had been printed arduously word by word stroke by stroke, no, you wouldn’t have much of a chance for the good reason that the oppression of the individual would have become tremendous just in the level of survival.

„Yeah, I got that.“ No, he’s pretty well down on the automaticity scale. Now you… you’ve got… finally you’ve got one lightning bolt, and it’s absolutely horrendous, and you say, „Get the smell of ozone off of it.“ Nyah!

We happen to be going through temporarily, momentarily, only for an instant, a period when Man has made himself relatively free by the use of a machine. A period which just succeeds after a period when he was terribly enslaved by a machine. The industrial… early days of industrialism with their twelve, fourteen hour days, with their smoke-belching factories, that were eating out the lungs and wits of everybody in them; that was a pretty grim period. He had moved from one kind of slavery to another kind of slavery,

„Well all right. Yeah, I can see something like that.“

All right, he’s… he’s moved out of that. This era is just succeeding that and just before the machine is employed for his utter enslavement.

„All right. Now let’s get the sound of it as it hits. That’s good. Let’s get that several times. Good. Now let’s look full at it, and get the full glare of it. Okay. Now, let’s have the lightning bolt come through and start selectively hitting people… bodies… mock-ups.“

The reason you’ve got Scientology is to a large degree because it’s right here that there’s a breathing period on Earth. There’s a little breathing period. I don’t know how many years it is from here to the other but you’ve already seen it begin. You’ve already seen the second slavery stage start. And it started with Hiroshima.

We’ve got a lightning bolt. Now let’s handle that lightning bolt reductio ad absurdum. Let’s just handle that lightning bolt until we’ve got lightning bolts. We turn them blue and we turn them pink. And we have them go through the chimneys, and we have them do this and we have them go through the earth, and we have them do this with them and we do that with them, and we braid them and we make ties out of them, and we handle lightning bolts that are very high horsepower, and so on. Don’t be surprised if you carry this drill through to its last possible ditch – killing off everybody with lightning bolts, being killed off in every fashion possible with lightning bolts, and all connected with lightning bolts – that the last few that he sends through the room… don’t be surprised if they singe the walls.

It became dangerous according to the most learned of our national political buffoons for knowledge to be disseminated. Of course, every country that could possibly afford to build one now has an atom bomb. Though I don’t know quite where they got off that their atomic police was so important. But it became terribly important to them to shut all the boundaries on knowledge. And you’ve seen those things, those curtains shutting down. And those were the shades of night falling.

Anyway… you want to be sure, however that you don’t think just a lightning bolt is all the energy there was. There’s energy dispersals coming from the end of wires. There’s energy dispersals coming from nozzles. There are energy flows that spring off of large molten masses of energy. There’s bodies being packed in molten flowing energy. The energy can take all kinds of forms. So you just run energy out to the furthest furthest further that you can, and start putting it into space, and start, stop, change energy, increase it, decrease it, uncreate it, and in general uh… finish it up, until your preclear has that. And you’ll have his perceptions on nice and full before you get through. Nice and full.

And they say Professor Wumphgutta is no longer at the university, he is working at our project at a destination point unknown and you have to have cards and you have to have this and your political affiliations are wrong so therefore your theories of nuclear fission are wrong. Uh… the uh… the whole nonsense of thought police is moving right straight in. The shades of night.

Now that is the essence of handling mock-up processing. And it’s the essence of handling anything about ARC that you have tried to handle about ARC at any time in the past. Whatever you tried to do with ARC in the past, you can do with a mock-up, knowing something about the energy characteristics and behaviors of it here on the graph, here.

Now we’ve got a period here of a very short space of time. You see it ISN’T the destruction of civilization by an atomic bomb that worries anybody. These jokers can’t throw enough atomic bombs to blow this civilization up. They just haven’t got enough bombs, that’s all.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Man is the most surprising character. I tell you, you co… you could lie in off of a beach and you could hear the sixteen-inch shells going in over your heads like so many freight trains, moving in with tremendous explosions in the s… in the sand and in… in different barricades, over on a shore line and you’d hear your own gun going and everybody else’s guns going and the bombs and… a coming down like hail, and you’d say, „There is… couldn’t be anybody left alive in there. That’s utterly impossible – for a single human being to have survived in the midst of that flame and rubble.“

Oh, oh – your first landing craft hit that beach, all of that masonry and everything else would vomit humanity and fire, coming your way. It’s the most fantastic thing, it… it just exceeds your ability to figure out why this exists that Man is so relatively unkillable. I have seen him live through continually things he couldn’t possibly have lived through, so don’t worry about the atomic bomb from the standpoint of wiping out all human beings. No, it’s something else. it’s… it’s uh… let’s shut down the communication lines of knowledge.

Here for a brief moment we have had them free and open and something could happen. Now, because we have a big weapon, let’s close all the frontiers. There’s a tremendous urgency against that because that’s… that’s real. That’s going to happen here on Earth. There’s really only one other answer to it – an answer you don’t want anything to do with and that is to… to start in using your weapons as a police weapon to get it across. That becomes very rough.

Start using Scientology as a police weapon in order to… to free people – very bad. Very complicated, not very doable.

Now, automaticity then tells you that bad automaticity would be that which depressed self-determinism by pretending sympathy or service for others, and good automaticity would only be that which raised the self-determinism of others and let them more and more on a rising scale think, act and provide for themselves. Or automaticity on all these lines and all these points, but, „Dear I have to do it for you because you are so tired“ is down, very definitely.

You want these automaticity people, bad automaticity people, out of your preclear’s life and you get them out by handling them with mock-ups on the part of the preclear.

Let’s take a break.