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More on Automaticity

ARC, Force, Be/Have/Do

A Lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 8 December 1952A Lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 8 December 1952

This is the second hour on December the eighth, afternoon, continuing on automaticity.

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.

You will see automaticity in action in a created thing by, as somebody just said, as a few extra bounces. The fact that uh… you… you say all right, now let’s put this billiard ball in the center of the room and the fellow puts it in the center of the room, but it hit four walls first. And uh… he’s… he will… unless you inspect what he’s doing rather closely, continually, you’re liable to find himself pulling this sort of an automatic trick on himself. He… he saw the billiard ball hit, and then go into the center of the room and then he told himself, „Well, I wanted it to do that.“ And he will kid himself along for a long time excusing these inabilities by saying that was part of his intention and he will actually have himself fooled that this is the case.

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.

It’s only when you make him pin it down that the billiard ball went from that wall closer to him into the center of the room and no place else, that he suddenly realizes that he is doing this on too much automatic. Then he… he finds out he… he’ll… he’ll have to get down and work on that. He’ll get that billiard ball a little bit forward and put it back and put it forward and back and so forth. And every… every couple of seconds why the billiard ball is liable to suddenly spring up, hit the ceiling, hit the far wall and then return to its place again. And he’s confronted with the fact that he is not making the billiard ball do that. He’s no longer able to kid himself.

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.

Now that’s a manifestation of automaticity. Uh… another comment came up here during the intermission is interesting, is the… the fact that those things which introduced themselves automatically uh… may be difficult to handle when the incident is… or the mock-up is vanished. The automatic aspects of the incident don’t go away quite as fast.

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.

So when you’re getting a large amount of linger on the part of incidents, if you’ll inspect what the preclear was doing you will find that the automaticity itself doesn’t go away. It didn’t ask to come and it doesn’t go when asked. You got that? It didn’t ask to come and it didn’t go when asked. You tell him to get o… rid of this and it’s done several extra things and added a couple of new ingredients and the whole thing goes except the ingredients that weren’t called for.

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.

As an example of that… as an example of that, let’s take the billiard ball again. It hits the four walls and so forth, and when it comes down it’s a blue billiard ball. But he moved a white billiard ball the way he was supposed to move it. You see, the second you told him to move that billiard ball from the wall out toward the center of the room why uh… this other factor was uh… present. The billiard ball was seen at the same time to jump up, hit the wall and go back and now it’s sitting down there. Uh… but he doesn’t… he ignores it. He… he saw that happen, but he ignores it. And now all of a sudden you tell him, „All right, blow it up or make it vanish and you take a look down there and he’ll see a blue billiard ball. And the billiard… blue billiard ball that came when it wasn’t asked, sometimes won’t go when it’s asked, too.

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.

Now when you draw uh… this scale of automaticity you are really drawing a scale of self-determinism. Here you have at the top here forty – point-zero. You have high self-determinism. And here at twenty-point-zero you have interacting determinism and that in itself is action. Interacting determinism with… with fifty percent self-determined. Very rough figure. And down here at zero-point-zero we have total lack of self-determinism. Now we can put in there… we find out that you have a total lack of automaticity.

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.

And you have here fifty percent, the other fifty percent automaticity. And here you have total automaticity.

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 the reason your thetan can go below zero is just the fact that he is uh… he is running on total automaticity. From zero to minus eight-point – zero the thetan is running on total automaticity. Everything is being done for him by the body, and by other bodies. Of course, when you get total automaticity, you get total non-beingness so he doesn’t even appear to be there, and he doesn’t know he’s there and he wouldn’t know what to do about it.

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.

One of the most interesting drills on this is to demonstrate to the thetan that he is actually handling the body with his own energy. When he makes it impulse and do anything (he’s already saying it’s the body doing it and so forth); it’s a… really a cover-up, a tremendous cover-up.

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.

Here you have a thetan present in the body and he is all that the preclear will ever be and yet he has totally negated against any form as such. This is the… the wonder of wonders. This is the riddle of this particular end of the universe. Is how you could have somebody who is… has negative thereness and… and yet it exists; it exists to such a tremendous degree that for thousands and thousands of years Man had a total belief in his soul as something different than himself, because he wasn’t there. He was a body and so forth. Now, therefore they had to figure out various ways, they… they knew it went someplace and they didn’t know quite who it was but they had an abiding faith that this existed. And that was practically all that kept Man running was the fact that, „I just don’t stop. Uh… something of me keeps going.“

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.

Now what we’re doing here is bringing that beingness, the only being that preclear will ever be, into beingness, and it comes up above the level of zero-point-zero. Well, the fastest way to get it up above the level of zero-point-zero that I know – I said, „Well we follow all these cycles of action“ – is to… is to return to the thetan some of his own functions in handling the body. It makes a terrific difference to him. Uh… he… he… he gets a tremendous difference, the feeling of this.

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.

Now let’s take even this… let’s take the case where you say to the fellow, „Be two feet back of your head,“ and he’s two feet back of his head. And you say, „All right, move yourself back to the wall.“ All right, he does and you move him up, move him down, move him this way, move him that way. Be here, be there, do this, do that, put out a little beam of energy and do this.

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.

One of the strangest things that you can do with a preclear, let’s say he is sitting in a chair. He’s got his hands on the arms of the chair, you tell him to go around and pick up one of the fingers of the body. He’s quite accustomed to handling the body. He can handle the body a long… long… By the way if you omit this step, your chances of getting him to bust pop bottles and so forth are quite faint because you haven’t restored to him… He thinks… he thinks some… that something ought to go bust the pop bottle for him; he thinks this ought to happen first. Uh… somebody else ought to do it, that’s automaticity, you see.

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.

Somebody else ought to move the paper. The body’s hand ought to move the pop bottle, the body’s hand ought to move the paper. So you just knock this… the… knock him flat on this basis after you’ve drilled him in numerous ways, mock-ups and that sort of thing, don’t omit this step. Have him handle the body exterior to the body and without using his communication lines to the body or its automatic responses. Have him go around and pick up one of the body’s fingers.

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.

It is an interesting experience for the preclear. He… his hands are on the sides of this chair or to make it even easier, put his hand on a table and you tell him, „Now from outside the body go over the hand and pick up a finger.“ And he will puff and strain at this and he’ll put down and he’ll unstabilize himself and he’ll find himself going backwards on all this sort of thing and he’ll be getting very upset. And all of a sudden he’ll… you’ll see one of the fingers that he’s working on will suddenly move over.

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.

Possibly doesn’t pick up at all. It will just skitter sideways or something and he’ll say, „Aahh“. And make him keep right at it and with his OWN energy, with his OWN beams, his OWN energy, and his OWN beams. Make him pick up that finger, make him pick up another finger, make him cross a couple of fingers, make him take one of the fingers and make it go spat, spat down on the table.

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.

Finally get him to a point where he’s picking up this hand and dropping it again so it goes thoomp! Just have him wrap a beam or two around the thing, and actually pick up that finger using force, energy. And by jacking himself up on stilts and so forth. He… he actually… he sometimes get terrifically complicated when he tries to pick up that finger for the first time.

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.

You see if he tells the finger to move, sure enough, he’s using his old ridges which are already rigged up in the body energy to make the finger move. That’s no trick, but if he comes outside and stands over that hand, well, you may find him doing things like this: Putting down a tripod over one finger. Putting down the tripod and then testing the tripod very carefully to raise and lower the tripod. When he first does this, he quite often finds when he tries to raise the tripod, he lowers. And when he tries to lower it down, he raises. And get this worked out so that he knows which way he’s going.

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.

And then he’ll do such things as get over the finger, he’ll loop a… a line of tensional energy underneath the finger and then suddenly make the legs of the tripod expand, and lengthen. And he’ll make them lengthen and lengthen and lengthen. Very often he’ll find out the legs of his tripod will dive right straight through the top of the table. They won’t stand on the top of the table. They’ll penetrate matter.

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.

This is because he has too often failed during that incident known as a transfer. He’s had a beam, on… he’s had a pressor beam on somebody’s head and then something happened to the person, the tractor beam pulled him in and the pressor beam he couldn’t get to hold. So he begins to think that his pressor beam is very weak and will go through matter.

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, just get him to practice on that and he’ll finally find out this astonishing fact, „All I have to do is change a postulate that it will hold, and believe it and it holds.“ He’ll find that out. „Well, what do you know,“ he’ll say. All right, and he’ll get this tripod over the finger and he’ll work and he’ll slave and he’ll sweat. And the first thing you know he’ll say… he’ll get the finger moved. He’ll work on it till it’s moved.

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.

Now get him to work the whole hand and drop it. And he’s… he’s finding it easier and easier and easier to do this. And then finally he can practically stop in midair, he can be without being supported anyplace, and so forth. He can actually throw out a beam and knock the hand up into the air and knock it flat again.

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.

Now, train him to do something thetans have never been trained to do, to make that hand write with beams. And the day you do that, that day he ceases to have a complete dependence on the body for communication. Make him actually move that hand around until it will write legibly from outside the body.

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.

Now it’s an interesting thing that he can handle flesh of his own, his own body, much before he can handle any other kind of matter. That’s because he’s used to it, he sees it move and because he owns it and it’s not liable to kick back at him and a lot of other things. But you move on from there to putting up a dummy hand. Just put up something, a board with a pencil in the end of it to furnish pressure and so on, and he could go ahead and handle that. What do you know. He can really make that board move around and make crude letters. A B C. „What do you know,“ he’ll say, „I can write, I can write.“ And he’ll think he’s doing just dandy. He just thinks he’s just doing wonderful and nothing possibly could be done better than that until you say, „All right, now take the pencil. Take the pencil, now write directly with the pencil.“

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.

Understand, he’s got to be trained to do this almost perfectly with his own hand before he’ll feel any confidence in the second step of moving a board and a pencil. You see a board with a pencil shoved through it, so that you’ll hold that. He can… he’ll… he’ll finally get so he can handle that because it’s a mock-up of his arm.

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.

Now you just say to him, „All right, pick up the pencil. Okay. ‘ got it? Real good – write with it.“ Boy he will fumble, and the pencil will fall down and he’ll be erecting tripods and derricks and everything else all over again, all complicated ways. And he’ll be getting his responses and reflexes, he’ll be all tangled up again. But all of a sudden he can write with a pencil. He can move a pencil around and make it write.

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.

It’s only a step from that by the way to take a torch and write something in fire on a wall. Only a step. But that is a very essential step of clearing, because for Lord’s sakes, look what this thetan has done on the automaticity schedule. He’s gone to a point of automaticity to where he is dependent upon a MEST object, a material object to do all of his communicating for him, and you ask somebody to cease to communicate to anybody anywhere in a form that he’s positive on and you just practically ask him to lie down and die. Because when you’ve asked him to get rid of his communication line, you have asked him to get rid of all of his friends and anything he loves. You can’t ask a man to do that. Certainly not in the name of therapy and processing. So, remember that a very, very important thing to rehabilitate is ability to communicate without depending on the body to do it automatically. So the toughest side of automaticity is dependence on something else to communicate. Now if you want to get a writer in bad shape… you want to get him in bad shape, yo… you find out he’s been sitting there he… he… he… he has a 1912 Oliver typewriter. And he’s just been banging out on it and… perfectly all right and it’s a degree of automaticity that he’s accustomed to, it’s a little bit tough handling this old machine; his copy looks a little bit lousy. Insist that he gets a new typewriter to make writing easier for him. Hum-hum-hum-hum-hum. How to kill off your competitors. Give them new typewriters. He’ll find something wrong with this new typewriter, and he’ll find this wrong with it and that wrong with it, and he’ll decide he’ll have to get a newer typewriter and a better typewriter, and he’ll go on up the line from there. And he’ll get fancier and fancier typewriters and try to work this out. But he’s working it exactly the… 180 degrees wrong. He’s working 180 wrong.

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.

What he’s trying to get rid of, is automaticity which is interfering with his own creative process. And it was much better, far better, to have that 1912 Oliver that made a lot of trouble. When he abandoned that and started to make things easier, he got in bad trouble. So what’s the… what’s down on this curve? What’s down on this curve – this is within limits, you understand – what’s down on this curve is easier machinery.

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.

It’s quite remarkable that very early on the track, quite remarkable that a thetan stopped using his own energy for police work, lot of reasons for this. He stopped using it for police work. He stopped using it in moving material objects. The next thing you know you find him using a gun which didn’t produce anywhere near what he himself could natively produce in terms of energy.

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.

You find him using a gun or you’d find him using ray tools and all sorts of odds and ends which are substitutes for his own horsepower. He’s practically gone when he starts that. But that is a secondary manifestation; that’s not a primary manifestation.

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!

Your primary manifestation of the thing is when he… I mean this… that’s… that’s… that just follows when something else has happened. He started to use automatic communication. He started to have communication done for him in one way or another. The first thing he started to use, to make it more automatic and easier and more positive was energy. That was his first blunder. He started to use energy. There wasn’t any point in using energy.

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.

But he had to accept the responsibility for communicating on a line which could confuse with postulates. Making a statement which would communicate and then, you see, he’d… he’d lose the ability to differentiate between a postulate and a communication statement. And things would happen in his surroundings which he didn’t think he’d intended to happen, you see? And a little disaster, or something or other that he would consider so, would occur, and he would back off and say, „I can no longer trust this merely stated pervasion into the atmosphere. I can no longer trust simply saying something that I know then somebody else will know. And the reason why I can’t trust that is becau…“ One of the reasons is because they have ceased to trust their reception. And so he said, „Let’s make it positive. Let’s use energy. And we will put a beam out, and we’ll put a communication on the beam. And the beam will carry the communication.“ And then he will know it’s a communication because there’s a beam sitting there.

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.

Might as well be a Western Union telegram blank, you see, and then he… after a while he says, „All communications have to go up and down a beam.“

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.

And then after a while he found out that energy in this universe has a terrible kick-back. And he finds out that the beams go the opposite direction to what he wants them to go. And where’s he finally wind up? He winds up by dropping a nickel in the Bell Company just to tell somebody at home he’ll be late for dinner. He’s gone dog.

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.

Now he has a higher dependency than that. He started to depend upon energy for sensation. And when he started to depend on energy for sensation, we get another automaticity which is highly undesirable. And this „energy – dependence upon energy for sensation“ meant that. It must… energy must then be used to make an effect out of one.

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?

If one wanted to be the effect of some sensation, then the sensation had another point than one’s self for its origin. You get that? Fellow stands at one place and he stands over here at A and he puts… he wants a sensation from B. So he runs a line from B back here to A and the line goes in that direction.

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.

Well, now you’re looking at energy graph of cause and effect. B, in this case, is an effect, and uh… pardon me, B is being elected cause because B has sensation to deliver and A then has elected himself an effect. Ask your preclear to stretch up a communication line. Ask him to put a communication line on one end on himself and one end on somebody else, and what do you know? The bulk of your preclears will first put it on the other object and then on himself.

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.

You say, „Which end did you put up first? Oh, you put it on the other object, huh?“ Well, you don’t tell him any more than that. You just simply know that this boy has to have a lot of drill. He is – that is the manifestation by which he has demonstrating he has elected himself an effect as far as communication and sensation is concerned.

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.

So he has sensation received from some object and he will gradually get to a point where as he comes down tone scale he will become the effect of any line. He will become the effect of any energy line and will not be cause on any one of these lines.

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.

All right, if that is the case, what do you know? He’ll elect himself as the effect on any energy beam that happens anyplace, whether it’s a force beam or any other kind of a beam. Therefore he becomes frightened of all force. And he will cease to use force.

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.

Now it’s all very well for your preclear to say, „Well, that’s fine, I’ll just rehabilitate my idea, uh… I’ll just rehabilitate my ability then to think these things and all will be sweetness and light thereafter.“ I am afraid that isn’t the case. The road out is the road through.

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.

Although you find him in a state where he’s only able to communicate an idea, no matter how good those ideas are, no matter how thorough, because you see his own character isn’t involved in this so very much, what’s involved in this is his scope of action.

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.

And if you’re going to increase his scope of action you will have to rehabilitate his ability to handle energy because he’s made an enormous number of postulates that he can’t do it. So we’ve got a lot of CAN’Ts in there that we’ll have to turn into CANs before he can, with complete freedom, return to that enviable position of merely being able to think an idea and have it received. Now you’ve got to go through. You’ve got to go through, not just skip on this.

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.

So, automaticity. What is the automaticity? What is… what you might say is the common denominator between forty-point-zero and zero-point-zero in this universe? Energy. You ever see a fellow by the name of Ready Kilowatt? All right, he’s the devil of this universe.

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.

Energy will do it for you. It will all be done for you. MEST objects are actually condensed energy. MEST objects will do it for you. Energy will do it for you. You don’t have to do it yourself. It’s all automatic. It’s all automatic. It’s all automatic.

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?

And a person’s ability to use and originate energy at… up there at the top of the scale, declines to the ratio, unfortunately, that he utilizes energy. He goes in and puts in a higher and higher dependence upon energy and becomes lower and lower on the scale, lower and lower on the scale. Energy, energy, energy, energy.

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.

The common denominator then of automaticity is energy. And the final end of all automaticity is becoming an object which is condensed energy.

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!

Above this level we can have… the thetan can handle this in terms of space. You can have space without having energy. You can have theta level objects which are not composed of energy. Interesting.

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.

Energy is a good system and a good theory and all that sort of thing. Now that you have a key to what energy is and how it’s… what its liabilities are, and how to rehabilitate an individual who through the use of energy has fallen into this curve of automaticity and is hitting bottom, you can go on and use energy.

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!

I used to tell people, „Now all right. Now on this overt act – motivator combination, I want you to be very careful on overt acts and motivators. When you deliver an overt act. When you deliver an overt act to somebody or other, you knock somebody off or do something like that and so on, run it out!

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.

It’s the same way with the use of energy. Run it out. In the first place sensations that come in via energy are not the higher level sensations, There are higher level sensations that are independent of energy. There’s all kinds of things independent of energy.

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.

But the fellow who has learned to use energy and has found himself pushed, thrust, slammed into this universe and is right now the subject of solidified energy at every hand – that individual… that individual had sure better learn how to use energy because he won’t get out of here otherwise.

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.

But space, of course, is a criterion above energy. Space is up there at forty-point-zero. Space is beingness, your preclear also at the bottom of the scale has had this horrible thing happen to him. As he went downscale in the uses of energy, he finally wound up with no space and he didn’t notice it. He didn’t notice this space angle that was lurking in the background all the time.

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!

But of course, beingness, and beingness is dependent upon space. Space is beingness. Beingness is impossible without space, so your thetan doesn’t have space, therefore he has no beingness. The body occupies the space the thetan thinks he’s occupying. The body is then therefore occupying the place where… the space where the thetan should be, so of course the thetan has no beingness. It’s the body that has beingness not the thetan.

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.

All right, so coming right down this scale of automaticity, unseen and hidden behind this decline in the use of force, is: make space, all kinds of space, lots of space, handle space, and right on down the scale here to less and less space, less and less space, less and less space, ‘less and less space, less and less and then, what do you know, any space I could have is being occupied by something or somebody else.

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?

Negative, negative concepts on space. Not only, not only I am… I am here but something else is here. The something else is more important for the usages because it’s composed of energy. Energy is God. Energy is king. And that’s all that their God there is. You know, guy’s way down tone scale here. It’s energy energy and he gets down into this concept all of a sudden where he says, „Well, I can’t be here because I’m supposed to be in that space and the body occupies that space.“ Very silly business.

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.

Now there’s something at… there’s an interesting trick on this. You get a thetan to start using his – quote hands unquote – his postulated hands. And how do you suppose he moves an arm? He’s got a beam one way or another. There’s a dozen, dozen ways of hooking these things up. But he’ll have a beam going to various energy deposits which give this arm action and inaction. Now he can have this arm rigged so that he’s got this body on a piston system. He… or he’s got it on an activation of ridge system. There are several of these systems. You could have an awful lot of fun. An engineer could just have all kinds of fun studying up on these various body systems that various thetans are using because they’re not all using the same system.

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.

All right, we have… but still every thetan has a potentiality of putting an energy beam down each arm. Get him to do this weird little trick. Get him to take those beams and go through all the motion necessary to move his arm without the arm moving. He’ll feel so strange for a little while.

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.

He… you say, „All right, now get all the sensation necessary to move your arm in an inch.“ And the first time he does it he’ll… he’ll get a twitch on the arm. He’ll finally be able to get what beams he’s using free for his own use. It’s very interesting.

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

Make him move an arm in and examine one of his own beams by turning it over. Going through the same actions he would go through to turn his arm. And he moves in, moves it back, moves it around. He can pick this up at any time, but this arm is getting… MEST arm is getting less and less real to him. And this beam is getting a little more real to him. And he says, „This is very… very strange,“ and he’ll put these beams in and he’ll put them out again and it’s… go through the same… just as though you were postulating the muscular action of an arm, but actually move the beam, not the arm.

„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.

And you get to working with this after a while and like working a little tiny bit at a time. Or the thing that moves the finger. Now move it without moving the finger. And he’ll find that they’re… they’re busting out at the oddest places. Some of them… well when he gets a beam up here when he starts to move the finger, he’s handling that whole arm from way up on the shoulder. Sometimes it’s actually in the finger. Sometimes it’s here and there, but you move his hands in. Get him to look at them. And close his eyes. He’ll find they’re pretty dim. Sometimes he’ll say, „Aooo, oh no,“ because he’s got a police implant which has given him horrible hands, horrible body functions. He thinks he’s in that body.

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.

You understand, of course, that that is just a body facsimile just as he has a facsimile of other past bodies. It’s not really his body at all. And uh… anymore than… than homo sapiens’s drape-over is his body.

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.

You get him to move his hands in; take a look at his hands. You find with a lot of preclears it’s totally unnecessary, I’m talking about a preclear now who’s pinned down in the body. You can’t get him out, something of the sort. Get him to move his hands in. Turn them over, move them this way, move them that way, until he can move them selectively without moving his arms. Get them very clear, very clean and if he feels… starts feeling nauseated or… and uh… depraved or degraded or something like that, just keep him at it.

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.

Sometimes his feeling of degradation uh… if he is very badly nailed down in this department, will be such that… that you’ve just never witnessed anything like it. You see if degradation is just not-beingness and unable to use force, that’s all it is. It’s the emotion of „I cannot use force“. It’s a can’t.

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!“

And you get him to work with this, back and forth, and around and around. And then have him walk over to the wall and push himself flat with those beams. After you’ve worked with these hands to a point where he can put leverage on things and so forth, get him to walk over to the wall and push the body flat. He’ll find out that he’s got more horsepower in those beams than he has in his arms, if you build it up right. Becomes very interesting.

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?“

Then make him hold his head still but use all the mechanisms necessary to move his head. Make him get the sensation of moving his head without moving his head. Without moving his MEST head. You’ll have ridges going pong and pang and headaches turning on and off, and the guy’s getting all excited and he doesn’t quite know which is which and how to do it. And the next thing you know get him to shrug his shoulders and leave his MEST shoulders where they are. And he’ll find out where he’s using all these actions and it becomes elementary to him. And then all of a sudden he’ll… where… even though he’s located in the center of his head, he’ll just move right on out. Not only that, but your thetan will come out, you might say, fighting. Your thetan will come out in a state where he can pick up a book on the table and flutter its leaves. That really upsets people. But you’ve demonstrated to him.

„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.“

Now the wrong way to handle this guy that you’re having a lot of trouble with, is to get him out and find out… find out what his hands look like and find out that he has a terrific disgust for energy. And… and get him outside and he can’t handle himself in any other way and he just goes into apathy and backs up into the body. You’ll have to work a lot longer.

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.

So I would put this at about step three, step four. Let’s put it just willy-nilly at step four; just exercise the thetan’s beams while he’s still in the body. It’s a very fascinating exercise.

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.

All right, you’re overcoming, when you do this, the automaticity imposed by the body, and that homo sapiens’s body which your thetan is packing around is a last line of automaticity. When this body is dead the thetan isn’t there at all, so he knows he’s very much worse than dead. So he has no place to go but to report back to somebody or other or something or other and do something.

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.“

This becomes very interesting then as a level of automaticity. The most automatic thing there is, is a MEST object – matter. Definition of automatic: moved itself by something else, it moves itself. It… it… automatic means it moves itself, but we’re using automaticity in being moved by something automatically, you see. Uh… we’re using the thing of… a freight elevator is moved by a motor. A motor is the automatic part of freight elevator.

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!

All right, therefore your thetan… your thetan is actually serving the body instead of the body serving him. And this is the fate of any robot, anywhere, even though he might have started out to be a self-respecting well wound up robot, he will wind up as a servant because he can be handled and placed in time and space by anything.

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?“

Let’s take the automaticity of a rock. The rock’s desire for automaticity is such that it does not, willing, will itself into any space, or time, at all. It requires an entire machine to change its position. A man can come along and pick up a rock. Now don’t make the mistake of believing that this is so tremendous that a man can pick up a rock. The man is picking up the rock for a thetan who is in a state of mind whereby he believes he is serving the man. The servant of the robot would be the most interesting little tale of man’s activities here. The thetan has become the servant of the robot.

„NO! I can’t locate the windows.“

Okay, automaticity as it manifests itself then in illusions and creative processing in general, takes on a new meaning and a new significance.

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?

You see that it is the thirst of the individual to have things done for him. And in handling, then, these things, you want to be very careful that you handle these illusions simply enough so that automatic tendencies on the part of the illusion do not take place. It acts itself independent of the command of the preclear. That’s very bad. That means the preclear is the servant of that illusion, just as the thetan is the servant of the body. And the level of service that he is being forced to do is the criterion on this.

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.

Now of course, this, this whole schedule here, all of these scales very naturally go together uh… and automaticity uh… runs from self – determinism, partial automaticity over to total automatic. And this goes over here from sensation scale: provides own sensation, needs own, and sensation is always others. He provides no sensation. You get somebody low on the tone scale, they don’t even use it. They don’t feel any responsibility for giving anybody any sensation. They can’t give anybody any sensation. And they don’t either.

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.

So this would be automaticity and this would be sensation. Now your sensations can be graphed here and uh… your actuality here is that you’re dealing with a level of perception so he again places perception. Here he places and perceives what he has placed. And over here he has perceived only, low band. That isn’t of course this… this is no perception. So that’s perception. That goes right hand in hand with automaticity. Goes hand in hand with sensation.

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.

„I don’t get any fun out of life“ somebody says, they want everything done for them. Same breath. When they tell you those two statements in the same breath, they both coor… coordinate the same thing. That means „Energy must do it for me“ – says the same thing.

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.

So we have the guy that’s self-determined up here, that is to say he does things himself and then he’s partly automatic. And then he’s totally automatic. And a guy by our definition is, when he is totally automatic, dead. He’s deader than a mackerel. Anything can handle him – embalmers uh… anything.

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.

Now on perception, what do I mean here when I say places perception? Yes, yes, he… he hands things out to be perceived. He knows so certainly how things would be perceived if he’s going to enter in the scale and use energy to that degree. He could place it and know how it would be without inspecting it.

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.

Did you ever see a golf champ walk on… I mean a real good one, walk out on the course and put the ball down and take a whoomp at the ball and simply put the club back in his bag and start to walk down the fairway? He knows the ball’s a hundred and seventy-five yards out there on the green. He didn’t look. What a level of self-confidence. Well, that’s it.

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.

So you can put the perception out there, you know what’s there, furthermore, you know no perception could possibly hit you that you wouldn’t want to worry about. You just… no strain on perception. You don’t even bother to perceive. That’s a level of knowingness.

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.“

Well, down here because you’ve elected out everything… you’ve elected things out to be fifty percent automatic. You’ve got to perceive about fifty percent of the things, but you still know that when you perceive you place the perception and then get it back again.

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.

You… you… you’re w… well aware of the fact that when you want to feel joy from that person you put joy on that person then experience the joy. Now you can put something else on that person. You can fish through the ether, so to speak, and take the viewpoint of that person and find out how they are perceiving life. Just make a test of it, then you know what their emotion, or feeling or idea is about life and you don’t have to take this relatively unnecessary step of putting an emotion onto their stream of regard for life to find out how they’re looking about it. You know how they’re looking about it… at it. You don’t have to reach over there and inject an emotion so that you can feel it. That’s on an idea level.

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.

Then you find out their idea of agreement simply by expanding or extending in their direction on an agreement basis figuring out what that agreement is, what their communication line is, what they’re experiencing in the way of emotion. And by substituting then using that idea, you substitute that emotion and then you get it back again. You could feel what they were feeling and that is the way you would get counter-emotion at twenty-two or eighteen on the tone scale. That’s the only way you’ll be able to feel counter-emotion.

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.

You got an idea this person should be sad, he’s looking at those… a wreck and therefore he should be sad, so you’d have to extend over into his chain, a feeling of sadness, and then reexperience from him sadness. And you’d say, „I know he’s feeling sadness.“ You’d know at the same time you’d put some sadness over there so that you could feel it.

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.

Now way on down tone scale you look at him and you say, „He feels sad.“ You see it’s all automatic by this time. You just look at somebody and you know he ought to feel sad so you feel sadness from him. And you omit the fact that you have set up circuits which automatically install the sensation of sadness in him so that you can feel it back again. You don’t inspect it in lines of ideas at all.

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.

Did you ever have this experience in your life: “I ought to get mad about this,“ and then get mad? Let’s look it over from an analytical standpoint, you say, „Well, I ought to get mad about that,“ and you got mad.

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.

Well actually a little bit lower level than that, an individual goes into this kind of a line. He looks and he, I mean, pardon me, higher than that at „places and perceives“, he looks over at this situation and he says, „That girl ought to be feeling great happiness.“ So he says, „Let’s see, all right, I’ll feel great happiness from the girl,“ and so he does. He gets the emotion of great happiness from the girl. Isn’t that pleasant? Great.

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

Little bit later as he goes down scale you’ll find this same individual has become so haggard on this subject of placing and perceiving and so forth that he sees this girl and he says, „Oh, I wish she would feel happy, I’m so tired of feeling that sadness coming from her.“

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.

Ah, this is something you… it’s just about as idiotic as the fellow’s lying out on the pavement and he’s got this boulder on his stomach. He’s not hurt in any way, he’s got the boulder on his stomach. And you say, „Uh… hey fellow, uh… what’s the matter with you? What you groaning about?“ „Well, I got a boulder on my stomach.“ And you say, „Well, why don’t you push it away?“

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.

This would come to him as a totally shocking idea. Obviously somebody else had to come along and pick up the boulder and remove it from his stomach.

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.

Well that’s the same thing as, „I object to all these people feeling sad. I object to all these people feeling upset.“ What you’re really objecting to is the cross warp, you… you realize that what they are looking at and what they see… their idea is that things are sad. You know that by just investigating the situation – just looking at what they’re looking at – and you can actually test their agreement and find out what their agreement level is at that time. And you say they’re… they’re… there’s the postulate on which they’re running is sad.

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.

Now, you’ve gone in addition to that and put a current of sadness over there and you’ve gotten the current back again and you can feel the sadness. This is a trick that you do. Then you hide this from yourself and say, „My, how sad those people feel, and I feel this great sadness coming in upon me.“

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.

It’s a very interesting trick and your preclear is… is remedied in this respect simply by having him mock up things and put the emotion on it. No matter how bored he sounds, looks or anything else, when you make him do this, you make him do this, and you make him do this he’ll start to feel some pings and bangs and all sorts of things around as his automaticity circuits start cutting out on him. And then he’s left in a rather strange situation of walking – it’s so quiet you thin… think at first that… you think at first that it was necessary to have all these things.

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.

This fellow walks down the road, and he’s gotta hike eighty miles in the hot sun and he’s carrying a great big roll on one shoulder and a big pack on his back and there’s a belt with a lot of things hanging on it and there’s a hat with a lot of ornaments dangling from it. And there’s can openers, and spare boots, and all of this sort of thing, and there’s a great big roll of blankets, warm summer, see. He’s got a great big roll of blankets, and you go over to him and you say, „Gee, whatcha carrying all that stuff for?“

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.

And he says, „Well I… I might need something. I might need some of this somewhere along this line. I… I… I just don’t dare leave any of it aside.“ Of course, you see him dead down the road another twenty yards with a sunstroke. But uh… he obviously needed it all, didn’t he? Uh… he only carries it with him because he doesn’t think he can create it at any time.

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.

Now it’s rather upsetting to your preclear once in a while – your preclear gets into a situation where he’s starting to plant perception into everything and he starts to do it very consciously. He’s being very, very conscious of it and he’ll start to fight out of this. Why? He’s surrounded with the idea that it ought to be automatic and he’ll start to fight right straight out of this and back into it again and out of it again.

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.“

And he’ll fluctuate around because he’s in the stream – you might say in contact with the idea of agreement on ever… every hand. And he’s afraid he’ll just take off from here. Well, he can, but he can also come back, so show him he can do that.

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

Now one of the things of automaticity is to have one’s space made for one. That is a great one. Go around all the time expecting somebody else to make one’s space. You expect the wife to make the home, you expect the husband to provide the playground, this and that. You make one out… that’s just low manifestations. When I’m talking about space, I mean real space, make… making real space. And uh… one of the most interesting things you can have a preclear do is just reverse automaticity of space manufacture by having him pick up and put in one place in front of him or hang around the neck of his body or anyway you want to do this, every area he has ever lived in in this life.

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

You say, „Put out two anchor points. All right. Put your first childhood home in the middle of it.“

„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!

„Yeah.“

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

You say, „All right. Without removing the childhood home, now let’s take the first school you went to and put that in the middle of it.“

„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.“

He’ll say, „Mmm, creepy, yeah, I can do that.“

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.

You say, „All right. Now let’s take the area where you had your first job and let’s put that in the middle of it.“

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.

Creeaks. You’re just making him stack his old anchor points up; they’re no good to him, anyhow.

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.

And you… by the time… you get some people they’ve lived in dozens and dozens and dozens of places and you get all those places stacked up, one right on top of the other. Boy, he’s holding it together. He knows this whole thing is going to explode, he knows it’s just going to tear to pieces. It’s the doggonedest sensation, trying to hold all that together.

Okay. Thank you very much.

And you say, „All right. Skim them back to where they want to go.“

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And he’s liable tell such things as, „Well the lines are all stretched out now, it won’t snap back.“ You say, „It won’t, what?“ „Well, they just don’t snap back to where they ought to go.“

You say, „I didn’t say let them snap back to where they ought to go, that’s automaticity.“ He’s expects all of a sudden these places, now, he’s going to sit back and they’re all going replace themselves. It’s something like… it’s just about as liable to happen, you see, it’s just about as likely as after you’ve come home and tired, and thrown all your clothes off around the floor that they’ll get up and put themselves on the hangers while you’re asleep. They won’t.

So you… you take these things and you… he has to deal each one of them back. And he’ll start to swear after a while, because he picked these things up carelessly; he just grabbed these things and brought them in there and he can’t quite find out how he got them and where they fit and he’ll start expressing all this concern about them.

And you have him make up a few places now and just throw it in for randomity’s sake. „Now let’s pretend that you lived once at… in the uh… the capital at Washington. All right. Now let’s pretend once that you lived in Buckingham Palace. Now let’s pretend once that you were at the top of the Eiffel Tower and let’s put that space in there.“

„Oh,“ he says, „but look at… that space is dimensional. You can’t get that in there too.“ And you say, „Well, put the Eiffel Tower there and now start ringing it with your childhood home, with your first school, with college,“ with this, with that, and so forth. And he’ll ring it all. He’ll say, „I’ll never get them back again.“

„All right, well ring the Eiffel Tower and we’ll have it all stacked up. Now take the first one off and put it back.“

„I’ve forgotten what the first one was.“ You say, „Well take a ‘look at it.“

And he takes a look at it and he says, „Well, all right.“ And he has to go back through all of the trouble of putting it back in place.

First thing you know he can throw all these places together. He says, „What the hell, they’re just anchor points. I can create better anchor points than that.“ And all of this feeling of lostness and so forth goes by the boards that he’s been packing around all his lifetime, feeling so lost; also childhood will fly into view and fly out, as an unnecessary ingredient.

Automaticity, in terms of space, is having somebody else provide the anchor points for you namely… namely the MEST universe. The MEST universe is very nice about waiting upon you. It does a good job of waiting upon you. Gives you everything. It supplies you with a perception of abundant energy providing you are willing to perceive the perception of abundant energy. And it provides you with all sorts of combined ideas of other people, doing this and you staying in agreement with the other people. As long as you stay in agreement with the other people the objects still remain there for your use, and of course you need them. That’s obviously… you need them. Yes sir.

You know you talk about teleportation. You don’t have to worry much about teleportation. That’s been a… a dream for a lot longer than Man has been writing. They drag… drag the body here and drag the body there and so forth.

It’s like the old man of the sea. The legend of the old man of the sea, the old man of the sea gets onto Sinbad’s back and he won’t let go. Well, that’s kinda… it’s worse than that, having a… having a body because the body is… is there and you don’t even know you’re there. But if you start rehabilitating this, why, you start packing around the body. There would be act… actually nothing easier than to pick up the body by the scruff of the neck making sure that you didn’t choke it and uh… yanking it over and putting it down at some place or another and kicking in a door, and sitting it in a chair and smoothing it all out so that it could be observed properly to be doing what it ought to be doing.

If you start doing that, however, you’ll step up out of the, what you might call the stream of agreement or the consciousness of intermingled ideas and agreements. You don’t have to have those at all. You don’t have to pay any attention to anybody else’s agreement but, you have agreed to.

You know it’s really best that uh… we find out what the other fellow thinks and uh… we do this and we do that. And it’s really best that we don’t interrupt other people when they’re talking and we give the other fellow a show. That’s all agreement on this line, and contributes to automaticity.

Okay, I hope you can work this out now with creative processing. I don’t think I’m going to say too much more about automaticity. But know that these schedules fit in, of course, with start, stop and change, with be, have and do, with space, energy and time. This is just an additional set of cycles that goes onto the other cycles tieing up a little tighter the packages of Man’s experience in this universe and the experience that Man and Thetan are. Let’s take a break.

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