December the 18th, 1952, first afternoon lecture.

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

And this afternoon, I want to take up some of these processes and demonstrate them quite directly. I noticed that uh… your professional practice has been… or your application of this material has been materially assisted by TIME magazine. Uh… TIME magazine is run by a Catholic, I think he is, or something, and I think it’s on the… on the uh… the magazine is published, and… by licence of a papal bull. And uh… a fellow by the name of Luce runs this magazine; and I merely want this to be on a tape for the record for posterity. If this fellow ever turns up for processing he’s to be thrown in the clam. And put there very heavily and very strongly and left to go about his way.

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

The last person that was thrown violently into the clam lost all of his wisdom and molars. That’s right, that’s what happened.

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

Uh… the general state of affairs in the world and Scientology are much better than’ you would ordinarily suppose, because there’s only one thing that this world… one thing that this world uh… is proof against, and that is complete silence. And this world is not good at picking up anything – on the ether waves, or by rumor, and so when they start to yap-yap, do you know that a vicious and scurrilous attack is made upon any subject practically under the sun that you get the other 50% vector immediately at work? So where we have yap-yap of this character, no matter how cheap the publication, no matter how little read or respected, such as TIME magazine uh… even that, if you can get any magazine that is in disrepute to put you on the pan uh… you can of course uh… expect a great deal more interest growing out. And one of the things with which I’d been concerned… after a while I realized that I’d over-reached the news story level. I never released a news story on any of this – never. Now it has become what? Front page news. Why? Because it makes lame kids walk again, because it makes people who have been in continuous pain well again? No, no. Oh, no, no. No, this is Earth, 1952 AD. After the Death. It’s now on nineteen hundred and fifty-two years of negative time track. It says right there on its dates.

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

That’d be wonderful, somebody blowing in here from someplace and examining some of these customs. No, you wouldn’t find it in there because it’d make somebody well or pick some girl with a postpartum psychosis up, or something like that. No, no, you wouldn’t find that.

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

But, if we can just beat up a few more marshals – and uh… if I can just scrape acquaintances with alleged millionaire oil promoters uh… who throw everything in bankruptcy left and right and so forth, well, we’ll get there, we’ll get there.

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

And uh… I want to call your attention to this… this datum – Book One, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, it’s human evaluation. It actually still stands as a unit and is the one text I’d done that covers human evaluation. Therefore, when you look across there, it tells you the kind of information something will pass on. And as we look across there we find out if they pass on this kind of information or that kind of information, these other manifestations straight on across the column will pursue. And if you have ever had any experience with this – as many of you have, I know – you have then seen it as… as a constant. That’s very very quiet.

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

Now, all you need to do, if you ever turn up any place, in order to know the tone or know how to hit a society, if you want to hit a society hard, is just know what is being published in its public prints. It is NOT different – never kid yourself from this – it is NOT different from the tone level of the society. It IS the tone level of the society, because that’s very closely monitored. It is monitored by such things as advertisers, and such things as sales of copies, and if there was no pecuniary thought in it, if it were a government paper… a government should always put out several papers if a government goes into publication in any way, and they should be at various tone levels. And you’ll notice this is the case when your government takes over the newspapers of a country – they’ll put out the cheap one and the… the sensational one and they’ll put out the conservative one and so on; they’ll do all these things in contraposition to one another.

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

You want to know the tone level, you pick up its papers. Because at the fine, far distance on this, it’ll all boil down, a newspaper has to have readers. Whether it’s paid for by advertisers or by a government, or by pennies or nickels or quarters or dollars across a newsstand, it survives only so long as it is read. Doesn’t matter whether it’s bought or not. And it is read as well as it matches the tone scale of a society. And you do not need to conduct any vast door-to-door survey here, there and everywhere on this subject – what is the tone level of the society to which I’m appealing – you don’t need to. Look at the newspaper. Look at the… what releases the daily bulletins.

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

You go to Russia, you say, „Well, the Russian paper doesn’t represent the Russian people; it is not representative of what the Russian people are thinking.“ Oh, no. It is. It is. They haven’t even conducted a survey. They’re putting out four-five papers, and uh… one paper has to run to a thousand editions to get it all over Russia. Oh, no. The other papers only run to one edition, and uh… another one doesn’t even sell out half an edition I mean it’s almost this extreme. Now their readers keep pounding them around and the editor is as successful as he is read. And as a result, even in a police state…

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

You… never get fooled on this. I mean, the United States Government has been blind on this subject. When I was in Intelligence, we… it was making a continual uh… mistake in trying to evaluate the Russian or German people, particularly the German people, by telling everyone they didn’t believe in their government, that they did not believe what was in those papers, and you’ll go there and there’ll be people in countries of that character who will tell you, „No we don’t believe these papers,“ and uh… they’re just trying to be polite. That’s all. A newspaper is as well read as it matches the tone scale of the society. Therefore you have someone in any kind of a culture of any character – that’s of ANY character, ANY culture – you have a method of finding out what their tone scale is in general, and by finding that out, what you can expect from that culture. It follows right through – SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL tone scale chart.

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

The only error you can make is stepping above or below or saying, „It must be something else.“ You see? I didn’t believe that chart myself when I first made it up. It was made up by, you might say, logic and uh… inductive reasoning. And uh… made it up on… on the pure theory of theta, MEST and ARC, that was all, and said, „It probably falls this way,“ and it added up very nicely and very smoothly – do a better job of it now with the other material which has accumulated, but uh… I don’t think any part of it would change. I’ve looked it over very recently and I was surprised. And I didn’t… didn’t do anything with this chart. It wasn’t out in print, wasn’t anything happening with this chart at all. It was just sitting there in my dining room, pegged down on a side table. And what do you know, one day I went over the chart and suddenly picked up a datum off this chart and applied it to the real universe.

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

And this datum was this: It said that a person would not communicate with me; under the most ordinary circumstances this person would not communicate with me. In the course of conversation, in the course of correspondence, in the course of this sort of thing I was running into a continuous communication block. It said right straight on across that chart, as you looked it up, a lot of other characteristics which weren’t nice. They were BAD characteristics. And I said, „Well, you know, this chart must be off then uh… must be off. Look… look at… over here. That person’s incapable of that.“ Do you know that within the next thirty days, that person was suddenly exposed into the light and my God! Every one of those additional items were true with magnitude. Hrhrhr! I hadn’t believed my chart and it caused considerable trouble – because I hadn’t believed that chart.

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

Another one showed up and another one showed up and another one showed up, and each time I pulled this foolish, foolish thing. I would go ahead on what I amusingly called instinct or something of the sort and I’d say, „Well, that doesn’t apply on the chart, or this doesn’t apply on it or something!“ And I’d read across the line, it says, „Brutal treatment of children. Sex as punishment,“ uh… and so on, or anything across the chart level.

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

„Oh,“ I’d say, „that couldn’t be.“ One character particularly couldn’t be, and this fellow had been very good in Dianetics, been very good. He did have uh… three or four of those manifestations across there that indicated that if in the remaining columns, if he pursued those things out he would practically be an outright murderer as far as associating with him was concerned. And what do you know – he almost made the grade. Without being prompted even vaguely. It just worked out that way. He just put the right pieces in the right spot at the right instant to come very close to causing a sudden demise. You… it was so bare – uh… boned that it was… must have been on a conscious level. Fascinating!

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

So, we’ve got psychometry available for any society. Therefore it gives you psychometry for a city in which you would dwell, or the people. Gives you a good psychometry for them and uh… it’s… they listen to what they hear at their own band of the chart, homo sapiens does, and very seldom listens to any other band of the chart. He’ll listen to a slightly lower band and so forth.

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

But uh… you… you will find… you will find that your preclears will respond to the type of mock-up which you find in the daily newspapers. As the chronic level of mock-up. Fascinating. Now you want to know, you want to know what kind of a mock-up to use: look at that old SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL chart and look at your preclear and so on. You’ll find out that this is the mock-up he is dramatizing most, so it must be just above and below this band that you must hit in order to change his location on the chart. And it becomes an exceedingly uh… interesting little operation.

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

Here’s somebody… here’s somebody who has a BAD reputation. And uh… he’s got a very bad reputation one way or the other, and you say, „Oh, no. He’s a good boy at heart,“ or… or something of this sort. You just look around, and you spot him on your… your chart there. And uh… don’t continually dream optimistically about a preclear and… and… and so on.

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

It says on SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, for instance, „Sex as punishment“ was a level of the chart. And that is a certain point of the chart. And that causes a lot of howling. Yeah. And the way you’d… the way you’d go on and correct this situation is a very simple thing. You would just uh… take your SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL chart, peg your preclear on it, and then go right straight across the chart, and hit above and below on each one of these subjects with mock-ups on various dynamics. It’s quite a therapy.

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

You could put somebody on the E-Meter and you would find this very smooth. And by doing this, you won’t fall into the rut of simply putting yourself on the chart all the time and giving the preclear mock-ups which would benefit you or that you like. Because as you come up tone scale, you will find yourself going higher and higher up the level and your interest more and more something else. And one day you will be dishing out – to be very technical – mock-ups which uh… won’t fit the case – won’t fit the case at all.

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

And uh… you’ll, for instance, go along airily and then all of a sudden the preclear’s bogged down sort of and you don’t know quite why this is, and you’d say, „Oh, well, it’s probably something that we didn’t hit in the course.“ No, that’s not the case. It’s just the case that you have gone up tone scale to a point where you aren’t thinking obsessively about sex all the time, or you’re not thinking about various other types of sensation.

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

Here’s your preclear down there in the tar pit, practically fossilized, and uh… his state of case demands mock-ups above and below his level of the chart and at that level, predominantly, you see, at the level, but immediately above and immediately below. You don’t have one of these charts, do you, around, do you, John? Anybody got one of these charts right here? Well, here we go, here we are.

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

Now let me… let me show you something about this thing. Handling of truth. Let us take somebody 1.5. This chart is uh… sometimes uh… has little misspellings on it, I see it once in a while. I seldom… I never see this material before it goes into print. Uh… it says 1.5, „Blatant and destructive lying,“ under handling of truth. Courage level says, „Unreasonable bravery usually damaging to self.“ That’s what it says! „Assumes responsibility in order to destroy.“ Well, actually your 1.5 is a pull-in.

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

I’m going to give you another column for this is why I’m talking about it. I started out talking about TIME magazine, got back into my subject. TIME magazine will be a forgotten thing possibly… possibly someday… someday its total claim to fame. Amusing. If one lets himself think in those terms then it becomes very amusing. By the way, you can’t let yourself think in those terms though. Go very long, you just completely separate from reality. And reality’s hard enough to keep in contact with.

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

I’m every once in a while fishing around with my big toe to discover a point in this universe. And I look around and look around and then I’ll sit down – I have done this – and I’ll sit down and think, „Now let me see, oh, wait a minute now, aaaaah yes. Ah, come on, you know of something interesting someplace. And there… there… it… it’s true, uh… there is… there are several interesting things in this universe. You hit this universe any place you see and you can come on in the rest of the way.“

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

And there’s a statue – a white, white marble statue – in a fountain which doesn’t run; it’s the statue just sitting there in front of uh… the Naval Park. Uh… right down on the waterfront at Havana. You know that statue? Sits there. It’s beautiful, it’s just beautiful. It’s… it’s…shape… is just… just a flow of grace. How anybody can make that out of marble, I don’t know. Maybe it isn’t out of marble; it looks more like alabaster. And that is a wonderful touch point. And uh… you get to thinking of something like that, not the Taj Mahal particularly, uh… you get to ‘thinking of anything like that, and you can make your contact back. Why? Because interest follows through with effort. Interest goes into effort.

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

Now we remember that as you saw your charts drawn, here you with – 40.0 to 0.0 as a line lying on its side – we had a stand up of wave lengths that demonstrated that the theta band, the perception band, that is, is way up. That’s the aesthetic band, not the theta band – there is no theta band. Adjacent to theta, aesthetic. On down through the various perception bands – wave lengths, you know? Any one of those wave lengths was present. In other words the 1.5 is capable of an aesthetic of sorts. He can actually contact a wave length, or not contact it. Of course he doesn’t contact it anywhere near as much as somebody higher on the chart does. But he is capable of a wave contact on aesthetics. You get… you get the… for instance, the uh… the aesthetic of the Nazi’s Storm Troopers. They had an aesthetic. A very interesting aesthetic. Uh… they uh… were in a… various categories of uh… uniform, their uniformity, uh… the very extravagant ritual which they established, all of which was below and behind the scene. They were all out on the subject, in other words they were big volume 1.5, and that bigness of volume managed to embrace the aesthetic band for them.

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

You… you’d make a mistake if you said somebody was short on aesthetics because he was at some position on the tone scale. Every position on the tone scale contacts that wave length one way or the other. And yet these fellows, these fellows had a… a fabulously horrible function and uh… so on. You wouldn’t think for a moment that such people would have such a thing. I’ve just chosen them as the horrible example. Even they.

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

Now uh… you’ll say a 1.1, uh… this girl… this girl couldn’t possibly be destructive in any way to anybody because, the truth be told, she loved him because he was an artist. Oh, that’s true. And she was 1.1 and she just loved him to his death. And if he was there very long, why, hmm – he wasn’t an artist anymore. You can just bet your bottom dollar. That’s your 1.1. That – and yet… yet you hear this person chatter. Now have you ever seen somebody chattering about the arts that just sort of made them obscene? You just look at this person’s, quote, ‘appreciation of music’, and you just say, „Brrrrr!“ Uh… they seemed – anything they touch in the line of the arts. And yet they seem to be quite appreciative of it. Well, that’s that fact, that at any band on this chart, you get any wave length. Well, a wave length is a perception. A perception of one kind or another, a characteristic perception. Eyes for instance will gravitate to a certain perception. And what we’re getting here is the various harmonics of affinity that we’re looking at and we can get each one modifying the wave length of the aesthetic band. And as a net result you will find an aesthetic, you will find an effort and you will find a regard for anything else, for perception or anything else – any one of these perceptions, you might say – at EACH one of these levels on the tone scale. And that means that telepathy can exist at any level of the tone scale.

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

It is a tune-in, rather than going up scale or down scale to. I want to make that quite clear to you. Don’t evaluate on the quality. Just realize that we have these things there, that’s all. And the there-ness of these items and articles is uh… all you’re interested in.

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

So, we’re running mock-ups. I could have called this talk „How to run mock-ups according to charts, attitudes.“

„Oh, gee!“ Terrible approaches.

We have then, ‘complete cowardice’ here it says at 0.5, ‘complete cowardice’ is his courage level. All right, let’s just look at this, let’s run it by the chart so we don’t get too far off the groove, want to give him mock-ups around on this and that.

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

And we’ve got a person in grief. I know many people in grief, by the way, who… who think they are probably 1.5’s. They’re not. Because they’re holding on so hard; they’ve collected so much. And there are people actually in apathy who are still holding on to all kinds of MEST – ruining it. Just wrecking it completely but holding on to it. And at grief… you would be surprised what a person will hold on to in grief. And they hold on again at 1.5, and they hold on again at 3.0. Now grief by the way is… is .75, not .5. There’s been a correction on this chart. It’s a harmonic you see, of 1.5. And apathy is .375 – relatively unimportant except just to understand that.

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

Now, we’re running mock-ups. We run up mock-ups that demonstrate being aesthetically cowardly. How would you… how would you run a mock-up on somebody who’s being aesthetically cowardly? Utter cowardice, very aesthetic.

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

Voice: A beautiful thing to run away from.

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

LRH: Mm-hmm – sure – or put them in a church. Beautiful church, with haloed windows, and get them praying devoutly. You know that that really… it comes under the… has an emotion that goes with it. It’s beautiful sadness. And that’s right. You’d mock up all these various things – anything – things happening to beautiful things, afraid things would happen to beautiful things, and so on. How do… how do you fit an emotion into these things?

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

Well, there’s two ways: One, you simply put the emotion into it and feel it back, that’s one method. That’s… that’s one way you go about it. Another one, you put the mock-up text one way or the other. You just ask somebody to mock up a figure and then you can put various emotions in the figure and move the figure around with various emotions on it, till he gets these emotions clearly.

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

Had somebody last night who had a… a terrible dwarf that had no neck. He kept mocking this thing up. And I was making him get the dwarf feeling… feeling the beauty of life, and so on. At first he said, „NO! You couldn’t possibly do that with this dwarf. It’s a strange kind of thing,“ and… and so forth, and I couldn’t persuade him to change his mock-up. He was stuck with it… it was his mock-up.

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

Well, he had to do something with his mock-up, so uh… the next thing you know, why, we had… we had this dwarf in a state of uh… enthusiasm. And uh… we had this dwarf in a state of all sorts of things. And finally we got it loosened up and running around and he could change the mock-up easily. It should interest you that the mock-up was persistent because he couldn’t alter its motion.

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

So how many kinds of mock-ups are there? That you could run on homo sapiens? Well, a long time ago I did a map. It’s a good one… serve you very, very well. You think there’s a lot of mock-ups on this map? Look at it. Yards! So we go back into it again, and I would recommend to you – uh… we’re trying to publish uh… again Book One of SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL under a title called ‘Human Evaluation’. Derek Ridgeway of London is trying to get this out. It takes them a long time, but they eventually get there. And it becomes a pretty good little handbook for mock-ups.

Voice: That’s right.

You can go through this thing, and you can look these things over and it says, „He’ll do WHAT?“ And „He’ll do so-and-so,“ and so on. Well, that means such-and-so will be done to him, because he invites those things being done to him, and so on.

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

Well, if you just keep tearing up and down this chart here, it’ll suggest an awful lot of mock-ups to you. Oh, a terrific number. Just loosen him up, practice, and so on, and breaking him out of the rut he’s in. That’s your main difficulty.

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

This man has a chronic position on the chart. Well, locate it. Maybe this chronic position on the chart uh… is somewhere here in the vicinity of… of 2.0. This guy is obviously in… in antagonism. There’s an aesthetic for antagonism. There’s sight for antagonism. There is uh… sound for antagonism. He will do certain things with all of these things, but we’re not worried about what necessarily he’ll do with them; we’ll just look across this chart here and we see, „capable of destructive and minor constructive action.“

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

All right. Now let’s mock up a big car. Now let’s take a sledgehammer and now let’s smash it. Now let’s fix its rear light. Do that a few times, a fellow’ll say, „You know, that’s kind of like me.“ He’ll look puzzled. Why… why, this would come close to home.

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

We… we’re taking that in the most literal possible sense: it’s destructive, but capable of some minor constructive action, see? And there we go into this, we have… you say, „All right. Now let’s repair a light switch. Now let’s mock up a light switch so that you can repair it. And now let’s just tear the room to pieces around it, and let’s tear the roof off, and let’s tear the basement out from underneath the house. And let’s throw all these things out in the street. Now put all that debris behind you. Now let’s take a screwdriver and take one screw out of the light switch and let’s finally get the light switch repaired,“ and we can make sure that that’s just… just the light switch sitting there repaired.

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

You’d be surprised at what happens when you start hitting the guy in his own tone level. It becomes fascinating to him, and he’ll break out of the rut. Because what you’re dealing with actually is not a mechanical flowing gimmygahoojit called an electronic computer. GE’s got one; I’ve been interested in examining it lately. Fascinating gimmick. I never had… never had done any what the GE would call ‘thinking’, and uh… by throwing in some attention units into the area, we… I started some thinking processes going on. Oh, no! „Now I will think!“ So away he runs – fabulous. „Now I will think.“ Nothing happens of course!

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

And by the way, pertinent to that, just give you a little note here on that. Uh… the future is a ‘will have’. What is called future, by which you would mean future time, also could be called ‘will have’. It’s a ‘will have’. Now, when you get all people in agreement, and tick-ticking off, everybody in agreement with everybody else, the ‘will have’ component alters, and becomes uh… very standardized, so that a person can’t very well control his ‘will haves’. So he has to think about having all the time. He thinks about having in the future and his thought is mainly concerned with thinking about having in the future.

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

Of course, he… he will think when he gets very sad and upset and quite neurotic about… think about what he has had in the past. Some people will just stick on the track, you see. And do you know why they do that? Because they can’t think a ‘will have’ on the future. And that’s why a psychotic evidently goes back down track. And a very important datum! Why does a psychotic go back in time? Well, he has to go back to a ‘had’ because there is no ‘will have’.

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

And a person’s activity on the tone scale – this very tone scale here – could be said to be: „How much ‘will have’ is he capable of imagining?“ That’s all, and as less and less ‘will have’ is capable… is there, less and less ‘will have’, he gets more and more reassurance for himself or ‘I have’. There’s where you get ownership very heavily, you see. He’s come down to a level of ownership. And then he says, „Well, I don’t have now, or if I do have now I couldn’t possibly have done it, so the past is the only place I knew I had.“ And in trying to contact something in the past that is good, he contacts something that is very, very bad. And if he’s in terrible condition about all this, it takes these other conditions before he really starts getting ridges caving in on him. Of course, what he had, his ‘hads’ in the past, cave in on him with a crush. and that cave-in follows through – dramatizing, computing psychotic – his ‘will haves’.

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

Now you just get a preclear to examine his ‘will have’, and I’ll be a son-of-a-gun if you won’t find it to be a deposit of energy! Why? Because so much thought has been devoted to it, and there’s this little law connected with all this, very good little law: What one devotes energy to, he will have. That to which one devotes energy, he will have. And then because it’s a dichotomy, that to which one devotes energy, he won’t have! Particularly if he agrees with what he finally obtains. Then of course he won’t have it, so that’s a secondary consideration that sets in.

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

That to which one devotes energy he will have. Why? Well, let’s look at this in its most mechanical form. Energy packed into space becomes an object. And so energy packed into a space becomes an object; factually, that is the way you make an object.

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

So when you think in just terms of „will have, will have, will have, will have,“ one is devoting time to ‘will haves’ – devoting time to future. We find out that the saner the person is, the more capable he is of sighting forward into the future. And actually a very sane person is living waaaaaaay up in the future. He’s very happy about the whole thing, quite excited, enthused and so on. Way up. And as the world caves in on him and takes away more and more and more, he starts thinking more and more and more into the present, and finally he’s thinking for the present. And he… you can’t think for the present by the way, you have to think for just a split se… second ahead because of the activity of the mind. You… you got to think of the next minute at least, in order to be there. But the second you slide away from thinking about the present, you think about the past, and when you start thinking about the past, God help us all.

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

Because when you think… can only think about ‘hads’, what have you done? Let me draw you a picture of that. Here’s uh… the past, and here’s the present, and here is the future. This is the Chart of Have. Chart of Havingness. We’ll dignify it with a title, even though there isn’t very much here. And here we have, coming across here, a time track. The preclear can be located at any moment here, at position PT. And position PT is regulated by an agreement of co-havingness. He got it by something else, got it by the other person – everything is sound, he has the sound – co-havingness goes on all the time in behavior.

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

Then there’s another spook thing. You know I told you that every… every once in a while in these lectures, in going so fast, I… I sort of work like putting it all on a tape recorder and then reeling it off. Not that tape recorder. And once in a while I get enthusiastic about something or something and the thing will skip a couple of turns on the reel. That actually is what happens. Uh… just too much data and one becomes quite impatient about jamming that much data into MEST time and it just gets… so we get slices and so on, and once in a while you… you just miss it completely.

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

I told you once in these lectures that there was a cute theory, oh, awfully cute theory that somebody was going to think up – ooh, sweet, very sweet theory. And it’s going to have to do with the fact that – well uh… let’s see, „Those people back in 1952 were wrong.“ Uh… they all start out this way, particularly anyone to whom they owe their all. Anything they know they always have to qualify the statement. Do you want to know what a man’s source is, or what a man’s fair opponent is or who is holding down his MEST that he ought to have, why he’s qualifying statements and tearing them to pieces with these people’s names.

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

All right. When we have this condition… Let’s… let’s… let’s look at another condition. We got a whole big universe here. And somebody’s gonna say, „Now look, these thetans…“ They… they could start a cult on this, so I’m gonna spike this cult right now. If you guys remember it, it’s spiked. But uh… they say they have these thetans and they wandered into this universe and so on and that was the theory there used to be. Actually… actually what it was is: „You were once an atom and you’re graduating up the tone scale. You are graduating up scale and uh… you are actually developing and you’re getting bigger and bigger and the fact that the presence of the ridges demonstrate adequately that uh… uh… one is really just a large atom with electronic rings. This… this is backed up by Lucretius, and also uh… Pope Pius or somebody, and with a papal bull, which of course is different than philosophy because a papal bull’s true.“ Uh… the uh… MEST universe definition of truth. It’s true.

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

So we have to go back here and look over the track in the past and trace forward how Man is getting „bigger and bigger and more and more developed, and you are developing up toward galaxy size. But at the moment that is a natural thing, that’s what you’ll eventually do, come up toward the size of a galaxy and the thing for you to do – and they were very wrong back there in 1952 – is to collect a lot of MEST and a lot of ridges because that’s what moves you up in size and at length gives you greatness.

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

And it happens that the galaxy is a sort of a parent, and a galaxy is a parent, and out of this galaxy is born small galaxies. And these little galaxies are born with more or less the same sentience that they get from the larger galaxy. And then the small galaxy develop, and of course the smallest’ of galaxies is an atom. And some of the atoms succeed, and they develop… and they develop on and at length become animals. And then the animals at length become thetans powerful enough to be men. And then these develop further and then there are thetans that are sort of solar systems. They get that big, you see. And then there are thetans which are as big as an entire galaxy and that can have little galaxies and we can start the cycle over again and that’s really the way it was. And that’s how they’re wrong back there in 1952 and that’s why you should collect a lot of MEST and be shot with electronics and a lot of other things, you see.“

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

You know that somebody could sell that?! Tremendously salable commodity. Mmmm! Why, it matches up with a 180 degree vector of this universe. Obviously he can’t have all this stuff so that’s the best reason he must have it. Uh… he’s got all this demonstration of havingness – it’s time. So there you go.

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

Somebody else’ll come along and try to explain that the reason our time runs concurrently is our havingness of electrons, which themselves are all – monitored by the larger body or the larger beingness or brain of the galaxy.

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

In short, brethren and sistern, we’re going to run into a lot of squirrels before we’re through.

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

Now that… that’s… that’s theory. Uh… you… you’ll find somebody buying that little galaxy theory one of these days. They’ll probably go down to Fairhope or Wichita or someplace and… I betcha what (bet you what)! I betcha they get a five-page write-up in TIME magazine!

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

Okay. We got a present time here, and present time is established by co-havingness – not by cohabitation, as the Freudians believe. And this co-havingness here is just an agreement that at this time, at this instant, this much IS! That’s… that… that’s what you’re agreeing to. You say, „Now look, right now that’s in that state of repair, and that’s in that s… position and state of repair,“ and so forth. No, not present time then, because present time – oh hey, this whole thing goes out of gear, doesn’t it? Isn’t that terrible. Let’s see what else is changing. Oh, thank God. We have… we have a change going on over here on the tape recorders. There’s less tape on one and on the other and what do you know, we use that in this room to tell how long the lecture is.

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

Of all the havingnesses in, this room which are used for time, none of them is reliable except that tape, because it spins and gets less and less on one reel and more and more on the other reel. See?

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

That’s uh… fascinating. All right. There’s present time. If I want to know what present time, is, I have to look over at the tape recorder. Usually I turn on my own time mechanism. My own time mechanism doesn’t work too well.

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

Hey, you know, here’s a wonderful gimmick! Do you know that you could probably convince everybody that 24 hours had gone by and they didn’t know it? You know, there… there’s a wonderful way of doing this. Everybody thinks that, well, they would wake up with another date, but date’s got nothing do with it.

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

You just say, „Do you realize… did you have a moment yesterday, an instant yesterday when you felt sort of suspended or just an Instant when something went like that? Did you feel that? Ohhh, you did. Just for a moment there – if you think it over you can probably pick up such a moment… Well, you know, what happened was… is this entire solar system stood still for that length of time, and of course standing still without any change of position there was no motion, and people who had one foot raised, naturally couldn’t fall down because there was no gravity during that period, because there was no motion.

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

So there couldn’t be any energy flows or interchanges or magnetic waves or anything else to influence them, and the fact of the matter was that this is demonstrably true because nobody noticed it! And it would take every single being we… we have present, would have had to have experienced it to put it in a situation where nobody noticed it. And so therefore it obviously happened! Why did it happen? Because it happened to everybody. And how could we prove this, because there isn’t ANYBODY who saw it happen!“

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

And the way we do this… this is for… this comes, by the way, from associating with this GE thinking computer, wonderful gimmick.

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

And so you see, what happened was that there had to be certain major changes made in the orbital action of the roody rods in this universe. And the thetan who is the monitoring agency of this universe of course has to suspend action to that length and he just zeroed time here for an instant. Then of course everything stopped – nothing could possibly have deteriorated because nothing went on. And this co-havingness was… of course, wouldn’t be thrown out of balance, it couldn’t be, because the thetan – he had 24 hours’ worth of work to do, and he did it, and finished it off and then everything went on. But of course as far as they were concerned they were just in continuous motion all the way along the line anyhow – as far as they were concerned. And as I say we have the adequate proof of this because nobody noticed it!“

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

The scholastic used to prove things that way. The Germans… you’ll find in old German philosophic texts the most dissertating dissertations that prove themselves along that line. I’m… I’m sure TIME magazine would approve of that theory. Do you suppose they’d put that on page one! Let’s elect somebody to be the greatest scientist of all time. And let’s have him advance a theory… let’s think of a good theory. Oh, yes, it has to be that he found another science wrong, so that would be Planck. He finds Planck wrong and he finds out that the quantum… the quantum theory of nuclear physics is wrong. Now… now… that’s… that’s the way you start it in this society. „The quantum theory is wrong.“ All right. „Now he found the quantum theory wrong, for the good reason that…“ – let’s see, let’s find a good reason that would fit in about the same tone scale.

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

Oh, „Atomic bombs have to be manufactured, they’re not instantaneous.“ Do you follow that? Well, I don’t. But uh… that’s a good theory. Now we can start in from there and then demonstrate conclusively that the quantum theory is wrong because of the complete non-existence of atom bombs, and therefore, the quantum theory is wrong. Now we can further prove that gravity really doesn’t exist and prove all these other things don’t exist, and in view of the fact that we can prove all this, that’s apathy, because nobody wants anything to exist in apathy.

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

There you are. That’s the whole thing. So don’t make this kind of a mistake on havingness. Don’t make this kind of a mistake on havingness that you… you just see it as havingness that then therefore wipes everything out because believe me your desire to have and your desire not to have aren’t foisted off on you. You… you have those, and they’re not illusory. When some people want or don’t want, they want or don’t want with exclamation points on some things! If you don’t believe this, back a US Marshall up against the wall and put a gun in his stomach. He’ll beg.

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

Now, present time then, is just this existence and… of havingness and your agreement on it. And your future? All is present time on the idea that we must have a rate of change. Rate of change is as mathematics, known as calculus. Calculus is a very interesting thing, it’s divided into two classes. There’s differential calculus and integral calculus. The… differential calculus is in the first part of the textbook on calculus and integral calculus is on the second part of the textbook on calculus.

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

Uh… as you look through the book, you’ll find in the early part of the book on calculus, ‘dx’ over ‘dy’. A little ‘dx’ and a little ‘dy’ and they’re over… one above the other on a line, predominates in the front part of the book, but as you get to the end of the book you’ll find these ‘dx’ and ‘dy’s’ have been preceded by a summation sign, or are equating to a summation sign, and the presence of this shows that we are in the field of integral calculus.

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

Now I hope you understand this because I’ve never been able to make head nor tail out of it! It must be some sort of a black magic operation started out by the Luce cult. Uh… some immoral people who are operating in… up in New York city at the Rockefeller Plaza. Con… thoroughly condemned by the whole society.

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

Anyway, their rate of change theory – I… I’ve never seen any use for that mathematics by the way. I love that mathematic because it – I… I asked an engineer one time, who was in his sixth year of engineering, if he’d ever used calculus. And he told me, „Yeah, once. Once I did,“ he said.

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

„Uh… uh… when did you use it?“

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

„Well, I used it uh… once uh… lemme see, what did I use it on? Oh, yeah, yes, something on the rate of change of steam particles in boilers. And then we went out and tested it and found the answer was wrong.“

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

Calculus… if you want to know, there is room there for a mathematics which is a good mathematics, and it would be the rate of co-change, or the rate of change when something else was changing, so that you could establish existing rates of change in relationship to each other. And for lack of that mathematics, nobody has been able to understand present time! You just can’t sum it up easily. Or, let us say, for lack of an understanding of what present time was, nobody could formulate that mathematics.

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

So actually there’s a big hole there that could be filled and it’s trying – ca… the thing called calculus is trying to fill that hole right now and it can’t. But the rates of change – it comes closest to it. I think it was one of Newton’s practical jokes.

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

Uh… here we have… here we have calculus as trying to measure a rate of change. Well, if we had something that was really workable and simple, it would be formed on this basis: The present time and gradients of time were gradients of havingness, and as one havingness changed, you could establish a constancy of change for other related havingnesses. But because the basic unit of the universe is two, you would have to have a rate of change known and measured for every rate of change then estimated. The mathematics won’t… I mean a mathematics won’t operate in this universe unless it has simultaneous equations. If you have two variables, you must have two equations with which to solve those two variables. In other words you have to compare one to the other simultaneously. Otherwise you just get another variable.

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

Of course people laughingly do this; they… they take an equation with two variables and then they solve it. And then they… you say, „What you got?“ And the fellow says, „K.“ You say „Now just a minute. You got K, huh? Well, what is K?“ „Well, K we have established arbitrarily as being…“

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

You say, „Why did you work the equation out in the first place? You had a K, didn’t you?“

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

So present time’s advance into the future – rate of change. Present time’s advance over here to the right is indicated by the arrow, is sort of apparent to people, but they’re in it all the time so they have a feeling of travel. And let’s take this time track now and see what does happen. We’ll draw this time track 2 here, and below it we find another arrow, but it’ track. And what’s changing here? What’s changing is the rate of havingness.

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

And we get this track coming back here to PT, and the track is proceeding out that-a-way. Now, what is the track? The track is the rate of change of havingness. And what is the rate of change? The rate of change of havingness is what we agree to be a rate of change of havingness.

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

People’s intolerance for speed and people’s intolerance for slowness are themselves an effort to maintain a constant rate of change. And in view of the fact that these people – as I just commented some facetiously, your desire to have and your desire not to have are real and they are actual – both – and give the universe the backbone of reality and actualities which universes have. You want them there, for lack of something better to have there.

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

That’s earlier talk; unless you gave the preclear a good reason to have something else he would continue to have exactly what he has. You give him interest enough, however, and he’ll want something else, see how that is? But he’s got the MEST universe. That doesn’t mean he’s satisfied, that means he doesn’t have anything else to want. If he doesn’t have anything else to want, he won’t have anything else.

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

So if he just uh… has this and it’s a certainty and not enough imagination or thought to produce anything else except immediately what he’s got, you’re not going to get a shift. Not even a vague shift, time.

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

So we have over here on track 2 what is happening here. And this is why they keep showing time in vectors, is this rate of change. And of course we see that its rate…

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

Now, the dynamics, the eight dynamics demonstrate amongst themselves an interdependency which is covered in writing best in – of the works that I’ve done on this – in Book One. It’s just the viewpoint of what’s good. Viewpoint establishes what’s good. Viewpoint establishes what’s bad and we get these interrelated viewpoints and we get from these then an interdependency. Not one of these dynamics can exist without the other dynamics existing. And so you see that?

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

You’re looking right at the heart of the problem called ‘time’. Unless these stay in agreement one with another, they can’t co-exist, and if one of them steps out without an able support from all the rest, and steps out of line, you’re liable to get a collapse of all those dynamics.

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

We find that the thetan in a good state is actually all dynamics. Therefore he can be a universe, and that he turns up missing in this one due to the complete uh… plethora of thetans around, it doesn’t seriously damage this one, because he is not removing from it an integral portion of its energy. He’s removing something else that has nothing in mass, and that’s an idea.

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

He is a capability and a zero of mass, and his havingness is a time monitor. That is to say, he has or doesn’t want. And you could keep taking thetans out of this universe and nothing would happen much to the universe because you really aren’t upsetting these because you’re subtracting what? You’re subtracting 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8! It’s the only way you can get out, it’s the only way you could add anything to his universe is by adding 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 to it.

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

In view of the fact that your thetan is a balanced eight dynamics, when he is subtracted, he subtracts almost exactly equal – don’t… you don’t have to ever worry about this, I mean this just happens to work out – he subtracts almost exactly equal quantities on all eight dynamics. That’s why he has to be well up tone scale to get out. Now what do you know! He has to be balanced on these dynamics, otherwise the imbalance freezes him in. Think of that for a moment. So he’s got to be up Into a level of practically pure thought. And the reason he can be up into pure thought is he’s not going to take any MEST with him, believe me, and he’s not going to withdraw on that.

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

Let’s take a look at – what’s a balanced equation, then, for this universe? Any stability in this universe contains as its balances the rate of change of the eight dynamics’ interdependencies. The eight dynamics are all interdependent in any stability equation in this universe. And you get any equation in this universe that demonstrates its stability and you’ve got all eight dynamics present. One way or the other, you’ve got them present. And their stability means that they’re present in a stable or balanced form. Now you start to unbalance one of these things, and of course nothing is going to happen at all. If you don’t unbalance it by subtracting 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. An exact balance from it. See?

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

You can take out of this stability what, let’s call a beingness, a quantum of beingness, if there could be such a thing. You could take this out all the way along the line and if you took it out wrong, or tried to take it out wrong, you’d blow the whole shootin’ match. In other words, you tried to take it out down tone scale you’d practically blow the universe up, and when the boys try to go out the bottom of the scale with apathy and all that, the rest of that thing, by golly they blow up cultures, cities, so on – everything goes to pieces, because they’re trying to move out of the universe with their hands on all this MEST.

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

The rich man tries to go to heaven; of course he can’t go to heaven on account of those ridges, they won’t let him through the eye of the camel! All right, let’s take a break.

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