Now, continuing this on Standard Operating Procedure Issue 2, the technique level of V is on the basis that the individual must have a body and so he doesn't dare move off any distance from this body. Or he is so slightly in this body, or so split in his attention to other bodies, that he can't move out of this one.

Those other bodies may be in the past or they may be in the present. And the technique — the technique which involves this is calculated from something I am going to cover, and is a particular manifestation, and we'll call it Creative Processing. Again, we solve V with Creative Processing.

But what we practice on particularly with V, and practice on very, very heavily with V, is creating a body. So the technique for Mr. V is to create the body — create bodies. His obvious trouble is he's got a fixation on a body, so we just fix him up so that he isn't so bad off about it.

Now, in this being, havingness and doingness, I was going to say it probably would never occur to somebody who isn't very facile in getting in and out of his body that there's only one place he conceives that he is permitted to be. He conceives he is being permitted, which is typical of what the MEST universe does for you: it permits. It permits you to act or it motivates your actions. That's very fine. It makes you act, and if you aren't motivated in that way, it punishes you until you do act in that fashion, and so forth. It just cuts down self-determinism, self-determinism, self-determinism.

All right. Let's move one — backwards another step, to IV. Now, it's very probable that you will see these techniques come out with letters on Standard Operating Procedure Issue 2, just to differentiate the two techniques. So what you'll be calling a V will be an A-B-C-D-E, an "E." And "E" would, of course, stand for easy.

The biggest foe of the MEST universe is the person who can invent a universe, because you can invent a universe good enough and big enough that it'd eat this one up, if you concentrated on it hard enough, if it's worth doing.

So what you get there on a IV level is again, and still, Ridge Running. And you know, I think the first class didn't even bother to go down to the dock on Ridge Running, much less miss the boat. I don't think they even went vaguely near the dock. I don't think they even heard of the dock! Really, it's true! Because I haven't heard any slightest rumor or comment from any direction that anybody is using Ridge Running. And it's the handiest jim-dandiest little technique you ever ran into. It is — if a person can see black and white.

It has not occurred to some of these people, then, that one of the reasons they can't get out of their body is because all the space anywhere around them is owned by somebody else. They don't dare move out in that space. It's another's. They dare not be elsewhere. So they can't be out of their bodies, if they're very low on the Tone Scale. They just can't be out of their bodies. They aren't when they get out of their bodies, because they can't be because that isn't "their space." And if it isn't their space, they can't self-determine space, they naturally cannot be. Because space is be, and that's all there is to that.

And the only difference between a IV and V is, is the IV can't get out either, but he can see black and white adequately. And if he can see black and white adequately, he can get out. Now this would classify him very precisely. It's a person who can't get out of his body but can see black and white.

Well, just think of it for a moment. Think of being in one of those coats over there. You know that's not your space. You get people... a thetan, and you tell this fellow, you say, "All right. Now, let's go over and take a look in the window across the street." "Nuh-uh." He says, "No, no. I couldn't do that." "Why not?" "Well, I just kind of feel like that's private. That's somebody else's business and it must be ethical or something of the sort, and I just couldn't do that." Much less "Now, let's see. Why don't you go down... I tell you, we need somebody in this photograph we're taking here. Why don't you just go down the street and pick somebody up and bring them up here and we'll put them in the picture and take their picture, and so forth." The fellow says, "Oh, I just couldn't do that." You see, you're asking him to accomplish a doingness for which he has no permission. He believes he has to have permission. Actually, he has to run on a moral code of the MEST universe, the automatic moral code of the ms' universe, which says, "Nothing belongs to you except what you are given. And therefore, things can be taken away from you at any moment because they've only been loaned to you. You own nothing. So long as you agree perfectly with the MEST universe, you can own some part of the MEST universe, and we're permitting you to exist. Your beingness is only MEST beingness." God help these poor fellows who have this "man to mud" theory or "mud to man." That's horrible. I mean, just think of that. That's a gorgeous theory.

A VI, for instance, is a person who is just very neurotic and can't get out. So don't be surprised to have a psychotic IV on your hands the second they step out; or a psychotic III, or even a psychotic I. You see, with this Standard Operating Procedure it's not gauged according to sanity; it's just gauged with the ease with which one steps out of the corporeal MEST.

The fellow is being allowed to live by mud. Very, very aesthetic concept, especially some of the mud I have smelled around the Channel in England.

So number IV, case IV, is different than case V only in that case IV can see black and white; he can get impressions of black and white. Very often a VI can't. VI says, "What world? What me?"

All right. Now, possibly this individual who's having a rough time getting out of his body — there aren't many that do, but supposing he's having a rough time getting to be a Cleared Theta Clear. He is a Theta Clear; he's trying to get up the line, and boy, just clear it up in all directions, develop his potentials like mad in all directions, and he's just sort of not making it. Probably wouldn't occur to him that he is being asked to desert some of the havingness which has been presented to him. And unless he deserts some of the havingness that has been presented to him, or at least devaluates it — he can still hold on to it, no value to it — why, he's just pinned right there. Only he's in a bad state. His time is fouled up on him. Time.

"Locate time and space."

You see, the body acts not as an ethereal sort of a meter. I mean, it's not a meter that we just guess at or something of the sort; it's a good, solid timer. It has a life of its own and it acts as a timer, and it keeps the thetan very much in line. And the thetan is so completely out of practice balancing himself in present time — he thinks the body does it all the time — he steps out of the body and he looks around and it's yesterday. He says, "This can't be right." Now he says, "All right. Now, let's straighten all this space out here.

"What space?"

Now, wait a minute. That's the ceiling of my little room when I was a kid and that is combined with the office desk where I worked as a clerk and I look over at these chairs. And what do you know, these chairs were the kind which, I don't know, maybe they won't be there till tomorrow. And all of this is the composite view which I see. Neow!" "Something," he will say, "is upset around here. Something is upset." Well, I'll tell you what's upset about him: space, be. His beingness as a thetan is so upset that his space is upset. So space is upset on this thetan?

Of course, a VII doesn't even discuss it. VII just goes and does something peculiar.

Okay? Space is upset. He's worried about being a thetan. Diagnosis and analysis. Very simple. He's worried about being a thetan. There's something wrong with being a thetan. So there's something wrong with space. If you find he has something wrong with space, then, there's something wrong with what he is being. Very simple.

All right. So, what's your IV? What's the technique for IV? The first technique that you would really use on a IV that you'd be very serious about, the second that you ran this person down to IV, you'd use Ridge Running — Ridge Running. That is a rather slangy little designation for that technique. A ridge-runner in the States is a Tennessee mountaineer or a shoat — a pig. But the technique Ridge Running is so named because you run flows to break ridges. And if you run enough flows to break enough ridges, the fellow all of a sudden is going to orient himself outside himself. And he'll orient himself in about eight spots outside of himself and wonder where the devil he is; but if you go far enough with it, you'll suddenly locate him, and he'll cohese and congeal into one spot, and it'll be a considerable distance from the body.

Actually, if there's something wrong with space to him as a MEST body — he just doesn't have his space lined up well as a ms' body. You go into his office and he's got this great big office, enormous office, and way over here in the corner he has this desk. And it's just heaped up and mounded with stuff in all directions. And as you walk in the room, you see these spectacles peering out from amongst these papers, and the rest of the room is bare — there's something wrong between that fellow and space.

Actually, you can take a case that's very, very — apparently very bad off — can't get out, see black and white. Maybe he can barely, barely see gray, and it's just gray both ways, not even black, but it's just kind of a gray — or he can see black. And you use this technique and this person will all of a sudden be out of their body and able, and know that they can control their body from outside in the first twenty minutes of application.

Now, preferably, this fellow will have a little tiny room, just a little tiny room, and that'd be just about right. That's his concept of how much he is.

And I don't think the first class even heard that boat whistle; they didn't even call a ticket office. I'm sure this is the case, because I'm looking at a V, (quote) V (unquote), who is really a IV. And Ridge Running is the technique which remedies this.

But actually, the MEST universe can present him with an awful lot of things like this. It can increase his beingness, it says — it's all a sort of a ghastly trick, you see — it says, "Now, we'll make him a present of this big estate with an enormous castle on it and all that sort of thing." Well, this fellow is still the same aberrated fellow... MEST universe... Too late in life -you've often seen this — too late in life he wins the jackpot; too late in life he acquires some space. And how much space does he use of it? Now, he's got that great big hall and way over here in the corner of it is this little tiny desk. He isn't able to absorb it. Now, if that were done to him when he were young, you see, he'd suddenly say, "My beingness expands to this degree." Space. That's why land is so important to people. Ooh, there have been more people killed over land. Yeah. If you let the question of land come up in a family or the question of possessions come up in a family... Possibly some of you have been to a funeral, and they couldn't quite hold the funeral because the relatives were — well, they shed a couple of tears, but they're in there having a devil of a fight over the wardrobe of the dear dead departed. And it's unimportant. You'll find them — they won't do anything with this wardrobe after they get it. I mean, it just seems to be... it's a terrible obsession. Beingness.

Ridge Running is a very specific technique. It is arduously and onerously specific; it is done in a certain way. There are tapes and notes here on Ridge Running and I'm not going to cover this technique very broadly. I'm merely going to say this: You start in and make the fellow give himself a command in the field of perception or action. You start preferably with perception; you start preferably with giving himself the command "Listen."

All right. Now, for instance, I mention to you, "Are there spaces where you dare not be?" "Are there spaces where you dare not be?" Just like that: "What spaces would you not dare be in?" And you start sorting those things out and you'll find out your tone comes up, thetawise.

You say, "Now, all right, close your eyes. Now, tell yourself to listen," and he does.

Perhaps you'd forgotten about these things.

And you say, "As you told yourself to listen, could you perceive, in the head, or in — around anyplace, perhaps a little tiny flow of gray or something? Well, try it again. Tell yourself to listen again."

There's spaces here, not too far distant, that you'd care not to be. One of them is jail, You wouldn't want to be in the jail. The very best way to do this — Creative Processing and so forth — if you have the fellow already out of his body, send him down... send him down to the jail, let him sit on a cot for a while, examine the joint, walk out and walk into the jail and then walk out of the jail and walk into the jail and walk out of the jail and walk into the jail He'll say, "The heck with this." And he'd get to feel more important.

All right. Now if you know your business here, you're getting the counter-elasticity of flows, and a flow will only run in one direction white, and then it'll go black, and then it has to be run backwards for it to go white again. And it'll run backwards white and then go black, and then you'll have to run it forwards, and it's white, and then goes black. And then you've got to run the opposite, and you're running dichotomies, and that's what happens in running a dichotomy. And you'd better know that because that's a ringtailed snorter.

Odd, but you just... you're taking up the spaces he dare not be. You're just picking those things up. Simple. This is terrifically practical application, you see, in processing. It's just as practical as "To drink coffee it is a very good thing to have coffee. In order to put coffee in somebody's stomach, give them a cup of coffee." I mean, it's this kind of information — this kind of information.

All right, so you say, "Listen."

If you want to clear somebody and you want to theta clear somebody, you're asking him to remove himself from a space where he is very sharply identified, that he owns, that he has as his own beingness, and if these things are terribly valuable to him and if he feels pretty queasy about his beingness anyhow, you're asking him to remove from a space where he dare be to spaces where he dare not be. And you would be surprised, but one of the spaces he dare not be may be a foot from his head. It might be five feet from his head. He might dare not be one inch from his head. Maybe all the space outside of his body from one sixteenth of an inch — from there on out to the rest of the universe is where he dare not be. He doesn't dare to be in any of these places.

And he says, "No, I didn't perceive anything." He said, "I didn't perceive anything."

Now, that is his level of beingness, and all of a sudden you give him that.

"Well, what do you feel about listening?"

There's something funny about theta. There's something very strange about it, in that in spite of the fact that it doesn't have wavelength or motion or anything else, it seems to have different potentials from person to person.

And the fellow says, "Why, I don't know, I guess I just can't listen."

And you'll find some fellow who has, for him, a terribly low concept of beingness — for him — and he's nailed down tight. And you'll find somebody else who has a very indifferent sense of beingness, very indifferent, and they can go anyplace, it doesn't matter — doesn't matter to them. They can go anyplace — perfect reality, and so on.

You say, "Okay. Now, close your eyes. Now, see — look around inside your head as you do this and see if you don't perceive just a little bit of gray somewhere. Now, object to yourself listening; say 'I can't listen.' "

What it is, is actually, would be in a motor would be differences of horsepower. Actually, what it is is willingness to let go force. And a person has to reckon with this. You cannot draw — all I'm cautioning you against — is you cannot draw an inference as to the capabilities and intelligence of an individual simply by whether or not they step out easily.

And the fellow will. All of a sudden he'll say, "Uh — well, I don't know quite what it is, this is — this little — little white spot there and it's maybe about a sixteenth of an inch, no more than that. It's about a sixteenth of an inch flow."

It's not a direct circuit because of this: The fellow who has a lot of doingness — fellow who has a lot of doingness — gets born into this life, and the society turns around and takes a look at this kid and it says, "Whhhh! Hello, Sonny!" There he goes. He's all set. And he revolts against this. And the society — this MEST universe has almost unlimited force. And he tries to fly in its teeth and rebel, and the MEST universe said, "Well, we can take care of things like you." Bang! Out he goes, in he flies, in and out he goes — back and forth, back and forth. He tries to do, do, do. Against any odd he just keeps on doing, doing, doing, and the next thing you know the violence leveled against him — it becomes fabulous in terms of quantity.

And you say .. .

Now, let's take some fellow and he's very nice, he's very mild, he's very agreeable. He doesn't try to do anything. Somebody says to him, "Be here" -he is; some, "Be there" — he is; and "Go here" — he is; and so on. And boy, he winds up — he's clear as a bell. And you say, "Be out of your body," and he is.

"There," he says, "it's gone now."

He didn't ever fight.

That's your flow. Aha! Boy, you're into this case up to the elbows right that moment. And you can chalk that case off, if you know Ridge Running, as a solved case. Right that instant.

Well now, there can be reasonable factors behind this. You see, it isn't necessarily true that he has less power than the other one, for the good reason that he might have grown up in a very favorable environment that didn't even mildly object to his revolutionary tendencies. He might have grown up on a farm or something of the sort, and the day that... when the other kid was having to walk down the back alleys of someplace in order to get away from enemies that were pursuing him in earnest with clubs just because he existed, why, this other kid, he'd clamor around and Mama would finally say, "Oh, why don't you go out and play." That's how tough the environment was. I mean, "Oh, why don't you go out and play in the orchard. Go out and play with the horse" — the old plug horse — and he'd go out there and... Real big, exciting life.

But you must realize that you told him the first time to listen, he didn't know what he was looking for. But there was probably a little flow, and that was white. But he didn't see it, so you have to get it to flow white again; you've got to get it to flow backwards on the negative side of the dichotomy, and then he'll see it. And if he doesn't see that again ... Let's say you drew a blank the second time, you tell him again, "Now, give yourself the command to listen and look around there and see if you don't see something inside your head."

Now, you take a person who has been transplanted a great deal in his current lifetime, he'll keep living life cycles within his current lifetime cycles.

And he'll say, "All right, I'll tell myself to listen." All of a sudden he'll say, "Uh — ow. I didn't see anything," he says, "but that hurt." What you did was blow a ridge. What you did was blow a ridge — boom! Oh, is that valuable. Ha! You've got this case!

He just keeps living these cycles. He'll pick up and he'll get very facile for a long time. Boy, he can put together a little universe at an awful rush. He'll just gather the odds and ends of this universe together and he'll sort of hang them together rather sketchily. He's skeptical after he's done this a few times, but he'll still hang it together and it doesn't seem very real to him.

So you say, "Well, all right ..." If you blew the ridge, by the way, the command "Listen" is going to be ready again. Of course, because you drove that flow through. It'll flow now again. You say, "Give yourself again the command 'Listen' and this time look."

And his time factor is quite bad, really. It'll get worse as he goes on. He transplants. But then because it's very hard to make a universe there and that sort of thing, he'll become disgusted with it after a while or something like that, and he will try to transplant and move over again and start another universe. And he gets the idea after a while that, well, if you kind of perpetually create a universe you can have some kind of a state of havingness.

And he said, "Yeah," he'll say, "I'll — I see a — just a little tiny streak of white. Yup. I see a little streak of white. And there it goes — there it goes, and it goes over against something black, and then it goes black."

And it's interesting, because he doesn't have any continuum of possession. The body alone, practically, gives him a continuum of possession. Of course, as he gets older, he'lllook in the mirror and it's not quite the same body either. So he'll say, "Youth, boyhood — well, that's just completely unreal." Or, "When I was a girl — let's see, when I was a girl I was um... tsk -uh... yeah, I... I remember the name of the town, the uh... Well, I was born. I was born. I've seen that in the birth records." Now, you want to know why youth disappears so chronically. I mean, every time you get hold of a preclear, you say, "Remember this in your youth." And he says, "What period of my life?" And you say, "Your youth." "Oh! Oh, well, after I got out of school so on..." "No," you say, "no, no, no, no, no. Your childhood. You know, childhood.

And you say, "Well, what does that black thing it hit against say?"

Real early, real early." Very often it hasn't occurred to this fellow for just years and years and years he ever had a childhood.

And the fellow says, "Oh, I'm too bored to listen,' that's what it says."

Now, you take him in the middle span of life, this is particularly true. He's just forgotten his childhood. He doesn't have any of his possessions of childhood with him. He doesn't have the family, he doesn't have the house, he doesn't have any of the conveyances, none of the toys, the surroundings, that sort of thing, and he just doesn't have a continuum. So he just apparently doesn't go back to childhood. No "have." He's got a different body, really — it looks different.

And you say, "All right. Now get that flow 'I am too bored to listen' and watch it flow back toward the point where you commanded yourself to listen."

You've got to call it to his attention... If, by the way, you call this to his attention, start getting him to remember this of childhood, and he will start to draw a similarity and he will patch up a time track. And all of a sudden he has a childhood. If you want to know how to get a childhood out, and so forth, just get this factor of "have" to work. It's "had," "should have had," "did not have." That's childhood. Childhood is actually the story, in most men, of "did not have." And that develops into "cannot have," which goes very easily into "will never have." For a long time he sort of could tell himself, "Well, someday I will have.

He says, "Okay," and he does. And all of a sudden he finds the command point where he is ordering himself to listen has shifted to another place.

There will be time: future time, future time, future time." And then that word future gets fainter and fainter and fainter and fainter. And when he's lost his hope for the future, he doesn't have a future and he will not make himself a future and he will not plan for a future and he won't even think logically. Why? Because logical thought depends upon you having a future.

And you say, "All right. Tell yourself to listen," and it's gone black again, you see?

You're not going to think logically, unless you're thinking toward a goal.

And he says — now he says, "It's black."

And in order to have a goal, you've got to have a future. Fellow won't have a goal. He doesn't have any time. His time track ends at any given moment right where he is. There's his time track. You'll find most of the people that you will help have their time track ended either in now, at which they're neurotic, or tomorrow, at the absolute outside, at which time they're pretty normal. The next few days, the next few weeks — that's future. That's a big future, that is. That brings a person up.

All right, you say, "Now, tell yourself to listen again," and he does, and he sees it goes gray, gray, gray — maybe even white — gray, gray, gray, gray, dark, dark, black!

Now, actually, if you want to plot future, you've got to plot immortality and you've got to plot havingness. And if you plot these things, you will find out that some guarantee of the future, fear of the future and that sort of thing, prevents a person from having any future. There is no future to him; it just doesn't exist. And where does he go? He goes back to "should have had" or he goes back to "did have," and that's psychotic.

And he says, "You know," he says, "it went through about four barriers--ptock, ptock, ptock, ptock."

This fellow — you run into this fellow, he had a business failure. He had a big business failure. He was running this peanut stand, or something of the sort. And a taxicab hit it one day and spilled the peanuts all over and there nobody was insured and it wiped him out — a big business failure.

And you say, "All right, that's fine. What's the last one that it fetched up against? What does that say?"

Actually, I can be sarcastic about that, but if that fellow were sixty years of age and that was his total capital investment, it would probably break him so that he wouldn't be able to talk to you about it. It'd probably finish him to that degree — just that little peanut stand gone.

"Well," he says, "it's just 'Can't listen.'"

Now, let's say he's somewhere in his forties and he had this small store, and something happened and it went by the boards. He lost it. Well, he's... it'll make him pretty shaky. He isn't able, actually, to plot well, after that, about his futures.

So you say, "Well, all right, give yourself that again, 'Can't listen.' "

Well, let's take him — he's about twenty. Take him about twenty. And he has this big bicycle plant with about 250 employees, and he runs into a capitalist or a banker or — oh, I don't know — commissar or something of the sort.

And he'll see this flow come back again inside his head, he'll see it come back, and again he will advance and change the point — extend the point from which he is commanding himself to listen. It's even further back.

He runs into one of these characters and they, of course, do the legal-legal necessary to cause them to have what somebody else has. And his bicycle plant with 200 employees passes into the hands of another. He's twenty.

Now, you say, "Tell yourself to listen again."

What's he do? He goes out and he builds another bicycle plant. See, he's still got future. He still can have.

Now get this peculiarity: that if the line is gray, it still could be run again. But if the line — if he says "Listen" and it turns gray, gray, gray, gray, black; now he says, "Can't listen" and that goes gray, gray, gray, gray, gray, black as a backflow, tell him to listen again and it'll get white. Those gray flows mean that it gets run again, but you don't have to worry about that, but you just notice that in passing. That's one of the manifestations standard on these things. That's why fellows get gray flows. The flow isn't running out; it's only running part of itself out, and on the next back and front, it will run itself out.

All right. Take this girl. This girl is eighteen. She's pretty, they have a nice home, everything is going along fine. And one day the whole house burns down and the baby gets killed. Boom! You probably won't see her as a preclear, not unless she's in pretty bad shape before she got to that point, for the good reason, maybe her husband is twenty-one, twenty-two, he can still make money and things can go along all right. The next thing you know, why, they've got another home and she's had another baby and life is moting along somehow. Yes, it left a scar in her life, slowed her down a little bit, but it hasn't broken her.

All right. Now, you tell him to listen again, and he listens and he sees this flow, and it turns gray, it turns white, it turns gray, it turns black. Well, what's happened? Boy, is it getting long; it's getting longer, longer each time.

All right. We take this thirty-two-year-old girl and she has tried for twelve years to have a child. She finally succeeded. And one day the home burned down and the child was killed. You've got her as a preclear! You've got her as a preclear, right now, because she doesn't feel very much capable of a will have again. And it breaks her pretty badly.

And so we get this kind of a pattern showing up inside of his head. It doesn't light up like neon lights; it'd just be those flows that he sees.

Now, we go on up and we say something like this happened to somebody who was more advanced than this — I'm starting to show you something here.

Here's — a pressor beam and a tractor is the pattern of the communication line. A communication is taken from the MEST body by a thetan with a compressor and a tractor. These are pressor lines. And so he pushes the order in, and he's pushed the order in on the body and pushed the order in on the body continually until he has built up ridges. He's built up these ridges himself, and on those ridges lands . . . That's an objection to the command, really — it seems like it to him — and he's built it up himself, and it finally says it can't listen. That's the way he stops himself from listening, and so on.

We find out that if something like that happened, I mean, this person... they'd probably just sit; they'd probably just sit and stare into space — be that bad.

Now, the thetan employs these ridges and these routes because it's a communication line, no matter how poor. No matter how poor a communication line it is, it's at least a communication line to the body.

Well, they've got themselves tied down on the time track with the age of the body. Their hopes, dreams and aspiration are all wrapped up in space and what they have in terms of a body and what the activity that body can accomplish -what activity that body can accomplish at that period of life. And when the body is very active it, of course, can have. And when it's less active, it's less able to have, and so forth. And the fellow has got his whole life monitored against this silly time track for one lifetime. And it's silly. There's nothing sillier.

So a guy looks inside of his head, he's astounded to find out that his first line — well, his first line, let's say, went like that, and the backflow went like that, and the next line went like that — and these lines are disappearing every time they're run, you see? But all of a sudden it went up this way, and then it went down this way, and back this way, and it went over here this way — each time hitting these ridges and stopping — then it has to be flowed again.

The truth of the matter is a Theta Clear could step outside and start dressing that body up so he can turn on its hormone system again, amongst other things. This body doesn't have to go on the same old rolley-coaster of, see, conserve it. Oh, it grows. Everything is fine, rosy, wonderful. It's growing, he's changing, it's action, motion, "has"; it has aesthetic quality, and so forth. And, of course, he is — the world is his oyster and he is king — and doing, all that sort of thing. And then he gets up here to conserve and then he says, "Well, I have to be a little bit careful what I eat and so on, but I get along all right, and so on. I have a little bit of trouble now and then, but nothing like that." And he's still doing, doing.

So you get a flow, you get a flow, and it goes this way, and then it backflows and goes that way, and then all of a sudden it — you find it backflowing. It flows ... The next command to listen goes zing — bang, it knocks that ridge out. Now, that ridge — next time you give him the command, the backflow, it'll flow back this way again, and it'll blow this one back here a ways to a new point to listen.

And then one day he hits the decay part of the spiral. And there he goes.

What you're doing is knocking out his circuits. Now, you want to know about demon circuits, read the first book. I'm not going any further into demon circuits than that. They're very adequately covered in the first book. And those demon circuits are these; these are demon circuits. And what makes the demon is a ridge.

And if he talks about anything, when he's about seventy, it's what he had, when.

And there are six major ridges in the body, and these make the entities. And facsimiles hang up on the ridges, and the ridges act like they can think. They'll even answer you on the E-Meter — they'll talk to you; they'll do all sorts of things. But actually there are thousands of these little tiny ridges in the head, and they're demon circuits. And each one of them has the power of talking, of seeing, of being, of commanding. And that's why your thetan inside the head is really bound up in a terrible condition. He can't think because every time he starts to think he exudes energy, and whenever he exudes energy he puts these ridges into stimulus-response. And so when he starts to think he becomes a stimulus-response mechanism; therefore, he cannot be a free self-determined organism as long as he is surrounded by everything which is stimulus-response. The environment has a stimulus, he does a response.

He will talk about the shotgun that was given him on his tenth birthday. He will talk about his faithful old dog who has now been dead for fifty-six years. The world is full of dogs. All he's got to do is go out here in the street and say, "Whwwt!" and he's got a dog. But he's got to be... talk about poor old Rover.

He wonders how in the name of God that came about. Well, it came about simply because he wanted it that way. It came about because he wanted it all to be automatic so that he wouldn't have to think about it, so the body would drive automatically, so it'd walk automatically, talk, think, eat — all these things automatically. And this is the system by which you set up an automatic system.

Just Rover, that's all that existed. It was just Rover.

But the thetan isn't so bad off that he needs an automatic system. How do you like that? You'll find this impulse continually recurring in the preclear, that he must set it up automatically. You give him Creative Processing and he sets up a machine and then he says this machine will now run and do what you said to him to run.

Now, actually, you'd be surprised how aberrative childhood pets are.

You say, "Nuts!" Don't let him do that! That's setting up automatic responses! Every time he sets up an automatic response, he says, "I haven't got the horsepower to keep on monitoring this consciously, so I must submerge it into an unconscious sphere, and therefore it'll run after that automatically." And that's very, very nice, and that's very cute, but the funny part of it is, it isn't true.

They're terrifically aberrative, because the child is confronted with this wonderful thing — a live toy, a live toy, and he knows that it can't be replaced.

He has enough horsepower at any time to be conscious of every action. And he must be conscious of everything that is taking place, and he has the power of choosing and deciding and thinking about every conscious action he has. Any time he sets this up in such a way that it'll now all run off automatically, he is setting up something that will wind up in the end a bear trap.

Rover is never replaceable. Never. Use Creative Processing, he gets over Rover in an awful heck. Oh, it's very, very swiftly. Nothing to that. You can get over Rover in about ten minutes.

You keep doing things for a person long enough, you will render the person powerless. Whenever the thetan set up a ridge so something could be done automatically, you've got a powerless thetan on that score. Because he said, "It's now going to be done for me; I don't have to do it." And after a while, all of a sudden, what do you know — he can't do it.

All right. Just using be, have, do. What did he have? So, let's do an additional assessment on our preclear, in addition to another one which you will learn by and by — Create and Destroy Assessment — and let's find out, then, the factors of past, present and future havingness; past, present and future doingness; past, present and future beingness; and we will have the time, space and energy of the thetan.

If you asked the entities why they're there and that sort of thing, and why the thetan has the entities — well, they serve him; and that's all very nice, and they're a crew and they serve him and they work for him. Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's just a ridge stimulus-response setup. And every facsimile you can think of is plastered on those darn things.

And what are we trying to do with the thetan? It's just one thing to get a fellow outside of his body. Yeah, that's just that, see? And that's very nice.

There are billions, billions of facsimiles plastered on these main ridges of the body, and these little tiny, tiny ridges inside the head are actually sort of billiards — like a billiard table. Wherever any communication line goes into the body from outside, it means that the thetan has set up a body and a thinking apparatus which thinks at the behest and demand of others — not himself. He's lost control, then, of his own thoughts, and he can't be powerful under that circumstance.

But he's not very satisfied with that.

So, in Ridge Running, what do we do? We just run this ping-pong, bing­bang, back and forth on the command "Listen" just "Listen, listen, listen, listen."

Oh, well, he's just steamed up to get outside and be able to control the body from outside; he knows that's where he's supposed to be and everything.

Now, you'll find very funny things happening. You'll find out that he customarily gives himself the command to walk, apparently, from somewhere behind him. That isn't true. He gives himself the command to walk from inside of his head, and it goes around front, and it curves around back and it hits him in the back of the neck and it'll make a hot spot.

He is on fire to go ahead and get this, and all that sort of thing, and so on.

That's quite startling to people. You say, "Give yourself the command 'Walk.' All right, give yourself the command Walk' again."

And you get him outside and he's stable outside and he can remain outside, and you say, "Well, that's good enough." He says, "Now, wait a minute. Now," he says, "let's get on with developing some energy and getting these perceptions a little bit better. Actually, I got to have these perceptions better," and so on. He's got space all scrambled up or other things all scrambled up, somehow or other. He's got to perceive these things better.

And the person all of a sudden says, "You know, the back of my neck feels hot; there's a spot in the back of my neck that's hot."

Well, how does he perceive these things better? He perceives these things better in terms of beingness, havingness, doingness. Therefore he has to be , able to shift postulates. So you just do an assessment to find out what he didn't have, what he doesn't have, what he'll never have, what he had, what he has, what he will have.

And you say, "That's all right."

By the way, you will come right up against one with that "will have." He'll suddenly say to you... oh, he can tell you what he will not have. Oh yes, life is probably all gone for him. It always is. But in terms of what he will have, he's liable to sit there and just gawp for a couple of minutes. He hasn't anything up the time track to have when he gets there. And this will puzzle him and puzzle him and puzzle him and puzzle him, and is actually enough of a puzzle to actually debar some person from becoming a Theta Clear. He can't figure out what he'll have. So if he can't figure out what he'll have, hell have no future time, if he's a Theta Clear. He knows what he'll have: "Ill have a body." He knows that; that's all he knows, though. "I'll just have a body. Well, can't have anything else, naturally. Couldn't have health, too." I mean, usually if he's in that area of the Tone Scale, you see, well, he could have a body. It probably... body would have to be pretty sick, because otherwise somebody else would want it, if it wasn't sick So, you say, "Do." All right, now, "Done, doing" — doing, very exciting.

From the middle of his head he put the command out here, and the command out here went clear around here. Or he's actually just sort of living in front of his eyes, and he puts the command out here and it goes back in and it hits the back end of the body.

Now, you say, "Will do." And he'll say, "Well, I can go over that — I tell you what I won't be... won't do. I'm not gonna go around and do this and do that," and he lays down a lot of postulates which he'll later erase. But "What'll I do if I'm Theta Clear? Well, what... what will I do if I'm..." See? "What's my goals?" All of a sudden, you take this fellow and he's built his lifetime up. And they've said, "If you drink babroot this will happen and if you take that, this will happen and that will happen. And if you drive an Armstrong Snorts something else will happen, and wear Bond Street bumps and that's what'll happen." And here we go, we've just got it... all the will-haves. Will-haves are all related to body. And there isn't a single advertising... You can look on these lorries as they go by out here. You can look on every single lorry.

Everything that a person ever did or said has an echo sitting in the back ridge on the back of his head. It's in there in a tumultuous condition, so that makes an enormous command ridge. What this person has done to others, he now does to himself, because the ridge goes into activation.

You can go down in the underground, you can look in all the cars, you can look at all those signs, they go downstairs, and nowhere will you find anybody advertising anything for a thetan to have.

Now, Ridge Running then clears the line. And the first thing you know, you'll find the fellow outside of himself and ordering himself on one thing only:

Now, that should tell you something. This society isn't rigged that way.

"Listen." He hasn't dug himself out on other commands yet. He'll tell himself to listen from outside.

He'll have his own universe and he'll be able to make himself effective upon this one, but if you can't figure out something for him to have and if he can't figure it out for himself — hell have to figure it out for himself — why, he isn't going to want to have any future time as a thetan. But hell want to have future time as a body, and so you've got your identifications mixed. So he'll want body space, not thetan space. He'll want all... he don't want all space, he just wants the body's space, because the body will have and therefore by being very covert about the whole thing, he will be able to acquire, because he has a body.

And when you get this outside of his head three or four feet, go in now on another command. Usually take an action command. Take the command "Walk" and just carry the command "Walk" through in exactly the same fashion you carried the command "Listen" through.

You know, you go to the theater. As you walk past the ticket window, they say to you, "Ticket, please." And you get a ticket and you get to see the show. Well, in the MEST universe, you walk past the ticket window and they say, "Body, please." And you say, "Got a body. Here it is." And they say, "All right, here's the show." And he doesn't have a body, he doesn't have a body. That's all there is to that. And he's got to resolve this. It presents a fellow with a considerable problem. He's got to solve it himself.

And if he can see black and white, something very amusing may happen. He may be outside of his body in eight different places for eight different subjects. He isn't outside of his body at all in these eight different places; he's in one of those places, but he's using shunt and relay circuits. He's got ridges out there that are actually miles from him, off which he bounces thought. That's no exaggeration — miles and miles and miles from him.

Actually, it's a very easy problem to solve. What he'll have, well, it can be a very unlimited affair, believe me. But he has to understand a lot of the mechanics. But you want a lot of the mechanics of what he's doing. That's why you theta clear somebody and they're not satisfied even vaguely. They want to go on up the line, because they've run into this: be, have and do. And you've run into it past, present and future and you resolve that.

And you can get him in such a way that he can sit inside of his head and bounce a thought off the ridge miles. away from him, and it apparently comes from miles away and hits him back inside of his head again. Very amusing. It's a wonderful mechanical device that could only have been dreamed up in the insane asylum called MEST universe.

Now, if you want your thetan to have power... A thetan... it's just no good for a Theta Clear to go around with no horsepower. I mean, he walks up and picks up something — he couldn't pick up that. That's a fact. He couldn't knock the catch — most of your thetans — on that. He'd come around and he would... It's just horrible; he just can't do anything with it.

Anyway, take it for "Walk." Then take it for "Talk" and take it for "Nod." But take the word "See" last, because it'll obliterate his perceptic of black and white.

You would be surprised in how his morale picks up, as one fine day he's just sort of... he's given it all up, but he feels pretty good this day, and he knocks over this old bread crumb and it goes skitter. And he says, "For goodness sakes. Fifteen inches — fifteen inches, right down the fairway. There it goes." And he'll go around, he'll try to duplicate it, and it will have frightened him so that he probably won't be able to do it for a few times. And then he'll get back on to it again and he'll take on a smaller crumb. And then one day he'll be sitting in a restaurant and he'll all of a sudden go ptock! with one of the rolls, and it flies out into the middle of the room. He says, "What do you know!" Actually, it isn't any sense being anything unless you can move things. So you want your thetan to develop energy and horsepower.

Now that's Ridge Running, and please don't overlook this technique.

& And if he's gonna develop energy and horsepower, you have to resolve ...

Let's go back now to III. III is "Out by Orientation." You make the guy push himself outside of his head, pull himself outside of his head, and putting out tractors, beams, so forth, push himself sideways back and forth. And actually if he can locate himself inside of his head, the best way for him to locate himself is just to see one of his pressors and tractors, and he turns it off and puts it on at will. And he orients himself and all of a sudden he moves right on outside of his head.

Don't overlook the fact that a preclear can do this: put a beam against the inside of his forehead and push. He'd say, "Yeah," he's — all of a sudden sees the beam, all of a sudden he lengthens it, all of a sudden he's looking at the back of his head — orientation, locating in time and space. Now you simply put him through drills of time and space; put him through drills that have to do with time and space. He just locates himself in this fashion, and you can orient somebody out of his head.

Now, Step II is negative — "Negative Exit." You just tell him not to be — "Try not to be a foot back of your head." Very often a case just will do that. They'll try not to be and the harder they try not to be ... That's because the thetan being pretty well down in apathy is running in opposites, just like a little kid. You tell this little kid, "Eat your breakfast," he doesn't want any breakfast; you tell him, "Don't eat your breakfast," and he eats his breakfast, and he doesn't realize that he's being ordered around.

All right. You just tell a fellow, "Try not to be back of your head."

Now we come back to I, which is simply "Be a foot back of your head." And we make this comment that "Move a foot back of your head" is not as good as "Be a foot back of your head," because "be" applies to space (which material I will cover) and "move" applies to energy.

Now, continuing in this matter of be, have and do, I have made it very complicated so you'll realize that there's a considerable problem and I'm very, very clever to have solved it. And when I showed you this little girl or, let us say worse than that... Who's got a match? When I show you this, here is...

So we have then a rundown on this Issue 2. Issue 2 then goes in this fashion: The first thing that happens is that you tell the individual to be a foot back of his head. The next thing you tell this individual to do — he can't be; he says, "I don't know, I — maybe I'm — zob-zob-zob-zob-zob. What are you talking about? Uh — uh — moon, green cheese. I'm — I don't know," and so forth.

See that match flare? Where's that energy? Just where's that energy?

And you say, "Well, try not to be a foot back of your head."

Male voice: It's changed and done all sorts of things.

And by the way, I still believe the first class doesn't follow Standard Operating Procedure. And the reason why I believe that is because there's two or three guys in the first class that aren't in tiptop condition. It's the most routine thing. You can dream up all sorts of things.

It has done all sorts of things, that's right. We hope it has. But that flare of the match is there someplace. Now, I want you to close your eyes - close your eyes and take a look at that match flaring again. Do you see that match flare again?

There's eighty thousand hours of investigation back of Standard Operating Procedure Issue 1, and it works. It doesn't break down, and I have never had it break down — just routine use of it. Somebody tells me there are three cases that aren't solved — that's impossible. I mean, that isn't just unlikely — it's impossible, if persons were using Standard Operating Procedure.

Male voice: Yes.

So you want to get this thing better than you know a musical scale. And always go through this same rote; always go through the same steps. Start at I, and go to II, go to III, go to IV, and go to V, and go to VI.

Okay. Well, now, you made a recording of the match. There are about five ways you could have made this recording. It's no wonder somebody gets a little bit crowded up with a number of ways one can think and remember. You could actually just create the flare of the match again, and you could create it with enough accuracy so that you would see the flare of the match again.

And if you get down to VI, and you suddenly find out this person can't remember anything real, something like that, you're still in a very workable case. You can patch this case up, do some interesting things to this case.

You could also create all the perceptions having to do with the flare of the match. You could do that. Or you could recover the time-space moment of the flare of the match, and look at it. Or you could simply knock out, for the moment, your time-space differentiation and look at the match flaring. That one we'll go into in a moment.

If the case can't see black and white, can't remember anything real, they're actually probably neurotic — very neurotic — in spite of what meets the eye.

Now, quite in addition to this, you could have taken energy — a ridge -and made a facsimile which recorded all the perceptions that were present at that time and have held these, and then just flipped the time factor on that ridge and looked at it again. You just looked at it again. You just took a picture of it and then you looked at it again.

All right. Let's run this whole thing now backwards. The first thing you do, then, is tell a fellow to be a foot back of his head, be two feet back of his head, be three feet back of his head, whatever you want. Best is three feet: "Be three feet back of your head." The fellow is three feet back of his head, you can tell him, "Okay."

Now, you could have taken some of this energy immediately before you and recomposed it and then looked at it. And those are the five ways in which you could have seen that match flare.

Now, just don't get hysterical and excited and ask him a lot of questions and run around the room, and jump through hoops and open windows at this point and jump out, or do other things which a person way down the line would ordinarily do at this point. He'd say, "Oh, my God, somebody is out of the head. Let's see, I'll have to sound the general alarm and get the fire engines here or do something else unpredictable or remarkable."

Now, all those ways are present. You wouldn't be able to perceive this material universe at all, at all, at all, if you were not continually manufacturing time and space, if you weren't continually manufacturing the triangle. And so you go right along with it, and you continually manufacture the triangle.

No, this doesn't call for that; that just calls for you as an auditor to sit there very calmly — and not with any enforced calm — and just say rather offhandedly, say, "All right, now, move up two feet. Can you be two feet higher than that? Okay, let's be four feet lower than that. All right, let's be three feet over to the side. Let's be three feet over to the other side. Okay. Now, let's see what the temperature of the wall is."

Don't do this to a preclear, but this happens to work. Don't do it to him unless you care to assume that your judgment is sufficient to tell you that he is not needed anywhere along the track from here on. You make him pull all of his perception into present time. Remember everything he ever said or did or felt in present time, instanter, right now. He won't be much good after that, unless you process him back to a point where he'll differentiate time and space again. Because you've just told him all time and space are the same, and you've told him to grab all the energy he has parked in all the time-spaces which form his time track and pile it all together in one lump.

Because you enter Standard Operating Procedure with these postulates: "It's going to happen. It's inevitable that it will happen." This just prevents you from doing wild things or getting worried. "It's going to happen." And the other thing: "It'll happen on this procedure." And you enter it with that postulate. You enter it with a postulate, "I wonder if this works," and you'll depart from the rote. You'll do other strange things.

And that could be quite cataclysmic, and actually is.

You just keep him out there then, and by orientation — orienting him, making him do Creative Processing, and changing postulates; do those three things — you'll bring him way up the line!

Now, in deep hypnotism, narcosynthesis, this can be particularly horribly effective, and is one of the dangers which makes narcosynthesis impractical. Narcosynthesis does nothing if not create a tremendous dependency — at least does that. The next thing it does is it takes a complete record of everything that happened in narcosynthesis and turns it into an engram.

And if I catch an auditor trying to get this preclear to validate whether or not he's outside by what he perceives and the accuracy of what he perceives, I'll have him shot. I'll have him shot. I'll send up to Mars — I'll tap one of their cables and I'll give them orders that so-and-so is needed immediately because he's causing a lot of trouble. He's mixed up in Dianetics or something. (audience laughter)

It's very astonishing to people who are using narcosynthesis to suddenly have an auditor slip the preclear back into the moment, have the preclear recapture that moment again and inspect it thoroughly and run it through and run it through and run it through, and all of a sudden have all the perceptions turning up that occurred during the narcosynthesis, even at its deepest and most unconscious moment. That's a baffler. That isn't supposed to happen, yet it can be done.

Now, let's not ask this preclear to validate or invalidate himself, because you're not even vaguely interested in his perceptions. This preclear has been using a body as a perception meter to orient himself in space and time. He will perceive, eventually. But the fellow who perceives accurately the first moment he comes out is something like being mad at a baby — being mad at a baby — because the baby doesn't immediately get up and write the check to pay for the delivery at birth.

Now, out of these five ways of reperceiving, there are two of them that are aberrative above the others. One of them is pulling the energy into present time where it sticks, and say, "That energy now rides in present time." And the other one is — and it's practically the same thing; practically the same thing — jarring it into an association short circuit. That would be the same as getting a key-in. Fellow has an engram, then he starts to get key-ins and key-ins and key-ins and key-ins and he gets into this horrible and deplorable state of affairs.

I mean, you're not going to say, "Well, the baby can't be out! He can't be out because he isn't in a full state of knowingness, beingness. He's not completely oriented," so on. "Throw him in the garbage can. The dickens with it — lost case."

Now, you see here what we're talking about. We're talking about the basic mechanisms of the mind. Now, we've got an awful lot of material in the earlier books, in Dianetics and so on, all these basic mechanisms, and each one is actually taking up another mechanism or a faster mechanism or a swifter way of using that mechanism. But what do you know? That material all works; it's all valid and it's part of the same puzzle right now; it's part of the same picture that you're looking at at this moment. We just looked at it harder and harder, and I just worked with it longer and longer and I probably... and found better and better common denominators, better and better definitions to do it faster and faster. But we go back to the earliest method there was and, yes, it still obeys what we're doing now. That is to say, we're handling experience and energy. And of course, that's part of the three sides of this triangle. We're handling something. We're putting something under control when we're erasing an engram. The mechanisms of erasure and the answers to that are contained in these things which I'm just telling you about.

Well, it's just as ridiculous as that, really. It's even more ridiculous than that. All right. Now, then we're going to just go put him through the paces, after that.

Now, when I say time is "have," it's simply that. You can be without having. You can have pretty near without being. You can, too! They go down the street and they say, "You see that big house there?

Now, in the first two seconds of play, you'll learn that he is not back of his head. You say, "Be three feet back of your head."

That's Doakes's house. He's dead." So you see, you can have without being; you can be without having.

And he says, "Um-uh-um-uh-um-er-uh . . ." Every once in a while you'll be quite surprised .. .

Now, this becomes very interesting from this standpoint that you have to have and be in order to do. And doingness consists of thinking and acting as its two subdivisions, thinking and acting as its two subdivisions.

You'll say, "Are you?"

You have to be in order to think. And you can't help but have to some slight degree if you think. And if you do you will have. And if you have you will be. Oh, boy. This thing's going around in a beautiful circle again. What do you know! We got another, as the pilots call them, a rat race — round and round and round and round and round.

He'll say, "No, I'm not."

You see, we define havingness in terms of beingness and doingness. And we determine doingness in terms of beingness and havingness. And we determine beingness, actually — if we want to observe somebody being, in this universe at least — in terms of doing and having. We say, "What's Mr. Jinks worth?" "Well, Mr. Jinks has..." We take two sides of this now. Let's take plus-doingness. A person can do so much that they decrease their beingness and their havingness. And in order to do anything very fast, you have to actually risk your beingness and havingness. Race driver. Airplane pilot. He has to rate down his beingness and rate down his havingness in order to do swiftly.

Well, for goodness sakes ascertain this: Is he four feet back? Because he quite often will give you that kind of lineup. They get very childishly exact about things. The fellow will say, "Will one foot do?" Or something of that sort.

Now, let's take this... another fellow. He works so slowly that he is the eighth assistant janitor — no beingness to amount to anything — and he doesn't have a thing. And he's doing too slowly. So, you see this factor of doing is actually monitoring being and having. Or let's take it in reverse, more properly, and being and having monitor doing. The beingness and the havingness of the person establish his doingness.

You just make sure that he didn't do it. And without changing your tone, demeanor, anything, simply say, "All right. Try not to be." See, that's the first couple of seconds of play. I mean, he isn't back of his head? Okay, he isn't back of his head, that's all.

Now, the goal of every capitalista is to have and have and have and have and have, and if he has enough, then he can dispense with doing. Only, is that the way it works out? That's always the grimmest jest of the material universe.

He'll say, "Well, I don't think I am; I don't know. I might be . . ." and so on and so on and so on.

The more you have, the more you have to do. And you can acquire possessions, and at first you're yourself, and then you get so you own something and, boy, are you on the time track. Right now, you own something, you're on the time track.

Why, just give it to him. Just say, "Try not to be."

You're on its time track.

And in like proceeding, go straight on down through the steps.

And the more you own, you say, "Well now, if I own rawr-rawr and so on and so on, boy, will I be." You'll be what it wants you to do. You'll be what it wants you to be, eventually, if you go and overload this line too heavily. You can possess yourself into an eternity of time track.

And let me tell you this: It should not take you five minutes to ascertain where this individual is on the scale. You do it that rapidly; you don't hurry, you don't loaf. Every time you find out he hasn't done what you asked him to do — he couldn't do what you asked him to do — why, you know where he is. You can tell immediately whether he can see black and white. Can he see black? All right, he sees nothing but black, therefore, he can see black and white.

The Hindu, for instance — he instinctively works against this. He says he doesn't want to have anything. He just denies everything; he doesn't want anything. And if he doesn't want anything, then can he really increase his beingness! Well, it so happens he's going to enormously increase his beingness, and the way to do that is to cut down doingness to zero. Now, he's going to cut down his havingness to zero and he's going to cut down his doingness to zero in order to increase his beingness to infinity.

Just never occurs to auditors somehow, every once in a while just on that basis: that a fellow can see black, he's seeing black and white. He just doesn't happen to be seeing white at the moment, because the easiest thing to vanish under the sun is the white, and the black's there all the time. And Ridge Running will dig the white up, so there's nothing to that. Now, you just run right on down through the line and then there you go.

Well, he still holds on to a body. And the second he holds on to a body he has something. The second he's holding on to a body he's on the time track. If he cuts down doingness to nothing he's putting his body in jeopardy, but he still has his body. And his beingness is not very good, let me assure you. It's not very good.

Now, you take him wherever he is, and you work him with that step until he's outside. Wherever he lands — wherever he lands, whatever he can do — you move him out. He's out — I mean, until he's outside.

If you practice these same tenets, your beingness will go downhill so fast that you will wonder how you got there. You didn't see that toboggan slide, but you must have come down one. Or it must have been an elevator shaft you dropped down, or something, because here all of a sudden you are in the basement.

Then flip back up and use from I down again. Never, never, never be dull enough to start a session without starting with I. Always start with I, Standard Operating Procedure. Don't get it fixed in your mind that you've got a III, or a II, and thereafter treat him like a III or a II.

This doesn't work slowly. There is nothing slow about suddenly saying, "I'm going to deny the material universe, I'm not going to have any part of the material universe, and I'm not going to do anything about it. And therefore I can be." And if you think it goes to infinity, it doesn't; it goes to zero, right along with do and have. And it's just a horrible rat race from which man has been trying to escape, endlessly trying to escape.

Now I'm going to give you Creative Processing. I keep wanting to call it "causative processing"; might even be a better name, "causative processing." Of course, all this processing is causative, so we'll call this Creative Processing.

He gets into a balanced proposition, but that balance depends upon the universe which he is patronizing. What universe is he patronizing? If he's patronizing the MEST universe and he's set up his stand in the MEST universe, by having MEST he is able to establish his beingness. You see, it's very hard to establish identity unless you've got a bracelet or a union card or a ration book or your fingerprints are on file someplace, or you've got a body that has the fingerprints to be on file. And you just sail out as a Theta Clear and say, "Well, no body — Boom! Now, we're not going to worry about this body anymore; we'll put it down there on the bus stop and walk off and leave it." And the frame of reference, in terms of other people, of your beingness, is gone — right there. You don't exist as far as they're concerned. You just wouldn't exist.

This processing uses Standard Operating Procedure 2. Two is different from 1 on issue just in this degree: You don't run DEDs and DEDEXes, overt acts and motivators on a V. You don't run facsimiles as facsimiles. You don't run locks as locks, so forth. So, therefore, we've departed from that with Issue 2, Standard Operating Procedure. You handle them, you don't run them.

Now, if you were constructing your own universe and you were existing perfectly well in that or if you were in a cooperative construction of a universe of some sort, and you just suddenly launched out and you knocked off from the MEST universe, in order to have any beingness in your own universe, boy, would you have to do. But what would you do? You would accomplish havingness, and you'd have a universe. The anatomy of a universe.

All right. This Creative Processing does not suddenly absolve the auditor from adherence to the Auditor's Code — not even vaguely absolve him. And at all times the auditor is alert to the reactions of the preclear. That goes for any operating procedure. If this preclear says something you just can't quite make out, and you just don't know quite why this preclear is saying it, you find out. Make it your business to find out. In the first place, if you don't try to find out what he's doing or saying, he doesn't think you're interested in him, and his tone will sink.

You'd have to have space, time and energy. Space, time and energy. Now, how do you mark time? Does time exist for you? Actually, in absence of havingness, no. What happened to your past lives? You've still got some facsimiles kicking around; you still got some memories kicking around; you certainly have some aberrations kicking around from an awfully long track. I'll ask you just to take that on with a big doubt and so forth, if you want to. It's something we can safely let you doubt, very safe to let you doubt that, very safe to let you repudiate it and so forth, and you can hold it as long as you don't get near an E-Meter or an auditing couch.

And the other thing is, is he might be processing the North Pole, or looking at the trains go by eight miles away, and you might not even know about it. You might think he's still sitting there inside of his head and you're still working this and that, and the fellow has jumped out and he's gone here and he's done this and he's doing that and he's just gotten a perception of this and it's a whole chain of past deaths and so on, and the only comment he's made on this is "Hm, that's strange."

One fellow was saying, "I couldn't possibly have lived before." And some fellow said something on the order, "Well, shut your eyes. Now, what was it like a million years ago?" And the fellow says, "Well, so-and-so and so-and-so, and I was living in this cave... Hey, wait a minute. What are you doing?" It just never occurred to him to look before. Why? He didn't have anything back there. He's lost all possession, including a body. All his possession is gone, so he has no connecting link with that time. And if he has no connecting link with the time in terms of havingness, the time does not exist in terms of beingness.

Well, then, just don't just keep on pounding him with rote — you say, "What's strange?" Right then. You don't find that out later, you find it out right then — "What's strange?"

Now, you could start working somebody on the track. How do you pick up the reality of the past track? You just pick up the things the fellow had.

"Well I don't know, the smell of this girl's hair." You see? The smell of this girl's hair, that's what's strange.

Pick up his body, get him to put his body through the paces. All of a sudden he comes into the ownership again of his body. Get him to pick up the area, get him to pick up a few of his possessions, and will he start getting confused about then, because he'll start wondering what happened to his possessions.

"Well, what girl?"

And he will get sort of... kind of mad about it, too. He gets upset.

"The girl whose hat I am sitting on." And you want to know how in the name of golly he got on a girl's hat. Just don't bother to try to track that up; just accept the fact that he's on this girl's hat and proceed from there. Because a thetan can suddenly leave the head.

Who's got these things now? He had this nice whimmegagoodgit and so on.

You won't know quite when, very often, you triggered it. It's sometimes a shot-from-guns process; he goes boom! And actually you can look for manifestations, and you will notice the manifestations of a thetan really being out of the head, and those manifestations are very precise. He pulls the head back. No matter how slightly, he will pull the head back. And if you see that chin tuck in — oh-oh, he's out.

And there was this quarterhorse (the quarterhorse is probably dead; probably died after he did) and so forth. But that doesn't account for what happened to the sulky. And... But the fellow realizes and there's that property he had... that property he had down in East London: Who's got that now?

Now, the fellow can sit there and so forth, so on, say, "Yeah, I guess, I am. Guess . . ." Uh-uh. See? There are other little signs that you will notice. There's a certain difference of coloration takes place. Now, these are really minute observations, and you pick them up actually not by my describing them, but by working preclears. But observe your preclear; learn to observe your preclear.

That was a nice house. Boy, does he get upset! And he'll get upset enough because he can't connect up with his past time to wipe it out.

I add this in at the beginning of this process for this reason: is every time I come up with a new process everybody thinks we've thrown all the old processes away; we've thrown them into ashcans and garbage cans, and they're all sitting out there on trucks ready to be hauled off to the dump. We are in the beautiful circumstance of having assembled a puzzle called human beingness, and in the assembly of that puzzle called human beingness we have recovered unto ourselves an enormous amount of data. That data is valid data.

"Well, I've started a new life. I'll have to go on bravely into the future and I'll just have to make it up some other way." He's pretty unhappy about it.

Let's take sound. Why is it we were processing words out of engrams? Well, it's because a person has no lids on his ears, therefore he can't control sound. Sound can come in on him anytime it wants. Therefore he finds sound very aberrative, because things are aberrative to the individual to the degree that he cannot control them. And he cannot control sound very easily because he doesn't have any way to shut it out. And as a consequence, sound-sound-sound pounding him, pounding him, pounding him continually will make him feel like he is out of control in the presence of sound. Therefore people can order him to do things and he will do them. Therefore the words — words become quite aberrative. So we have picked on, willy-nilly, the most aberrative perceptic there was — sonic — and we were driving this to the limit.

But you say, "Why don't people remember their past existences?" Actually, you can take a preclear and get him out of the body and say, "All right, now. Let's pick up the memory bank that has to do with playing the piano." "Okay." He'll say, "There's one around here someplace or another. Here... here's... here's a... here's a... one with a... but it's got a bad facsimile in it." "Well, why don't you take the bad facsimile out and take that out and strip that away. Have you thrown it away? All right, darn it. Now, plug it into the motor controls." "Okay." "Plug it in the motor controls." "Okay." Don't pay any more attention to him; don't ask him, "Can you play a piano now?" or anything invalidative like that. Just forget about it. And if you come around where that fellow has got a piano or something of the sort, why, he'll be playing the piano.

A man can shut his eyes, a man can withdraw his tactile, but he can't get away from sound unless he locks himself in a soundproof room and they're not always handy.

You'll say to him, "Say, do you realize that... doesn't it seem strange to you?" He'll say, "What?" "Playing the piano." "Mm, why should that seem strange? What's the matter? Something wrong with you? I could play the piano. I could always play the piano. What's the matter with you?" "Well, for a long time you couldn't play the piano." "Oh. As for that, that's of no importance." Bang, bang, bang, and plays ...knocks off Mozart or something of the sort. Couldn't play a note twentyfour hours before. It's a very interesting fact.

All right. What you find in that first book, you could take any preclear you walk into and you'll find it working. But that first book and Science of Survival — those two books — are actually all the books we have which makes a fairly exhaustive examination of the mechanisms of behavior of man. And those books button up and finish off dynamic psychology, and they're very good — very good. That's fine, it finished a subject and it started ours.

Or perhaps you'd walk down the street and you've told this fellow to plug in his French. And he's plugging in his French. You've told him to plug in his Oxford education, or anything of the sort. And you go down the street and here's this Frenchman and he's gab-gab, walla-walla, gab-gab, walla-walla, comment, nyah, wah, nyee, nyee, ror.

All right. Now, there are manifestations in there. There's types of Lock Scanning. I could tell you that when you lock-scan, always make sure that you get out all the tractors and pressors of other people's and other person's. That's why people hang up on Lock Scanning. That'd be the only new thing I had to add on that whole book. All that technique works; those techniques all work.

And you say, "What accent are you speaking with?" He says, "Well, actually, I'm speaking with a southern French... southern France accent, and so forth. I never could stand Parisian," He wouldn't comment on it, but the day before he couldn't speak French. See, it doesn't seem odd to him because it's real.

We know more about the mind. Evaluation. You can use that Tone Scale. If you don't use that Tone Scale in auditing — if you just don't turn around and use the Tone Scale and the Chart of Attitudes in auditing — you're missing a terrible bet.

That's what truth is. When a man recovers a truth, it's true to him. It isn't strange to him.

Now, as far as assessment is concerned, I'm going to give you an assessment that has to do with creation and destruction. What won't or can't a person create? What won't or can't a person destroy? What does a person insist on creating? What does he insist on destroying? You go down all eight dynamics and you've got his case — and you've got his case!

But, again, he is marked up against his past because he has something from it. Have. What's he got in the future? What's he got in the future? Well, you show me a fellow who is upset and who isn't getting along well, and I'll show you a fellow who has no hope of future possession. He hasn't got anything in the future.

Now, you do your assessment on your preclear with Creative Processing — do your assessment on the preclear. You don't just sit down and let the whole thing run off and that's the end of that. You do this assessment in a very precise method — a very, very precise manner. There's no reason to have big forms printed up for this.

The future. And all time is... Now, don't say, "We are bending time and redefining time in terms of having." Oh-ho, no, we're not. We're not bending or redefining. We're talking about time when we're talking about having. And time is the manifestation of havingness — time is havingness. I mean, that is the experience connected with time; the experience of time is havingness.

But every time you do a preclear, you take a piece of paper and pencil, and you mark this down here. You mark down this little graph. It looks like this. Just mark that down for the sake of formality; for heaven's sakes, for the sake of formality.

Now, you keep on, then, with your illusion of havingness by creating space-time, space-time, space-time; and by continual agreement with the MEST universe, the MEST universe, you think, permits you to have. And it's all it permits you to have. And you completely overlook the fact that probably even in the aust universe, if you got over this insidious agreeing with it all the time, you could probably put almost anything you wanted into the MEST universe. And if you had enough force, enough beingness and enough doingness, you could make it stick. You could probably manufacture pound notes just by holding it out and say, "There's your pound note." Now, that's theoretical, but that would be crossing universes. We're not interested in crossing universes, we're simply interested in a man's own universe. His own life is his own universe. And even in this MESTuniverse, he may think he's living in a universe which belongs to somebody else or something of the sort, but any part of that universe which he perceives, really, is his to some degree. It is his. And his investment in the universe is continual space-time-energy, space-time-energy, space-time-energy, space-time-energy.

On the left-hand side at the top we have the word "creation." On the right-hand side at the top we have the word "destruction." Under the word "creation" pointing straight down we have an arrow. Under the word "destruction" pointing straight down we have an arrow. And 100 percent fixation on creation or 100 percent fixation on destruction, either one, we mark "insane." And this middle between "creation" and "destruction" — a well-balanced creation and destruction means and adds up to sanity.

He's turning over like a twelve-cylinder car on that basis. He's just going on that all the time: zingety-bing, zingety-bing, zingety-bing, zingtyings, spacetime-energy, space-time-energy. He's at that continually. And the second he ceases to be at that, he isn't, as far as this universe is concerned. He just isn't, at that moment.

Now, we want to find out where the preclear is sane and where he is insane, and so the way we find this out is very simple — very, very simple. Under "creation" we have — you don't have to write these down, the words "insane" — but under this we have two columns and we simply make a notation, 1, 2, 3, 4 (in a vertical column going down), 5, 6, 7 and 8, and again over here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Now, that's "cannot," "would not." Under "creation" then, we have "cannot" and "would not." And we have the column of dynamics underneath there.

Now, the trick we're doing in Scientology in Theta Clearing is demonstrating for the individual his beingness as independent of having a body, which is a special kind of havingness. Now, as soon as you can demonstrate that and get him stably exteriorized from a body so that he doesn't have to have a body to be, he actually can assume a higher plane of being. He can assume that plane then, because he isn't subject to the terrific liabilities but he is not outlawed from having. He isn't outlawed from having, he can still manage his body. He just doesn't have to be in it.

Now, you can allow yourself a lot of paper, but "Creation c" would be "creation cannot" — capital C, small c. "Capital C, small c 1" would mean "cannot create self." "Capital C, small w 1" — "would not create self." Get the subtle difference between the two. The subtle fact is that even if he could, he wouldn't! What's that add up to for you? That adds up to something very, very clean and clear: It means he hates himself. And if he hates himself, ho-ho! he's stuck, because hate is hold. On your energy levels of the Tone Scale, as you'll find in other lectures, hate is hold.

And if anything happened to the body, he'd say, "Well, that's too bad. I certainly will have to do something else about this now." Well, what he would do about it is his business. Maybe he would get some sort of a symbol, some sort of an identification, of any kind or characteristic and... Or maybe he'd just go down to the maternity ward and pick up another body. But it'd be a big joke on the family, because the baby would get to be about two months old, when it could finally use its vocal cords and it'd say, "You know, I'm awfully tired of this. Why don't you call up that blonde down on High Kensington. She'd make a pretty good nurse." Now, this is far from being in the category of not beyond the realm of fancy. What we're talking about happens to be fact. I mean, this is the kind of a "will have" you can look forward to.

All right. Now, it's just as important to find out where the preclear is sane as it is to find out where he's insane — just as important, just as important. So we make two more columns under "sane" — and these two columns, by the way, could be very interesting. They could add up on "bored" and look right to you, but they wouldn't be right. Your preclear would be a 2.5 all the way down.

Anyway, what do you possess? Well, your possessions would be limited to your ability to do. And your time is also limited by your ability to do. You know that, oh-oh-oh, how strongly. Your doingness is limited by the amount of time you have. Well, it works the opposite way. Your ability to do makes the amount of time you have. But if you have only a body to do it with, it gets tired, it gets worn out, it has to eat; everybody's got this universe figured out on a scarcity racket.

So if he's perfectly willing to create himself, and if by test in Creative Processing he can apparently make a stab at it, and if he's perfectly willing to destroy that thing which he created in Creative Processing and so forth, he's sane on the first dynamic. He can create and he can destroy in creative illusion, the first dynamic. So we'll just check that one off.

And so, you can't have very much. Well, if you can't have very much, you won't be able to do very much or be very much. Now, if you want to increase these three factors, you have to increase them uniformly up the time. If you want more time, you have to differentiate between these two points: Do you want more time self-determinedly? You want more self-determined time? You can have that.

But we have two columns here: One is "for sure" and the other column is "bored about it." And you watch those "bored about it," because they suddenly turn out to be ringtailed snorters, suddenly — the fellow who's awfully bored about it.

Or let's go at it the other way. Now let's ask the question the other way: Do you want your time to be more determined? Now, if you want time to be more self-determined and to have more self-determinism over your own time, get rid of what you have. Unload it fast! Because what you have determines your time.

Now, you don't know really; he's perfectly willing to create himself, and he'd be perfectly willing to destroy himself, he's just not interested in it. You go to the next subject then — not interested in it. You'll find some subject where he isn't as vague as this. All of a sudden you'll say, "Well, all right, now you take girls — take girls. Now, would you be willing to create a girl and ... ?"

Now, do you just want more time? Do you just want the illusion of lots and lots and lots of time, and there just being lots of time all up and down the track and a time which is imposed on you? The time is imposed thoroughly on you? Well, the way to get that time is acquire possessions — get lots of them, get all sorts of things. Go down to the junk shop, go down to auctions, collect things in your desk, collect things in your pockets, collect things in your purse, fool around — get possessions, possessions. If you just stack up enough possessions, believe me, every bit of time you've got will be determined for you. You just won't have any empty time on your hands at all.

"Oh yes."

Now, that shows you there's two sides to this sort of thing.

And, "Would you be willing to destroy a girl?"

All right. Let's take energy. Let's take energy. Do you really want energy which you can determine the existence of? Well, all you have to do is to free yourself a little bit from havingness and not be quite so sold on the subject of beingness and you'll have lots of energy with which to do what you like with. And that'll be your energy — your energy. Okay?

And, "Oh, no! No, no, no, no." There's the entrance to the case. The second you find this — the second you find this entrance to the case, you do something very interesting. You just take a list of all categories of girls of all ages and all the girls he ever knew, and you just write them down ad nauseam. There was Gertrude, there was Emily, there was this one, there was that one, there was this one, there was his mother, and there was his grandmother, and "I had twelve aunts," and so on.

How do you get more energy, though? How would you get more energy, not your energy?

And, "What were their names?"

Factually, here, the trick is we're really looking at the Tone Scale. We're looking at the Tone Scale and at the bottom of the thing it says "all MEST" and at the top of the thing it says "theta all by itself, pure, knowing and there, and unidentified by anybody, but very self-complacent." All right. How do you cut down the Tone Scale? How do you go down the Tone Scale on this and get down below where you are determined, and so on?

"Oh, you wouldn't ask me to remember that?"

You just borrow energy. Get lots of energy, lots of energy. Have gasoline motors — gasoline motors to move you around with and have electric lights and have fires that keep things nice and warm and get lots of energy, get lots of energy. And then get lots of people to do things for you. Now, the more people you can get that will do things for you — just for you, you see — why, the less energy you have to put out.

"Oh, yes. Yes, I would." And just get all of those — boom, boom, boom, boom — and this entire list falls out at that point.

Unfortunately, that works immediately to be the less energy you will put out, which means immediately the less energy you will have. So it just goes right on down Tone Scale, real fast, real fast.

You find something which he is unwilling to create, or you find something he is unwilling to destroy, and that stands up sharply — then you find out everything connected with it that he can think of in terms of objects and energy and spaces and times. You just get a complete category on this subject. This case is going to fall apart in your hands if you do this technique.

If you just collect enough... enough doingness directed toward you — oh, boy. You're all set.

Over here is "destroy" — of course, is "cannot" and "would not." They're actually just differences of grade, a subtle difference between the two.

Now, at the same time, your MEST beingness will become better and better and better. You will be Mr. Gotbucks, or almost anything — Milord Moneybags, any great name. Great Rolls-Royce, gold-plated with a gold roof and a couple of beautiful blonde chauffeurs dressed in short pants, something real fancy — probably carrying tommy guns because you have to protect yourself -would be driving you down the street, and you draw up before the most exclusive club in London, which has only one member, and that's you. There'll probably be crowds lined up around, and they'll roll this carpet out so that you can walk over the velvet carpet in, and you sit down.

All right. Now, we'll go down over the eight dynamics and you get to eighth dynamic. Now, the eighth dynamic is the supreme being. But remember throughout the world there are many, many supreme beings, really, in people's minds. You will find from individual to individual there are different supreme beings. This would surprise a religionist and would shock him and would be considered blasphemous really, if you suddenly announced this fact.

But you'll notice that everything is being done for you. And I frankly don't think you'll be able to walk after a short space of time.

But an examination of people demonstrates to you completely that this is true. We find out in many cases the supreme being is Father. We find out in many other cases the supreme being is the president. We find out in many other cases the supreme being is a dog. And you say, "A what?"

Now, but your beingness from a MEST standpoint will be tremendous. Oh, everybody will say, "Mmmm." But what do you know? From your own standpoint, you practically won't exist. You'll be very unhappy, you'll wonder why you're kind of mopey, and you'll wonder why things aren't running well and why you don't feel well, and things are kind of a worry to you, and you're just upset — just upset; that's all there is to it.

And the fellow says, "Well, he says, "I never thought about it before, but he sort of sits up there and he — yeah, he's a dog."

Now, so your MEST identity and your MEST havingness and your ncaa doingness — the amount of energy you acquire, the amount of beingness which is assigned to you and the amount of havingness — can be an inflow or an outflow. And if it's very heavy and very MESTy it is inflow and you have agreed with the MEST universe. You've agreed with it thoroughly. And that's inflow, and you've got good identity and you've got good possession and there's a lot of energy serves you.

You know, you say, "Yeah?" and so on, because you have an infinity. That supreme being, that eight stands for an infinity, you see? But it's what he has been assigning the overall responsibility for the universe to.

But if you want self-determinism, you have to go up the Tone Scale and you have to start some outflow. And if you really go up the Tone Scale, you have to make your own universe. But if you did that, you would have to be able to make a lightning bolt kerzap across the face of the MEST universe, which would upset people a great deal. So, you see, there's a theoretical point up there that demonstrates condusively that we have an optimum action level at 20.0, and an undesirable importance and beingness below 3.0 which isn't worth having. But according to the MEST universe, it's sure worth having. That's the MEST universe; it's presented you with its all. Yes sir, even a gravestone.

"Who created all this?"

All right. Now, what's this beingness, havingness, doingness got to do with processing? Well, let me tell you, a Theta Clear who can't step outside of his body is having a hard time trying to conceive himself as being in any other way. He's having a very rough time with having, because he can't feature that he'd have any body. He has to have a body, and the body is somebody else's or something. He has to have it. He's got to have it. As far as his doingnesses are concerned, he couldn't perform such an action, because it would require energy.

"Well, I don't know; nobody did. It just rose from mud, and so forth." And you say, "Well, all right, then, mud is the supreme being."

How do you get him up the Tone Scale? All right. There's positive-andnegatives on each — positive-and-negatives: be — not be; have — not have; do -not have; do — not do — past, present and future. And I will give you a full list of that our next night, and exactly how you apply this to processing.

"No, no, no, you get me wrong, but come to think about it, that's right.

Yeah, mud. And yeah, mud — that's the supreme being. It would be, wouldn't it?

Yeah."

And you say, "Now, well, let's think about this a little bit further. Is mud — be the supreme being and so on?"

"Oh, well," he says, "it's really just chance, chance."

"The supreme being, then, is chance. That's what created the universe."

The fellow says, "Well, come to think about it, that's true. That's true — yeah, that's right! Yeah, that's right! That's why I carry this rabbit's foot and I never go out when the moon comes full, and de-dah, de-dah, de-dah-de — brrrrrrr." There's his life going off in front of you. It's that thing to which he's assigned the full responsibility for this universe. And that's what you want to know there: Who made the universe? is the salient question that goes in there.

Now you ask him this horrible question: "Would you destroy him?" "Me?"

You'll get some wonderful reactions from that one.

You say, "Well, all right, would you?"

"Oh, I couldn't! I just couldn't, that's all. It isn't a question of wouldn't; it's just I couldn't do that — I mean, gee!"

By the way, you will have people who will have painted — all through their childhood will have seen God in the terms of Moloch. Moloch, for instance, will have been dug up way back on the track someplace, and every time somebody in Sunday school said, "God," they saw Moloch. They kept keying this facsimile in, keying this facsimile in, you see, because nobody is very definite about God. Nobody gives you a good solid description and, as a result, the little kid when he's trained gets the strangest notions, and you'll find those underlying that regard.

Regardless of what your religionist intends, regardless of what religion is or isn't or anything else, you'll just have to just say, "Well, that's a theoretical thing, it possibly could be a very actual thing, in my category it's this way, it's that way." But people don't look at it the same way, and it's an aberrative fact.

Now, the only reason we have to treat this, and the only reason I have to talk about this subject at all is because you walk down the aisles of an insane asylum, you'll find that three out of five in that insane asylum are saying something about God. God is the symbol. It means that thing to which we assign responsibility; it can also mean that thing by which we avoid responsibility. And you'd better find out what it is in your preclear.

And you just say, "Who made the universe?" or "Who's responsible for the universe?" And he'll never have thought about it before, but the darnedest answers will turn up.

He'll keep saying, "But I'm an atheist, I tell you. I'm an atheist, I'm an atheist, I don't believe in God! I don't believe in God! What do you mean asking me a question like that? I don't believe in God!" Wonderful, some of the reactions you get. I mean, you just — you kind of feel like just getting out of there before something explodes. This fellow doesn't believe in God, obviously.

So do your assessment. We call this an assessment. This is a creation — destruction assessment, and its goal is to find out what the preclear will destroy, what the preclear will create, along all dynamics. And when you find one where he just won't — boom! won't — then you sit down and on a next page, on the back of that page, you make yourself a complete list of everything you can dig up out of his case concerning this subject. You just dig that up.

Now, it's a moot point whether or not you should really make an assessment before you tell somebody to step a foot back of his head — for this reason: It's so much easier to process somebody a couple of feet back of the head. But you're liable to get so excited about this preclear who is doing this, and he looks into your wallet and says you've got three dollars, and he goes around pulling the darnedest tricks, and he pushes the policeman's hat down over his eyes down on the corner, and he comes back, and he says, "I didn't do anything."

You say, "What's that riot down there?"

"Oh, nothing."

And you'll get so interested, in other words, that you're liable to forget to do an assessment. And eighty hours later you are still processing this case and he doesn't seem to be able to get any further than this or over those points. And you say, "I wonder why this could be."

I taught myself a lesson on this not very long ago. I've had the experience one too many times. Every once in a while I'll get careless. I'll spend long periods of time saying, "Well, there's nothing to this case — kabop, kaboom. And all of a sudden — and then once in a while, I will find out that I've missed the boat. I didn't do an assessment — the only way I missed the boat. I just didn't assess the case. I would have found this out in the first few minutes of play. I would have found out exactly what was wrong with this case and I would have processed that.

All right. The second you find that out, you don't try to process it in the preclear. You just get a list of all these things, and you get all this data, and you put that data down.

Now, he's going to change; he's going to change markedly, but what do you know? That data will be the data which primarily interferes with his communication with the body in his lifetime and this environment. And you've got the data — so you've got the data sitting right there, and you use that data.

Now, if you get somebody else's preclear and you know this person's working well, and everything's going fine and so forth, you say, "There's absolutely no reason under the sun — that other auditor is a good auditor, and therefore I'll just take this preclear, and he says he's a II and so on . . ." You do an assessment; you assess the case. Right straight down the line, you assess this case.

And once you've got the case assessed, you've got the data, and this is what you do with the data: You use the cycle of start, change and stop, or creation, growth, decay and destruction — you can draw that little curve in there — you use that cycle, and you go through this cycle placing and creating time and space with the object or the symbol of that thing which you found aberrative in the assessment.

And now, that doesn't mean that you do entirely — entirely creation of it. You do creation of it and learn how to destroy it. You get the preclear to a point where he can run any of these objects which he has discussed to you through the complete cycle of creation, growth, conservation, decay and destruction with full perceptic, because you're right there on the point that's suppressing his perception. He's afraid he will perceive this thing as it is in his environment. That is the thing which he is seeking to avoid; that is the thing — why he has his perceptics turned off.

Now, how do you start this? You find out, on that subject, what he can perceive. Now, you've got him out of his body — you've gone through Standard Operating Procedure — or you've gone down to Level V and he's not out of his body. How do we proceed at any one of these points? You've done these points, now we've found he's a V. You do this immediately on a V; he's still in the head, and you start this process.

Now, you do this by creating an object, or any part of the object, or any symbol of any part or action of the object, on any perceptic the preclear can get, and work with it — work with it — in terms of placing it in time and space, and making it run through the cycle of creation, growth, conservation, decay and destruction.

Now, the reason he can't destroy things is because he thinks he has to have things. You disabuse him of having to have this specific item by showing him he can create them by the dozens, the thousands, the millions — anything that it takes — and you do this very simply: He can't blow up one, make him create two. He can't blow up two, make him create four. If he can't blow up four, make him create eight. If he can't blow up eight, make him create sixteen. If he can't blow up sixteen, make him create thirty-two. And all of a sudden he says, "All right, I've blown all but one up."

And you say, "Blow that one up."

"Well, it doesn't quite blow up again."

"All right, get a — create another one. Okay, now let's take the two of them there, and let's place them in yesterday. Now let's put them in tomorrow. Now let's put them out on the street. Now let's put them on top of a lorry. Now let's put them in Samoa. Now, let's put them on Arcturus.

"That's fine. Now let's turn the picture you have upside down. Now let's add a taboret to the picture. Okay, let's have a horse standing on the taboret. Very well, now take the horse out of the taboret. Take the taboret out. Very good. Blow them up."

"Yeah, I can."

You find he can't throw something away; that's because he can't create something. And if you've gotten it on the first dynamic, and you've got the V, the first thing you start doing with the V is apply assessment. You just start that right off the bat. He can't get out of the body, so you just do this assessment and you apply this Creative Processing to that assessment, and you apply it with gradient scales.

I repeat, you apply it with gradient scales. I repeat, you apply it with gradient scales. And just in case you haven't missed that .. .

Don't mock up — have somebody mock up, "Mock up all your teammates now. Now just kill them all. Oh, you couldn't do that? Well, I don't know what we do next."

What do you do next? Well, you mock up one teammate and you see if you can push him a little bit. Oh, the guy can't even do that. Okay, your next step is to get, "Let's see, what football team do you dislike?"

"Oh, yeah, there was one."

"Well, mock them all up. You got them out there on the playing field and so forth? All right. Have one of them break a shoelace. Oh, you got a shoelace broken? Well, take the shoes off of all of them. Okay. Take the hats off of all of them. Oh, they aren't wearing hats. Well, take their jerseys off."

"Yeah, that would be a good joke; I'll take their jerseys off."

And here we go. And you work from that to where you can actually shoot one. And then you mock up more and more, and you get them up to a point and all of a sudden you've got the guy's teammates and he mows them down, and he said, "Yup, tsk! That's that. They're all dead. I blew up their bodies too." This is very strange; this was not his attitude ten minutes before — not his attitude, because what you're doing is changing attitudes.

And the essence of all processing is. changing attitudes. And the way you change an attitude is to demonstrate to somebody that he has this item toward which he has an aberrated attitude; he now has this item under his control.

And control means ability to handle in space and time, locate space and time for. And that's handling: locating in space and time, locating space and time for.

Now, what do you do with his memory bank? Supposing you've got him mocking up his body. You found out he's terribly upset on the first dynamic and noplace else, and he couldn't possibly create a body, and he just couldn't do that or anything of the sort. Well, have him create something that belongs to the body.

And he can't do that, and he can't do any of these things, and it's just impossible. Well, have him draw something. If he can't see anything, if he has no sight perceptic or something of the sort, he's got some kind of a ghost of a perceptic, so you get the kind of a noise a body makes when it's eating soup. And you'll get the idea, and you creep in on this.

"All right, get the kind of a noise a horse makes if it'd eat soup." "Oh," the fellow finally says, "yeah, I can get that."

"Okay. Now you got a horse eating soup, okay. Now, let's get the horse's bridle."

The fellow says, "You know, that's the first visio I ever had. There's one buckle sitting here in midair."

That's the way it's done, that's the way it's done — Creative Processing. Now, you can go over this and over it and over it.

Now, how do you make him handle the real experiences of his life? These things keep showing up and showing up and showing up — whole track.

Well, I'm going to give you a list of the bric-a-brac which surrounds most of the implants on the whole track, and you make him handle this bric-a-brac. It's just mock-ups of mock-ups, and he just handles this, and he places it here, and he places it there, and he turns it upside down, and that sort of thing. All right.

Now, how do you make him handle a real incident? A real incident is really bothering him. Do you run it out? No, you don't run it out. You can't get to this real incident, but he can get one still picture of Grandma, and you know Grandma is dead. She's been lying there moldering with the worms gnawing upon her for a long time, and he knows he can't survive without Grandma.

Actually, you go back on the track, and after you've run the track, you'll find Grandma beat him practically every morning and every afternoon or something like that. There'll be something there that he didn't quite suspect. And he can say, "Well, all I can get is this photograph of Grandma. I get this little, tiny, still picture of Grandma that's all still back there and I know she died, but I don't know when she died, and I don't know where she died. I haven't got any (mumble), and I know it's very aberrative, and I'm very upset about the whole thing," and so on.

What do you do with this? You take that little, tiny, still picture and you make him hold it an inch further away. Now you make him hold it a couple of inches further away. "Now move it a little tiny bit to the right. Now move it a little tiny bit to the left. Now move it a. little bit up. Now move it a little bit closer. Now a little bit further away. Now turn it upside down. You got that? All right, now let's turn it around and look at the back of it."

And he'll say, "Say, you know, I've got a visio of Grandma. Yeah, there's the old bat." Don't be surprised if his attitude changes that fast.

Now, get this little point: If his attitude doesn't change with remarkable speed, it's because you're not following your assessment! You're processing the wrong horse, or the wrong Grandma, or something of the sort, and his case is pinned down elsewhere by something else!

Creative Processing, in essence, is processing which is leveled to demonstrate to the preclear that he could create his own universe, and that takes the importance off of this one. And when he suddenly conceives this point, he becomes very, very active — extremely active — much more active than any other kind of processing ever could have made him.

And we've got it in the bag with Standard Operating Procedure Issue 2. The refinements on this will probably be just a little bit further out along this same line.

So, you get expert — you get expert now on that.