This is the third lecture of the afternoon, December the 10th. I wonder if you’ve all recovered from have and uh… agree and… and so on. It just shows you the liability of flows, and if flows have an enormous importance to an individual, he will fall, of course, into this horrible uh… track; he… he… that’s a trap. Uh… you’ve agreed to flows, then you’ve agreed that flows are dangerous.

This is the second hour, December the 10th, afternoon.

Have you ever protested to anybody that their talk to you was destructive to you? That’s all; you’ve said at that moment, „A flow can destroy me.“ Why don’t you just change that postulate right now?

Now in the… in the whole action of flows, you will find quite a dissertation on this subject in Technique 88 – some more data on it, Technique 80. You’ll find a lot of stuff on this. And there isn’t any reason why I should go into this stuff again and break it all down one way or the other, but I probably ought to give it a rapid sketch.

By the way, who did you have to convince that you were working, not playing? You see, you agreed that there was such a thing as work.

When we say ‘Flow’, we mean a change of position of particle in space. That’s all it is. The speed that it changes has a great deal to do with its relationship to the space. As you well know, you do not change a big particle in a small space in a rapid time – because a big particle in a small space is a stretch of time itself.

These things don’t creep up on you in the night, by the way, and slide in sideways by telepathy and all of that sort of thing. You have to say good and loud, „I agree that…“ and you say it in various ways, such as: „Oh, that is terribly destructive and that’s very dangerous to me.“ Or „I am going to destroy you and you need to be punished.“ Or „Pain is a terrible and horrible thing, because look what you’re doing to me with pain,“ which is the same thing as „You’ve got to obey the rules, and if you don’t obey the rules I’m going to apply pain to you.“ Pain you wanted, oh boy, pain was valuable.

Now your big particle could be the Woolworth Building, or the Empire State Building; you can just treat that as a composite particle – an object. You don’t have to worry about calling – whether this thing is the size of an atom or the size of an electron. We’re not interested in size. We’re only interested in how big you think it is.

How… what… what do you do? You’ve got this game you’re trying to play and this guy keeps rushing in and saying, „We’ve just uh… we’ve just got all this upset and we’ve got these uh… changed this whole thing around,“ you know, like me changing techniques, uh… „and… and you’re not playing according to the rules.“ Well, the only reason you really didn’t have any… protest too much when I was changing techniques is I was just learning more rules that already existed. So that wasn’t changing the rules, although to some people who didn’t know we were tracking rules, that appeared to be a violation of the rules. They were used to dealing with mock-ups. The rules were so sacred and so deeply hidden and so terribly desirable, and they had to agree with ‘em so thoroughly that you were supposed to operate as far from the actual rules as you could operate. And when you start moving in on the rules…

Now you think the Empire State Building in a space would be a large particle. Actually, you could theoretically make up a flow which would be a good, fast flow of Empire States Buildings, changing position in space.

By the way, I’ve seen people in audiences and students, and so forth all of a sudden jump and their eyes get kind of pop-eyed and the horrible feeling comes over them, „My God, he knows!“ And that’s very interesting when you get all of this added up and squared around, that the rules are so important.

Or you could have a good fast flow – see, particle – this… what… what… what do you agree the relationship is? It’s relative – relative size. You think you’re this big. And therefore you think that’s that big, and you think you are capable of lifting a pound weight, or a ten pound weight – some human beings could even lift a twelve pound weight. Uh… you… you say, well therefore that is relatively light, you say. But a 200, 500, a 1000 pound weight, these things are relatively heavy. What you’re saying is… is not light or heavy, you’re not even saying the action of gravity upon this. What you’re saying is, „My concept of what I can handle.“ If you had a concept that a hundred thousand tons was a light weight and pocket-size, of course, your amount of SPACE would have to be quite large. And your concept of yourself would have to be quite big. And sure enough, you could use it. for a pocket charm.

The rules were important only because you had to protect your postulates after you made your postulates; and the reason you had to protect your postulates after you made your postulates, you wanted to have what you had had. And uh… it made for randomity and you went down the line a little further, and you had to protect the thing that you had protected with postulates and protect your right to make postulates. (By that time you were kind of getting dim on the subject of making a postulate.)

You see, we… you could put this planet in your vest pocket. Really, uh… if your… if your… if your idea of size…

And then somebody came along and changed the rules on you, and said, „Look, dogs hereinafter walk in the sky and uh… birds uniformly are found in little burroughs underground.“ Uh-uh… And he said, „Therefore, because I do this, then all of your dogs are going up in the sky, and there they go.“

Now, therefore, we could say here is a pa… a particle flow, and each particle in it is the size of Jupiter. And it’s going like hell in this little light flow and we would go on and talk about it there. Or maybe if we’re in some other universe, maybe we would be saying that. You’d say, „This is a little place named the MEST universe. You can look in there sometimes. But you sort of have to get down on one knee, and then you see this vague blur of stars.“

You say, „Oh, my dogs! My poor, precious dogs! Why it took me… it took me microseconds to make those dogs and I’ve become terribly fond of them, because every time I put an emotion on them of fondness and loyalty and cheerfulness and… and helpfulness, I feel it right back. And they’re very good for that sort of thing. They’re so soothing to my nerves.“ And there went your dogs.

There isn’t any reason why you, personally, couldn’t have that viewpoint. You see, there’s nothing blocking you from having that viewpoint. You go through these techniques, you’ll ATTAIN viewpoints something to that direction.

And you said, „Listen, fellow. Did you ever hear about a rule that had to do with pain?“

One day you’ve got a speck in your cereal; you’ve decided in your universe to eat cereal or something so that you can read the boxes. And uh… you’re… you have this… this speck there. And there’s that speck, and you pick up that speck and you don’t know quite how it got there, but you flip it off on to the floor and stamp on it. That was the MEST universe! Now Man can get some very funny ideas about this. A fellow can… a fellow can sit down and think of himself as being just this tiny – oh boy, this is what they try to do! Oh, this is the control operation beyond control operations. They get you to sit down and think very hard about how utterly insignificant you must be to be crawling on the face of a very small planet which is running around a very small star, which is in one of the smaller galaxies, and all of these galaxies and so forth, and then your infinite smallness is almost incomprehensibly small, and that says your power is incomprehensibly small. And therefore, you’re a slave. You can’t throw off your chains because the chains, then, are infinitely heavy, see? Question of size.

And he said, „Uh… what’s pain?“

Now if we started talking about, „Now please – please give me your…“ – if I… I talked to you this way day after day – you… just… just the idea of inflow of relationships of sizes, is… is, „Please uh… please uh… come somewhere near Philadelphia in your contact with your body while you’re listening to these lectures. And uh… be rather careful about the farms – don’t step on any of the farms around here because we don’t want a commotion in this little place,“ and so on. And we went on talking along in this line as though you were a flock of giants, you know, just marching across the countryside with a thunderbolt in each uh… hand.

„Oh,“ you… you say, „it’s another sensation, of course.“

You know that that alone – that alone would serve to help you get some kind of idea of size. Size is largely, „What do you want to do?“ You see, that’s very silly. Size depends on what you want to do. You want to go around here and… and push change across a grocery counter, you don’t want to be bigger than the grocery store. And uh… if you want to go around and push around planets, and uh… make ‘em and break ‘em and so forth, you don’t want to be smaller than the planet. And the guy that started to run Earth would, of course, not exist, probably, in Earth space. He would be too big. He wouldn’t be standing someplace between Earth and the Moon. He just wouldn’t be there. He would be existing in his own space with a… an attack or communications point somewhere coincident.

And the fellow says, „A sensation? Gee… You mean there’s good sensations, too, like I haven’t heard about?“

Now how do you… how do you get your space, and how do you get Earth space? Well you’d be sitting there amongst your own anchor points. You wouldn’t be sitting there with Earth anchor points. In the first place it would be too confusing to keep track of Earth on its own anchor points; it’s much easier to keep track of Earth on your anchor points.

„Oh, yeah. This is a very good sensation.“

You probably could actually center Earth over some place or another and it sounds strange, but give it and influence it into having your anchor points, and it would then be part of your universe. You want to know how your universe got taken over? Somebody gave it an anchor point, made it a big present of a nice big shiny anchor point. And it says, „Now look. Your dimensions can get smaller, your dimensions can get larger, and isn’t it interesting what you can do with these two anchor points. Now you put your anchor points convergent with our universe’s anchor points, and then these two universes will be co-visible and we will be all set then.“ And all of a sudden there was a dull flash and a boom and your anchor points and their anchor points went in total coincidence, but your universe wasn’t rigged to stand that. And then ever since you’ve been going around saying, „I wonder what happened to my universe? It’s here someplace.“

„Now, I tell you, there you’re standing there in this body you’ve got there; this is a beautiful mock-up. This beautiful body, and so forth, actually has the ability to have sensations, doesn’t it?“ You could prove everything by logics, and… „It has the capacity to feel sensation; isn’t that true? And it has an unlimited capacity to feel sensation.“

Looking for that universe is a silliness beyond silliness, because you can make it all over again without any trouble whatsoever. You also had to get the idea that you could lose something which you would not be able to create again, before you could lose a universe. The only way you could ever lose anything, you see, was to get the idea that you couldn’t create it again.

„Why, sure it does,“ he says. „That’s the way I mocked it up.“

Now you want to know where your Grandma is. „She’s dead.“ No she’s not. She just lost the same anchor points. Once upon a time you and she had identical anchor points. Now you don’t have identical anchor points. She’s got some other set of anchor points. Well, because you’re still in the MEST universe, you have a… find a great difficulty in getting into anchor points with her, because you’d probably have to find some kind of proximity MEST universe anchor points.

„All right. Now, if it has the unlimited ability to feel sensation, then it can feel any sensation; isn’t that true?“ „Yeah.“ You say, „All right. Then it could feel pain, couldn’t it?“ „Well, sure – what’s pain?“

Well, that’s a terrific limitation. Now if you could just find Grandma, who’s probably a little kid now in pigtails, if you could just find Grandma, someplace or another, by pervasion – you just look around and find out what’s the wave length of Grandma. You’d probably finally spot her. She’s in East Podunk or someplace or other, or North Keokuk, and uh… uh… as a little kid, why her ideas are this way and that way.

And you say, „Now, look. A pain has to do with attention units and various flows and so forth going this way and that way, right away, see?“ And the fellow says, „How?“ And you say, „Look. I’ll show you.“ Uh… „Okay,“ he says.

You could probably talk with her the second that you established some sort of coincidence of anchor points. But if you were existing in your own universe time, you could throw a couple of anchor points in there and just get her to accept those two anchor points and you could talk to her. This would probably be very disturbing to her parents; they’d think she was going around associating with some spirit, or something.

So you got the attention units going this way and that way and he didn’t jump very bad. And you say, „You see. You can’t feel pain.“ „I can too,“ he says. „I can feel anything.“ „Well, you can’t either. You can’t feel pain. You didn’t jump.“ And he says, guy says, „I can jump.“

Some spirit? Well, that would be somebody who was a… an auditor in Scientology and… and he… he has an office… he has an office on Park Avenue or some place or another; that would be all there was to that.

And you say, „All right. The next time I do this, next time I do this, let’s make sure; let’t prove that that body can actually feel pain.“ It could; he jumped.

Uh… it’s really very simple, when you come down to it.

He said, „Isn’t that an interesting game.“ So he went down the line and instead of changing people’s dogs, he went down the line. And started to prove to people that they could feel pain.

Now having accepted MEST universe anchor points, you wonder what happened to your memories, ‘course, you’re only willing to see what memories the MEST universe gives you if you will only accept MEST universe anchor points – hah! You get that? Do you get that nice little trick?

And the motto of this universe could be, amongst all other mottos that it has, „Prove it.“ Every time you can prove it, then… then there’s a difference between rightness and wrongness, you see, and a fellow can be uh… disqualified if he doesn’t uh… Well, of course there’s no disqualification except to demonstrate to him his stupidity. And you demonstrate to him his stupidity by making him being proud of being gullible. So, if he was very proud of being gullible, then he could da… demonstrate it to him that he was stupid. But then he’d decide not to be stupid by accepting your agreement and agreeing to it. And then you could have pain. Boy, was that valuable! And after that you pulled your dogs down out of the ceiling. And he went around… all around the neighborhood, you know, around the various other little patches of this or that that existed, and proved to everybody. And the next time somebody came back, you say, „I’m gonna hurt you, if you leave those… if you don’t leave those dogs alone.“

The MEST universe says, „Now look. Here’s some anchor points, and we’re going to give you these MEST…“ – oh, it’s lovely at giving you things – it says, „going to give you these anchor points,“ and now – and what do you know? You can’t seem to remember the time that – just a few years ago – mostly because you don’t know where you were.

„Oh, don’t do that,“ he says. „Don’t do that. I’m not disobeying the rules.“

Have you ever been in a churchyard or passed by a public building or… or something like that and had the strange sudden feeling, „You know, I’ve been here before? I’ve gone up this road before, I’ve done this before. I belonged here before? I could swear that I’d know there’s a house right around the curve – turn down there and there’s such and so in it.“ Of course, you’re not permitted to think that because you haven’t been given these anchor points.

And he didn’t care, and so you say, „All right. I… all right.“ And then he’ll treacherously make your dogs go and walk up in the sky anyhow.

If you were to just search a neighborhood until something looked unquestionably familiar to you, your entire past life… that life would come back – FLASH! Because it requires MEST universe anchor points. You haven’t got the anchor points, so the facsimiles are just no place as far as you’re concerned. How can you read something that isn’t any place. As long as the MEST universe gave you the anchor points, then you’d have to recover those anchor points in order to have a complete reality.

And you’ll say, „Damn these people and these dogs! I mean, they… they just keep… won’t leave my dogs alone!“ So you blow his head off, and he has to go to all the trouble of mocking up a new head, but he felt pain when he did it.

What is reality? First thing about REALITY you would say is, „Is it agreed upon in this MEST universe?“ But let’s get a better definition for reality – a little bit better definition for reality – one that you’ll accept. This isn’t the final definition of reality, but one that you’ll accept is, „What can I perceive with clarity?“ „What can I perceive with clarity?“ would say, „What’s your reality, what’s my reality, yap-yap-yap.“ I mean, that wouldn’t have any basis on it, but you… you say, „The thing is real because I can perceive it with clarity. Or because it’s mine,“ all of these things, really, could come under the heading of Reality.

And he says, „Yes, you see, I’m really in this game, because you see, I arrived.“

We’ve… we’ve narrowed this word ‘reality’ however, to mean the MEST universe, and uh… but we’re not having too much more with it, you see, because it’s so corrupt. It is slimy and dripping with confusion. But a little bit better definition for ‘reality’ is, „What can I perceive with clarity?“ That’s just a clarification definition, it’s clearer.

Now, one of the… it’s gotten to a point where one of the tests of being human is: Can one feel pain? That’s right; that’s right. One of the tests of being human is can he feel pain. One of the things that really worries people… you’ll get people walk into hospitals, doctor comes in and says, „Now, let’s see. What is your ability, what’s your sensitivity in various areas of the body? All right, let’s…“ Sticks you with pins and so forth, and s… all of a sudden, he finds a place where you don’t feel any pain. Feels an area in the back; there’s usually an area in the back that does. He thinks this is unusual; he only finds it in practically every patient he tests.

So when you get your… get your anchor points, you can look through those facsimiles and find out what anchor points you ought to have, but don’t try to find anchor points in the facsimile, you dope! Don’t do that! There aren’t any there! How can there be an anchor point in a facsimile. Well, there can’t be anchor points in the facsimile, really, but there are pictures of anchor points in a facsimile. But if you haven’t got the anchor points to tie them down to you, then do not think that facsimile belongs to you or is yours. You don’t feel then that you – quote, „remember it“, unquote – because you don’t know, because you’ve seen a picture of an anchor point and yet you don’t have the anchor point. If you were to go find the anchor point, that whole life would go, ‘whirrr-crack’ and it’d be into full view. The MEST universe gave that anchor point.

But uh… he… he says, he’s carrying the mission right along, boy; he’s doing that good. And uh… he says uh… „Oh, that’s an anesthesed area.“

How do you cure this and how do you recover past lives? Well, I can give you a very lengthy dissertation on that. So what? They are the complete importance of Zero. Your time for action is Now and Will Be. Your time for action is Now and Will Have – not ‘had’. You haven’t got it anymore. All right, so you haven’t got it anymore.

And the fellow says, „I’ve got an anesthesed area; I can’t feel pain in it.“ So he thinks if he can’t feel pain, he can’t feel anything. Naturally, he wants to feel sensation, so he has to feel pain, too, so let’s get that area alive! That’s the thing to do.

Now you think there’s a lot of experience and a lot of thought and a lot of this and that and so forth. And you go back and you dig up one of these past lives and there’s such a thing as – like, „Let’s see: it is… it is page 72 or page 73 – how I find out how I round Cape Hatterus. Let me see, is it page 72 or is it page…“ Good important data – on a coast pilot that was printed a couple of hundred years ago after the sand banks… the sand banks have since shifted and everything else. So your page 72, page 73 – that publication isn’t published anymore. You wouldn’t have the publication anyway.

And sure enough, the track of agreement dictates that law. When a person is below 4.0, if he he can’t feel pain, he can’t feel anything. If he can’t feel pleasure, he can’t feel pain. If he can feel pleasure, he feels pain. You get the identification between those two waves and two ideas and two agreements? Shouldn’t be identified at all. A fellow should be able to go out and feel unlimited quantities of endless pleasure without ever once feeling a slightest twinge of pain. Why, there’s no reason why he couldn’t! It is… there is no such thing as the Emersonian Law of Compensation, fortunately for us all! A-uh!

Or, „Am I going to get paid this Saturday,“ or, „Is she true to me?“ And of course it doesn’t matter whether or not you got paid that Saturday, and on the subject of „Is she true to me?“ – of course not!

These guys that go around and try to make up new agreements in… in the substance of… saying „No, look. It all works out for the best in this best of all possible universes, and it’s all for the best in this best of all possible universes,“ didn’t know about agree and have and not… and disagree and not have, simultaneously. They just didn’t know about that, they didn’t see lying right underfoot the dirtiest little trap that ever existed, because this all pulls the whole thing into a mass, and is designed to make a solid object. All of that contradictory flow business winds up as a solid object.

But these things are curiosa and they are amusing and they are very interesting and when a preclear cannot handle force and establish his own anchor points, they are very aberrative. That’s why they’re important. But they’re not important as subjects or facsimiles; they’re merely important because they have force on him.

So, as your preclear grows older and older and older, you have a harder and harder time running incidents on him. It just gets almost impossible with a very old person to run a single incident. You just take the case and you start to run this single incident, and the bulk of the cases that you try this on, they just can’t do it; they’re solid.

A guy goes around – gimp, gimp, gimp, gimp – and you say, „For heaven’s sakes! Why can’t that fellow walk straight?“ – gimp, gimp, gimp, gimp, gi… There’s nothing wrong with him, he’s been to all the doctors and all the doctors said, „Nothing wrong with him,“ and everybody agrees. Oh, the hell there isn’t something wrong with him! He’s got a facsimile about two hundred years old, probably somewhere down around the Nile or something, and the head hunters or somebody, or the ‘Nilists’ jumped him and cut his leg off.

What you should do, you see, is work on space and work on reversing the cycle of action till you get ‘em up curve a little bit, and all of a sudden all this loosens up. It doesn’t matter much how old they are; you can do this.

And uh… this keyed in the unfortunate fact that he once amused himself by sawing the leg off of a vestal virgin. And all of a sudden you’ve got these old force images are impacting against him because he knows he can’t handle force, and he knows force exists. Knowing those two points for sure, it of course can influence him and because he’s using a given body – not a body he created – anything can influence that body because he stole it, didn’t he?

But it takes a little more time. But the identification level, it’ll come down to a solid object. If you can feel pleasure you can feel pain. And if you didn’t have pain, you’d have no contrast so that you could feel pleasure. What the hell do you need a contrast for so you can feel pleasure?

By the way, you want to find one of these young preclears that goes around the whole family, „Excuse me,“ the whole family, „excuse me – excuse me – pardon me – excuse me for living. Yes, I’ll do anything, no matter how irrational it is. Excuse me. Yes, could I do something for you? Oh, please walk on me. I’m lying right down here.“ They’re going around to this family and you say, „For Gods sakes! What’s wrong with this guy?“

I sure know when I’m feeling pleasure. It happens to be utterly true that when you are in horrible condition, your GE is all worn out and your body’s all drooping and you’ve been doing something for a long time and… and something like that, that any comfort and so forth is about eight times as welcome. You’re about 20 times as… as thirsty for a pleasure, because it’s been so long since you’ve had one. That’s all. And the reason for that is… is because you know that’s true.

Well, two things are wrong with him. One thing I’m going to mention in a moment has to do with communication flow lines, and flow lines in general; and the other thing is they stole that body. There is an incident known as the Assumption which takes place at birth and which you run by a mock-up of grabbing babies – just… just… just mock-up a baby and have it grabbed and put some place else. And then mock-up a baby and have it grabbed. And then have the baby grabbing and… and so on. And shift this baby all around and change it to a baby monkey and a baby giraffe and a baby umbrella, and a baby tank. And then mock it back up into a baby again. And the guy will be getting the strangest feelings. He’ll be getting to get a somatic that sort of is making him go ‘crunch’ through the matter as he took his left hand and his right hand and he came in on this little baby uh… before, during or after birth, and went ‘skronk!’ And smacked the GE flat from a control mechanism or knocked anything else out that was there in the way of a thetan – this has happened to preclears, you see. Happened to thetans, see. They’ve… they’ve had the baby and then they’ve been knocked flat.

And… and the actuality is, the… the fellow has a jaded appetite. Oh, I don’t know; he’d been running around the stewpots and… and helling around and raising the devil and with sensation and all that sort of thing he finally got to a point where, well, and everything jaded, bored, so on. He had nothing left to live for, really. Oh, boy. Think of the number of moralists that have been hanging on that guy’s shoulders saying, „If you drink, you are going to get a hobnailed kidney.“ I would love to have somebody show me a hobnailed kidney sometime; I’d use it to fix my boots with for my mountain climbing.

And goes ‘scrunch!’ and uh… that’s you! And you walk around all after, through the family, and you know damn well that this isn’t their kid. And you say, „Excuse me, excuse me,“ and, „I’m sorry I stole the baby.“ And then horrible touching stories about little things happening to babies and babies being stolen and all of that sort of thing… these terribly touching things that you read and you feel so sad about them. The little lost orphan and all that sort of thing. The lost child and gosh, you feel more propitiative. You think you’re feeling thankful toward the family? You’re not feeling thankful toward the family? You’re trying to say, „Gosh, you know, if I act meek enough and mild enough and pleasant enough, and enough like a child should be to them, they’ll never suspect that I stole their kid.“

But uh… uh… he says, „You shouldn’t hell around and have a good time with women, because that’s scarcity; it’s all got to be scarcity, and it has… if there’s no scarcity, I can’t sell it to you.“ I didn’t mean that in relationship to women. Uh… I was talking about… about anything in the MEST universe. If something has no scarcity, the law of supply and demand (which is a law, really is a law; it’s a law that works for anybody that has anything to sell) uh… he enforces that law. The law of supply and demand.

That’s the Assumption. That incident.

He says, „Now, look. You’ve got to have a demand, and the reason you’ve got to have a demand is not because you have to have a demand but because I have to supply it.“ So any time you have a demand to supply, you’ve got to sell the idea in reverse that there’s gonna be a demand for it. You can actually go into advertising and logic and everything else and tell people, and there isn’t a real good, big, observable demand. Really, even… even advertising done by J. Walter Thompson uh… would possib… wouldn’t… wouldn’t possibly sell a product.

All right, that has to do with memories, acquisition of. Any time anything gives you something and then more or less keeps hold of what it gave you, you’re gonna have trouble. So if you’re gonna get back all the anchor points of the past, you’ll have to make better anchor points yourself. And then you could have the anchor points back of the past.

Actually advertising, trying to advertise these demands into shape, has only a small degree of success. The law of supply and demand is based on the law of scarcity, and if you want to settle supply and demand, whether it has to do with the inflation-deflation of money, all of these various principles and so forth, you could break down the whole field of economics very easily. Economics is not a serious study; it’s a rather humorous study. You start looking at inflation: Why do you have inflation? You have inflation because there’s too much money and too few things to buy. Too much scarcity, in other words. And when you have deflation, that is when you have too many things to buy and not enough money to buy ‘em with. That’s interesting, isn’t it?

Why? You could actually reach out and pervade any part of the universe to such a degree that the old MEST universe anchor points would show up, but what a terrific degree of certainty it would take on your part to be able to put out your anchor points in contest with the MEST universe anchor points, so that the MEST universe anchor points would suddenly be junior – all these memories would come back. All these past lives would come back. They would come back as memories should – by pervasion or cross havingness – not by a flock of facsimiles.

When I think of old FDR and Harry Hopkins and his aide Stalin and… that wasn’t on that staff. Uh… Harry Hopkins was in Moscow, that’s right, I made an error. Uh… and they… they get all this, and we’ve got to boondoggle and we’ve got to… got to put everybody on relief and then fix ‘em up when they’re on relief so they can’t work for themselves, and as long as they’re on relief, they’re… got to be complete slaves to the government so they won’t work, and… and uh… let’s take away all the self-respect we can take away and then not give him anything, and then tell him the thing to do is to be taken care of. Now, let’s see. Freedom from, that’s a new idea. We’ll give him freedom from everything.

You can pervade an area and know what you’ve done in it. You’re still there to some degree. A man is a composite of his own experience, but that does not mean that a man is… has to be, have inflicted on him all the force he accumulated while having experience and sensation. He is a composite of experience. But he can know, you understand, without carrying facsimiles.

And uh… they go along the line… they created practically a socialist state ahead of its time. The US was no more right to be a welfare state – it just wasn’t. And so they dreamed up all these horrible pump-priming things, and so on. The truth of the matter was, there were too many goods and there was too little money with which to buy them.

The thetan has an upper level of knowingness that has nothing to do with facsimiles. It’s by pervasion and approximation. He can pervade time. He actually has five ways of travelling on the time track; that’s right. I mean that’s incredible enough. He has five ways of travelling on a time track, and you often wonder why some preclears look rather strange doing what he was doing. It’s one of these five ways he’s using – let’s see if I can remember these offhand.

Of course, don’t let anybody on over on Wall Street hear that.

It’s relatively unimportant, but I’ll just sketch them for you.

‘Cause, you see, the way you have to create money, that’s pretty arduous. Somebody on Wall Street gets a… has a big ledger, and that has to do with the Federal Reserve Bank, which is a private company which prints all of your money, because it says in the Constitution only the US can print money. By the way, are those… those two statements disconnected? Well, they shouldn’t be. It’s all a legal country, and it’s in the MEST universe; it all goes right into and travels in agreement perfectly, all of the way along the line. Everything works out in this best of all possible worlds.

There’s first, the facsimiles – the track mapped and marked and outlined and shaped by the facsimiles – the pictures he’s taken of the track. Then there is the track of the area in which he is; that is to say, you could go back in this room, you could take this spot on this planet, and theta-wise you could simply scan this track. You could pick this room up at the first moment it was ever built, for instance, and carry it on through to the day it was destroyed. You can scan that whole track – past, present, future. You can look at the total havingness of this room all in an instant, because there’s no other time than that instant, you see? There’s just the havingness of the room with the altered condition therein.

That’s a fact. It says in the Constitution that only the US can create money, and your money is printed by a private company known as the Federal Reserve Bank. That’s not a US institution. The US owns some stock in it, that’s about all.

You say „It takes time to alter a condition?“ No, no. It takes a condition to alter conditions.

Well, anyhow, they write in a big ledger and they write in a big ledger 8 billion dollars, and then they send this down to Washington: „We’ve just written in a ledger 8 billion dollars,“ and Washington says, „Oh, you have? Oh, goody, goody, goody!“ And… and… and they get a whole bunch of certificates and these are stock certificates of some sort or another, and they fire them back immediately to New York and they order them in New York and they look at these certificates and they say, „Now… now, we have been loaned this much money. Now we’re gonna give this money; now we have the right.“ And so they send these back to Washington and then… then they… they print up all this money.

You could scan the track called ‘this room’, and you would actually be looking at ‘this room’. You would not be looking at a flock of facsimiles sitting in space. You would be looking at this room in all periods of time, so don’t be too surprised if one day you’re coming out of a session and you find yourself standing there on the beach with a… with a flock of cross-bows, cross-bowmen repelling these invaders, or something. And there’s guys swimming up through the surf. And you KNOW you’re standing there; you can feel that darned crossbow. And you say, „Wooo! I didn’t know that the invasion from Mars was going to take place. And certainly, why are these guys walking up the beach in morions?“ You’ve just grabbed off the instant momentarily; you’re near a beach. And you just picked up the scene of the beach – it didn’t happen to you at all.

I… I hope you’re following me. Nobody, since Alexander Hamilton dreamed up this horrendous scheme, has been able to follow it. Any time you see hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper, books and so forth, written trying to explain the banking system of the US, you know they aren’t showing where they argufy and spewdify. There’s a dog in the machinery there someplace.

You’ve scanned up and you’ve hit a battle that had took place on this beach, and so on. And you… you’ve picked up one of the beingnesses of some of the people who were there – which is probably pretty strong. That sounds strange to you. It’s not strange and it’s nothing to worry about and it’s… certainly, you can differentiate like mad amongst these things.

Well, there’s just a question of flows. That’s all it is. All they had to do, actually, is when… when guys have lots of money they’d like a deflation so they can buy hamburger for 10 cents a pound. Then that makes them have more money. So that’s a very simple trick, you see? Guys who have money don’t want money created and the guys who have money don’t have any wants anyway so there’s no pressure on the thing. „Let ‘em eat cake.“ Same philosophy: Marie Antionette. „Oh, they are starving for bread? Well let them eat cake.“

And one of the trick ways of getting a preclear out of his head, is not even to ask him to step out of his head. There’s another method. You just… oh, there’s dozens of methods. But uh… all… all you tell him to do is, all right.

Uh… meantime, big humanitarian principles going around; we all give ‘em all freedom from. All they had to do was turn their damn printing presses on and throw some money out so that you could buy the existing commodity. That’s all. There has to be a dollar in existence in currency for every dollar of item to be purchased, minus the bank credits outstanding because of checking accounts. Now, you… just works out. I mean, it’s too simple.

And by the way! You can do this right now. Just shut your eyes and take a look at the room. Now take a room when… look at that when it was built, the day it was built.

When that varies and you have two dollars of currency existing for every dollar’s worth of commodity to be bought, you have a condition known as inflation „which is very dangerous, and which is solved by you denying yourself.“ Silly isn’t it?

Now scan it on through to the day it will be dust… It’s very interesting, isn’t it? Now just reach back and find present time in this room, that’s all. Find its anchor points right at this instant. Just look around for the anchor points at this instant. You see? Now some of you could see that. And actually, if you’ll just ask the preclear – he may be blind as six bats – and you just ask him to close his eyes and take a look out from his head at the room. And at first he can’t see very much and the next thing he can’t see very much – and the next… and all of a sudden he sees a little bit better and he begins to pick up this room. And he says, „Aww, that’s darned peculiar. I am! I’m looking out through my head – where’s my head?“

And if you have a deflationary situation, it’s because there’s only 50 cents there to buy a dollar’s worth of currency. Do you know that this town, one time, in the days of old Ben Franklin, was almost ruined? It was in a terrible state of affairs. The Crown wouldn’t issue any money, and the doggonedest system of trade was existing between Phila… Philadelphia and the backwoods. They didn’t have any money; the Crown wouldn’t send any money over here.

You’ve selected his depth of perception and you’ve scattered him up and down in time. What’ll he do? He’ll find present time if he does this, and you can’t get him out if he’s in past time or otherwise, because this space occupancy with its points is a present time.

So Franklin and the rest of the boys finally turned some out (he was a good printer) uh… and the situation resolved itself. There was all kinds of commodity and there was no Crown money with which to buy it. Inflation – deflation.

So, you can scan him up. And sometimes you’ll find a preclear isn’t in his head in present time. I mean, he’s standing way back there. And all of a sudden you’ve located present time and BONG! He’s looking at the room from outside, and he’s looking at it with perfectly clear perception. And he’s looking at his body and there he is! And he’s been so much in the future or the past or scattered up in time that he hasn’t been able to orient himself or orient the body or gets… of course, that’s all a question of anchor points. He hasn’t been able to select enough anchor points to find out what he was. He walked in the door and he thought he was sitting in the chair. And… and he isn’t sitting in that chair at all; he’s sitting there halfway from there to the door, because he thinks the anchor points are some other way. His space is all messed up.

Now, you get then that flows have a tendency in this universe to equalize, but in the process of equalizing, they compact; they make their space smaller. Now, the reason why this is is because a flow – particles and so forth – as a flow continues, the space in which it is flowing is seldom increased. New thought for you.

You scan him through from the first moment the room was built; this room – not the number of the times he was in it. But you have him take a look at the WHOLE track of this room right straight into the future.

You’ve got a space here that’s 8 feet by 8 feet; it has 8 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet and it has two men in it. And one of them has a little handy jim-dandy emanator ray pistol, see? And he fires at the other man. The space does not increase, and yet you have into existence suddenly a lot of brand – new particles. It isn’t old particles splattering out; I mean, he’s making new motion, new particles, and it’s going into 8 feet.

Now the odd part of it is, you get variations from preclear to preclear on this. Why? Because things could vary the pattern of this room. It isn’t that some great designer has come along and designed it all in advance, which you are then permitted to perceive. You’ve looked at this room and you’ve looked at the general level of agreement of what is the history of this room. And that’s all this room is. You think you’ve looked at anything peculiar? Look to the general level of agreement of what is the history of this room, and you’ve got that, and you’ve buttoned that all up, and you’ve said, „That’s fine. That’s fine.“

Now, they’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. And they’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. They’re 8 feet apart again and he shoots some other guy. But he’s still… he’s not handling time very well and he’s not handling flows very well. What happens? That 8 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet starts to get the pictures of more and more particles in it and the shadows of particles in it and more particles in it and more particles in it, and it gets solider and solider and solider and solider.

Now supposing you as a crew suddenly decided to change the agreement about this room. Let’s have it become the throne room of the Bowderyap Dynasty in the year 22 – hundred. And uh… you decided that. Then you’d better be prepared to agree upon the Bowderyap Dynasty and why it was called that, and all sorts of interesting speculation, because you’re changing an agreement clear across the boards. It’s fascinating.

Now, just because transactions continue to be undertaken in the United States of America (at least somebody calls them business transactions; they’re laughingly called that), uh… the Federal Reserve Bank writes in this ledger and it forwards a stock or a bond or something to Washington and then it forwards some currency back and then it’s issued, and so on.

But as long as you’re in a stream of agreement that had to do with this room, you’re more or less picking up the designer and planner of this room and what he felt about the design and plan of the room. And it’s still here. And its alterations, and so forth, as you agree they have been altered and as you agree they will be altered, and so forth.

By the way, did you ever look into your pocketbook and… and… and find out that the money you had is not redeemable? The silver dollars are and there’s some fives that are – they say „silver certificate“ – and the rest of the money says „Federal Reserve Bank.“ Hasn’t got anything to do with the US Government except the US Government permitted it to be published, and that’s backed up at the Federal Reserve Bank.

Of course, somebody with a higher level of agreement named force – force is not higher than agreement – but you’ve also agreed to something else; you’ve agreed that force can inexplicably and suddenly be applied to MEST objects for their destruction. And when you’ve agreed to that, you’ve agreed to alter the structure of all things, suddenly. Without your – permission or without your consent. And when you agreed to that, you agreed that force could affect and influence you without your consent.

And, it says right there, very clearly, that in return for it, that it’s legal tender and it’ll be enforced by the bayonets of the United States and… if you don’t take it, and the Federal Reserve Bank at any time will give you Federal Reserve Bank paper for it. Isn’t that fascinating? It… it sort of says… sort of says, „As long as we have bayonets and as long as we have a government, we’ll have money.“ It says it doesn’t have any dependency on much of anything else. Money depends upon force which can be directly applied for its consumption, plus agreement to take it.

Somebody demonstrated to you one time – probably was stage magic – that something could go forward without your agreeing upon it, and made you an effect from that moment straight forward. Something would go forward. The truth of the matter is that if you’re batting like you ought to be batting, nothing could go forward without your agreement. And you’d simply, th… the… the brakes would go on and the walls would crash and the universe in which you’re existing, or you’d move out to your own universe or something of the sort. You’d just… just… this thing would go ‘Creak-krak! Bang!’ Because it just wouldn’t fit. You’d step outside of the screen of agreement, and that’s what I say about hitting that button suddenly about the screen of agreement.

Sometimes you turn the bayonets loose on people, you s… you don’t believe agreements are higher? You can turn bayonets loose on people and they still won’t take money. They did that in Italy. The US laughingly, all this „freedom from“ dopiness, wound up practically in a revolution that lost us all of Italy in spite of the battle gains. It had a sheath of wheat on it, the money that was being published and sent over there – „freedom from want“ money – and by God, there was not a… there was not a kernel of wheat to be bought; that money could not buy wheat. And it was just because they put wheat on the money, it was just that upsetting, and nobody could spend the money for anything.

All right, that’s wandering enough on the subject.

The only way you got anybody to work for anybody was to feed ‘em; and you’d give your laborers chow, they’d work. And you let them take home a little chow to their families, they’d work a lot harder. So that was the way they got paid, commodity, because the money was no good; nobody’d take that money. It didn’t matter how many bayonets you’d called out, this big sheath of wheat mockingly stamped on the back of these lire notes prohibited its exchange. People knew they couldn’t buy wheat with it; they knew they couldn’t buy bread with it. So therefore, Italy was without money. Give you some kind of an idea.

Oh, well, I’ve given… haven’t given you the rest of those. Uh… the… you scan the room and then there is a track called the ‘Imaginary Track’. The preclear’s track of what he imagines could happen to him. And he can get that. He can mock that up – the whole distance.

So the agreement is always higher than force. And you look all through this MEST universe and you’ll find that to be the case: the agreement is higher than force. The MEST universe hates to admit it though. They try to use force to back up agreements, but actually, unless there was a real agreement existing between two contracting parties, not all the courts and all the force in God’s creation can make that agreement come true, if there was no real agreement. If one of the guys was sitting there saying, „I’ll sort of hook this contract around here, and I don’t intend to live up to it,“ and so forth, it wasn’t a contract. I don’t care how much paper it was written on or anything else. You could write it on paper and fight for it in the courts and the courts can enforce it and pass judgments and phooey!

And uh… then there is the track by geographical location in time. Instead of scanning where he is in viewing facsimiles, he simply looks at the places where they are as they were. In other words, as he comes up the time track he scans through having been in Charleston, South Carolina in 1726. He looks at Charleston, South Carolina, 1726, and he flicks over then, and when he went from Charleston to New York, he flicks over and gets Charleston uh… he t… he gets New York, uh… two years later. You see? But he gets it in its proper space location. He’s actually flipping all around. Maybe it’s a benefit to scan all these things, I don’t know. Never scanned a preclear through all of these things.

It won’t exist and it… finally, you wind up, there’s nothing there but enMEST. It’s a horrible mess, because there was no agreement existed in the first place. All the force in the world couldn’t make it come true. And if the force was used to make it come true, then we got laws of flows: that which was acquired was not worth having.

And then there’s the track of how he imagined these places should look, but he looks at them in geographical location. You see, there’s this immediate track right here in this room of where his location is, his imagined track, the agreed track, his facsimile track – you get these various things? So it really breaks down into just TWO things, pardon me, three things: It’s as it was – really looking at it as it was. That’s available. That’s beautiful visio too, by the way, because it’s uh… it’s uh…

You saw an example of this right in Dianetics and Scientology. Somebody didn’t live up to an agreement, and all of a sudden there wasn’t any agreement there. Force was used and force was used and duress was used and duress was used. All we wound up with was some enMEST and they’re still sitting there wondering what happened to ‘em.

And then as he imagined it was, or should be, as it was, and then there’s his facsimile content on the whole thing. In other words he can do a mock-up on the whole track or he can look at it in its actual position and its actual time year, or you can do a mock-up on it.

All right. Now… agreement is always senior to the flow, but when a person gets immersed down in courts, for instance, he knows he’s being affected by flows. And the more flows flow in an area, the more particles are… could be said to be in that area, and the solider it gets, therefore the less space there is per unit particle. Remember, what we’re talking about is space per unit particle.

You see, when I say, when he does five things, I’m saying there’s just five things in which an auditor gets interested, he can do about eight thousand things. It’s just endless what you can do with perception. You can actually take a look at Carthage the day it fell. Sitting right here. And you can see the way Carthage fell. And you weren’t there. Take a look at it. You can also get viewpoints all over. You’re just investigating the havingness which was Carthage which is in the stream of existence – which havingness still exists because the agreement existed and because time is simultaneous, but you have stretched out time in terms of havingness in order to have action.

If you were as big as from here to the moon, what do you think you’d be worried about of the number of ridges which surround the MEST body which you have now? It’d be space per unit particle. You’d have to search awfully hard in the space between here and the moon in order to find that body. You’d have to search with microscopes, believe me, till you finally had located this body, and so on. And as far as those ridges were concerned, its ridges would be very, very thin.

If you’re confused about all that, just run Standard Operating Procedure and make Theta Clears. Nothing to it.

Now, if you expanded these ridges out to fit you, what do you suppose the density of ‘em would be? Why, good God! You could fly an airplane… you could fly a spaceship at thousands of miles a second through the thing without ever collecting any dust on it, these ridges that you’re worried about, and so forth, that sit around and prohibit you from getting out of your body. I’m just giving you the relative viewpoint in space, the relative viewpoint of anchor points.

You can be, in other words, anywhere you want to be at any time. And you’ll find your preclear, when he regains this, is in very good shape. Boy this MEST universe becomes very alluring – fascinating. Lot of things been going on and this and that and he goes around and he says it’s like… like being suddenly given a ticket to all the motion picture shows, uh… wonderful.

You get your anchor points away… you… you got your anchor points real up close and said that was from here to Jupiter, you of course would be that much bigger. It’s an awfully simple problem.

Of course, he really isn’t satisfied to be a spectator. It’s maddening to him to see Carthage falling and he thinks he ought to pull the walls down and he’ll think it so hard that he ought to do a mock-up and he’ll throw a mock-up in there and pull a couple of walls down or something of the sort in an effort to change the havingness of Carthage. There’s a lot of people that were agreeing on that. Then if he wanted to pull the walls down of Carthage at the right moment so they’d fall on the right legion in order to win the battle for Carthage, he would have to be prepared to take the responsibility for the entire change of the Punic Wars. And if he was willing to take that responsibility, he would have to reach out then and take the responsibility for a complete alteration of the fate of Rome. That means that he would have to take responsibility for what he would then do by that consecutive action. He’d have to take responsibility for all of Christianity not existing. That guy just isn’t willing to take that much responsibility so he doesn’t change those agreements.

You say, „All right. My anchor points are here and here, and the distance from here to here is the distance from here to the sun. And the distance from here to here is the difference to… the distance to the outer orbit of Pluto.“ And if you just shut your eyes and visualize that as your anchor points, you’ll feel crowded, but you’ll feel that big.

So when he pulls down the wall of Carthage he says, „I’m mocking it up.“ He’s actually very pleased about the whole thing. I don’t know, if we got somebody on the track right that minute, he’d probably develop a headache – he was part of that legion. A fellow gets very careful about this.

That’s why you get an action cycle, is per unit space: you get more and more particles, so it gets more and more solid, so it finally winds up to be an object. Therefore, where flows take place and space is not increased accordingly, you get solidity. and as solidity continues, the flows which go through have more and more conductivity: they can go through old flows, they can go through old particles, they start multiplying. They will actually for a long time gather in force. They will transmit and act as conductors of force, because they’re force.

Because you see how much responsibility a person conceives he’s able to handle, how much detail he’s prepared to handle and so on – you can have the whole cockeyed universe if you want it, but you, I’m afraid, have to take responsibility for every alteration that would take place because of that. You can have the management of any part of this MEST universe. Its laws kind of run backwards, but you might even repeal and change those.

So therefore, you wonder why at length somebody down in the street can drop a pencil and you start like mad: it’s because you have a very, very close conductivity of the force of impact of the manhole cover, or what it… whatever it is down in the street, hitting you. It’s being conducted through actual, solid relatively solid matter – which isn’t solid, really, compared to air, but is solid enough to act as an optimum conductor. Therefore, it can drive you into action.

I’ll tell you a much easier one: Build one of your own and that… that way you can do anything you want to with it.

Furthermore, that mass itself goes into action, and there you have the reactive command level of engrams at work. You inc… increase conductivity in the space.

Now here we have, I… I’m very serious when I say there’s 80 thousand ways, or just thousands of ways of viewing tracks and viewing scenes, and there’s… you can… you can be here and view them there, you can be there and look forward in time and view yourself here. And so on. You see all these multiplicity of… of… all these com… complicated viewings and perceivings and so on, become possible because havingness regulates time, and when you decide to have the havingness of something in the past, you can have it. You can have it. But you don’t change it, you notice, and you’ll notice that you’ll have a terrible reluctance to even touch it. You don’t want anything to do with it. „That’s in the past,“ you’ll say. „That’s… that’s in the past,“ so you won’t touch anything in the past. Because if we do, we have to be responsible for the entire consecutive force reactions, clear on up to the – all this havingness will shift. It’s a simultaneous instant, as far as time is concerned, because it’s made by a postulate. Time occurs because of a postulate about havingness and about a particle shift.

All right, we’ll fire a pistol in a vacuum. If this room were a vacuum and I fired the pistol, the sound won’t travel through the vacuum. But as you get particles in the room, more and more particles in the room, that sound begins to travel more and more clearly until, if the room were made of solid… if it were fluid, completely fluid, as in water, boy, that pistol fired would really deafen you. Now, that’s another example of this.

So it doesn’t matter whether you’re moving the Empire State Building through your anchor points or moving an atom through your anchor points: they will look the same size if you have different concepts of your own size when you do it. Get that? Relationship.

Now, you wonder why electronic flows can exist in force. They set themselves up an ion beam and then they flow on the ion beam. They actually make paths of particles. And you… you’re traveling with a wave length which can go through paths of particles. Don’t think that this whole folderol and nonsense about ether ever existed or ever will exist. To say empty space is empty and then there’s ether in it was the silliest theory anybody ever got ahold of. Empty space is empty, and when you put an electrical beam through it, an electrical beam has sufficient potential in the formation of particles that it can then thereafter throw the particles out there and then conduct on ‘em.

So, when you see one of these little, puny, hundred thousand kilowatt flows and you mock this preclear up and you say, „Now let’s take… let’s take a small flow – let’s take a hundred thousand kilowatt,“ and he says, „Gulp, oh, I, hmm…“ You say, „Well, take a… take a searchlight and turn it on yourself,“ nice mock-up, that sort of translates electrical flows, and he says, „Ohhh – I’m nervous about that. It’d hurt my eyes.“ And you say, „Well, take this… take this flashlight.“ „Oh, I can’t seem to do it.“ „Well take this little lady’s handbag penlight and… and… and flash it on yourself from 200 yards away.“ And he can do that. See how big he thinks he is? He thinks that these photons contain so much mass that they would destroy him if you turned a searchlight on him – that the photons could destroy an illusion or something.

Furthermore, space is just full of particles. Oh, it’s… it’s… it’s just stuffed, MEST universe space. The MEST universe is not only expanding, they hope, but it’s getting more and more solid, more and more solid and more and more solid all the time. That’s because flow, flow, flow, flow, flow.

His idea, then, of his size is so puny that… that anything like that could knock him flat. Well, as you start to build him up, he’s just as happy to take a 100,000 kilowatt lightning bolt and shoot it through the mock-up. He’s just got the idea that he can handle that much size, that’s all.

Now, your preclear gets more and more solid, more and more solid. He flows and flows. He thinks the best thing to do to overcome force is use force. So he gets a new flow and then he turns around and he adds a flow to that, and then a flow comes back at him and he adds a flow to that. And he’s believing thoroughly in flows, so he gets solider and solider and solider.

And that’s what you’re doing by gradient scale and why you use gradient scales. Really a gradient scale of size – that is, how big a space is he postulating in which this is happening.

Then one day… one day you come along and you say, „Get rid of that ridge.“ Ho! Well, he kind of feels like calling up the three A’s and getting ahold of one of their rescue trucks with the big cranes on the back of it to come and lift that ridge. Yeah, it looks that big and solid and heavy to him. It’s just a collection of particles no longer in motion which serve to conduct particles.

Now one of the strangest things you can do to a preclear is to tell him – uh… get him outside of himself and say, „All right, now think how big and powerful the body is, how much it helps you out.“ And he says, „Holy cats!“ And he starts looking up at this enormous body that goes about two or three hundred feet tall. It’ll happen every time. You say, „Think of how big and powerful and strong – how much you need this body.“ And here he is outside… this little… little thing and it looks up at this big body – ooohh! It’s scared stiff – that big!

And therefore, a particle hits the ridge; it’s very easy for that particle to get to the preclear, because it’s just… it’s just zoom! It just goes straight on through. One of the fastest ways to concentrate and get electricity is to shoot it through copper. That’s why you have copper all the way through one of these machines. There isn’t any real reason why you couldn’t have that machine operating without a single wire. All you’d have to have is an intensity of flow and a wave length of flow which could travel in that wise. Nothing to that.

„Now think how you handle this body,“ and the body goes „Neeeeeowwwmmm“ – gets about two feet tall, see. Just the difference of the thought. Think of that big, powerful body – 200 feet tall. Uh… now he says, „Big powerful me mauling that body around,“ – little tiny body. See, difference of particle size. How big does he think he is?

But uh… in order to use low-order energy, low-volume, low-order energy, uh… why – and direct it surely, without thinking about it and so on – why you of course put wires in. Let it flow along the wires, and you put it into tubes. It’s funny that the tubes have to operate in a vacuum, isn’t it? Uh… all sorts of partial vacuums, all sorts of things. You get a partial vacuum, you rarefy and condense with it, and they rarefy and condense, and they pour it along a wire and they condense it and they rarefy it, they make it do skips, and then they change its wave length and its quality, and throw it through a transformer, change its power output, and… and then so on. And by the time they’ve got through with the thing, they can make this stuff do practically anything. They can certainly make it hear and talk.

Now that’s i… important to you in auditing because you will watch this size relationship – and if you don’t know what it is – you’ll watch this preclear and you’ll have him… a body’ll start swelling up on him. The body gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. His relative size is such…

Fortunately, there are easier ways to make it hear and talk, otherwise you would never be able to hear and talk.

„Now have that body eight light-years tall and reach one-sixth of the way up to the ceiling of the space you’ve postulated. Have it eight light – years tall and have it reach one-sixth of the way up to the ceiling you’ve postulated, and look at it.“ Boy, that fellow’s God right there, see. I mean, he’s sitting there looking at the body, and it’ll seem like that to him. You’ll say, „All right now, let’s mock-up some space and now, let’s put the Milky Way at one end of it – down there about a foot from your feet – that’s right. Now let’s put another galaxy up at the top of it. Now, let’s just lie there for a few minutes.“ And this guy starts to feel full of holes, he starts to get really airy, because he feels himself streching about halfway across the galaxy.

Uh… you take the spectrum of wave length… I wish I had a good spectrum of wave length worked out. I’ll have to write around and see if anybody has done any of this fundamental work. I… I seriously doubt they have; it’s too fundamental. What is the gradient scale of wavelengths? I s… I uh… worked these out once or twice, uh… sketching them over, but I haven’t seen a full, full rundown on gradient scale of wave lengths. What’s the biggest, grossest wave measured and how does this skin on down and get smaller and smaller and smaller?

Sometimes you’ll get a fellow to toast marshmallows on the sun, and uh… look at Earth or the moon someplace or another nearby. If you’ve got him in a body doing this, he will even change his concepts and so forth of his body’s size and density. The body, then, becomes very undense when you do this – becomes very thin, very gaseous. Feels that way.

And certainly nobody has measured the speed of ‘em. Oh, this is wonderful. In engineering, do you know that they… they’re handling rockets all over the place and they’re thinking about spaceships and they’ve got liners uh… airliners now with jet motors and everything; you still go around to these projects and you say to the boys, „Have you got a table of orifice pressures?“ Orifice is the hole through which the flame comes.

But if he’s outside and he’s a thetan doing this, you want to watch something. You want to watch something. He will go up and sit alongside of the sun, just that big. You can actually pa… put your hands forward and uh… feel… feel the heat of it – he will. And you can get a thetan so he feels that big. He’s sitting up there alongside the sun. That’s where you get the idea of this infinite and unlimited size of God, see. You think God must be an awfully big boy to have made this universe, and uh… there you get this idea, „And God is big and I am small, so therefore he’s important and I’m not.“

And they say, „Um… well uh… what do you mean?“

Aww, you can be bigger than this universe, without any trouble. You can REALLY be bigger than this universe. You start building up your size concepts and so on, and uh… after you’ve gone so far you… you’ll start to… getting a little bit chary, because you move over into an ability to control energy, and then you move over into bigger spheres of controlling energy, and larger spheres of controlling energy, it’s really no enormous trick to reach over and pick up a couple of asteroids or a couple of little planetoids and bang them together – there’s no trick in it. Or pick up Earth and give it a good hard shove into the sun – hmmm.

And you say, „What is the optimum velocities for unit size of hole?“ Now, that’s a simple problem. You have a fire hose, you have a fire hose and uh… how do you make that fire hose kick the hardest? By making the hole smaller, make the orifice smaller for the unit of water that’s going to go through it? And you can finally rig it out, and you’re changing the orifice – that is to say, the hole through which the water’s coming – you can change that for the velocity of the fire hose so that it’ll practically knock you halfway down the block every time you turn on a fire hose. In other words, you can get propulsion out of a fire hose.

Of course, you have to be willing to take responsibility for what happens. A fellow ordinarily thinks that over. He gets way up scale or his relative size can be that big and he isn’t interested in doing such a thing. It’d be a strange day when he would get very interested in doing it.

And if you were to change the velocity of the fire hose, you’d have to have a different size hole, wouldn’t you? Change the velocity of the water cooing through the fire hose, why, you wouldn’t have any kickback, so you’d have to adjust the hole again and what would you have for a new hole to kick you halfway down the block?

You see, it’d be too easy… it would be too easy to amuse Earth by mocking up pieces of matter and tossing them into the sun, so it would make the sun burn uh… pink, you know, or shoot off sparklets. Everybody on Earth… and then come back and be sitting down at your office desk and get all these great big news reports, „Fantastic astronomic display greeted observers! Some people said the world was coming to an end! Thousands mob the River Jordan in… in order to sell their property because Earth was coming to an end!“

The firemen are interested in this, because they don’t… aren’t interested in being kicked halfway down the block. And they’re also interested in this, because they want the water to go as high as possible on a building, most pressure, and so on. I mean the most concentrated beam of water, beam of water, beam of any other kind of particle; there’s no real difference.

You’ll get all sorts of weird computations like that. But you see, that’s interesting, that’s funny. That has an in… an insouciance. It isn’t funny to pick up Earth and throw it into the sun. The guy would be just stupid to do that, because look at all the audience he’d lose!

So what do you know? What do they tell you on these big fancy projects where they have the English professors working under the guise of engineers? What do they tell you? They say, „We use the same ones that we’ve been using.“ And you say, „You mean what ones?“ „Well, the fire hose tables, of course.“

When it boils down to the final line, you ask, „Why should I do this and, why shouldn’t I do this?“ It’s whether or not it’s interesting. It’s because you get up scale like that, it certainly doesn’t get very important.

You say, „My God, man, don’t tell me that you boys haven’t gotten an ‘ electronics flow table that tells you the proper pressure for the proper velocity yet?“

Uh… now another thing is when you start working on punishment of MEST bodies or something like that it makes you feel kind of guilty. It makes you feel like you’re picking on two-year old kids. How would you feel, for instance, if you suddenly started a terrible vendetta on two-year old children because they cried? Wouldn’t that make you feel funny? And you made it your life’s work to go around to all the houses and find any two-year old who insisted on crying and being disobedient and at that moment you insisted on being granted the permission to throttle him and bash his brains out… That isn’t… isn’t sensible, is it?

And then they’ll look kind of ashamed, because they’ll all of a sudden realize they must be talking to somebody uh… somebody that must’ve read something about it some time or another, and they’ll… they’ll… they’ll get sort of all… ill at ease, and they’ll say, „Well, I understand there’s a project that’s north of Los Angeles…“ Every project that never does anything is just north of Los Angeles, by the way. Um… um… „The… there’s a project there that is measuring all this.“ I heard that for about five years. If at this time somebody finally has figured out an orifice table of pressure, it’d be quite a surprise.

Well, whenever… whenever a fellow who is a little bit up scale starts to think in terms of being a police force against MEST, uh… humans or homo sapiens or something like this, it kinda feels that way to him, you kinda feel that strange way – not because you have even affection for the little kids, it’s… it’s just – how come? Even… no matter the enthusiasm with which you will occasionally stamp on an ant’s nest and that sort of thing. The truth of the matter is it’s far, far more interesting to find out what they do. And i… it’s just considerable admiration you put into that sort of thing. I mean, you look at the ant’s nest and you… you… you could open a burrow or something of the sort and see the eggs and all these ants go tearing around rescuing larvae and the soldier ants start parading up and down and whipping these worker ants into line so they can repair this and boy, they’re really making a terrific effort – that reminds you of the US Government out there trying to get a war contract going or… or something like that. It’s very interesting – it’s fascinating. And it’s much more interesting to observe the behavior of something in action uh… if you have no comparative communication with it except just perceiving it, than it is for you to engage in destructive action toward it. That… that’s not… not comparable magnitude.

But understand that they’ve got planes flying through the air madly in all directions and they don’t know the optimum size of the hole that the flame should shoot through. Hah! Wonderful job… wonderful job of… of disagreeing with the MEST universe. WE’RE supposed to agree with the MEST universe; THEY’RE supposed to… I mean we’re supposed to DISAGREE with it and they’re supposed to AGREE with it, you see? And they shouldn’t be disagreeing with it; otherwise they’ll get processing done. They’ll get theta clears! Quick!

And this idea of comparable magnitude – hit somebody your own size and so on – as a matter of fact, it’s no compliment to do that. There’s no interest to do it. It isn’t bad or anything. It’s just no… not interesting. Going out and killing ants, of course, if you go out, there’s one place in South America that you could go down, it would be given to you by the Government if you could kill the ants in it. It is covered with soldier ants, and it’s an enormous area of land which ought to be very fertile. And these ant armies go rolling across it from one end to the other. And boy, one of those ant armies hits something in a body, hits a goat, let’s say, or something like that, it just flows over the goat and keeps going, and they’re the shiniest bones you ever saw. And you could pick them up and there isn’t the least marrow in them. You talk about sanitary. Those bones are hollow. They’re all cured, dried – completely, after about ten minutes of ant army.

Just like they’re getting theta clears, right this minute: flame-outs. It never occurs to ‘em to fix up their pilots so all the pilot’s gott’ do is shoot a beam in there and light it again. They’d think that was a silly thing, until you did it one day.

Well now that’s… that’s quite a… quite an animal, because he’s a big animal and he’s a very strange animal and something like that. And you start to fighting an ant army you’re, by the way, going to find a central mind handling the army. These ants work from central direction. The ants don’t think, but it’s like some kind of a body directing cells in its operation. And that ant ‘mind’ is about on the order of a GE – I happen to know something about this. You’ll find a herd will attract to it a thetan of one kind or another who tends to take care of it and pull it together and so on. It’s fascinating.

You see a barrel of fuel sitting there and you say, „Well, you could not only light a… something that had done… just done a flame-out; you could probably fix all kinds of things up about the plane this way. And therefore, it’s an optimum thing, and you ought to pay a hundred dollars a pilot in order to have this thing done,“ or something like that. „We’d make a good contract for you,“ and uh… so on. „You ought to do this.“

You know what they used to talk about, they said, „Groups have got their own theta, seemed to attract theta,“ and so on. A group, quite normally, will get a… a patron saint or something of the sort. Somebody will suddenly elect himself and start taking care of a group. There’s all that theta, there’s all that motion, there’s all that ambition, and somebody will suddenly move in over the top of the group. That’s a fact. You can watch it happen. You can watch a group cohese.

They’d say, „Well, no uh…“ and so on. „How do we know?“ and so forth.

And after you’ve created a group, don’t try to kill one. Oh, boy! You talk about tenacity to life! A group – even a bad one, even a sloppy one, even a weak one – resists death as thoroughly as any organism ever did.

And you’d say, „Well, I’ll show you.“ Room! There goes their gas dump.

Group Dianetics is essentially the study of an organism. It is not the study of a number of units.

Say, you know, I don’t think we ought to be doing this sort of thing. It might be dangerous. We’ve got to remember to protect the MEST universe. We haven’t any right to go around, this sort of thing. You shouldn’t use flows, anyhow. You know it’s bad to use flows; you mustn’t use force.

Now your group, then, is how well they obey a central mind, or how well they act on their own initiative, determines the success of the group. So you have fascist type groups or you have individualistic type groups.

When the cops come to arrest you, don’t draw a gun. When they rush up the steps, don’t knock ‘em all back flat at the bottom with a look. That’s not done. It is outside the rules, and so forth. They’re the only ones supposed to carry pistols and they’re the only ones that’re right. That’s right. So I’m just warning you that someday, when maybe Los Alamogordos blows up or something of the sort and somebody comes around to arrest you, please restrain yourself; don’t knock anybody down the steps simply by looking at them.

Where that group is solely on the basis of uh… individual minds, all these individual minds and they’re kind of grouping together and arguing it all out, you get instead of action, parliamentary procedure. You don’t get… you don’t get action, where a group is low-toned individuals. And that group is prey to and falls under the rein of your fascist.

Or don’t change an agreement that you’ve set up at the top of the steps that there’s a… a German tiger tank sitting there with 88’s.

But you get a group that’s higher in tone than that and each one of the group is capable of action, that group is most likely to attain to itself some sort of a directive influence. Now that directive influence is either a composite of the thinkingness done in the group, but that’s doubtful, because they don’t behave that way. And you take a group which is quite powerful, it develops somehow or other a patron. It’s a patron thetan of some sort here on Earth.

„Incredible!“

It’s a very interesting study; somebody ought to study that a little more closely because you’re not studying the supernatural, when you’re studying it, any more than when we clear you, we are b… de… delving into the supernatural. We happen to have solved the supernatural a long time back. And uh… it’s become very routine – we know about what its limits are.

All right. Flows, what’s the subject of flows? Flows proceed… flows flow from agreements. They don’t flow from the agreements; you just say they’re there and they’re there, and then after a while you say they’re dangerous and they’re dangerous. And then after a while you say, „There’s all kinds of them. They have great… great complexity and they follow certain rules and they have very great complexity and they follow certain rules.“ After that you say, „You couldn’t live without them.“ And then, „You couldn’t live without having things that have flows.“ That’s the damndest one. „You couldn’t live without having things that have flows,“ then you’ve put it out into an automaticity bracket, and then you say, „And those flows are so dangerous, you really don’t want too much to do with them,“ and then you go down more scale. Then „I have to have much more done for me,“ and then one day you say, „Ouch. My corns are hurting.“

But you get the idea?

Is there anything… relation between these two things? Yes, sir. You mean you’ve set up flows and you’ve agreed there were flows and then you agree they hurt like hell and then you agree that all of this goes on down scale and finally you agree that you can’t handle ‘em too well. Somebody proved that to you. And uh… then somebody came along and you… Your level of flow handling is very low, believe me. And the number of unit particles begin to collect around you.

Now… yeah, it’s there’s… there’s a lot of interesting stuff there – fascinating stuff. I mean, you want to get good and clear and take a look around at some of these groups and you’ll see them glow in different ways, and… and so on. You try to locate a beingness, you try to communicate, and all of a sudden you can communicate with a group – even… even a Kiwanis club or something like that has some kind of a low order, something or other hanging around.

You see, you could just say, „All my flows are now in yesterday.“ If you just drilled on that, if you take mock-ups and put ‘em in yesterday and mock-ups and put ‘em in last week and mock-ups… and just get so you really knew those things… Mock ‘em up, put ‘em in; mock ‘em up, put ‘em in. Engrams shows up, you say, „That was in Tuesday. That was a… hey, what do you know?“ You’d have to be tough enough to disagree with the MEST universe, that’s all. And it’ll work. They’ll be in last week and they’ll be in last year and they’ll be 10,000 years ago, and you just string ‘em down, and make ‘em disappear, that’s all you’re doing. It’s a fast method of making ‘em disappear, saying they had time on ‘em. That’s the greatest pretense of all.

But you can also tell when a group doesn’t have it. And it’s just a bunch of units – it’s just not running – not functioning, it’s not cohesed yet.

And that out was left because nobody could crack it. After they hid that rule, then they insisted that it’d never been made.

This doesn’t say that there’s a central intelligence that does the thinking for the group or anything of the sort. It’s just a fact that there is life there which is more than the composite life of the individuals in the group.

You just try to take an instantaneous proposition and then tell somebody there’s such a thing as time. Won’t work. So you have to run into a disappearing act to prove it. And time has stayed just that: a disappearing act, gradual disappearance or sudden disappearance. You can cultivate the quality of making sudden disappearances. You can. You can disappear out of existence your whole doggoned engram bank, boom! And there, you’re just handling flows, you’re just handling lots of flows; and you’re handling ‘em suddenly and with great ease.

All this actually that an auditor has to know, rather than wander all around and speculate under the sun, moon and stars about this stuff, is simply on the basis of when you look at flows, you are looking at assumption of existence of; when you’re looking at pictures and perspectives, you’re looking at the energy resulting from postulates which have been agreed upon in some way or another.

The only thing that really holds a preclear in the body is ‘cause too many particles have occupied the space immediately in front of him or behind him or around him, and he can’t occupy the body anymore because it’s already been occupied too often by these particles. What is a particle? A particle is a little tiny thing which is going on one corner of one electron which is in one atom, or it is an electron which is going around a proton, or it is an electron and a proton and… or it is several electrons and several protons, or it’s a… a formed molecule, such as a drop, molecule of water, or it’s a drop of something, or it’s a brick, or it’s a building, or it’s a planet, or it’s a universe.

The actuality of that energy becomes too real and is able to force itself upon the individual and affect him very seriously with flows when he has gone down scale on DEDs, DEDEXes, overts and motivators with flows, and he’s had to grant the reality of flows too often. And when he has granted the reality of these flows once too often, he can be seriously affected by them. IT’S TRUE ENOUGH THEY DON’T EXIST. It’s true enough THERE IS NO THING LIKE ENERGY. That’s true: But there’s a postulated particle, and to a fellow who is hit between the eyes with a bullet, no sir! That’s not the time to go up to this fellow as he’s lying there, hit between the eyes with a bullet, and explain to him that energy and matter really don’t exist. That’s the wrong time.

What is the difference between the first particle and the last particle? It had too much in it for the space which it held. Isn’t that simple? And you say, „Too much what?“ Too much postulate, of course. Postulates don’t occupy space. You say, „Something is there,“ you’ve made an postulate it’s there. And then by successive chain, you say it flows, it dispersals, it gathers in ridges, and that’s a particle.

Uh… it isn’t either true that all is illusion and therefore is not existing. Uh-uh! Existence IS an illusion, and what do you know! For a person who is down in a level which is affected by flows, an illusion and a delusion and reality itself are composed alike of energy. They have that in common. Your preclear who cannot handle a good, solid mock-up is doing it because he’s not creating enough energy. He makes them out of energy. When he gets way up tone scale, he won’t make them out of energy ‘cause he won’t have to.

And then those particles interflow with other particles and then you’re all set and the next thing you know, you get all these particles. And gee, it was a lot of work to do it. It took microseconds to build all this, so we’ve really got to hang on to ‘em, ‘cause they’re awfully precious, and we’d better not explode ‘em or say they don’t exist.

Why? Because he can park an agreement there that is so strong that – anybody who feels that agreement – I say, „So strong“ – it is such a clear, unalloyed agreement that anybody who perceives that there is an agreement there will actually, actively and immediately, perceive the object; they put the object there. That would be high tone scale essence of creation. You would simply say, „Here we have a beautiful maid – and now we don’t have one.“

And all you have to do is just go back up that track and the particles go kaboom, kaboom, kaboom; you wonder what’s happening to all this. You can blow things up, you can blow things up and shake the neighborhood every once in a while, by the way. Don’t blow your mock-ups too emphatically near gasworks. They might not… you might say, „Well, they’re just real to me,“ and you might find out someday that’s not quite true. You might forget and go up tone scale very fast, you see, and forget all these things you’d agreed to, and one morning walk out 12 feet tall and knock off the top of the Washington Monument, or something.

People right there when I did that, got a… got a turn on and off of it.

Now, the whole study then is a study of impaction of flows or a thickness of flows. And flows do those three things: they flow, they disperse, they gather in… in solid, lumps, ridges. And you get enough ridges together and enough ridges go against enough ridges and then a little enough space gets in between them and a little more… less space in between them, and what do you know. You’ve finally got what? You’ve got solid matter – visible solid matter. Anybody can see it. It’s got… it’s been agreed upon so often that it’s all shopworn and you can polish it down and make it into a car, or something.

Now you could put it there in such a strength that it doesn’t require MEST level communication. You could simply say, „Now at the corner of such and such a street, and such and such a street here in Philadelphia, will be a beautiful maid.“ And somebody who hasn’t even heard that will come walking along and say, „Excuse me, Miss,“ and walk on around her.

All right. Now, wherever we… we get these flows, we have then a problem of space. And where these particles of the flow are too close together, that means the guy has too little space for the amount of flow he has. And it’s your business as an auditor either to dispense with and throw out or take the kick out or the postulates out that made the flows or just increase the space with regard to the flows or suddenly get the terrific knack of making chunks of flows, energy and so forth just disappear.

Why? You’re putting a high order of agreement and making somebody else furnish the energy. Now when you can’t do that, you go out and hire a model and dress her up in clothes you buy from a store and all this. You buy these agreements. You get all these agreements, these combined, super – combined agreements that everybody’s agreed upon and you know everybody’s agreed upon and you’re sure they’ll agree upon this too and you put the girl on the street corner so the guy will step sideways and say, „Excuse me, Miss.“

If you were to be able to do that with the engram bank, you actually could do this. You see, in present time… you’ve agreed that anything that can happen in present time will if… influence the future. Any change of havingness in present time is in your capability to do without too… taking too much responsibility.

You could put up a… an agreement or a postulate and you could hang it in one space. You could just say, „It’s there.“ Here’s some space and here’s a postulate. And it could exist there with strength. But what keeps it from being strong? Well, it’s the fact you didn’t know it was strong, that’s all. I mean, that’s very simple. Uh… you must… when you put up this thing, you say, „Now I guess this will work, and I’m not quite sure, and we’ll try this out, we will test it.“ That’s how people really cut their throats in this universe, saying, „Well, we’ll experiment with it.“

You would have to take responsibility for a great deal to change a past havingness. You’ve agreed that something can be a past havingness. So therefore if you change that then you’ve got to remodel a lot of determinism. But right now, there’re very few future determinisms, so you could change anything in the present time… time you wanted to change.

You have to have terrifically high generalized agreement all around before anybody will come off of that one: „We will experiment with it.“ If you experiment with it and everybody agreed on it beforehand, then they’d say, „Oh, yes. It’s true.“ But if you were to suddenly make a postulate… There’s some character or other, somebody said he was cleared. He’s about as Clear as muddy water. Uh… he said that uh… he keeps echoing one of our axioms, and uh… he keeps saying all you have to do is… is just uh… uh… generally agree with the postulate and it can become a reality. And by this he tries to make out, then, that you… anything you thought up could be true. I mean, that’s really… really a mucked-up line of thought. Then anything that you, for instance, as a group would state with great authority would be true. I’ll be damned if it would! You as a group and the space that you’re in could sit here all day and all night and say, „There are no trains running on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.“ And you could go down there and there they’d go! There they’d go.

So you could suddenly get to this point where you could make facsimiles go away, and lots of facsimiles’d go away. You could suddenly take a look over here and see this chair, and you could say, „Poof! That’s in yesterday,“ and it would’ve been in yesterday, so you put it in the year 922. As long as you put it in the year 922 A.D. where it did not particularly influence the uh… will and determinism of many others, and ba… making the whole world backtrack on this agreement’d be quite chaotic. Enough to do that to blow up the universe, by the way.

And we’re dealing with that order of reality when we’re dealing with good, solid processes. Now it’s all right for guys to sit around in the back woods and say, „These processes don’t work. These processes don’t work. These processes don’t work. And the reason they don’t work is that if they worked, somebody’s liable to get ahold of me and audit me and I’d have to take some responsibility for my own actions – which I can’t ever permit myself to do. So, these processes don’t work.“

It’s… the handiest little destructive mechanism known is to have the enemy at breakfast the day before at the middle of the battle.

And that doesn’t affect it at all. You go out here, and you grab your preclear off the street and you sit him down in the chair and you say, „Now black and white, run.“ – You say to yourself, „Black and white running.“ –

Uh… the chair, you would look at the chair and you’d say, „I put that in the year 922 A.D. Good.“

„All right, get something white. All right. Get it black. Now get it white.“

There’s a better way of doing it. You say, „Well, now, disappear.“ And it disappears. It won’t be there. Now, if somebody else equally up to you and on your team and playing the game or something of the sort said, „The chair is now sitting there. Now, you shouldn’t do that. They need that chair.“ That’s… and so you say, „Well all right. They need that chair. The chair will now disappear and a golden chair will sit there,“ and it’ll be solid gold, rubies encrusted on it.

Black and white running. You say, „Look for an engram.“ If he’s not too occluded, or if you pull another trick that I’m going to tell you about a little later today, uh… he can see his facsimiles going by. And by running them two or three times, erase them.

There’s no trick to that. Honest to Pete, I… I… I mean, you… I’ve… I’ve heard auditors say, „All right, now. I’m a… I’m a theta clear. I can get outside of my body and I can go around in circles and I can do all these things and… I wonder what a theta clear can do. Yeah. I… I don’t know. I haven’t been able to figure out that he could do very much more than that,“ and so forth. And here’s the guy, all the time he keeps… every time he gets up the tone scale a little bit he goes back, zoom! And he tries to run flows or tries to run processes of some sort or another, process the real universe. He has to get back in there and agree and agree and agree and apprit… pitiate and propitiate, and then he goes out and for 15 minutes in auditing he runs a flock of mock-ups and he feels a lot better for it. And then he goes out and he agrees and he agrees and he agrees and he propitiates and he propitiates and propitiates for the next 23 hours and 45 minutes. And then he gets 15 minutes of mock-ups and he feels a lot better for it. He’s still climbing up three inches and only falling back two and three-quarters. He’s still making it. And he can make it on that scale.

You grab a guy out there that’s just been hit by a streetcar, you give him an assist, he’d be walking in a few hours. If you hadn’t given him the assist, he’d be sick for three or four weeks. You get the idea? I mean, you’re not working with that same level of agreement.

But uh… don’t let me hear anybody saying one of two things. One: „Gee, it certainly takes a long time to get up toward cleared theta clear.“ You’re damn right it does! Drill, drill, drill, drill, mock-ups, mock-ups, mock-ups, mock-ups, work, work, work, work, play, play, play, play.

You’re working with a composite agreed-upon agreement which is something on the order of Pennsylvania Railroad trains going up and down the track. The reason why, is… is there’s been all kinds of agreement on the fundamentals back of these operational functions. Oh, you’re just dealing with this horrendous mass of agreement; on every hand people agree to this. And agree to it all through the universe, not just here on Earth. That’s the universe. It’s sitting here and it works that way and that’s how minds work and that’s how thinking is done in this universe. That’s a different level.

And it’s… the other one is, the guy goes back into action in the universe; he goes back into this plane of action and he’ll halt himself right there. He just won’t have anything more to do with processing, he won’t try to develop himself anymore. So, he… he just won’t try to develop anything else, so he’ll hit that and then he’ll sag a ways. And then one day he’ll say, „You know, I’m sagging. I won’t be… I’m not able to do this and that and so forth like I was. I’ll have to get a little processing.“ So he gets a little bit of processing and he comes back up here again and then he goes along that way and he sags a little bit. Well, he could go between those two points till hell froze over. He’s a lot better off than he ever was before. He’s got those two: the high point and the somewhat lower point that he can vacillate between.

But now let’s get you up along the line where you do not even vaguely have to think in terms of the MEST universe and yet you can firmly pick up and translate into your own an anchor point of the MEST universe. You can go down and you can say, „This fire plug in this street corner and this telephone pole on the corner of that store are now my space.“ Really say that, see. And you know it’s your space. Just to make sure you make the sidewalk go ‘zong-zong!’, and turn red, turn blue, turn into marble plated with gold – bang! „Yeah, that’s my space.“

But when it comes to coming on up the tone scale and out through the top and following this thing through, you bet it takes a lot of processing. It takes a lot of things. We’ll go into all that it does take. And one of the first things that it takes is picking up and learning how to handle the smallest units of force, and force of course has space connected with it. And you learn to handle this and you get better and better and better and better and better and it’s a very easy route out. Doggone road is just studded with milestones, direction posts, everything else, and it doesn’t need a single one of ‘em. It’s just a straight-ribbon highway that goes straight to glory. And it says all the way down along it, „Be willing to handle force and never depend on it for a second. Be able to use it and never need it.“ Fascinating, huh?

Okay, you’ve got a piece of space nailed out. Now you simply say, „Anybody who comes along this street now is going to see a very beautiful girl standing in the middle of this space,“ and they’ll be able to walk through the space too. And you know that’s going to happen, that’s all. Complete certainty, and so on.

That’s… that’s all there is to it. What do you do? You drill on handling force and he gets better and better and better and better and better and better.

There is such… no feeling that you have to agree with the MEST universe just beyond that one point. You do have to agree with the MEST universe to the degree of making a coincidence of anchor points in space. Theoretically people could walk along the street and tip their hats to that – girl. And they would say, „My God! Where did this solid gold sidewalk come from?“ And they’re putting the sidewalk there all the time. They walk over the sidewalk and they put it there.

Now, I understand that we had some… about this. SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 is a road map. Every time you start a guy on this road and try to turn him back onto the other road of „let’s face reality“ all over again, you’re gonna have a crash. Don’t let him start running flows as such, facsimiles as such or anything else. SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 is named SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 because it is the road map of a process. And it says „The attainment of infinity by the reduction of the MEST universe… apparency of the MEST universe is infinity to zero and the increase of one’s own apparent zero to an infinity of his own universe.“ It’s a road map; it’s a road map.

Now if you were really hot, they could really take a jackknife and take off pieces of the gold and take it down to the treasury and cash it in. But what would it take? You’d have to conceive yourself to be as big as the total agreement of the universe plus a little bit more. Interesting, isn’t it? Your… you’d have to be big, in your own mind and certain about what you were doing and completely unworried about whether or not it was going to happen. And if you could achieve that – like they say, „The way to make gold is to go on top of that mountain and sit down at midnight on the 2nd of August and do… go through this formula, but don’t at any moment think of the word ‘hippopotamus’, because at any moment you think of the word ‘hippopotamus’, the lead is not going to transmute into gold by this formula.“ Now, look at… there the guy goes!

And when you reduce the MEST universe’s infinity toward zero, you do it by reversing a cycle of action. And I want to show you something very interesting about that. Here’s your cycle of action and here’s 8008. And those first two 8’s… this is the MEST universe, this is the MEST universe, and this is your own universe and your own universe. And that’s a curve that goes from here to here and that’s a curve that goes from there to there.

But what do you know! That really is the test! Silly as it is, it is the test. A fellow has to have such supreme, cocky, self-confidence that he’d say, „You said not to think of the word ‘hippopotamus’? Hah!“ And he wouldn’t. See, no anxiety about it. When you can produce a thing of that anxiety, that stable frame of mind, you can make it stick. And if you can’t, you can’t. But the way to reach there is by a gradient scale.

And this first curve that goes across these two things here, that Curve right there is stop, change, start. And that curve there is start, change, stop. You get that? So this is death, alteration, creation. This is identification, this is association, and this is differentiation. And any other cycle of action we have including this one. Desire, enforce and inhibit – that’s the DEI cycle. You could call it the God cycle: Latin D-E-I.

And thus the reality of flows. People say flows exist, they all agree they exist. If your size is such and the particles of flow are such that they could destroy you, believe me, they can destroy you! You’ve agreed to the fact they existed, you’ve agreed to the fact that they destroyed you, you’ve agreed to the fact that they’re very, very dangerous to you and you’ve done all this. And now all of a sudden you’ve found out what you’ve agreed to. It isn’t the fact that you’ve found out again that they agree that it’ll destroy you. No. You haven’t agreed to that all over again. You agreed to that a long time ago. You’ve found out what you agreed to – and they start losing their punch.

Desire, enforce and inhibit. And do you think you’re gonna ever get past the point of desire on this action cycle between infinity of MEST? You’ve got to go: inhibit, enforce and desire, and that is right here: inhibit, enforce and desire. Now, how do you think you’re going to get out of the MEST universe if you keep saying „I don’t want it?“ Its vectors are all backwards. If you say to the MEST universe „I don’t want you,“ it’s gonna hold on. „I don’t want you,“ it’s gonna have you.

The reason they start losing their punch is a very good reason: Is, you’re walking back up the track of agreement, and you’re hitting a higher and higher and higher level of power in order to make a differentiated agreement. Until you can stand completely different at 40.0 from the entire MEST universe, impinge yourself upon the MEST universe, and make an agreement TAKE PLACE. Different thing, see? Entirely different thing.

How do you get out of that bear trap? You have to want it. I told you yesterday you had to be able to limit yourself in nothing in comparison to what you… your desire level was. You have to want to live; you have to be willing to use your… your beingness and so forth in all the living there is to do. That doesn’t mean in evil things or… or all this sort of thing. You just have to want this universe, that’s all. And then know at the same time that you don’t want it too much.

OK. Let’s take a break.

You have to be able to want and experience the sensations of this universe. You have to take, as a high level of tolerance, its speed. In other words, you’ve got to be able to live in order to back out of the universe. You’ve got to reverse the cycle. You’ve never got out of the universe and nobody ever got out of here by wanting to get out, because of the reversal factors. It’s quite important, and that’s the most important thing there is to learn about a flow, I think, is that this universe goes backwards.

Now I’ll tell you another little trick: who’s the guy who’s never seen any engrams – never been able to see an engram? Well, I’ll tell you what I want that guy to do. I want that guy to outflow like hell against these things he was trying to pull in. Just pour an energy at… out in front of him. He’ll see something very peculiar: he’ll see incidents turning up.

Sure. He says, „I don’t want ‘em,“ they’re gonna move right in on him and righten up. He’s sa… been saying in the past, „I want them so I can run them,“ and of course they moved away and went blind. He didn’t see them. So he flows against them, all of a sudden they turn up, fresh, ready to be run. And if he outflows just a little bit longer, they’ll blow. Isn’t that horrible?

So, in order to get out of the universe, you have to desire it. Now, this mechanism is, incidently, one of the interesting points of hypnotism. When a person gets very groggy in hypnosis, he’s been put down to a point where he’s very obedient to flows, which is the worst thing wrong with hypnosis. He’s been put along that strand, then he… they had no way to bail him out. But if you told him to try not to do something, he would do it. Every time, when he got that low on the tone scale when he tried to use his will during his hypnotized period, when he tried to use his will to prevent himself from doing something, it happened.

„Try to stop your hands from moving like this. Now, your hands are going around each other. Now, try to stop them.“ And his hands speed right up. Brrrrrrr and he tries to stop them. „Uhhh,“ he says, „To hell with it.“ See?

Now, you say, „All right. S… all right. Now, speed your hands up.“ They slow down.

So when a person is grossly affected by flows, very grossly affected by flows, he runs in opposites. The little girl wants to be bad, she’s good. She wants to be good, she’s bad. She wants some candy, she can’t have any. That’s the level we’re talking about, lower band, homo sapiens band. When she’s well down that band and heavily affected by flows and quite frightened of flows, everything’ll go in reverse. She wants to say no, she says yes. She beholds herself with horror, because she can’t trust herself. Yeah, she can’t trust herself. You mean, she can’t trust this universe. It’s the universe doing it. She’s running in opposites.

Now, that happens… you put a communication line on somebody’s head. A thetan, you put a communication line on somebody’s head and you’ll get a flow up and down this line, just as nice as you please, nice flow up and down the line. Well, supposing you want sensation on that line. And supposing you’re so bad off that you’re identifying communication flows with sensation flows with effort flows. Oh-oh. You try to pick up sensation from the beautiful sunset, you try to pick up a communication from somebody, you try to pick up sensation from this lovely body, and you cave the bank in. You literally cave the bank in. You can practically crush your skull in, if you get low on the tone scale and you desire sensation up a communication line.

Now, you ask a preclear, when he puts a communica… have him put a communication line on hims… on… take himself and somebody else, and have him put a communication line up. Don’t say anything else, just say, „Got those two bodies? All right. Now, put a communication line up.“ And then you say, „What body did you put it to first?“ „Oh,“ he’ll say, „the other body, of course.“ „And then you put it on your body?“ „That’s right.“

This character is reversed on flows. He gets right and left direction reversals; he gets upside-down things when they ought to be right-side-up. Why? When he put the communication line out, he put it out to pick up sensation. He wanted sensation from the other person leading to him. His desire in life was to obtain a flow on that communication line from the environment to himself, and when he did that, he decided also that anything else could come up that line. Therefore, he is an effect and therefore he is not putting out heavy power.

He is skipping over the initial steps. The initial steps are, is you have to put the emotion there to feel it. How do you cure that with a preclear? Not just by running flows in space – that’s easy – but by putting emotions on things and then re-experiencing them back. And he’ll finally get over the necessity to string communication lines in that fashion to get flows. He’ll realize he was doing it all the time anyhow. One of these days he’ll realize that.

You don’t have to force that on him; just do it until one day he knows he’s doing that, and he’ll be very amused. And his ability to handle flows comes way up the line – because what is the sole thing that is wrong with a flow, is it’ll contain sensation, it’ll contain very welcome things. A person wants the flow. And as long as flows are very valuable and as long as a person is identifying every kind of flow with every other kind of flow, he becomes the effect of every kind of flow, so his whole bank caves in on him.

The remedy is to differentiate amongst flows and to demonstrate to him clearly and conclusively that the flow is unnecessary for the receipt of sensation. You do that with drills, not by educating him. Then you do these drills by mocking up and running emotions from the bottom to the top of the scale, see; from the bottom of the scale up toward start. And the way you do that is to run from low base emotions on up to higher base emotions. I mean, apathy, grief, to fear; not fear to grief to apathy, because that’s agreeing on this cycle.

Let’s run it from apathy, grief, fear, anger, resentment; only let’s get it up there to a point and drill him, please, to a point where the… the sensation he gets is much superior to any he gets or he thinks he gets from the MEST universe. Let’s get it to that point. Why? Because he’s putting the intensity on it all the time.

Huh! All of a sudden he realizes he’s doing this and he also realizes here you have this high-tension, high-velocity sensation on these lines; to hell with the low-base, „have to get that stuff,“ „have to get sensation from the environment.“ Why do we have to get sens… well, we can’t get sensation from the environment, because we put it there to perceive it. Oh what a terrible trick!

When a person gets way down tone scale, his time factor and his occlusion factors are such that he doesn’t know what his left hand is doing when his right hand is doing something else. He really doesn’t. He does things in opposites. He’ll say, „I want to be good, then I’m bad. If I want something, that’s the first reason I can’t have it.“ Uh… he’s… gets all these reversals of flows, and when you’re dealing low on the tone scale with flows, you get all these very undesirable conditions of reaction.

And you get in addition to that this thing about communication lines. Now, the guy wants good news, the guy keeps wanting good news from the environment, good news from the environment; he wants the environment to grant him a license to survive. He keeps wanting good news and good news and good news and good news and good news from the environment all the time. Boy, the first thing you know, there’s nothing, just the tiniest little flicker of bad news’ll knock his brain out.

Well, there’s another drill for that: just keep handing him bad news. Think up all the bad news you can possibly think up in order to hand him. Get telegrams that this one is dead and that that one is dead and other people receiving telegrams that he’s dead and mangled and bankrupt and broke and everything he cherishes and thinks is wonderful in the world is gone to hell. And… and just keep any kind of a mock-up you can think of that is dull, dismal, horrible, bad and shocking news. And you know what’ll happen? That guy’s communication line’ll reverse. He’ll stop fearing the other end of the terminal. Just keep giving ‘em to him.

„All right. Now, get a… get a telegram… get a telegram that your wife just strangled a baby. Now, read the telegram. Now, get a tactile on that telegram. Okay, let’s read it again. All right. Now, let’s lay it aside. Now, let’s pretend like you didn’t see it at all and you’re feeling happy and then, all of a sudden, you get this telegram. All right. You got that? Your wife strangled a baby.“ And so forth.

He’ll finally start to read it, „The wife strangled the baby and uh… the wife strangled a baby and the clothesline is therefore all frayed. And I’m mad as hell about that.“ Uh… he’s… he’ll just start to run off the hinges, and it actually solves a person’s terror of getting bad news. The reason why most people are going around in – just in terror, really in terror, is they think they’re going to receive bad news.

Every tune they walk into the job in the morning, they think there might be a pink slip there waiting for them. Every time they come home at night, they think maybe the landlord or a… an officer’s… of the law or somebody’s going to be waiting for them there with some bad news. They… they get away for a weekend, they can’t enjoy the weekend because they forgot… they knew they forgot to turn off the electric iron. Uh… what would this result in? This would result in loss of house and all the possessions.

What you’re doing, then, is curing the fear of receiving news of loss. Loss is not important; you can always recreate loss.

Okay. Now, I hope you know all there is to know on the subject. There’re component parts of these line flows that I said I would cover; they’re four in number. There’s the line flowing out and you trying not to flow the line out; there’s the line flowing in and you trying not to let it flow in. Those are four actions.

There’s somebody else making a line flow in, him trying not to let it flow in; you trying not to let it flow in and you trying to flow it out. More four actions.

A bracket, the definition of a bracket: A bracket is the individual does it himself, somebody else does it, others do it, or the individual does it to somebody else or somebody does it to him or others do it to others. And that’s the technical definition of a bracket. Therefore, you should use brackets in all of your mock-ups. Being done to the preclear, the preclear doing it to somebody else and others doing it to others, and you would be running a completely bracket on a mock-up that will solve all possible flows per incident.

Now, I hope you’re very learned. You look very… a few of you look very sa… sad, but there’s no reason to look sad. Okay?

Uh… see you later this evening.