This is the first hour evening lecture, Wednesday, December 10th.

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

I have a uh… couple more things that we’ve got to cover consecutive to this afternoon’s talk, but there’s no reason why this material doesn’t cover independently as itself.

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.

This material has to do with the other two items, namely Flows and Ridges, pardon me, Dispersal and Ridges, having covered Flows this afternoon.

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.

Okay, those that didn’t get that this afternoon will of course get this material subsequently when they review the tapes.

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.

Uh… the subject of Flows, Dispersals and Ridges is, of course, the subject of the characteristics of emotion. Characteristics of emotion.

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.

Now an emotional state depends upon the wave characteristic and upon the volume of the wave. And then that combination of waves could ride with any combination of perceptic waves.

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.

Very simple. Here we have a flow; if you want to draw in all possible dispersals on this it becomes very interesting.

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

We have a flow; here is a dispersal-flow, dispersal-ridge, dispersal – flow, dispersal-flow. In other words, you’ve got all possible combinations of this here.

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.“

Ridge.

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 of course this dispersal looks like a little, tiny ridge going to hell in a balloon. And actually, any one of those ridges, those black lines there, any one of those ridges – here we’d be going right on down the tone scale if we did this – uh… any one of these ridges could be a source of dispersal.

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.

I usually don’t draw all these things or bother too much by this for a good reason, is that it’s just more data than you happen to need. Some electronics engineer, though, can take this stuff and he can have an interesting time tracing a circuit.

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.

You look through a circuit and you look through your radio receiver or your radio transmitter and you’ll find out that what you’re doing is… is making a flow do a dispersal, banking it up in a ridge, making it go this way and that. You’re… you’re reforming the forms of it. There you’re mixing the wave uh… characteristics and the wave characteristics are… uh… well, as I say, they’re mixed, they’re straightened out, they’re corrected, they’re mixed up again and so on.

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.

Well mixing and straightening out and correcting up again, the characteristic of a wave uh… wouldn’t really change too much the quality of the thing. Uh… but it would take down, for instance, noise out of the wave, or it would take out random uh… things out of the wave that really weren’t a part of the wave. It’s trying to be – mostly the electronics equipment – quite selective with the waves that come in.

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.

So what you do is just with, by using things that make flows and dispersal and ridges, you… you get the thing fooled around to a point where it’ll take the maximum of the desired wave and the minimum of the undesired waves and you’ve got it.

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.“

That doesn’t matter much what you’re applying this to; it works about the same way.

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.

Now what do we mean by a wave characteristic?

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.

See, these are characteristics of energy – flows, dispersals – this is about all the kinds of energy there are. But uh… when I say „wave characteristic“ this would be the characteristics of energy. Now we’re talking about a wave length. We’re talking about what part of the gradient scale of vibration rates we’re talking about. You know, you saw that one.

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.

That’s… here… let’s lay the tone scale on the side, let’s put 40.0 here, 20 there and down here is 0.0. And let’s find that at any point of this sort of thing uh… we’ve got that. Oh, it doesn’t matter which way we draw this – we’re just graphing it. It doesn’t matter where we’re graphing it.

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.

Now that’s this up here is the… this is energy characteristics over here and that… this consists of Flows, Dispersals, Ridges. And this up here is wave length, and that’s still wave length. See, it doesn’t matter if… it’s just graphed. You can have a 1.5 operating on an aesthetic. He goes into a beautiful rage. Did you ever see anybody that went into a rage artistically? He’s still at 1.5, he tears the hell out of things, but he’s still going into an artistic rage.

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.

There are a lot of actors that cultivate this as a fine art. And actually it is something that is appalling because it just chews theta up just… just madly. You can’t chew theta up but I mean some guy thinks he has to protect himself and his very beingness in the face of an artistic wave, because it’s terribly interesting. It is aesthetic, it has mood, it has rhythm – it has various combinations of things that you associate with aesthetics.

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

All right, now you see now – this is energy characteristics but what do we mean by „wave characteristic“? This is just wave length. Wave length – that… that’s an easy one because this means what agreed upon distance is it from node to node on the wave length? I mean, how far apart are the wobbles?

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?

Let’s take a rarefaction condensation wave – all of them by the way are rarefaction condensation waves. They… that… that thing going through that electric line is an… a „rarefaction condensation wave.

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.

I used to sit in physics class and say „But what you’re talking about would need ether.“ There’s the wave which you do by making a rope flick. You can tie a rope over there, you see, and then you go zong! like this and you show somebody this wave. Well, it’s cute, but how the hell does electricity do that? I used to go around naive. I thought they knew. It used to puzzle me and puzzle me. They said „There’s a rarefaction condensation type wave. That has to do with particles.“ I’ll show you what that is.

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.

Here are particles, particles all over the place, evenly distributed. See, this is Figure Three here. And uh… these particles, Figure Three, are just going – they’re all the same, see? I mean, there’s nothing happening to those particles yet.

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.

Now we put a wave through those particles. And do we put a wave through the particles this way? We put a particle this way. See, they’re grouping. That’s Four. We’ve got embryonic ridges, the parts I’ve marked „R“ here. Embryonic ridges. What… that area, the ridge, is a condensation of particles, and this area where you have few dots left is a rarefaction of particles. How long is a complete wave from wave to wave, not a half node, but how long is a complete wave in that case.

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.

A complete wave is from, in Figure Four, point A to point B – that’s a complete wave. That is to say, it runs through a full cycle between those two points, a very full cycle. It goes from being a ridge up through to the point where it’s almost a ridge again.

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… now look. Don’t get ahead of me, don’t – just… let’s not look at Figure One here – let’s not look at Figure One and compare it with Figure Four. That’s not fair.

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.

You realize – you’d better not do it, because you realize that you would be, at that moment, way ahead of physics. And you mustn’t get ahead of them because there would be a lot of boys in universities lose jobs and it’s important that they eat. It is.

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.

If you examined, stroboscopically, the particle flow of a rarefaction condensation flow, you would get minute patterns which would demonstrate that there were, at any given instant, rarefactions and condensations taking place, and that some of the particles between the rarefactions and the condensations were expanding suddenly and some of the particles were crashing in, and the pattern of particle action would give you a pattern which you see more or less in Figure One.

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.

Well, it doesn’t matter whether you figure this out, then, in standing wave.

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!

Now supposing we got this rarefaction condensation wave going here good enough and heavy enough and then said whoa! We’re going to have it. And we just grind and stop it. And we – and that pattern if closely examined, I mean Four, would become the pattern, more less, of One. The ridges would stand.

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.

Now, what’s the definition of that whole thing? I mean, we talked about what is… talk about Death is Stop. Deaths are very aberrative – quite aberrative, you know. Those sudden stops that you don’t want it to stop. And here’s all this inflow and outflow and flows and rarefactions and particles and all sort of things. Well brother, when a fellow all of a sudden starts to stop motion, when he just turns on the brakes and let’s say his… his… his horsepower, the horsepower rating of this thetan at the time he put on the brakes was a potential milli-G (that’s a new quantity I just developed) uh… a milli-G – if he had that as a horsepower, then these ridges would stand at one milli-G. That’s how much energy was radiating around this thetan.

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.

So we look… go and look at Figure Five here. All right, this gets more and more interesting as we go, so don’t go to sleep.

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?

Here’s a lot of loose particles. The fellow did… this milli-G thetan did a lot of loose living. and they’re all around here and… and here he is. You say „Well, where is he in this… this whole matter here in Figure… Figure Five?“ I can’t answer that question, because that’s him. You say „Where is he?“ Well, that’s him… that… that… that’s the boy; that’s our boy.

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?“

Now all of a sudden – it doesn’t matter how far across that is – doesn’t have to to have the dimensions. Now all of a sudden a one milli-G thetan, has already started to specialize slightly in energy, and something hits him or convinces him that at some instant he has to come to a stop, you see. But the thing that convinced him he had to come to a stop was a horrendous blast of something or other. A two milli-G thetan came to call and didn’t like the tea – something like that.

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.

Well, the way you get rid of one of these… these dispersed characters and that sort of thing, it’s a very simple way of getting rid of him, is… is just to undisperse him. Just solidify him a little bit and give him a shock so that you get a… an upset of particles – now he’s got particles kicking around, he’s made hoo-ha and so on. So you’d possibly get our lightning bolt hitting somewhere in here. It’d be just on the order of a lightning bolt. What do you suppose would happen? Well, we have to go to Figure Six to find out what would happen.

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.“

And Figure Six is on the next page.

That’s the Assumption. That incident.

All right, Figure Six here shows us now something has happened. This center here tried to rush in and condense to drive it back and Figure… as I understand this, it… its tendency was to do this: trying to rush in, see? But it’s tried to rush in toward the center to block off Mr. Lightning Bolt, so we’re just going to stop that by putting a lot of particles there suddenly and letting it hit matter. That’s the good, sensible way to stop things.

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.

Of course, the best way to stop them is, of course, cause a rarefaction right there and the lightning bolt goes on through and the two mill-G thetan looks sort of apathetic for a moment and says „Well, I guess the tea wasn’t so bad.“

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.

But the other way of going about it and what’s wrong is to suddenly… suddenly have here uh… one of these… one of these uh… condensations right at the center.

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.

So, let’s go to Figure Seven. A lightning bolt hit this condensation here at the center and a vector started to go out. The impulse here was out, see?

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.

Now he condensed, it started to go out – and what are the laws of motion and emotion? It says, „We’ve got to run away from this because we’re scared.“ You see, you couldn’t stop it, so you had to depart from it.

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

Now that, in essence, is what happens in an injury. You can check this in an injury. A guy is hit and at the instant he’s hit, just before the blow strikes his skin, oddly enough, just before it hits him, there’s this odd one.

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.

Fellows always get their hands hurt just before they hit the table. They… they come in and they start to hit the table and they know their hand is going to hit the table; an instant before it hits the table their hand hurts. In they come and they hit the corner of the table and it hits the hand and their attention units or particles rush to that point to defend, and blow off the injury, find out they can’t do it, penetration continues and those particles which rushed in now try to rush away from the injury.

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

You can test this out, if you want to. Go around and stab yourselves. I mean, you’ll find out just that it’s just exactly what… what happens there. And you get a rarefaction and condensation action. It rushes away, the particles try to come back again and stop it some more. Then they rush away and then they try to stop it again.

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.

But this thing is making more and more ingress all the time. And it rushes away and tries to stop it again. And all of a sudden he goes into apathy and he’s just null.

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.

But he’s… each time he’s trying to stop, stop, stop, stop – and you can practically hear the… you can practically hear the… the brakes squeal on an injury. And if you’re running by Effort Processing – you know Effort Processing – just start to work out one of these injuries and you’ll find out that it’s going this way. And you work a little further and all of a sudden why, the last efforts are run and it all weakens down and bong! There goes the injury.

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.

You’ll find that’s a pattern of rarefaction and condensation of attention units which are rushing in periodically to PUSH the thing back out, finding out they can’t and rushing away. Then gathering a sort of force and coming back in to stop it again and then pushing it away. You get the same action as you get with flows, dispersals and ridges – that sort of thing. You see how that is?

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.

I… I see you’re looking at me rather alertly. You… some of you that are looking at me that way haven’t listened to Technique 88, then. Or, it wasn’t stated in there uh… as clearly as it ought to be stated, because the truth of the matter is there’s nothing simpler than this.

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?“

You can actually, and should, right at this moment, if you have some curiosity in the matter, simply pinch the back of your hand. Hold it like this and you will feel the skin is tight – it starts to tighten up on you. Now pinch it like that and you’ll feel the attention units rush away from there – not just the pain. You can feel the attention units rush away from there. Now you un-pinch the thing and you’ll feel the attention units come back into it. You can feel the path of those units…

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.

Now you know that if you hurt your hand a little bit like that, you probably only feel it for a couple of inches around and about the injury. But if you hurt your hand real bad and so forth, you could hurt it so that it would shock clear up here and hurt the elbow. There attention units are rushing down the whole length of the elbow and then they’re dispersing back up the whole length of the elbow and then they’re dispersing back up the whole length of the elbow and they’re… that’s an energy flow and it’s flow and it follows the pattern of flow.

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.

So, what do we get here? We get right here in the center as the second stage – this was stage uh… two on this lightning bolt, and this was stage three on the lightning bolt, and we get this sort of an action.

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.

But what happens to these when these little arrows here get out and hit these outer particles. The outer particles say, „Hey, we’re getting an injury!“ And they say, „To hell with that!“ So they brake. And they say, „No! No!“ And they start in like this – Whong! Whong! Whong! See these little arrows? All right, these little arrows come in here and they brake – or put the brakes on fast. See the particle directions?

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.“

So the little arrows… every time you hit that receding wave an injury actually goes – and explosion goes – if you took a picture of an explosion you’d find it was going whong – whong – whong! See. It’s getting bigger and braking itself at each moment. Like a bird would flap its wings, or something of the sort. It’s down-up, down-up, down-up. Out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in, all the time getting bigger. What’s it doing.

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.

It finally winds up as in Figure Eight – you’re very lucky people to hear this lecture. I’d never intended to give it. I keep forgetting this one because the subjects is so big, as you will find out in a moment.

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.

You’ll finally wind up with a kind of an empty spot here and with a… some scattered particles here and some scattered particles here and some scattered particles out here. And what are these things? Well, here’s the center hardness, and there’s a ridge, and there’s a ridge and there’s a ridge, resulting from that explosion, see? These particles out here at this gradient scale in Figure Seven are still scattered and still influenced.

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.

Now this shows you here… gives you a pretty good idea of what goes on in an explosion. I wish I had some stroboscopic pictures of an explosion. That is, something that just split instant stops the wave motion or formation which takes place during an explosion, so that you can examine 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.

For instance, you see a stroboscopic picture of a drop of water. It forms the doggondest pattern. It just drops into a bucket and you can watch that drop go down and then the pattern that it makes and so on as it finally drops. And you’ll say, „Good God! Could one drop of water cause that much commotion and that many patterns?“ It sure can.

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

Well, if you were to take a picture of the guts and anatomy of an explosion in action, you would find there’s rarefaction condensation areas in the middle of it. If anybody here has ever served with artillery, you’re quite well aware of this, because you can actually feel on the explosion of shells as they hit. Uh… they go ‘bah-ow-wah-ow-wah-ow-ong’. You’re hitting those ridges, see – sound ridges are going by.

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.

There’s this ‘bo-ong’. You’d think… you’d think a shell would just go ‘boom!’ – it doesn’t. It goes ‘Bo-oo-oo-oo-oom!’. You could forget it.

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.

For instance, if an artillery shell went off, if… if there’s just a sound, solid blast – why do you think windows cave in? Well, they… they would… could probably be braced. Your window would stand up to a pressure so the pressure would hit the window, you’d think, and if it were a solid blast, it would just sort of stretch the window pane in.

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…

Waves will break out an anchor. You can lie in a hurricane of wind and the hurricane of wind won’t blow your ship away from its moorings – just won’t. That anchor will just dig in and dig in and dig in. But once you get waves going, they lift that bow and they drop that bow and they lift the anchor buoy and they drop that anchor buoy and it keeps yank on the anchor and yank on the anchor and yank on the anchor. And all of a sudden the anchor course moves and drifts.

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.

Rhythm… rhythm does this. So as the sound of an artillery shell outside that window would hit the window: the first wave would hit it – bong! And then the window comes back toward the direction of the sound and then the second wave hits it – boonng! And it goes just a little bit further and then back toward the direction of sound. And then the third ridge in that ball of sound hits it and it goes boom-crash!

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.

But it took ‘bong – bong – bong!’, you see, to break the window. If you just had a sound pressure – solid pressure – on it, it wouldn’t have broken the window at all, usually. You could tape your windows so they wouldn’t break. There is no taping a window so it won’t break in a good sound barrage.

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

All right, you see? It’s interesting here. Funny part of it is, that if you were to trace these ridges in any pattern of explosion, you’d find out they were really… of course, I’m drawing here… a flock of spheres.

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.

Now, watch a pebble being dropped in a pool of water. Water… of course the physical universe runs on the laws of the physical universe and never varies – pooey!

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.

Water freezes from the top down; it’s noncondensable – the most confounded things happen in water.

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.

Now you can drop a drop of water in a pail, or a rock in a pond and you can watch these waves going out. And they’re linear waves. Why are they linear waves? They’re just linear waves because you cross-section them and they’re applying, really, only to the surface. You’re getting a particle yanked up and down. You’re moving a particle up and down. But that’s because… that’s because you have air above the wave and the wave cannot compress of itself; water’s noncompressible. So you get a strange and peculiar attitude on the part of the water. So it raises and lowers. And you get the particles raising and dropping.

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.

And then they tell the physics student, „Well now you see, waves are just like this piece of rope. And if you want to prove it, go on out and look at a pond of water. And here we show this rope and we give it a whip and we’ll see the wave travel down and come back again. And isn’t that cute and it’s just…“

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.

I wonder where the hell these professors ever did any observation. Why don’t they go out and jump in a lake and find out what happens? Because what you’re getting is an interplay of an incompressible with a compressible. And that is a very peculiar wave indeed. It’s a wave peculiar to a condition where two fluids are involved – fluid one is air and compressible, and fluid two is water and not compressible. You’ve got a commotion; there’s motion there someplace. So your first splash sets air waves in motion which react back against the pond and make these silly-looking pools and things like that – very, very interesting.

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.

You take a stroboscopic picture – if you could – that would take one that showed actually the particles of air, you’d see that you had an interaction between two fluids. So this is a very, very peculiar wave.

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.

Well, you get down under water and water has no compressibility, it says right in the physics textbook, so of course it’s impossible for sound to pass through water. What’s the matter? Some disagreement with this? I mean, you… somebody heard sound through water here?

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.

The way… the way the scholastics used to teach uh… almost anything, is always worthy of… of comment and notice. They… in 1500 universities taught on the scholastic principle. They had a number of books and the. books were quite authoritarian and they said so-and-so and so-and-so, and then the student would read the book and listen to the lecture and then take the examination that said so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so. They had… didn’t have to make any comparison with the real universe. And uh… uh… having taken the examination, he would get his grade only on this basis. It was a very peculiar custom and uh… it uh… ceased, I’m sure, about 1500 or 1600. It’s – noways – been carried through into modern times.

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.

Of course, modern classes, when they teach a student some principle or other in physics, they say, „Now, uh… we don’t care whether you believe this or not. Uh… why don’t you go out and look. And by the way, by the virtue of your looking, you might find out something you can tell us.“ No, they never said that… they… I mean… pardon me! I mean, they… they undoubtedly do that, because this is a modern age.

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.

The scholastic came about through Aristotelian logic, and so forth. It was all black and white; therefore anything that was written was right. And things that weren’t written were wrong. Or I… I don’t know how they figured this out, but that’s more or less the way it was.

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!

Natural History… Natural History and that sort of thing was taught by rote. We didn’t have to go observe it.

„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?

And that’s actually – physics as a science prides itself upon its observation. Oh, it just prides itself just straight through on its observation.

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…

Your engineer gets out of class and he goes over and he. starts working on – and all of a sudden he plugs in the ruddy-rods on the wrong side of the whatchamagujits and he graduates up and he finds himself working at Los Alamo Pork Pie or someplace and he throws the cross-pile against the cross-pile and this doesn’t quite agree with the conservation of energy, but he kind of looks dogged about the whole thing. And he says, „Well, I guess it really doesn’t make the basic laws of elementary physics wrong – I hope – because I signed a pledge that I wouldn’t disobey those things. I wrote on the examination paper and said, „These are right and they will always be right and they will always hold true for the whole universe – signed and sworn to and subscribed before me this Umth Day of Umth. Charles Jones, C.E.“ Or something like that.

„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.

All right, here’s one that you could very easily miss: Rarefaction condensation.

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.

The number of linear waves which you are going to find in the universe will be when two fluids come together or three fluids or six fluids, in some eight-dimensional torsional G space.

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.“

Uh… but uh… let’s not throw that rope around and say, uh… „Well, it’s all linear space and uh… uh… that’s why a radio wave travels in this fashion and that’s why a broadcast station works, is because you’ve got this long line. And actually what you do is you go out and attach this line to this television antenna of John Jones and when you’ve attached it to John Jones’s aerial, then you go back to the station and you keep flipping it from this station. This… this… this wave, then, jumps up and down and he only then receives television.

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.

God! If that were the case! That’s really the way they explain it in elementary physics.

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.

No, it looks just like this: Figure Eight might as well be television, might as well be television.

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!“

And what do you know? Let’s add something else in Figure Eight here. Just before you get there… there’s a little tiny dispersal, see? Out here in this third ring – third ring out. You get these little dispersals just before it forms in a ridge. And in here you have an indecision on „Which way did he go? Which way did he go?“

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 you’ve got your complete rarefaction in here where I have marked Point uh… M – midway in between those two waves, see? And… and that… that point is… could stand for „Which way did he go?“

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.

Rarefaction comes in, it goes ‘bo-oo-ong’, see? And you’ve got that point.

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?

Now, there’s a dispersal, but just as it leaves that rarefaction – I mean, just as it leaves this ridge, first ridge out from there – just as it leaves that, there’s a little bit of a dispersal there.

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.

Now let’s magnify that up and have on Figure Nine, then, the action there that happens in that ring. So here we’ve got a… a ridge and it’s travelling from right to left. We’ve got a little dispersal here as your particles… particles leave there, and this comes over here in this direction; and you’ve got your particles lining up for any given moment and you’ve got which way did they go, and there’s a dispersal sort of a thing at this midway point in here.

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.

And then we’ve got – let’s see now. If we’ll get it at the same instant. Whong, yeah. The same instant here would be a little bit of a lag. We won’t bother with that. So let’s get it over here and this is actually coming in like this. And here’s your next ridge.

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.

So let’s break this thing down and we get – and you’ve actually got ridge at ‘R-1’ here discharging toward Ridge 2 and it gives us, in Figure Nine a… it gives us a ridge, a tiny dispersal, a flow to a dispersal, to a flow, to a dispersal, to a ridge. You get that?

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.

Now we look back at that first one that I drew, you will see we are dealing with the characteristics of energy. And energy then, it always bears some relationship to the characteristics of a floating sphere.

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.

Rarefaction condensation waves as they go down a copper wire are really rarefying and condensing electrons. The electron does not flow down the wave like a drop of water; it rarefies and condenses.

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

In a whole day of electrical flow on DC, probably an electron doesn’t move a hundred feet. I don’t know – it… I don’t know how fast it moves. Might move a mile, but th… that stuff is supposed to be travelling at a hundred and eighty-fi… – six miles a second. They are trying to agree on it.

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.

All right, so… so that’s very… very… very amusing there to find out that we are dealing with a rarefaction and a condensation in such a way that we’ve got the – what?

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.

Let’s draw a picture here and let’s call it Figure 10 of Mr. Preclear at the moment he put on the brakes. He found out that this reaction was taking place and he said, „Stop!“ Here’s your reaction center, here’s your next ridge out, R-1; next ridge out is already beginning to go; the explosion has hit him; he’s in this form at… that’s R-2, And he gets out here and he says… at this instant he says „Stop!“

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.

Now that’s a sphere you’re looking at; that is not a two-dimensional plane, that’s a three-dimensional sphere. What’s it give him? It gives him the shape of an electron. Of course this doesn’t bear any relationship to the shape of an electron. We’re not supposed to talk about that because we’re not licensed to. It requires a special license from the Atomic Energy Commission to talk about electrons. They’re sacred property now and they’re the only ones who can have any.

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.

And uh… I… I regarded this with considerable sorrow because I probably will have to give up a couple of electrons that I kept around for old keepsakes.

But you get the idea?

What’s an electron? It’s one of those spheres. And if you can get one of those spheres to jump once, R-1 to jump out to R-2, it releases what? One quantum of energy. And this is the subject called Quantum Mechanics, because it takes a… a… a mechanic to be as jerry-rigged and jacklegged about explaining this as they are. It really takes a mechanic of the kind and variety that Rube Goldberg employed to repair his models.

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.

There’s nothing much to this. The way you get atomic fission is this way. The artillery shells – you want to know? No, we’re not going to give you any real atomic fission. Uh., the shell… the shell doesn’t… the explosion from the shell doesn’t go ‘Boooooom!’, you see? It goes ‘Boo-oo-oom!’. Now the way… way you do, is you’ve got… you’ve got something which is floating around and it’s making this sound. What’s happened is sound, uh… what’s happened is you’ve taken… the artillery shell has exploded and it’s gone ‘Boooom!’, see. But what… what you did was go ‘Boo-’ – and it said „Stop,“ right there. And there it’s been for just ages and ages and ages and ages. And what do you do to make an atomic explosion? You just let the artillery shell explosion go ‘Booom!’. That’s all. You’ve cut the thing loose on its timetrack, what do you know?

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.

That’s all you do, because you just let it go from R-1 to R-2, hit the next rarefaction out. And if you let… let the thing clip on its time track and go ‘Booom!’, see, and then you’ve… it’s stopped right there and it’s been stopped for some ages. It’s been sitting there on a rock. The fellow that made this energy let it go just that far, see? And then the next step on it, and the way you get chain reaction, is to start it suddenly off of its time track and let it finish out its ‘Boo-oom!’. And it will knock out Hiroshima, of course, or anything else.

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.

Now theoretically you could do this to a preclear. You could get his ridges, his spheres out here, going in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, and they would go ‘Bow-oo-oom!’. They probably wouldn’t even hurt him. He’s indestructible.

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.

That’s right, he is. I said that very seriously. Some guy’s going to try this and blow up half of this 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.

So it isn’t any kind of a specialized or silly condition – is it at all? We’re looking at a preclear when we’re looking at Figure 10, only we’re not looking at near as far or near as complex as the preclear is.

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.

So this… to finish off Figure 10, this would really have to be all in spheres. We would have to put R-3, which is your next ridge of particles. You understand, there’s just countless billions and billions of particles in any one of these ridges, see?

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.“

Now we’re looking out here at R-4 – of course, in between these things in here at… at uh… these points I’ve marked ‘F’ and these parts I’ve marked ‘D’ – all through here there’s ‘D’, ‘D’, there’s dispersals, dispersals. And there’s flows above the dispersals, and flows and… and tiny dispersals – dispersals. We’re getting this pattern, see. And we’ve got these patterns on these ridges. And this is the pattern. And I’m drawing you a pretty picture – portrait of a preclear. This is what you’re working on. Of course, the second they find out that we’re working with atomic energy, they’ll stop us, but, uh…

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

Honest to Pete. There… there’s really nothing to this problem. This is one of those silly damn problems. If this problem were complicated and if anybody made this problem complicated for the last eight thousand years, he ought to be spanked, to tell you the truth, because it’s too simple a problem.

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.

You see those dispersals and you see those flows? Now, it all… it’s all adding up into, again, this ridge, dispersal, dispersal – that’s a flow, little dispersal, uh… dispersal, flow, dispersal, ridge. That’s the pattern. Only you’ve got – good God! I mean, all this stuff is standing out here.

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.“

Now your preclear just shifts just a little bit in this flock of onion skins which he’s living in. Or, you all of a sudden stop him at a point where he’s been arrested and it sort of goes ‘Boo-oom!’ for a second, and he’ll shift a ring, or something of this sort.

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.“

I’ve had this happen to preclears, by the way. It’s not dangerous because you think atomic bombs are dangerous. They’re not. YOU’RE dangerous – not some bomb. Maybe you particularly.

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.

Now I’ve had them shift, I’ve had them shift a ring. And I didn’t get a quantum of energy kicked back, all I got was maybe – I don’t know – maybe something like a thousand, well maybe a hundred thousand watts, something like that, exploding in the preclear’s face – a slight singe, just a tiny singe, maybe eyebrows and just… nothing. Nothing. The fellow said, „My God! It’s like the Fourth of July!“ And felt much better the next couple of minutes – kind of mystified as to where all this electricity came from suddenly.

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.“

Of course, I wasn’t doing it – I didn’t have anything to do with it at all. No responsibility for that energy. I was merely coaxing him to try to reach out and pull in that outside ring and let it go again suddenly in rhythm. ‘Song-bong-vroom! Pow!’. It hardly made any noise at all.

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.“ –

Now you understand that when your preclear’s in this terrible state of affairs, stuff hitting him bang! bang! bang! all the time… Stuff keeps hitting the preclear and hitting him – it gets terrific condensation to this point, through that rarefaction, that one, and the more ridges he’s got and the more heavily stacked these things get up… because he’s sitting there in a stopped motion. He’s stopped someplace on the time track, otherwise he wouldn’t have a single ridge. He’s stuck on the time track. He’s holding on to these particles in that formation. And he’s holding on at a high energy input incident – a few milli-G’s of impact, way the heck and gone, back on the track.

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

And of course he’ll use… running around with one… one uh… one grasshopper erg, or one one hundredth of one grasshopper erg being normal, and you all of a sudden say, „All right, now let’s reach out there and run that ridge.“ „Nooo,“ he says. Because he instinctively knows what’s really on those ridges. He… he knows really that they’re all ready to go ‘Boo-oom!’ and when your preclear won’t change, he… he knows what his penalty of changing is. So that’s your build-up and your energy pattern – that’s a picture of your preclear. That’s a portrait, Figure 10.

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.

Now somebody who is really very good ought to really build one of these things out of sectionals half cut through plastic spheres just to show somebody. It’d be pretty hard to do, little sketch network of… of rarefaction and… and the pattern of particles and so forth, in one of these, so that you really get an idea. See, there’s particles all through the ridges, they’re hard now. There’s particles in between the ridges and there’s particles – you’re doing just very specific things.

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.

Now I tell you, as you look at this galaxy and you look at the Milky Way, the number of engrams which you can run off the Milky Way aren’t anywhere as near as important as getting the fellow in command of the Milky Way. And when you look at the central hub of this galaxy and treat it in one fashion or another, you must remember that it’s awfully happy to have an arrested ‘Boom!’ – very happy to.

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 this of course, bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the pattern of the MEST universe. Now just remember this when you take a look at it. And sometime when you’re out in the s… stars or around someplace or another, just take a look at some of the patterns which you see up there, and you get a very clear picture of a preclear. They’re sort of elliptical; they’re not spherical. They’re not even an oblate spheroid. I mean, they’re quite flat. They’re just sort of a wheel variety of the thing.

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.“

And when I say, „Build your own universe by restoring your capabilities to do so,“ you… this MEST universe has gone hog silly on particles. And don’t think that just because there’s those great big chunks of MEST and energy out there and they’re so great and big, remember they’re just great and big in comparison to you and nobody else.

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.

So you’re looking at the pattern of a galaxy, you’re looking at the pattern of a preclear, and you’re looking at the pattern of an atom.

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, is an atom sentient? Is the atom a building preclear? Is it something which will graduate up to the rank of a preclear? Just as a preclear will eventually graduate up to the rank of a galaxy? Is that a gradient scale – goes on? Lucretius said so. I don’t know how much he knew, I don’t know which navigator he was on what spaceship before he arrived here. I seriously doubt this gradient scale has any actuality whatsoever…

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!

For this reason, is, I’ve put together one of these island particles. You get down real small, see, and you scatter a lot of little particles around, and you p… postulate that there are a whole bunch of particles and then you say… you say, „Booh, stop!“ And what do you know? You’ve got an atom – you can make an atom of any size.

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.

Now if you did this several times and so forth, and you jammed all these things in proximity and you sort of set them in positive and negative, you could actually get these things to changing space – you know, they go ‘Pok! Pok!’ to give us a space to change in one way or the other. And then blow them up. That’s matter.

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.

It’s a gradient scale of this kind of ridge. You’ve got to have space, you’ve got to have particles and so forth to build this way. But this is not… this isn’t necessarily a way of building, it’s not a pattern of building, it’s not a pattern you have to know about anything except auditing. It’s merely very amusing that it does happen to exactly approximate the pattern of a galaxy; it has the approximation of the pattern of an explosion; it has the approximation of the pattern of an atom.

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.

It also, to some vague… vague fashion has the pattern of a solar system. You see the solar system out here? The sun is collecting particles on a ‘boom!’ basis, but it’s not a good example of it at all. That once upon a time it had rings all around and they were all solid rings and then the rings sort of uh… solidified, the ridges sort of drew together, you could postulate that this was the way planets come into being. Here’s your sun – here in Figure 11, and uh… your sun’s shining here in the center and uh… here’s Earth – oh, uh… pardon me. Venus – oh, pardon me. They’re… they’re… they’re much much further apart than this, honest… honestly. The Earth and the size of the sun, if you were to plot them out, oh, on a square mile piece of paper, why you… you… you’d have to use a very fine pointed pencil to put the planets into size.

OK. Let’s take a break.

It’s uh… people get an awfully exaggerated idea of how much matter there is wrapped up in one of these systems.

All right. And here’s the… here’s Mars, and so on. There’s a terrific amount of difference between these things. So you could – Jupiter, Saturn.

Now you could then postulate that once upon a time there were some… there were some rings around here and that these rings gradually caught up with themselves and tripped over themselves and finally got into a congealed mass and got there, but it would be in direct controversy to… to Professor Yumphgallah, and he’s a man I put lots of confidence in. He writes with so many commas that he’s very convincing. I remember one adverbial phrase he had there and I… it took an entire afternoon to find out whether it fitted in the sentence or not, and I finally found out that although it was in chapter one, it referred to the fifteenth sentence of the appendix. And uh… I… I respect a man who can do that. He wrote it in English too. It is completely incomprehensible.

So it would be in conflict with his basic theories and I wouldn’t want to advance this as a basic theory. So you’ll pardon me if I don’t mention the fact that maybe your preclear can just as easily walk around dragging some planets.

Well, regardless of all of that, it gets very amusing when you look at Mr. Preclear and uh… realize that you’re really looking at a standard pattern of an explosion, which is arrested. The explosion is arrested in midair, you might say… it’s just sudden – ‘Yeoeow – whoomf!’ – stop. Well now, what’s he using for energy?

You see, now I’ve been talking for a few minutes here about: „Oh boy! It looks like the galaxy and the preclear looks like an atom and the atom looks an…“ And true enough. These things are all related, because it’s a pattern of a method of making a universe – it’s just patterns.

Uh… guy was on… he had a one pattern mind, you might say. He probably worked for the Ford Motor Company back about 1915. All he could build was a Model T. And uh… one pattern mind.

And it just seems uh… that everywhere you go in the universe you find that one pattern mind; you find this rarefaction condensation thing.

Now when you’re looking at these… these pictures, you’re also looking just right straight at… you’re also looking at a radio wave, you’re looking at uh… so on. And it’s the distance from one ridge to another ridge, which is the wave length.

Now that wave length can be eight miles or the wave length can be uh… the wave length can be 15 centimeters or the wave length can be, oh, a couple of inches, or it can be a half an inch – that is from ridge to ridge. Or it can be uh…5 inches – that’s radar by the way. That’s about the shortest they got radar, I think. They may have a shorter one by now. If they have, they’re keeping it secret. They have to keep all these things secret because merchant ships and automobiles groping in the fog can’t use radar.

And uh… you get uh… down, you see you’re getting down from, oh, various types of waves, electrical waves. You’re getting down further, getting down to radar. Now radar is hot – radar is almost solid.

Radar is very amusing stuff. Uh… when you get down to, I think it was a half an inch, or maybe it was a half a centimeter – I’ve forgotten which it was – doesn’t matter much – if you’re rigging them up, you can change them from one to the other pretty fast.

And uh… uh… you can take one of the radar beams and – I’m afraid that there is an unserious streak in me, that I will have to do something about. But I had about a… at one time about 50 thousand dollars worth of radar – or maybe it was 200 thousand – and I put it up – it was all up on everything. And you weren’t supposed to be able to do anything with it, and they said its… its wave was somewhere down around a half an inch or a half a centimeter or something of this sort. And I said, „How… how short?“ And they said it was so and so and so. I said, „My golly! That’s awfully, awfully hot.“ „Yes,“ he said, „the reason we’re telling you is so that you won’t let your operator…“ I said, „Wait a minute! You’re talking about hard radiation. That… well, that’s almost into the hard radiation band.“ He said, „Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s why we don’t want your operator uh… reaching into this thing and crawling into it to change his pants or something of this sort, and because he’s liable to get a bad burn. And so let’s… let’s not do this and uh… they… by the way, these waves are secret, so don’t let anybody know I told you what this wave was.

Uh… they’re… they’re different from vessel to vessel and… and so forth and uh… they have a complete system worked out. And there’s IFF Systems and so forth. And it’s all very confidential, so don’t let it out. Uh… and uh… I’ll give you a diagram if you stay after class.“

Yeah, any spies present? The diagram is proximity shells. The Bell engineers… Bell engineers – I’m just taking off, by the way, on a Bell engineer. He’ll come in with the newest, latest piece of Navy equipment, see, and he’ll have it all sawed up and he’s… he’s refining it somehow; he’s decided that the production copy is not good enough. He’s got it in his grip and uh… he says, „I just brought it over to show you,“ and so forth. He says, „This is the latest device, and this explodes the torpedos in a submarine uh… if you fire it within ten or twelve feet of the submarine’s radar,“ or something of the sort, see? And… and so on, and, „Isn’t this cute? It’s built right into the shell here,“ and so on. And he talks about it because, of course, he’s making… he’s making robots. He’s making things that think and act without being told right away. They were told a little earlier by him. And he’s got a delayed action of doing what one is told – after a while. And that’s quite a trick. If they’d only make one that would do what it was told before it was told it, that would be good.

Well, anyhow, he’ll… he’ll bring this in and he’ll show it to you and it’ll be just beautiful and uh… he’ll get a… he’ll show you all the diagrams and so forth. And after he’s all through, he’ll say, „By the way,“ he said, „this is dead secret – this is top secret. I don’t want you to let anybody know about this.“ And you say, „Well, does your wife know?“ „Yeah, well sure. We’re under good heavy security on this though.“ And I said, „Well then the lady next door kind of knows about this too.“ „Yes, she was very interested.“

Well the three or four callers that you had, to which you had introduced him indifferently, of course, they’ve appreciated it too. But that’s all right. Bell Labs could make all that stuff obsolete tomorrow if they wanted to.

But uh… the government, if he were to leave a copy of the drawing open on his desk at the office and move away from his desk, he would probably come back and find himself on the Communist Party list. Everybody in the office is secure, see. They’re all nailed down. And if he left the drawing open, he’d get ruined. Fascinating business, security.

Well, anyhow, having no… not quite a serious streak about all this, we trained this radar beam on the front of the focsle head. We just went up and yanked out some pins and warped it around and took its antenna around, you know. They’ve got big cages. Those mattress-like things that look – mattress springs on masts and things like that… that – oh, that might be radar and it might be a new way to dry the captain’s cap covers, you never know these days.

And uh… so just turned it around, cocked it over on one side and turned it around to get how hot it was to tune it in, and so on, because I was actually working for something serious. I wanted to be able to pick up a landing craft or a torpedo closer than 700 feet to a ship. And I thought this would be a very good idea – this would be a very smart thing to do.

By the way, your landing craft could come in at that time – they were about 700 yards, I think, was the closest. Landing craft could all be in… in the fog and losing the ship all the time and passing by it in all directions, still too far away to hear very much and your radar couldn’t pick them up. You’d be sitting there looking all around on the water for the ships and you just couldn’t pick them up. They were too close to you. So, anyway, we put some weinies up on the bow and fried them. That was a good – good application. It was about all I ever did use that radar for, but it was uh…

Now you get how hot a wave like that is getting. It… it’s really getting hot. You’re getting shorter and shorter and shorter stuff. And if you could keep up volume with the shorter stuff, oh, that’d really be fascinating.

That radar gets hot – radar of longer beams than that – you go out and you shoot it against the wall and it would come back in practically a ball of fire. You’re making a directed part of this sun deal. You’re taking a little section, see, and you’re shooting – there’d be a bunch of beams out here and then you rarefy and condense them. And you’ve got them all rarefied and condensed and then it comes back rarefied and condensed and goes out rarefied and condensed and back; you just fill the hell out of the air with particles, see?

And it comes back in – slosh! And it reads and you turn it on and it says it was 762 yards and a half.

The British were very conservative, by the way. During the last war the poor old Hood and the Bismarck fired a simultaneous salvo practically. And I think the Hood got in her salvo first, and they… they – according to the reports, the Hood took optical range on the Bismarck because that radar was pretty new. And their shell hit at exactly the optical range. Optical range was very good and it hit very good. But the only trouble was, the optical range could be far wrong and the Bismarck was almost exactly the distance that the radar range said it was and the Bismarck fired, by radar, on the Hood and shot her right into the magazine „Ka-boom!“ – first salvo. „Bang“ – there went the Hood. Great big battle cruiser. They didn’t believe in these new gadgets.

The fact of the matter is that radar is very sharp, so you’re getting a… a highly directional wave when you’re getting up there – terrible directional.

Well, you go on up into the other waves, uh… terribly directional, very reliable, work with it very sharply and so on – better and better directed.

Now we go up there above a little bit and we go upstairs from that and we get a little higher and we get better and better directed waves. And they go up above that and we get higher and a little bet better directed waves. And when you get high enough and run out of waves, what do you know? One thinks. So, this proves that one should think. Let’s take a break.