And when he's real - not too bad off; above average - he's saying, "I'm a general of armies." This is one of those statements. I mean - now, how the language can be hauled together to make such a statement is something like mathematics tell you that eighty is zero. See, that's about the same trick. But it looks like that in symbolic logic - 8,672 is zero. See, that just can't be! I mean, that's all.

And this morning we're going to take up inverted dynamics again and we're going to do something about the cases that are sitting around and unturn them, uninvert them.

I mean, it isn't - it isn't, "Well, I..." There isn't even any feeling like - I - well, let's see, I don't even think you'd get anybody who was completely crazy - yeah, they are; they have to be completely crazy to buy this. I mean, this is an identification to end all identifications.

I gave you a demonstration yesterday afternoon, and you saw, I'm sure, in this demonstration - and if you didn't, you will remember that you did see it - somebody that was putting out flitter in reverse.

Now, if he had a general of armies, he would simply mean this: Someplace in a box which is about, oh, maybe 15 by 20 by 9 and seated at a cute little toy desk is a completely inactive general of armies, when he says, "I have a general of armies."

You know, you throw the flitter out, and you say, "All right, the flitter will now go out." So it hits you in the face. Now you say, "The flitter will come in," and it flies out. Now, that is what is known as an inverted dynamic.

His next phrase to that would be, "Let's play a game. I have a general of armies - let's play a game."

In the Doctorate Tapes, you remember the inflow-outflow material. Now, on this inflow-outflow material we had: what you want will disagree with you and what you don't want will agree with you. You know, the whole universe turns in reverse.

Now - let's look at it a little bit more and we find out that he couldn't say "I do a general of armies." He could, it's almost - see, it's one of those maybes - it's almost right, "I do a general of armies," because a general of armies is suspected of doing something. I said suspected - inversely.

Well, when a thetan gets into this sad condition, he is already reversified on the subject of the sixth dynamic.

Now, so what - what's the problem here? The problem is "I do a game in which a general of armies is one of the factors." Now you've got motion.

Now, what brings about his inversion on the sixth?

The only reason a little - a little... Where a little kid bogs down with toy soldiers is quite interesting. He gets the toy soldier, he loves them dearly, he puts them up on a window ledge, he puts them on a table, he puts them on the floor and so forth, and then he just tries like mad, if there's nobody else around, to make one side go boom at the other side again, you see? He's trying to do a game.

Now, it may be interesting to you - this additional datum on inverted dynamics - that they really are inverted. And they're also inverted on the seventh and inverted on the eighth. But any thetan in this universe who isn't drilled on the earlier process of making his own space, no matter if it kills him (it practically does); if you don't drill him on that and space in brackets and so forth, for a long time - that's a long technique rather than a short one - he will, if he's not drilled in that one, he will invert; that is to say, he will remain inverted - he is inverted, ordinarily, if he needs such a process - on the sixth dynamic.

Now, he doesn't think he can have the game - and this is the trap - he doesn't think he can have a game without having a general of armies, because that's - because he thinks he has to have a game. Most people are down to this, where you have to furnish all their amusements for them; they have a game, they have to have a game. "Let's have a game of cards." This is another one of those statements like "360 equals zero." "Let's have a game of cards." How can you have a game of cards?

So, immediately you can see that any thetan in this universe is potentially below an inverted sixth. Now, how bad off is a thetan? He is below an inverted sixth.

Well when they try to have a game of cards, they have a bad time of it. They would do a game of cards; but a game of cards is almost matter.

Now, that should make some of you "Step XVIIIs" feel much happier about things to know that there are other people who get hung up on the line, too.

What you would do would be to do a race. But people in this universe even try to have a race, which immediately tells you that they have to have something in order to do something. And that "have something" has to be some other factor than they themselves manufacture and that's all that's bad about it.

Until he has solved an inverted sixth, one way or the other, the sixth can still grab him. And that's why we want to pay close attention to this factor and what we know as an inverted sixth. Because you will exteriorize some thetan very nicely and neatly polish him off; buff his fingernails or buff his flitter, and have him all sharpened up and dashing all over the universe and feeling wonderful about it and a few weeks later, why, you meet the fellow, and he's just audited a few fellows, and he's just squared himself around, and he feels sad, and he's back in his head again, and he's made up his mind he can't see after all, or something of the sort.

So, it's so scarce trying to get something in order to do a game that they hang up every time on "having a game." A little boy knows to be Superman he has to have a Superman cloak and "S" on his chest. He just knows that and he pesters everybody madly. And then he gets this cloak and the "S" on his chest and by golly, he can't fly. It comes as a shock to a lot of little kids: They can't fly. Every once in a while you'll see one diving off a barn or something; yeah, they do that. Oh, I'd say it happens in the United States on the average of once a week. A little kid steps off a barn, steps off a shed or something or other, breaks an arm, breaks a leg, sprains an ankle. Because he hasn't yet got the idea about all this; he just hasn't got the idea that he - if he has something he can't do something with it. Now, that's about the end of it. He's being a body.

What's happening to him? He is hanging up on an inverted sixth. Now, this is all that is happening to him. There is no significance in what he is doing. He hasn't decided that he couldn't do this or he couldn't do that. He has not made up his mind that it is better to be human after all. The symptom of this is that he has made up his mind to be human or inhuman after all; that's the symptom. It is not the ailment. The significance follows the fact in this universe.

Well, the best he could say about a body is "I have a body." Now he doesn't say, "Well, I have a walk today." Because a walk is known to be motion; but most games are inanimate in this - on Earth today; they - they're very stationary. Even races are very stationary.

Now, what has he done? He has decided that he is nothing again. You as an auditor popped him out, straightened up his perceptions and he decided he was something; and then he thought that he could make a go of it; and he has decided all over again that he is nothing.

To really get someplace, you'd have to do a game. To really have a game you'd have to do a game. It takes lots of space, lots of space, lots of motion; you have to get lost easily; you have to be able to retire off the side sometime or another and take a breather, in order to really do a game, because they have to travel at such fast velocity.

These two things are necessary to his rehabilitation - one of them - one of them in particular: he must have the right to be nothing. That's on the postulate level. By the way, you run this on Homo sapiens, you make him sicker than a dog. He really gets sick. You just start running nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, "the right to be nothing," and so forth, and he'll get sick at his stomach, of course, because his stomach is mainly activated by vacuums or spaces which have to be filled, not because it restimulates the gastric juices. That has nothing to do with it.

All right. In spite of the language we have a very clear understanding of it with a process. And this is the - another section of Clinical Procedure. And this is a very simple section. This is the simplest process you ever did and this one doesn't wear out either.

His problem is a problem of inverted space.

From Clinical Orienting Straightwire, which - "Where aren't you?" - down to a point where you've got him, you go into the next stage... Do you say in this procedure, by the way - do you really bother very much with this, with exteriorization as exteriorization? No. You wouldn't say too much, "Be three feet back of your head." Of course, this fellow obviously - he seems to obviously have perceptions, you - he spotted himself exactly. You say, "Be three feet back of your head and look at the room," and he does. You would still, however, run this process on him. That'd just be fine if you could get him to exteriorize but you understand that that's not dependent upon it and that's not even necessarily part of Clinical Procedure.

Let's take a look at this thetan. Let's conceive him to be the size of the Empire State Building and then start chipping away like the winds chip away at the Empire State Building. They're just sort of pushing him in, pushing him in. He is being subjected in this universe to constant inflow and then he turns around and tries to outflow against it. That's real cute; he outflows against the inflow. Is there any reason why he should outflow against that particular inflow? No, but it sure makes a lot of randomity.

It isn't that we're abandoning exteriorization, it's simply we can exteriorize him so much faster. Because if he's in good shape, he does this well; and if he's in bad shape he does this poorly; and that's about all there is to it.

So, his problem of randomity is that he has chosen the inflow of the MEST universe as his randomity. And he himself is resisting it. Having been taught to resist the inflow of the MEST universe, his chances of getting out of it are zero, unless he's audited. You see? But what a lovely trap this is!

You get him to be MEST spaces, one after the other, and you vary it just enough to keep up his interest, but all you're doing in the essence is "Be the space of your body. Be the space of the room. Be the space of the body. Be the space of the room. Be the space of the body." Total technique - total. Nothing more to it than that.

So, he starts out the size of the Empire State Building - actually, actually does comfortably occupy that much space - and winds up the size of a collar button. He's just pounded in, pounded in. Then he gets the idea he must be solid matter. He has all sorts of ideas about it. The ideas are unimportant. He's - the main thing he's trying to do is the impossible thing. He's trying to understand the inflow.

Now, we'll get - we'll get variations on this. If we haven't spotted his past well enough, or cleaned it up with Straightwire as we should have done - really, if he's very resistive to Straightwire, just straighten him out so that you know he is fairly sane and he's got some of him in present time, you can just start him on this technique. "Be space. Be space." That works. We're only interested in it being workable. And it'll invert before he gets into and finds out that his flitter is in reverse. It'll invert the flitter and he's very happy about it after that. And this turns up perceptions. This doesn't turn up perceptions like shooting a rocket plane into the am. This turns up perceptions, however, on a faster upward curve than other processes which you could use and this one doesn't require any deftness.

When you try to understand the inflow, you simply resist the inflow, and unless that inflow is hitting fairly square on the button that will blow up the inflow; you will listen forever and in vain because it's just inflow.

Now, how do you vary it? You say, "Be the space of the body," and so on.

Now, a thetan actually doesn't operate this crudely. He doesn't operate as crudely as: big inflow, facsimiles, impacts, other-determinism, figure it out, add it all up, build a thinking machine, so forth. He's actually tremendously capable. Life is capable.

By the way, would you say "Be energy"? If you want to know whether or not - whether or not the old redhead is on the beam here - if you want to know that - just try some of these.

It isn't that the thetan with whom you are dealing is one brand of thetan and an ant is another brand of thetan. This is not the way it sets up. What you're dealing with when you're dealing with insects, trees, and so forth, is very amusing.

"All right, be the energy of the past. Be the energy of the present. Now, let's be the energy. Now, let's be the body. Now, let's be the energy assaulting the body. Now let's be the body. Now, let's be the energy assaulting the body. Now, let's be the body."

When you finally get to scouting around and looking at things, you want to look into an ant's head. It's a very, very amusing thing to look into. There's just nothing in it! Exactly nothing in it. It is a shell. It is the emptiest shell you ever saw. He's running on a little piece of energy that is handed to him from an entity that runs ants. Somebody is having a wonderful time running all kinds of ants. And thetans go around and they do this sort of thing.

Just try it some. Try it on yourself sometime. Because you're into havingness and you're trying to operate with beingness and you just go riyahhh! This - this'll disappear and it'll lessen somatics and it'll do all sorts of things and so forth, but if you just want to test this idea of be, do and have, why, it's right there for you to test. It's just easy as can be.

Thetans go around and decide that "Gee, we'd better have a beautiful wood." Then they work like mad on this and form it up and square it around, and so forth. They have to be pretty capable to do this.

And you start being energy. Well, being energy, that - that's all right, you can be energy, you can be anything as far as that's concerned. But then find out whether or not it dissipates the energy. You let a little space into it; that's about all.

And they get little pieces of energy started in the business of converting and they convert and convert and convert. A thetan is pretty high-toned while he's still doing this. And then he goes down, down, down, down and decides all he can run is a body.

But you can tell a fellow to be his past and he'll start being all kinds of past spaces. People really hate that.

Of course, there are different grades, different potential in thetans, but you're really just dealing with thetans.

By the way, did anybody run that technique as I was running it off there? Who started to run it? Well, how about getting the four upper anchor points of the room. You got them? Okay. Not that anybody would have been upset by it particularly.

When somebody comes along and says, "Saint Xavier or Saint Caviar," or somebody, why he's just talking about somebody just like yourself. I mean, there isn't any difference between this holy, holy being and you, beside there might be some slight difference of potential.

That's a - that's a procedure which tests the accuracy of be, do and have as being - be, do and have - that of course is space, energy and matter, respectively.

Thetans are not each one the same potential. In other words, we have a bit of a psychosis in this country which sets in, probably because quite a few thetans around here have been busy in the past. They've gone down Tone Scale for having lost their buffalo or having lost their deer or having lost their fish or birds or game, and - something on that order. And they've been so anxious - you know, I mean in the past - they've been so anxious to do a real good job and amuse themselves thoroughly by building geese and ducks and so on, that they built them all equal so long that they went nutty. And then they wrote the Constitution of the United States Government, and they said, "All men are equal."

And you tell a fellow to be this and be that, without much direction, he will eventually just pick up spaces. But if you told him be the body and be the room and that sort of thing, you'd leave him in a little bit of a confusion because he - to be something that you can only have is asking him to do something which is confusing because he just can't do that.

And boy, there's just - there's nothing, nothing weirder than a society which has agreed to the point that everybody has decided he was equal to everybody else. Now that is A=A=A with a vengeance. And it does not make for long endurance in a society. It is one of these stopgap solutions. Where a country has had too much artificial aristocracy, the way to get everybody on the bandwagon and get it running, is say, "Well, we all own it," which is the truth. That's high on the Tone Scale. We all own these anchor points - nobody has to own these anchor points in order to use this universe. That's real high-toned.

The language, by the way, is frighteningly accurate. All due respect to the boys teaching semantics, the language is frighteningly accurate. It's just as though somebody invented it who knew what he was doing. Or it is the exact average which we're following on the backtrack defined by words.

And then they go down Tone Scale from that and they get it on "everybody is equal." Well, that's in a different thing; I mean, this is.

All right. Let's - let us say we're studying. The only reason we're studying anything here is we - we're just trying to reverse the series of agreements to which a preclear has agreed and naturally, then, we find ourselves dealing with the agreements. Now, we find ourselves dealing with the central agreements which undo the agreements which he has made which wind him up with less power and less personality. That's actually what we're doing. It's very precise. And so it isn't any real mystery that language fits it so well. What we're doing is saying, here's a specialized center pin in a word. All right.

There's Joe and Bill and Pete; and Joe can rap out a heck of a blow; and Pete, he's pretty weak; and Bill, well, they have to carry him around on a stretcher all the time - he can't even move himself around.

You just ask him to be the space in the room and be the space in the body. Now, you vary it by being the space in the room below once in a while and be the space around the building. And then you ask him to he the space in the street. And you get into trouble the second you ask him to be the space of a road. Motion sets up almost immediately. He's got roads associated with motion like mad.

Well, these three people can say amongst themselves, "We mutually own all the anchor points there are, and that we can see." Fine. There's nothing wrong with that. This doesn't say that Joe and Bill and Pete are equal. But when they start going down scale, why, they'll eventually get blind enough to say, "Well, here the three of us are and we're all equal." Anybody can look at industry or business and see the tremendous caste system of professions in this society. If one were to take a look at this - this is the workaday world! This is the world we're living in! We're not living in a political world. We're living in this workaday world, and there isn't any equality to be found in it anyplace, except maybe six, eight ditch diggers and they consider themselves a little bit better than ditch diggers down the line because they get another 15 cents an hour, you see, for the particular job they're doing. And their foreman certainly doesn't consider himself equal to the ditch diggers; he's a foreman. When he does consider himself equal to the ditch diggers, no ditch gets dug! That's what it amounts to: no ditch gets dug anyplace.

But if he's in good shape, if he's driving a car, he's actually reaching ahead of him and pulling the road under him all the time. He's feeding more road under himself than... It's just like he's using a fire hose up there or something of the sort. He's feeding road under himself Something like a dog going down the road. You know how dog's legs cross in an X as they're running and so forth. Well, he has his - he - they sort of spurn the ground backwards. Well, he has this exact feeling about an automobile. He's got the automobile wheels and in spite of anything the road wants to do, it's moving back.

Well, there's a lot of stuff on the track where thetans have trapped thetans, and they've done this and they've done that to them. Actually, nobody hurt anybody very much. But they can get up against the situation where they no longer agree - they just agree they're all equal. They don't agree on this other basis.

Now, that's not just a self-centered attitude toward the universe in general; that's actually what he's doing. But if he's badly inverted, he thinks he's in something being taken by a car up a stationary road. This is not possible! I mean, this is one of those other things. This is - this is another thing which I hope someday you will find very funny: The idea of - I mean, it's something like - something like going and hiring a watchdog to watch you or something on that order. Or it's something like oh, having a - having a big brown bear in here to give you orders as to how to think or something - idiotic. There isn't anything that idiotic in this universe. That is the most idiotic thing in the universe: is depending on the road remaining stationary while you run a car over it.

You see, politically, if you say, "All men have equal rights under law," and you keep saying this, "equal rights under law" - it does not matter whether a fellow is a two-erg being or an eighteen-megavolt being, they have equal rights under law - well, that makes a workable society as long as you further qualify it and you say, "As pertains to their bodies." In other words, "All bodies have equal rights under law." So we have agreed upon a system of handling bodies in which we consider all bodies are equal as far as the law is concerned.

By the way, good race drivers don't do this. If you ask them, they're putting the track around; they're moving that track around. And they move the track this way and they move the track that way. And then they make the car move the track once in a while when they're in a real pinch, and driving real hard, they have to make the car move the track; otherwise they're just moving the track around. Driving easy at 151! Okay.

This says, when a cop sees a body, no matter how it is dressed or otherwise, he would have to treat it as he treats any other body. And you notice they don't do this.

What - what things could you ask somebody to be? You could say this is - this again is "don't be the energy," because energy is havingness. But you could say, just to vary it, you could say, "Well;' you could be the substance in the body." This will give him a funny feeling after a little while; you ask him to be that two or three times.

If you want to go down to criminal court late at night and look around, you will find in criminal court that anybody who comes in shabbily dressed is immediately given "$30.00 or 30 days." Guilty or not guilty - well, they ask that as a form. I think the clerk asks that, or somebody asks it out the door or something of the sort. They just run them through there.

Now, you can ask him to feel things. And this is the way you vary the technique. "Be the space in the body and feel the extremities of the body. Be the space in the room and feel the extremities of the room." But it's real easy. He can always feel because feeling is condensed looking.

If a man is in that court and he's not well dressed, he's guilty, period. Well, so we say, "All bodies that are nicely dressed have equal rights under law." Well, that comes better to it. Except, after 11 o'clock at night when bodies which are very well dressed but happen to be full of alcohol, they don't have any equal rights under law.

And you say, "Now look at the room." No! No! That'll trap, confuse and bog most every preclear that you use it on. If you would just use, "Now, be the space in the room and look at it," and then you would wonder why the technique wasn't advancing. He'll eventually see it. Just to heck with it. It's one of those things that take place automatically, no matter what preclear you've got.

We're not dealing with a workable premise. See? But boy, it's certainly got a lot of political sales. You can sell this politically. That's because the bulk of the people have the feeling that they should be able to get up there too.

All right, we get somebody who's young and we find out that he's pretty well located. We bail him out of the past; we press him into the present; we find out where he isn't around in the present; and the next thing you know, you know you're looking at somebody who can be three feet back of his head like a breeze; and all you're trying to do is patch up some psychosomatics, and so forth, on him. Clinical Procedure would branch right at that point. You just - you just take a look at this guy and you know this is going to happen; he's fairly young and that sort of thing or you make a slight test of it. "Be three feet back of your head. All right. Are you there? Oh, good."

Well, of course, as everybody is below his own level of action - everyone below his own level of action - why, this is obvious. Well, what's - knocks these people down?

The fellow says, "Yeah!"

It's a mechanical thing. The inflow comes in and hits him. He's there. As long as he's a center, a point, a viewpoint, he will be hit. Well, how does he get to be a viewpoint? Well, he puts out one of his own anchor points, and then MEST universe lines start to hit it, and he puts up an anchor point, that is, he puts up one accidentally, more or less, which agrees with the wavelength of the MEST universe, and then he puts up one to resist the wavelength of the MEST universe, and then of course he has to protect it because it's under continuous assault, and so that thing which he protects becomes "other people's problems." It's the problem of something he has put up there, and he becomes it, and then he thinks he is getting pounded too.

"Now, take a look at the body. Oh, you've got a look at the body. Well, all right, now let's look in there to see if you can fix up anything that is wrong with it and adjust this and adjust that, and so forth. That's very fine. Now, where do you want to be in relationship to the body?"

In other words, the MEST universe winds up in identification. Identification is its motto, is its byword. "All things are equal" is its byword. Everything's got to be equal. And you get any being who has been in this universe any time at all, he's got some of this.

"Well, I don't know. I feel kind of good. I'm - be ups - oh, I think I'll be way outside here someplace."

And I don't know if you ever ran that test I told you to run or not, of having teeth, just pile up having teeth - pile up until you had this enormous mound of teeth making teeth making teeth making teeth, until you got up to the point of this tremendous enthusiasm which will spring immediately into those mock-ups: "Whee! Let's make everything in the universe teeth!" See? I mean, there is the motto of the universe. Because that is close to an identification and you get all this system of identification from the simple basis of: inflow from 360 degrees and that pounds all anchor points put out closer to the person who puts them out. So, eventually he becomes all anchor points close together, which is immediately, all anchor points close together is equal to all anchor points close together.

Now make the body move a couple of times so that he isn't scared of it. Make it get up out of the chair and sit down in the chair. And tell him to stop by the receptionist. That's about the end of it - if he's at that stage and all you're trying to patch up is psychosomatic illness.

The universe is insisting on things being pounded into a no-space category because if there's anything that you could say about this universe, it would be saying, "You can't have any space”. It's saying, "I am all the space there is."

But if you're making an Operating Thetan, you take this other route. Or if you're dealing with a case that is bogged - he doesn't exteriorize; he obviously won't; complains about sight and perception and deafness and he stutters and he's got a long communication lag and - on various things and... You just wouldn't take that route with him at all. You would simply say, "Be the space in your body. Now, be the space in the room. Be the space in the body and be the space in the room. Be the space in the body...."

And people who get very bad off down around the seventh and eighth inversion - way down the line - they get into that category; they say, "I have all the space there is." In other words, they're doing an inverted, inverted, inverted, inverted mockery of God. And you go down to the spinbin and every few cells, why, there's somebody in there who says he's God, and so on. This keeps anybody from being God, by the way, because this is real bad.

Does it take any particular presence on your part? Do you have to say, "Be the space of the body." No, you don't. Do you have to concentrate exactly upon - I was about to say, concentrate upon your navel; that's what they do in the Orient when they're doing these things.

Someday I'm going to scout around and find the chap that dreamed up all this equality, because it's a beautiful machine and I think he could be put to work designing something more useful.

Do you have to concentrate upon his "obidipal" while you say - while you say, "Be the space in the body"? No, you don't.

Anyway, the universe itself - Communist Party sure could use him. The universe itself is a problem of mutual anchor points and it gets out of balance because somebody set something up to run forever and to last. And that's the only way a thetan gets out of balance; he sets up a machine to run something for him forever. He loses interest in what he's doing, he sets it up and it just goes on running - expands all over the sky. The sky - it expands all over beingness.

Does it require any postulate on your part, draped around the preclear like you decorate a Christmas tree? Nope.

Well, so what is this problem? Why is the thetan nothing? Well, he's obviously nothing because he has had to identify himself with space the moment when he could no longer outflow. When he could no longer naturally, easily outflow, he had to say, "All right, I'm space. Okay, you win. I'm space. Therefore I'm nothing. Space with nothing in it."

You sit back there and make sure you sound like you're in communication with him. Because he'll find out when you're not in communication. Just sound like you're in communication with him; that's all you have to be. No strain, no pain, no strain.

That's the way the universe looks to him. He doesn't know what's holding up those anchor points out there. He just hasn't got any idea what's holding up those anchor points that make this space. He didn't even have a definition for it. It was just some horrible thing that crept up on him. And this horrible thing that crept up on him was known as space and then things were built in the space.

Now, there's - there's the stage to which we'll bring Clinical Procedure this morning. You know that exteriorization - when it can be done; you know what can be done with it and you know what to do with it.

So, your problem with a preclear is to get him over being nothing. And you simply get him over being nothing by reversing his idea that all space is others' space. He has, however, no enemy in this space - no enemy at all. He is still engaged in fighting, so he's picked out space, of all things, for randomity.

Remember that everybody you exteriorize is liable to bog unless you do a space drill on them to get - accustom him to MEST universe space. He's got to be able to tolerate the idea of being MEST universe space and taking possession of it and then not caring who owns it. When you bring him up that line, you have broken him out of being an inveterate foe and enemy of MEST universe space, and all the weird significances, and so forth, that have been flying around impeding his case will vanish.

I was running somebody here a short time ago, a few days ago, and we were just running this stuff on space. I was showing him how you can put various postulates in cubes of spaces and bang them together and get different kinds of flitter It was very amusing.

Now, it's true that occlusion is the - is the black anchor points and that snapping in these black anchor points upon the individual -just upon himself, on and on and on and on and on, will raise hell with his occlusion and straighten it up eventually and turn on his perception. So, don't forget it as an exteriorized drill to somebody who still remains kind of bad off.

You put triumph in one space and apathy in another space, and bang the two spaces together. You put - these are your opposite emotions, you see, and also that's an overt act-motivator type of thing.

But what are you drilling there? You're drilling his own space, see? And we're not talking this morning about his own space. We're talking about accommodating in the MEST universe space and we're talking about it specifically - and making one whole lecture out of nothing but that - because it is the inverted six and they hang up below six.

Now, we look into the problem a little further and we find that if you put "these two spaces must not coincide," you get blackness every time you smash them together. They can't coincide; it's an intolerable situation. Now you make him blow up his own postulates, and so forth. You can fool around with cubes of space for a long time.

I processed a preclear yesterday, by the way, where I inverted seven. And it actually took me a couple of sessions to invert seven there because we couldn't get on an - a working acquaintance with these ghosts who gave her the orders. I broke mysticism to smithereens - fifty years of mysticism - just spattered it all over the wall you might say, a couple, three days ago. And this old lady - I've told you about the case two or three times. Just processing that case, because... I've got to be able to say something about mysticism. Fifty years in it and almost stone blind, that's a good test on whether or not we're doing something. And I just used what I've been talking to you about here in class the last few days - nothing else but this - and poom! bong! thud! crash! all sorts of things were busting up in the case. The main thing that was breaking up in the case and so on, was the seventh. And as long as I had established where she was inverted, and then the moment I got... I wasted some time actually by fooling around with some things I shouldn't have been fooling with.

Your thetan has to be able to tolerate three kinds of space in order to endure at all in this universe. This universe isn't any savage beast sitting there. It's just a sort of an inanimate boobytrap which we have made ourselves, really. And then we victimized ourselves with it, so we have all been betrayed. This universe couldn't have had a better purpose in going forward so that everybody could be the - have the beautiful sadness of having been betrayed. And yet you look into it, the only person that can betray an individual is himself.

The second I said, well, let's - let's whet up the knife and invert that seventh - in other words, get her to waste a few ghosts - it all of a sudden turned up that she'd been under their instruction for years, and she was sort of hoping they didn't object to this processing. And every night she kind of got orders from them. And boy, making her waste a ghost was one of the hardest jobs of processing! I had to get her to waste the services of a ghost. And then she couldn't get other people to waste other people's ghosts because that was none of her business.

Now, he has to have three kinds of space. And the first kind of space is his own space, and the second kind of space is MEST universe space and the third kind of space is other people's space.

Well, I inverted the seventh and immediately we took off on the subject of inverting the sixth.

Now, actually, the MEST universe space and other people's space become beautifully confused, as far as he's concerned, and it needn't be confused at all, because other people's space is not MEST universe space. MEST universe space is "our space." A big difference then between "other people's space" and "our space."

You don't have to invert it in that order, by the way, I could've inverted the sixth and then sooner or later would have inverted the seventh, if I'd thought of it in the process. But remember, if I had never thought of inverting the seventh, probably it would have taken an awful lot of drilling to have automatically inverted it, see, an awful lot of drilling.

Now, as long as everyone plays this game of "Here I am and there they are," and as long as the word they recurs in every language I have ever heard as the descriptive blame - well, "they want" and "they have," and so on. It's the most loosely used word in the world and you almost never hear anybody using our, except some king who dares to. Yes, the king always speaks of himself as our. He's very inclusive but he's got enough soldiers so that nobody will take advantage of him.

You invert the sixth. If you don't invert the sixth, if you don't get the thetan accustomed to being MEST universe space, if you don't get him out of the idea that something horrible is going to happen to him if he tries to be MEST universe space, you won't get him out of the idea that he's nothing and he'll never come up to a line where he is perfectly willing to present himself

So, playing this game - stage fright is nothing more nor less than an "I - they" problem. These people are liable to swarm up over the footlights suddenly and completely and overwhelm one - "they." "Here I am," the thetan is saying, "all alone against the whole universe. Here I am." And certainly it looks that way to him. It certainly looks that way. Because he doesn't have a chance, or he's got nothing but inflow and he can't put out the outflow because the outflow he puts out doesn't adjust the inflow which he receives. All it is, is he would have to have a perfect parabolic mirror to turn back every wave that hit him - to outflow as much as he was inflowed on.

He has no personality really, to amount to anything, beyond being a sort of a sly and mischievous ghost, really, until you've inverted the sixth. Because he feels he's kind of a pretense and a fraud. He knows he's outside, he's certain of himself he knows what he's doing, he can look at things, he's in good shape as far as that's concerned; and he knows the whole distance he's a fraud.

So where you have everybody playing the game "I" and "they," you have everybody more or less thinking of himself as an individual and the rest of humanity as thinking of themselves as a pack.

He knows he is full of pretense and so forth, because he can't be all that space; it belongs to somebody else. Why does he consistently hang a couple of seconds back of present time and look at the facsimiles of present time instead of present time? He knows he can't have any present time space. He's been disenfranchised.

People think other people think of themselves as parts of groups. You know, "they know they belong and I don't know I belong," is the problem there. And as a result, you get an isolation that really drives people together, which is an inversion, you see. And they resist each other, then, and they resist each other strong enough, and of course, by resisting each other, they just add to their own inflows. And they then eventually will cave in on that. And that is your dwindling spiral. All right.

Some of the people you will run this technique on will be frantic as you try to run it. So take it easy, be slow and so forth.

This is a problem, then, in three spaces, and the problem will hang fire until you invert the sixth dynamic on the subject of space, which is MEST space. Until you have handled adequately MEST space on a case, you're having a bad time of it.

If the fellow starts complaining to you, by the way - there's an awful good answer on this - a fellow starts complaining to you that he can't see, and he can't see, and he can't see, and he can't see, and he keeps hammering at you and talking to you and yelling at you that he can't see - they do this; this is chronic of preclears and so forth - you might rather snidely explain to him that other things often can't see before they can see. And if he'll just relax, why, you'll do what you can.

This exercise of sitting and holding the two back anchor points of the room - somebody wrote me and said that two people had done Six Steps to Better Beingness for some time and then the cases had hung up or exploded or something bad had happened. Well, I don't know, I think they ought to go back and read PAB 7. Can't happen. It's just one of those things that wouldn't happen, unless they were concentrating very arduously on Step VI and that would be the only frailty there. You know, opposite poles? Well, that's not making space. All the rest of them to a large degree is just making space.

A good example is kittens: They don't see for the first nine days, but they see afterwards. This - they get real frantic about it. So you have to sort of lay their fears aside on this because they're afraid they won't be able to see. And sometimes it - they suddenly see and it's such a surprise to them to be in a different space and to see suddenly and clearly and know they're looking at it, that it shocks them into a point where you have to do a lot more processing on them. So just don't bother too much with seeing, unless you re really just hammering and pounding away at it and amusing yourself with a preclear by turning up perceptions.

But if people were to do spacations, they were just to hold on to the two back anchor points of the room, and they were to do this for months, they would get remarkable things happening to them, just remarkable - if they kept putting them back and kept interested in those corners, not make a facsimile of them and hold on to the facsimile. How do you keep a person from doing that? Well, you just have him put them back there and then you vary them, then you put them up front, and then you put them back there again. And every once in a while move the position of his chair; shove him out further from the wall than he was before, move him much closer to the wall than he has been. And he knows what's happening and after a while he's really holding on to the corners.

Now, "Being three feet back in the head" is actually saying something else that you should pick up at this time. It's saying "Be the space three feet back of the head."

Now, this contact with MEST universe space and these problems which address immediate present time are observably efficacious. There is no doubt, I'm sure, in anybody's mind, that when their case made a jump, it had to do with reacquainting themselves with the MEST universe. We get that right immediately in present time. If you can get somebody up to present time the darnedest things happen.

And if you're saying be, you're saying space. So I've noticed that pcs off the street don't get this through; they don't be three feet back of their head. They try to sort of haul their body three feet back of the body or they try to do the weirdest things, which is all very simple. But if you tell them to be the space three feet back of their head; be the space in front of them; be the space behind them; be the space in front of them; be the space behind them; be the space in front of them; be the space behind them; be the space in front of them; now, be the space on the right side.

People who are in bad shape are out of present time. Well, what's present time established by? It is established by our anchor points. And here they sit, our anchor points. And that to us is present time. You're not dealing with dead thetans or hocus-pocus or monkey business. All you're dealing with is our anchor points. And if they're your anchor points and you're willing to have them be somebody else's anchor points too, you're in real good shape. In other words, you haven't chosen out those anchor points for your randomity, and they can't inflow on you anymore - that's impossible.

They go off side, by the way, less easily. "Be the space one side. Be the space the other side." And the reason I'd say, "Be front and behind and front and behind:” a lot of times - the reason I would say this is simply because I'd hate to run the preclear into an immediate failure. So many of them can't be the space alongside of the body. That's about all. They have a difficulty being the space. That's where they're in bad shape or something.

But one cracks this problem not in the field of energy, but in the field of space.

And very often you do this. They're perfectly comfortable because you re already overcoming the main thing they're protesting against, which is the inflow of the MEST universe. And if they have to be a havingness (which is an impossibility), they receive all the flow of the MEST universe and they're afraid of this flow. But if you ask them to be the space; space is something flow goes through, not something which stops particles, see? Particles are conditional for motion upon space. So it's a safe thing to be really, to be space. You get him inverted on the sixth and he'll have perception.

Now, you can do this: You can have somebody "be energy."

You can vary this by asking him to "Be the space around the house. Be the space in the house. Be the space around the house. Be the space in the house. Be the space in the body. Be the space around the body. Be the space in the body. Be the space around the body. Now, be the space around the house and feel the temperature. Be the space in the house and feel the temperature. Be the space around the house and feel the temperature."

What are you doing the second you say to somebody "Be energy"? Think of - think of 8008 for a moment. Remember old 8008; be, do and have. Energy is do, isn't it, or have - one or the other Now, we're going to be do. Or be have. You can't do that, I mean, it's not possible. That's what everybody's trying to do and that's why their space lessens; they're trying to be have. You see?

You run into weird ones on that one, by the way; you very often run into them. You ask him to "Be the body and feel the temperature. Now, be outside the house and feel the temperature." They'll get their temperature gradients fouled up. And they very often will turn the body on to being 55 degrees Fahrenheit and outside, all of a sudden, they will try to make it feel like 98.6 and it's really squirrely But you just keep it up and it straightens right on out.

A thetan is a sort of a Q-and-A proposition. Things are what they are; they don't have significance to them.

Now, they'll talk to you about substances; they'll talk to you about energy deposits and they'll talk to you about a lot of things.

And we have space and one loses space when he deserts space. That's kind of obvious. But when he tries to be, in other words, when he makes his beingness become something, he's done this trick of associating himself with the anchor point and then being inflowed on.

But there's no sense in paying any attention to these whatsoever, because nobody could be an energy deposit. He could be the space in the energy deposit. If you said, "Be an energy deposit," you're immediately saying to him just exactly what's wrong with every preclear. You're saying, "Be constricted space," because energy is constricted space.

He can observe something. He's a viewpoint! He isn't anything, but he can be something just by saying he is, not by setting something up and then moving into it.

So you're saying "Be energy”, you're saying "Be constricted space." And the only thing wrong with your pc in the first place is he's troubled with constricted space; he can't have space. So let's just tackle the problem directly and you'll find out that it's very workable as a technique level and it is the next step to Orienting Straightwire on Clinical Procedure.

So, be - space; do is energy; have - matter, and is time. There's where time comes in. You could have energy flying around all over the place that was not timed which is to say it was not moving in coordination or conjunction with itself at all. It was just wild and violent and - or unviolent or passive or anything you want to think of; but it wasn't registering up any time going tickity-tick, tickity-tick, tickity-tick.

You see, you tell a person to be the space back of his head; you don't have to tell him to be three feet in back of his head and patch up his body. "Be a space three feet in back of your head" - I don't care if he's a Step I, he'll remain more stable. "Be the space in the body. Now, be the space in the room" and he'll exteriorize almost immediately if he's going to exteriorize at all.

It's when you get this tremendously orderly, equal motion that you get time as we know time. So time comes in on the strata of matter; and when people get down to the strata of matter, things happen to their time that shouldn't even happen to a time clock. It's just magnificent; their consideration is gone and their time is being entirely kept by the tickity-tick, tickity-tick, tickity-tick of the particles in the universe themselves. They've abandoned it because they are trying to be an object.

Savvy? Stay in communication with him. Find out what's happening. He likes to have his hand held while these horrible things happen to him and all these ridges crack up and stuff starts exploding out to the far ranges of Pluto and things start falling in on him and he finds out that the blubber and fat in his body is starting to melt precipitately, and so forth, and these various effects very often make it wise for the auditor to hold the preclear's hand a little bit, you know? Don't be completely cruel. Don't say "Well, go on run it. Go on be that space now!" Because this is too restimulative to him. He's done it so many times himself.

Now, you could turn that around and explain it the other way. You could say it's because they've done this that they have abandoned their anchor points so they don't have any space. Because they have decided to leave all time function in matter and let matter regulate all time function for them, they thereafter have abandoned the responsibility for and have set up an automaticity of anchor points and therefore can't be space. So they aren't anything. Be disappears to a large degree. Tells you immediately what time is.

Okay, now do we have that real well?

If you can remain - remain questioning on the subject of time after you've seen this...

Okay, let's call it a morning.

Time is an automaticity of anchor points. You just set them up so they'll all move in coordination, you know? And then you say, "They are something." Isn't that - isn't that gorgeous? You set up all these automatic anchor points and they all move around in coordination, everybody agrees with everything and everything agrees with everybody, and oh, you're just having a wonderful time there, because that's just time.

The additional material which I had better give you on this - continuing this lecture for a moment - because you'll be doing this process.

Time is an automaticity of anchor points. When you set up a complete automaticity of anchor points, you've got time. How do you want to make time for your own universe? If you omit this step in your own universe, you won't get time.

You must realize that we are handling self-determinism and other-determinism when we're doing this. And we're handling, with this process, the highest echelon of self-determinism and other-determinism. Because when something else is determining one's space, and he considers that something else is determining his space and that it's not his determinism that is doing this, he of course sinks on the ratio of self-determinism for quite a little while in the process.

You set up a machine that will make all anchor points move according to a certain fixed space change. You say, “All space is going to change. All the spaces we have here are going to change simultaneously. And then I'm not going to pay any attention to it anymore and I'm going to forget about it and hide this postulate, and after that we're just going to be in beautiful shape."

And you're dealing with the highest level of how does space command a person. How does this universe command a preclear? It isn't by the inflow, it's by the beingness. The universe is. Nobody will argue too much, if they are in good shape, about the universe is. It only is because it has space. It is something; it can be, in other words. It is space. And it has imposed that space upon a person, even though a person mutually created that space in the first place, you see, and if he didn't - he also might not have - but there isn't any reason why he can't use it. That's - just because he made it is no reason he can't use it.

And what do you know, your mock-ups will move and everything will happen. It's like winding up tiny clocks. And it's just "all the anchor points are going to move automatically and I'm not going to have anything to do with them anymore." When you do this you get "time" as we know time in this universe.

Well, all right, here we have the problem in auditing this - of seeing a deteriorating determinism for a short distance into the session. And your preclear is liable to go into a slight hypnotic trance - very rarely and very occasionally - as you're doing this. He comes right out of it.

Time, that arduous taskmaster that sends you to this class every morning at the time it does and it sends you here and sends you there and that people - people are so sharp about you keeping an appointment. Actually, they're frightened. They're afraid they're going to miss this time because it's so easy to do.

But I might as well tell you this, rather than let somebody find it out someplace. You could - I mean, not you people - but somebody sometime or another will run into this, they'll - can make capital out of this. There's a tremendous liability in this in one point of the process. The preclear is so suggestible - they get so suggestible as they do this - that you could actually give them, midway through, a delusion or two.

Now, to restore time to its proper category and to give somebody some time - in other words, to let him act or move - he's got to come closer to beingness, which is space. And when he comes closer to beingness then he's in pretty good shape. But when he doesn't come close to beingness he's in terrible shape, and so it is.

You could simply suddenly shove upon them the fact that it wasn't that kind of a house, or something of the sort, and so on, and he'd start seeing the house otherwise. You see, he would have substituted your evaluation for the fact that space is all around - all the space around that he has much to do with, is MEST universe space. You see that? So, he could be told, at that moment, also something else.

Well, when you look over this problem, you'll find out that as long as these things are doing all of the time automaticity - look in your Axioms, look in a dozen tracts of logic - you'll find out that time is the single arbitrary, which tells you that time is the single automaticity, which is really upsetting. Because you have handed that over, you've handed over the central consideration which is the rate of change in space of anchor points. And boy, that says, “Everything can change my space but me." And if you can't change space you can't have aesthetics, because all aesthetics are, are consecutive changes in space. Anything; all action is, is consecutively changing and changing spaces inside of spaces.

I mean, an invalidation a certain distance into Clinical Procedure - mainly being the space of the body, the room, so on - there is - an other-determinism has been restimulated so strong, that the individual is suggestible and therefore an invalidation at that time can be quite serious. So if it's delicately handled it's all right.

Well, just look at choreography, if you're still hung up on that aesthetics. And look at painting. The painter is up against a horrible thing. He's trying to - he's trying to make some kind of a picture which won't change, but the picture has to agree completely with the automaticity of anchor points called time, so somebody else can look at it. What we have here is space in conjunction all running on the automatic postulate.

Now, many people will simply sink into - I say "many people," a few people will sink into a trance on the thing and you just keep running it and they come right on out of it.

Now, if you just want to blow up somebody's automatic machine that makes - that shifts his anchor points without him paying any attention to it all, and just keep - have him mocking up and hide and forget about this machine, and so forth, you'd lead him right straight to the center of this universe; everything that makes it tick. And you'll also free up his own anchor points. If he's not out of his body, you'll also stop his heart, and then he'll have to start it again.

But what else could you tell them? You could run somebody on this process, do some coffee shop auditing, and you could do it for three minutes and they would feel much better as far as their chronic somatic was concerned, and you could have (quote) "fouled them up like fire drill." It's not a coffee shop technique. You don't do this thing on a hit and run basis; you do it until you pull him out of it. It isn't that he goes into any horrible state of being, but you could, after you run it for two or three minutes, simply say to a preclear, "You feel much better now, don't you? You will be well from here on," and it would have the same effect as an hypnotic suggestion. And he would be for a couple of days - just like any other hypnotic therapy - for a couple of days he would be better. He would tell everybody he was better. He would say, "I'm better. I know I'm better. I'm much better, better, better, better!" So, keep your auditing commands simple while you're running this.

So, a person is unwilling to let go of all this automaticity unless they know how to put more automaticity in there and there's where your cases hang up. They say, "No, no, no, no, no," they say, "I can't be this and I can't be that. I know I can't be this and I know I can't be that."

Now, it might only take five minutes to run him all the way through and put him in good shape about it. But the chances are it won't. You're running other-determinism solidly when you're running "Be MEST universe space," and as a result he will wonder how in the name of common sense, at any time, he could ever send himself anyplace in this universe. He - he'd just know that be always had to have an auditor do it. See? And this is liable to occur to most of your preclears in running this - this idea they can't place themselves around or something of the sort.

But they're all trying to be matter And be is space. And matter is have. In other words, they - instead of being, they are having. So, they've got a body, you see? They've got a body, so they're "being" a body. Well, this is intolerable. It is one of these things that is as combustible as plutonium.

So, if an auditor suddenly leaves one hanging in the middle of the process, the fellow is disoriented. He knows he can't send himself around. And, in essence, people who are in houses and can't get out, people who are unable to go further than the office, and so forth, have gotten this other-determinism pounded at them so long, so strong, that they haven't any space to move in. But it's other-determinism, so, something has to tell them to move. And they're not quite sure what it is that's supposed to tell them to move.

You can't be a body! I mean, because a body is a mass. See? And that's havingness. You can have a body, that's all right; but to be a body is just about as idiotic as - well, maybe someday you will see how idiotic it is. You actually can start a line charge on this with a preclear after he passes a certain borderline, and the idea of "being a body" seems to him suddenly to be the most humorous thing that he ever - I'd better not talk about it too much, I haven't line charged it all myself, but I notice everybody "being bodies."

And remember that this technique incidentally resolves the Assumption. And remember that the Assumption, when your preclears complained of sudden shocks and so forth, in the past and so forth, is the villain of the piece. That is the engram you'll be fooling with with most preclears - the Assumption. You can do that with Change of Space auditing; you can do that in any way, shape or form you want to, but the Assumption is liable to be there and they're liable to choke and gag and feel things are pressing against them. And if you were to start this space processing and then drop it halfway, you're liable to leave the Assumption in restimulation. So don't leave the Assumption in restimulation. In other words, carry it through until he's free as a bird because it's fairly fast processing.

Now, let's be something ethereal; let's be something like a general of armies. Ohhh! We're on an inverted havingness. That isn't anything. That's a postulate. That isn't even this guy's postulate; it's somebody else's postulate, and he says it is something. And that's why these boys go down Tone Scale like they're riding rocket planes; but everybody is trying to do this because it's an impossibility.

Okay?

And that is all.