We have so much material here to study. We’ll just keep barreling along. And there was no third afternoon lecture today, so this is the first hour of the evening lecture of December the 16th.

On this second hour of the night lecture December the 16th, I want to talk a little more about various things.

And we’re going to talk about Memory. And when I say ‘memory’, I do not mean human memory. I’m not even vaguely interested in human memory, because human memory is a sort of a weird combination of stimulus-response. Somebody else remembers something and they bat it out, and a beam or a noise hits a ridge and the ridge re-echos and it goes into an entity and the entity says, „Let me see. I’ll have to think about it.“ And then it goes over into another circuit and then it goes into a little other circuit. And then it goes around a couple of loops in space, and then it goes into another ridge.

And amongst them is Memory and Automaticity. Did you ever see a memory system? The way to remember people’s names is you see the person’s name, you see, across his chest and as you’re meeting him, and you’re very careful to get it right that time and then you write it across his chest. And then if the name was ‘Gorse’, then you point out to yourself the fact that he actually looks like a horse and this reminds you of ‘Gorse.’ So the next time you see him you reach your hand out and say „How are you, Mr. Horse?“

This ridge, by the way, is about 180 feet out and it has to travel in the interim through a great many ridges before it starts getting into the thousands of ridges in the head.

Man is internally evolved in trying to solve problems the wrong way to on the tone scale. More and more complexity reaches down as you go down the tone scale. More and more complexity exists in this so-called pyramid of knowledge. And you could call this pyramid, of combinations or complexities.

The course of the thought in homo sapiens in a very aberrated state is almost unplottable. Nobody could plot it because there just isn’t that much paper. It just goes here and there and everywhere and it kicks in and kicks out.

Here we have this pyramid of knowledge – a cone. Let’s draw it as a cone and not be quite as mystic as some people have. And uh… let’s look at it here as a cone sitting there. And here is a datum – or two data – a dichotomy of some sort from which all other data can be extrapolated. Uh… and so we get these two data combined and then get an interplay of viewpoint on these two data and we get our second level of complexity.

Now you basically used to take off of homo sapiens the first ridges. You used to take the facsimiles off the first ridges, and if you shot a circuit, you were shooting those first ridges. We were getting excellent results doing this and we were making something that was a darned good homo sapiens. We did this.

It’s all very simple, you see; there’s two data up there in Figure One here. And now we take all this data and take different viewpoints on it and we get a complexity of data which would be at Stage B.

All right. We’re not making a darned good homo sapiens anymore. We’re making a theta clear. And not only that, but we’re making an operating thetan, which is the next immediate level. The levels would go, as we had on an earlier lecture: theta exterior – he’s out, but if the body were to be injured he would be back in; theta clear – the body could be fed through a mowing machine and he would simply say, „Well, there it goes.“ And uh… the level that – he would probably feel kind of sad about it… but it would… he would still be there with his identity. You’ve made an immortal, that’s all. I mean, minor goal.

Now we take all of the various viewpoints in Stage B and we take these and put them all together and evolve new information and application and other things and we get Stage C.

Now let’s go up level and find an operating thetan. If you take a theta clear (and when I say ‘stable outside’ that is very far from an absolute term, because a theta clear does a rollercoaster). Sometimes he’s better and sometimes he’s not better. And the first thing that you do when you run all this – theta clearing consists of, of course – just all you have to do is run everything it says in Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, that’s all. You can omit Steps Six and Seven. But you can even do those, if you want. And you just run everything there is in Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five and you’ve got a theta clear. That’s all the processes we… we’re working with, really. We’ve got a lot of other processes, and you can vary… vary your processing with them once in a while and find out what happens with them, and you’ll find them all junior to such a thing.

And from Stage C we get Stage D – more and more complex. D, E, and we get down here, then, to this lower scale line, and that would be F. And this cone, by the way, actually just keeps on going.

Once in a while, by the way, with one of these Fifth Invaders, you’ve got little trick processes such as you mentioned there. You… you get the guy to dis… you drill him on hands until he no longer is just going, ‘Yaaaahh!’ on the subject of ‘hands’. And uh… and then you make him stand up against the wall, see. You face the wall and… and make him put these hands at the side and then take his ‘beam directors’ off of his arms and put ‘em over against the wall and feel the wall with the beam directors right there. He’s… he’s got beams, you see. They run like that.

Now… now let’s assume that this is the subject of mathematics. And without finding any of the common denominators, let’s pick up a datum or rule in level E out here – an X of some sort in E. And which way do you think mankind customarily goes to know more? Well, don’t all answer at once. The laws of flows tells you that he proceeds that-a-way down – with X. And of course, it gets awfully complex. It just gets grim.

Uh… thetans use various methods, for instance, in dressing up a body so it’ll work. And this accounts, in a large measure for the different postures and actions which you find from person to person. They’re rigged differently. They’re… they’re tied up differently. The cables runnin’ differently and so on. My body runs on a rod principale. There’s a supporting rod underneath these arms, back of the arms, back of the legs. And a nullifying stretcher here and there in order to bend the knee. And uh… so on. And what the muscles are doing, I… I’ve very often wondered. But I know that when those rods are energized, I get pretty fast action. And uh… that’s… it’s a very handy way to handle a body. And I suppose it got put together that way because of stress and strain in action. I suppose that would be an action system of putting a body together.

So that we start off with a subject at college with the valuable data that ferric oxide uh… ferric oxide when mixed with sulfuric acid – H2S04 isn’t it? – combined uh… boy, it sure stinks.

Now there’d be somebody like a… a dancer. Well, this person would have a much, much more complex thing. Action: What are you interested in action? You’re interested in being able to act fast and being able to control speedily various implements… instruments and, of course, the body itself.

Now we’ll go from there, and we will now evolve why it is… why it is that iron oxides are so subject to infiltration by sulfur. And which way will we go? We’ll go from ‘X’ down to the lower level, and to lower levels. And it gets more complex and more complex.

Uh… when I say ‘action’, you take pushing a racing car around the track. You just take that and if you don’t… if you don’t think that’s hard work? That’s hard work. It requires instant thrust, see? Bang! The body has to be rigged with pistons in order to do that.

And the first thing you know, a society specializes; it has to specialize. Nobody could know the same generality that everybody else knew so they have to specialize. Each one becomes a specialist and the reductio ad absurdum on this is for there to be a person in a whole science which is operating from this datum ferric oxide which when combined with H2S04 smells bad. But what do you know? That’s not the whole science. The whole science is ferric oxide. And there’s another companion science called H2S04. And we get specialists on these two lines.

All right, somebody else has an aesthetic angle. See? When I make that gesture, I can’t make it anywhere near as well as a girl for instance who is a dancer. She… she would make the ge… gesture much more expressively. There’s a limitation on that because the rods just aren’t… Of course it’s no real limitation. You probably couldn’t tell the difference unless you saw a dancer do it, you see? I mean, you say, „Gosh! How could there be that much difference in a rig?“

We picked up somebody two generations or two thousand years earlier on the time track and we found out he was a chemist. We would find out he had to know the philosophy of alchemy, he had to know all the pharmaceutical preparations, medical chemistry, he had to know how to make iron. He had to know all of these various things, and he figured that all out because he had the highest common denominator that he could obtain on this and that was what? That was the fact that there’s earth, air, fire and water and when you combine them you get the most interesting things.

So when the boys are sometimes talking about hot rods or they’re talking about sailing vessels or yachts or something of the sort, they talk about differences of rig. And one rig’s good and one rig’s bad and that sort of thing. You’ll find bodies rigged up all different.

Well, that would… that would be up there along about C, you see. And it’s not a high level.

Now it’s… it’s interesting, but when you start pulling ridges off the preclear, he will sometimes just pretend to pull off some of the ridges. Ridges are not bad. The preclear who has recovered his power and force and so forth isn’t even vaguely bothered by a ridge. It’s one of the things you have to educate him into to make an operating thetan.

Now supposing we wanted to really know more about chemistry? Some other science would have to come along with a higher level and suddenly tramp, or we could proceed on chemistry with – chemistry became so complex that an individual could study data for four years and not. even have a working knowledge of chemistry. And the way we would do that would be to start from an X and go down. Find an isolated datum in X, relate it to nothing in D – relate it to nothing in C and just say, „Oh, that’s beyond the realm of human experience.“ „All hands man the diving stations, stand by for a crash dive. Here we go for more knowledge!“ Now they should say, „Here we go for more data“ – more data – collection of data. Obsession!

All right, he has these terrifically complex systems, perhaps – criss-cross systems that you’d think this stuff just… Uh… you ever see a marionette? Some of them are rigged like marionettes. And some of them are handled this-a-way? Right straight across the face, see? With a pressor at the middle of the back. And then the body is supposed to walk. Did you ever see anybody do that? You ever see anybody with a completely smashed face? Huh? And… and if you watch them really close as they change their expression they would… you haven’t got one. Let’s see if we have one here. You doing that to your body? Somebody here is probably doing it to his body. One person or another.

Now the reason why Scientology got built is because this basic pattern was appreciated and, willy-nilly, it was postulated that the place to go for the data was the simplifying datum. What data knocked out a whole compartment of former knowledge?

Kish isn’t, fortunately. He’s got a lot of horsepower and he’d… he’d snap his head off if he did that. I think that boy over there probably is. You’re… you’re probably snapping it with a pressor beam. Have you got a hollow in the middle of your spine back here? Is there a hole, sort of? Feel back there and see. (Sees all, knows all.)

So Book One, ADVANCED PROCEDURES AND AXIOMS, Theta Clearing. That’s… that’s all. I mean, here we have Theta Clearing – it’s a simpler level but still embraces all the lower levels. And this area here was self-determinism as the highest level. And this was here – examining what? Automaticity: The automatic interdependencies of survival as they work out and affect genus homo sapiens.

Uh… now here, then, is a variation in what? The rig-up of a body. Now there’s all kinds of little systems that you’ll notice like this that are of interest to somebody, and it’s really far more interesting than anatomy. Because from the earliest years, the baby has some definite characteristics and demonstrates that somewhere on the timetrack, here and there on the timetrack, somebody’s operated a school. And the earliest school I have any recollection of a preclear mentioning was about 70 trillion years ago. And these poor thetans would come in and they’d manufacture energy and they’d walk around on beams and they didn’t quite know what they were doing. And a fellow actually ran a college way back on the track that taught thetans how to operate.

And I won’t say we’re at Two data – yet – or anywhere near it. But we’re sure working hard. Now we’re getting there just fine and it’s producing results like mad.

Thetans would get up against these huge gaseous masses, which were later to become planets, and they’d get up against these things and they’d get scared stiff and they’re afraid to touch them. They’d wait for them to solidify. And they might wait a million years. And this fellow took pity on this so he opened a school. That’s right. And uh… went all through this, by the way – one of the… one of the auditors did in England, and he came back with some very fascinating stuff. This fellow didn’t have information on this subject, but he’s talking… he’s… he missed one type of thinking, the only thing he really missed. And the other is how to move as a thetan. And it’s the drill that he would give these thetans in order to move.

But from any one of these levels D is explainable – anything in D is explainable, anything in E, anything in F – or any lower level is explainable from a good broad datum in C. Anything is explainable, then, in terms of human behaviour from C down if you have a datum in C. Anything is determinable in C if you have a good broad datum in B. Anything that is determinable in A, of course, would evaluate B, C, D, E, F – and so on. All right, that’s very simple, isn’t it?

He was no more sprung as a theta clear without any education on this subject, than he started to inform his auditor as to the proper methods and modes of teaching and training a thetan to move properly around in the MEST universe – just like that: curriculum.

Uh… remember I showed you early in this series, this gadget. And here was one datum known and over here was ALL data known. Looked like a circle, this thing here in Figure Two. And we went this way for inductive logic, and we went that way for deductive logic. We took lots of data… lots of data and brought it to the inevitable conclusion. Which was also: If we took all the data in the plane E and we assembled it all and we put it all together and everything else, why then, by George! what would we find? Well, you might find F but boy, you’d never find D. That method, then, requires a two-action. You’ve got to have inductive and deductive logic.

So don’t think your thetan is without education. By the way, the way they got away with that, he would teach them to ‘think’ themselves a little further away. And teach them to ‘think’ themselves in another direction. And then he’d teach them to ‘think’ themselves around – uh… pardon me, go around the planet and then go back to where they started again. And then ‘think’ themselves from there, and then ‘think’ themselves around the planet and then go back. ‘Think’ themselves back where they started. Drill, drill, drill and finally the fellow would say, „What do you know? Gee! I… I can recover my postulates!“

You’ve got to reach for an inductive, almost intuitive datum, and grab it. And then dive – hit the deductive level, take all this data around here and see how it… how it works: Does it fit? Does it fit? Does it fit? Yeah-yeah! Fits? Okay. Fits? That’s good. Uh… and uh… deduce, then, from this that, hey! three pieces here don’t fit. Well, I’ll be a son-of-a-gun! We say C is too complex a level for operation, because we’re got three data in C.

Well, there’s a terrific amount of automaticity left on your case – anybody’s case. Any thetan’s case. He has built in automaticities. He has training and skills which he would… he’s afraid to touch. But they’ve gotten automatic.

And after that, we’ve only one choice and that’s to at least try and find out if there’s a B level which will include everything in D and the three data. See, everything in the B level to include everything in D and the three data. And so we’re very, very happy about the whole thing and we say, „Eureka! We’ve found it! We have solved the riddle!“ Wait a minute. Ahhhh – C. There is a level of C. Oh, no! Well, all right. Let’s look through all the data of C very happily now and let’s find out if there’s any data in C that isn’t evaluated by this beautiful new datum which we have in D. Oh, no! There’s 12!

And the second training becomes too automatic, throw it out. If you’ve got a preclear who is having a lot of trouble handling this body of his, by George! he probably has got it rigged so automatic that it just goes around like a doll, or something, and he can’t make… he c… he hasn’t got it under control! You’ve seen ills like that, haven’t you? He hasn’t the body under proper control.

So you say, „Well, all right. There can only be, then, working on this theory, a level called A. Now let’s find out if everything in A resolves everything in C because we’re now interested in C, you see? Oh, boy! Does it! Oh, it just cuts it down to shreds.“ And we look at B and we say, „Just look at B… Oh, no! Two data in B aren’t explained by A. Don’t tell me that there is another level above this. Well, there’s gotta be. Why the hell does a postulate produce so much effect. The preclear simply says, ‘Wog’ – and it’s wog. Why? Why? What’s this potentially about locating things?“ So we wobble along with that; actually it’s… it’s such a slight wobble that you don’t quite perceive that it’s wobble. You… you say, „Look, uh… we’re just solving everything in sight and everything’s fine and we… we’re solving homo sapiens. And he’s going along real good.“

What do you do? Tear all the ridges out of it and start all over again. Take out the automaticity. Any piece of information which you have which is an automatic basis, you don’t want or need.

And every once in a while somebody brings up flows and then say, „Flows uh… yeah. Anchor points? Fine.“ One gets a sort of a spooky feeling: Theta has the ability to locate terminals – postulate and then locate terminals in space and have them flowed between. And every once in a while you say very grandly – you have to get up above the level of energy to work – or. are you just working in a much finer level of energy than anyone is capable of perceiving? And is there an upper strata above a postulate? I don’t know. But there’s that weird datum. We’re using that datum. We’re working like mad with it. It’s just wonderful. We’re just getting there lickety-split. Poof, we have a… then we haven’t got two data at the top.

Well, when a thetan takes a look at his body and says, „Well, for goodness sakes! There’s ridges there and there’s lines there and something or other, and they’re built in against the back, and .they’re built in against the back of the neck, and they’re there under the chin, and… and… and they run down. And there’s a sort of a criss-cross lattice system on the arms and legs that’s kind of like Japanese things that come off of a… their… they catch your finger with. And he says. „Look at all those horrible ridges!“

Now I’m very adventurous to label these ‘A, B, C, D, E, F’ nuhh-uhh. Where I have „F“ should be called „A“ and that’s probably, where we should be operating from right at this moment. But ego prohibits that. And so we are here, we’re working with this apple that’s supposed to be a circle here. Uh… and up toward two data. We know that two data form the MEST universe. Why do we know it? The doggonest way of knowing that ever turned up. From the weirdest field – no field. A completely original geometry called dimaxian geometry by Buckminster Fuller – little old Bucky Fuller one day said, „How do you fill three-dimensional space?“ and he worked and he worked and he worked and he found that it was filled by… it starts with two. The basic unit of three-dimensional space must be, therefore, two. Why? Because we’re talking about s… filling a solid of space.

Well, of course, the worst thing that will happen to him, he’ll just have to retrain himself. But he’ll… he’ll get a little bit sloppy in handling the body if he starts tearing these ridges off. He doesn’t know they’re there. He built it. That’s his level of automaticity.

How do you fill that space up? What’s its pattern? Well, three first has to be two: There’s an outside and there’s an inside. Because it can’t be a point because a point doesn’t have any dimensions. And we have to have a dimension to start filling space. We can’t say, „This is a point,“ when it… a point is designed and defined as something which doesn’t fill space. So we have to have an outside and an inside to the point. It doesn’t matter what… There’s got to be an outside and inside to that point and it’s got to be of some tiny dimension in order to do the next thing. Stack it with tetrahedrons. And you go all around that point and you’ll find yourself fitting in tetrahedrons.

He operates so automatically that he doesn’t know what he’s doing from one minute to the next. He really doesn’t. He does all this thing, conditioned response, as a thetan – training.

And then what do you find? You find this fits in with octahedrons. And then what do you find? It fits in with tetrahedrons. And what do you find? That fits in with octahedrons. And what do you find? Tetrahedrons-octahedrons- tetrahedrons-octahedrons. Whew! Triangles, triangles, triangles. And that’s how you fill space.

Where’s he carry it? Gets interesting when you ask the question: Where’s he carry all this automaticity?

A-R-C. Cycle of action. Four sides: M-E-S-T. Fascinating, isn’t it?

A lot of thetans move out and they immediately begin to think themselves around in space. College graduate – of the year four trillion, MEST universe.

I just suddenly, one day… I’ve been working along this line and all of a sudden Bucky Fuller had invented out of whole cloth a geometry on this silly line.

Another thetan was suddenly born into this life and he takes Mechano sets and he puts them together and he tears them apart and he puts them together and he just has the finest time, but he kind of… the paucity of materials will upset him or something like that about it. But, gee! He really builds like mad! But the kid down the street gets a Mechano Set and he looks at one of the bolts and he looks at another bolt and he puts the two bolts through the wrong holes, and then he bends the girder and then he gets it all set up… but that wasn’t what he was supposed to be building anyhow. He’s just rambling the structure.

So of course as long as you adhese to energy and particles you are going to have this dichotomy: triangle, four-side, eight-side octahedron system. I mean, you’re going to have flows, in other words, positive, negative, and so on, as long as you deal along with only three-dimensional space. As long as you fool with space that’s what’s going to happen.

And you say one has a natural talent and the other one doesn’t. One’s been to college and the other one hasn’t.

But does something exist above space? What is this… this thing that doesn’t fill space but makes space? We have to say ‘thing’ because we’re communicating in the MEST universe. What is it? We don’t know quite where the top is. What’s the roof? Well, we’ve got the roof on the MEST universe. Ho-ho, that thing went by hours ago, days ago, years and years of havingness ago, actually. It really went by the boards rapidly with Step Four, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five. Because that licks flows, because it starts out by the basic thing that gives trouble with flows which is an object which is the product of flows. And if you can handle the objects, the next step is to handle the energy that makes objects. And you can handle the energy. It’s very easy to handle the space in which to make energy – there it went – BOOM!

Now you don’t care where you went to college or where you got the information. You need a memory. Now you can argue with this all you please, but the fact of the matter is, you do need a memory – as a thetan. It’s all right to remember back to when you were two years of age a la MEST body memory, which are patterned. But any time a person has… he’s able to, more or less, control space, he can move around in space, he can do this, he can do that and so on.

But we’re out of that, but where are we? Well, a fellow can make his own universe, and there’s lots of ways to go about making it. And a lot of guys can get together and do this and there’s tremendous aesthetic appreciation; there’s t… tremendous goals, enormous sensations, that you’ve never even vaguely experienced. Really you wouldn’t dream they existed.

But he does everything kind of automatic. You know, it just sort of happens that way. And if you chug into him with this question, „How are you doing that?“ he just goes „Ummmmmmmmm-crash!“ You go around to an actor some time, and you say, „How do you speak these lines?“ You go around to the championship tennis player and say… you’re going to play a match with him, you see, or something like that just for his practice. You just ask him, „How do you hold your racket?“ And he shows you, and you say, „How’s that again? Yeah, but what do you do with your index finger, hmmm?“ You’ll win. There isn’t any – you see, all of his very necessary training is because he’s down tone scale from instantaneous learning and application.

Once in a blue moon you might have had a dream about some beautiful music and then awakened to wonder what it was – something way back on the track some place – haunting thing – you can’t quite recall it. You recall that you REALLY appreciated that. You had a dream where you really appreciated some aesthetic of some sort. That’s a vague shadow of how heavy and how high and how heady an aesthetic is.

Instantaneous learning and application: You observe, pervade, know, apply, act. And, you know? It sounds arduous, but do you know that a man can actually go through all those steps and enjoy everything like mad, and play a championship game of tennis if he’s never seen a racket before. He just… there’s a racket and that’s the way you kind of do it. But he figures it out every time… every time he hits that ball, the ball comes over, see – a high-speed ball comes over across the net – very rapid, you see. And he says, „Let me see. How do you hold this racket? Well, you hold it this way, this time. Let’s see. And the angle of incidence about so on, and he want to gear up that ridge there, and when it gets in there… now we’d better move the body over this way. All right – bong! It’s an interesting thing, if that ball spins it’ll jump back across the net.“ And so it does. I mean, he could think out every stroke like that, because he’s thinking fast. He’s not thinking…

So, what have we got? We have… We’re not up to Two data. There’s a big adventure above this level. But it’s safe this far – completely safe.

And when you see a man who’s frantic, remember this about it: He’s only frantic because he can’t think fast. He doesn’t think there’s enough time to figure out and apply the solution, and he gets frantic. And that franticness is a result of automaticity.

Now you have two purposes: One is, we solve this on the operational schedule, all is simplicity. We assumed that all was simplicity. The answer was basically simple so where did you go to find the answer? Not into further complexity. And whenever you, in doing research, start to grab up a datum that isn’t explanatory of any large field of action, and then dive into further complexities as the only direction to be taken – beware. And any time you see somebody adding up to solve some vast riddle, this business of a complex theorem to evolve complex theorems, just by test here and experience so far, there’s something wrong with it. If it’s complex, it’s wrong.

A memory which becomes automatic is not worth having. And if you were to take the best race driver in the world and rip off every doggoned ridge he had on his body and let him put ‘em back on again, he would drive a faster, more able car. But when they get to a point where it’s 99 percent automaticity anyhow, then they have to ‘learn’ how to do it by training and practice and experience.

And the MEST universe proves that completely, because the random data at level F is horrible. What’s down here? We’re working as in Figure Three, perhaps, between a ‘NO wave length’ as an interaction with ‘ALL motion’. And that could be that there is an understood and not yet contactable, existing all motion thing which is as remote from the MEST universe as the ‘no motion’ thing of theta. The MEST universe produces a mockery of all motion in pretending that these cross entangled vectors of chaos are a complexity and all the complexity there can be of motion.

And training and practice and experience are no substitute for knowing. And when we say ‘knowing’, we mainly mean capability of knowing. He’s capable of knowing. For instance, he goes down to the archery range, and he sees somebody down there. He can do an instantaneous mock-up in mimicry. He’s the archer down there – instructor – and he takes the bow this way and he throws it this way. A man, homo sapiens, can’t observe that arrow in its flight and the handling of the bow itself fast enough to observe what’s going on. So he just has to look at it and be trained, and look at it and be trained and look at it and then he digs one into the turf five feet in front of him. Uh… an operating thetan should be able to look at that set-up and watch that bow draw back and then go forward on the arrow, see? And look at the arrow turn. „Oh,“ he says. „When you release it that way, that thing at the back there“ – he wouldn’t know its nomenclature too well – „that thing at the back, that hits the thumb there and that feather. So when we fire it, we will make sure that when the feather goes across the fingers, we simply lower the fingers and don’t give it a spin, and that won’t misdirect it. And then you can fire it directly at the bow. Yeah, that’s very interesting.“ Bonk! Bull’s-eye.

The MEST universe is not very dense and it’s not very fast. So that we’d have all possible vectors; we would have a complete density.

Furthermore, he could probably do this: The arrow is going wrong and going a little bit awry, so he could get over there and straighten it up.

So theoretically we would proceed from the angriness of space to the relative density of a heavy object made out of gold. And we would have run the MEST universe equivalent of ‘no motion’ to ‘all motion’. And that would be the dichotomy that we are operating with. Something that doesn’t move operating with something that does move. And that would be the dichotomy.

Now, you see the difference between automaticity and memory? Now if you have a thousand square miles of ridges or something vague or terrific, uh… uh… actually, I mean, you ask somebody how far his… how far is his… his furthest ridge, and he’ll start telling you ‘infinity’ and then maybe ‘eight light-years’ – something like that. There’s… space becomes meaningless when you start talking about ridges.

Well, perhaps there’s a much bigger dichotomy, and that is the complete zero, ‘no wave length’ thing which is interacting against an all motion’ thing which would be inconceivably more complex and yet well ordered, than theta. And maybe the MEST universe was trying to proceed toward this ‘all motion’ level.

Your thetan thinks that his horsepower and other things all stem from the havingness of old energy. Hah-hah-hah! No, no. No, it doesn’t! If he can adequately locate terminals, anchor points, facsimiles and lines in space, he can have current. And it really… when he is depending on automaticity, he really can’t have much current. The amount of current which’ll flow on these old ridges is light, small. But the amount of current which he can get by simply setting up, willy-nilly, and then holding – you get how important holding something still is, and having something else move – and hold still two terminals…

I’m telling you this for two reasons. I want to explain automaticity to you; and I want you, in operating with preclears or in research data, to give some credence to this theory that the direction to go is toward basic simplicity unless you think you have discovered the identity of an ‘all motion’ thing. And the next big advance on this line probably would be in the identification and better description of an ‘all motion’ thing – possibly would be. Lord knows what it would be.

All right, let’s hold still two terminals. Now we’re going to throw an anchor point down at that power line – bang! There’s an anchor point there, you see? Now we’ve got another anchor point here of a higher potential. Wowwhaapp! There goes the power line.

But we have ‘motion’ against ‘no motion’. The gradient scale of ‘motion’ against ‘no motion’ makes up our tone scale, it makes flows, it makes all sorts of things. Actually over here we get, in Figure Four, we get a potential uh… terminal A operating against a lower terminal B, and they don’t have to be very much apart to produce a current – there’ll be a current between those two things. You can measure it.

Well, frankly, I mean, that… it’s not dependent upon any other mechanism than the ability to postulate the origin and destination of a flow. You can say how much flow it is, too. It’s fascinating. It doesn’t matter how accurate this is. It’s whether or not it gets the job done for him.

And yet those in Figure Four are maybe a tiny little bit apart. So your dichotomies can be unbelievably small and still produce results. There’s… anxious communication and not quite so anxious communication would make a dichotomy and would create a randomity in a communication line.

Now your thetan, therefore, who has a great deal of automaticity and very little memory, or very little action, capability, but is all trained and he kind of „knows that you think your way from one point to the other,“ see, this other fellow had memory, he’ll say, „Yeah-yeah. I was trained in that one and it was at such-and-such a place.“ He wasn’t depending on the E-Meter to tell him it was 70 trillion years ago. He’ll say, „Yeah, it was about 70 trillion years ago,“ and the E-Meter goes „bop!“ And he says, „I“ – he wasn’t paying any attention to this, see? And he says, „We were having a lot of trouble at the time, and… and the MEST universe was quite new… and so forth. And so we trained them up in the curriculum of so-and-so-and-so.“ He’s remembering. He had, evidently, stayed pretty clear on the whole track.

Somebody would say, „My God! Get the ship off the rocks!“

Of course, it was indicative of the fact that when the auditor said, „Be three feet behind your head“ – Bam! At that instant he had a theta clear. This fellow showed no likelihood to dive back into the body just because the body was disturbed.

And the other fellow is saying, „Well, we have two seconds to get the ship off the rocks!“ You’ve got an argument.

Now these ridges, then, are neither good or bad. But they contain an enormous amount of automaticity. If you’re really tough and really big and really strong, you don’t have to pick up a single ridge or blow a single line of ch… handle or change a single terminal.

All right. Now you want to watch that. And the second part… the second thing I mentioned is the preclear. The preclear – his answer is basically simple. It is not multiply complicated. And any time that you err in the direction of complication of symptoms you are going to err into a long time of auditing. If you pay any attention to complex and changing symptoms, you can just be sure that you’re operating at F or E or D on this preclear. So at no time let Mrs. Smythe come in and tell you how badly smitten she is, because… because you’ll learn this sort of thing.

I said once upon a time I’d tell you about end of terminal processing, so I will.

The first day she comes in… the first day she comes in it’s because her children are such a trial to her and if she could just get along with her children it would be all right. And the next time she comes in, she’s written you a long note and explained how it was all her husband and it came to her in a flash that her husband compared unfavorably or favorably with her father who was a splendid man and so on. And you’ll decide, „Well, I guess I’ll work on that a little bit and get this case straightened out before we start it rolling.“ But the next time she comes in she will have a nice long dissertation on the subject that it really was food. It didn’t have anything to do at all with her father, but her father bought food and… but it might have had something to do with it. But that wasn’t really it. It was food. It was the fact that she was forbidden food when she was a child and that’s what really aberrated her. And you’d say, „Well, we’ll do something with that.“

Once upon a time somebody had a communication line to somebody and he built it up as an energy line. This was t… from his body to his mother’s body. And then Mama went away and abandoned the opposite end of terminal. So he took it and fastened it on his own body. And a lot of the loops and coils which you find around a body are actually these old communication lines which a person has actually and actively used between himself and another body as a routine procedure. Then he’s lost the other end of terminal and of course, you don’t get a flow.

And she comes in, now, the next time with 18 typewritten pages, a young manuscript, and she tells you how it wasn’t food, it wasn’t food really. Uh… the whole thing had to do with a memory which just came back to her in a flash and that memory consisted of having… actually having attended a funeral when she was about one year old and she remembered it ever since, and it frightened her so, and that’s what colored her life and she’s got it all figured out. And how she figured it out? She’s actually built a little cone for you every time. She’s tried to find the highest common denominator, instinctively, of her case and tried to blow it to pieces by showing you all the places this thing interacted and was complicated.

But he gets a flow from one part of his body to another part of his body, and so you get circuits. One part of his body is Mama, one part’s Papa. And another part’s something else. And he says, „I wonder what my father’d think about this?“ and it… he gets back on the same line, „Well, let’s see, Son. Uh… we’ll have to go into that a little more.“ See? And you’ll find those things festooned on the body or sometimes coiled around and around.

And when you look at this, you’re looking at, one: something which has to a large extent broadened our knowledge considerably; and we’re also looking at any preclear we ever looked at. Because what is essentially true in a thetan would be essentially true as a pattern for the universe or universes in which he dwelt.

What do you do with them? Well, you don’t have to do anything with them, but if you do anything with them, find the end of terminal that used to be fastened on to somebody else, go fasten it on to something. And then have the pc take it off. Take off his end and throw it away.

All right, now you start operating with E and F – eeeooow! Just follow the Auditor’s Code, be courteous, cut off her chatter, put her in… on the meter, get an assessment according to Create-Destroy. Let her talk once in a while if it seems to make her feel a little bit better, but just for social reasons. Get that assessment, get her two inches, two feet, two yards, two miles back of her head. She can’t get there? Okay. Have her put out a beam and push that forward. Fo… she can’t do that? Have her hold up a point. „Oh, well. All right, now let’s see. Let’s uh… let’s mock up the first home you ever lived in. Okay. You got that? Oh, well fine. Now let’s take that and turn it green, let’s put it behind your back, put it under your feet, let’s put it over your head. Now let’s put a new turret on it and let’s put it over to the right. You got that? Good. Let’s put it over to the left.“ You say, „How are you getting these things?“ „Oh,“ she says, „just thoughts.“ You say, „Did you get a picture?“

Now he’s got old end of terminals, old anchor points. And you’ll find all kinds of lines coming down from space to terminals, his body. And he reaches up and he finds all these terminals around his head – something like that. And actually they’re… I… I’m sorry to have to say this, but they’re to bodies in pawn and they’re control mechanisms and every other darned thing. And he’ll say, „I don’t know if I ought to touch that or not.“ You say, „Ah, go on – touch it.“ He’ll say, „Well, there’s a great big line here marked ‘agreement’.“

„No-no. I used to imagine pictures a lot when I was a little child but… I don’t any more.“

And by the way, make a note of that. They’ve… they’ve all got a line marked ‘agreement’, if you want to find it. You… sometimes he can’t get his waves length high enough, or something of the sort, to find this line. But sooner or later he’ll run into it. And it’ll either blow or show up or something. But he’s got this big line and it’s just going on and on and on up in space. He can see it go. He knows it’s a terminal of some sort.

So you say, „All right. Now can you get a picture? Let’s see if you can really get a picture uh… a picture of the old homestead or the old cow barn of whatever it was you were raised. And let’s get that old… old thing and… and let’s turn it upside down – you… you’ve got it? You got it?“

What do you do with them? you say, „Reach up and give it a yank.“ Well, he can or can’t pull it down. But if he pulls it down, he’s liable to get a horrible shock in his head. It’s no uh… no myth, you see, handling these lines. They’re there. The preclear may be feeling very, very vague about these lines. He may not really know whether he has any lines there or not, but uh… all of a sudden you say, „Well, all right now, in taking these lines off your body,“ you say, „now get ahold of that line that’s on your left shoulder. Okay, now you got that line there? All right, now where does it go to?“

„Yes,“ she says, „I’ve got s… some kinda grey dim, dull-looking shape out there.“ You say, „Is that the house?“ „Yeah-yeah-yeah, it kinda looks like it is.“

And he says, „Right hip.“

Take it from there. Unless they can’t move it after they see it; unless they are just so terribly incapable of the tiniest point of the gradient scale you get to. Nothing happens. But try to take it from there, because you have hit the lower level of automaticity, for this case. And by handling this case with the whole process of Four, you can then get back to a stable point. And with a stable point you can then get back to something resembling uh… space, and when they got that, why, you might have to go back and do some more Four. Don’t be surprised at that, but at least try to clip them out of the head. Now there… there’s your process.

„Okay. it goes to the right hip. Now, which is your end of the line?“ the auditor says.

What are you doing? Then, you’re coming down the tone scale with those steps. You’ve thought perhaps… but if you call this a tone scale – it’s really not a tone scale. There isn’t any reason why ‘F’ couldn’t be at ‘20’. That’s playing very fast, and very horribly fast – a very fast game. It’s very complicated. That’s Indians gambling with uh… these knuckle bones, and they pass them from hand to hand and then they turn up to be in the buffalo hide outside the tent, and so forth; a complicated game. That’s somebody who’s playing at it being a very simple game like blackjack and beating you all the time for some reason or other. That’s uh… that could be all sorts of complexities, played with rapidity.

„Well,“ he says, „Uh… I don’t know. It doesn’t take much. The right hip! Yeah, yeah.“ That’s no-no, it’s the shoulder. I don’t know who that line used to go to. Oh, it went to my father.“

Your tone scale is essentially a gauge of speed per scope, and this isn’t. This is a gauge of complexity of knowingness. So, this is not ‘40,0’ really. It doesn’t have to be at all. There could be at one of these levels, you see, that existed all the way along.

„All right,“ you say. „Well, take it off the right hip and go throw it into the wash basin,“ or „take it out and throw it in the damp grass“ or „just pull it loose and throw it away.“ You don’t care what happens to it.

All right, let’s take a look at this, then, as Standard Operating Procedure. And you’re just simply getting the simplest way you can hit it, and then a little more complicated way to hit it, and then a little more complicated way to hit it, and then a little more complicated way to hit it, and then a little more complicated way to hit it, and a little more complicated way to hit… you have A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

By the way, it’s liable to lie out there for a while and writhe and spark when you throw them out, but you throw ‘em out. And then take off the other end. Splonk! Throw it after it. That’s the end of that line – line handling – very difficult. You’ll sometimes find strange things happening too. There’ll be a line that starts there and ends there. And sometimes there are lines… that’s in the stomach. And sometimes there are lines that start back of the ears and come around to the eyes, like big bananas, and things like that. And then he just takes them and he pulls them off. And… and when I said, it’s no joke, you see, the first few times he does this he’s very adventurous. „Oh, well. I… I’m kind of seeing them sort of foggy anyway, so they’re probably three-quarters imaginary. And uh… I mummm – uhhh – well they keep staying there. I wonder why I don’t see these on other people? Oh, my! Everybody’s got ‘em. I guess I’m just seeing end of terminals and lines and… and ridges and… Gee, I just guess I’m just looking…“ and then he changes his waves length of sight and he doesn’t see it again. And then he changes his wave length of sight by postulate – he just…

Because brother, that fellow there at the bottom is really complicated. He’s so complicated he isn’t going to let go of anything. Or he’ll give you anything: You can’t make him hold anything. This… this character’s maybe in a hospital or something and has chronic – as unlovely as it may seem – chronic vomiting or chronic diarrhea – colonic trouble and so on. Just got to give everything. Boom! Boom! Out! Bang! in all directions, you see? Could be.

Now do you change a wave length of sight? You say, „I’ll now use higher wave length.“ You just sort of… just say it. And he’ll come around here and he’ll get ahold of this one on the right side and just sort of put a beam out against his face, or something of the sort, and he’ll put a grapple on this thing. And he’ll reach out and he’ll go ‘yank!’ and of course his eyeball will go out – ‘Bong!’ He’ll say, „Ohhhh-ohhhh! What are you doing to me?“

Or this character is the other kind of a character – if you get them to put their purse on the chair instead of grip it solidly to their stomach, you’ll advance the case. You’ve got one present time object to leave them, and they’re holding everything else, and objects and words themselves are lower level. There are tests as to how well a person’ll do this. How much is an object… how much of an object is a symbol?

Another thing – sometimes you ask him to prowl around inside his skull looking for ridges and he’ll hit the pineal and it almost blows his brain out. I did that to Nibby one day and it’s very, very funny. He said, „Now, I feel like I shouldn’t do this.“ I say, „Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Be brave – it’s your head.“ And uh… and he said, „I feel I shouldn’t do this.“

You’re say… you’re singing, „Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a horsefly.“

And I said, „Well, go ahead and do it.“ And he reaches in and POW! Of course, he activated the pineal gland.

He stops you and he says, „Oh, no, no, no-no! It was a pony.“

And… uh… it has sort of a force screen over the top of it or something of this sort, and it really… really went bong! You… you could practically see his hair bounce when he did it. And then he dived back inside. And it took an awful lot of coaxing to get him out. I had to scan it and work with it and be calm about the whole thing. And he kept looking at me distrustfully.

And you say, „Well, okay. Uh… and he stuck the feather in his hat and called it Macaroni.“

Well, these things will happen once in a while and when they do, just use anything to straighten them out – change a postulate. Or scan ‘em. Tell him to move out of his head, scan it out. He will, and that finishes it. Sometimes he has to go through it with full somatics. Or do a mock-up of it and run that a few times – faster method.

And he’ll say, „Well, macaroni, you know, was uh… a… a… an English slang word at the time which meant ‘a dandy’, a swell, and uh… that’s why he used the word.“

So, all of that is just… that’s… oh, uh… not important, really, to… to know this material. You’ll get into this; you’ll… you’ll find these things to be the case, you’ll… you’ll say, „Well, there’s a ridge. What do I do about it?“ and… and… and the preclear… and you say, „Well, what’d the preclear… What do you want to do about it?“ the auditor says.

You’re not doing anything. You’re singing a song. This guy is so troubled with those things. You know what he’s doing with these things? When you let… when you let them drift out and you let them go, he’ll pick them up. It’s a fact! He… he does that. He picks them up.

„Well, I don’t know. It’s not hurting me.“ Or, he’ll keep saying, „There’s a ridge in front of my eyes. There’s a ridge in front of my eyes. There’s a ridge in front of my eyes.“

So, as you get down here, you have more and more objects, that’s true. But along about this level in here of C, you’ve got automaticity setting in, but very heavily. And it gets wusser and wusser and wusser. And you want to make sure what that preclear’s doing.

And you go on, talk for a while, audit for a while. „There’s a ridge in front of my eyes.“

Now I’ll ask you a nasty, dirty question that is somewhat in the vicinity of how do you hold your tennis racket? Where do those buttons come from that your people are wearing in those mock-ups? Where do those buttons come from that they’ve got on their clothes? You get a person and they’ve got clothes on, and the coat’s buttoned – where’s the button come from?

Several ways to handle it. One of the easiest ways to do is „Turn it blue. Turn it black. Now put a duplicate out here in front. Now a ridge. Now turn it around. Now put it behind your head.“ And you get pong! The ridge in front of his eyes is liable to blow up. Very fascinating. I mean, you get real action out of this.

„Oh, he just got it.“

Sometimes he’ll go in and out of his body and he’s just doing beautifully, and now we’re getting into the field of the operating thetan. If you get a person’s energy level up, he doesn’t care how many old lines or anything are hanging around. One day he’s… one day he’s just buzzing around and he’ll… clears up the whole kit and caboodle and explodes the works. I mean he doesn’t pay any attention to it much.

„Oh, yeah?“ That’s automaticity. „Now you… you mock up this dog. Where does his hair come from?“

But if he’s too fixed or fascinated with ridges and flows and dispersals, there’s only one thing wrong with him: He isn’t high enough up the tone scale to adequately handle energy. How do you remedy it? You put him high enough up the tone scale to handle energy – simple. I’ve told you that several times in earlier lectures.

„Well, he’s just got hair!“

Now there… therefore, an operating thetan… an operating thetan is a problem in getting him over being jumpy about being a thetan. And consists of the step of recovering to him as a thetan his memory and his personality, his ability to emote and, in particular, his ability to obtain adequately good, solid sensation – that’s very important! He won’t have any goals if he can’t do this.

„No, no! He didn’t ‘just got hair’.“ Where does his barker come from, if he barks? Woof-woof! Did you make him a throat? No, you didn’t. So you haven’t made a dog. You’ve made an automatic picture of a dog that was behaving because you have automatic circuits which have trained you to mock up in such a way that a dog looks and acts like that. And so you just mock up the MEST universe equivalent and you’ve taken the MEST universe for your automaticity.

You can also show him, if you want to as you go on up scale, that he can acquire MEST independent of his body’s acquisition of MEST. Of course, you really don’t have to have him doing that, he… but he can do it. He can do it.

Now even if you put pink bows on this dog, green ribbons, purple hair, anything else – sure, he becomes your dog. But he doesn’t become a wumperjump! No, sir! You’ve got to build a wumperjump! And you’ve got to have practically all the automaticity out of the bank to get a good wumperjump. And you want to know what a wumperjump is – well, build one. They’re very complicated to build. It isn’t that they take lots of time to build, but the difference in automaticity is not ‘save time’. It actually takes longer. A person is operating much more slowly on automaticity. It’s taking him longer to mock up this mock-up, really, compared to how fast he can think. He’s thinking so slowly that it’s taking him longer than he could if he built the thing. And there’s no reason why he has to use the MEST universe for a pattern.

Uh… that fellows Step One, you know? The lifting exercises of the body, and that sort of thing? Of course, when you do a Four with the balancing exercises and all the girls poured in and all the girls poured out and right on down to the… to the sensation in and sensation out – they’ll show up as lines probably, or blow by that time. You go right on up the tone scale and take each step above the scale until you get to One.

It’s all right to use the MEST universe for a pattern. You can do it for a long time. But one of these fine days, you’ll say… you’ll… you’ll say, „Oh, ~ could put a lot of chartreuse people with green bows and… and orange-colored sidewalks and so forth, and this is the Universe, and… Oh, what am I building this universe for?“ You’re building an automatic universe. Your mock-ups might be very good – there’s nothing wrong with that. You’re on the way up, but you’re not out of the level of automatic mock-ups yet.

Now you get to One, lifting and handling the body around finally teaches him that he can handle a body, without rigging it up like a Chinese puzzle. He can handle it. He’s got to put minimal response lines on it, just enough to hook it up.

Unless you can put together, piece by piece, a wumperjump which is a totally original idea. It has nothing to do with the MEST universe at all. It isn’t just a scrambled MEST universe: He doesn’t bark with his tail or… or… uh… pant with his ears, or something of this sort. He would be an operating, functional beast of some sort, who you probably had a purpose for.

And after that when he wants to do something with a body, he does something with it. And he won’t go and do some careless automatic thing with it that would press the wrong lever accidentally because he doesn’t even know it’s there.

Do you know… did you ever see… did you ever see an engineer get engrossed in a plan? Drives their wives mad! I mean, their wives come in and it’s eleven o’clock and he’s got to go to work in the morning and there’s paper spread all over the dining room table, and it’s twelve o’clock and she’s lying there in a cold bed in the dark and… and it’s one o’clock and it’s two o’clock and papers still flying around. And she comes out and says, „Dear, it’s two o’clock.“ And he says, „Huh?“ „It’s two o’clock in the morning!“ „Oh, yeah! Thank you very much. I will have some.“

You know what’s happening with somebody with a tic? They just keep pushing the wrong button on some ridge, that’s all. They… they can’t handle energy, and this facial expression just keeps going and going.

He isn’t doing automaticity. He’s working like mad. He’s thinking every minute of the time – brrrrrrrrr! – and he’s carving himself out a piece of plan of some sort or another, and he… he occasionally will throw into it pieces of the MEST universe electronics, because they’re handy and other people build them. Or he’s working it out on the basis of he has to follow gravity because there is gravity and… and his isness – he’s building in the world of the real instead of the actual, and so he has to make these compromises.

Somebody with an automatic response – he blushes or something like that all the time. All he’s doing is he’s driving down the road with this… with this 16 cylinder Hispano-Suissa, and uh… every once in a while as he’s travelling 90 miles an hour, throws it into low gear and wonders why… why there’s a sudden crash and spatter of gear teeth. That’s all he’s doing. He’s just… he’s so automatic he doesn’t remember where anything is. Hmmm.

But if you were to take that boy on a full inspiration to build the trinnerbugs that go on a yumperjump! – zing! You’ve not seen anything like that much interest. Yet he’s just all super-concentrated burn up the highway. No… it’s really, it’s really fascinating.

So your thetan has a level of not remembering where anything is and of wanting to hide things on the theory that it makes it much easier to do. So when you get him to lift his body you will find out that as an individual he is then capable of handling MEST – when he’s lifted his body and he’s very well and he’s good at the production of energy.

Now it’s been so long since anything like that was ever called – I mean, any person was called upon to do anything like that, he says, „Oh, no! I couldn’t possibly be original. After all, there isn’t an original thought anyplace – originality and imagination, even at its best is just a reformation of things which have been thought before. We know, over in the English Department where we teach our short story writers that it’s all been written before. And there are eight dramatic situations and there are 36 ways to use paper. And all of them apply to stories except some of them, and uh… we’ve got it all formalized and all the way you get a plot is to get a plot genie. Because everybody knows that all plots are basically similar and they’ve all been done before.“

I don’t know, actually, how far a thetan can go this way. I haven’t got any idea. I keep hanging bodies around and old police stations and doing research work on US marshals, and… and uh… trying to find some bug low enough to psychometrize. And uh… it’s very interesting.

You run into one of these automaticity characters and he’s liable to throw that at you, if you happen to be in the field of the arts – yeah. That is like Rubicon’s uh… famous portrait of the Stixburger. You just… just painted a picture of the town hall. It’s always ‘like’ something. He thinks in associations, not in aesthetics. It always has a comparison, and it’s always been done before – creative imagination.

By the way, I did a full little piece of research, one time, as a special officer of the Los Angeles Police, on criminals, marijuana and so forth. I just took a weekend beat as a special officer on South Main and on Alvarado Streets in Los Angeles, of which there’s no tougher anyplace. That’s really tough. Besides being the most aberrated city of the world, Los Angeles also has the toughest areas of the world. And I got a good look at police. And it was there that I learned the criminal is solvable, but that the cop is a contagion point in the society which brings criminality straight through to the, quote, ‘decent citizen’, unquote.

If you’ve ever walked upstairs and into the high tower of creation out of practically whole cloth, not in contest with the MEST universe, but just absorbedly in creation of something of your own and something new, you don’t throw the hair on it – zoom! No, you put it on, hair by hair. And you do it so rapidly and so swiftly that actually it goes on – zoom! but you didn’t put it on, zoom! You didn’t say, „Alacabam-hair!“ No, you didn’t. You took hair and you put it on hair by hair and it went brrrrrrrrr – all the hair’s on. You get the idea?

And the problem of psychotherapy in criminality and police work, out of pity, should be addressed to the police who have to associate with these people continually. Uh… that’s just out of pity, because they’re really butchered. They can only spend about six months on a criminal division and they practically blow their stacks. And then they have to go over to the traffic division for a while and they peel off that way.

So, it becomes very interesting. If you want to know how far your preclear’s down tone scale on automaticity, ask him rather snidely to think of something completely original. And he’ll say, „Oh, no!“ He’ll think it over for a moment and he’ll say, „Now, let’s see: I’ll think of a road that goes in corkscrews. Yeah, completely original.“

But cops are scared. They’re real scared. Look at their eyes sometimes. If they’re in a tough neighborhood or something like that, their eyes are just very… they’re… they’re… they’re all ready to cave in. And that’s… nobody should be put through that consistently.

You say, „It’s a road, isn’t it?“

And so psychotherapy and criminality, to a large measure, would be the resolution of police problems – police cases. You can remember that some time if anybody ever asks what we have done in the field of police work. I got my skull almost beat in many times for the sake of dear old Dianetics.

And then he’ll finally think up this terrific, horrendous thing and he’s just… just worked on it and he’s thought about it and thought about it. And when he comes over, you say, „You know why that isn’t original? You could tell me about it in MEST language, couldn’t you? And you had a name for every part. You wouldn’t be able to tell me about something completely original.“

Now, on this whole level, not wandering from that point any at all – what was the point? Uh… we have automaticity as an antithesis to memory. So how do we come by automaticity? What covers up what in order to make automaticity?

„Oh,“ the guy’d say, „I’m going to have you shot!“

Flows make automaticity. As long as a thetan can remember without any energy – new thought to you? – as long as a thetan can remember without any energy he can remember the whole bank, everywhere, everything.

What’s automaticity? What’d be a gauge of automaticity? People have been in the MEST universe using energy of the MEST universe’s, using objects made by the MEST universe and space made by the MEST universe so long that they think they have to copy only the pattern of the MEST universe – three- dimensional space, things with wheels. How did the Aztec get along? Everybody knows the Aztec didn’t have a wheel. What did he have? He did have a wheel, by the way. All the child’s toys you find down there uh… in the old ruins, and that sort of thing, have wheels on the little carts and that sort of things. And then somebody comes along and says they didn’t have a wheel in the civilization. Every kid in the Aztec society was dragging a… a go-cart behind him with uh… wheels.

Did you ever sit down quietly and calmly to recall something and not care whether you recalled it or not? And recall it? Memory runs a hundred and eighty degrees wrong when it’s run by flows. Those things which you don’t want to remember, you remember and those things which you do want to remember, you can’t remember. And the fellow who goes around saying, „I have a bad memory,“ if he says it often enough, and believes it hard enough and pushes out flows in that direction long enough will eventually one day all of a sudden have a good memory.

Anyway, uh… they didn’t have horses, though. That we’re very sure of. I guess it was that Cortez that was on it.

And the person who has a very, very good memory and is very proud of his good memory and uses it all the time will wake up one fine morning and wonder, „Let’s see now. Is my name Jones or Smith?“ Amnesia is a case of a stretched flow.

So when we look over the scale of automaticity, we’re looking over, as we look over automaticity, Step – as far as you’re concerned – peaks – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Every single step contains enormous automaticity. Well, what are you shooting for? You want to know how far you’re shooting? Well, I hate to do this on this graph, because it would be puzzling if it slipped back afterwards, but up here at the top are some dotted lines and these dotted lines have to do with… these dotted lines have to do with a s… a coincidence. And where these two dotted lines marked uh… ‘Edgar’ and ‘Joe’ coincide, above the chart is the level from A to that point above the chart, which is B.

Now, here… here we have… Yeah, we can’t get any traffic over the flow any more. So when we’re… we’re remembering by flows or operating by flows, we’re using energy. In order not to use energy a person has to use and generate tremendous amounts of energy. Why? Because he’s got a tremendous backlog of automaticity which will come in and interfere with his memory even as a thetan.

All right, you’ve got room for improvement on your preclear. The main trouble that’s happened, is people have a paucity of imagination. And this is going to outrage you about your preclear: You’re going to say, „What happened to his imagination?“

So unless he’s very capable at handling energy as energy and can really put it out with a comparable horsepower to any ridge he has, that ridge can command him. If he can put out a tremendous quantity of energy and handle it well, of course there isn’t any energy there to command him.

They’ll tell you something very interesting one day. They’ll say, „You know, I had an adventure.“

Beingness is essentially a problem of postulate and space. Postulate… postulate type agreement, not flow agreement, and space. It is not a problem of energy.

And you’ll say, „Yeah, yeah.“ This person’s operating pretty well. They can lift their arms outside their body and so forth.

And therefore very high on the band a person is capable of a great deal of remembering, and a great deal of action, and a great deal of postulation, and a great deal of creation and also a great deal of destruction where things have to be destroyed, such as old mock-ups and things like that that have gotten too old and so on.

„I had a big adventure and I… I tell you, I was… I was down at the grocery store…“

Whereas he has all of these things and so on, he isn’t depending on flows. And one day he begins to depend on flows.

„Yeah“ – you wait.

And flows, way back on the track, were taught to you. And they were taught very arduously, and they were taught in this fashion: „Now here’s the way we do it. Around here we don’t use force. We use facsimiles. Go over to that pile and help yourself to a few.“ I mean, it’s just about that silly.

They feel very coy about this whole thing. And they say, „… and the lady who was putting apples in a sack, and I took one of the apples and I just kept it rolling a little further away from her. Oh.“

By the way, you run that on a preclear and he starts feeling awfully sad about his having to go over and pick up some memories. These weren’t his memories at all.

This would be on the order of taking Dan Patch and putting him to an old ramshackle – not even a steel, but a crooked stick plow. This would be somewhat on the order of grooming up a potential Hispano-Suisa with solid gold wheels, body, brakes, all chromed over on an aluminum frame or something, that looks in the sun enough to blind you utterly, and somebody uses it… somebody uses it to smooth out the brims of hats in a hat shop. And that’s going to appall you. Here… here’s this whole universe staring this thetan in the face, just begging… just begging him to „let’s do something interesting.“ They roll an apple a little bit further.

So he was made to depend upon an old energy deposit and solid in order to remember. Whoo! Now you’ve got the facsimile in the ridge. Well, of course an energy deposit cannot exist in the presence of heavy electronic horsepower! It simply blows! So when the fellow starts to develop any energy at all, he feels like his whole memory is going. And he thinks his automaticity is of tremendous value, even though he doesn’t know what he’s doing. And so he keeps it all beautifully masked. And he hits the wrong button at the wrong time and has himself a glorious squirrel – runs cars off roads and all sorts of things.

Now if you’ve done that, your preclear… here’s the trouble with your preclear. His level of automaticity at ‘A’ is so far from that desirable end of what we will mark ‘B’ and put an arrow on it way up, that they can only copy ‘X’ and if you get them up a little bit, then they’re ashamed to copy ‘X’ but they can’t feel that they can do new ones. So that’s automaticity.

You know the accident-prone, and so forth? He’s just the fellow that’s got a wrong button permanently connected.

And you see that in somebody who gets… oh, very rapid. I mean, he mocks up a little man – „Get a little man. Got a little man? That’s good. Get another little man. Fine. Got another little man?“ Brrrrrr! „Oh, yeah! I got a lot of little men.“ „What are they wearing?“

Now, how do you settle this? This is awfully easy. Generate energy. He has to be able to generate energy, not obey energy! Because if he puts his memories in form of energy deposits, he is not just obeying the recording, he’s obeying the energy as will, and he’s waiting for that energy to come in and be hit before he remembers. And then he gets to a point where he can’t generate energy anymore and he wonders why he can’t get a flow out to his past track or a past body.

„Oh, they’re all wearing little green jackets.“ I’ll bet you something: I’ll bet you they’re not wearing ‘em behind their backs. It isn’t just the omission, it’s where did he get the pearl buttons. Where did he get the admirals’ epaullets that he mocks up. He takes a pattern from the MEST universe, so much experience, and then he covets this pattern and when he makes the mock-up he just recombines all these patterns – bong! – and he’s got the thing.

Let’s say we had something that was dissolvable… something that was… sugar and it was dissolvable only by water. And we still wanted the sugar. We wouldn’t dare use water; we’d have to start using some substitute like gasoline or… or something else if we were going to wash this sugar around, or use this sugar without losing it.

Is it his? Well, he’ll feel it’s enough his to be completely shocked by the fact that he actually owns something. He’s made this admiral stand on his head and he’s got the admiral wearing garlands of flowers in his belt buckle, or something – anything – his admiral. He’s as proud as punch of his admiral! He isn’t going to really take any pride in that admiral at all- or any real interest in that admiral at all. There’s too much automaticity in the admiral.

So actually it’s a trap. The standard MEST universe trap with regard to memories – that memories should be engraved upon energy ridges. Then every time the individual starts to, quote, ‘recover his memory’, he starts to come up tone scale in some way, he gets swamped with old energy – which is more powerful than he is.

So interest and automaticity are to a large degree similar. And when Hollywood begins to grind out motion pictures with the same plot… They used to be, just in the cheap westerns that you always had the baddies and the goodies. And the goodies chased the baddies and sometimes the baddies chased the goodies, and there was always the weenie, and it always wound up in the end with the guy getting the girl. They used to be corny enough to ride off into the sunset like they do in modern A pictures. And you wonder why the public stays away from ‘em in droves. There’s not enough randomity – it’s too much of a complete grind pattern, pattern, pattern, pattern, pattern. Too much entertainment being made and not enough originality. Somebody tries to make a, quote, ‘different’ picture, and everybody says, „Well, probably won’t box office.“

So it’s a dwindling spiral. At first his energy level was very high and his recording were made on terrifically high potential energy – big, big kinetic there, ready to hit him when he got any lower. And then he got lower and he got lower and he got lower and he got lower and he recorded his energy levels – facsimiles – on less and less high potential energy and, of course, they become more and more concentric and he became smaller and smaller, and smaller and smaller and made the pattern of ridges which you saw earlier in this series of lectures. And that is withdrawing his boundaries of knowingness. Once upon a time he was that big, and he’s not that big any more. He’s tiny. And then people are so tiny that they are negative space and they say, „Use force? Use energy? Oh, no, no, no! That’s bad!“ They know if they started to generate any energy, they’d blow what they laughingly believe to be their total memory bank. And there’s nothing in it but MEST universe facsimiles.

I made a serial one time that… that’s… that’s… that’s uh… made history. It made history because it only cost two hundred thousand dollars to make and it made one million, seven hundred fifty thousand dollars at the box office, and it was the worst serial ever made. But it didn’t lack in randomity, because after I put the plot together, it was… it had a lot of randomity in it. They decided that the last half of each of the reels, or something like that, ought to be rewritten by somebody else who needed a screen credit, and without reading my script, he rewrote it. It was really random. And then they had a couple of extra stunt men they didn’t know what to do with, so they just threw these stunt men into various places in the picture. To this day, if I walk into Hollywood, I could walk into so-and-so’s office down there, an agent, and they’d look at me blankly for a little while – I have worked on fairly decent things, once in a while – look blankly for a while and so on. And then, „Yeah – that’s right. Yeah. Um-hmm. I know, yeah-yeah! 1,750,000 dollars box office. That’s right! Yeah, that’s it! Yeah, sure! We can put you to work! Let’s go over to Paramount and see what they’ve got to say!“ Humph! That’s a fact! Just the box office. They – never looked at the film. Nobody’s ever analyzed that film to find out why it did that. It defies analysis. It’s… it has no plot! It doesn’t even end with the same characters it begins with. Its confusion was so wonderful people had to keep coming back to the theater to see it time after time because they couldn’t believe it.

And of course you can always use a facsimile with which to remember, always. Providing you’re so chuckleheaded you can’t remember it.

And yet to this day, if I made… Jimmy Fiddler… Jimmy Fiddler is kind of behind the times. He said I was working in Hollywood in a column a short time ago. But if I went down there tomorrow, that would be the only thing that I would possibly work with – o… on that basis. It’s got nothing – just nothing.

You know the habit of… that some people have, they go to the grocery store and before they go, they know they’re going to have a can of soup. They’ve got to have a can of soup and a pound of sugar. Now there’s two ways of doing it: You go to the grocery store and say, „Can of soup, pound of sugar; can of sugar, pound of soup uh… so on – repeat it all the way to the grocery store – or you sit down immediately and take this great big sheet of paper, you see, and right up in the corner of it you write „Can of soup. Let’s see. What was it else I wanted? Oh, I…“ That’s the end product you see. He can’t remember it long enough to get it down on paper. The guy gets frantic when he gets into that state. I mean, he’s… he’s… he’s… he’s got to write it right now because if he doesn’t write it right now, it’s gone! Why is it gone right now? Well, it’s gone because he’s obeying flows. Every time he generates energy or he tries to generate any energy, he gets hit back with an energy flow. And of course, that swamps his memory, because we’ve got automaticity sitting in.

Uh… that tells you quite a bit on something like that. And they wonder why they’re staying away in droves from the box office. They think they’ve got to be a this and a that.

And let’s look again at Step Four, and let’s find out something about Step Four. And let’s put down as basic laws right now. „You’re supposed to obey flows, not use them.“ And outflow sticks and inflow sticks and any item outflowing brings about a loss of memory. You’ve got to… continual item flowing out, flowing out, flowing out… flowing. Of course, you’re pushing the facsimiles further and further and further away. And if you’re depending on note paper, which is to say facsimiles, with which to remember, you’re swamping the notes. And of course it brings about a loss of memory.

I imagine the Greek theater was finally just ready to fall in. The entrepreneurs and the promoters and the theater managers were having a bad time and their shoes were getting pretty thin, and I imagine the actors were fishing out of garbage cans before the Greek theater was finally finished. I’m sure that’s true, because they departed from randomity and went on a pattern. And you never saw anything as stylized in your life as Greek theater in the last days of Greek theater, and the public stayed away in droves.

So what happens to the ‘give’ case? Whew! They say, „Yeah, yeah. I remember, I was a little girl once. I have a distinct recollection on it. Well, most anybody who is my age has been a little girl. They’ve been in their teens too. Let’s see, uh… in college uh… yeah I uh… oh, I was an ‘A’ student. Kept good notes. Let’s see. Uh… oh yeah! I majored in chemistry. Umm… um… yes, my uh… oh, I have to go now. I’ve forgotten something.“ They don’t even know they’re there.

Interest alone carries a person down the track of the MEST universe. So interest alone is all that carries your preclear up the scale as a thetan.

That’s how bad they can get. Their childhood, teenage, education – pow! Because they’re on an outflow, you see. Give, give, give, give, give. And they haven’t got any facsimiles in proximity in order to read. And of course they need facsimiles. Anybody who’s gotten that low on the tone scale has to have facsimiles. So any time they want a facsimile, how do you get a facsimile? You outflow agreement to get it.

And just in case we missed that, interest alone is the only thing that carries your preclear up the track toward a higher level of beingness. He has to h… be interested in what he is doing and he has to be interested in a potential will-be, will-do, or will-have, in order to improve himself even vaguely. And if you step him outside, he hasn’t got any personality; he left the personality in the body. He doesn’t feel like he has any identity, he… he feels all this, he’s very upset about it, and you wonder why he won’t improve and why he isn’t improving? He’s got no reason to improve.

Oh, I hope I didn’t step on anybody’s toes in the class. You actually do outflow agreement. They… they reverse on their vector.

Fortunately, there’s enough automaticity in these techniques, and a little ra… very little randomity in your Standard Operating Procedure, and he won’t understand what’s happening to him until it’s too late, and he will run right up the line here in a very few hours of auditing to be a Step One. You don’t have any trouble till you get to Step One and get Step One finished and get him lifting fairly well. If you really get him lifting real good, your trouble start to be over. But he will go into a static. He is now a crane – he can lift things.

Now, they have to agree with the fact to want it, don’t they? More or less? Or even if they’re arguing they have to agree that they want the fact in order to use it in a disagreement. And… and so there they go! There they go. And it’s a dwindling spiral, and as those ridges get bigger and bigger and further and further away, and they generate less and less energy, they say, „It’s because I’m getting old.“ Huh-hmm. It’s because they’re getting old taffy on which to put their stuff and they can’t budge it anymore. Well, ridges start to look awfully solid to these fellows.

Now, therefore, to get an operating thetan requires something of an aesthetic. How do you restore this aesthetic? Do you recommend to him spectator sports? That’s just more automaticity. He sits there and it’s all fed to him. Umm-umm. That isn’t the way to establish it. You just keep working him to work out automaticity out of his case, and the other restores itself automatically – negative gain.

What happens? Did you ever notice this phenomenon: In the early days of Dianetics that one fellow would charge in and he’d start to run the facsimile and it went ‘whirr-rip’? And you said, „All right, now let’s go over it again.“ And he said, „Go over what again?“ „Go over the facsimile again.“

So your enemy in keeping the preclear coming, is a thing called automaticity. Any time you find your preclear stalling, he’s satisfied. And he will be satisfied sometime at a level on the tone scale where if he were walking down the street as a thetan and he’s maybe doing something very constructive like counting the lamp posts, and he’s walking down it – and by the way, little kids will do this. So do thetans. They go down the street slowly, a thousand miles an hour and count all the lamp posts and idle at the corner. Uh… and uh… he’ll be going by something like that and he’ll get himself uh… a horse sneezes – cop’s horse at the curb sneezes – and he’s a horse. He isn’t just… he’s just interested. He just quit. He… he’s just quit. He hasn’t any… any further level to go. And he didn’t quit at a point where he was stable. He’s still afraid, he’s still dispersing, if he hit a trolly line or something like that he would get a shock badly. He runs into a ridge outside of his head, or something like that, and he gets an electrical punch instead of an energy punch – electricity being much lower on the scale. And this is quite beefy to him and it’s very upsetting to him. And he says, „Oh, no! I don’t want to be outside that head. I’d better be inside the head.“

„Oh, I can get it. Uh… yeah, ha??! There was a little bit left. All right, what’s the next one?“

And you say to him, „Well, now all right. Let’s put a couple of thousand watts across the top of your head and a couple more thousand across it. Now get between them.“ The guy says, „What?“ And you say, „Well, get between these two bands of energy.“ „I just strung one…“ „Well,“ you say, „string two hundred.“

You said, „Oh, no! No, I ran a m… much easier somatic on myself about four days ago and I had to go over it 12 times. And then it just barely reduced. Wheee! What’s the difference between this fellow and me?“

„Okay“ – he’ll string two hundred. A band from one temple to the other temple of flowing energy. Actually, he can do that. It’s very high wave stuff – very high wave length, visible on an E-Meter but on nothing else practically. And visible to a thetan, of course – another thetan too. String another one out there and then get between them and blow it up. Oh, no!

He’s just developing live energy and you’re not. That’s all. He’s blowing… blew a facsimile with live energy and he was high enough in energy output that he’d just take that facsimile and go „Rip!“

First one will practically blow him all over his skull and blow him down through his feet. And then he’ll say, „Oh, I’m not hurt“ and with a little coaxing, he does it again, and he does it again and he does it again. And he starts to beef the thing up. Next thing you know, he’ll go over to find a lightswitch – bzzzzzt! Bzzzzzt! Bzzzzzt! Bzzzzzzt! What do you know? He just burned the lamp out or something. He’ll say, „What do you know?“ while you grope around in the dark, or you have to get out of your head or come in from sitting out there two thousand miles square up where you weren’t really auditing him at all, and you have to come in and grope around in order to get a new light.

Now fellows do this with ridges. A fellow starts turning up horsepower, and there’s billions of facsimiles on these ridges. And he starts turning up energy level, turning up energy level, turning up energy level. And all of a sudden one day he decides to look at this ridge and it goes „Whooom-whooooo!“ „Hey, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Where’d… where’d that go? I… gee! Now I’ve got to remember it myself. Let’s see, what was it?“ Verbatim account. That’s because there isn’t any past! But the facsimile stacked up says there is. And so if you were to start reading a facsimile then that convinces you there’s a past. And if you don’t know there’s a past, then the facsimile tells you what is past.

All right, what keeps him coming? Your interest of him can help. Your interest in him can help, and some knowledge of what he’s facing can help.

Another thing you can do with a facsimile is you take a picture of that which you have lost and then keep it. And if a person who does these mock-ups, a Four who starts doing these mock-ups, he’s a ‘hold’ case, oh brother! He’s got a picture of everything he’s owned for the last fifteen million years. And he’s got every one of those pictures stacked up on every one of those ridges and then he’s got every one of those ridges in at stretch – chunk! He’s creating an energy vacuum here in the middle. He… he reminds you of a 360 degree vacuum cleaner. And you… you get in there to pull off this ridge, see, and you go in there and you… you say, „Well now, let’s see. Uh… let’s get out of your head.“

But one of the sorriest jobs you’re going to have to do is trying to coax him ahead, giving him a will-have enough to keep him going when he doesn’t have any interest in anything. Because he’s in a state of amnesia, his memory is shot, he hasn’t any real recollection or potentiality, he has very little energy compared to the amount of energy he’d have. And out of sheer boredom he’ll slide back into his head. So it’s going to be a continual contest on your part to establish some interest level which your preclear can lead toward and appreciate.

And the fellow says, „Head? Head? Let’s see. Uh-oh… Uh… what’d you say?“ And you say, „Your head – let’s get out of your head.“ „Uh, oh yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.“ And you say, „Well, are you out?“

And don’t give him the whole package the way I’m giving you. It flattens people. I mean they sit in their seats and gawp at you sometimes. I’m giving you information. I’m not trying to lead you off into the blue or play Pied Piper with you. I could, believe me. It used to be my profession.

And he will say, „Out of what?“

And when we look this over then, we find out that the course from ‘A’ to ‘B’ pursues and follows and has a lag behind INTEREST. And interest has nothing to do with flows and is above the level of space. Conviction and interest are both above the level of space, but you never would have gotten the preclear to have gone into motion of any kind that led finally to the MEST universe, unless you gave him something in which to be interested.

What’s the matter with him? Well, he doesn’t dare use any energy on memory because they’re all in, because they’re too close in. And every time he tries to, quote, ‘reach for a memory’, it is of course right there. And it… would you like to read a newspaper which covered 30 million years of news which was printed on a postage stamp or something like that, and read it a half an inch from the right eye? Would you like that? It’d look black, wouldn’t it? Uh… you would… wouldn’t see it at all.

Somebody came along one day and he was sitting there perfectly content, and they sold him something in which to be interested. And so he came over down along the line and the interest path which was demonstrated to him was guess where? In Figure 1, from Two data down to G. That’s the way that interest level led him. That isn’t necessarily bad. He just got less and less powerful, and less and less powerful and he could do less and less. And finally departs from really being terribly interested in anything, and he says everything is dull, and the next thing you know, he’s down there along about ‘G’ – homo sapiens. And he’s having a rough time. Life is arduous, he has to work hard. He’s got all these reasons why and so forth.

Well, he doesn’t dare use anything vaguely resembling memory, as represented by facsimiles because he doesn’t have ‘em available. And you get in there with a ridge with this fellow, and you say, „All right, now get out of your head.“

What have you got to do? What’s your job? In theta clearing, you’re reversing track. And I repeat, the best way to reverse track is to get the devil away from automaticity. Just drill him, then, in the steps which constitute Standard Operating Procedure, more and more, until he becomes perfect and positive and less and less automatic in mock-ups and in the making of space – less and less automatic. When he makes a piece of space, he doesn’t say ‘space’. He is fast enough so that he actually picks up that space, puts it together and it’s real space and he… he’s got it tested and so forth, and he does it all, bang! that fast, see? He’s got a piece of space.

And it’s „What head?“ He’s… he’s… he’s uh… got ‘em all in on him. He… he’d say, „Why, that’s nonsense. You really couldn’t do that.“

Somebody else walks in and says, „Ahhhh! A vacuum!“ It can be that bad. I mean, then he’s doing something.

You can tell this fellow. He’s very beefy. He generally holds on to an awful lot of things and he has various characteristics which you’ll come very rapidly to recognize.

Now a lot of the automatic mock-ups that you get and a lot of these responses that you get he can actually control are too automatic to serve. They might be brilliant in coloring, they might be everything else. They’re definitely your preclear’s, he’s definitely making… I’m just showing you that first he can get brilliant mock-ups and then it is above there – it’s automaticity. He’s got lots of automaticity in them.

All right. Now what’s the remedy? Well, let’s take Standard Operating Procedure 1950 – hm-hm-hm-hm-hm-hm. I used to do it by trying to make them recover a sound of something and a… a sight of something and work with them and work with them. And, by the way, by the time they’d recovered some of their perceptics, they naturally would have turned on some energy and after that they could operate. And that was the bug involved in the early book. Auditors hadn’t been articulated properly.

You don’t try to weed the automaticity out. You just increase the control of mock-ups in general, until he can do the darnedest things with sensations and colors – things like that. And you get that positive.

We got this evaluation now. Oh boy! These six-foot rearview mirrors are really wonderful – yeah, if we’d only known.

One pc we’ve got here who is doing a very fine job of… of mock-ups. It’s not that these are automatic and they are being done for him, they come out of some circuit. No, he’s just using patterns that he’s running automatically out and he feeds them into the mock-ups. They’re his – there’s nothing wrong with this. I’m telling you, that’s fortunate. Because if you don’t have that to reduce, you wouldn’t be taking him any place.

Well, anyway, what’s he got then in terms of energy? Every time he starts to run energy it’s hanging right up, and as a matter of fact he has ridges clear on in and attached to him as a thetan inside of himself. And then he is dispersed madly out through this whole body and he is his ridges. And he could be over here a foot on the right of his face. He could be over here a foot on the left of his face. Because he can’t be anyplace. He’s not in a unit formation. He is perceiving through his own ridges, and can have the weirdest manifestations, sometimes quite accurate about being one place and then suddenly being another place. You try ridge running on this fellow and he comes out of his head in eight different directions and can perceive his body from eight different quarters simultaneously. And you say, „Oh, no!“ Of course, he isn’t doing it with any degree of reality, or something of the sort. He becomes very confused.

So, he… with all these got a black spot… he got a black spot that was really his. He could… kind of grey but he got a black spot. He could turn it on, he could turn it off, he could turn it on, he could put it any place. And boy, it was a real black spot! And probably if he’d enlarged that black spot and thrown it across some radio writer’s script – well, I wouldn’t mention any names uh… you… if he’d really worked on getting a black spot, he would have gotten to the point where this other reader would have said, „I must be going blind. My script has just turned the color of ink!“ – you see? Get that. Get a real black spot. And yet this preclear is getting very good mock-ups.

And you just do ridge running. What are you doing? You’re running out on good operating perception lines. Did you ever look through lucite? Did you ever see light go down around a curved piece of lucite and go out the other end of the thing, and go in spirals and all that sort of thing?

Now this doesn’t mean that you have to get a black spot of that magnitude and that commanding reality and that commanding beingness and „I own it and it’s mine“ in order to have a mock-up or in order to have some certainty on a mock-up. He’d just come up scale, up scale, up scale; a little bit higher certainty, and all of a sudden he’d hit a level of certainty, that’s all. And that’s a level of certainty. This is a very high level of certainty. Because, that’s a gradient scale of knowingness. The more he can do that and the better he can do that, the more he will be interested. Why? Because interest is native to the thetan. It’s above the level – just above the level of interest and interesting – he’s nothing – he’s nothing.

Well, his perception energy, what little there is of it from the MEST universe, is coming in and hitting one or another part of a ridge and he’s registering at the point of impact. You will see this manifestation once in a while? He’s not out of his head. He has to have Step Four run on him, but good – badly. He’s in brutal condition. And loss of memory. That’s . odd, isn’t it? His memory’s bad and yet he’s holding on to everything.

So, it is of the utmost that he is led by interest. And any time he stagnates and it isn’t interesting, what is that a diagnosis of? You see that he’s not being interested, all of a sudden. It’s a diagnosis of the fact that he has hit an automaticity which needs resolving. That’s all. And the way you resolve it is just make him drill much more arduously and precisely with mock-ups. And particularly favor conserving mock-ups, making them persist, making them more complex and putting more perceptions in them.

His primary illness are arthritis, various other conditions, uh… glandular upsets of one sort or another, having to do with impedence of all outflowing glands. Fascinating, isn’t it? And his level of sensation is all hooked up too close. For instance, he seldom has the lower line I showed you on a graph there one day, going down to the genitalia. It goes into his throat! The one that’s supposed to reach all the way down to the genitalia ends in his throat. He… he’s just short-circuited like mad, see? He’s even pulled that line too tight. He’s holding everything in and he pulls everything in too hard.

Now in the field of sensation, you don’t think you’ve even vaguely entered the field of sensation with homo sapiens, do you? He’s only got 55 emotions or – uh… pardon me – uh… perceptions. (He hasn’t anywhere near that emotions – he’s only got five or six good emotions, maybe eight at the outside. They’re real heavy predominant, that can be felt easily.) Sensation is a wide subject and sensation is the parallel subject of interest and enters higher wave bands along the aesthetics than are entered by any other type of flow. And sensation itself can be, evidently, above the level of flow.

So when he pulls in a facsimile, he of course pulls in half of a hundred facsimiles or half a’ thousand facsimiles, all crowded together in one little spot. And you start to get him to run one facsimile and you say, „Let’s get one picture of your father.“ Now many things can happen to him. He can get an automaticity going – brrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not of his father; of George Jones, of Bill Gates, Of… of… of Tom Esso – all these people, one after the other will go brrrrrrrrrr – only go so fast he can’t see them. That’s automaticity. It’s enforced havingness. He is enforcing him… havingness on himself, because too many things have been taken away from him.

So you rehabilitate sensation and you continue to rehabilitate sensation and you hit very early in the case and get out of this automaticity of using the MEST body to prepare all sensation for us. And how do you do that? You make him feel emotions from mock-ups. I gave you that drill early in these lectures – emotions from mock-ups. And you ge… ge… take the emotions from low scale up scale until he can vary the emotions at will in any mock-up and re-perceive it. Until he can vary any… feel the thing he perceives in the whole area around him. And then you get mock-ups which get the highest and most powerful sensations in them. First you discover to him that he can pick up directly sensations from the MEST universe better than he can pick them up from himself – from the body – himself; he can do it directly. And in doing it directly, you will find that he suddenly really sparks up. He doesn’t really need this body. He isn’t dependent anymore.

So, now when you get these two conditions, then, of excessive departure and give, and excessive take, you get invisible engrams, you get invisible facsimiles. How do you remedy ‘em? Step Four, just as I gave it to you.

Because sensation and interest are levels, and if he can’t get sensation, he can’t get interest. The two interlock. And they follow all the way up the scale.

Now, let’s put this one down here. We have here ‘desire’ – this is a cycle of action. ‘Desire from self, from others, to ourself, to others’ – that’s uh… all under desire. All right, now let’s look over here in the middle. Now we have in the middle bracket. (I’m just going to put it down here in a… in a ‘V’ below because there just isn’t enough space.) ‘Enforced conviction of need by self, by others’ – enforced conviction of need by self, by others – that’s by self and by others. And ‘enforced conviction of not need – enforced conviction of not need by others, by self and by any object – by others, self and objects’.

And that’s how you lead a fellow into an operating thetan, is you just make sure that he can feel all these emotions and sensations, first from the MEST universe itself, and to make an operating thetan from mock-ups which are MORE real, which are QUITE ACTUAL and have a GREATER DEGREE OF ACTUALITY than guess what? MEST universe things. And that includes any sensation you can name, including the taste of pepper. And if you can do that, then your preclear is led right on UP the scale and he can always make things more complex.

It does not matter, then, whether you’ve got a give or a take. The ‘take’ case is the ‘need’, he’s the ‘have’; and the ‘give’ case is the ‘don’t need’, ‘do without’, and ‘have not’, you know? Give it away – have not. And they’ll make a scarcity for everybody else they get in connection with too, by the way. They make a sc… make things scarce for others without realizing what they’re doing. They won’t have items available for people that they’re supposed to supply and they’ll just short-circuit, in other words, all of these needs. And they’ll get everything boiled down. And although they might hold on to a bright bauble every once in a while or something like that – or they wouldn’t be operating at all if they didn’t hold on to something – why they’re making a scarcity.

But things get simpler and more beautiful and more interesting and more intense and more concentrated and more able, the higher and higher he goes toward an operating thetan, and he’s led by interest and the keynote of that interest is sensation.

But the other fellow makes a scarcity too. He’s the ‘have’, but only he can have.

That does not mean that you’re trying to make just a sensation – hungry thing from him, because without some sensation, one doesn’t even know he’s alive. And for this thetan to know he’s alive, he’s got to be able to go down the street and he smells all the fruit in the fruit stand as he goes by the fruits and…

And so anything he gets hold of, oh, it gets sort of colored this way. And uh… you get this as the center scale here: Enforced – he’s got an enforced conviction of need by self. Boy, when he needs something, he’s got more reasons why he has to have it. And every one of these reasons is absolutely logical.

Did you ever see a dog… did you ever see a dog out on a trip, and the dog’s got his nose out the window and the dog’s going „sniff-sniff-sniff – sniff-sniff, aha, aha, aha, aha – gee! Cows!“ He’s saying, „Cows and… and… and gosh, look at that barn! Barn full of… And there’s been a cat passed here and…“ Boy, he is interested.

And when he starts needing something, he can’t stop. He has no control over wanting, needing or having.

Well, you know that man has practically lost that? Not that he should pattern himself on a dog either, but a thetan can go past a fruit stand and he can get the sensation of every fruit there. And there’s more to a fruit than the sensation of smell, of taste – there’s just dozens of them.

Very early in his life a fellow with a pattern which is all set to roll that way might not be all stacked up with ridges yet, and yet he was demonstrating this, because when he’s… when he started eating he couldn’t stop eating. He’d get this appetite – it’d go „amph-amph-amph,“ and… and… and he’d drink anything good, it disappeared – gulp! Heavy greed line without an energy level sufficient to handle it. Now if he could manufacture energy, he could want, need, have, all he wanted to – because he’d be able to outflow too. But he’s stuck on an inflow.

And then there’s sensations of going into the library and feeling what all the people have been doing with the books and what they thought of when they read them – much more interesting than reading the books – there’s nothing in the books.

Now people enforce his having, he enforces having on other people and then he creates a scarcity to further enforce their having by taking away from them anything they have. He makes any object that he gets hold of collect only items which he forces upon it, not items which do it any good.

So you’ve got all sorts of tricks and I hope you understand that. The road toward sensation, the road toward interest, is away from automaticity and toward being able to perceive from things one has made – all the sensation and more sensation than he was ever able to obtain in the MEST universe. And at one level of the tone scale, when you first start into this, when your preclear first starts into it, he’s pretty blind about it. He doesn’t know how bright even this MEST universe can be, how interesting. And he has just gone… drawn back from it.

If you will look at one of the pieces of equipment that such a person is running, you will find that it is adorned with all kinds of gimmickgahoojits and mechanisms which do not promote its running – but it has to have them – he knows that. And every time he gets any kind of an idea or something of this sort, it gets super adorned with all sorts of irrelevancies. He just gets these terrific irrelevancies. He doesn’t stay on any… any type of line of logic at all. He’s really quite scattered.

He gets up into a level of interest that makes a little kid’s most intense moment look very pale.

Now when he manufactures something or he produces something, he will produce it, and then he won’t deliver it. You’ll see these people around in business. They’ll take orders, they own big establishments, they take lots of business and they’re all on the brink of ruin all the time. Always on the brink of ruin. That’s because they have to have so badly they can’t give anything in order to have some more. And what’s that result in?

Now, I’ve talked often about regaining the feeling of the morning when you woke up early and the sun was bright and just coming up and there was dew all over the ground, and you were a little kid and you looked out and it was a new day, and you certainly want to be able to gain that, because you can gain that now, quite easily. Just use Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, and remembering that we mustn’t let our preclear lag or sag at any time, because he’s getting things too automatic. Jar him out of it and push him on up the scale further.

All right, now here’s your conviction of ‘not need’ and this is your… your conviction of ‘need’ is the ‘have’, ‘want’ and uh… ‘will have’ case. That’s one type of case and that is the… the „take“ case. And down here is the ‘give’ case. And the ‘give’ case is a ‘have not’ – really ‘wants not’. But that’s… this is all in a gradient scale because you can see that ‘have… give’ cases is at various levels of the tone scale, and they still follow the tone scales out of the Science of Survival. You just look on that tone scale; you recognize these people.

You think there’s a satiation to it? No, it’s only when he gets back in the rut of automaticity that there is insufficient interest to command his continuing attention.

And the ‘won’t have’. Now these people run on the tone scale in gradients so that one is above the other. So here we’ve got the ‘enforced’ in the middle of it.

And what’s it all add up to? It adds up to a loss, which is ‘inhibition’. That’s all at the end of the cycle – that’s all. You go on either of those two cycles with an imbalance of flow and it results in loss. The one thing which has this man terrified is loss – the ‘have’ case, the ‘take’ case. He’s TERRIFIED of loss. You would be utterly amazed at what loss will do to him.

Now he can get so bad and low-toned that he… you see, there’s many of these cases, there are harmonics on the tone scale, because there’re the various inflow lines. There’re the inflow lines, see?

And here’s a little heavier one. But they’re these heavy inflows. And… and what… what have you got here? Uh… this is… this would be the ‘take’ and that’s a heavy inflow in Figure 2. And here’s a ‘give’ – figure 3 is your flow-disperse. And then disperse – get the idea? These persons are your dispersal people.

And the people who do flows on the track are the people who keep the universe going. And for those people, the ‘give’ case is… scatters and makes a scarcity of things and won’t use. And the ‘take’ case grabs everything in sight and won’t put it into circulation. You put something in their hands that has to circulate, it’s not an object – „Oh, no!“ you say, „This is impossible!“ You say, „This thing has to circulate. Otherwise, it has no commodity.“ And they’ll sit there and they’ll hold on to it. And then one day they’ll wonder why. As little… little children they possibly held on to the kitten so caressingly that it died. And the other one didn’t want to have anything to do with anything.

Now your ‘take’ case is holding on to every death, every death, every grave in facsimile, a facsimile of every dollar, of every coin, of every jewel – the whole list there – of every member of the opposite sex, of every friend and, unfortunately what predominates in all this is what he’s trying to get rid of. He wants these other things and he’s trying to differentiate and when he gets too low on the tone scale he can’t differentiate anymore.

So what’s he do? He’s trying to concentrate on those things which leave… which must leave, which is bad things, bad communications, enemies, bad incidents, pain. And he starts concentrating on these things. Why? One reason is ‘cause he wants the other. He wants the pleasure out of this so of course he gets the pain. And then he’ll concentrate on the pain and he’ll want to push the pain away from him because the more he pushes the pain away from him the more he gets it. Because he’s dependent upon flows.

And what’s in common between both of these cases? Well, I write it right straight down here: Flows.

And that is what’s wrong with it and, of course, flows have a dependency on what? Anchor points.

So we have Step Four working like mad – to do what? Let’s be just a little bit more precise here and put way up at the top of this draft now „Loss is similar to forget, is similar to not have is similar to“ next line „uh… forced ownership – forced owning, is similar to not knowing“ – see, you get your identification here – „is similar to an obsession, is similar to not know – well, is… it’s similar to a possession, have“ – just scrambling this whole up – „is similar to not know.“

That’s the key-note, then, of all those similarities. I mean, it doesn’t natter which way you write these similarities. The ‘not have’ is similar to the ‘have’. He’s just going in an opposite direction. ‘Forget’ is ‘have’ or ‘not have’ in extremes. ‘Forget’ evolves from the ability to handle flows. Automaticity is set up because the fellow becomes afraid that he’ll have to use too much energy, and he thinks there’s a scarcity of energy. So then he starts setting up automaticity that runs on small amounts of energy which, of course, obscures everything he knows and starts up this condition of being terribly dependent upon flows.

So he depends on sensation and everything else he depends on flows. If he can’t manufacture flows in order to obtain sensations and all the rest of that, he just… he just won’t obtain anything.

Now, you could unscramble that at the top by saying ‘loss’ is ‘forget’. And you could put in here… „abandonment and forced ownership, abandonment, not knowing or obsession, have, not know“ – it’s the same deal.

What… what do you remedy then?

Why can’t this fellow remember any women? Well, he can’t remember ‘em because too many have flown in on him and he doesn’t want to push away any of ‘em out.

And why can’t this other one remember no women? Because it’s a ‘give’ case and they all fly away the second they try to put their finger on something about it. Same difference. You’ve got the scarcity and the ‘to have’ and you remedy it on opposite vectors and flows, use the mock-ups for the flows and you have what happens to memory.

And this is how you equalize flows, then abandon flows and have no more flows and do memory straight on a pervasion basis, on an approximation basis, or an actual data basis. And that’s all there is to it. Let’s take a break.