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

This is the second hour, night lecture, December the 10th, and we are continuing here the characteristics of energy, as they exist around a thetan. And they exist around a thetan in this wise. But of course a thetan can handle energy much better than a pc can. So when the thetan is nailed down in a pc, this whole picture is confounded by the fact that – what do you know, the body has a whole set. Furthermore the GE, boy, he’s a killer! You know, you talk about Rube Goldberg! You know, the little man, how… how to change… how to change the license plate on a car. Little man A takes off radiator cap, which boils over and spills on a cat, who runs on to a treadmill, the treadmill winds up a basketball which drops in the basket, a basketball player – complete non sequiturs.

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

This uh… GE has himself some standard and permanent sets of anchor points. And he’s evidently got himself or other entities or beings or thetans like him, so forth, posted around at various places. Sometimes one out there, there’s one out there, there’s uh… one in here, there’s one down here, there’s a couple there, so on. It’s very interesting. It’s anatomy. I don’t know, maybe there’s some out there… I never looked at the anatomy of the GE to amount to anything. I’ve glanced at it once in a while. And he’s sort of stretched nets, that you would call matrix’s and so on uh… around to catch things, and not-catch things, and build on, and not-build on. You’ll find that the charge on one side of these ridges is one way, and on the other side of the ridge the other way.

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

Now I won’t attempt to tell you in an atomic explosion which side of the ridge is plus and which side is minus, but one side is plus and the other side is minus. What do you know? Energy particles go in one way, and they come out the other, or the whole ridge, I suppose, at one instant along the line someplace would be a total plus, if you kept the explosion going, and one instant it’d be a total minus, and then it’d be a minus-plus, then a plus-minus. They’d keep reversing. You know, nothing like change to keep an explosion going. It’d change potential plus to minus, minus to plus, and uh… become all one for an instant with the ridges being the pull-through. Very well worked out system.

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

But uh… you look at these ridges around the GE, and you’ll find such things as the motivators, more or less, accumulated uh… on one side of him, and the overt acts kind of on another side of him and he’s gotten himself arrested in terms of an explosion, then he keeps plastering things on the explosion. He’s… the whole body is built out of sequences of ridges and very nice patterns. It’s all… it’s all cute, and very nice, and so on.

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

I… I uh… we could spend an awful lot of time, waste an awful lot of time talking about the anatomy of anchor points and matrixes. That is sketched nets and things like that to catch things, which makes up the anatomy of the human body. Oh, we could just spend an awful lot of time on this! And if we did this, of course we’d be studying medicine. And uh… the study of medicine as such, and the conduct of the medical college, and so on, is generally left to physicians. And uh… in view of the fact that uh… they know their electronics well, and uh… so forth, why we’ll just have to leave that anatomy to somebody else.

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

So then there’s no sense in talking about basic and elementary electronics. He no sense in talking about this ‘cause that’s all fully cared for in the field of structure.

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

Now, when… when you look at Mr. GE, and you realize how he’s been compounding and flattening down, and squaring around and holding shape, and everything else, you’d think to yourself, „Boy, here is a superior illusion!“

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

Now you can get that feeling sometimes about the GE. Sometimes a preclear’ll get that, and there’ll be little light flashes appear around him. It’s quite an explosive thought, is a… well, heck! You can’t see anything the thetan is making, in terms of mock-ups, and you can sure feel this thing the GE’s got. So the GE must’ve mocked up one hell of an illusion here, ‘cause it’s got you… you nailed down, hasn’t it? Well, if… if the GE… if the GE weren’t using MEST universe energy, why that would be one thing. But he happens to be using MEST universe energy, and he’s just gluing it together a little bit, and he’s a process of counter-efforts, and refining those, and taking the next mean point of counter-efforts, and his design levels and so on are all… all built out of service and experience. And he’s using joiners.

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

There isn’t any disease known to man at this moment, which is left rampant amongst homo sapiens for the next few thousand years or few hundred thousand years, but would become a service cell. It would turn from being it’d… first it’d be… you see, it’s a parasite. It doesn’t intend to kill the body, and it’s parasitic, and it wants to keep the host alive, and it… th… these things get over-enthusiastic, bacteria does. And it gets so enthusiastic that it moves in on the individual, the body, and kills the host. And then of course a disease which does that I… runs in epidemics, sort of ridges, all by itself. And these epidemics uh… kill off so many people that somebody declares war on the bacteria, moves away from the area or something.

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

But uh… in a few hundred thousand years these parasites settle down, they’re adapted uh… one way or the other; they adapt themselves to the host and so on, and they become uh… a gimmickahoojit to uh… uh… better salivatacate uh… oh, food, or something of the sort. They… they settle down and start to get service.

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

For instance, the phagocyte that rages around through the bloodstream, chewing up every foreign bug that comes along, boy, he’s like a small tank. He goes rolling around the… the white phagocyte, and he rolls around, and in comes bacteria, boy! White phagocytes are down there so fast you can practically… can’t figure out how they could get there that quick. You stick a guy with a needle. If you were to take a blood sample in the next few seconds, you’d find a lot of white phagocytes in it. They’ve heard „Emergency, dislocation“ Zong! They’re right down there, „Chew ‘em up!“ If there’s any bacteria… bacteria comes in, why, there’re a fight to the death. And the phagocytes best almost all bacteria that comes in. There’s quite a few that isn’t.

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

Uh… I think it was old Mecnicov that discovered these, and uh… their… their action… he assigned to them slightly more importance than they had. But he nevertheless pointed up this very interesting thing. But there’s something more interesting that could be pointed up there. And that is: the phagocyte was probably once, prior to his defensive attitude toward the body, about the body, and against invaders, uh… probably he was a body attacker. He’s done a lot of overt acts against the body; he’s now defending it.

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

Uh… but this is his house, and his space, and it’s all made for him, and he maintains it, and he goes on down the line – what do you know! And in the genes and chromosomes and that sort of thing, he makes sure that something gets passed along to the next body.

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

Now uh… the animation of this body, and the GE proper, and so on, may or may not follow the protoplasmic line. As far as I’ve been able to see, he skips. I haven’t even observed that well. I took a look, and uh… kind of looked that way, and we didn’t need the data so the devil with it. Uh… uh… he might go right along with the uh… he… he might really go right along with the protoplasm line, and the preclear’s just… what I’ve examined on the thing were just a little bit vague about the whole thing. The surveys seem to indicate that he… the GE was a being who was skipping along the line. That is to say he was following along the line much as the thetan follows along the line.

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

But this thing that was following along the line might not have been properly the GE – who cares? is all this amounts to. You’ve got a protoplasm line; you’ve got bodies being made, and there’s a being that takes care of this body and that being isn’t the thetan. That’s all you have to know, because from there on you’re processing the thetan. You do not want to process the GE.

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

You could have a lot of fun processing the GE, and somebody can set it up sometime for a super-doctorate certificate, somebody can set this up, but uh… no importance. Uh… you’ll find a lot of thetans think it’s awful important, they come in there propitiate, propitiation, propitiation, propitiation, propitiation. And uh… GE. They get outside the body and then they think „Oh, that poor GE!“ and they’ve got to rush back in, and so on, „Care of the body. Care of the body. Use chlorophyll toothpaste. Pay your dentist eight times a year.“ I mean, pardon me, „Have him inspect your teeth,“ uh… so on and so on and so on and so on.

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

Sure! Sure you want to keep the piece of machinery up. Run it into the grease shop and once in a while… and stuff something down its throat three times a day. But you’d be surprised how much better it works if you don’t give a hang how it works. Take it out and throw it in a damp straw and let it sleep, and pick it up the next morning and start it on its way. It’d be quite amusing to you, what would happen if you stopped babying your body. If you never paid very much attention to how much food you ate, and never paid much attention to how much sleep you got, or anything like that, it’d just be amazing the level of health that would suddenly take over. Oh, you’d go around ready to bite iron bars in half as far as the body is concerned.

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

Because this body was made to be threatened with death three times a day. There’s nothing like being brought up to present time, and there’s nothing like being threatened with death to bring somebody up to present time. And it frankly needs an area SHOCK, continually, in terms of up to present time. And uh… back in the primordial swamp… I don’t know what that word „primordial“ means, but uh… professor Rumpcussus always uses it, so… when we have this uh… primordial swamp, he walks along there, if a snake wasn’t striking at him from this bush, and if a… a rock wasn’t sweeping down on him to carry him away, or a Pterodactyl or something, uh… whatever they are, uh… they would get sluggish, you know, and go back down the time track.

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

The proof of this is the fact that nobody ever goes nuts in a bombing. They wait until long after the war. Then they suddenly decide that there’s… they don’t feel well, or they’re nervous, or something of the sort. And uh… you start running it and so on, you’ll occasionally find ‘em sitting around looking at the bomb blast, and you’ll find them stuck on the track here and there with regard to it. But that’s because of explosions and the fixation which they have on explosions. It’s NOT because the bombing was detrimental.

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

Action is NOT… it’s a very funny thing, but action is NOT aberrative, beyond furnishing counter-efforts and efforts and making new facsimiles with which to build. And as long as a fellow is in action, even the GE can handle the new facsimiles coming in. It’s when the fellow isn’t in action any more that he folds up. You take this soldier, he’s up there, he’s going out on the parapet, and kapow kapow bang bang, and he’s over and under, and bang, down again, and more explosions going off, and he drops and rolls, and… and so on, and all of a sudden he stops one.

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

Well, he… if they took him back to the dressing tent, still hear the guns going. Take him back to the dressing tent, bind him all up, give him a little blood transfusion uh… fix him up, and say, „Okay now, we hope you’ll be a little bit better; you can join your company very shortly, let’s get… get going.“ He would actually heal right up, and go right back into action again, provided you could let him go back into action with some part of his anatomy that’s concerned. But that’s a funny thing; they can do that.

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

You ought to see some of the troops that the US for instance has, the… there was practically… wasn’t a whole soldier in all of Custer’s cavalry. It was uh… one dying of TB, and another one’s lost his arm, and… and uh… they were a bunch of wrecks. And yet they could take a modern… a modern company, and they could have walked their heels off! A modern company or a cavalry unit wouldn’t have known what the heck was happening. ‘Cause they didn’t… oh, nobody had any fixation on care of the body. A body was something you parked underneath the forage wagon, or you parked under a bush, and… and you… it slept, and you’re up and at ‘em and you’re expected to endure hardship, and the philosophy was: the body that can’t endure hardship hasn’t any right to live. That was the philosophy of the thing.

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

Uh… that fellow was very proud. He says „You know, I have uh… I carry no frying pan…“ Fellow’s just crossed five hundred miles of plains, he carries no frying pan, and uh… only one thin blanket. And he carried no rations with him; he lived off the country. And uh… that proved that he was a man. And uh… uh… some fellow that carried a frying pan and had two blankets – boy was he a sissy!

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

But uh… this soldier that… he’s shot, if you let him recover, right there, oho! He’s… comes right out of it. But now let’s take him back to the base hospital, and let’s put him where it’s quiet, and let’s have… let him have a rest, and let’s take care of him, and let’s give him uh… well, rehabilitation therapy, you know, and let him fix something, and make something, and a hobby, and have people quiet around him, and he goes nnyyyaaarrrrwwww – crash!

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

Well, they’re telling him all the time, „You poor thing. You’re of no use anymore. And you’ve got to take care of the body now. So I guess your usefulness is over.“ ‘Cause that’s… the moment a man decides that, his usefulness IS over. „I’ve got to take care of the body.“

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

You can trace back a preclear, and you say, „When did you first start to cave in?“ It will be on this silly one. Maybe he was just a little kid. But he got awful sick. And he had people around him all the time telling him he had to take care of the body, and he was awful sick. He had measles. But he’d keep getting up and trying to go around the house and play and he felt pretty groggy, but they keep putting him back in bed, and he gets up, and they put him back in bed, and he gets up, and they put him back in bed, and they say, „But Johnny, you’re awfully sick!“ He gets up, put him back in bed again, and all of a sudden the hell with it!

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

Was it the measles or being put back to bed when he was in a state of anaten? Was it being handled and positioned? Located in space and time, when he was anaten? Or was it the measles that fixed it up so he had this rash the rest of his life? I’m afraid if they just let little Johnny… he had the measles so they said, „All right, don’t go near the other kids ‘cause you’ll give ‘em something-or-other; just stay away from them for pyrotechnic reasons or whatever you call them,“ and you g… just uh… uh… clear away on that, but uh… not limit him in the yard, or even limit him in the house or limit what he’s going to do. Sure, he feels sick. He’ll fall over on his face a couple of times, and he’ll pick himself up, and it won’t ever occur to him he… him he’s not supposed to use this tool called the body until he’s practically convinced with a brickbat. And he gets convinced – he’s done!

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

Now you can look back along the line, at the time here in this society when your preclear was suddenly convinced that he had to take a rest. He was convinced simultaneously that he was not free to use this body as he chose. And your disability of the body begins from there. The body was meant to be picked up by the scruff of the neck, thrown across the primordial swamp, jump sidewise eighteen times at the striking snakes, get up in the tree, uh… cut the throat of a leopard that was there before you, and get up just a little bit higher, and then make funny „Yeah, yeah, yeah“ noises at whatever was chasing you that made you run through the swamp to miss the snakes, to have to kill a leopard to get up in the tree.

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

And that was routine, for homo sapiens’ body. Completely routine. You want to get rid of the effect, being an effect of the body, just use hell out of it! Just say there isn’t any reason why it can’t drink all the liquor it can hold, that it can… there isn’t any reason why it can’t run a mile, like a quarter-horse, there isn’t any reason why it should not be thrown around in automobiles carelessly driven. There’s no reason it shouldn’t, quote, be thoroughly abused, unquote, straight down the track. Because in order to come up tone scale, the individual will find himself doing that. If he just is brought up tone scale, he’ll find himself doing it. And if he just does it he comes up tone scale faster. You can get there with processing or otherwise.

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

Now you can get your preclear to suddenly say, „I want to live!“ Wham! He’ll come right up along the line. And what do you… how do you say, „I want to live“? Be perfectly free to use the body in whatever way he chooses. You see, he’s actually perfectly free to get the body electrocuted, he’s perfectly free to get the body uh… run over by a truck, he’s perfectly free to use this body to dig a hole in the ground eighty-two feet deep, eighty-two feet on the side, and eighty-two feet wide. And then fill it up again, just for the hell of it.

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

The GE functions when the GE is used. And he doesn’t function otherwise. He requires a strong whip. He is so enMESTed, he’s so much MEST, he’s so close to MEST, that he only understands one thing. And that is, „You will!“ „No backchat!“

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

If… if you just suddenly were… you know these seven uh… pardon me… six compartments of the body? The inner and outer uh… entities, and all of this, you can get these things to answer up on E-meters and tell you the darnedest things. You know that… you know you can uh… a fellow’s having trouble with his left shoulder and his right shoulder and his small of his back and so forth, well why don’t you just say, „Well why don’t you tell these entities to… to snap to, and get busy?“ And maybe for five or ten minutes after he does that, he just simply commands them to do something or other, or be busy or something or other, he just asserts his command level over them. He’s living in the darnedest state of being quiet! His body’s suddenly quiet.

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

Occasionally some preclear’ll come to you and say, „You know, my body just clamors all the time, it just seems like…“ or, „Last night I was sitting there and I just heard all these voices talking and… and… and uh… parts of my body seemed to be alive, and they were… one part was arguing with another part, and so on.“ Sure they were! Hmm hmmm, the entities had gotten completely out of command, out of control. The thetan who would let a body do that has been fraternizing with the troops! And there’s nothing more murderous, or upsetting than thinking, „Well now, we have the Greaaaat Brotherhood. Let’s all be brothers on the MEST level.“ The second we’re all brothers on the WEST level that makes the entities brothers too. And as soon as they’re brothers with the thetan, the thetan can’t command them, and they don’t know where they’re going or what they’re doing. They’re stuck all over the time track. They’re stuck in deaths, and they’re stuck this way… they’re a11 psycho! And actually they calm right down, but quick, if you just suddenly say, „You will, that’s all. No backchat.“

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

All of a sudden the body feels tired. Just take it as a drill sometime. The body feels very tired. Say, „The hell with it!“ And go out and do something that you know very well pro… probably’ll make it collapse! If the body feels very tired, so just take it by the scruff of the neck, and go out and make it get a shovel, and start digging. Sounds nonsensical. You should obviously go to bed. And if you have uh… if you have a cold coming on, you know that you should take it very very easy, and… and so forth, and take it very comfortable – go find some mud puddles and walk through them. Or mock up some and walk through them.

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

Now you get the general idea? This GE is built out of MEST, and has a MEST orientation. That is to say, he’s not built out of MEST, he specializes in MEST, and he has a MEST orientation, and by golly, you see that coke bottle there? Well I can stand here and I can say, „Now look, coke bottle! Be… let’s be very very calm and… and… and so forth, and… and uh… uh… eh… you know you’re not supposed to be there! Uh… and so on… because it makes the platform here look tacky, and you shouldn’t be there, and I think the best thing for you to do is to, please, won’t you please, please move off, and go down there on the side of the platform? Well, go on! Move off down there.“ It’s not going anyplace, is it? That’s ‘cause it’s MEST. No. Here’s the way to get the coke bottle down here…

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

Uh… you notice, it didn’t have a word to say! It didn’t. It… it won’t even chatter back. There are other ways of handling it. It probably, if it remembers anything at all, does remember being zapped. You could actually… you can go up to the point of shattering the coke bottle if you want to. Monkeying it up like that. And actually you start to have to have enough energy to punish the hell out of something, on that level of being MEST, if it won’t do what it’s supposed to do. You got to have the horsepower in order to handle it, in other words.

That’s the Assumption. That incident.

The GE made himself up this way to be used. He has lost all directional control, except the control of keeping the heart running and keeping the breath going, and working the muscles this and that way. Now he can actually do a much better job of running the body than you think he can, but he only does it when he’s really settled down on one thing: Who’s boss. If he thinks he’s the boss… how would you like to hire as a housekeeper somebody who periodically met you at the door and told you that uh… well, the house was pretty upset, and so forth, and you’d better not come in, you’d better go to a hotel tonight. Hmm? Yet that’s the way most people treat this GE. They go to the hotel, and they say, „Well, it’s not my house.“

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

Truth of the matter is it ISN’T your house. You’re a darned pirate! You got no business using this GE’s body in the first place. But now that you’ve assumed the right to use it and you’ve gotten that far on „Let’s pretend,“ that you have the right to use it, for golly sakes don’t be coy about it! If you want the body to operate, operate it! Make it do anything you want to do. It argues… fies, and spewdifies and it says it can’t do this and it can’t do that, and this has to happen and that has to happen before it can do something or other. The dickens it does! This is just command of the body.

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

Now let’s look at something a little bit further than that. The body’s built out of force! It’s made out of force and it’s handled by force, not by reason. Truth of the matter is that halfway up the band there isn’t any reason. You don’t have to have a reason. You don’t talk anything to anybody, you just use it, that’s all. I mean, you do it. You act. You have to be willing to act without reason – and by the way, that’s quite a sensation. That’s therapy. You know, there’s some… some boys around in the past, have uh… given some inspirational sort of falderal, said, „Now, the way to reach present time is through action, and you should have action in present time. And that’s all there is to it, now if you will just act in present time, you’ll get well.“ Well, the fellow is following a pattern which is rather obvious, he knows no other mechanics in it, and he could beat the drum with this thing, and sell it by the bottle, and uh… he’ll get some people who are well occasionally. They’ll know no other mechanics than this, action in present time.

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

I suppose they got that datum through empirical observation. They found out that psychotics that shivered more or shook more or jumped up and down more, and so forth, probably lived uh… longer after the electric shock. They probably lived minutes longer, or something, than a preclear who wasn’t jumping around. Or other… some empirical data that gave this. All right. Action through present time.

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

Now, your… your preclear will pick that up. He’ll go into it for the sake of action. You want him to go on upscale from there, possibly. And if you do, you’ll just keep processing him. But you’ll have a rough time of it. Because he… he’s getting awful tough by this time. So you better get awfully tough as an auditor. You better be twice as tough as any preclear you’ve ever got. Don’t try to handle preclears who are sort of hard-boiled, and, „let’s get action“ and… and that sort of thing, when you yourself are saying, „Well, I’m doing my noble best. Here we are, all together, and I probably will be left behind because I can’t be cleared…“ And you… you are operating in that band, you’re sinking yourself awful quick!

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

So when we look this picture over, we find out that the GE is built out of force, and here we will deal strictly with various manifestations hereof. Let’s look at the GE head-on. Let’s look at him front… on front-wise. With the body, and it’s built-up ridges and so on, that are inherent to it, and so on, head-on, and we will find out that there’s one that goes here… and there’s one goes here… these are ridges, sort of, more or less through there. And then there’s one that goes in through here… kind of… and then there’s one that goes here… and then there’s one that goes in here… And sometimes some people have one across here… and sometimes there are compartments across the wrists.

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

These are ridges of some sort or another. And uh… sometimes, by the way, there’ll be a second ridge out here, wider than the shoulders… and down… might not be as far down as the leg. That’s the appearance these things have. Oh, pardon me, that’s the way the preclear FEELS they are.

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

Now every one of those compartments will… will get a plus-minus basis. They’ll run plus in one direction and minus in the other direction, and oh, it’s… it’s joyous to behold! You… you’ll get all kinds of combinations. And this is of course the central division, line A-B here. Line A-B is a division. One side of that will be plus, the other side’ll be minus. If they both become plus, or something like that, you don’t get body action to amount to anything. If they both became minus more or less the same thing would happen. Or if you ground the two out one against the other you’ll find the guy starts to have difficulty in handling energy. Or you can just round them out and flatten them out sometimes. Very interesting things result from this.

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

But over here you might get, you know, more or less optimum case, you get a plus and a minus side to the body. Two sides of the body. And you get a potential on one side. Then your line A-B really is a slice. All of these things are compartments. They’re ridges. They’re part of old ridges and complexities of explosions. This is a… A-B has depth which I now draw in, really, it’s a… it’s a plane, kind of goes through the body.

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

Now what that thing is is insulation. It’s something like you’d put into an electronic gimmick. And you get a plus and a minus on the body. This is a very elementary dissertation on it. But the thing keeps changing potential one way or the other. When you’ve got a case of stroke you’ve got one side of this arrested, and it won’t change potential. When you’ve got a stroke on your hands, I mean some stroke case, he’s just not operating at fifty percent of that.

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

Now a fellow, after he’s had a shock, very often isn’t operating on fifty percent. He… oper… operating on one side. Now you get little minor divisions of this. How do you get minor divisions of it? Well, this slice, way out here, that we will call uh… Location G out here, uh… that might be dead. And the fellow’s never noticed it.

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

Now if you turn this body over on the side, here, if you turn this body over on the side, you would find more or less the same sort of thing uh… occurred. And you’ve got side-slices here. The most beautiful array of stuff. There’s one out here, cuts the face off and goes down there, and one on the back of the head… goes that way. In other words you’ve got all of these sectional compartments, actually. They’re electronic implants that help put these things in. There’s all sorts of reasons back of this, and besides the natural reason’s that there’s a series of natural core patterns. That is… they’re… they’re the core of this… spheres of ridges, this universe. One of those things discharges against another one, back and forth, so you’ll get areas that are dead, and areas that are over-charged, and you’ll get all sorts of strange and peculiar electrical manifestations on the part of the preclear. The essence of the operation of the body is to have these things in a fair condition of insulation, so that they will flick, plus-minus, when required, and so the body can be handled by potentials.

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

You’re not trying to knock out these compartments, like A-B and so on. If you were to suddenly reach out, way out in front, here up here is some kind of an anchor point. Anchor point. And if you were to reach up here, on one of those anchor points, you were… you would find out that uh… there’s all sorts of structure hung. You… your… your GE is not a compact item at all. He’s just all over the shop. So your anchor points uh… of the body are actually uh… solid in. He’s got his own space. The thetan gets quite willing to use these as anchor points.

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

You want to look around for a couple of anchor points of the body? How about looking out… way out there somewhere, out there in front of your body, and look way out here. Just look up at those two points. Look in those two directions. Some of you’ll be able to see ‘em. You’ve been walking around, passing this stuff through doors, and all sorts of things, it… it… it’s really quite an apparatus. It’s an electrical apparatus.

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

If some engineer wants to build a robot, uh… he’s got a good pattern here in energy exchanges, pluses, minuses, all that sort of thing. Fascinating! It’s an electronic machine. It is a carbon-oxygen engine. Low heat, 98.6 temperature. Combustion, low combustion. Did you know that you could actually put vegetables, rotten vegetables, in the gas tank of a car and have it run? It will. There’s a kind of a car, they used to do this over in Japan. They had a charcoal burner in the back of the car, and all you did was dump the charcoal in the back end of the car and it ran on charcoal. It’s kind of cold, and it kind of stinks, but uh… and that makes it different than this body. This body in its combustion does not stink.

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

So, anyway, we… we get this carbon-oxygen engine which is built on electronic principles, and which has all these sketch points. And your thetan is in the middle of all this structure. He’s right here, at the point I’ve got marked „T“ in most cases. And where I have marked „T“ on this side view, if you can call that a view.

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

Now, I’m telling you all this, I’m telling you all this, because I’m only showing you this structure close-up. By the way, did any of you see those anchor points? You didn’t see it? It’s interesting, put a mockup s… out there in that direction some time or another, and start to wock… work mock-up’s for a little while, and anchor points, or balls, will show up. They’re globes. Fascinating! By the way, does anybody got a kind of the idea like his body’s liable to cave in, or something? Several of you have! It won’t, it won’t. I’ve mauled this around, I’ve gone and kicked so-called anchor points around on a body, and… and I’ve tried to tear ridges out of the middle of the body, and I’ve short-circuited bodies, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, when he laid himself together a carbon-oxygen engine, the GE really built one. It’ll go through practically anything! Even auditing!

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

So, now let’s take a little closer view of this carbon-oxygen engine, and let’s take a… a view at the crudest manifestation of it, which is all you’re interested in. And we’ll find… we’ll just do here the head, neck and back. That’s a… and that will be your side view, and here is a front view. Something on this order. All right, we’re not too interested in this, but we find your thetan where I’ve marked „T“, in each case. And we have here a right close-to-home piece of trouble. What bothers the thetan are those things made of his own wave length. He won’t much run into the GE’s ridges, but he’ll run into his own. And he’s got plenty of them! And he’s piled up energy around on the body in various places, so that he gets himself most beautifully loused up. He thinks he is where his ridge is, because he can act where the ridge is. So therefore he thinks he can perceive wherever he has an energy that can echo. He’s not outside when he’s doing that.

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

Don’t become unsure whether you’re outside or not. If you’re outside you know you are, and if you’re not outside you don’t know you are. There’s no gradient scale of being outside. Absolute, just like everything else. Actually, it’s more absolute when you get into it. You… when you say the guy is out, he does have the sensation of not being the body, and he is outside, and he’s free to observe without also observing the body.

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

And, you understand when I was telling you about snapping in tractor beams, and so on… A tractor beam snaps in here at the back of the head, tractor beam shortens up, the thetan gets in… wham! He’s trying to get something out of the body so another impulse comes over the thing and it shortens this tractor beam. He has a lovely time with that. And he’s still carrying around as one of the… as a pattern here, he’s still carrying in a ridge, which we will mark here „R1“. And he’s still got one there.

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

Now around the ear, we have a whole series of ridges, where sound has hit, and we will call these „Rs 2“. Now your thetan actually… your thetan actually has added to these ridges and hung up on these ridges. Now we’ve got another set of ridges, which are across here, and in quite a lot of preclears, we call that „R3“. That’s in front of the body and R3 on the front view might be something on this order: That’s all the thetan’s own wave length. That’s all his own energy. Which is this… this gets a little bit ghastly. Because when he runs into his own energy then he thinks he is there, and he’s not quite sure what the heck he’s doing.

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

Now out here at a little distance from the head, out here, we have „R4“. And over here underneath the chin we have „R5“. This is pretty rough. Sometimes it comes up to here. And on the back of the neck, going across the back of the neck, we have „R6“. Ridge, ridge, ridge, ridge.

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

Now, there’s been a heavy flow area in here, and this that I’m putting on is not a shock of hair; this is „R7“. And that can fold in here, and that gets thinner, like this. Now what are you looking at here? You’re not looking at an explosion-type set of ridges, really. They only vaguely match up to an explosion-type set of ridges, close-in, because he’s operating close-in in this universe at this time, at this moment, in a homo sapiens’ body. So you’re getting this peculiar inner structure. And he’s very intimate with this inner structure. And he’s packed around pretty good. Because he figures out he’s not very big.

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

Before he’s collected together, he thinks he’s very big. He might think he’s all over the place before he’s collected together. Then you collect him together to a point, and he becomes very sharp, and he can observe, and then he starts getting bigger again, and more and more he can handle force. First condition he’s running away from force a little bit, then he’s collected all together and he can handle force somewhat, and then he can disperse all over the place and handle all kinds of force.

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

So right close-in here, we’re not getting quite the pattern that you would expect you would get with a uh… the center of an explosion. But it will do for a little tiny set of dots. Actually… actually this guy goes out for miles! Well this is just the anatomy of just his little… little center beingness, right in the middle of what I was showing you earlier. Picture 10… figure 10.

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

Well now, that’s „R4“, and of course, this belongs to the side view, „R8“. It’s kind of out in front of him, like this. Of course R8 over here on this front view kind of just goes across, all the way across here. See? This is R8 also.

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

Well, there’s another ridge, with which he becomes involved very easily, and it’s that ridge from which he keeps himself disassociated, and from which he clamps down the pre-frontal lobes to keep the body from thinking. Sometimes in an excess of enthusiasm the thetan runs into this center point of view of the body, which is in the middle of the forehead, and which has been called, since time immemorial, the „Third eye“. It is the viewpoint of dimension of the GE and the body. It has not very much to do with the thetan. And that’s right here, at… in the front of the forehead, here. It’s uh… marked with „0“. And your thetan has a line , which I will draw here… thetan has this line, comes down like this, a dark line, and I mark that line „R9“. And that line, R9, would lie in the same plane with R8 on the front view. See, that’s right straight across. Cuts off the pre-frontal lobes and comes on down. It… sometimes it’s quite thin, quite embryonic.

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

Now inside the head, inside the head we have also some more control set-ups, and I’m going to draw these in, very very dark. There’s one on each side of the head, and that little patch in there is called… it’s a whole series of ridges, you could draw a big picture of the inside of the head showing all the energy deposits inside the head. Be quite a task, so we ought to map ‘em someday. And that we will call „R10“. Those motor control areas you start to pick up out of the motor controls.

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

Now, inside the head there is a division, which on the front view I am marking with line C-D. And that front view of the face, now, it seldom happens that more than half – you’ll notice here we’ve got a filled area – it seldom happens that more than half of the head is free or clear to the thetan. The other half, as I’ve indicated here – could be one half or the other half – will be all black. And this all-blackness is a… you… you… it… it’s very upsetting to him. He’s got a… half of his head’s hollow and the other’s black. Now when he starts to drag out, quite often your thetan finds himself turning this way and is stuck on one side of the body. He’s stuck to that side of the body which has the heaviest head ridge, which I’ve marked over here, on the front view, as „R11“.

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

All right. And by the way, I mark again R10 here, as motor controls, on the front view… R10. And when we get into this anatomy of ridges, what do we know? This whole picture gets terribly complicated by ends of terminals. There’s sometimes banana-like things which come into the eye and go around more or less to the ear or the temple. There are terminals which go off of the face and lead off into nowhere. There are old communication lines still hung up, way to hell and gone, up into space. And I don’t know what they’re connected with on most preclears. I know those that I… that… that they yank on, sometimes it practically blows them out of their seats. They s… yank on one of these lines, going up to Lord knows where, and it practically knocks them silly! But you have them grab on to those lines and just pull them loose. It puts them out of contact with whatever they’re into contact with.

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

So there’s these lines. In addition to this drawing here, then, you’ve got all sorts of… of terminals, and end of terminals, and communication lines, and all this sort of thing. Now these are all energy deposits that I’m drawing you, and they’re all more or less on the wave length of the thetan. And he’s trying to pull in his visio, and his sonic, and all the rest of this, with a little tiny distance. He’s trying to pull it in from a sixteenth of an inch. Or a half an inch, off the terminals in most cases. He’s trying to take sight off the optic nerves, and he’s only trying to get that much. The optic nerve’s a shock uh… thing. If anything blew up in his face he knows he’s safe, because it’ll already wave and give him warning, and he could get away from the optic nerve – he thinks. Of course he’s so silly by this time, if he’s all bedded down like this, he won’t know when that optic nerve is going to register and when it won’t and he wouldn’t be able to move or get away if he did.

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

Now uh… he uses the head for a kind of a shock absorber. Now all this is his own energy. And you all of a sudden get Mr. Thetan to move out of his head. Nnaarrww! On a case that’s rough, he runs back here into that ridge, he goes boom! If he gets out of that ridge he’s liable to go into that ridge, and go boom! If… and all of a sudden, he winds up, way out in front of the face. You’ll find most psychotics are out there about a yard in front of their face. They’ve blown clear straight through the head, and they’re sailing way out in front of themselves. They’re not even with themselves. They’ve run straight on through.

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

That is the last position. Possibly you could match the sanity, or lev… level of sanity of a thetan; a thetan’s always raving mad more or less. Anything that thinks he’s… thinks he’s worse than dead is raving mad. And you could probably raise his position of beingness, more or less in this wise:

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

Looking at the top here, and giving it uh… uh… figure „A“ up here. Here’s a head uh… facing that-a-way, and you have your thetan at first, when he first started contacting the body, he’d be clear back here and he’d feel pretty big, and uh… uh… then you’d find him in here… and then you find him in here… and all of a sudden you find him in here… and then you find him up here, kind of just… b… by the nose, and then you’d find him out a little bit in front of the face, and you finally wind him up here, he’s sort of on his way. Now this is position… One is the furtherest away, two, three, four beside the head, five, six. Now those don’t compare any way to case steps. That’s just uh… sort of graphing the position. And this would be over in term of many, many, many tens of thousands of years. The… you could… gradually, gradually forward, where he’s less and less able to control his body from a little distance, and all of a sudden he’s down there in the head controlling it.

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

Did you ever see anybody read a newspaper, and… and the print was small, and when they’re quite young they read the newspaper by walking in and glancing at it, and the next thing you know they’re a little bit closer to it, and the next thing you know they’re a little bit closer to it, and finally they’ve got glasses an inch thick, and there they are in their white stocking cap reading the newspaper right up close here. Uh… just a… they’ve got to be closer and closer and closer to communicate. Well, he’s closer and closer and closer. He’s kind of running downhill, see, in horsepower. And uh… most of your preclears are about 4 uh… I said that’s 5 and 6, that’s actually position 5, 6 and 7. Position 4 would be more or less in the center of the head, and position 5 would be almost out of the head. You’ll find a lot of preclears at 5, a lot of them at 4.

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

Well now uh… this is a heck of a note, when you start looking over figure A there. That because… because uh… well, the guy, when he gets out here he isn’t aware really of the body being back there, and the reason he’s out here – he’s driven. Driven. Now how does it come about that your thetan becomes driven, and what is the sensation and emotion of fear, and why does this occur?

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

Now, let’s look at figure B. Let’s look at the behavior of these ridges. Here’s this head, facing over here to the right. All right, now, let’s take this ridge, here, and we just mark it „R“, in the front, and here’s a ridge „R“, in back. And front. You’ve got those two ridges. Well, we’ve got a head here, we’ve got a thetan here. Okay. Now, what happens is that he gets a smaller potential… it doesn’t matter which way we mark these things… plus or minus, that just means that there’s going to be a potential. Let’s say this ridge is kind of plus, back here on this first position, first R, back of the head, and the one in front of the head is minus. Well, we get a lowering of potential of that minus, until we get an energy interchange in the direction that the arrow is pointing.

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

And Mr. Thetan gets caught right in the middle of that and he feels energy flowing, and his whole answer is, „Hold on!“ So he holds on in the middle of the head or tries to hold on in the middle of the head. But the energy interchange can flow so fast as to sweep him on forward, and when this occurs he becomes very upset, and he becomes very uneasy, and he doesn’t quite know what’s coming off, and it gets very insecure.

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

Now a person comes along, and he starts to open a drawer. And he opens this drawer, and uh… he uh… it sticks. And uh… he all of a sudden flies into a rage, and then in a… goes into apathy about the drawer, and goes away and won’t open it. That’d be a very fast curve. Or he comes in and he fiddles with the drawer, stubbornly, and he shakes it, and he shakes it, and the drawer won’t open and the drawer won’t open, and the drawer won’t open, and finally he smashes at the drawer, and he kicks at the drawer and he works with the drawer, and so on, and he finally, and at last, more or less, goes away and grumps about it. He’s in pretty good shape.

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

What happened to the first thetan is, the second he got a little jar of energy being balked, it actually did a feedback circuit, right straight into the back of his head, and through his motor controls, something of that sort, and it started a flow going. And the moment that this flow was started, the thetan, he, the preclear, had to hold on like mad. And the speed with which he detects the flow, is afraid of the flow, and grabs on, and abandons all other action… is actually a different thing slightly than position on the tone scale. It’s speed of descent. How fast is the emotional curve run off on the preclear. It can run off, zing! Preclear’s in pretty bad shape when it does that. Or it can go, zzznnnnnnnnggg. See how that is?

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

So we get one preclear with… with it going slow, would do… would do uh… uh… uh… preclear do… does it very fast, we get the steepness of curve, from G through E, and we get over here another kind of a curve, preclear 1, and we get maybe preclear 2 doing a curve which goes down like that. And maybe cuts off it there. And that would be uh… curve R-D. Doesn’t matter what we call it. And this… th… this preclear is normally at 2.0, it looks, and winds up here in 0.1. And this preclear starts out at 1.8, and comes down, and knocks off, actually, and starts up-curve again here, at 1.2. See? Uh… you get a difference of manifested behavior, just by this alone: Is how many ridges are on the back of this guy’s head that discharge across, and how easy is this thetan to displace where he is, so on.

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

He gets the emotion of „Hoooolld it“ with the muscles, and then „Hold on“ with the thetan. And when the thetan has to start to hold on it’s because he’s scared. When your thetan is holding on like mad, a low-tone preclear, he’s holding on like mad, and you say, „Be two feet back of your head“ he can’t be two feet back of his head. He’s holding on like mad. And the reason he’s holding on like mad is obvious. Every time he lets go he feels this surge of energy, and he feels fear. And this can become so fast, the surge of energy – zzznk – fear! Zzznk – fear! Zznnnk – fear, „Hold on!“ Zzznnk – fear, „Hold on!“ Quick. Like that. He… he’ll… and you start to get him out of the body, and you get him out of the body and he’ll actually bounce back in again. Out – bang! Out – bang! Out – bang! Out – bang!

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

He suddenly feels a motion of energy, he gets scared, and he has to hold on again. What has he got to hold on to? It’s something inside the head. How do you drill him out of it? Very simple. You just do mock-up’s of him holding on, and letting go, and holding on, and letting go, with his hands or any other way you want to, until he’s finally… feels that, well, letting go isn’t too bad. And he’ll move out of his head.

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

Now another thing that you can do is to clean up here all the ridges in front of the face. And you clean up all the ridges in front of the face, and you leave all the ridges behind the head, you’re going to change the energy potential so the guy’s going to be subjected to more and more flow through his head, more and more energy flow, more and more energy flow, and he’ll get scareder and scareder, perform less and less, and be much more apt to dive back in the head again.

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

And you say, „What’s on earth’s wrong with this preclear?“ You’ve got him in the middle of a hurricane, that’s what! It’s an energy hurricane. He’s discharging from the back ridge, which I’ve got marked plus, and he’s going over to that front ridge marked minus, and if the front ridges were all gone, he’ll discharge on to anything minus that comes along in front of him, and he’ll be… get very upset in doing that. And you understand that? That’s quite important.

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

And this… what I’ve just said about an energy flow going across there also applies to the back of the preclear. And the preclear’s small of the back, you have an energy deposit, which let us say is plus, and in front of him you’ve got one that’s minus. Every once in a while an energy interchange takes place which causes a flow of energy to go across his stomach nerve, the vagus nerve of the stomach. This hits more or less where the GE lives. And the body gets scared when this happens. And when that happens, you’ve got a flow and the body can just get agonizingly sick from this flow, very upset, because of the flow going across this front uh… area. And it… the flow, it feels like a… a flow dispersal setup, and that’s fear.

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

That is fear! What… what is fear? Fear is really a dispersal which is a series and a various type of flow. Now when you’ve got one of these things starting, the fellow tries to keep it in the flow category, and he’s feeling this horrible emotion of fear, across… he’s got an anxiety stomach. How do you balance it out? Simplest thing in the world. Let’s not unbalance the factors around the body, and tear off these ridges and so forth. Let’s just do mock-ups of some flows, and mock-ups of some dispersals.

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

How do you get him into doing mock-ups of dispersals, when he can’t do explosions at all? Well, you have pieces of popcorn jump out of a paper sack. You have water splash. Anything like that. Or if he’s worried about wheels, or anything like that, just mock up common automobile wheels. If he wants them to turn and he can’t make them turn, put a spot on them and move the spot an inch. Until he can finally turn the wheels. Dispersals, spins, that sort of thing, handle them with their geometric MEST universe equivalent as a mock-up and then make the mock-up stranger and stranger. And that’s the way you handle them, and I hope now you know all about it. Thank you very much, good night!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But you get the idea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OK. Let’s take a break.