This is December the 10th, the first hour of lecture. Today we have quite a bit of material to cover here, and I believe I should cover for you – in some detail such things as flows and brackets and so on. I… I think that would be helpful to you.

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.

The… the uh… flow action is what I mean by covering some more about flows. How many actions are there in a flow? And in interpersonal relationships, how many interactions take place amongst flows?

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.

Well, now, I’m going to work that out here. I haven’t counted them for some time, but there’re quite a few. But you should know this pattern of interaction. If you don’t know this pattern of interaction, you can slip your preclear into a boil-off. Why? Very simple. Because any flow run too long in one direction will result in a boil-off. Any flow.

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.

What is a boil-off? It is a state of unconsciousness produced by a confusion of effort impinging upon one area. It is a slow-motion unconsciousness. The fellow doesn’t go out because of a direct blow; he simply slides out gradually and rather painlessly, because of a small application.

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.

If you were to take somebody on an operating table and simply press them with… or press upon them a heavy pressure and keep that pressure getting a little heavier and a little heavier and a little heavier, they’d pass out. It’s the aggregate pressure of one sort or another that causes this boil-off.

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.

How do you stop a boil-off? You simply reverse the flow line. If you notice your preclear starting to boil off, get something in the mock-up or whatever you’re doing – see, this applies to mock-ups – get it to go around and flow the opposite direction.

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.

Now, sometimes you’ll be rather mystified in a mock-up. Your fellow’s running mock-ups and he starts to pass out. And he passes out again and he passes out again, and you say, „Put it behind you; put it in front of you; put it over to the side,“ and he keeps passing out. Well, just keep feeding him mock-ups. That is the remedy for that. If he gets excited while you’re feeding him mock-ups, feed him more mock-ups.

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!“

But don’t, under any circumstances, suddenly plunge in and reverse – the formula Scientology 8-8008 and suddenly go into that great stuff, that wonderful stuff called ‘reality’, because you’ll knock him flat if you do that, and you could really foul him up like a fire drill. If you suddenly start running mock-ups and then suddenly insist on… It becomes much worse than if you were just running facsimiles and locks and so forth; he’d get better if you were doing that. But you’ve started him on one course and now you’ve suddenly reversed direction on him and you’re putting him back into this universe and you’re giving him less freedom than he had before.

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.

All right. The fellow will start to slide out. You give him mock-ups, he starts to slide out on a boil-off and slide out on a boil-off, and you put mock-ups behind him and above him and below him. You can just make up your mind that some kind of a flow has started to run out of an actual facsimile and it keeps slugging him and he can’t do anything about it, and evidently you can’t do anything about it.

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.

What ‘is the answer to that? It’s just give him more mock-ups. Don’t worry about it. But normally, if your preclear is groggy, you’ve just got the thing running the wrong way. If you have him doing something to somebody and he keeps boiling off, why, the probability is that he has overrun the DED or the DEDEX.

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, a DED is something that somebody did without provocation to somebody else; that is a DED. Uh… it’s a… they say, „He deserved it.“ They had no other reason to do it; they say, „He deserved it,“ so we call that a DED. Fellow, he’s never been… Joe Blink has never hurt him; Joe Blink has never done anything to him, and yet he suddenly, just out of hand one day, blows Joe Blink’s head off. Then somebody comes along… he didn’t have any reason at all. Somebody comes along and says, „Hey, uh… what… what’d you do? What… what was the idea?“

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.

„Well, he deserved it.“

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.

„Well, why did he deserve it?“

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.

„Well, uh… he had dirty fingernails,“ or „I… I… fellow like that!“ He’ll build up a long, involved rationalization, justification as to why he did this to Joe Blink, and there is no reason.

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.

So he will do many of these things perhaps and then one day you come along the line and uh… somebody comes along and doesn’t blow his head off, but somebody taps him lightly on the temple. Well, he knew darn well he didn’t have a good reason – this universe requires reason; this universe, above all other things, must be logical. And of course it is logical, too; you saw that yesterday, with… with haves and so forth. And above all else it must be logical and non-contradictory.

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.

And so uh… he tries to put this DEDEX ahead of Joe Blink, the DED. He tries to scramble the track and put it in a… in a logical order. Something happened to his head, therefore he did something to Joe Blink. That doesn’t work that way, so you call it DEDEX, and this could be interpreted as several things. Uh… ‘deserved action explained’ would be one interpretation of DEDEX, a DEDEX. Uh… ‘the deserved action’. This is why the action was deserved. This is why he blow… blew Joe Blink’s head off, because 20 years later a fellow by the name of Cuffbah tapped him on the temple. Well, it just doesn’t add up.

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.

And yet he’ll try to make it add up. He’ll go around and he’ll say, „Now, look. Look, this… this… oh, my head! I mean, I’m just having terrible pains in my head and so on, and that’s… that’s a very horrible injury,“ and if you really probed him on it, he’d say, „Well, when Joe Blink did that to me…“ You see, Joe Blink never did it to him and that’s what’s wrong with a DEDEX. It’s completely fallacious.

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.

And its fallacity, fallaciousness is represented by the overemphasis the individual puts upon the action that happened to him. Whenever an individual’s going around saying, „Look what’s wrong with me,“ really, what he’s really showing up is a DEDEX. He’s saying, „Look, it really happened to me and… and so forth. Therefore, I’m not guilty.“ Universes, this universe is terribly interested in justice. So he’s saying, „I’m not guilty; I’m not guilty,“ and uh… „because here, 20 years after I blew Joe Blink’s head off, somebody came along and tapped me in the temple, and that made it all right for me to blow Joe Blink’s head off,“ which it didn’t at all. So that’s your DEDEX. DEDEX.

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.

Well, how do you use this in mock-ups? Nah-hah, very interesting how you use that in mock-ups. You have… you… let’s mock up George and let’s mock up Bill; now, your preclear’s George. And uh… we’ve got George and Bill out there in front in two mock-ups. And we have George picking up Bill and throwing him out the window and George picking up Bill and dumping him down the chimney and George picking up Bill and busting his face in. And George has been mighty worried about this guy, Bill, but now you have this mock-up and you give him a real workout.

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.

See, one of the reasons mock-ups are beneficial is because a mock-up is not an imagined action. In the past, an individual sometimes worked this out in imagination. He would think of what he would have done to Bill and he’d… and so on. And then he keeps halting from it and says, „Oh, well, I couldn’t of uh… t mean, people would’ve interfered with that, but there… I’d sure get some satisfaction out of wringing the guy’s neck. I’d just love to wring the guy’s… but I… I just couldn’t do that.“

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.

He’s really in agreement with the MEST universe. He’s imagining it, which is entirely different than mock-ups. Imagination’s one thing; mock-up is something else. He really is putting a picture out in front of him in space which has dimension with which he is doing something. That’s a mock-up. And an imagined thing is just vague and I guess.

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.

Now, they… so therefore the two actions are not the same. We… we don’t have… we actually have action taking place in time and space, and if it’s really done well, it’s all pegged down with anchor points. And you’ve got actual images which are taking their action out there, and they’re going through this action. And you have a flow interchange in the mock-ups, but you don’t have to have a heavy flow action.

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.

As you interchange this flow in the mock-ups, do you know that the basic energy pattern of your preclear shifts? You can put… you can put a detecting meter – not an E-Meter, but a… a meter which detects flows and ridges around your preclear – and put several points out here and tune them in selectively as he runs mock-ups, and what do you find? You’ll find out that every time you reduce the size of the mock-up and bring it down to a very solid, small object, that the ridges move in on him. You can see the ridges move in. And when you put… give him larger area, reverse-scale mock-ups which are going up tone scale and you’re working up tone scale and so on, the fellow’s ridges start to move out for him. In other words, your preclear is getting better off. You want those ridges out, you don’t want them in.

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!

All right. So there is an actual flow takes place with this mock-up situation. You’re really not just using up energy and all that sort of thing. What you’re doing is shifting postulates contained in the middle of effort by demonstrating that the effort is ineffectual. There’s a lot of explanations for this; there’re a lot of reasons why mock-ups work, and they’re all good, solid reasons. They’re electronic reasons and they’re postulate reasons and there’s causation reasons and everything else. And a mock-up done right will relieve any kind of a situation.

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!

But we have, he’s… George has been mad at Bill for a long time and here he… you’ve got him bashing Bill’s head in and all of a sudden he goes ‘nyahr’. Boil-off. Well, you try to do it just a little bit more, mmm… boom. ‘What’s wrong? Well, you’ve… you’ve beat up Bill beyond the point that uh… Bill deserved it, really. Ah… what you’ve got to do now is have Bill turn around and knock the hell out of that body out there you’re calling George, and have the preclear thrown out the window and bashed in the head and dropped down chimneys and… and increased in size and decreased in size and smashed down to a small, little statue and have pins stuck in it by… by Bill.

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.“

Now, this might be very indigestible to George, your preclear; he might not like this, but after a while he doesn’t give a damn what George does to that body. And uh… if you kept that up too long – if this was really a tough situation, a real tough situation, extended over many years – you would find that your preclear, if you started beating up George, the preclear, out there in front, what do you know? The preclear would eventually boil off. He’s eventually start going ‘nyahr… bong; swoop, thud’. And you’d pick him up again. Now what’s happened? Now, Bill has beaten up George too long.

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!

Now, of course you, as the auditor, in auditing can go ahead very neatly and to that extent agree with the laws of flows. You… you could just override the laws of flows and maybe it would be better, maybe, if you did. There is no compulsion on your part, just because your preclear starts to boil, to go ahead and do something about it. Maybe your preclear, if you kept on having George beat up Bill ad infinitum, it’d… might… might work right on out, and eventually he says, „Well, to hell with it. I don’t even need to boil off over this! So the guy’s a skunk. I don’t care. And… we… he’s dead and gone. I don’t care what happens to him.“

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!

Or, „Ha, ha, ha. I hit him in the head again.“ Uh… you… you… you’re not… remember, you’re not trying to agree with the physical universe; you’re trying to disagree with it. But in… within these limits, a preclear who is having a little bit of a rough time, something like that, you just shift the personnel around and you will find out that you’re working the situation out. You see, there’s just so many reasons why George should beat up Bill and all of a sudden you’ve flipped those things out as postulates. Now George doesn’t have any further reason to beat up Bill, but Bill is left there with all kinds of reasons why he should knock the hell out of George.

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, if you just quit the session at this point and you just left it at that, why, uh… what do you know? It’ll sh… it doesn’t necessarily, ‘cause you could carry this situation along to a point where the preclear just abandoned the whole species of computation. I mean, you could just beat this thing to death, „Wrong Way To Corrigan“, fly it backwards and run up against the gods and kick ‘em in the teeth and blam ‘em over the head. That doesn’t matter if you do that. I’m just giving you the mechanics of what happens. It’s not mandatory to go ahead and obey this DED-DEDEX proposition at all. But you want to know what’s happening to your preclear, I’m telling you.

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.

Very simple. You just… you get the flows going… the flow goes overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward… snore – boil-off. You get up… get him up and you boot him around and shake him up and say, „Come on, come on, let’s get some coffee down you and get going here.“ And uh… more overt act toward Bill, more boil-off.

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.

Well, you don’t have to explain to your preclear what’s happening. You just turn around and you just have Bill… change the bodies around. You don’t want to use actual bodies any more than you have to. Use something else. It’s… it’s always preferable.

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!“

The insouciance, really, of setting up this magnificent creature, Father, and then giving him a donkey’s ears and then changing ‘em off to a rapwoof’s ears. What’s a rapwoof’s ears? That’s up to the preclear. And then having father… then having father pregnant and uh… just change around the real universe, and so on, and you’ll find out that to the degree that you do that, as strange as it may seem to you, the more successful it is.

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.

It’s more successful to beat up Papa, who has uh… uh… a rupwuf’s ears and uh… is wearing uh… a St. Patrick’s Day hat and uh… snow shoes and has the body of a goatwuffer (that being a special kind of goat which grows in the 81st Universe) – it’s more successful to wham the dickens out of that mock-up than it is to take Papa’s body and mock it up, because, you see, Papa probably should’ve looked like, to the preclear, like he looks. The preclear was forced to look at Papa the way the MEST universe said he looked at Papa.

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.“

All right. Uh… there isn’t any reason why he should look at Papa that way. He says, „That’s Papa; that’s good enough.“ Well, you know, sometimes your preclear can be very original and once in a while you’ll find a preclear doing this.

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.

„All right. I’ve got a mock-up. It’s completely empty space; that’s Papa.“

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…

No, don’t say, „Get a mock-up,“ and get him all… Let him work with a completely empty space. That’s… that’s really… see? Nothing there. You’ve got other things there; there’s other props around, other mock-ups around and so forth, but he just insists on an empty space for Papa. Well, that’s all right. Have him turn the space blue or put some blue light in it once in a while and move it around.

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.

You’ll find out that’s quite a trick, by the way, handling empty space and knowing it’s there and then knowing it’s not there. Nothing to tell you. That’s really good; that really takes a good preclear.

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. Then your DED-DEDEX action results in boil-offs. And if you want to solve these boil-offs, you reverse it and run the thing the other way to. He’s beat up Bill too long, have Bill beat up George. Have this sort of thing taking place and it’ll work out. But, with an additional proviso, there is no reason under the sun why you’ve got to play it off on a DED-DEDEX.

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.

Now, your overt act motivator situation is quite different than a DED-DEDEX situation in that there’s very little blame or upset, really, in an motivator-overt act. So he got his own head knocked off, so he went down the street and he took this dear old lady and knocked her head off. Well, he had a perfectly good right.

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.

And you say, „Don’t you feel sorry about that?“

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.

And he says, „No,“ he says, „I don’t feel sorry about that.“ „Why don’t you feel sorry about that?“

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!

„Well, I got my own head knocked off once.“

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.

That’s justice in this universe. It’s logical, you see. Cause-effect, cause-effect. Don’t try to run it effect-cause, effect-cause. Uh-uh. That… that’s all wrong way to. Uh… and what you’re trying to do with DED-DEDEX, you see, is run it effect to a cause, and that’s just all wrong. So, your… your overt act-motivator situation, the act is… happens to the preclear and then he does it to somebody else. He really doesn’t worry about that, not very much.

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.

So uh… overt act-motivator situation. However, the same thing will happen on this boil-off. If you run more of an overt act than you run motivators you will get again a condition of grogginess resulting, so… because incident for incident, you’re really handling flows. And there is what you would call the whole flow of a DED, as opposed by the whole flow of a DEDEX; and the whole flow of a motivator opposing the whole flow of an overt act. You see, that’s… that’s… that’s whole flows, by incident. Your whole incident is one… one flow; you… you could say that, you see? It isn’t. That incident is composed of many, many flows, but you could break it down into these gross packages of, „This is an incident that is outgoing: it’s overt.“ And „This is an incident that is incoming: it is a motivator.“ And „This is an incident that’s outgoing: it’s a DED.“ And „This is an incident that is a… it’s incoming: therefore it’s a… a DEDEX.“ You see?

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.

So, your motivator and DEDEX are incoming incidents and your… your overt act and your DEDs are outgoing incidents. Your overt act is an allowable, in the law of justice (which everybody has agreed upon); under the laws of justice, it is allowable to do an overt act. Under the laws of justice, it is not allowable to do a DED. No provocation, no motivation for an act. And the facsimiles will sit that way.

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.

So, the overt act is a whole motion out and the DED is a whole motion out. Just the intention of the action is outward, even though it has a lot of internal flows. You get how this would be. Now, your DED and… any of the rest of ‘em, overt act, DED, uh… overt, all contain a complexity of flows, and all that monitors this is what is the average of flow in the incident.

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.

Well, the average flow in the motivator, it has more inflow than it does outflow. You know, here’s a fellow, he’s standing there and somebody hits him in the head with a stone ax, and there’s a lot of inflow there. So it makes the whole incident an inflow incident. It’s predo… it’s dominated, the incident is dominated by inflow or it’s dominated by outflow. And then you can treat the whole incident as one.

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.

This is… you understand that there’s a number of flows involved in every single action. The swing of that stone ax hitting his head, the swing of the ax itself, is a complexity of flows, and I’ll show you how many here in a moment. There’s an exact number of flows. Now, any flow is an exact number.

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.

All right. So, what does this add up to? This adds up to the fact that… that a guy’s whole track can be too many motivators and not enough overts. What kind of a guy do you find this fellow? He’s overt as hell. He’s got all this inflow and he’s trying to get rid of it. And he goes around and he, just for no reason at all, he’s mean and he kicks little babies in the crib and… and… and he’s just ornery and… and so on.

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.

And somebody says to him, somebody says to him, „Well, I think… I think your grandma is a good… good old lady, nice old lady. She’s always nice.“

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.

„Yeah. I’d like to strangle the old bat!“ You know?

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.

He’s running… he’s, actually, he’s a fairly safe guy to have around, if the truth be told. He’s really… he’s really safer than the other one. Why? He’s quite outspoken about it. He… he’s… he’s got an enormous reserve of motivators. He’s got all this big reserve of motivators and he’s all… got ‘em cocked there like… like crossbows. And uh… they’ll fly out in the fellow’s face, but there’s really… he can be at a lower band on the thing and have too many uh… he’d be real down in the band and still have too many motivators, only the balance has shifted again and… and… be only covert in getting rid of his motivators. He’s… he’s not safe; he’s… he’s kind of dangerous.

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.

Uh… but uh… there’s… see, there’s a harmonic action here. You… we have… we have a guy way up scale and he’s got all these motivators, and they came around and they burned his castle and they did this to him and he became a bandit; and now that he’s a bandit, God help anybody. Boy, has he got a lot of motivators.

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!

And they say about Jesse James, the railroad drove him out and busted up the old folks and that sort of thing. It’s probably true, because the guy essentially wasn’t a badman. He just was mad at railroads and he was mad at bankers, and he sure did take it out on ‘em. And it says something, that his entire area and the whole country, actually, was all on the side of Jesse James. Everybody was on his side. And it took a banker and… and a guy who was glory-hungry to shoot him in the back.

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.

Uh… but the point is that uh… everybody goes all out for that kind of a bandit. Why? They realize that he’s… he’s just operating on too many motivators, that’s all. And he’s got all these overt acts and they did it to him, and so it’s a sense of justi… justice, this time, is running away from the police! I mean, it’s going the opposite direction. And people say, „Yup, that was just. Sure. Robin Hood and all that sort of thing.“ And people recognize it.

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.

They say, „Well, the reason why uh… so-and-so was a bad man and so on was because…“ And now they give a long list of personal injuries which he himself suffered. For instance, Billy the Kid, who had had lots of good friends, and he had this kind of a reputation. He’d had a lot of bad things happen to him when he was a little kid. And uh… truth told, Billy the Kid couldn’t do anything wrong, really, in the public eye.

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.

And yet this fellow… this fellow was… he… he… was so overt act happy that he came up to a ditch one day where there was a couple of Mexicans digging the ditch – you see, he never counted Mexicans. No… no… no… no telling how many Mexicans Billy the Kid killed. He killed 21 white men, but Lord knows how many Mexicans, ‘cause he… this incident like this. He comes up to the ditch and there’s a couple of Mexicans there digging the ditch, and he just simply draws and shoots ‘em dead. His pal wanted to know „What’s… what’s the matter with you? What’s… what you doing that for?“

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.

„Oh, I don’t know. If they didn’t do anything, they would have done it.“

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.

So, as irrational as this may seem, justice shifts over very easily into the lap of the outlaw, and what he does then is… is justice, just because he’s… he’s… he’s motivator-rich, which means he’ll… he’ll indulge now in overt acts.

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.

Now he goes down tone scale and he does a lot of these and he does more, really – just in terms of sheer quantity, arithmetical quantity – he does more overt acts now than he has motivators to account for it, so naturally some of them become DEDs. Now, instead of doing overt acts he’s doing DEDs. He’s used up the bank; he has done more… more things TO other people than have been done to him, so now he’s in a situation where whatever he does is a DED, not a deserved action. He’s used up his credit.

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.

Something like some fellows in Scientology: they had… lots of ‘em had lots of justification for doing lots of the things, because I’m a pretty mean, ornery guy. But they’ve used up their credit.

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 uh… well, now, let’s look at it the other way around now. What happens when he gets too many DEDs? Well, he’ll really rig it in such a way that he’ll sooner or later get a DEDEX. And one day he’s out and this little Mexican boy hits… hits Billy the Kid with a beanshooter – too many DEDs by this time – and he says, „Ow, ow, ow, what a terrible bruise. How I am injured. Uh… oh, my. Look what’s happened to me. Look how terrible this thing is.“ What he’s saying is, „Yes, I know I’ve done too many DEDs. Don’t punish me any more, because look, this beanshooter did all the punishment that I deserve. Heh, heh.“ Nobody else looks at it that way.

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.

So there he is; all of a sudden he’s sitting way down tone scale from where he was before. Now, you get neurasthenia, uh… hypochondria, uh… all sorts of weird manifestations, uh… you… for instance, you ever look at a preclear and ever have… the preclear obviously is not in bad shape at all. Obviously, they don’t even have a bad headache uh… or anything of the sort, and they keep saying, „Oh, my head. My headache bothers me so and this bothers me so and this… my,“ says, „my big toe. I have cuticura or something,“ and uh… uh… so on.

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.

And you start healing up this thing and healing up that thing, and they… they go out and they bark their shins and they… they’re just very, very DEDEX hungry. They have a thirst for DEDEXes. They’ve got to have things happen to ‘em because they’ve used up their credit.

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.

This simply, if you understood banking uh… elementary banking or elementary bookkeeping, you would have a complete command of this type of exchange and interaction. It’s just a matter of credits and debits. He… he’s done too many things, therefore he’s in debt, and he has to be paid. So they pay him.

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“.

Well, he’ll go out and pay himself if nobody else’ll pay him. There will be guys… these guys are dangerous. They’ll all of a sudden show up in the middle of the road asking to be run down. They will find it so impossible to get paid adequately that they have to practically kill themselves and take you with them. And they’ll come around and they’ll… they’ll stand right straight in front of you and say, „Yap, yap, yap,“ and you look at ‘em a moment and you get very puzzled.

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.

You say, „Aren’t you aware of the fact that if you continue to stand there and continue to say the things you’re saying, you’re gonna get your silly head knocked off.“

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.

And the guy says, uh… „Well, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap…“ Pow!

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.

And what do you know? He gets up and he says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap“ some more. This is a weird one. This is… this is… this is really beyond belief. So you take the guy and… and he says, „Yap, yap, yap“ some more, so you take a club. You fracture his skull. He goes to the hospital, he’s non compos mentis for a while, he comes back. The next time he sees you he goes, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ Boy, he has found a source of payment. He’s not going to leave you alone. And the bigger and more important you are, the better your reputation is and so forth, the better that payment is. Isn’t that interesting?

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:

So he’s gonna come around… so your poor old gunman back in the early days, good God, they always had some damn fool standing up in the bar and saying, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ And the fellow said, „If you say that once more, you’d better start grabbing leather.“

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.

And the fellow says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap,“ and pulls out his gun and hi.“… the gunman watches him pull the gun out of the holster, cock the thing, level it, and then the gunman shoots him between the eyes. I mean, paw! He draws and fires.

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.

He’ll say, „Can’t understand it. The guy wasn’t a fast draw; I didn’t do anything to him… I’ve only been in town an hour; I haven’t stepped on any toes; I don’t know a friend he has…“ And yet there he lies dead. It’s completely baffling. And the gunman feels a little bit silly about it. He… he feels upset. He’s been made to use one of his credits.

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?

So, now, this fellow who comes home from the hospital with a fractured skull, he’ll fracture his skull again, and he’ll still „yap, yap, yap.“ So there’s just no curing him of this till all of a sudden one day, you’ll just ruin him. ‘Course, he’s ruined you, too. But you’ve just ruined him utterly and he appears to be very happy.

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.

You say, „For Christ’s sakes. Now he’s not even going to take out any revenge. Now he’s happy. The hell with him!“

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.

What… what… what is this? This is the mechanism of life continuum; it’s another method of survival; it’s another method of borrowing identity. It adds up to this: If a person can make one do enough to him, then the person who does it to him has to do a life continuum for him, which is another method of making identity survive.

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, let’s go over that again very slowly, because it’s quite important and it will explain a very strange thing about human behavior to you. It will render a lot of behavior comprehensible. And that is simply this: we have here a situation where your… your fellow’s life, let’s say, is going from point X over here across the line. And he gets along all right to there and then he starts taking a dive and he knows he’s not surviving. He has done too many DEDs; his credit is all worked out.

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?

So he’s… he’s not gonna survive as his identity. He knows that he goes off and he gets knocked off between the between-lives area, these mannerisms his body has are cute, all these various things are sweet and nice and he doesn’t want to give these things up and he wants somebody to carry the ball. Now does he get somebody to carry the ball? He encourages somebody to do against him some DEDs, completely undeserved actions. There’s no… no deserved action at all.

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.

If you were to look at a graph as in A, here, on the life continuum… I mean – pardon me – this is your cycle of action and it starts in at… at uh… this X over here and goes over here to X1; this is uh… start, that’s stop. This fellow might be… might be a wide-open case, he… he might apparently even be young, he might be in all manner of… of uh… you wouldn’t think he’d do this. But he, on his wide spiral, is right over here toward stop, he’s way over on the are. He’s over here at point B.

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!

And there he sits at point B and he knows he’s passing in his chips. Don’t be fooled because a body looks vital. The thetan and so forth may be on his last legs of the spiral, and you’ll get these strange, strange manifestations. And they become very unstrange the second you understand this particular line.

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.

So here he is up here in uh… figure 1, and he’s coming along here. This character in figure 1 is at point B on this spiral in figure 2, and he’s… too many, right here at this point, here, this point G; that would be called ‘too many DEDs’. He’s done too many DEDs. He’s also on his way out in other ways, mostly because he’s done too many DEDs. He’s used up all his credit.

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.

Now, he’s got to accumulate a DEDEX, and he’s got to have somebody do a life continuum on him. Another method of survival; survival as self, survival as an identity. How does he get that identity to survive? He gets somebody to commit overt acts against him and DEDs against him because then they’ll have to do a life continuum for him.

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.

So, here you come over here, Y, and you come along this line and you’re just as happy as can be, and you’re… and so on. And your life cycle’s about here and you’ll get at this same span in time, and all of a sudden, this character shows up. And he stands there and he lets you knock his block off. And he falls down and you knock his block off again. And you say, „Look. For Christ’s sakes, be reasonable. If you keep that up, I am going to take your guts out and string ‘em 32 feet away and torture the other end.“

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.

And he says, „I dare you to. You’re just looking for an excuse. You’re just being mean because… Uh… the trouble with you is, and people like you, that…“ Pow!

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.

So you take him down to the torture chamber and you put him on the rack, and he’s even passing out, he’s still insulting you. But what happens to you, Mr. Y? What happens to you? From this point in time G, you go downhill, too, but you’re strong (which he knew anyhow) and you’re Mr. XY, or Mr. YX, from there on. See here? From point small ‘a’ to point G, why, you were Mr. Y, and from point G on over here to the end of time, you are Mr. YX. Your behavior and activities is modified by having to do a life continuum for this fellow. You’re expiating for his crimes, actually. And he makes you do crimes against him so that you’ll do a life continuum for him.

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!

Isn’t that neat? It’s… I mean, it’s just… there’re several methods of survival and one could be called, in figure 3 here, one could be uh… self plotted against time, and that’s many identities; and here could be uh… your other dynamics, your culture – and your culture’ll go also through many periods. And, then, in addition to that, you have uh… your uh… personal one-life self; that goes on through its cycle of action. And then you have your personal objects one-life; that goes on. And then, what do you know? You’ve got your life continuums on others. Life continuums, actually, for self by others.

Now, a fellow’s always… always, these guys are always leaving wills, as though MEST objects had some importance. Oh, everybody’s always worrying, „Who’s going to inherit what and who’s going…“ He… all he’s saying is, „Who’s going to take care of these objects for me? Yeah, I’ve got to continue in survival through these objects.“ He’s saying here, uh… his personal one-life self is „Who cared for this body“ and „I cared for this body“ and now we’ve laid the body to rest; now we’ve got another one.

And then we’ve got a life continuum by others and we’ve got personal objects, one-life. And one of those personal objects is one’s name. Oh, you can… you can always get a rich man to in… to fix up some Mountains of the Moon or something of that sort on the strange feeling he has that you’re going to name a peak after him, and this makes his name survive. So that’s a survival of identity. His direction of survival: the great thirst for personal identity. The man… the man recognizes that he has an identity and he wants this thing passed along.

Identities have two uses: one of them is to group and label something and another one is to do a vicarious survival for somebody. The… the first one is working; the second one, of course, is just idiotic. I mean, a man’s name; that… that’s very a… very amusing, when you come to think about it, this name.

You look back, past the past and you see this… you’re very impressed; you read the word Lucretius. Well, he’s probably named Johnny Jones today and uh… or he’s maybe a very smart guy down at Bell Labs, or something like that. He’s going along the line. And uh… yet, the only reason you’re really using the word Lucretius is not for any other reason than it’s an identification of a piece of work which keeps it identified as that piece of work; and as long as it is so identified it cannot be corrupted or confused with the work of uh… I don’t know, Pope Pius, or something. You see? So it’s a differentiative mechanism; it’s a label.

You uh… find that in making products all the time. You go down here and you get the… the Gee Whizzer Electric Company’s refrigerator. The truth of the matter is, it might be some good, but most of the time is, it’s NO good. There’s no real reason why the Gee Whizzer Refrigerator Company isn’t well-known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and that’s mainly because their refrigerators are lousy. And you go down here and you get a refrigerator which is a GE and you know their refrigerator’s going to sit there and go pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa; it’s gonna refrigerate.

So, GE, that’s… that’s an identity of a great sprawling organization, and uh… it’s just a… it’s just there. Uh… it’s a label, however, which can extend over and identify and serve to differentiate for people, objects. It becomes a symbol for many things.

The word Lucretius becomes a symbol for these many things. So it identifies a piece of work. And as long as that piece of work is grouped under the word Lucretius, it’s like saying any other combinations of words. You could say it was an ‘anaten’ or a… an ‘alertopad’ or anything of the sort. But people have got this spooky notion about personal survival with regard to a name. That’s very weird.

For instance, there’s been considerable insistence, continuous really insistence on my part that techniques developed and grouped under the heading of Dianetics and Scientology and so forth, well, they have my name on them. That’s very… very interesting. But you notice how this is… has uh… slowed down the squirrels. A piece of work was a piece of work. And look at the techniques which have existed in the field: those didn’t have my name on them. No time was spent on their research or they weren’t a body of data; some of ‘em were good, some of ‘em passable, and so forth.

Well, we were sitting here with a body of data. I knew what I was doing: I was trying to get together a body of data. I wasn’t trying to make 8 million, 655 thousand bucks. Uh… I… I wasn’t trying to do a lot of other things. And then, of course, the joke of it is… is that… that although this body’s name is Hubbard, my name is not Hubbard. And probably nobody will ever know my name. And uh… it’s very amusing, when you come to think about it. It’s a jest.

But uh… once a person realizes that, he realizes some of this life continuum mechanism by others is so much… so much bazwaz. It’s… it’s just… it’s just an identified object. The guy… the guy goes over in the level… he’s pretty low tone scale when he does this. He gets way down tone scale and he goes around insisting that people do mean things to him. And then he’ll come around to you as an auditor and he’ll tell you all these mean things people do to him.

He… I know several… several rather risqué stories which I have heard at various places in space and on Earth, something about… „Are you bragging or confessing?“ Now, that’s… that’s very much to the point here. You want to look at this preclear when he comes in and tells you all the things wrong about him and how sad he is about these things; you want to look at him very, very closely and you want to say, „Are you bragging or confessing, Mister?“ He’s not confessing; he’s bragging.

He’s saying, „Look at all this. I’m… I’m fully… I’ve… I’m… I’m… I’ve got all these credits here and I’ve had all these dreadful DEDEXes done to me,“ and the only reason he’s talking about it is he knows he’s lying in his teeth. He really basically knows he’s telling you a big lie when he tells you how bad off he is and that he’s been adequately repaid for all of his sins. ‘Cause if he’d been adequately repaid, he would feel no compulsion to brag about it; he would simply go back on the new cycle of raising hell with a whole flock of DEDs and overts.

So when he comes in, what do you run on this guy? He’s got a headache, he’s got a footache, he’s got an earache, he’s got… he’s… he’s got lumbagosis of the medulla oblongata and he’s got a distortional uh… he’s got tortional G space uh… all through his arithmetical ability. And there he is, and you’re expected to straighten him out. And what he’s really saying is, „Look how bad off I am. I have to go see a practitioner. Yeah, I’m really bad off. Yeah, look what they drove me to. Shows that I paid, I paid and I paid. And I’m all paid up and look at all these credits I’ve got. Here I am sitting here being given Scientology.“

Isn’t that cute? „And…and that demonstrates and that proves to everybody that I have therefore a superfluity of DEDEXes. I’ve got all of these motivators, all these things have been done to me, and I’ve got too many of them.“ And you take one away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another… another motivator away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another motivator away and all of a sudden he gets divorced. And his life starts going out of balance like mad, and you say, „What on Earth’s happening here?“

Well, boy, what’s happening is but easy to trace: You made an incorrect evaluation of his credit-debit ledger. You said, „This guy has too many things done to him.“ You bought his evaluation. His evaluation was made in the MEST universe and therefore it is in reverse. Just therefore, it’s in reverse.

So if he came in to tell you how all these things have been done to him and that’s why he’s in horrible shape, oh-oh. You just run him doing things to people and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get pleasanter and calmer. And he’ll keep telling you every once in a while, „You know, we… we really haven’t done anything about my gluteus maximus which my father used to kick all the time,“ and he’ll mention this less and less and less, and he’ll get cheerfuller and cheerfuller and brighter and brighter.

And you’d think it was because he’s just realizing that he actually can stand up to life; you might rationalize it that way and say, „Well, by mock-ups we have convinced him that he could stand up to life.“ Oh, no. By mock-ups we’ve straightened out all of that superfluity of DEDs that he did. We’ve straightened that up very nicely and now he’s got a bank which has more motivators than he has overts and less DEDs than he has DEDEXes and so he’s become a cheerful, comfortable, calm guy.

He knows that if somebody sits in front of him and says, „You’re a bum,“ that he has enough credit on the ledger in order to reach over and quietly and cheerfully and calmly garrote them. And he has now that right so therefore…

For instance, we got a… a… a… a preclear here, who… who is… who is actually… demonstrates that whole… that whole principle. This… this preclear has really had to slow himself down to a walk. But what you ought to run is this preclear doing things to people. This preclear is really in pretty good shape.

But they will feel degraded; degradation, loss of self-respect and that sort of thing, comes out of this credit-debit ledger. Degradation is having asked somebody for a rank – that’s degradation enough – or having asked somebody for a category and then having had it taken away. In other words, force was so small that one had to apply to somebody else for force.

And then having applied to somebody else by force, even then he had it removed from him. He no longer had that force. That is degradation, loss of force on that scale.

First he was of course his own authority: The guy goes out and by his own warrant tangles with the universe. Somebody comes along to him and says, „Where’s your commission?“

And he says, „My what?“

„Where’s your commission? Where’s your license to survive?“

This guy’s liable to lean on them rather heavily and they go down to a small splash and say, uh… „Do people around here need a license to survive?“ He feels mighty tall: „All right. I’ll give you one.“ He’s his own authority and operates by his own warrant. He executes in complexity; he does not feel that he needs anybody’s permission.

And then, being in this universe, this debit-credit justice-injustice something comes in. The reason it comes in is purely because of flashback, you understand. When he hits Joe, he gets the reimpact of Joe’s pain. And this gets mixed up in every impulse to hit Joe. And his own feeling of… great feeling of competence and everything will disintegrate because he feels very competent and all of a sudden he feels pain. He feels very competent; he cuts Joe’s throat, zzzt, and he feels pain.

The reward, then, for cutting Joe’s throat is pain. So he gets this double-flow action and it convinces him at last that there is a debit-credit system at work in the MEST universe. And so therefore he has to have justification in order to do what he does. But that’s silly, too, because the flows still keep catching right on up with him. It doesn’t matter how much – quote – ‘justice’ there is behind one of these flows, really. It’s just a little bit better if it’s motivator-overt, and so on. A flashback is a flashback. When you fire a gun, it kicks. A guy accumulates too many kicks and after that he gets his credit system all upset.

So, let’s look at this, then, life continuum. Realize that there’re a lot of people around asking for things to be done to them and a lot more people around asking to do things for somebody else. Those two things alike have to do with this credit-debit balance of flows.

And wherever we look on this cycle of action we’ll find out that a person doesn’t start asking for a license to survive until he’s gone past center on the overall MEST universe cycle. He’s… he’s got to be past center before he starts worrying about this.

If a person worries about flows, or if flows have entered in, and he’s at a point of the tone scale where flows badly influence him, he can then count more and more upon being responsive to flows. And of course the flows are all backwards and he eventually winds up in a heck of a mess.

Now, when you’re doing mock-ups then you have to pay attention to this, with preclears who are low on the scale. It’s actually much… really more important, the way I view it, uh… to pay attention to space rather than to flows. It’s more important to stake out space. If you’ve got a preclear who’s kind of bad off sometime, just have him practice with anchor points and maybe just have him put out… put out eight anchor points; you know, eight corners, make himself a cube.

Just make him practice that, and hold ‘em, no matter where he is, and just snake him hold ‘em for a little while. You’ll get the strangest manifestation takes place: the guy starts to get calm. He recognizes instinctively, really, the only space there is for him is the space he makes. The anchor points that are made for him are not anchor points for him.

So, when you get your preclear mixed up with flows, why, you can expect all these silly things to take place: life continuums and DED-DEDEXes and he comes around and he’s got a headache and he’s got a headache because he kicked somebody in the head when he was much younger, and it’s all backwards. He complains to you that he needs treatment, so you run out of him all the mean things he’s done, and he gets well.

Now, if you want to repair a marriage… you can wreck marriages, as an auditor, with great ease. Just process one of the marital partners without processing the other one. The thing’ll fly out of balance like mad! And you’ve got to put it back in balance again somehow or other; you just keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t go too bad before you pick it up.

All right. Now, let’s get this uh… you… overt act-motivator. So we process out of somebody a whole lot of… we process out of him a whole bunch of DEDs. Oh, God. We… we get… we get him doing acts out here with mock-ups and boy, we get him bashing people’s brains in and bashing people’s brains in. You’d think automatically that this would bring him way down scale to a point where something or other was going be bad, or something. Oh, no. He gets brighter and brighter and more alert and more alert.

You see, what you’re doing is really running out all the debits. You’re putting him, as far as this universe is concerned, so he can go out and raise hell. And he does. And he goes home and he… frying pan, customarily, as he usually gets inside the door, frying pan usually greets him, hits the wall alongside of him. And he gets inside the door this time, he usually says, „Thank you dear,“ and creeps over to the chair and sits down and says, „Is supper ready, dear?“

And he… frying pan hits alongside of the door this time and very cheerfully he picks the frying pan up and he goes out on the front walk and he sharpens up one side of it… And he goes to work. And of course this is a great surprise to the… to the girl in the case, and she decides all is lost because she sees her control mechanisms unbalanced and she has a stranger in her midst. She gets really upset.

And she doesn’t take into account – because the GE is a family man; the GE is lost without a family. Uh… it’s very strange, but homo sap is a family unit. The GE is built on that basis. It’s fascinating, fascinating. If you wanted to study the GE, you… you’d really get yourself some data about what could happen in this universe. It’s not important for you to know it, but a lot of your urges toward families and so forth are not thetan urges at all; they’re the GE. The GE can’t survive at all without a family unit. He’s just as dead as a mackerel if he isn’t a family unit, whereas your thetan is just as dead as a mackerel if he gets too mixed up in family units.

So you get this terrific starvation, family starvation, and so forth, for the GE. Your GE runs… you see, he’s lost… he’s lost his independence of action and so on, and for uh… passing along this line and uh… so on, this terrific dedication that he has, fabulous piece of dedication; he feels this terrific responsibility for getting this… this life continuum going. He’s got to continue himself.

That’s… you find that in cells. When a cell divides, what do you know? it duplicates its memory bank and hands it over to its progeny. Well, Man thinks he’s doing this; when he duplicates himself, the GE duplicates itself, it thinks it’s handing its memory bank over, and maybe it is. Who knows? You can’t talk to GE’s; they’re kind of psycho. They’re really monomaniac. Boy, are they conservative, too. Whee! They’re really stuck.

They’re very able, though, terribly able. This thing can come along and it builds a heart and it’s a good heart. Gosh! If somebody was a master craftsman down here working in a machine shop that could build as uniformly, pistons, as the GE can build hearts, that guy would really be at the top of his class for all time.

So, you see, the GE has his capabilities; they just don’t happen to be necessarily the finest capabilities there is. And by the way, you can fall into this dreadful trap with a GE; you see, he uses the MEST universe with which to build. He’s gotten very s… very bad off and he… he has to use MEST universe materials all the time, and the protoplasms and so forth which have been developed back across this… this protoplasm line back there, he has to use that, and he has to use all of these various things in order to construct and construct and construct.

He jumps around on lines, by the way, but he’ll… he’ll give the initiative to the protoplasms and some of the blueprints which he finds on the protoplasm line. So you get similarities of appearance in families but complete changes of character, as far as the body is concerned. And then you add a thetan in on it and, boy, do you get some wild ones. Another identity.

So, you… you get this… you get this uh… situation here with uh… the GE, and your GE is busy, uh… build, build, build, build, build, and of course he’s got to have a family to build with. And your GE has lost out completely as far as the First Dynamic is concerned. He isn’t worth hell room on the First Dynamic. He just isn’t. He will lie down and perish rather than work alone, for himself.

Guy goes out here and he sits down in a little… little apartment someplace, and he reads, reads, reads, and he writes down this poetry, and he reads, reads, reads, and writes down the poetry, and he goes back and he works someplace or another in order to get enough money to go back and read, read, read, you know. Not your GE, no sir.

A thetan’ll do that, and the guy could be driven to do that. But if he’s in close association with the body, he just finds it impossible to do that. He feels he has no motive. That’s because the body has no motive. That’s because he doesn’t have a family unit. That’s what gives him his goals. He’s… he’s got a goal then, a MEST goal, a lineage goal, and all that sort of thing. You get this terrific family thirst. And you get your GE surviving best and being loused up the most because of interfamily relationships.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that your thetan is even vaguely aberrated on this line. Your thetan is much more interested in a higher level debit and credit system of what he himself has done to himself, by himself, and for himself. And your thetan, by the way, can much more easily go into a group. Families are not good groups; they’re bad groups.

So, all this stuff applies more to homo sapiens, because of the GE, than it applies to a thetan. You’ll see this whole picture change in an individual after you have theta cleared him and brought him up toward cleared theta clear.

Until you’ve done that, remember this debit and credit proposition and the gross nature of flows. if the fellow has been flowed in upon too much, he’s gonna outflow. If he hasn’t been flowed in on enough, he’s gonna inflow. That’s all there is to that.

Okay. Let’s take a break.