I uh… understand you want to hear some more about these games. That right? Okay. I’ll just give you then a breakdown on the list, which I gave you at the end of the last hour, and explain this thing just a little bit further, so that you’ll have a good grasp of what we’re doing here.

This is the 3rd hour, December the 12th, afternoon lectures. Going to cover in this hour, a little bit different than I’ve been covering ‘as we go along the line here, I’m going to cover Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. And Standard Operating Procedure of Scientology was originated the end of September in England, in 1952. And that was Issue I. Now that came out in the magazine SCIENTOLOGY issued from Phoenix, reprinted. That is… been changed to this degree: It has been shifted to take out of it anything except postulate processing, and creative processing. And spacation. And it has those three processes as its basic, plus exercising the thetan perceptics.

You see, the first thing that should be sorted out on any operation is the intention or the goal. This was a practice of the ancient magician. He would become an effect if he had not stated what he was trying to cause. If he’d just cause, cause, cause, at random, without ever analysing what he was trying to DO, he was doing at random and heading toward chaos.

The process is essentially very simple. This process makes a theta clear. Extended and continued it makes a Cleared Theta Clear. Now it has this as a strangeness: You can use the various steps of this process, one after the other, and get a thetan exterior. That is, the guy is outside and knows it. He isn’t astral-walking, he isn’t in himself saying „I’m over there“ and all this; he’s outside and he knows it. He says, „Do you think I am?“ or… or something of this sort, he’s not.

The difference between thought and matter is that thought aligns in its highest echelon, and matter is chaos. Now, the chaos of matter is quite in addition a chaos which came about from thought hitting the particles too often and misaligning them. So let’s… let’s look this thing over, from this standpoint: To have a goal in processing, and a stated intention in processing is itself tremendously important in processing. And it’s very very important for the auditor doing the processing to know what he is trying to do and for what he is aiming. He doesn’t have to make a terribly full statement of this, but he had better have something so that he can make a full round statement of his overall, unlimited goal.

I mean, this is… we’re dealing with Aristotelian logic. Yay and nay, without a maybe. Of course he’s going to be astonished, that as his knowingness increases his outside-ness increases. And as his knowingness is low, his inside-ness is high. And he’ll say, „Yes, I’m outside,“ and he knows it. Well, he’ll know it more and more, of course. But he knows he’s outside. He’ll get up to a point… he’ll get up to a point where he’ll wonder if he ever was in that damn thing. That’s a fact.

I don’t care if he is… if… if he… it’s an indifferent goal, or a not terribly desirable goal, or this is the effect toward which he is heading. He wants to achieve this effect. Now oddly enough uh… you can run this in a circle if you want to. You can say, „I am trying to cause this result. I am trying to get the preclear up to a point where he can be cause.“ Well now, that’s all right. But it’s kind of nebulous. It’s part of the ingredients of the intention, but it wouldn’t be all of the intention. Uh… were you ever part of a group that just went on acting and acting and acting and acting, and never got down to saying what they were trying to do?

Now what degree does he know it? The degree to which he will tell you, „Yes, I know I’m outside.“ And what degree is that? Whatever he desires to call that degree of knowingness. This is very simple, you see, but it’s very… very crude, really. For instance, there are people here who are so dispersed they don’t know where the hell they are. They’re… they’re way out, maybe! They make… might be dispersed all over the place. And think therefore they’re outside.

Now if you get into any group, political, social, anything like that, it doesn’t matter, and you find out there’s a terrible lot of random motion going on – there’s nothing happening, but there’s an awful lot of motion, but nothing happening, you’ve sat down in a piece of MEST. You haven’t sat down in theta; you’re sitting in a MEST. Random vectors.

You see, they… they… they’re just not anyplace. This would be their negative space. Negative space. That… that negative space would… space not only doesn’t exist but it’s elsewhere. Always elsewhere.

The difference between a piece of chaotic matter and thought is that the chaotic matter is without goals beyond those goals which somebody else impresses upon it. An orange is a living thing. It knows what it’s trying to do. It has been persuaded that it should produce itself so that it will be eaten. And it has found this actually is a good way to plant orange seeds, and get them well fertilized so it’ll grow, make itself quite edible. But it’s trying to produce new oranges. It has a goal. Very well aligned.

Now you’ll pick these people up on the track, and uh… you… you’ll get them picked up, and uh… collected. They’re stuck here and stuck there and stuck someplace else, and dispersed there, and things have moved into their space someplace else, and when you first start to process ‘em, you’ll find him someplace else, and he might say, „Oh, I just love it! I just… just love it here, and I just wouldn’t leave this under any circumstances,“ but after twenty minutes of processing they say, „My God, I’m glad to be out of that place!“ That’s a fact.

And one of the things in which you’re in awe, in the process of life creation, is not so much the complexity of steps and alkaloids and chemicals used in life creation. But there’s that goal. That single, clear, starry goal. And it is simply the goal of „produce another thing like myself, and lots of ‘em!“ And what you look at there, you… you’re not looking at MEST, or the process of complexity, but boy, there isn’t another goal that compares to that, to direct beeline intention. And so a fellow, the human race has sort of bowed down to that, and they sort of take a look around them and see this enormous obsession going on. This… this… this fixity on a goal of reproduction of self. And they say life is a wonderful and mysterious process. It is so wonderful and so mysterious, that you when you get upscale and so forth will be able to embue something with life.

This MEST universe vector business. They’ve been forced to like it somehow or another. You’re liable to find your preclear anyplace, you’re liable to find him standing around a carnival, which happens to be using one of his old skulls. I ran that one time. Fellow was waiting around in an animated skull. He… it was his skull, and so on, and the carnival was using it, to make its jaws flap. Carnival was using it there, and… and it had a red light in it, and its mouth was opening and closing, at the entrance of a tunnel of love. Now you’d talk to this boy about love, he’d just scream. You want to know about how simple an aberration can be, if you talked to him about tunnels, he’d go mad.

That’s really not what life is doing at all. It’s just using an existing impulse. It’s not making new lives. It’s setting up these channel lines. And… so that things can travel down them. It’s sort of like a road-building crew.

What’d this have to do, you must say – he must be lost in a tunnel. No, he had a skull that was nailed up to a post outside the tunnel of love with a red light in it. All right. Or he’s guarding an area someplace; he’s been set to guarding an area. Or someplace down the track he may have been set to guarding somebody’s wife. So he proceeds to guard his own. Yet he’s down the track someplace guarding somebody else’s wife, or somebody else’s slave, or something, somewhere.

But get the interest people get in a well-aligned and fixed goal. Now if you just have the preclear there, and you nebulously say, „I’m going to make this person well“ and then… then you don’t even bother to define what ‘well’ is, and you don’t know what… what is ‘well’? Well you don’t have much of a goal for your preclear. So you could merely state, and always should state, what you are trying to do for the preclear. Not leave it understood, or half thought-out, or say, „That was part of a lecture sometime and I’m sure that somebody else knows about it but I don’t.“ You’re being an effect when you’re saying that, and you’re not going to cause, not worth a nickel.

And he’ll answer for it if anything happens; it’s really been impressed on him – electronically and every other way. Boy, he’s… he’s… he sure is hell on guarding women! Or she has been set to guarding or watching or spying upon somebody, and she’s got this one confused with her husband, and uh… she’s all upset about that too. You free ‘em up on the track. I’m trying to show you that just freeing a person up on the track, as we’ve known for a long time, is terrifically beneficial.

To cause things one must be cause, and the primary requisite of cause is a statement of intention and goal. Primary requisite to be cause, is a clear statement of what you’re trying to do. And only when you clearly state it can you avoid being yourself an eventual effect. „What am I trying to do?“ If you can’t answer that, you’ll foul up.

The dispersed case is stuck on the track, in lots of places. His aberration directly derives from all the places he’s stuck on the track. Those are the most aberrative things. And his stuck-ness on the track is represented by, one, a theta bop of some narrowness, which means a body, and a theta bop of some considerable width, which means an area. Such as ‘Home Universe’. He’s still stuck in his home universe. Okay. So as you go down Standard Operating Procedure, you have Case One, he’s pretty well collected in present time, as far as space is concerned. Therefore he moves right out.

Well, let’s put it to this limited degree. A preclear comes in, sits down, says, „I uh… so-and-so and so-and-so… I want uh… so-and-so… and I’ve always had this bum lock of hair and I want it to be trained flat.“ That’s his goal. Who was it that had a goal, he got this, oh… tremendous amount of processing on something just so he could grow a couple of hairs, or something like that. Or we ask this preclear, theta cleared, and everything else, and what was this preclear trying to do? Well, this preclear was trying to uh… make it so she wouldn’t mind it if her husband scolded her. I mean, merely… really limp! But that’s better than not having any goal! Most preclears come in, they say, „Well, I…“ – they’re not happy, and so on. „I want to be happy.“ Oh, boy! That’s nice and nebulous too. Beautiful.

From there on down he’s less and less collected, but just the operation in Steps Two… Case Two, Case Three, Case Four, the operation alone of making him step outside may collect him. Case Five, no, no. He can’t be collected. He can’t be collected simply by stepping outside. He’s elsewhere, and he’s elsewhere too solidly.

So let’s have action goals, huh? For our preclears. All right, one preclear comes in and he sits down and you see this preclear is loused up like a fire drill and he doesn’t know how loused up he is, and he says, „I want to fix it up so ties fit me better.“ You don’t care what he says! The second you accept his goal for him, you are an effect of him. The hell with what he wants! Oh, that’s strange! The guy’s in a very aberrated condition. And he isn’t going to want what he says he wants after an hour’s processing. He isn’t in any state to make any goal, or any decision about a goal. He really isn’t!

Now Case… that’s all a matter of space. Now, Case Six and Case Seven likewise are very dispersed. Only Case Six and Case Seven are really well- collected at some other place on the track, not here. You know, they say, „He isn’t all there“? Boy, is that apt! „It’s enough to drive me out of my head.“ How apt.

You take a look at him, and say, „Now, let’s see…“ You don’t have to tell him. Make a statement. Write it down. Keep… keep one of these ten-cent store ledgers, like I’m always threatening to do when people steal. I’ll keep a few cases in… in a ledger and make a few notes and the next thing I know I look around and I say, „Where’s my ledger?“ Uh-uh! There’s more of those things parked around the country! People looking for some magic secret or something, I… what do they find in it? They find, „Effort Processing. Lecture so-and-so…“ so on. Just routine processes. Routine as the devil!

So let’s look over this from a standpoint of high practicality, just the standpoint of space. And we find out that space regulates the steps in this standard operating procedure.

All right. Every once in a while they find some experimental data, like we… we uh… worked with this preclear on action goals. We had him go down to the dime store, and uh… buy uh… fifty sets of glasses. And then come back and break them in a number of different ways. Something like that, to see if this improved their vision any. Just… but what’s the cause? So you have this little ledger book, and you write down, „Jones, Mrs.“ And you put at the top, age, rank, serial number? Nuh-uh! You don’t show this case book to Mrs. Jones. The dickens with what she thinks about it. After you’ve talked to her for a couple of moments, you put down the hour she reported in; that’ll be of value to you later on. Tells you how much time you spent on her, in case you want to add up your ledgers. It’s quite important. Tell her how long you’ve processed her. Also you can have that in the book, so that’s quite important too.

Now let’s look at it from the standpoint of energy. And the standpoint of energy… we find as we go down the line, the person is more and more solid as an object. You would expect this is his space, is less and less well-organized, and he has less and less free space until he finally runs into negative space, at about… that is, he’s out, and here, and there. And we get down, in energy we find it’s more and more thick, more and more thick, more and more condensed. So that he is surrounded. A One, in homo sapiens, normally has fairly dense energy around him. But he can move through it and it doesn’t bother him too much. A Two has more condensed energy in his immediate vicinity, has less space. A Three has even denser energy, a Four much denser, and a Five, oh brother! You couldn’t get this fellow out with a hacksaw, until you do some processing, get him collected, and get him some space, and let him handle space and a few things like that.

But uh… how long s… length or… or amount of havingness of Mrs. Jones, this could be a list of. That’s really what you’re marking down. Uh… now, Mrs. Jones doesn’t have you, you understand. That’s… that’s the way to be a terrible bad auditor. How’re you going to have any effect upon a preclear, if you’re asking the preclear all the time for a license to survive? You don’t get many preclears either, by the way. They… they sort of notice this. You can give them sympathy, but you can only… their… your sympathy’s only valuable if you give it from an altitude. And the only way you gain altitude is simply to be cause. And you’re cause by locating them in time and space. You tell them when they’re supposed to be there and when they leave.

A Six, „What engram?“ They’re all stacked in one place. The characteristic of… the characteristic of energy as we go down the line, is a stuck needle.

Make a practice sometime of telling ‘em to leave. You ought to drill yourself on it. „All right, you leave now.“ And by the way, if I were… if I were really… had the thumbs down around here on processing good and solid, you could get little assignments like that. But I’ve had to be on deck to straighten them back and forth.

Now the thetan can, to some degree, disperse and give space to the GE. Surprising. But the presence of a powerful thetan in the vicinity of a badly aberrated and badly packed up GE can give space to that GE. Just his presence is sufficient to stretch the amount of space around the GE. But we can have a condition like this. The steps being modified by the solidity of the GE. The GE is terribly solid, and we put him on an E-Meter, put the preclear on the E-Meter, and the guy steps out of his head rather easily, and he is practically on the bottom of the tone scale. And the needle registers stuck.

I gave a fellow an assignment one time, „Now, I’m giving you five hours of effort processing,“ and uh… so forth, and his trouble was a tremendous uh… physical infirmity which demonstrated enormous embarrassment. I gave him the assignment of making everybody he met, or knew, demonstrate that infirmity. Tough assignment! He knew he couldn’t do it. He knew he couldn’t. So what do you know! A week later, he’d gone around and put it into action. Instead of being embarrassed himself, he had managed to make everybody embarrassed that he knew. This guy was a cock of the walk. He was in most wonderful condition! In just gorgeous condition!

How fascinating. It merely means that that E-Meter measures first the GE and then the thetan. So you’ve got a GE who is stuck. Not the thetan. But when you get down to Five and Six, the person doesn’t step out of his head, he’s low on the tone scale, and he does not demonstrate any real activity of needle. You’ve got a thetan who is not collected – get how complex this can be, now – a thetan who is not collected, who has heavy energy deposits, very solid, around him too, who is in a GE, which has very solid ridges, and which is pretty badly dispersed itself.

For instance uh… he knew that he would never have the right to talk to a woman. Much less embarrass a woman! So I made him go around and selectively embarrass women. By remarks to them. Not… not bad remarks, you understand. But just tell them something or other and… that would make them nervous. Just a little bit. That guy came back and he was feeling benign toward the feminine part of the race, patting them all on the head, and they enjoyed him a great deal like that; he was fun. He had been able to command these objects.

Now you don’t necessarily get a stupid case when you do this. The brilliance of this case is dependent upon the… a little funny factor, that uh… isn’t well isolated at all. It is above the levels of wave length. And, you can imagine this, thetans vary from thetan to thetan in potentiality of creating space and energy in it. There’s a real honest-to-goodness variation in intelligence, then, which comes from, you might say, theta itself. There’s a real difference of horsepower that comes from theta itself. But as you ‘look around you, you will not find any thetan of sufficiently low horsepower, as far as I know at this time, to remain unable to be… incapable of being collected and being made into a theta clear.

All right, when you’re trying to command objects, be cause. And always be cause, and everything else but cause, and when you put down that ‘Mrs., Jones, 2:15’, why, you also put down after you’ve talked to her for a short time what goal you intend to achieve with Mrs. Jones.

The guy has to be awfully bright to be here at all in no matter what kind of a condition. And the physical infirmity of the individual is no index of the power or ability of that individual. The solidity of ridges is no index either. Because what’s postulating there is not using energy. The energy’s getting in the road of it. And it’s not using space. So it’s distribution of space.

And then she says, „Well, I can only spend a certain amount of time. I can only spend a certain amount of time,“ she says, „on this and I only have five hours that I can be processed,“ and so forth.

But let’s take the real spinners, and we find an exception to that. The real spinner was described once to me to me by Richard DeMille, who wrote those course books. That’s Richard DeMille, Cecil B.’s boy. An awful good kid, Richard. He probably knows… way up on this subject, he’s probably one of the best, quote, authorities on Scientology there is. ‘Cause I’m not an authority on it. Uh… I couldn’t be by definition.

It’s always a good thing to tell them in no uncertain terms uh… „You have as many hours as you need. And if you only need three, you only need three.“

And uh… he explained one time, he says, „You know,“ he said, „what psychotics look like to me?“ He says, „You… you… you take a uh… psycho, and you turn him loose, and he’s going in this straight line, and a little tiny impulse hits him from one side, and it moves him over from going on the straight line, and he moves off in this new direction as modified by that impulse. And he walks off in that direction. And then the next time, some other impulse hits him and shoves him over into some other direction, and starts him on a new course, exterior impulse, and he moves right on over and follows in that direction.“ Of course, he’s obeying the laws of particles. See? Now, and he gets hit from another quarter, and he moves off in this new direction, got this erratic zig-zag.

And so we have a condition resulting here of a preclear who is going to get well. Not a preclear who’s going to come in and burn up some time and pay you a fee and go out again and monkey around.

Now you get a person who’s not, and he starts on a course. And a particle hits him, and he might stagger a little bit on it, and he keeps right on on the same course. And another particle hits him to shove him off in some other direction, and he might stagger a little bit in that direction, he stays right on the same course. And the only thing that happens to him, he slows down.

Let’s get down to some of the niceties of how you handle people. I may not follow my own rules, but I sure know the rules! And to a large degree when I am extremely successful with somebody or other, I have followed the rules – I look back over it.

Really, that’s the essential difference between the psychotic and the sane person. The psychotic obeys the law of particles; the sane person obeys the law of free aligning action. He aligns action, continues to align action.

He says, „I only have enough time, I’m going home… Here is… I’ve got a hundred guineas,“ or, „I’ve got five hundred bucks,“ or… or whatever it is, and, „I want so many hours of processing for this,“ and so forth.

And is not a particle. Your psychotic also looks and feels like an object. He has no responsibility; he is handled, he doesn’t do the handling.

You say, „Well, the processing fee happens to be 250 dollars an hour, and you have as many hours of processing as you need, and if you only need a half an hour, that’s all you’re going to get.“

So we have these complexities, with regard to these steps of this case, and therefore we find that a psychotic quite often will simply step right out of his head. You wall through a sanitarium, it’s about the same percentage of people in the sanitarium can step outside of their head as the people on the street. And uh… mad as hatters.

And they say, „The man must know what he’s talking about! He must be able to do things!“

So there’s something there, there’s the essential capability of persistence in alignment, not capability of reasoning, is the difference between sanity and psychosis. So don’t expect just because this person is mad as a hatter and is treating everything like objects that he can’t step out of his head. Don’t make the essential mistake of saying then that there are cases outside the action and perimeter of Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. There aren’t.

You think that’s offensive language – no, no! Don’t bother to be offensive about it. But it is better to be offensive, that way, real mean offensive that way.

And what do you do with a psychotic? Well, if you can get his attention at all, you give him Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. You just go right on down, you’ll find out that he can’t do anything else by the time you get down to Step Six, you get ARC Straight wire as another process in addition to those I named first at the beginning of this lecture. But you’re already operating outside a perimeter of uh… contact. So that’s really just establishing accessibility.

„I don’t care whether you’ve come over here or not; it’s nothing to me whatsoever whether or not you come over here to get processed. That’s… that’s… all you can possibly pay me is money. And that isn’t worth a damn, and you know it, and you probably aren’t worth saving anyhow!“

And a better process, that is ABC Straightwire in terms of mock-ups. Let’s put a little man out there, and let’s see if we can hear him talk. So we say ARC Straight wire, throw it in under creative processing. All right. ARC Straightwire’ll solve it, though.

You could go to that limit, and it would be better, and you would get more preclears, and you would do more for the preclears, than if they came over and you said, „Well, yes, that’s right,“ and, „We’ll see if we can do that…“ and, „That’s right…“ and everything is all very calm, and uh… and uh… so on. And uh… „Well, if that’s what you want, why, we’ll give it to you.“

So, here we have this process applying to no matter how many preclears you’ve got, or what they’re doing or anything else. If you’re going toward theta clearing, this is the process you use. If you’re going to fix up a chronic somatic you may attempt to resolve it by simply using mock-ups, without even essaying toward theta clearing.

No, no, no. Don’t be so damned agreeable. ‘Cause that’s inflow. Be disagreeable; that’s outflow, and they’ll want you! Say, „Yes, you come over here at 2:15, you be over here at 2:15, and we’ll give you enough hours… as many hours of processing as we can.“

But if you want my candid opinion, l believe that theta clearing an individual by Standard Operating Procedure is a much much faster method of knocking out chronic somatics. That is an opinion. Because I found out occasionally if you start to fool around with somebody with too much processing before you theta clear him, he’s liable to bust a ridge or – something of the sort that makes it less possible to theta clear him. Once in a while this happens.

They say, „Well, I only have two hours, and I want to spend it…“ and so on.

Furthermore, he’s subject to every ridge the GE’s got. And as long as he’s subject to those ridges he’s gonna start responding like homo sapiens to everything. The fastest process I know is Standard Operating Procedure Issue III, for anything. Good for man and beast.

Uh… „Well, I’m sorry. I can’t say how long you’ll be. You’ll maybe only be here an hour, and maybe I might keep you six. Who cares?“

You’d be surprised sometime when you’re a good thetan, how many beasts you could walk up to and tell them step out of their heads and they’d do it. Thetans get all fouled up, by the way. One day they’re very fond of cats or something of the sort, and one fine day why they’re… see a little… they’re a thetan you see, and they’re kind of maundering around in a sub-zero state of unknowingness, and they get the impression of this cat, very big, they feel this cat is over there, and they’re outside of a body at the time, and they’re wandering around, and just drifting, and they… they say, „That poor little cat seems to be in pain“ and they put a tractor wave on the cat and they go ‘Slurp!’ – and they’re a cat. And they say „Meow!“

Give them no margin of placing themselves in time. Because you are much better off in control of the preclear than the preclear is in control of himself during the period of processing him. And the way you do that is place him in space and time. And never let him get the idea he’s placing himself in space and time.

All right. We uh… girl was run in Wichita one time, they couldn’t do anything for her, and couldn’t do anything for her, and all of a sudden they found a past life as a lion. Well that’d be all right, but there is no past life of a lion on the GE track. And we were running GE’s at that time. And then when the rest of it came out, it became even worse… she had eaten her keeper! And I never heard of anybody two million years ago, a lion in the forest primeval would have a keeper. Until we discover it was in the Chicago zoo! Became very bad. They ran the incident, she became sane; that’s all that seemed to be wrong with her. She went away very happy and cheerful about everything.

Once in a while suddenly call the guy up and say, „Drop over here at eight o’clock before you go to work.“ Rattle him on the subject, if you’re having trouble with a preclear. And you’ll find out he’ll respond better to processing! This is how you build altitude.

Now… now we’ve got some kind of an idea of what had happened there, she’d probably had been hanging around the zoo. And uh… she ate a keeper. Checkup of the newspaper records demonstrated that at that time a keeper had been eaten by a lion at the Chicago zoo. Anyway, we’ll go on… Don’t buy any of these wild piece of science fiction here.

But under the name ‘Mrs. Jones’ you put down the goal. „This squirrely old dame ought to be fixed up so that she could possibly live with her husband.“ And you just work, right straight toward that goal.

You can just murder the police, if you want to. You can go down to those lie detector operators and really fix their clocks for them! You could say, „Did you ever ask any of these criminals that you’re putting on this lie detector if they ever have lived before this life?“

And she says, „…and my lumbago, and my arth… arthipedics, are uh… are all sparthlicated…“

And they’d say, „Of course not.“

You don’t care. That… if that has to do with her getting along with her husband, and that’s what you’ve decided she’d better do, that’s what’s going to happen to her! And what do you know! You’ve decided what’s going to happen to her, she’ll never gonna… he… she won’t affect you. She can sit there and rattle off aberrations and exude glee of insanity and… and feed out engrams that would ordinarily be terribly restimulative, and… and all that sort of thing, and that won’t have any effect on you at all. You know what you’re doing with her. It doesn’t matter how limited your goals is, or how extended your goal is, just go ahead and do it. Don’t even be practical about it. And don’t mind changing it.

You say, „Well, you’ve got one right there, you mind if I ask him?“ You say, „Did you ever live before?“ Off the tape go the needles! You say, „Did you ever commit a crime last life? What are you accused of in this life… bank robbery? Oh, well did you ever rob a bank in some past life? When? What bank? Where?“ Oh, Chicago 1932, or… or New York City uh… 1912, or something of the sort, or Boston, 1904. And you tell the guy, you say, „Well all right, what’s the names of the other guys? Let’s spell them out… that were in the robbery,“ and you just beat the information out of him by selection of letters, you know. And alphabets, and so on. Make your police detector guy send a wire to Boston. There was a bank robbed at that time. They caught the other guys later, too.

The next day she comes in, you’ve changed your mind. Don’t shift the goal! But know that YOU changed YOUR mind, on receipt of more data. You’ve decided she ought to be able to live with her son. That she’d probably be happier doing so.

Okay. Before you do Standard Operating Procedure Issue III you set up your E-Meter, and you do creative and destructive, very destructive, assessment. Just do an assessment. Now I’m working on symbolism of language, a table. Be ready one of these days. If you don’t have the table just break it down by dynamics. Somebody wrote me the other day that dynamics had been installed in several incidents. What’s he think any kind of an implant… any kind of an implant would do to a guy, huh? But install… let’s say it was a group implant. Well, how… how on earth do you suppose the guy would ever, under any circumstances not have the third dynamic accentuated, if he’s being told by hypnotists to be loyal to a group? They weren’t installed one way or the other.

Now that sounds very funny, making peoples self-determined by dominating them and controlling them. That’s telling you you’d better be responsible for your preclear, and you couldn’t be responsible for this preclear at all unless you were willing to control and dominate him during the session. See? If you aren’t willing to do that, you… you’re not willing to handle the force of a preclear. ‘Cause we’re not trying to handle that preclear for bad cause. You’re not trying to be bad cause.

Okay. You can read all about this here if you want; we’ve got all of these various definitions. And I’m going to go over these definitions in another lecture. We’re only interested here in operating procedure itself. And we find out that Step One, positive exteriorization, reads as follows: „Step One, positive exteriorization. Ask the preclear to step a foot back of his head. If he does, ask him to go back further, then up, then down, practicing placement in space and time. Then one asks pc if there are any items in the body he would like to repair and proceeds to let the preclear repair them according to the preclear’s own ideas of how he should do it.

But maybe you are bad cause. Maybe you move her out of her body and she does a bunk and they bury her. Well you know that you did your best along the line. You know what you were trying to do. And you know what you were trying to accomplish. Things like this can happen. Probably never will happen, but they could happen. Be willing to take the consequence of it. If you are, if you go around propitiating, and say, „Give me a license to survive,“ to everybody you meet; every time a preclear walks in you say, „Have you got your license to… the license you’ve got for me? Oh, please, sign me a license to survive,“ and you won’t make ‘em well. Steel yourself up. Just on the basis of being cause. And most of being cause is stating the goal.

„Then educate the preclear by asking him to create and destroy his own illusions, into finally getting a certainty of illusion, and from this certainty perceiving the real universe with all perceptics. Note: The realest universe is of course one’s own illusory universe, and should be completely rehabilitated before one attempts to perceive or handle or worry about the MEST universe.“ It says ‘complete’ in that, that is a typing error. It should he ‘rehabilitated’. It’s more important to rehabilitate that, one’s own ability to create a universe and destroy it – it’s more important to do that than it is to ask him to perceive MEST universe waves.

You’re willing to state a goal on something.

„Rehabilitated sonic, vista and so forth, the MEST universe, are very clear and very certain. Clear perception in early stages does not attest to being outside. The only test is whether the preclear knows he’s outside, and failing the first line of this step go to Step Two.“

Now to give you here a goal, we’re going to make a theta clear. A person who is going to be stable outside of his body, and who does not have to come hack in because the body is injured. That is a highly specific, but very broad goal. That’s what you’re trying to make. There is no ‘why’ you are making a theta clear, you see. You know that in the process of doing this an awful lot of a guy’s upsets and viewpoints and educational malfunctions and all kinds of things will spring. Matter of fact you can sometimes take somebody and move him out two feet back of his head, takes a look at himself, drill him a little bit, orient him in space. You don’t even stabilize him outside of the body. He comes back in like mad. He wouldn’t hardly know the guy from the beginning to the end of the session. He’s so much better, he’s so much more alert, and so forth. That’s just the theta exterior.

All right, let’s take a comment on that. That… that’s a very simple step. You say, „All right, now BE a couple of feet back of your head.“ Fellow says, „Who, me?“ And you say, „Yeah. Let’s just pretend that you’re inside your head and let’s he a couple of feet back of the head.“ Well I don’t know what percentage, about… probably about fifty percent of your cases suddenly say, „Okay, I’m there.“ Just like that. It won’t even seem strange to him.

All right, you make a good theta clear, you could kick him in the shins, or an automobile could run over that body, or anything could happen to that body, he would stand there and be outside, not trapped. What you’re doing is making a thetan trap-proof, as far as a body is concerned. And pea… I love these… these short-gap no-synapsis characters that go around saying, „A theta clear is uh… just a theta clear, and that’s nothing, why, anybody could be that, or do that uh… because uh… the astral walkers have been uh… been skidding around on their feet uh… for a long time on this subject, and everybody knows that they’re theta clears, and anybody can…“ Oh, piddle! It isn’t even vaguely connected!

The awareness is such a high turnup of fact and actuality, that it causes no comment from the preclear. He just knows this is true. He kinda thinks he knows it all the time. And of course he did. Now you just put him on through drills.

You’ve got the individual EXISTS, and IS without a body, and no dependence on one, beyond his contact and communication lines, as long as he wants to stay in contact with the bodies. But the body doesn’t command him, he commands it. That’s a terrific goal, right there! You’ve got a human being, made into a new kind of human being. It’s a body being monitored by a trap-proof thetan. And that makes quite a guy! Quite a guy. There’s a big difference between that guy and homo sapiens. An enormous guy! This goal is so far beyond the goals of the first Book that I don’t think you could measure ‘em with light wave… meters… light-year meters. It’s just… be… way beyond anything. Because the bird’s immortal!

If he doesn’t step out, if he says, „What? Oh uh… out back of ny head? Uh… why, um… umrr, uh… I… what are you talking about? Uh… uh… no, I uh… you mean step… step back of my head, or be back of my…? I’m sorry, I uh… Well I guess I can…“ You go to Step Two. He says, „Yep, I’m there,“ you’ve got Step One, and you just carry on.

Maybe you hadn’t… probably… many of you taken even that into consideration. That you’ve just made a god! What is the definition of a god? It’s an immortal. Since time immemorial in this language, the gods are immortal. The immortals are gods. This guy can be… body can be bashed in, so forth, all he’s got to do is pick up another one. Knowingly, full knowingly.

Now the drill here is quite important. You know a lot of this drill, it’s just creative processing, I noticed here we’ve evidently got a line left out in this copy. „Change postulates.“ Doesn’t it ask him to change postulates here? Nope. That’s evidently been left right square out of this copy. So let’s make sure that we add to this copy, and you make sure that you know, Change Postulates. Give him rising scale postulate changes, and shift his postulates, and change his mind around, after he’s outside. Because actually that’s the only process there is. Convincing him through action that he can make postulates and make things happen by postulates. If you haven’t got that yet, you… it’s all you’re trying to do with mock-ups, is make him make new postulates, say, „Yeah, I can do that.“

You’ve given him his identity, his own identification inside himself as much as he needs it, and his own state of beingness and stepped him sideways off the track, completely, of having to flick back through between-lives areas, and be this effect of God knows what-all. The body got killed, it’d be a sad thing because he would not be able to collect his social security as himself. That’d be real tough, wouldn’t it? So don’t… don’t sell this goal short. You’ve just made an immortal. So that… that’s a good enough goal! All by itself.

Course if he says, „I can do that“ he can do it. That’s that! I mean you finally… he finally finds out how high and tall this gets, and how absolute it is, and he gets very interested, and wow. He’ll go through periods of being very careful not to make postulates, too. He’s afraid if he says the Empire State Building will fall down, it’ll fall. No it won’t, not for quite a while.

Well, if you make your intention of a person… you say we’re going to make a theta clear out of a person, that’s what you intend to do with that person. Just by definition. But if you don’t intend to do that much, let’s do something short of that. Let’s still state what it is. „I’m going to fix up her left hind leg. Work till her left hind leg is fixed up and then drop it. That’s the end of that.“

All right? So get Postulate Processing in there in Step Two. And now failing the first line of this step go to Step Two. By orientation. Older issues of this said ‘negative exteriorization’. That’s still a process. Evans Farber played around with that. You’ll find it in Issue I, Issue… I mean uh… yeah, Issue I, if you want to look it over. Negative exteriorization. It’s also covered in 8-80. And it’s the only one given in 8-80.

Or if you were to put down you’re going to make a cleared theta clear out of somebody, oh no! How can you state you are going to do something of which you do not know the scope and dimensions? With an individual you’re going to say, „I am going to research the business of being a cleared theta clear, with this pc, and find out some more about it.“ Well, that’d be all right. But, „I’m going to make a cleared theta clear out of somebody,“ you might as well write down, „I am going to make a Thee-X-Epsilon“ with no idea of what a Thee-X-Epsilon could possibly be. It is not a goal. Because it has no scope or meaning.

See, the one I was using before that had as its emphasis… on responsibility. Now you can get all the process you want out of responsibility. If you’ve really got to specialize in a process, there are a lot of them, and you know that you can specialize in this process. You can specialize in Cause and Effect. You can specialize if you want to in Have and Have not. You can specialize, if you want to, in Responsibility, Irresponsibility. Aesthetics and Responsibility. You can do this, very easily, and if you use responsibility you’ll blow him out of his head. Have and Have not won’t blow him out of his head, but for some reason or other responsibility does. ‘Cause it’s mainly his responsibility for his environment and his body, and that sort of thing, that keeps him there.

What can a thetan do? Now, we’ll say cleared theta clear. You couldn’t put down such a goal. Because that’s the postulated outer line unattainable absolute. Probably anything we understand it to be is probably attainable already, but what is the outermost limit of it, Lord knows! Haven’t got any idea and you haven’t either. You won’t have for a long time!

All right, Negative Exteriorization was a very simple affair; it simply says, „Try not to be a foot behind your head“. And the guy’d bang into it. Well, that’s the opposite vector, MEST universe, this guy is very very heavily influenced by flows who can do this, and quite often will do it. But a preclear occasionally also gets mad, and quite in addition to it, I haven’t found auditors being able to make it work.

But what… what do we get then, when we look at this? We say, „This is… we’ve got a theta clear, and we’re going to do something more. We’re going to process him some more.“ So you put down as your goal, „I am going to process him some more.“ Sure, you can go process him some more. You can just process him and process him, and… to do what? „Well, I don’t know, make a better thetan out of him, or…“

Uh… this is one – I can make it work, I haven’t any trouble. Evidently Farber can make it work. But practically every auditor I’ve trained sooner or later come around to me and said, „Ron, you know, I can’t get anybody to work on that negative exteriorization.“

No, you could say, „I’ll process him some more to get rid of’ these ‘can’ts’ I found on the E-Meter as follows…“ All right, you got those ‘can’ts’ out, end of track! Otherwise you don’t get any… any end cycles on anything. You just keep going on forever, and your whole life gets dragged out to an interminable piece of endurance.

Well, there’s… as I said, there’s several kinds of processes then. One of those processes is simply a process that I can use. Well, boy, I… I can make anybody well with practically anything. I could probably even take psychoanalysis now and make it work. I mean, let’s get impossible! How would you make it work? Oh, you’d… I don’t know. You’d say so-and-so and so-and-so, and you’d look at the guy real hard and emanate from a couple of different directions, and plow down a few ridges and say, „Well, you feel guilty about that? Well, that’s fine, now tell me all about that.“ And while he’s talking, why pull a few more ridges off of him, monkey around… I don’t know what you’d do.

So when you say, „I’m going to…“ here, you’ve got a… got a cleared thetan, „Now what’s my next goal for him?“ You could put down what the next goal is: „I’m going to fix it up so he can lift his body.“ See, you make a statement, to yourself. I don’t care if you write it down. Make the statement to yourself at a clear moment. „What am I going to do for Doaks, now that he’s a cleared thetan? I’m going to fix him up so he can lift his body.“ And that’s a specific drill, and you fix him up so he can lift his body.

Then there’s a process that uh… two or three guys can use, and with which they’ll occasionally do results, and then there’s a process two or three guys can use and produce results rather uniformly. Then there’s a process that you can use, and other people can use, and you know what you can… how to communicate it, and you can talk about it and other people can use it and they can get results, and these results are very uniform and that’s a very desirable process.

Then maybe the next time… next time you process him, a few weeks later, you give him a few hours of processing, and he gets a what? You’re going to get him up to a point where he can lift up a taxi cab. Now, a taxi cab would be an entirely different project than lifting his body, but they’re consecutive on the same line. You get the idea? Specific statement of goals.

That’s a process you want. You don’t want these other processes. First Book had a lot of that, „several can do it but a lot couldn’t“. I had a lot of that.

Now let’s look at the overall in… statement of why we are doing this. Why? Well, the reason why we’re doing this would and should be codified before we could adhese, or cohese, as an operating group to the extent we would like to be one. Because that would be what the group goal is. What are we trying to do?

So a negative exteriorization, still a process, works on opposite vectors. I’m sorry that… that uh… it didn’t go further than it went. Orientation is a more able process. By the way, negative exteriorization wasn’t just a lost effort; let’s not get that idea about this thing. It showed that there was an awful fast method. You didn’t process flows on Responsibility and so forth, and blow the guy out. It was a sudden approach. You just walked up to the guy and you said, „Try not to he two feet back of your head“ and poof! In some of these cases he was. And it demonstrated that it could be done. And as such it was a very valuable process, because it all of a sudden pointed up, gee whiz, there’s a snappy one. And out of that, why you can just work to make the process snappy.

Well, the group goal to a large degree depends upon the group. I don’t happen to be uh… either inclined to or in a position to tell you what the group goal should be. But I can sure give you the data so you can work it out. And if you all put your heads together and decide that’s what you’re trying to do, all of a sudden a lot of spirit and spark could come in on this.

So by orientation, ask the preclear, still inside, to locate the inside of his forehead. And ask him to put a pressor beam against and push himself out the back of his head. Supplement by this asking him to reach out through the back of his head and grab the wall with a pulling beam, and pull himself out. Ask him to steady himself outside and then by means of beams, to raise and lower himself while outside, and to move to various parts of the room while still outside.

I told a preclear one time… he said, „Well, I can’t understand why I’ve got to originate all this energy.“

„Use creative processing and by orientation as a thetan placing himself as a thetan in spaces and time he can become sure of his whereabouts.“ Create spaces and times, in other words, in which to place himself. „Have him find and cast off old lines which have their terminals fixed to him.“ You’re going to have a rough time with this boy, because he’s going to be nailed down, if you have to get him out by force. You got… you got lines on him, and very often lines up to the sky, and old communication lines that have been on other people and they’re snapped back at him and oh brother! is he a tangled mass of energy!

And I said, „Hey, did you ever stop and think of this one thing? You could probably attract waiters in restaurants much more easily simply by reaching over and taking them sharply by the ear, or the shoulder, and turning them around and pulling them forcefully into the table.“

„Have him find these lines wherever they are, and attach them to radiators and water taps and get the energy to drain out of them. Two will ordinarily have enough lines to cause him to snap back in the head when he releases beams. Failing this, go to Step Three.“ In other words that’s… it’s just the thing. Here’s a guy in a box, and there’s no back to the box. There’s a man in a box and you see him there in a box, and you come along and you say, „Well, why don’t you get out of the box?“ and he says, „I can’t.“ And you say, „Well how about putting your hands against the front of the box, and give it a shove.“ And of course he shoves himself right on out of the box. That’s all there would be to that.

He said, „I could?“

When he gets outside he’s outside. There isn’t anything esoteric about it. There’s one more thing about Step One I’ve got to mention, that’s a very simple thing. It concerns itself… it’s better to say „BE two feet bach of your head“ than „MOVE two feet back of your head.“ A Step Two, you say „MOVE out“, he pushes himself around, he uses effort. And then you work on him so he can think himself to places. Think himself in one part of the room, and think himself to another part of the room, then think himself elsewhere, and he’ll pop there. Very fast travel.

And he worked and he worked and he worked and he worked and he worked. And he came back to see me one day, and he says, „What do you know!“ he said, „I not only dragged one clear across the restaurant, but I also dragged the head waiter over to the table, and I made them stand there, and then I convinced them that I hadn’t done it. And that they were mistaken, that I didn’t want anything, and I wouldn’t let them go away!“

Get him out of his use of beams to propel himself around, as fast as you can. That’s done by rehabilitating his use of beams. Make him so good at using beams that he doesn’t need beams. Not just discouraging him from using beams. That’s the Hindu method. „Bring him down tone scale, make MEST out of him.“ Okay.

I told another preclear, „Do you realize that you could reach over with a couple of energy beams like this and make any girl smile at you, you wanted to smile?“

Step Three, Space Processing. This is Spacation. Spacation is, „…in the MEST universe has forced upon the thetan its spacial dimensions and directions the thetan is likely to become a point which is being subjected to all counter-efforts and emotions of his environment, for his entire concept of space is being determined by the MEST universe.“ And of course he can agree with the MEST universe to… down to a point where he agrees with the MEST universe till he can’t see it anymore; you realize that, don’t you? A guy’s got to be able to perceive an illusion before he can perceive the MEST universe very well. That’s one of the things that led into creative processing. You see uh… the thing is an illusion.

He said, „You could? No!“

Test: You improve the guy’s ability to create illusion and he all of a sudden begins to look at the MEST universe, and he sees IT better. You’d say, „Well this is just force at work.“ Uh-uh! No. You keep on improving his perception, you keep on improving his own illusions, and perceptions, just… just by creating illusions. The first thing you know he goes and looks straight through the MEST universe, and he says, „What MEST universe?“ Isn’t that fascinating? So we’ve got an illusion as being the key to these illusions. So, all these things we’ve been studying about Spacation are usable then, in Step Three.

So he worked, and worked, worked. Force, see? Energy, energy. Had a big goal. Force, force, work, work work work work work, work.

„Have the thetan still inside find his feet in the opposite direction where the MEST body is located by the MEST universe.“ It’s quite a little process, by the way. You haven’t heard anything about this yet. Unless you’ve read this. Why don’t you try that, right now?

And he finally goes out and pssww! „Yes! What do you know!“ he says. „It’s an awful artificial smile, though. You can make any girl smile at you,“ he says, „It makes them feel so silly. They walk down the street and they look at you and they wonder why they’re smiling at you!“

Student: „Say it again.“

So, I said, „Well, you know, if it makes them feel silly, all you’ve got to do is put those same two things on their motor controls, and say, ‘Feel pleasant toward me.’„

Where are your feet located, with relationship to where your body is? Now let’s locate them straight back of your head. Now let’s locate them straight above your head. Now let’s locate ‘em way off to the right – way off! Now let’s locate your feet way off to the left. Now let’s locate your feet back where your feet are. That’s a real silly one, isn’t it? Anybody snap any ridges doing that? Nobody got any ridges snapped?

He says, „You couldn’t do that!“ I said, „Well, try it! Try it!“ „Feel pleasant toward me. I don’t… don’t…“

Well, if you just throw a preclear’s feet around, or throw his body around, and put his body right side up and upside down and so forth, all connected to his head, you can finally put his head down in his stomach. Then put his head down where his feet are, and he’ll be sitting there looking at the top of his head.

I said, „Try to get back up the line, how pleasant it is to touch them. Skip that. Just ‘Feel pleasant toward me.’„

Let’s try that again, Let’s put your feet straight out back of you, and upside down. Make ‘em point that way, back of you. Let’s locate them. Now, wiggle your toes out there. You got that? Wiggle your toes real good. Now, put your feet apart and put them back together again, out back of your head. Now put your feet back where your feet are. Now let’s locate your stomach, in space, with relationship to where you are. Now let’s take your body, and putting the head where the stomach was, stretch it out horizontally, so your feet are way out in back of you. Put your head down there where your stomach is… now turn it blue… now turn it green. Now take a look at the back of your head… take a good look at the back of your head. Now turn your whole body upside down, so that your feet are up in the air and your head is about where it is. Now turn it what is laughingly called right side up. Anybody flip out, and find themselves looking at the back of their head, that they hadn’t done this before? Hmm? Hmm? Did you?

And he says, „You know, they do. They exude an awful lot of enthusiasm in my direction all of a sudden.“

Student: Yes.

He’s been going around this all… for some time. He hasn’t got any goal of his own. You just have to keep giving him these little piece goals, and so forth, and uh… figure out things that’d be interesting to do, that he all of a sudden says, „You know, that’s awful interesting!“ And he’ll find out his process will just skim forward. Just take a terrific rush! You’ve given him a goal.

LRH: Okay, there’s one. Anybody else, find himself looking at the back of his head when he’d never seen it before? Well, that’s a very, very fast operation. I hardly gave you any of this technique at all, see? And we got somebody who did!

Now a group goal is a very necessary thing if your group is going to get interested and go forward. A person’s cause is motivated by future. Motivation’s in the future. It’s, ‘What I want’. ‘What do we want’. That’s cause. And if it’s interesting it sort of pulls us forward to it. You’re making the cause be motivated by something you want to have. And so when you postulate the goal for Mrs. Jones, make it something you want to have. Something that’d be interesting to you.

Student: At least I think I did.

I don’t care what you do to Mrs. Jones. I don’t care if you drop her off the top of the wall… Woolworth State Building. That’s your preclear. ‘Course, if you drop too many of them, why then as a group we have to take a hand. Not to punish you, but to placate the police! And somebody’d have to drill up on how you pick the locks on cells or something in order to get your body back out, because there you are, trying to whisper in all your fellow auditors’ ears, „Hey! The body’s down in the clink!“ And, „I… I’m so rattled, I… I can’t zap any of these cops!“

Well sure! A guy doing this will say, „I think I did.“ It takes a lot of drill. Now you just keep that up, see. Now you put the guy’s head back where it belongs and you give him some other kind of a head, then you put his feet some other direction, and then you keep locating him in space, and locate the body in various orientations in space, you see? And you use the feet as anchor points, make the feet widen… and then finally able to control the body. Let’s put the body out horizontally, way back, and then move the feet out, and move them in again, and then move them in walking motions.

So, what’s your… what’s your goal level as a group? Well now, it frames around this pretty well, truth be told. There’s games to make and games to unmake. And there’s one thing to play a game, and all games have umpires, and it’s quite another thing to be an umpire to a game, and it’s quite another thing to unmake games. You say that sounds like a very destructive goal. Oh no it’s not! ‘Cause what you do when you unmake a game is you get the players together, and you say, „Hey, what kind of a game would you like to play now?“ You haven’t busted their game up willy-nilly; they were perfectly willing at the time you unmade the game for it to be unmade. Actually you could play the game of unmaking games.

Guy’ll finally say, „I… you know, I can handle this body…“ if you keep drilling this… „I can handle this body from any position.“ Is the mission it calls, „If I can handle it from any location, I can probably handle it from outside. So it’s safe for me to move out!“ That’s all. And it’s just drill, drill, drill, drill, and you just keep that up. And find out if he springs. Work him like that, maybe a little longer than I worked you.

Or you could play the game of umpiring a game. As a group, do you realize you could set up umpires to the group called MEST universe? It’s very strange, isn’t it? It sounds, it just sounds so flamboyant that you probably don’t think it’s completely attainable. But this is an easier one. You could actually set yourself up so that you just simply say, „Well, we’re the… the umpire squad, and uh… we decided this Earth-Venus-Mars triangular game here… gotta know more… something more about this, so that it could be played a little more equitably and so on, and with a little more interest. And uh… let’s find out what rules you’re playing by so that we can enforce them.“

If you… you’re going to get that technique, you’re going to get it quick. Because that’s one of the techniques that you would use in Orientation and Spacation. –

Or there’s the game called U.S. and Russia. And you simply set up a nice, conservative quiet 22.0 tone scale association, that simply starts monitoring the situation between the U.S. and Russia. And you say, „Well it’s all very well for you boys to have conferences, and uh… that’s all very well, but uh… unfortunately you… not… don’t realize it completely, but you’ve got to have an umpire present. And you’ve got to have more conferences, and these conferences have got to be wide open to the people of both places.“ And they’d say, „Well, why? What do you mean?“ „Well,“ you’d say, „It’s like this.“

All right. „Have him create difference in his body, and reverse the various limbs and positions according to his viewpoint. Each one in disagreement with the MEST universe. Particularly as appertains to gravity and other influences.“ Stop him agreeing with the body, in other words. „This sets up an ability to disagree with the MEST universe in terms of space. Have him locate his eyes in the back of his head and the soles of his feet and in other places. Have him assume other bodies, each time changing them slightly and putting them away. Then have him gather himself into his normal MEST universe spacial area, and go to Step One.“

And then… then Stalin and a couple of other generals, and things’d be finding themselves meeting in a small swamp in the middle of Korea. Yeah! I mean that literally! Pick ‘em up by the nape of the neck and slam them into the middle of Korea. And you say, „Okay, boys. Now we said there’s going to be umpires in this game!“ All right, it doesn’t appear immediately attainable to you. So it’s not within your framework of workability. But it’ll get there soon enough. And if it gets there and you want to do such a thing, go ahead!

Go through all this drill, see? What you’re doing also is testing. He’s testing, way out this way and way out that way. Is it safe to be in that space? You see, he doesn’t really know. He’s just got to take the MEST universe’s word for it.

Or, you can suddenly turn this way: You can just walk around and pick up teams, or set-ups, who’d gone all to pieces. Or they’ve dwindled down to nothing, where you have no game. Do you realize the cruelest thing that can happen is for a game to deteriorate to a no-game state? Where there isn’t any game possible, and everybody’s stuck in it? And they’ve forgotten their rules, and they don’t know anything about it, and so on. You could as a small association simply go around… (I’m going to petition to the city of Philadelphia to take the wheels off their street cars, and use some gravity bolts or something. Every wheel on those street cars is flat as the motorman’s head!)

Voice: It may be interesting, I… just while you’re talking there, I just turned my head around on op… I turned my body around, and my head this way and put you back there, and all of a sudden I didn’t know which way was front! Just for an instant. LRH: Hmm-hmm. Voice: I was aware I didn’t know which way to look. LRH: Hmm-hem. Very interesting! You… you get a guy, you see, he’s… he’s…

Anyway uh… you’ve got a makingness of games inherent in ending games. You have a responsibility for doing something about broken pieces, pieces and players, if you decide to end games. Well, you could suddenly put your heads together and say, „What do you know! What we’re going to do here is we’ll set up and just for practice monitor a few of the games going on on Earth and find out if their games are going according to our Hoyle. Whose Hoyle? Our Hoyle. Well, we’d have to have Hoyle. We’d have to write Hoyle on the subject of games, or Sudrow on the subject of games, or something of the sort.

Voice: Sweating!

And uh… you decide that uh… this or that was happening, or people weren’t interested in this game, this game could be pepped up and become more interested. So you’ve just become game catalysts. You should pick up… (You see? I ran regret on that streetcar and it backed up all that distance!) Uh… there is a goal, which is an attainable goal. If you were to take, in the United States, and set yourself up as game umpires, that’s just what it’d amount to. Is… is the game called business and industry, is the game called militarism vs. politicianism, are these games running so that they’re interesting? Sole consideration! Is the game interesting? No! Well, let’s take and adjust a few factors that make it possible for the game to be interesting.

LRH: You see, he’s… he’s so used to using this body for orientation that if you take it away from him he feels he won’t be oriented in any circumstance whatsoever. And he’s got a dependency on the body for orientation. Now, space processing has added to it… you go to do more space processing, you just do anchor point processing. Either in this step, or just in generally handling your preclear. I’ve done a lot of spacation. Anchor point processing. –

Okay. Now. The limitation in the rules of games, the limitations on self and others, is necessary for there to be an interplay. There’s got to be a limitation. There’s got to be some frame of reference. That limitation can only be as light as an ethical understanding. We’re going to operate within ethics. And the reason why there has to be a limitation is not terribly obvious to you now, but it’s obvious to you from the theory which you have studied for some time.

This isn’t a complete list of what you do in spacation. This is just what you do in springing a thetan. If he has the enormous stress on the body as his sole and only anchor point, your chances of getting him out aren’t good. Until you’ve collected him.

And that theory is simply this: Our whole activity tends to make an individual completely independent of any limitation. That’s right. You can get so much bigger than anything you are, and so disconnected from anything you’re in contact with, and so completely careless of the fact that this is what’s happening. If… you can go straight on out, and one person is capable of himself being a universe, hence you could do the whole thing yourself. You’re that big. But the second that you are that big, you would be imposing limitations on yourself, in order to scale down to a size which made you able to play against yourself. And then you’d impose limitations on the two sides of yourself. And you’ve gone into the same spiral of limitation.

Now you can run things on the track, you can run mock-ups, you can do this in many ways. But if he’s got an absolute certainty that he needs that body in order to find himself, oh boy! So you just handle that body, and manhandle it, and mishandle it, and put the wrong scenes in front of it and the right scenes in front of it, and put it upside down and right-side-to, and put the limbs in the wrong places, and reverse everything and make the body do things that it couldn’t possibly do, just like he did there… what say uh… turns the body the other way and facing his head… put it in back… and oh boy, all of a sudden the guy gets, „Where the hell am I?“ Let him get that shock a few times. Till he can stand it. And he’ll move out!

You see, limitation is necessary to that degree because there is no limitation, basically, and the limitation itself is an idea of limitation. And when you have an unlimited thing, in order to produce any action or randomity you’ve got to limit it to some degree. See, it’s not fair. Any one of you people could go ahead and rule the whole confounded shooting match all by yourself. So you’d make up a team, and say these are the limitations in which we’re operating and they’re so-and-so and so-and-so, and such and such, and change it around as you will. Do you follow me?

He’ll say, „What am I doing in this thing? I don’t need this thing! I needed it for orientation. Well I can still keep an eye on it, and be elsewhere.“

Old Alistair Crowley had some interesting things to say about this. He wrote a book of the law. He was a mad old boy! I mean, he… you’d… you’d be surprised though, that Crowley, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Aristotle, all the boys, practically, along the line, except the real screwballs like Kant (He was insane! That’s why people bought him) – they all talked about the same thing. And actually you can find all these ideas we’re talking about, someplace in the writings of practically any philosopher who ever thought things over. He couldn’t fail to fall headlong across the most salient facts in the case. He never organized them or was able to evaluate or use them. But he had ‘em.

All right. Next one is Step Four, Ridge Running. Now that’s only in here because it’s a good process, as itself. Haven’t had very many people use it very successfully. But I’ve had enough people use it successfully, so that it’s still there. When done this way, Ridge Running works, on some cases. Fascinating, too! Case is terribly occluded, and you all of a sudden give him these little white flows. I’m not going to go in and tell you how to do Ridge Running at this time.

Schopenhauer, THE WILL AND IDEA. Try attempted breakdowns of this and that. You read this fellow now and „By God,“ you’ll say, „this guy really made sense.“ Don’t… don’t forget, you’re talking from an aligned viewpoint of knowingness. And you can make anything make sense now. You could even make Congress make sense!

Show ‘em a little white flow, and… that’s a command flow, a not-command flow, and all of a sudden the guy comes to the realization he’s not only outside, looking at his body, but he’s in realization that, „My God, I can handle this thing.“ That’s all he’s trying to learn. That’s all you’re trying to teach him, when you want him… to get him outside. He can handle that body without putting lines on it, without doing anything to it and without snapping back into it every time it’s hurting.

Now, if you’re going to have rules, if you’re going to have a game, you’ve got to have rules. And if you’ve got rules, they must be obeyed. An… a rule which is not obeyed, or is obeyed just some of the time, or is so bad that it can’t be obeyed all of the time, it shouldn’t be there at all! And a game which has no rules has no game. It’s chaos. No alignment. Nobody to agree on anything or… so on. After you’d won something you’d never want it, you see; there couldn’t be a goal in it. So it has to be some sort of an agreement.

You’re telling him he’s more powerful and he’s better able to control it outside than inside. He’s inside because he can’t control it or anything else unless he’s inside. You’re going to fix him up so he can control anything he wants to, particularly the body from outside without any lines, flows or anything. That’s theta clear. He’s… person’s just stable outside the body, and he’s handling it.

It’s only when the agreements become compulsions on individuals that the game gets very upsetting. And a piece then degenerates into a broken piece, and it… nothing is making any sense to him. He knows it’s no fun. He isn’t a participant, really, he’s just kind of used. And nobody really wants him or needs him. One of the things your broken piece asks continually, he asks to be needed. He wants to be wanted. He gets way down scale, and he hits that bad. That’s sub-zero on the tone scale. Imagine having to be needed!

All right, Black and White Control Processing. Now you’ve seen some examples of that. That is just straight, „Put up a spot“. The guy’s eyes open or shut. And have him see it. Move it. Change it from black to white, white to black, enlarge it, contract it, move it around in circles, let it persist, turn it on, turn it off, put it behind him, put it below him, and so on. To the tiniest gradient scale that you can get him to do this, and then increase it. You use the lowest level that you can get him to do, and know he’s doing, and then you get him increasing this and you just go right on increasing it, from there on.

And uh… so your obedience to the rules of course makes it, the rule, possible. But if they were bad rules they couldn’t be obeyed. What’s a good rule? It’s a rule which aligns action, and permits compliance. That’s all. It uh… you can’t have a rule that doesn’t permit compliance, although we’ve got a lot of ‘em on the statute books. There are a heck of a lot of rules you can’t comply with, by the way. There’s a rule in South Carolina says you have to beat your wife with a stick one inch in diameter. Just try and find a stick that’s exactly one inch in diameter! Furthermore you’ve got to have a wife to obey that rule. Furthermore a rule that doesn’t apply to all hands isn’t much of a rule. Then you’ve got a specialized caste system going which is too complex.

And it gives him orientation and control over his mock-ups. His mock-ups get better and better and better and better and all of a sudden he’s got completely control over his mock-ups. But that is the lowest gradient scale and that is Step Five. And that determines Step Five.

Now unconsciousness of rules to add reality. And after you’ve got the rules, if they’re real good rules you can duck ‘em. You say, „Well, everybody obeys these author, statically.“

Step Five will first tell you, „I see everything totally black. I can’t get any mock-up, I can’t get any pictures, I just vaguely imagine something, when I do get something it flitters by so fast I can’t tell what it is.“ Well the answer to that is, „Put up a spot“ and get him to control the spot. So the result is that he can’t control or see or use mock-up processing – you think. And you’ve got Black and White Control Processing moved out to be something else or someplace else.

„Oh, you’re here in this area? Itchy, of course, in this area we do so-and-so and so-and-so. Naturally! Nobody’d think of doing anything else.“

Well, it’s not. It’s the lowest step of gradient scale mock-ups and it’s right on the gradient scale of mock-ups. And the only reason we call attention to it is, is for some cockeyed reason – I have explained this a lot of times, ever since I first picked it up, and by golly, I still get questions on it! So we just made a… a process out of it and said, „It is a process.“ Well, it’s really not a process; it’s the lowest gradient scale action of perception of mock-ups. A tiny black spot.

„Well,“ the fellow says, „you mean you got a law about this thing or something?“

The guy says, „I imagine things, but I don’t see them.“ No, no. Black and White Control Processing. „Control that spot. Turn it white. Turn it black. Move it up. Move it down. Move it to the left. Move it to the right.“ What do you know! The guy’s tone will come way up on an E-Meter as he realizes all of a sudden, „My God, I can actually control a spot of light!“ You’d be surprised. And there’s your very occluded case.

„Yes,“ they say, „natural law, yeah. God gave it to us.“

All right. What else do you do for this case? Well, it stresses the necessity to give him an E-Meter assessment. You find out a lot about this Step Five. He comes all the way down through Ridge Running, no good. So we’ll have to talk about Step Five very carefully, all by itself. Well he’s the guy that can’t see, can’t feel, can’t hear. He might be quite bright, he might be quite worthwhile, quite powerful. But no mock-ups. He’s in agreement with the MEST universe like mad! That’s the trouble with him. Very often your engineer will walk himself into being a Step Five, in the exercise of his profession, because he has to agree so much.

They just left the conference yesterday where they formulated it. „God gave it to us.“ That’s it.

All right, Step Six, says ARC Straight Wire. Well, you can get him into ARC with mock-ups if you can get mock-ups. Or you can get control processing a little bit, but actually you’d get this… some guy to remember something that’s really real to him, he’ll pop up the tone scale. „Can you get something that’s really real to you?“

Now you’ve got to have ARC with others to play, and reverse ARC with others to play. There’s got to be another team. And you have to have teammates. But you could go up to a level where your need for ARC didn’t exist at all. But you’re making a game now.

And he’s below any level of reality that he thinks he could reach, and Step Seven is Present Time Body Orientation. „Where’s your body?“ Person who needs a Step Seven of course is insane. That’s an insane condition. „Where’s the light switch?“

Now pain is penalty which will be obeyed. You’ve got to have the rules obeyed. How do you enforce the rules? You put an automatic enforcement around that everybody desires to use. The second everybody desires to use the enforcement, they will obey it too. They obey it to set an example. Pain is the enforcer in this universe. But don’t think that’s the only one. It could be: You disobey the rules… you disobey the rules, you are immediately surrounded by smoke. And the smoke continues till you’re able to obey the rule. Just like that. I mean, you’d have no pain to bother with, but it’d certainly be annoying!

„What’s the realest thing in this real room, to you, eh? What’s the realest thing in this room?“

Now, agreement to rules and penalties is necessary to continue a game. Fellow has to agree to a game before he can participate in it. And the reason why things have gone bad here on Earth, and in the MEST universe at large is simply that… that people didn’t agree to this game. They thought – they did. This game started out in a very strange way. And uh… of course went off its rockers sooner or later.

„The light switch“.

It started out in an effort to never be unmade. Its goal was eternity. Its dream was forever. Can’t have anything. The guy that made it up didn’t know anything about the necessity to have rules to have a game.

Finally find him so he could locate the auditor. Maybe he can’t locate the auditor. Can he locate his big toe? All of a sudden he says, „My God,“ he says, „Yes.“ All of a sudden he feels kind of sane. „I can locate my big toe. There it is! Aha!“ Big line charge. The guy was crazy a few minutes before and now he’s tippily sane. He’ll go off again and on again, Finnegan. But he can locate his body.

Deterioration of game until no game is inevitability in any game. All games come to an end. This game tried to set up for an eternity. Like he’d yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, ‘Eternal, eternal’, boy, every time you turn around in this universe you see ‘Eternity’, ‘forever’, ‘infinity of time’. They don’t exist.

Well there’s the gradient scale of the guy who is able to step out and knows he’s a thetan to the gradient scale of the guy who doesn’t only… not know he’s a thetan, but he doesn’t even know he’s got a body.

All right, when a guy is unable to play, it’s because he has never agreed to play the game, and somebody’s lied to him and said it isn’t a game. And how you do that? You convince a guy he has to work by creating a scarcity. And then d… making his existence, his continued existence, completey dependent upon it. And that’s work!

Okay, and that is a brief rundown then, and the over-all rundown on Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. Now we have to cover these steps in a much fuller sense. Each step at a time, particularly Steps Four, and Steps Five. And of course Steps Six and Seven. And Steps Four and Five, because they’re the steps that have been the bafflers. The rest of them are easy.

Now, the game of complexity and levels – of course you’ve got to have complexity in a game, otherwise it becomes monotonous. Okay, we’ll run that on down the line.

And then we’ve got to cover, specifically, the exact drills you put a thetan through. We’re not dealing, fortunately, with an inexact science which depends upon my opinion or my idea. Next guy that says this, „your… according to your ideas…“ I’m gonna to pop! I mean, just out of hand! And my MEST body has been covert and mean and ornery, and vicious and under my control and trying to kick back at me and it hasn’t been able to, or anything of the sort, and and… the next time I uh… I’m just going to let it go! So if you see somebody fly off the stage madly, you’ll know what happened! Hubbard just took the control point off. Be my MEST body’s fault!

Now, necessity to have a new game coded, before one ends the old game, otherwise everyone else becomes a maker of games with no game. Every guy’s trying to make his own game. And you just get a general wild scramble. Well, you start ending a game, you kill something without putting something in its place. And the darn thing won’t die. Not worth a nickel. It just won’t die. What exists has a persistency in its existence. If you’ve ever tried to knock a group off you would recognize how unwilling that group is to die.

Okay. We uh… should know Standard Operating Procedure, Issue III, by heart. By heart. You should know it. You should always use it, and when you process a case, process it by that procedure, and don’t get innovative. Because this process saves you time, and makes theta clears, and I hope that’s what you’re trying to do.

I swear to Pete you could take every member of a military company and stand them up against the wall and shoot ‘em down, and you’d still have a military company! Proof: The massacre of the Seventh Cavalry. We’ve still got a Seventh Cavalry! How could you have a Seventh Cavalry? The Seventh Cavalry was massacred by the Sioux Indians, at the… Little Big Horn, in 1876. Still got one! Persistence of existence.

Okay. Thank you very much, I’ll see you tomorrow.

Well the way you do that, you have to get a more interesting game, before you end an old game. Now you want to know why your preclear stays around his body, and hangs around and doesn’t do anything and doesn’t go anyplace? Two things happen. He hasn’t found, one, that his mock-ups are more interesting than reality, laughingly called. And the other thing he hasn’t found is communication in the state which he is in with others. So he feels there couldn’t be any ARC and he’s liable to cut himself off completely. These things then have to re… be rehabilitated. See?

And he’ll go on, and he’ll hold himself kind of static because he doesn’t see any… any upper goal. He doesn’t see himself going anyplace. Therefore it really… really is of considerable interest that he sees that he can go someplace. Well if he’s just going to the stage of theta clear, that’s fine; let him go to the state of theta clear. That’s pretty good. He can still operate as a mortal, and be immortal. And boy, that’s sure having your cake and eating it too!

So, we have then uh… as far as the group is concerned, quite a wide variety of choices. What does a group do which has in its hands the capability of making games? Ending games? Umpiring games? You found the rules, you see? I mean, here you sit, you’ve got a good group, and what do you do? Well if you want this to be a group, you want to cohese, you kind of have to get together and put your heads together and get some kind of agreement on what you’re doing. And then – and only then – can the group be cause. If you just idly spin, this way and that, and not think about it any further than that, the group will not become cause over any large area, but is apt to become an effect of a lot of things. So even though it’s a poor goal, it’s better than none.

And you can put that down as a beautiful maxim, that sounds like one of these horrible truisms, but boy it’ll fish you out of more holes than you could possibly imagine you could get yourself into. A poor goal is better than none. You’ll find yourself very often squirreling around, and spinning around, and you won’t know which way you’re going or which end is up, because you’ve decided all the goals you could put your eyes on were too vague or too poor, or too unwanted to try to attain. And that itself is a bad aberration, and it shows a misdirection on your own part, and a misestimation on your own part, and a lack of understanding on your own part of what you’re doing.

There is no goal vast enough to absorb your total capabilities. Because your total capabilities are so vast that they make goals. You are, yourself, cause. So how on earth can you set it up so cause can have anything else but cause? Unless you come downscale a little bit.

A goal, any kind of a goal, is better than none. You say, „What am I going to do?“ Oh, worry about it. You… you squirrel on it and squirrel on it: „What am I going to do? Oh, how am I going to handle myself? What are going to be my goals?“ and so forth.

Set one up! Any damn thing! Say, „I’m going to become…“ or „I’m going to be…“ or „I’m going to have…“ And goals set up in the capacities of Be, Do and Have. And the start of a goal is beingness, and the end of the goal is havingness, in this universe. But you don’t have to set them up like that.

You can set yourself up a cycle of action in any direction you want to. Supposing you are… you just don’t know what to be. Well, just think about it for a while, and think about it, and then think about the strangest thing you could be, or something like that. And all of a sudden you’ll say, „Say, you know what? I’ll bet I could be the doggonedest minister of a Baptist church you ever heard of!“ Well, silly, but it’s better than just sit around and mope! It’d be silly for you, ‘cause it’d be a relatively insincere goal. Or would it?

Uh… they… they have a formula on how you become the minister of the Baptist church. And I’m afraid that you’ve gotten just a little bit above the standard formulas. One of the ways you do it is go around and find the Deacons, is to have them elect you. Sounds strange, but that’s all. Another way you can do it is pick up some poor divinity student who’s better off dead anyhow, he’s practically dying, hang him up, and make him up… patch him up a little bit, and parade him on down like a doll and put him on the pulpit. It’d be interesting. You could run him part-time.

You know, a guy came in one day who had a lot of… had… oh, he’d just been ennuied, just so bored with existence, all of his existence. Very conservative and so on. I saw him a few days later, and this guy looked like he was a… he looks like a… a quarterhorse, or a… or a short-distance runner. Panting, big bright terrific look in his eye and so forth, and he was… I said, „What’s happened to you?

He said, „Well, there wasn’t anything worth doing, so I made up something to be worth doing.“ „All right, well what was that?“ „I won’t tell you what it is, because…“ It’s very amusing!

And he’d thought up that one and then thought he could do something else simultaneously, so he was working on each one part-time. And boy, keeping those two straight was more than he could possibly keep track of, and he was really going all out. He was going to bring about the confederation of two completely impossible opposite polarities. And merge them. And he was proceeding to do so. And then one of these days you’ll see a very strange circumstance happen in some department or other. You’ll see a lot of ‘em happening.

Now you call this interfering with peoples lives. Piffle! What lives? Now you’ll find out there’s a certain number of people that go for broke. And there’s a s… lot of them say, „Oh, boy! Gee! These beautiful, beautiful slave chains! Gee! Oh, now nice! Nice, nice, big chains around my neck and my ankles,“ and so forth.

The hardest thing for any liberator to face is the fact that a large percentage of the people he was trying to free wanted desperately to be slaves. And it’s broken the heart of every liberator to date. To date! Hardly any exception. A man’d have to be awfully stupid not to see that. But he would be pretty dull if he didn’t see this too: Sure, sure, but. the guys he didn’t liberate were worth liberating.

Why… why try to get these allnesses? That’s typical MEST universe. „We have to do it a hundred percent – I used to fall into those traps too. Uh… „We have to do it all, we have to do it a hundred percent.“

The Christian goes about it in the opposite direction. He says, „The one that goes away from the flock and we had to bring back was worth all the rest.“ Flow he’s just obeying the laws of flows, don’t you see? The guy walks away, so he’s got to be had back. That’s not clever! Uh… as an insane thing. But sure!

Uh… another fellow’d take a refuge in this… if he sees this happen, all of a sudden says, „Well, maybe fate decided it. Maybe it was all for the best, and maybe fate decided it.“

Your fate! There is no other fate but thou! That’s true! And so you say, „I’m going to free all and every…“ No you’re not! Unless you were willing to become all and every, and then be yourself free. That’s the way to do it. Why bother? No randomity!

So pick up what you can get as freedom, and then if the other thing is too much in the road still, it’s still got all them thar slaves in it, and those fellows that are saying, „Oh, boy, gimme… gimme that MEST, gimme those chains. Let me haul on the bottom of this tombstone so I get it good and heavy so I’ll never be able to crawl again out from under it.“ Let ‘em stay there! The hell with them! That’s their hard luck! And the other thing is… the other thing is, there’s the guys that go for broke and the slave who wants his chains. You can always use a slave. Gives randomity. They never do anything for you, they always pull you down. Gives you randomity.

You know, in every Roman triumph they had a slave drifting along, trotting along back of the… the… the great victor’s chariot. He came home in triumph, he’d just conquered the Basques, or the Lion’s Club, or something of the sort, and they always had somebody, a slave, standing there telling him he was just mortal after all. He was just mortal after all. You can’t control everything. That’s right. In every one of those triumphs they had that guy behind the victor.

Well, that’s fine, that’s fine, uh… that’s what a slave does, essentially. He’s saying, „Look! You can’t make god out of everybody. You can’t do it. I’m proving it. Look at me!“ Uh… and he gives you randomity as a result. So why worry about those things? Why worry about those things? It is a game. It is not serious!

But what is serious is unmaking a game and NOT HAVING a game. That’s kind of serious. Unless you are just willing to go clear on up, shoot the works, straight or, up to the top, into the beautiful serenity, and just be above beingness there. Straight on through.

There might be spheres and areas on theta that you could then move across into that would be different than game areas. If they are, I do not know about then. And I know many areas in which theta’s operating, and whether they know it or not they’re operating on the laws of games. One way or the other they’re operating within these laws which I’ve read to you. And they don’t know these exist, which is the beautiful joke on the whole work. There are universes which know every law you’ve got in the MEST universe. And don’t know the rules of games. So you could set yourself up to be an inter- universal empire… umpire team. You could. And get away with it.

But what do you want to do? If you have these rules of games, you can tell yourself that there are all kinds of things to do. But the first thing you’ve got to do is because a good, solid theta clear. Let’s take a break.