The second part of this December the second night lecture, going into Q-2. Q-2 is simply uh… an extension of Q-1 and it’s to the effect that theta or a thetan creates space, energy, objects by postulates. That immediately tells you that there must be a Q above Q-l, but what it is I can’t tell you. I don’t know, not in any term that can communicate. I… I sit down, I take a look at that every once in a while. I say thrrr. That’d be very interesting. I’m sure it’s very interesting. Make another postulate.

I want to talk to you. Here today is December the second, I believe, in the afternoon. I want to talk to you about locks, secondaries, engrams, how to handle. Now isn’t that old? I mean that… that… that’s… that’s really antique isn’t it? That’s just terrible to think of going over these things again. Uh… just… just how grim it is.

It’s a very strange thing about postulates is that in homo sapiens a postulate is accompanied by evaluations and conclusions of data and from a theta level it’s just a postulate. In homo sapiens postulates are made on a time stream. He makes a postulate today and then tomorrow he is the effect of it. Actually a postulate runs this way. Fellow says, „I am… uh… now an elephant. I feel like an elephant.“ That is, he says that in one moment and then boom and the next second he’s an elephant. He feels like an elephant. He could actually say that to himself. Now that’s… that’s a little ridiculous.

But we have to know something about this because… just because we’re doing something else with these is no reason they’ve ceased to exist suddenly.

Now let’s make something a little more, a little more down-to-earth about this. The fellow’s down at the garage and he says to the garage attendant, „Well, that jack looks pretty dangerous. I’ll probably go home and jack up that car and that jack will fall out from under and smash my hand just as sure as shooting.“ He does so, and two hours later he smashes his hand in just that fashion. Probably took a lot of arranging.

Now you see there’s always two sides to a problem. One of the sides has to do… one of the sides has to do with the entity, the… the gimmick, the uh… object and so forth; and the other side has to do with how you handle it, or what it does, or what its purpose is. Well, we divide, we can divide uh… into, a… that’s a completely false division by the way but it’s a good analagous division, and we can divide the field of medicine into two halves. We can say there’s structure, and there’s function and where the field of medicine got off was in failing to say that there would be two halves and differentiating so that they hit the structure all the time - structure, structure, structure.

I know one fellow that uh… they had the phrase. You get a phrase, a phrase can be an enforced command thing, which an individual then takes as a superior command or even can take as his own postulate. Any decision or statement on a condition of being can be effective on an individual, any statement. Now in homo sapiens, he… he makes a statement or he obeys something which he considers to have a higher level of command than he has, and he has at that moment had this command phrase. And this command phrase could be a statement of condition of being. That’s all it is. So a postulate is a statement of condition of being. It could be more than that. It could be a postulate uh… as a statement of condition of being up to and including the materialization of objects.

Chap listened to a series of lectures up in Kansas City, a doctor. He came around one day and uh… he listened to this series and he said, „For twenty years,“ he says, „I’ve been studying structure. And I have worked from the standpoint of structure.“ And he says, „Now I’ve listened to you for three days and I have to throw this overboard.“ He says, „I want you to know that this is no small sacrifice on my part.“

Now, in homo sapiens as I say, he makes the postulate and immediately afterwards he becomes the effect of the postulate. This is then cause and effect strung out on a time stream. I was just talking to you about the reason why. The reason why goes backwards on the time stream, cause to effect goes forward.

‘Cause function monitors structure and actually function in the level we’re now studying can at any moment become structure. And by having a function, you can at will obtain or procure or remodel or destroy a structure. So the structure from being part of this dichotomy - oh that’s a beautiful word. I picked it out of the dictionary, it has something to do with flowers or something and it didn’t mean anything else that anybody could get confused with. It’s just a lovely word. And I… I like to get a few of these words around so the professional auditors can stun people. So you can say learnedly, „Oh, uh… the de… dichotomy“ and the poor fellow will say, „The what?“ „Well, that’s a technical term.“

It is very evident, oh, very evident to people that cause is always in the past and that effect is the present. Now for instance, it’s very obvious in order to make a noise I drop this… this uh… book here. Now you see that, I’ve been cause. Now a little time elapses and the book drops. That becomes very evident, doesn’t it, that uh… that cause is in the past and uh… we’re an effect from a past cause. Well, in view of the fact time doesn’t operate quite that way, uh… man can still be agreed upon and aberrated along this line. The truth of the matter is, the cause was in the future. Why? We’re talking about the drop of this magazine so the desire to have the magazine drop in the future and we’ve got a future drop there which is making a present cause.

Now when we have, where we treat these two things as data of comparable magnitude, we make a mistake. And that’s a very common mistake. And it’s a mistake so common that we’ve been making it for a couple of years. We have treated structure as comparable with function. That was because we didn’t know enough about function. Now true enough, that which we did know about function, the strata that we did know about function was comparable to structure. What we knew about structure and what we knew about function did form this dichotomy.

Now, that’s very interesting isn’t it? Now if I, if I, uh… the reason I have to… I have to be an effect to some degree in order to have a cause in the future. The cause, cause you might say is motivated by the future. That’s obvious. You want something in the future. All of your work for instance is motivated by the future. Not motivated by the past. You want to eat tomorrow, why you work today. So the cause is eat tomorrow and the effect is work today.

Now actually, however, we’ve moved upstairs now being… being how we don’t have structure to match up with what we now know about function. So structure stayed over here, this little tiny thing, this microscopic thing called the MEST universe and we’ve moved up into this bracket of function. So we don’t any longer have those two things. I… I… I want to make that clear right at the beginning here to show you the shift of importance on locks, secondaries, and engrams because although those are functional in their activity, they are themselves structure. They are structure.

So it… it gets kind of squirreled up, doesn’t it? I mean we don’t have this kind of a silly thing running on the time stream whereby we have cause and then effect and yet… yet the reactive mind operates that way most beautifully. You go back down the genetic line, we look at that GE, he’s taken every counter-effort and he’s figured it out in some way or another to add up the machinery so that he’s made some use of this counter-effort. Wonderful!

And when we’ve moved up far enough here in the field of function, we can handle these things like a Mississippi riverboat pilot used to be able to handle a deck of cards and a derringer. There’s nothing to it. Uh… you sort of slide them around to the back side and flip them over and take a look at the front and deal all the hands out and everybody picks up their hands and they’ve all got full houses, but you’ve got four aces. I mean this sort of thing.

A beautiful job has been done there because… and then he builds a structure. There’s a reason to build a structure, then we get the structure in. There’s a reason to build a structure: cause and effect, obviously laid out on a time stream, isn’t it? You want… you want to view with considerable suspicion anything that can be explained equally well in two different ways.

Now, when you know enough about function, you can start ignoring structure, but boy, don’t start ignoring structure till you know about its function. Your engineer has this as an integral part of his thinking. Uh… when he knows enough about structure to make one at will, why he’s very happy about it and he gets rather careless about it. He knows the stress of importance on it. But uh… up to that point, he’s very, very careful that when he puts the railroad train through the mountain that it goes through a tunnel. He gets structural, he puts a… a structural hole in the mountain for the train to go through.

If you can explain that a cause is in the future and is an effect in the present; that a cause is in the past and is an effect in the present and is the same order of cause which is causing the same order of - hmm, what the hell is this all about? You mean… you mean we’re just standing in the middle of all of this getting machine-gunned, huh? We find effect is pretty well in the present. Well but then, cause is in the future, cause is in the past, well, cause is in present time. Um… let’s see, effect’s in the past.

And it has been known to happen that trains which did not have holes and tracks to travel on, became remarkably second hand in a very short space of time. And so it is when you wouldn’t know enough about structure to know completely that structure was makeable, creatable, and destructable by function. But you’d have to know an awful lot about function over here, wouldn’t you? Tremendous amount.

This universe has a law, it has an interesting law. It says: If you make a cause in the present you cannot effect or make an effect out of the Roman Empire because that was 2000 years ago and the day you can change the Roman Empire in the past by making a cause in the future, why you’re doing all right. That… that would be a reversal of the whole proceedings. Hmmm. We’ll know much more about this when we get onto time. Hut just let me say this at the moment: There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future. And at present time, this instance of awareness in present time might as well be across a period, present time might be 800 billion years long and it might be a sixth of an inch long, and it might be a lot of things which it isn’t.

Now, it is no criticism of the field of medicine that it had to stress so heavily the whole idea of structure. Why did they think that surgery is the only cure for an ulcer, whereas their records tell them that surgery is not a cure for an ulcer? You operate on a fellow once, maybe he’s all right for a while, you operate on him again, maybe he is all right for a while longer, you operate on him again and he dies under the knife. I mean it’s just uh… one of these things.

But so, I’m making this quite clear. We process postulates out of people. In homo sapiens a postulate is made because of evaluations and conclusions so that he gets associative logic. He gets a fascinating parade there of a little gradient scale. There’s this, leads into this, leads into this, leads into this. Let’s see: For want of a message the battle was lost - no, that’s the wrong way to. It’s: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost, for want of a rider the message was lost, for want of a message the battle was lost, and all for the loss of a horseshoe nail. That’s a time stream cause and effect and that’s also a piece of logic.

But every once in a while you get a case you operate on him for ulcers, he’s all right. He just goes right on from there. So the doctor says, „Well, okay, we got this chance and this fellow is probably going to go all to pieces and hemorrhage and so on and die anyway, so we might as well operate. He really doesn’t have any choice. It isn’t a matter of… then a condemnation, criticism, praise or anything else, it’s just let’s look at the practical aspect of it. He does what he can do within his own frame of reference, ability, and knowledge. Practically everybody you know is doing just that.

That’s a growing effect from a cause and you can follow that logically. All right, that’s… that’s just… just great; if all of this held true all the way along the line, it’d be very nice, but as I said, you eat tomorrow and the cause is the necessity to eat tomorrow and you work today. So it’s the other way too. Well, there could be two levels of thinking then. You could have a postulate without regard to evaluations, conclusions or time. And that would be a theta postulate. And a postulate then on the theta, high theta level postulate would be a postulate made without regard to evaluations. This is out… without regard necessarily, to evaluations, conclusions, or time. So there’s a whole… whole uh… whole bunch of thinking there all of a sudden, isn’t there. There’s a whole horizon of thinking that has nothing whatsoever to do with logic. It has nothing to do with anything that has anything to do with anything. I mean, it’s just a uh… you could just arbitrarily think…

Now, it is a very very bad thing for me actually to choose out for randomity uh… various fields and so forth, but it’s fun. And it’s… it’s completely uh… on my part I can get quite serious about this, get very serious about this. And the more serious I get about it, the less happens. That’s odd, isn’t it? That’s two things would be comparable there.

If you really look at it, you can see that a postulate is the introduction of an arbitrary toward some goal or not toward any goal. That tells you that you can undo a postulate on the theta level in present time. Now a theta level postulate is always senior to an associative stimulus- response postulate. These associative stimulus-response postulates – you see the fellow make the postulate, he says, „I’m gonna go home.“ He might as well have said, „I’m going home and smash my hand with this jack.“ He goes home and he smashes his hand with a jack. That’s homo sapiens, that is… has actually back of it way back somewhere on the track, you’ll find some kind of a postulate sitting there and this postulate has an evaluation and has a conclusion. The way to survive is to die. That is the most normal evaluation conclusion sequence on a postulate.

Now, the funny part of it is, is the less serious one gets, the more he can do with. Here’s this fellow, he goes into the cage; here’s a man-eating tiger. He knows this is a man-eating tiger. It doesn’t necessarily… It isn’t necessarily a man-eating tiger - he just KNOWS it’s a man-eating tiger. And there sits this man-eating tiger, and he’s supposed to train this man-eating tiger. All right, he knows that tiger is a man-eating tiger so he gets eaten up. It’s very simple.

Uh… any evaluation or conclusion can be worked around to this. Now the way to die is to survive, now the way to survive is to die. It’ll be something almost as idiotic as that. Evaluation conclusion; it means this datum plus this datum plus this datum plus this datum leads to the conclusion that this datum and this datum and this datum and this datum are true, therefore the way to solve this IS to…

Uh… you’d… I’d had a type of ignition switch went on a little racing car. It was very interesting. It was a secret switch. The thing had no ignition key at all, and to keep somebody from fooling around with it and so on, we put a secret switch under its panel. You had to throw this switch and the front switch on it was just a dummy. Well, now because we had called that a secret switch, it, of course, became a secret. And it was badly wired so that no current was getting through to the distributor and the ignition system after it was installed. So you would turn on the front switch and you, of course, turn on the secret switch because you knew about that, the car wouldn’t start.

Then we make a postulate, and travel along the time track with everything monitored by this postulate. The fellow says, „I will never get rich.“ He never does. He says, „I… I’m… my health is sort of poor.“ So it is. He’s tailor-made himself a frame of existence with the stimulus-response postulates born out of actually MEST universe impressions against him.

So you went around, of course, and took the distributor apart, took the spark plugs out, took the valves out and took the bearings out and took the gas tank off and took the drive shaft out and took the fan off to find out why this car wouldn’t start. Well, we put all these things back in again and tried to start the car again and it still wouldn’t start. And they gave up, they gave up, the mechanics working on it. And they brought the car back and put it down in the driveway and tried to tell me that it would start now. And I went out and it wouldn’t start. They towed it over. And uh… it wouldn’t start.

Now you’d think as an auditor – it’s quite important in auditing to know this – you’d think that you have to go back on the time track to change postulates. You drill a person for a very short time with mock-up processing, one of the most important lessons he learns - and he learns this instinctively; you don’t have to instruct your preclear on this at all. You do have to instruct him about time. But you don’t have to instruct him even vaguely on the subject of remaking postulates.

And I went over this and I said, „Let’s see what have we done to this car since the last time it did start? Oh, we put in a secret switch.“ And I reached under the panel to see if the secret switch… and the thing bit me. You know, I mean good, solid short here - you know zziinngg! And so I reached back in there and tore out the wiring just wham, you see. And wound it together and just let it hang there for a moment. Turned on the switch and the car started. I thought for heaven’s sakes, this is very, very peculiar. There was nothing wrong with this car.

He says, „It’s there and then it’s there and then it’s there and it’s hot and it’s cold,“ and he says, „It’s going to be there for a while.“ And right away he says, „It’s not there.“ He’ll make a liar out of himself a million times a minute if he wants to. He… he can just make a postulate and he doesn’t have to say that postulate’s no longer in existence. He just makes another postulate.

Of course, by this time, the car was completely out of adjustment Uh… the carburetors were out, the spark plugs were out, the distributor was off set, the timer was off, oh, the timing chain was all slack. Well, this wasn’t because I was bright. It was because I hadn’t carefully installed the secret switch in it. See, I hadn’t done that to the car, but they had installed a secret switch and so thereafter, it had had to, of course, remain secret. That was the purpose of the switch. And uh… nobody else, then, could start the car so of course, the car… the purpose of it was to fix it so the car wouldn’t start. And so they did just that. This is a very true example. It sounds completely idiotic. But… that took three weeks of work for a bunch of mechanics in a garage.

And he’ll learn this very rapidly. He just makes a postulate and then makes another postulate and he can make a postulate and he can make another postulate. These postulates merely apply then, to a present state or a desired future or anything he wants to say they apply to. But, on a theta level, there’s a little bit of trouble, way up on a theta level, is you get tired of, uh… you get tired of duration getting upset. You want something to endure.

Now, there, they postulated something about structure in the MEST universe according to the most completely understandable terms, they postulated something about this structure. And they said this structure works this way. And of course, they… they made a good postulate about it. They said this is a switch which is not going to let the car be started; it’s going to let the car uh… be safe and then of course, because it’s secret, they couldn’t even investigate to find out whether or not the switch was well connected. Well, this… this is a long drawn-out affair. But what do you know that… that’s a part and parcel of every piece of research anybody does. He starts investigating structure and he says this structure does so - and - so observably, observably does this. Sure enough it does; you can go on and pick people off the street and so on and you can take them one after another and examine them all. And then… then - structure’s doing just that all the time.

So you start into the curve of automaticity. Automaticity is simply making things stick, and making things automatic and making things so you don’t have to watch ‘em all the time. That’s the lazy man’s way of doing it. You can make a continuing postulate! It… it requires your attention all the time, you… you have in this universe - you’ve made up twelve dogs and you have to do the thinking for all twelve of those dogs. So you do the thinking for 12 dogs. Plus one hundred and eighty deer plus sixteen vestal virgins plus anything else you might have, or nymphs, or satyrs, or anything else you might have in this universe. You can do independent thinking for a number of objects at the same time as long as you have yourself free of a time stream.

Fine, now let’s take that serious, let’s take that real serious and let’s work with what their doing and undo it underneath and below the level of the postulate which does it. Oh, we can have a good time. We find everybody out there walking up and down the street has made an agreement on experience, that experience is a good thing and you have to hide some experience and some of it has to become automatic. And how do they do that? Engrams, secondaries, and locks - it’s a system. Everything becomes automatic, it works this way and that way. They’ve got… got all kinds of… of engrams which have to operate against them that they mustn’t know anything about. And although this whole system is just as haywire as anything could be, it’s as haywire as a Chinese idea of car repair, uh… they get the thing overworked all the time. They install it at one tone level and then they sink down the tone scale and they start using it at another tone level and of course this thing becomes the master. That thing begins to master. Then they have an awful time. Then they don’t know what… what… what is happening here and what’s the system they’re operating on. They’ve made something over here automatic they didn’t want to know about this, this is supposed to work over here in some peculiar fashion. And then once upon a time they knew all about that.

You give them a time stream and you move in and out of it at will so it can become very, very loose. And the point you have to know, two things, points you have to know is: one, space and energy and objects are created by postulates, and they are changed by postulates and they are destroyed by postulates, and that postulates from a theta level do not have any order of precedence because of a time stream.

They… they walked in and they put their hand on a hot stove and it burned and they looked at their hand, and their hand was damaged. And they said, „You know, I will have to do something so the next time I come near a hot stove, I will remember I burned my hand because I’m liable to forget that.“ „Well, all right, we will pretend then that we have forgotten that but any time my hand comes near a hot stove, I will jerk it back from that hot stove.“ Automaticity, you see.

It’s your homo sapiens as you process him – and that’s one of the beauties of creative processing – Your homo sapiens, he’s gone through this agonizing death, he’s been killed dead. Uh… he is lying there and he… he – as he was dying, he said, „I’ll never go through anything like that again so long as I live. And, uh… I would rather be killed than to be faced with such a decision again and it’s a good thing I’m dying and I’m good for nothing but this.“ And all of a sudden one day this is a facsimile that lies obviously on the time stream and it sits there and one day somebody else comes in on the other side of it and starts jabbing him about his being good for nothing. Throwing energy at it this way or he starts throwing energy at it; it’s sitting out here. It’s an actual geographical point and area and he…

We’re going to get near something, it has a certain stimulus and we’re going to respond in a certain way. And we want that as fast as possible so - and this is the error, this is a big error. So we’ll make it automatic.

One day, it says… he says, „I’m good for nothing and I just have that feeling all the time.“ And you… you as an auditor of past techniques have had to go back, go back on the time track and try and figure and figure and so on and finally run out this thing and grind and grind and grind and grind and it gets so it’s all ground down finally and all of a sudden BOOM there’s the postulate, springs into view. He reevaluates the postulate, BANG it’s out and he feels pretty good about it, after you’ve worked for many many hours. That’s… that’s senseless. Just because that thing is sitting on a ridge with a time tab on it is no reason you have to find it and grind it to pieces. Because it’s not sitting on any lineal time track in space. It’s just sitting on a geographically located ridge with regard to your preclear, and it’s in action out there when it’s hit. Now there could be a dozen ways.

Well, now to make something automatic, you hide it from yourself. Now, you find this fellow way up the track a few million years, billion years, trillion years later. What’s he doing? He’s walking around in an utter fog, he’s in a body, he doesn’t know how he got there and so on. And you say, „Hey.“ It would be very simple if you could do this. You just say, „Do you remember the time you wanted something to be automatic“ „Yah.“

You just teach him that he could make postulates at will and it doesn’t matter how many postulates are in that thing. It won’t have any effect on him, because he can handle postulates. He can take responsibility for making up his mind and the first moment that he can take responsibility for making up his mind, he could make up his mind and unmake his mind and make his mind and unmake his mind a dozen times in a minute on the same subject and emerge with… without uh… for no reason at all.

„All right, do you remember an earlier time when you wanted something to be automatic?“

He says, „The dog’s going to run that way, he’s going to run this way, he’s going to run that way, he’s going to run that way. I want this dog to continue for the rest of his normal existence, for years, I want him to keep on running in that direction. Oh, I think I’ll have him run this way.“ It is just very easy and he all of a sudden finds the facility with which he can make a postulate and one of the things in creative processing he’s particularly amazed at, is to suddenly locate the fact that he has a godly quality of making it stick.

„How do you mean automatic?“

In his universe, when he says, „There will be light.“ - There’s light! „There won’t be light.“ – There is no light. „I think I’ll have pink light. New, that’s no good; green light. Now let’s light this whole thing… let’s put four orange-colored suns which have square orbits. Now tha… that’s what we need in this universe.“ And he’ll just let them sit there.

„Well, it’s something that would operate by itself and do something for you.“

And uh… that’s fine. One day he’s tired of those things, but the strange part of it is when he says so, it’s so. Now somebody has coaxed him that – all you had to do to really deteriorate somebody is to demonstrate conclusively to him that just because he says so it isn’t so. That’s a big point of aberration. Just because HE says so, that doesn’t make it so.

„Oh, yes, yes. Got an earlier time, got an earlier time, got an earlier time.“

There’s lots of ways this mechanism is spread out through this society. One of the longer and further reaches of it is this one: „You think you’re so important, go down to the graveyard and look at the graves down there. There’s a lot of guys down there that thought they were important too.“

Bing! There goes his engram bank, ‘cause it’s held by this little tiny functional thing that says: „Let’s make it automatic, so we’re safe.“ You see how that would be?

So what do we have then? We have the fellow making a postulate unknowingly being under the pressure of the MEST universe. He still kind of has this weird idea of undifferentiation. He got the identification of his own universe and the MEST universe and he makes this postulate here in the MEST universe and the next thing you know he said… he said, uh… you need some kind of a command phrase. He said uh… „Take that train down the track and uh… I don’t care if the train oughta go fast and you shouldn’t be hanging around like that. You make up that time between,“ and the train jumps the track and eighty-four people killed and rrrrr, he didn’t want to make that postulate.

Now I’ll go over that again in just slightly different terms so that you can see what these locks, secondaries and engrams are. We know what they are in terms of structure - they’re old energy with pictures on them, which when restimulated have the power to enforce pain and command upon the body.

And that’s a part of „I don’t want to make any decision about it.“ And that is in essence no responsibility. Unwillingness to make a decision or unwillingness to make a condition of being is the highest essence of no responsibility. The next echelon immediately down is: Responsibility is force.

We… we know… we know there… that. We’ve examined that anatomy. We found these things sitting here as a heavy engram. It’d be in the prenatal bank, or it’s an electronic incident or it’s anyone of these dozen of things, many of them in controversy. Many of them not in controversy. Uh… we know that big bank sitting there and it’s got these secondaries that’s emotional charge, incidents, and then it’s got all little locks and so on. Boy, you start undoing one of those things – zing zang the other way. And you find it all wound up and tangled up and you find the preclear going down the street. And he sees a fire plug, and uh… every time he sees a fire plug, why, he uh… sort of stiffens, and tenses and… you say, „What’s… what’s making you stiff and tense?“

All right, now, condition of being, I don’t want to make the condition of being. One of the things that you can knock an E-Meter practically off of its pin on, is to say to this preclear, „Okay, now what if everything you said came true?“

„Why, nothing, must be the streetcars.“ Well, you… you put him on an E-Meter… you put him on an E-Meter and find out that it was fire plugs. And he doesn’t even know this, see. He’s that bad off. He… he sees a fire plug. It makes him tense and he doesn’t even know that it’s the fire plug which he sees that makes him tense. But he knows something is making him tense. He’s not that far gone. He knows it’s streetcars. Only he doesn’t know it’s streetcars. If he could know completely it was streetcars, he wouldn’t anymore get tense. If he would just say to himself, „Well, it’s streetcars,“ he wouldn’t be tense anymore about fire plugs. Now that’s… see, if he can KNOW that it was streetcars, what he’s done is make a new postulate. He says, „Streetcars make me tense. Now that I know that streetcars make me tense, they’re not going to make me tense anymore.“ He… he could play this quote „trick“ on himself unless he has to agree too heavily with the MEST universe.

„Oh no.“

All right, now what is this system then he’s set up? Well, it’s a system which starts in with an agreement. And one agrees more and more heavily and more and more heavily and the first thing you know, he is convinced of the solidity and existence of the structure which he himself constructed.

„Yeah I wonder,“ you’ll have… the guy’s going around sometimes, „I wonder if I thought that that… I wonder if I was… any intention on my part to have that dog run under the wheels of my car. I wonder if I… I kind of accidentally thought this. And if I thought this, that’s what made the dog run under the wheels of the car. And that’s why. Oh, gee, and I didn’t want to kill that dog. That’s horrible.“

Let’s look at that in another bracket. Let’s look at that in the field of hypnotism. Here is, here’s real phenomena, here’s something you can go and investigate. If you want to investigate this, go get yourself a little book Now to Hypnotize Somebody in Five Easy Lessons or something of this sort, as it’s very easy to do. Set up a candle in front of them, tell them to stare at the candle. There’s a certain percentage of people that hypnotize just like that. And a certain percentage of them are running so hard that anytime you say, „Go into a hypnotic trance,“ they run madly the opposite direction. They’ll hypnotize in opposites. There’s awfully interesting business, hypnotism.

So there you go. Now what… what’s the… what’s the - of course, in his own universe, he wouldn’t have gotten into the silly situation because he… nothing would have been crossing him up all the time. He wouldn’t have gotten into the silly situation of where he would make a postulate without knowing it. He’s already removed himself, he’s made a postulate - he doesn’t know if he makes these postulates and if these things come true or if they don’t come true. There’s a type of insanity, by the way.

All right, uh… all you’re asking him to do is concentrate a sense channel on something, a communication line on something and then fix it there. Well, he agreed to do that the second he puts his eyes on the candle. Now your trick is to make him agree to something else. There’s nothing every very weird about hypnotism. It is the easiest thing in the world. I… it… now you got… got… got his eye on the candle. „All right, now you stare at the candle, stare at the candle. Now uh… you know that concentration of that sort can make you for… sort of sleepy and so on. You stare at the candle until you feel that.“ And he’ll say, „All right.“ See he’s agreed that concentration on that can make him sleep.

This thing can become exaggerated; any function of the mind, by the way, can become exaggerated to be an insanity. Any insanity is an exaggerated function which already exists in the mind. Any neurosis is simply that. It’s some thing that the mind can do which has become, well, actually exaggerated or inhibited. And you’ll get both of those working together.

All right, uh… you got that one. Now, uh… let’s go in a sort of a, of… uh… let’s look at this candle a little… a little closer and now let’s feel… let’s feel the… the… the body becoming more and more relaxed. And, he agrees to feel that the body is becoming more and more relaxed. That’s all there is to that. He… he just agrees little by little, the next thing you know the hypnotist says, „Now your eyes will close.“ And his eyes go bonk. Of course, he agreed to that.

All right. Now let’s look at this thing about postulating. He’s afraid that what he says will come true. After a while he doesn’t want his orders to stick. The… the dispatcher, if you can… if you ever find on your hands a dispatcher of World War II for a fighter squadron, well you remember what I’m telling you now. Uh… he said, „Well, you boys, now.“ he said, so on, uh… „And go on over there and that’s your patrol area. Bill, uh… you’ll have to take Ed’s place.“

Now, the hypnotist says, „Now your right hand will rise.“ And with some slight amazement, this fellow watches his right hand come up.

And Bill goes out and gets himself bumped off deader than a mackerel.

And he says, „Wooo, I’m hypnotized.“ So he just gives it up then, and the hypnotist now says, „Now you see that kangaroo on your right knee?“

Rrrrr. Now this fellow doesn’t want to make these decisions anymore. He doesn’t want to be the boy who says so. And when the day he says and becomes the fellow doesn’t want to say so, he might as well be dead and buried, because he’s going to be unhappy and miserable from there on, because he’s abdicated from the last shadow of his own universe.

„Yes.“ He sees the kangaroo on his right knee. Now take it on your right knee.

He’s off the throne now; he’s just a bum. So your preclear will find one of the toughest things to handle is postulates and you, of course, sneak up on him on this. You’re making a whole bunch of postulates for him to which he’s agreeing. But those postulates are not in the direction of his deterioration; the direction of those postulates are up toward Q-l.

“Now let’s see it jump over to the left knee. Now you got that? All right, now let’s put… let’s put a… uh… a bonnet on this kangaroo. Got the bonnet on it? Now have the kangaroo sing a song.“ And the hypnotized person is very happy to sit there and watch this.

And, you’re… you’re going up higher and higher and higher. Now if you wanted to drive him the other way to - I might as well tell you that you can take Q-1 and go the other way to. You… you could tell this preclear, „Now all right, now you get that thing out in front of you there, and you get that mock-up, yeah all right. You mock that up? Oh, you did? Oh. You mean YOU SAW IT? Well, let’s take the second test on this thing. Let’s see if by any chance you… you can move it. Oh, you can move it. Ohhhhh. Well, I’ll tell you, we’ll have to send you to the hospital for a week or so because we’ll have to have this condition corrected. You mean you see things and then you think you move them around. And you see things and… and so forth and you think… Well, that’s very strange.“ Why, actually that would be about the fastest road out.

The trouble is he’s seeing it; he’s seeing it completely. This is frightening to people that this can happen to them. Well, that’s just a nice MEST universe trick, that it could be frightening to them. And it’s very weird that they think they have to go along through all this mumbo-jumbo and ritual of hypnotism and be in a state of sound asleep and be out of control of themselves and can only see this when they’re taking orders from a hypnotist. That’s the silliest thing in the world.

The other one is… is, „That isn’t what happened. You didn’t perceive that and that is not what happened.“ Now if you could work it out anyway to demonstrate that locationally.

I mean, here we’ve got a long chain of laws and agreements and what do you know. They operate on more people out here. And they’re there as agreements - that if you agree to this, then you’ll get that. And if you agree to that, and you agree to that and agree to that, the next thing you know the fellow is unaware of his surroundings. A hypnotized person can see a whole room on fire and uh… he can. He can hear the flames crackle and everything else. He’s just in wonderful shape on the thing. You see he doesn’t have to take responsibility for it. He can do it all the time and the whole trick is, is he’s saying, „Now look, that hypnotist can be responsible for my really seeing this and building universe around here, and it’s up to him to get me out of it again, and so forth, and so I’ll just make him responsible and therefore I’ll be able to handle illusions.“

The fellow says, the fellow says, „Well, I was down there and the car went and turned the corner.“ You say, „It didn’t turn that corner, it was a block earlier.“ Fellow says, „No, it did turn that other corner.“ And you say, „No, no, no, it was this corner.“ Ohhh, he can just feel his brains creak after a while.

That’s one of the reasons people respond better to being audited than auditing themselves. They don’t audit themselves, they just, well they kinda dodge around because they’re asking themselves to take full responsibility for everything they do. Well, it’s much better to have an auditor there and say, „Well it’s what he’s doing. I’m not doing it. Another fellow can do it with great ease.“ In other words that having an auditor is a gradient scale on automaticity which is also the scale of responsibility.

You know there are certain women, there are certain women who live with men who do this to them all the time. And there are certain men who live with women who do this to them all the time, and that is about the grimmest kind of existence. „No dear, it went that way.“ „Yes dear, no I know, you just didn’t remember that,“ and so on and, „Where did you put it? You never know where you put anything.“ You get all those kicks?

One wants things to be automatic for which he does not want to be responsible. Now, we find nearly all Homo sapiens audit far far better than they will self-audit. It’s almost dangerous to start them in self- auditing ‘cause they’re not going to take responsibility for doing a good job of it. Then another thing is… is when they self-audit, they have to set up to some slight degree, a circuit auditing themselves or themselves auditing a circuit. And it becomes a little more complicated and… uh… it isn’t so good. So about the best point you can pick Homo sapiens up on the gradient scale and so forth, uh… the best point you can pick him up is a doggone good auditor. Now… that… that right away he’s able then to shove enough experience over.

„Now don’t say things like that.“ And as a little kid, as a little kid, „Don’t hold your face like that, it might get frozen that way.“ ‘Cause those things are working dead-center, you see, on Q-l, Q-2, there just working dead-center and they’ll flip a fellow faster than anything you’ll want to flip him with.

Now because the auditor isn’t interested in putting this person to sleep this auditor is interested in waking him up, you get a completely reversed idea from hypnotism. You take this preclear, let’s take the preclear here and the hypnotizable subject here. Neither one are hypnotized or… or they’re just in, like they walked down the street. All right here are these two people, they’re in the same state of wakefulness. Now the person who is agreeing to be hypnotized goes down from this state of self-determinism and awareness to the direct degree that he is worked by a hypnotist. Now let’s take the preclear over here. Now the auditor is trying to return to this fellow some self- determinism and ability on his own so he takes off at this level. He makes an agreement that he will try to do the things for his own good that the auditor wants him to do. That’s his first agreement. He is agreeing to be self-determined.

You just destroy his ability to put things in space and time, or reduce that ability and make him have the feeling that what he says won’t come true. Or if it did, it would be a bad thing.

Now he agrees a little bit more that he can be a little bit more self-determined and he agrees that he can be just a little bit more self-determined and what do you know. He gets more and more alert, and more and more awake and more and more awake and more and more awake and more and more awake. Now you see that… the going opposite directions from the average Homo sapiens with these two processes.

„Well, it’s a good thing that didn’t… it’s a good thing you weren’t right about that.“

The hypnotist is only interested in one thing, really. The hypnotist is interested in taking the control of this individual. If you ever want to process somebody and have a bad time of it, get a hypnotist - a fellow who is a professional hypnotist - and start processing him. And a large percentage of these boys are practically crawling the walls.

„Yeah,“ the fellow says, the poor guy, he agrees with that one. „Yeah, it’s a good thing I wasn’t right; I’m sure glad I wasn’t right about that.“

I’ve had them come around and say, „Please, Ron, do something for me, I’m just hung.“ And you say, „Well, all right… let’s pick up the last person you hypnotized. Okay, get shoving your control center sort of thing over the top of him, now pull it back, now give it to him again, now pull it back, now give it to him again, now pull it back.“ And the fellow all of a sudden gets the feeling that he gets when he hypnotizes people. He’ll take over control of somebody by simply sort of moving himself all over the top of this person and after that monitoring him. And what do you know - that was twenty years ago and this person is now in Istanbul and this hypnotist still has a ghostly feeling that he’s still controlling the motions and thoughts of that person. And by the time this poor hypnotist has hypnotized five or six thousand people or something in some profession, he is all in a spin on two things. One, control of others - it’s an overt act and… two, he’s all fouled up on spacation.

That’s the fast road to the spinbin. Now, therefore all I’m trying to say this with Q-2 is that a postulate is timeless, and it does not necessarily have to unmade by unmaking it, it’s only unmade by making another postulate. And it doesn’t even necessarily have to continue in existence or have any duration to be a postulate in any way.

He has lost his own location, he’s put his control of beings over the top of so many beings and they are now in so many places, he has done a sort of a valence shift into them so many times, and they are now so far away that he thinks he’s scattered all over God’s creation, he is no longer in control of himself anymore and so he gets to a point where he is crawling the walls. Furthermore, he has made people agree and agree and agree and agree to this and in order to make them agree to this, he had to agree to make them agree to that. And so he’s gone down scale little by little by little by little. He’s been agreeing himself ‘til he gets the idea that he walk out on the street anything will hypnotize him. Oh, he… he’s in terrible shape.

It doesn’t have to have a cause for existence. It doesn’t have to have, oh pardon me, a reason for existence. A person making a postulate is being cause in what we find now to be the highest level. So we’re studying cause and effect. What is the highest level cause. The highest level cause is a postulate.

It’s just like a salesman; there’s nobody under God’s green earth easier to sell something to than a salesman. He’s agreed so often on the fact that things can be sold to people that… that he’s agreed that this is possible.

Does a higher level cause have to have a reason? No. No reason whatsoever. You say, „All the moons are now going to be made out of green cheese as far as I’m concerned,“ that’s that. There isn’t any reason for that except maybe randomity. He just wants a different kind of a moon or he’s just saying it or he’s bored that day or it’s raining. Or… or maybe he even explains itself to him this way, well the number of loaves of bread in Twodawhella uh… were divided by the square root of six, so therefore the moon, in this universe, will be at one quarter perpetually.

And you come along and you say, „Now you see this old dead rat? It’s only two weeks old and what do you know, the price is only 85 dollars,“ and so on. And he’ll look at you sort of helplessly and bite. Now the trouble is, people haven’t realized that too much about salesman and so they’re still alive and they still can function. But knowing… knowing that about a salesman, it… it becomes horrible.

Somebody might come along and say to him - you see, if he were in this universe and he had a lot of people around him and he… he just had a small group of thetans in his own universe with him or… or he’s part of a group that’s making a universe, something of this sort, that… that will only go to pieces at the time when they come along and say, „Why did you make the moon out of that quarter. I mean why… why is the moon always at a quarter? Now the moon oughta be not at a quarter. We ought to have the moon at a half and you didn’t have any reason for it, did you? Now you have to confess, you didn’t have a reason for it.“

Another thing, a salesman is trying to give away MEST, he’s trying to give away MEST, and give away MEST and give away MEST, so that he’s disagreeing all the time. Well, this is fine, but when he fails to make a sale, he’s been unable to give away MEST. Well, by the time he’s failed to make enough sales, he doesn’t think he can give MEST away anymore and he knows that he has engrams although he pretends he doesn’t know he has engrams and a bank and so forth. So he can’t give this away either and he becomes jammed on the time track. He… he isn’t able to give away MEST.

Now what do you get in this society continually? Well, there must have been some reason for it. Well, you had to have a reason or you wouldn’t have done such a thing. Oh boy, that’s really taking away power out of a person’s hand. You don’t have to have a reason to do anything.

Now all of that… all of that is very related, extremely related. Here we have somebody who by gradient scale of agreement, we agree a little bit and then we agree a little bit more and then we agree a little bit more on some subject, why, it becomes true.

But when you look at this universe, you’re examining cause and effect upon a time stream. And so you have cause being succeeded by an effect - apparently. And as a result you have an aberrated condition developing because the person can never go otherwise than downhill.

Now automaticity comes about, we’ll have a lot more on this automaticity but… lovely word, but I mean you can count on that flooring people.

If every postulate he has ever made is still in effect and all he can do is slightly modify the limits, you’ll find him getting into a narrower and narrower sphere of action; he can’t help but get into a small sphere of action. He’s getting into less and less action and what does MEST do - it doesn’t make a single postulate. That chair there hasn’t made a postulate all evening.

Well, that’s the principle of automaticity, I would say he’s about uh… about… uh… 2.2 on the tone scale, automaticity uh… and so forth. Has a very, very uh… bad uh… compulsion toward uh… wishing tiredness on people, and uh… that demonstrates he’s about down there on the tone scale and so forth. His reactive bank is at about such and such a state of affairs, uh… he… uh… locks… he probably can’t get rid of those very easily, and so forth. He’s probably having an awful lot of trouble with MEST. I’d say his finances were in bad shape. Let’s say his finances are in bad shape. I’m an auditor. That’s what I’m interested in at the moment. Uh…

It hasn’t decided that the platform would now be carpeted in green. It hasn’t decided anything. It has no opinion and the fellow gets beaten down on this dwindling spiral of postulates, because he’s got an unending stream. That’s one of the reasons why most people are very, very happy not to have any connection with the last life. That’s gone.

Anyway, well, all this comes out… all this comes out as uh… one of these little center pins on cases that is very easy to pull out and examine. All right, what happened to give this fellow the idea that he ought to have an engram? What happened? Well, one day he found out he’d been wrong, that’s all it took. He found astonishingly enough that he’d been wrong.

The heck it is; you start processing engrams and you’ll find out they’re strewn all up and down the track there.

Now, he had to make a postulate to be wrong. I mean he had to make a postulate that he was now found out to be wrong. This depended upon a postulate that there’s such a thing as rightness and wrongness of action. So he must have agreed to those things before. He had to make postulates concerning good and bad conduct, and good and bad effect, and good and bad cause before he ever got to a point where he could get an engram.

He has said, „I have no responsibility for the postulates I made during that lifetime. The decisions which I made must have no influence upon me now and I’m free and clear. I’ve got a new body; I’m all set. I’m now a homo sapiens. I’m on my way. I’m going to get educated again.“ What a deceit!

So gee, where did these engrams start cutting in? Well, they start cutting in way down there - about 3.5 on the tone scale, way down. A fellow doesn’t never bother with them below that. But he agrees that there’s bad cause possible and there’s bad effect possible and that good cause is desirable, and good effect is desirable. He’s agreed to that so far.

The guy is sitting there with an Oxford education and Rhodes scholar and he was also an honor graduate at one time at Princeton and here he is in kindergarten learning how to spell.

Now he’s agreed to the fact that there is such a thing as wrong conduct and right conduct. He’s agreed to that many times. And then he’s agreed to the fact of something else. He’s agreed that there is such a thing, there is such a thing as pain. He’s… he’s had to agree with that. Pain doesn’t exist, but he’s agreed to it. And boy, is he anxious to have it - that pain is precious stuff. The fellow that thought that up deserves a big leather medal.

You spring him out of his body, you ask him very quickly, you say, „Hey, by the way, you got any bank there that has to do with any university?“ And he says, „Okay, yeah, I’ve got one here.“ And you say, „Well, pull any bad stuff out of it, strip any bad characteristics you don’t want out.“ And he says, „There’s a couple I don’t like. Looks pretty good.“

I’ll find him around the universe someday when we’re bailing people out and so forth and some fellow will be walking along the line. He will look more hangdog than the others and so on. That’ll be the fellow that invented pain. So we’ll just take him over and we’ll run this out of him - Standard Operating Procedure 1950. And we’ll give him a slow auditor. All right. Now, he had to agree that there was pain there, well actually he agreed to things even earlier than all this, lot of things earlier than this, but within just our frame of reference, he’s had to agree to bad and good and right and wrong and so on. And one day he’s had to agree to this fact that he monitors himself. Yeah, he’s had to agree to the fact that I tell myself what to do.

„What’s it contain?“ „Well, there’s French and there’s German, and I studied Greek. And there’s a lot of seminaries… oh, no, we don’t want any of that!“

Why that’s the most wonderful one of all. That one is so apparently right in this universe that… it has an existence. Everybody on the street out there think… thinks they got that. They… they think they… they tell themselves what to do. They… they matter of fact spend a lot of time saying, „Well now, got up to the… the corner and get a cigar. All right, I’ll go up to the corner and get a cigar.“ And back and forth they go and around and around, „Now let me think, let’s see what I know about this. What do you know about this? Why, I don’t know about what I know about this, what do you know about this?“ Stream of consciousness and so on, a lot of people around there are eight or nine or twelve people holding conferences on all this.

And you say… you say, „You got that bank all okay now?“

They go into a big conference and the majority vote. I… I don’t know that anybody’s ever gone to the point - I suppose you could find somebody in the spinbin that has instituted parliamentary procedure amongst circuits.

„That’s right.“ You say, „Plug it into the motor controls. Plug it in.“ BANG! Sounds incredible, doesn’t it? Well, it’s true. There’s this kind of I an experience, uh… fellow says, „I always wished I could play the piano.“

But he had to agree… he had to agree that in order to be aware… in order to be aware he was something that couldn’t be aware, and there is the bottom of the barrel on unconsciousness. He had in order to be aware, you see, he… he’s told himself, „Let’s see now, how do I know I’m aware. I’ll have to prove that I’m aware. Well, the best way to prove that I’m aware is to have a period when I’m not aware and then if I’m not aware then I can go back, and by golly this thing of awareness is true. Yes sir, I’m aware because there I was not aware.“ Well, who was that person that was not aware. Hmm. „That couldn’t have been me because I’m in charge of me all the time so I wasn’t there. Well, that’s being not aware. Well, that means not there that means something… something else must be aware because look, I was still there. Well, let’s see, therefore when I was asleep something else was aware because I would wake up if anything happened in the vicinity or something like that. So that demonstrates that something was sitting there keeping watch or something. Well, that couldn’t have been myself but the best way to prove that I’m aware is to show that I can be not aware and then I’m sure that I’m aware.“ He’s talking about that down pat.

You say, „Well, were you ever able to play the piano?“ And the E-Meter says yeah, he was able to play the piano. So you say, „Well, step a couple of feet back of your head and let’s find all those facsimiles playing the piano. You got all those facsimiles playing the piano? Let’s take out a couple, three, four here. Now let’s plug it into the motor controls. All right, can you play the piano?“ „Yes, I can play the piano.“

This… this business of awareness is a squirrel cage. I mean it has no business in reality at all. A fellow is, that’s all. He isn’t aware, that’s just putting… putting another condition on that’s a completely unnecessary condition. He is. Now to be aware of himself, is a secondary condition. Now see, he can be aware of himself.

He goes in and plays the piano, bang.

Well, actually, if he’s real good at it, he can be aware of this dog out here, he can be aware of horses, he can be aware of buildings, he’ll say that this would preclude his ability to be anything he wanted to be anytime he wanted to be it. Well, this awareness is not that agreement. He’s just being aware of being himself. And so if he’s very aware of being himself, why then he feels he’s in good shape. Oh, that’s terrible. Do you know what self-consciousness is? That is just that thing I just spoke of on a gradient scale. We just magnify and multiply that feeling of being aware over and over and more and more and more and you get this shaking horrors of self-consciousness that most people go around in.

Hmm, incredible, isn’t it? Uh… your preclear has to be in pretty good condition. He has to be a good theta clear, pretty well clear, when he really starts to do this. Very good. Actually, that’s as silly as hell. That’s very silly.

That starts out with the agreement „I am aware.“ A fellow IS, he isn’t aware. He IS high on the tone scale and all he has to do is make a postulate as to what he is. And if he wants to be something else, he simply has to make another postulate, not change a postulate. He just makes another postulate that he is and he can also make a postulate, he is aware.

There isn’t any reason under the sun why you should learn how to manipulate a piano keys and handle that great big ornery mean piece of MEST and handle these things. There isn’t any reason why you have to go through all that agony, if all you’re got to do is mock up not only a piano but a beautiful symphony orchestra playing behind it and make it audible. Now you admit that would be a superior skill, don’t you?

Well, that… that would be something that a guy couldn’t quite grasp, and I can just see it now. A bunch of ghouls sitting around explaining to a new recruit saying, „Now, well this… this… this being aware is very good, that… that gives you a lot of sensation and so forth and how do you know you really get this sensation unless you know you’re you. Now that’s obvious so if you know you’re you, why then sensation comes through very strongly and then you’re aware of who’s getting the sensation, don’t you see? But if you’re not aware of who’s getting the sensation then how could you possibly know that you’re getting the sensation, obvious isn’t it? Well, now you’ve agreed now that… that’s a good state of affairs and we’ll show you we’ll give you a good sensation right now.“ So they give him some sort of a sensation and then they give him a bad sensation. You say, „You see, now you feel that more strongly, don’t you?“ and the fellow says, „Yes, I guess I do.“ And uh… he has agreed… he has agreed at that point, that he can be aware.

That’s an easy one though. That’s… that… that… that’s very easy. Why do you have to go back on the time track and pick up MEST universe training? It’s MEST universe energy, it’s old, it’s second-hand, you made it, but it’s second-hand. It’s… it’s all bunged up. It’s… it’s got slivers in it and… and so forth. And it’s all so sad anyway, and it was built on broken hopes and lost dreams and „I can’t control anything, and I don’t dare make any postulates and here I am.“ And gee, so why worry about that?

Gee, the second you agree I can… I can be aware, you set this up as a temporary condition, as a momentary condition or as a desirable condition or as a bad condition, or anything you want. This has been set up now you can have a whole flock of conditions. Instead of just being and acting very wholeheartedly and feeling and so forth, a fellow was first aware and then he does this.

That’s one of the things your boy starts to come to a conclusion to on creative processing. He finds out he can make a postulate and bring anything he wants to into existence in his own universe. Now it’s not very many steps from that if he wants to do the idiotic stunt of coming back and making it effective on this universe.

You put it on a bypass circuit, you see, so he has to agree that he’s not aware at times. See he says, „I’m not aware at times. I go to sleep.“ That’s the backbone on sleep. „I can agree not to be aware.“ lie’s found this out. Oh, that’s an interesting one. He cannot be aware. Then he can agree to be hypnotized as far as that goes. Then he can agree to be unconscious and when you can deliver enough pain to an individual to make him dislike it, he would always rather have some kind of a mechanism by which he didn’t have to feel it. So he invents this mechanism of, „Ow, I’m not aware in that period.“ That’s all. So that solves it. „I just didn’t feel it. Didn’t feel a thing.“ There he is.

It’s not very many steps back to being able to do that to this universe. Horrible. That’s what we’ve gotten so far from Q-1 and Q-2. What’s a postulate? A postulate is simply a command statement of being. Nothing more, nothing less. Now let’s get a couple other small conditions there and that has to do with, does theta, to answer the question: Does theta necessarily have no wave length? Well, uh… theta from the level your preclear is operating - he is always operating above the level where he is in action.

Well, that’s an automaticity sort of thing. Yet I didn’t feel it but my… my beingness kept on being so therefore I can… suspend beingness. And that is the… the big lesson… I can suspend beingness.

He has to operate from above the level where he is in action. You see why this is? Because he has to have a command altitude over the action which he is undertaking. So he’s always just a little bit above, you might say, or a little bit less so.

Now, he gets caught a few times too fast to make a good postulate, something hits him so quick that he can’t suspend beingness, he thinks, fast enough. So he says „Let’s make this automatic, when anything hits me that fast I have a not-beingness right then and there and to make sure that I have a not-beingness right then and there I will go two or three seconds before the time I was hit by it and start not being at that point and that wipes out everything.

So you’ll find your first thetans, they conceive themselves to be energy units. Well, they think they’re real hot as energy units. And then they’ll go on and they - without discovering or freeing up their postulates by creative processing, without trying to build any universe of their own, without trying to do all of these things toward creation, increase, decrease, destruction of matter, energy, space and time in their own universe, without trying to do any of these things - the fellow just starts trying to build up that energy. „Let’s see, now why can’t I build up this energy. Let’s see, if I agree a little more closely with the MEST universe, I will be able to build up a lot, blah blah blah.“ That’s what’s the matter with the MEST universe.

How many preclears have you run that couldn’t spot the point of unconsciousness but kept putting it earlier? And then would start putting it later? And then would unfold it and bring it into view; they would do this with great caution. You know a fellow starts going unconscious minutes be… under anesthesia before he goes unconscious - no anesthesia’s anywhere near him and he doesn’t go unconscious ‘tel the moment he goes unconscious, that is saying, ‘tel the moment the anesthesia is applied. But the second this is applied, he back postulates that he has been unconscious for a little while in order to make it very easy to take the anesthesia. And the anesthesia has nothing to do with the reduction of his awareness except that he has agreed that it does.

You land here and you find these tremendous quantities evidently of… of already created agreements and you just fall very easily into these created agreements, and so on. And what do you know, you have all the energy you want. This is the… the universe of plenty with the main trick of creating scarcities with that plenty. Oh, this is… this is a honey! This… this… this really gets to be a grim joke when you start along the line a little further in this material because you create plenty. You create plenty, and then… then teach everybody that he hasn’t got any. And this keeps him in there and agreeing. You… you make people… make people agree with the MEST universe by telling them that he can’t have any and then… then, as soon as you… you start wanting him really to agree and he’s… he’s decided he can’t have any, he starts to go into apathy or something, you shovel him a lot of it. Give him a lot of MEST. That fixes him. That’s what he asked for in the first place, and he winds up clear down at the bottom of the scale on this process. There’s plenty of it - there’s plenty of agreement in this universe.

And there… there are people around, a good demonstration of this, the people around you can slap chloroform on him, you could have slapped ether on him, you could fill him full of sodium pentothal, sodium nitrate, anything you wanted to fill him full of and… and what do you know - they don’t go out. This is a despair on the part of some people in hospitals. They say, „Well he must be unconscious.“ No. Another bucket of ether, pour it over his head and so on. Nothing’s happening. They say, „Well nobody can possibly be alert all through all of this, so, he must be unconscious so we’ll go ahead and operate.“ That wiggling around he’s doing is just automatic reflex he’s… he’s already had two and a half gallons of chlorobutanol or something, and Nembutal and we filled him up.

There’s always… already patterns of agreement. There’s all these things; you got all this material here in other words, and, oh, it’s terrific quantities of material. And with those terrific quantities of material a person’s expected to work. You start agreeing again and this universe evidently doesn’t want anything to do with the energy you’d add to it. It sort of secretly takes that.

Yah, very great confusion on what is this thing unconsciousness. And that’s the reason… the reason why is it’s just a postulated unawareness but it’s been made automatic, it’s been made completely automatic. And this fellow out here on the street made it so completely automatic that if you went along and tried to tell him it was just a postulate - he’d laugh at you.

But it doesn’t want anything to do with it. It says: MEST universe, much more powerful than any universe you ever had or constructed or could construct of anything like that. MEST universe says… says and so on. The MEST universe has a horrible motto I’ll talk about later.

That’s reality, that’s good reality, that’s useful, that’s workable. When anybody delivers too much pain to you, you become unaware. That’s the thing to do. So you go out here and you try and undo that as… undoing it as a postulate. You’re not going to get to first base. There are periods when he did. Now he said, „I’m not responsible for that period,“ don’t you see? This is a direct application of full responsibility as a theory. I’m not responsible for this period when I was aware.

But here… here is all of this energy and you don’t create any energy so the second you start into going into agreement with the MEST universe, energy comes down down down down down as far as ones are concerned.

However, the first book forward we were trying to bring around and we succeeded in actually bringing the person up to the responsibility for the moments when he was unaware. We ran them out and brought them back into being. And whenever we ran one out and brought it back into being we made him responsible for that section of his life and it ceased to have a heavy command value on him. Because anything for which a person is not responsible can effect, make an effect of that person. Anytime he’s not responsible for something, it can affect him.

An individual for whom everything is done has no energy left to do anything. Just look around in the society and find individuals for whom everything is done and you’ll find the most languid individuals. You’ll find people all around you who say, „If I just had a little more, if I just had a… had a couple of maids, and six or eight this and if I just had twelve more girls working in the office, and if I just had all of these things and so on, I’d have all of this leisure time. And I’d get all kinds of things done.“

He says, „Well, I’m not responsible.“ Supposing we’re driving down the street in a car and he says, „Well, I’m not responsible for what this car’s doing.“ And he’s took his hands off the wheel. Boy, it can sure have an effect on him, right then and there. If, uh… somebody’s talking along and they’re talking about this and that and so on and he doesn’t stand up for a friend of his, he says, „Well has no… no effect upon me. I mean I’m not responsible for that. That fellow’s just talking. I’m not responsible for it. It isn’t any responsibility of mine what that fellow’s saying about that friend of mine. I’m just standing here.“ Oh boy, his friend hears about that one of these fine days, and it has an effect upon him. But its -

Now what do you know, the more help he gets, the more things are done for him, the less he does, and he gets finally down, and you… you just look at this boy, he just sinks down in a chair. That’s down.

Whenever he abandons control of space, energy or objects, whenever he abandons control of these three things, he’s asked them to command him. He says, „I can’t control them.“ And what do they say… they say, „Hmmm, raw meat. We can control him.“

Now, there is an out. He can enter over into the field of sports. But you can imagine the field of sports. Imagine playing polo - the horse does all the running, you put somebody in the saddle, to have him hold the stick for you. Uh… and then… then you have somebody else there to fire the stick off so that it hits the ball properly.

Now, how do you get a person under control? You… you can say, „Give them anesthesia.“ Let’s say the same thing exactly. You get him to abandon control of space, energy, and objects.

And uh… than you decide, well it’s a good place to sit over here on the side of the grandstand. And I’ll be part of this game and uh… watch that boy. Me and my boy running up and down there and playing polo, and all the other players also sitting there in the grandstand by this time.

How do you get a fellow under control? You… you give him anesthesia. That takes away space of action and beingness. He… he’ll abandon the space he’s in right there at the moment. Most of these things actually give a man anesthesia and he actually goes and stands on the other side of the room someplace. He just moves out. He says, „I am unaware, I don’t have anything to do with it.“ And then he moves out. The thetan does, GE stays there and takes it… the GE’s rough, also not very aware.

And then several servants come in and they give you some empty big… big chairs, deep chairs, and you sit there and… and uh… the polo game goes on. Well, no real interest in the polo game by this time. And the fellow puts out his hand like this and a drink is put into it again. He opens his mouth slightly and somebody bends the straw over so that he can get the drink.

But did you ever run these operations where the preclear insists that he’s on the other side of the room? We used to insist that he get in valence. Tough, I mean that’s rough. Well, it worked. We… we made… we made advances in spite of that.

Gee, he… he’d be in bad shape very soon, wouldn’t he? And so they do. So any time your thetan starts up as an energy unit and starts to convince himself that he’s only an energy unit and he can only operate in that bracket, he’s comparing his energy to lightning bolts and all kinds of things, trolley lines out here and electric lights. And he’s not up to a point yet where he can do these things.

Anyway, here we have - we’ve asked this fellow to abandon energy, he’s not to move around while he’s being sawed up. And we’ve asked him to abandon control of an object, namely his body. We’ve asked him to abandon space. Asked him to abandon energy and asked him to abandon an object and boy! He’s unaware.

What’s he do? He builds up a little bit and he goes on a big slump, he builds up a little bit and goes on a big slump. And he builds up a little bit and after a little while he won’t even want to move out of his body. He says, „What’s the use?“

Now actually you could just ask a person to vacate just… just move them out so that… they’ve abandoned control of space, energy and an object, I mean abandoned control of it, really abandoned control of it by saying, „Well, I can’t control that.“ That person is under control; that person becomes an effect. That’s the way people go down tone scale. The gradient scale of going down tone scale is the degree that one abandons space, energy, and objects. This could go on. I could tell you a lot more just right along the line of theta clearing.

Because he’s putting himself in direct contest with the MEST universe. So is the thetan an energy unit? No, he’s not, but a thetan sort of conceives himself to be an energy unit and when he first starts moving out, you’ll find out that he’s quite convinced that he’s an energy unit. And then he will spend a lot of his time trying to become a better energy unit.

A lot of auditors go at it on this basis. They say, „Now let’s abandon the space of a body.“ I mean this is the kind of feeling they put out. „Let’s abandon the space of the body, let’s abandon all that energy and let’s get out of that object and move back - now! Now are you all in control of the physical universe you and feel better?“

Well, that’s… the way he makes energy is by postulates and so you have to rehabilitate his ability to create a universe and you automatically increase his energy unit capacity by not trying to create it at all. And you can create it up to a point over here in this untrammeled universe of his own until you get him to a point where he all of a sudden turns around and says, „Well, the MEST universe, you know, I never did like Mars.“ Buzzzrrrumgh! That’s theoretical, theoretical.

„No, no.“ The guy is practically unconscious. He doesn’t know whether he’s going or coming. He’s in terrible state instantly. And the reason he’s in terrible state is you’ve reduced him in consciousness. You’ve told him to abandon space, abandon energy, and abandon an object. No, no, the proper slant on theta clearing is to ask him to assume control of more space, to develop more energy and to demonstrate to him he can have an unlimited number of objects. You know most preclears haven’t got any space to move into. That space three feet in front of them is non-occupiable. That belongs to somebody else. That space one inch in front of their noses is unoccupiable. It belongs to somebody else. And what do you know, that space one inch behind the nose is not occupiable. It belongs to somebody else. This gets so bad that the fellow doesn’t even own the space the body’s in.

But uh… auditors very often tend to measure this production of energy as the ability of a preclear. Sure enough, it measures him quite a bit on the tone scale. But they judge whether or not they’ve got a good preclear solely and continually by how much energy he can produce. And they try to get him to produce more energy and he’s producing it in competition.

The body doesn’t even own the space the body is in, it belongs to the Administration or somebody. Now, you… you get these two directions then you can go from this by asking him to abandon space, energy, and objects, abandon them. He will go down tone scale and will go into an… a state of unawareness. Now as he gradually goes into a state of unawareness, he is taking less and less responsibility of course because that’s… responsibility simply means control of, admission of control of space, energy, and objects. So he goes down tone scale and he’s easier and easier to control so somebody else can now control him. Somebody else… he… somebody else has to give him space and energy and objects.

You got the Edison Company down here and they’re mighty hard people to get around. They… they… they wouldn’t buy your ohms and kilowatts, not for a nickel. They can make too many of ‘em. So, it’s sort of wasted effort.

That’s a welfare state. They give all their citizens space. Well, now, the state is giving you a place to live. Yeh, and the state gives you work. And the state is going to give you food and cars and one pair of shoes per citizen. And the state is also going to give you a medal if you’re a good boy. The state has assumed complete control of the individual and what happens to these individuals? They go into an hypnotic trance. The state says the moon is made of green cheese. It says right here that uh… Rosaline Kokabum uh… in the year 1821 flew to the moon and made a complete survey and inspection of this in order to throw at the capitalistic system. And here… here is the moon and it’s all been discovered and nailed down and it’s now under our banner. And the citizenry says, „Gong, yeh the moon is made out of green cheese.“

All right, uh… putting this into a… any kind of a reality, then, we find out that in processing the thetan conceives himself to be an energy unit and we find out that on this definition of along the line, he’s not an energy unit.

See what a wonderful system.

He’s a thetan, he has the goal of theta and he… one of the things theta can do, well, what do you know? If a man can create space, he’ll never do very much in the way of creating energy. Had… had an auditor over in England that… that auditors measure this so… so… so well, that’s why I’m stressing it. They… they keep coming back in there to get agreement from this MEST universe. They come around… they… they do this with the preclear and then they come back and they say to the MEST universe, „Will you agree? Do you agree? Am I agreed with? Where’s my license to survive?“

The capitalistic system does different than that. It says, „If you don’t do exactly what we tell you to do, we’re going to take your space away from you, and we’re going to take your energy away from you, and boy, are we gonna take objects away from you.“ It is… so you see it’s higher toned. It just says it’s going to do this. Occasionally makes an example of somebody.

„Okay. Oh, you didn’t give me one. Or this one that you did give me was written in disappearing ink.“ Uh… had an auditor, he said, „I worked for six hours, worked hard with this preclear and got her out of her body, feeling much better, cured these chronic somatics - she’s never been able to walk - but, uh… walking all right and so forth, but you know, at the end of six hours all she could do was lift a cigarette paper.“

Well, so you see now what we’re… we’re talking about. We’re talking about engrams. Uh… comes around to an engram. An engram is a moment of pain and unconsciousness by old definition. Let’s… let’s redefine it.

You stop and think about it for a moment. This guy’s frame of reference is the frame of reference of Scientology, which is what he’s lived and slept with for quite a while. This didn’t seem very good to him. Just think what would happen if you were giving some kind of a demonstration some place or another and your preclear jumps out of the body and there’s a whole stack of cigarette papers over there and you say, „All right, will you move something around in the room?,“ the fellow goes to the cigarette papers, „Move those,“ and the person picks up the cigarette paper and brings it out here and lets it flutter to the floor - with no hand touching it.

An engram is a period of no responsibility. An engram is a period where the individual has abandoned control of and ownership of space, energy, and objects. An engram is a period of where the individual has abandoned space, energy, and objects.

Well, though one of the best reasons why I… this would happen probably was because he had gone out and then he dived back in. The fact that he was doing this six hours - at the end of six hours of processing - demonstrated that he was again going around like a panhandler or a begging bowl or something of the sort and saying to the MEST universe, „Please give us a license to survive. We will agree with you some more.“

Now, if you put that definition down, it becomes much more understandable when we start to define space, energy and objects and find out what they are in terms of experience. But you can see that right now, you can connect that up. Now to run an engram, running an engram is a method of Standard Operating Procedure 1950 or 1951. It is a method of making the individual reassume control of a period where he has abandoned control of space, energy, and objects. You make him reassume control of, by going through it again and running through it again and demonstrating to him that he had a better control of it than he supposed. And so you run it and you run it and you run it.

„And if we agree with you enough, we won’t be at all, but please agree some more and we’ll agree with you and everything is going to be fine.“

Now, some individuals, you put them down on the couch and the individual lies down there and he grimly folds his hands on his chest. And you say, „All right, now let’s go to the beginning of the incident, now what is the first phrase?“

Why, he’s just doing the same thing when he says to this preclear, „Can you pick up that piece of paper?“ You’re asking this individual to immediately go into contest with MEST universe. MEST universe does it with hands, and cranes, and that sort of thing, and you’re asking a thetan who hasn’t yet rehabilitated his own universe to pick up some piece of paper - a piece of paper. That’s an illusion called a piece of paper. You’re asking him to pick it up, disobey the laws of gravity with it and bring it out here and drop it where everybody can see it. Well, if you keep that up very much with a preclear, you get him out of his body - this is the test of this pudding, how well it works - you get him out of his body, you send him around, he knocks off an ashtray, he does something like that.

„What incident?“

By the way, it scares him to death. Half the time they get out of their body and they say, „I… I couldn’t do anything like this.“ And they say, „I… I couldn’t do anything like this,“ and they come over here and they see this box of matches here or something of this sort. They’re out of their body. And they say, „I… I wonder if I could… WAAUUGGHH!“ That’s… that’s just… just that kind of reaction. And the guy will dive right back inside there.

You say, „Well, now looking for this incident, has to do with this somatic in your foot.“

He has agreed so thoroughly; he disagreed too fast, too quick, and he’s done for a while. You look at him afterwards, he’ll just be hangdog. Gets real upset, and so, when we look over then our… the upper Q’s, we… we find out that we so far haven’t anything to do really with the creation of energy as a level of process that we would care much about. That would be a rather low level of process.

„Well, I can’t see anything. I can’t feel anything. You know my feeling of reality’s such I don’t even know that foot’s there. Now you ask me to run an incident about this and you know I couldn’t run any incident about this and there is no incident connected with this. And you say this has to do with the mother… you say it shows up on this… this meter thing here, that shows up that this is because I’m trying to get even with my mother or my mother’s trying to get even with me or I’ve done an overt act or whatever that is. I don’t know what these things are but I just… I just don’t see anything and this is a lot of bunk.“ And this guy can get pretty excited after a while.

First is location in time and space of energy and matter. And it says creation of space and… and energy and matter located in time and space. Well, that doesn’t stress for one moment, that doesn’t even vaguely stress this one point of creation of energy. You first have to be able to locate things in space, locate things in time and that means move them. Not identify or spot them - move them, shift them around and then actually create space.

You’re just… you’ve done just this… this trick actually. Finally we know. What… what have you done when you failed to get an occluded case running? You just failed to use a gradient scale. That’s all. You started diving to make this guy take over responsibility for lots of space and lots of energy and lots of objects all at once. You said, „Okay.“ Now without even giving him a pep talk you just suddenly said, „All right, now let’s take over control of space, energy, and objects. Let’s go, Bud. You’re on your own.“

Create space in which to make energy. When you’ve done all those things, oh, you can move up everything around you that you want to move around. But a preclear has to be in awfully good shape before you start putting him in contest with this.

„Oh.“ This guy just - he’s got no engram bank - he’s got no mind. He’s gone, he’s been gone for a long time. When you start theta clearing, you’ll recognize this fellow instantly. You’ll recognize what his trouble is. He isn’t occupying the space you’re trying to get him out of.

Your first level of processing up the things is locating things. Your next level is changing postulates. It comes immediately from that as the highest levels that you can hit.

And… the quicker an auditor learns that the happier he is because he… he can just break his heart over some of these cases, he says, „Move them out… move them out? Hell, they’re not in!“ They’re negatively out. Not… not only are they not in their heads, but they have to be collected from a lot of places they have run to and put in their head so that they can then be moved out of their heads. Now, you ask him and if you ask on a gradient scale, the funny part of it is if you use this principle we’re using right now you can actually run on the people you haven’t been able to run them on before, locks, secondaries, and engrams.

Now, we get another Q which I’ve already talked about quite a bit and that is simply the action cycle… is the… is one of the manifestations of ability of a thetan. Has to be up at that level and the only reason’s really there, is because it’s one of the abilities of, one of them.

Now, how do you do this? You just uh… run him through a little moment of his life - doesn’t matter whether it’s a pleasure moment or a bad moment or a good moment or anything else. Just… just run him through a little section of his life whereby he did own something. You make him remember something really real to him when he was in communication with something. See ARC Straightwire. And what did we find out empirically - found out that ARC Straightwire would do an awful lot for the psychotic and neurotic. And the break point of the psychotic was the moment when he could remember something absolutely real. He’d really experienced quite a surge the second he did that. Why? Uh… you’ve given him ownership of one one hundredth billionths to the umpety-umpth power of uh… space and energy. You’ve just given him this tiny little thing. It’s almost immeasurable. But he’s all of a sudden said, „Hey, I can own something. I can control something. What do you know, there was a moment… there’s a moment in my past that I can control.“ He says, „Sigh.“

Action cycles, that is the cycle which goes from 40.0 on the tone scale to 0.0 on the tone scale and a thetan can run this gamut. And he can run it with an individual, run it with a universe, run it with an illusion, run it with anything, and so on. It has to do with space, energy, time - all these things are interrelated.

Now if you went on from there and just built that as a gradient scale using reality of all things. I mean… mean… trying to process reality, so called laughingly, is, actually, it turns out, a low scale method of looking at things. Why should you process reality when you can make it? Now your preclear all of a sudden gets the idea he can make it. And whether that idea’s right or wrong or bad or good that’s… that doesn’t matter, he… he just gets awfully… an awful lot better. What’s the idea of processing this when you can nacho it. But we’ll go on and talk about these anyway.

Now, an action cycle, technically, is the creation, growth, conservation, decay and death or destruction of energy and matter in a space, that is an action cycle. And it is the action cycle which produces the illusion of time. You’ll see that much more clearly as we go into this. That’s your last one.

If you could run a lock, no matter how brief, that restored some space to him, it was actually true. He did have the right to go into the woodshed without getting spanked. Boy, why, that’d be a big game. You’d restored to him some space in the past which had been denied to him consistently. You would work on him entering rooms or entering boxes or entering something until at last he could find a time when he had entered something. And you could run the times when he didn’t want to enter to the point where he now feels free to enter the woodshed. Of course, it’s been forty years ago since he was spanked in that woodshed, but you’d find today that if he were to go out toward the woodshed, he would get to feeling rather odd. Somebody was really taking space, energy, and objects away from him.

And that by the way is… is just that this illusion of time is created by the thetan. And it’s created by the thetan; it is not suddenly shot off to some other sphere. Now that which a person can create cannot have any great effect upon him. Anything that a person can create, change or destroy doesn’t have any large value to him.

All right, so we’ve given him back a little piece of space. Now did he have the right to do something? We’ll find out who said he didn’t have the right to do something, we’ll block that off, knock that off.

You wouldn’t think a dollar bill was worth anything if you could make all of them that you possibly could want. You wouldn’t think they were worth a thing; as a matter of fact they wouldn’t be worth a thing. Uh… but uh… you wouldn’t put… place any value on them. But those things which an individual cannot create, or believes he cannot create rather - he believes he can’t create something. Oh-oh, that means that he can procure it only through an exchange and a communication of some sort or a line of some sort, and we have then only those things which a person cannot create, change or destroy can be aberrative to the person, and that’s the final run of it. When you get into the upper level of a thetan, you find out that anything there is, he is capable of creating, changing and destroying. He doesn’t have a limit, and I don’t know of any limit at this time.

Now, did he have the right to control his own shoes? That might be too tough. Did he have the right to comb his own hair? Did he have the right to… to… to own something? An object? And control something - did he? Yeh. What do you know he suddenly - humpf. And the next just go over it again, some more space. See, energy is an action and an object. And you just - if you just kept going up the gradient scale of incidents and finding incidents that are just a little wider, just a little bigger, a little more space, a little more doingness, a little more objects in them, you could run locks and secondaries and engrams.

I’ve been around, snooping around, trying to find some limits someplace or another, and although absolutes are unobtainable, obviously… obviously we haven’t stated an absolute. We… we just obviously haven’t stated an absolute when we say that that is what a thetan can do and that he can create anything.

What’s a secondary? A secondary’s a very severe moment of loss. It’s either anger against losing, uh… fear of losing, or fear because one has lost, or the recognition that one has lost and apathy is not only has one lost but one will never be able to gain again. So we’ve got that. We’ve known that for a long time so let’s move in on a secondary just to that degree.

We can say he can create anything we know anything about. He can create anything you find in one of these universes. That’s a rather limited scope. That’s very easy. This MEST universe, kind of an idiotic affair, has three dimensions, uh… depends on a change in space and you get a vibration called time and it’s all very interesting.

In the first place, does he own anything in present time. Is anything his? And the fellow will sort of fumble around and, „Let’s see a tie, no, a tie was given me by my Aunt Bertha and I always had to be careful of Aunt Bertha’s things and the shoes and so forth. I work for this company and this company has… gives me everything I own practically. And… and… uh… gee, I don’t own… own that really. The house belongs to my wife. Let’s see, the car… that car belongs to the finance company. Uh… let’s see, uh… umm. Hey you know there’s a toothpick in my top drawer that I think I own.“ „How do you know you own that toothpick?“ „Well, I carved it out myself.“ Go in on that gradient scale and let him take possession of what is his and you’ll find that is a… that is a very interesting process.

But anything we know about can be created by a thetan and as a consequence there is no shortage or scarcity to a thetan, even vaguely.

Well, what do you know, the fellow the first thing you know the fellow will be able to run a secondary. He lost his pappa - you want to get grief off him, there’s no reason you have to get grief off him anymore. But you want to get grief off this fellow, work this basis of a loss. What does he own? What could he lose? What could he safely lose? What could he not get along without? First thing you know, his sphere of ownership starts going up on objects.

So I hope with these upper brackets here, these upper brackets above the level of logics, we have described the thing or the beingness or whatever you want to call it that we’re processing… Well, that’s what we’re processing and that’s what we’re trying to process toward and that actually is the common denominator of all of our processes at this time.

What could he do and what can’t he do - and his sphere of action starts going up. What can he be, what can’t he be - and his sphere of space starts going up. Okay, you have to get him up so far until he can cry over something because most guys are in apathy on this.

And as long as we work within those realms toward those goals, we can achieve very remarkable results. And as soon as we start to depart from these goals everything starts to go off wrong in the process. So we have a higher level of evaluation for a process.

For seventy-six trillion years this MEST universe has been playing the game, now look at yours. You got it now? You’re thoroughly attached to it, now you’re sure you own it - you’re sure now? YANK! I said, „Well, I guess that one wasn’t yours. Now here’s something else for you.“ And this… this game has… has the root of many evils.

The test of this is an awful lot of processing. There are theta clears around now till… I mean, this is getting - you… you meet an auditor and he says, „I… I… I… „What kind of a week did you have?“ He says, „I’m doing all right, I mean I haven’t got any practice now, but I mean I’m doing all right.“ And uh… you say, „What do you mean, you haven’t had any practice?“

All right, a lock is a light incident. Locks stand on top of… and multiply because of secondaries and engrams. A fellow loses Grandma, that’s a secondary, grief charge. He loses Grandma and he goes on from there gathering locks about loss of people till he gets frantic, he’s afraid to lose anything. He’s afraid to lose his watch of he feels he’ll commit suicide if he lost another thing in his life.

„Well, I used to have about 20 preclears I used to see at one time or another. Uh… I worked all week long - and I don’t have them any more.“

What’s a secondary? Just that major loss. A lock that stands on a physical pain engram of just moments when he is reminded that he has a big moment of physical pain and unconsciousness. And so he goes a little bit unconscious every time he thinks this thing is coming back in again. And he wants that engram because he can’t trust himself to act fast enough in an emergency. He’s learned he can’t act fast enough in an emergency. He thinks he’s learned this so the way to do it is to set it up in such a way that he gets an automatic machine that goes zip-bomp and does it for him.

But uh… you say, „Hhmm, well, you made… made a lot of theta clears?“

Where do people go to pieces? They go to pieces at the moment where they conceive that they can’t trust themselves anymore. When they can’t trust themselves, they have to trust something else. There’s nobody else they can trust, so they fix up an engram bank and trust it.

„Oh, yes, yes, well I made a lot of theta clears. Most of these were theta clears before but I’ve got these up… pretty well cleared as thetans, and squared around and so forth.“

Or in the fear of action, they go out and build a temple and put an idol on the altar and trust it. Or they go down to Las Vegas and say, „We’ll leave it in the hands of Lady Luck.“ They shed responsibility in the hopes that… to which they had shed the responsibility will be theirs again. There you get the interplay.

And you say, „What are they doing?“

How do you run locks and secondaries and engrams then? Run them on a gradient scale of restoring confidence in one’s ability to control space, energy and objects. And you can use SOP 50, you can use THE ORIGINAL THESIS. As a matter of fact, there’s a better technique in THE ORIGINAL THESIS, I think, than 1948. All these things run with it.

„Well, I don’t know. Uh… a couple of them I haven’t seen for two or three days and the last time I saw anything about them at all they were… they were talking about taking some kind of a scout out to someplace or another and looking over something. And uh… another one, one of them got himself fired, and two others got… got themselves promoted and… uh… things are changing; things are changing.“

Uh… you use that, you can run any engram in the bank. If you can’t run an engram, you have to run something like it. Okay, did that clear up a few things? On… you can always run an engram on a preclear providing you don’t insist on running an engram heavier than he can run. You sort of knew that once upon a time, but how do you sneak in on it? Well sneak in on it by running a lock, restoring him like that.

It’s… it’s quite, quite remarkable. And it’s… it’s after two and a half years of watching, boy, results in the hands of auditors. What is a technique? What’s a good technique? Well, a good technique is a technique an auditor can use that will produce fast and rapid results. Furthermore, it’s got to produce rapid results faster than the environment can undo the results.

Now there’s one more point I’d like to make with regard to that. There’s one more slight point, is that the over-all idea of locks, engrams and secondaries and so on, is handled now by creative processing. You have to know what locks, secondaries, and engrams are to be able to handle them as such, otherwise you won’t take the creative processings uh… handily enough. But you handle directly, very directly, you handle them by getting the preclear to own his own space, his own energy, and his own objects. And when he owns his own space, energy, and objects - heck! - MEST universe stuff - phooey!

You’re sort of racing along with the environment there. And it’s got to be able to be doable, after a course of training, right at a rather uniform level by auditors. Now, those are all important parts of a good technique. Uh… does it work uniformly on preclears and so forth, sure, all right, that’d… that’d be a good technique. But can it be taught to an auditor? He said no. Gee. That technique isn’t worth a darn.

Not only, he hasn’t just abandoned it, he can just take ownership of it like mad. So handle these things in the far run of it with creative processing; handling preclears, you know this fellow’s got an engram, you know he’s got Fac One, you know he’s got something else. Handle with creative processing. But don’t lose sight of the fact that you are handling something he considers an… an existing entity.

Well, we have a technique here by… because of the existence of these things above the level of the logics. We have a technique here now which leads us out into a good uniform workability, on the part of auditors producing good effects there on the preclear and boosting him up the line, returning his self-determinism to him rather rapidly.

Let’s take a break.

You’ll get different looking people and you’ll get happier people processing them this way and the name of this technique we’re stressing, I’m stressing right now, is Scientology 8-8008. And the reason this is 8-8008 is a very simple reason. Show it to you here. It’s the attainment of an infinity by the reduction of the infinity of the MEST universe - that’s Phi, a Greek letter - to a zero of Phi, MEST universe, by the increase of’ the zero of one’s own universe, to an infinity of one’s own universe. And this infinity stands for just what it says. It’s a theoretical attempt to reach any infinity. And that would be an infinity in any direction as far as universes are concerned.

I don’t know what else exists beyond universes, but uh… there might… must be a lot of things, because I can see the infinity of universes. And if you can see an infinity, it’s obviously not an infinity, I mean, obviously. So this is just a theoretical infinity and that would be uh… any universe.

Uh… and mind you this is just an attempt. Now, therefore, this is very interesting. It… it… it runs uh… we just turn that up this way. Now we have Scientology 8-8008. And it’s named that way with a purpose and a reason. Student: Could you just go through that formula again? LRH: You betcha.

Here is an infinity, of any universe. This process attempts to reach the theoretical infinity of any universe, the creation, change or destruction of any universe, that would be its infinity, by the reduction of the infinity of the MEST universe, this universe we’re sitting in, and that could only be in terms of importance to the individual or his dependency on it. It appears to be an infinity of dependence to him now.

Well, you reduce that infinity of dependence to zero for the individual. Of course, that’s very nice. I wouldn’t want the FBI to get ahold of this other thing. The actual thing is just between ourselves. What it means is the… the destruction of the MEST universe - the zero. And the increase of one’s own universe which is approximately at zero now, actually.

He… he goes around dressing up the buildings and saying, „Aren’t the pigeons pretty?“ and all that sort of thing. But there he knows they’re not his pigeons. Uh… and all he’s got is this shadow which he puts on everything or a little bright light he puts on something.

There’s nothing but darkness there. He comes along and puts this little ‘light on it; he says, „That’s pretty.“ Yeah, that’s good and pretty - of course, he’d put it there so it’d be pretty. But he considers his own universe to consist of exactly zero, really; he doesn’t have a big universe. He… he… and so on… it’s a zero, compared to what it could be - you can believe that - to an infinity as far as he’s concerned. That is an unlimited scope for his own universe.

An unlimited scope for his own universe, we consider that at… at an… you… you get a person’s universe is not really at zero, that’s an absolute. Well, so that really isn’t infinity and that isn’t infinity and that isn’t infinity and neither is that infinity. Those are all absolute terms; absolutes are unobtainable, but they can come awful close.

Now, we get out of that the number of this technique and the number of this technique is very, very, very important to know, because anytime you forget the number of this technique, you’re going to have a preclear who doesn’t get well. And that’s why this technique is named that, and this is why I want you to know the name of the technique, and remember the name of the technique and so on, because it adds up to a formula of processing which won’t fail you. That’s an absolute too; it probably will.

You take some… some fives occasionally, a five will do the incredible stunt… Oh, he’ll just do the most incredible things - anything to get that preclear back in his head. Ha! and get him agreeing with the MEST universe. Anything to get him in, hold him in, nail him down, put clamps, screws, so on. Don’t let him out and.-. and then make him agree over there with the MEST universe.

„Oh well, now I… I know we’re not supposed to do this, but… but the best thing to do on something like that - I… I know we’re not supposed to do this, but… the best… the best thing we could possibly do at the moment - just… just a little test just to see whether or not you’re perceiving properly. Uh… how… how about… how about knocking that… that Coke bottle off?“

„Oh, you can’t do that! Oh. Well, do you see anything in the room? Oh? Well, now look, you’re due for a shock when you open your eyes - I better warn you that this room isn’t arranged that way. You’re in for a little shock. But you said that the vase and so forth was sitting over by the window and so on, and… oh well, open your eyes, you’ll see.“

The guy gets out of that, he looks and he’s half crazy, because sure enough, he saw the ceiling this way, and he saw the table that way, and he saw something else that way, and that isn’t the way they are. He opens his eyes with the MEST universe.

Where… where do we get the idea that isn’t the way they are, just because the MEST universe perceived through these eyes is a little bit different? The actual fact about it is, the poor guy is stuck thetawise all over the time track. You get anything that can… can create energy, you get anything that can create space, boy, it can shift space like mad.

And… and he’ll - first get him out, half the time he… he’ll take the ceiling of his own bedroom when he was a little girl and he’ll… and he will… will take the… take the table off the old kitchen when he was a grandfather, and he’ll take this and that and he’ll put them all together and then he’ll add four or five features that match up with the room he’s in and then he’ll say, „But no, I can’t have that desk there, because that desk reminds me of Poppa, so we’ll put a school desk there. That’s good, now we’ve got the .room. Now that’s the way things are.“ That’s really the way he’s seeing things inside of his head all the time.

He sort of thinks things are sort of fouled up this way, and maybe he’d better just sorta rely upon the body. The body… the body can be counted in… counted upon to run into these things if they’re not in the right place. And therefore it will keep one oriented.

Using a body is very like using a compass. It… it orients. It says, „This is present time,“ because it is present time for the body. Look at it, the body’s heart goes pop pop pop pop and we breathe sixteen times a sec… a minute, and we’re all set. And he keeps himself oriented. Well when he first comes out, anything that can create space can scramble it, anything that can create energy can scramble it, anything that can create objects can really foul him up.

And when he first starts looking at the universe, boy, it’s nothing like the universe. It’s pieces of the universe all over the place put together, because he isn’t a point source of dimension, and he can’t get the points of dimension squared away. So you see what happens? Now we have to follow this formula.

If we follow that formula, we get good preclears and all comes out well, and if we turn around and face the material universe a11 the time and insist on it, our preclears don’t get well. What do you know! It’s just as simple as that. So that’s the formula, and that’s what we’re studying here.

It’s quite late and I want to wish you all a very good night.