This is the second hour of the afternoon lecture, December the third. You’ve just seen a short demonstration on uh… the presence of these tractors and pressors. Now, of course, the tractor beam and the pressor beam go hand in hand. Actually you get a good current exchange by having a tractor and a pressor right together, so you can push and pull at the same time and you can maintain balance with it. Now that’s all very easy to do, but uh… the uh… thetan who has… thinks he has to use these is actually agreeing with the MEST universe like mad.

This is the first hour of the afternoon of December the 3rd and this afternoon, we are going to start right in; we’ve been dilly dallying long enough. We’ve been hanging around and doing nothing about this, and sort of marking our tracks and getting accustomed to things, getting accustomed to our seats. Now let’s get to work.

And you have to get him over that. And one of the goals that you have in processing is get him so he’s doing things simply by command not by energy. Cause you see, anything can happen by command - anything. You don’t need to apply energy.

Uh… let’s start covering this with some rapidity, and uh… go over the component parts with which we’re working. I already announced in Q-1 that we have certain words. These words are thetan, self-determinism, theta, space, time, energy, objects and location, which means orientation of some sort. So in order to understand that, we’ll just sail right on through here and we’ll just take those up one by one.

That’s a sort of a slave status. Now you have to be able to be responsible for the whole shooting match practically, if you’re going to handle energy all the way through it. You have to have a pretty high level of responsibility in order to make your commands stick on the lower level of energy. But you are dealing, when you are dealing with energy, on a lower level than postulates.

What do we mean by a thetan? You’ll find a thetan in a strange… very, very, strange situation. Exceedingly strange. About the strangest condition into which a thetan could get is in the head of a homo sapiens. This is not just being caught with two out and runners on first, second, and third and being caught out. Uh… it’s not that bad, it’s much worse than that – much much worse. He is… doesn’t belong in homo sapiens. Homo sapiens uh… a little bit earlier on the track is homo something else. He’s homo something else, and that difference would be… he would be this something else minus a thetan. Because evidently, a thetan is not necessary even vaguely to his anatomy. Actually, the thetan doesn’t need him and he doesn’t need the thetan. The GE has life all beautifully compartmented. The GE’s got it all figured out and uh… so on, GE’s been coming down the track a long time. You look back early on the GE track, you find out he had other bodies in other universes, oddly enough, conservation of thetanism, I guess. And the GE starts on the track with an incident which is the hole in space. Uh… you can find that on your preclears, in the GE, and it starts in the hole in space, and it comes right on the evolutionary track right on down through; he’s taking the counter-efforts and he’s building a body with them. And after a while he gets the darndest most complex thing you ever saw.

You’re dealing with a higher lever when you’re dealing with postulates, and when you’re dealing with commands. Now you saw these various head mock-ups here, uh… the collapsing tractors and so forth. There is another condition which you must know about and that is the condition of putting a pressor beam against the head.

If you start looking at a GE; it’s all right for you to think of a GE, by the way, as being uh… just a spot or an energy point, or something like that the way a thetan might be, but that isn’t really the case. The GE has… has himself something built up which looks like an RCA worldwide communications network system or something of the sort. He’s… he’s really got the outposts and the inposts and the onpost uh… set up here and there and it regulates this and that, and that shorts across through this thing, and so on, and you start monkeying up with this system, and it’s almost impossible to touch it.

A thetan puts a pressor beam against the head and at the moment the head suffers pain, the pressor beam doesn’t hold against the head. It is lengthened suddenly and uncontrollably by the surge of energy which is put into it by the pain the body is feeling at that instant.

This system has been subjected to millions and millions of years of very super hard usage. It’s never been subjected uh… to auditing, but uh… it’s been subjected to some very horrible things.

So, you get a pressor beam going straight on through the head.

Now, as we look back down the track at the GE, we find out that he was getting along just fine. He was keeping the heart beating, he was keeping the lungs going, he had a carbon-oxygen engine, and he figured he was an engineer at the controls of a train or something of the sort. It was an engine. It’s an engine built out of ridges – the ridges are of his creation. It’s a composite of facsimiles which have solidified into what we call cells and the human anatomy.

Swish - and the thetan is not able to support himself at a distance from the head by means of the application of this pressor beam, and he feels all is lost. And that’s a very serious situation for him. He just knows it’s all gone and he’s done for.

This works on little cells, and the little cells run on photons and minerals and uh – very very fine system – he’s got an awful lot of things, and stuff, and acids and alkaloids that are mixed up together. But each and every one of these things is nothing but matter. It’s matter composed of something or other.

He goes right on in. Now people when they’re doing any of these processes, by the way, sometimes feel little explosions inside their head or against the back of their neck or something like that. These are these old ridges, if you notice - on drawing five we had a splash here.

But it’s matter which is animated and given a purpose by the GE.

Now your pressor beam, of course, would be a… a lengthening beam and your pressor beam would go on through here from position of the thetan one to position of the thetan two. And then your pressor beam would continue on out and go on through the head.

The GE is actually of the same order of being as a thetan. If you took a body and started to pry this GE loose and straighten him around, you would find out that he is capable of being quite sentient. Actually, he’s completely monomanic. An association with him, association with the GE, drives the thetan a bit in that direction. But the GE is excessively uh… monomanic on one subject – build the ridges, build the body, move the body, roll the body, survive, survive – on this MEST level.

All right, it makes a splash when it hits the back of the head. There’s an energy splash. The thetan’s energy, actually, he is generating energy and what energy he’s generating and what ridge is there he’ll explode and he makes a splash himself. And so he sets up a new type of ridge.

Now you just go down here and find some capitalista. Uh… some fella – he owns uh… I don’t know – owns a grocery store chain or something of this sort. You… you expect to find a man of leisure, nothing much to do, something like that. You find this poor guy – this is too, too true. I… I… I only put this in as another caution to you, and that is a caution to you as an auditor. When you start in on one of these cases, watch out, because boy, you’ll be in there with your foot planted against that fellow’s chest pulling those ridges off before he’ll really start to let go of anything. He’s holding onto the MEST universe, and he’s holding onto it so madly, he’s pulling it in so tight on him; he’s got a grasp on it so hard, that you can’t dig him out.

When you start processing your preclear quite often says, „Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow“ – that’s ridges blowing all through his head. He’s got these old ridges around and they keep exploding on him. And don’t worry too much about that because I haven’t torn anybody’s brains loose yet.

If there was such a thing as the Pearly Gates and the Angel Gabriel – by the way, I saw a mock-up of ‘em one day and it was very pretty uh… the uh… if there was such a thing, you would find that the… this… this fellow, on the day of judgment, would be unable to leave because the tombstone which was built to him was far too heavy for his grave to be opened. So there he would be. Be a grim joke, but uh… the joke would certainly be on his head. The GE actually has done this.

Somebody said the other day I was quite sadistic about this sort of thing; no, as a matter of fact, uh… not… not really sadistic uh… uh… but it is rather amusing to find out that what seems to be at first glance to homo sapiens the most horrible and senseless cruelty uh… actually is approached almost immediately by a preclear and he overrides it. And he can always think of something much worse, immediately afterwards, quite amusing.

Now you want a little index to the character of the GE; there it is. The GE has done this. He’s said, „MEST universe, schlurp, oh boy. Ah, give us more MEST, more MEST, more MEST,“ and he’d pull it in on himself. And he takes these ridges, and he carries ‘em through, and he’s got this big blueprint and he builds and he rebuilds and… and so on. But he’s holding on like mad.

Now, the head could be called a theta trap and this is the way the trap is triggered. And because one has so many vested interests in the life of homo sapiens, why, he has… he’s… he gets into the feeling that this theta trap, uh… pardon me, this head is something very special. I mean it’s different, i… it’s… it’s valuable, it’s… it’s… and so on. It isn’t just a theta trap.

Now, if you were to free a GE, it’s very possible that you would actually have to break down, and take to pieces all these ridges known as the human body. You remember a comment in effort processing. In effort processing, it was stated that if you reduced all the counter-efforts of the body, the preclear would go poof. Well, that’s theoretically true, and that is… would merely be another way of saying the GE, if cleared of a body, would… would have to be subjected to a process which would actually reduce a body.

And it’s… it’s about the same order of magnitude, if you can view it in the same order of magnitude as a rat cage where it triggers a rat into it. Or it’s the same order of magnitude as any other type of theta trap such as a pole trap, or an aesthetic trap. These are various traps you can read about in other books.

Well, how you going to do it? This body is going pokada pokada pokada pokada, you interrupt any of these circuits and schedules to amount to anything – there’s no danger of your doing it in auditing. Been subjected to very exhaustive tests.

But uh… it’s just another kind of trap. Of course, now the worst kind of a trap of all, of course, i… is… is a… a beautiful woman. Uh… – that’s a theta trap we all know. That this… that this is the worst type, the most deadly, but uh… again that’s just a trap.

But the body’s going along there and you started to reduce this – what would you reduce first, his leg or his arm? Well, the GE is… is so thoroughly plastered into, and is animating this body and controlling it, that he’d just have to be pried loose with a jack or… or an icepick.

Now we’re talking… we’re talking about sensation. Start this out on this. Now this is just a little brief rundown on this. We talk about sensation. What’s sensation got to do with this? Well, the desire for sensation is actually what keeps him hanging around.

Now in addition to that, there’s an additional life in the body that is independent of the GE – an additional life is there. Uh… but for the sake of clarity and clarification, you have this phrase GE, so just let it cover, just let it cover that sphere of what animates the life. Actually the GE himself has come up the track, and he has picked up other GEs and so on and it’s come on, and this composite is what you’d have.

And he’ll hang around this theta trap and this theta trap’s cheese; the cheese that’s on this theta trap is called sensation. And that is not all that a thetan can get and that isn’t all a thetan can do, and it’s not even very valuable. And a thetan can actually mock up far better sensations than that, but he gets the idea he would like to feel like he wasn’t responsible for the sensation.

The cells themselves have a life, and uh… uh… you want to know why this body is capable of holding a thetan – well, it didn’t want one. It didn’t need one, and uh… it’s… the thetan unfortunately found out somewhere on the track that you could get a tremendous amount of sensation from the body. He could put a tractor wave out there, communication line into a body, and get a tremendous sensation – there was a big emotional bang.

So, he… he says, „Well, I’ll… sensations, wonderful stuff.“ There’s too many things you can do besides sensation. Now you go up along the line of sensation, above the line of sensation. You’ll think, for instance, that a thetan has only one emotion and that is entire and complete serenity. Oh no, he can change that emotion all over the place.

And this was something for which he wasn’t responsible, so therefore he could enjoy it. Uh… it’s said that – by preclears who run this first contact with a body – you get uniformly rather the same story, that right before the contact with the body, the thetan is 200 feet tall or something like that, he feels that big, he’s very expansive, and right after he contacts this body, he goes down in size, he feels very small. All right.

Uh… but he has this terrific dependence upon homo sapiens for sensation. There isn’t any reason why he can’t pick the sensation off of apples, uh… he can’t pick the sensation off of uh… uh… automobile tires or anything. I mean he has to plant the sensation before he can feel it. And he’s got a circuit set up so that he says, „This sensation that comes in, I didn’t plant it. And this energy doesn’t belong to me although I mocked it up and brought it in and so on and so on. And electronic interchanges must take place and I’ve agreed to this and agreed to that and agreed to something else.“ You get the idea.

Uh… what brought him down there? Tha… that’s uh… a valuable energy known as sensation. In back of all the wantingness, back of all of the various efforts and emotions and reasons and so forth, you find the underlying and hold-onto energy is the energy of sensation. And if you want to know what to run in a preclear, if you have to make up your mind that you’re going to run some kind of energy in the preclear, for golly sakes run the energy of sensation, the energy which comprises sensation, and you will find some sensational material. Because, in trying to pick up this energy, he overreaches and he holds on to all sorts of other energy.

So here we have then… here we have then a high level… high level causation for aberration when we talk about sensation. It’s odd that every theta trap is baited with aesthetics. Real good theta traps are baited with aesthetics. And real good theta traps match the wave length of the thetan if the thetan cares to put out a wave length. He takes his form of interest in this universe in terms of an aesthetic wave or in terms of sensational waves.

Now when we have said the AESTHETIC band, we’ve also said some of this. Your thetan has to be interested. Your aesthetic band goes very rapidly down into sensation. You recognize this – an individual who has no capacity for an emotional experience is unable to appreciate art. You go around aghast sometimes at the emotional uh… outbursts which you see on the part of some people who had merely beheld a piece of art work. They uh… uh… on a very MESTy level it is nothing, it is nothing during a… a concert or something like that for people to experience pleasure very far above that of sexual intercourse – now that’s a… there’s sensation.

He gets interested, then, in these lines and he feels that’s all there is. That isn’t all there is. So he comes into a body and he fools around with bodies and then eventually gets trapped by bodies and so on, simply from a desire for this sensation.

Now, when he first spotted the fact that people could get off the rails a little bit, uh… the late Dr. Freud uh… said, uh… „Now, we’ll grab on to this point because this is common to the human race and we’ll try to make a go out of this across the boards.“ And he tried to work it out on the basis that they felt guilty because of the sensation. Well, that would really be putting it down, down, scale. Just run the sensation – that’s all. It’s very simple – it is an elementary problem. You ran the sensation and you get the most fantastic, magnetic quality to the energy contained in that. It… it is… it starts acting like a bigger and better magnet than any they’ve got in steel mills. The fellow WANTS sensation, and that wantingness can be found on the preclear, to such a degree, that the communication lines through which he pulls that sensation will just sing like a hawser in rip tide. They’re just – they… they… they get this tremendous power. You’ll find sheets of this stuff in the preclear. And all of a sudden he’ll touch this stuff, and he can just feel his whole space, energy… uh… area just pull right in on him and collapse.

That… the sensation of freedom, the sensation of action - these are all sensations, too. And the sensation of freedom and the joy of pervasion of many things and so forth is actually much superior to the joy of sex.

Now, remember what I’ve told you, above other things, because that’s what holds the thetan in the body. He came there for sensation, and he got it. And after a while, he couldn’t go away any more. And body by body by body, because of the postulates he’s made, then body by body, he is consistently and continually running. First, he is unable to obtain much sensation from this body except maybe the sensation of action. And then later on – why is it that the age of 12, 13, right after a child becomes aware of sexual sensations and so forth, we get such a marked change in a being? You go on this E-Meter, you find when people’s lives went mad.

But uh… sex is pretty high, but you just have to shift your order of magnitude of how… how good can things get. Uh… that’s a pretty low level. And this body is baited to a large degree with uh… the emotion and sensation of sex, and it is NOT good on a much better one.

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The sensation of action, the body is just… just terrible, I mean it’s frail, it has a narrow tolerance band. There are a lot of things wrong with it from a standpoint of action.

Well, the postulates keyed in; he started to pick up sensation and the second he did that, he started to pull in ridges on himself, and he started down the same cycle, the thetan started down the same cycle as the GE. He started going right down… down the line, not intelligently building a body any more really than the GE did. The thetan just simply starts in, starts picking up MEST.

You just take a body sometime and throw it at a hundred miles an hour up against a wall and it… it’s awfully secondhand. Now, it… it’s… it’s not rigged for action. It builds up ridges tremendously fast; you know, the body couldn’t lift a ton. A human body cannot go out and lift a ton. It takes two hands at least.

Well, he’s got hold of this piece of MEST known as a human body – he might as well have hold of a piece of MEST known as a Ford car, he might as well have uh… hold of anything in the MEST universe. A body just happens to have the ability, because of the work and thirst of the GE and the… I suppose this’d be very praiseworthy here on Earth… the industry of the GE, uh… here is… here is an organism which is capable of producing sensation independent to the thetan, and so we have the thetan appended to the GE. Actually, he’s… he’s right in there tight.

A thetan, on the other hand, when he’s really up to speed, probably by command power alone could lift a car off the road. That’s a great possibility, because weights and masses and that sort of thing are tremendously uh… non-existent, weights, masses, except as he makes them exist. He gets the idea of work, he gets the idea of weight, he gets the idea of a lot of things, and as a net result he traps himself with his own desires for things to be so that he can obtain sensation.

Now, when we look this over, all of those things are true which can be easily demonstrated. And so let’s take a… a look here and see what substantiates this, what substantiates this. There’s several erogenic zones. Don’t begin to classify sensation as sex. You see, sensation can be so much – better than sex, there isn’t any… any… any comparison on the line. Sex is a very low-grade sensation, but it is a common sensation, it’s easy to pick up.

The big trick here on earth - wonderful trick - is to make it look like there’s lots of sensation around and then there isn’t any. That’s typical of the MEST universe. Terrific amount offered and none paid.

Now, it is said of… it is said of one of the groups of uh… one of the invader groups: their paymaster is sensation, and that’s the only – that’s actually practically their motto. If there isn’t any sensation in it, don’t do it, that’s their motto. That’s really degraded, oh uh… that’s horrible, the… these characters have no beingness at all.

Now you get… you get a… a… a boy, uh… he… he goes out, he hears all these love songs, he hears this, he hears that. You get a beautiful girl and she goes out and she hears all these love songs, and this and that… and boy, they’re talking about sensation, sensation, sensation. And next thing you know, what happens? They get married. Neow!

Why? They’re asking for their interest in life to be delivered to them by somebody else exterior to them. When they ask for their interest in life to be delivered to them as an irresponsible thing, that they cannot be responsible for the sensations and pleasures of life, they’re asking to be an effect of the most desirable thing. They want to be an effect, therefore they elect the whole environment a cause. The second they elect the whole environment a cause, they go completely to pieces as individualities and merely become identities. You see how that would be.

Now he has to work. Now you want to know how far… how far this sensation thing can be carried. Do you know that there are people who day after day after day go to an office and sit down at a desk and sign papers that don’t mean anything to them at all, week after week after week just so they can sometimes have a sensation. Think of that. They give up all of the sensation of freedom and action and speed to have another sensation which has been rated highly because it’s scarce. But the sensation of action is superior to the sensation of sex. And you’d have to get up into that bracket and take a look at it before you’d agree with that. But it is really a high- level sensation.

Now a fellow is… we’ll cover responsibility very heavily, but when… when a fellow won’t take responsibility for an energy, he becomes an effect of it. And when an individual, when an individual desires sensation to be delivered to him in neatly marked and tied boxes, he of course is electing something else exterior to his environment his cause. And when you would go so far as to say his paymaster is sensation, his paymaster for everything he does in life is sensation, then the motivation for everything he does in life would of course be found to be exterior to the being. Even his reason for being is exterior to him. He works for sensation. And sensation is originated not by himself but by somebody else. It’s a very debased degraded situation, and actually the individual is not even vaguely happy in that, situation. He… he’s… he’s… he’s a sort of a slave. If you want to see this in actual operation, go look over uh… go look over… uh… people down in… in the Salvation Army back room. Now you get down along that level, and find out what happened. And you say – well, this fellow may spin you a fancy yarn, and he may tell you the truth. But normally there was some sensation in existence and he desired that sensation; the sensation mastered him, and he went by the boards. Really that kind of a grim cycle.

Sex is VERY MESTy. A thetan knows it is and he feels degraded after he’s gone around and fooled with it for a while. It’s terrible.

He knew this girl, he loved her very much, and she was untrue to him and that broke his heart. Another way of saying the same thing, you see. He elected this girl sensation and his cause and reason for being, and therefore she became the cause of everything, so that when she disappeared out of the environment he couldn’t control her, so therefore he couldn’t control anything and he was dead. There is in essence degradation. Degradation is a scale, a gradient scale of having elected something else cause, and then having failed to control it, naturally, because it’s been elected cause, and asking it for a license to survive to such a marked degree, that when it fails to grant a license to survive one is demoted.

All right, now, after then… after this tractor beams collapse and the ridge inflow pours him into the head and the pressor beams, uh… the sticks you might say, they fail him and so forth and there he is inside. He doesn’t know that all he’s got to do is just say he’s someplace else and then be someplace else as an awareness unit and he will be free of a head.

You get that tricky little mechanism as it goes along there. All right, let’s look at this GE then, he’s really quite a boy; I mean, look how… look how hard he’s been working along this line. But perhaps any sanity or activity the GE might have would be attributable to the fact that he’s to a large degree making the sensation himself. He’d be saner than the thetan, wouldn’t he? This’d make a thetan who has come down this line parasitic. And so he is. The thetan is parasitic to homo sapiens. Fortunately, fortunately, he’s a very high powered… he’s a very high powered potential, and he can very easily move out of this category because he’s not happy in it.

He… he just doesn’t realize this. He’s too groggy and there’s too many energy levels hitting him. So what does he do? He takes the next best course and he builds up… he builds up lines for sensation inside the body.

Now, homo something else uh… back on the track someplace, started to get in and be taken over by thetans, relatively degraded in some… they’d failed elsewhere, or in some cases they were just so harassed elsewhere that they just would have gone anyplace, or done anything, and they’d hear about this place and they come down here. All right.

You get this picture and this is uh… the sixth one of these sketches here. Here we have a body, call it such. And here we have the genital area and so forth down here at B, and here we have the thetan and so on at position A. The GE is in here someplace, more or less the center.

They get ahold of a body, and they’d start running this body. Now, here’s the first stage. Here’s a body here. Your thetan comes along the line. We’ll make a very graceful aesthetic body. And uh… your… your thetan comes along the line, and he says, „Ah!“ he says, „A body!“ Now he gets off at some distance from this, and he thinks this and that, and his horsepower’s great enough at this time, you see, so he can stand way off from a body, and he’d say, „Do this, and do that“ and the body’s affected by it. Hmm!

The GE has a lot of these posted. He has all sorts of them, a network he kind of works through and we’ve called those networks, previously, epicenters. He’s sort of divided himself up and been aware in various places in various lines and so forth.

Trouble with the bodies here on earth, they’re quite pretty. Bodies were prettier once, than they are now, by the way. And uh… the… this was fine. But that body was capable of sensation. Very often the thetan had… the furthest thing from his mind was… was anything like picking up a secondary second-rate second-hand sensation someplace or other. So uh… he… he… he wouldn’t be thinking about this, maybe he was uh… very happy… uh… I heard one last night that is quite… quite usual on the better run of thetans… they were guardians of a wood, or something. Yeah – they’re… they’re guardian of wood, and they took care of this area and they were just fine, and they safeguarded animals in this area.

Okay. Now, here’s your thetan up here at X. Now what does he do? He builds up communication lines into this area. There’s the mouth. And into this area. These dotted lines are communication lines from the thetan to the genital area at B and from the thetan to the mouth.

Shows you that the GE is pretty special, pretty high-powered when… uh… thetans uh… thetans don’t pay too much attention to animal sensations, not until they’ve had something to do with a GE uh… monitored by it. All right.

Now, a communication line is a tractor wave. He uses that for a communication line. You can set up a tractor wave on something and you’ll get communications over that wave and so he sets these communication lines up permanently. And they’re valuable because sensation comes over those. Yes Sir, they’re real valuable, so he gets himself surrounded here by a ridge which we mark „S“ here and that’s actually a sensation deposit.

The thetan perhaps got in trouble with this character, maybe this thetan… maybe this thetan was a sort of a guardian of the wood, and he was minding his own business, and… and watching the animals around and so on, and everything’s fine. And one day maybe… maybe one of these homo something or others, pre-homo sapienses uh… dug a pit and caught one of the deer. Mmm-Yerr! The sense of justice of a thetan would be such as to punish. How would he punish this fellow? Well, he’d probably punish this fellow by throwing a good heavy electronic beam at him, ka-bap! And by the way, your preclears very often will experience a very minor electronic shock, enough to practically knock their heads off, but a minor shock, uh… when running something, a ridge or something like that’ll explode or give way. It’s very fascinating. It’s an electrical impact, just as thoroughly electrical impact as though you… you had blown up an… a big static machine or something in front of you.

It’s the energy of sensation. And, boy, he’ll no more let go of that in a lot of cases than he’d stand up and bump his body off. He won’t do either one.

Well anyway, a thetan can put out a pretty good electrical impact, and his commonest activity when he’s going to punish something like that is to nip it. He slaps it on either side of its motor control panels and the thing goes into contortions and epileptic form seizures and a few other things, and it’s very uncomfortable. But of course when a thetan does that, he gets the back… backlash of the energy. If he’s careless in this, he gets the backlash of the energy. All right.

So here we go. We’ve got this communication line here from the thetan in the head to the mouth, where he gets the taste of food and where he gets tactile and so on. There are many other of these little lines too, in addition to these. These are the principle ones and we get this communication lines down here and those are tensional lines and the thetan plasters himself up against this ridge marked „S“.

It isn’t too long, if he punishes one or two or three or four of these pre-homo sapiens – the next thing you know he’s… he’s sort of uh… saying to himself uh… „Let’s see, what are we going to – I mean, we’ve gotta do something about these fellows.“ And uh… he thinks that he hasn’t got a good… good connection or something with them. He… he thinks he isn’t that powerful any more, he’s degenerated a ‘little bit, so he actually will put a tractor wave out and he’ll put this tractor wave over on any homo sapiens that comes near him and will give it the thought, „Go away from here.“

He’s holding on, he’s keeping this back flow from taking place. He’s got himself braced here. He knows he doesn’t dare let go because if he backs off, he’s going to start this back flow and that will make him afraid. And he’s got these lines set and built in to such a degree that he actually has himself nailed into the body.

That’s fine – but now he’s in energy contact and on that line the next thing you know he puts his tractor on a homo sapiens, usually in like this somehow… somehow or other, couple of beams. Uh… sitting back, way back ‘3 here somewhere. And uh… he… he throws a… a beam in there and the homo sapiens stumbles or gets hurt or maybe gets excited by something or other, sexually, or something.

He might as well have tied himself in with hawsers. Now, one of the methods of undoing this, by the way, is mocking up - this is obvious in creative processing – you just mock up cables, communication lines, telephones, all sorts of switchboards. And you mock these switchboards up, one line after the other, as passing from the genital area and passing from the mouth into the thetan.

But the thetan finds out at that moment that there’s a terrific and surprising amount of power contained in that body. So he’ll fool around with bodies, he will go around for a while then more or less on this connection. There are many patterns of energy which pass for pressor-tractor beams and so forth. It doesn’t matter much what pattern he used, but he… he… he’s running a body the next thing you know. If you were this thetan’s friend, uh… you would see him, the next time you’d see him you’d say, „Hello Bill.“ He wouldn’t look at you. And you’d say, „What on earth’s the matter with Bill?“ There’d be Bill going down the road monitoring this body and pulling levers and so forth and making it walk and so forth, and just all engrossed, and you say, „Bill, what’s the matter with you? You gone nuts?“ And uh… Bill goes right on down the road running this body. You say, „Gee whiz, what the heck is he doing that for? Let’s see, where is one of these bodies?“

Take one at a time. Take, for instance, the mouth, uh… where he gets the taste of food and that sort of thing. You keep mocking up lines, he’s got conducts, and he’s got lines and let him put in switchboards and conducts and lines and then turn them all polka-dot colored just to make sure they’re his.

Well, for a while he can run it back here, so forth, and then… what could be position one… and after a while, he has a tendency to come in a little bit closer – why? He’s putting a high-level wave out, he’s putting a high-level wave into the body to monitor it in that direction, and he’s getting back consistently a low wave, very MESTy. High wave goes in, input – good grade energy. Backlash, MEST: very MESTy. His interchange then is only uh… is really two one-way flows on different qualities, because this body is much coarser than the thetan, actually coarser in its line of thinking. The thetan has a very high ethic level, he has a very high… many things that the body doesn’t have, but the body has a very low, earthy idea of… of life, and uh… uh… sensation and uh… effort and so on. A thetan doesn’t operate in that band at all.

Now we’ll take that set out and we’ll put that over on this bench. And then we’ll mock up another set up in there and we’ll take that out and we’ll put that over on this bench. And then we’ll take another set out here.

So he’s really got two-way flows.

So we can pick up all these places again. We track that up. We pu… plug those in real good and get the lines all plugged in tight and get them real solid and tighten the equipment up and then we’ll tear those out and put those over on this bench.

Now, it’s a funny thing that any time a flow flows too long in one direction, it sticks. This is the elasticity of flows, the limit of elasticity of flows. Any time a flow flows too long in one direction, it will stick. You don’t believe that, just take a look around you and every place you find a one-way flow unless something is done about it by auditing, you’ll find stuck flows. I’ll give you an example of that: there’s a one-way flow – I stand here talking to you. You heard those tapes. You’ll hear those tapes again. You’ll hear these words again, you’re… you’ve got a one-way flow going in your ears, it’s a one-way flow of sound. And the first thing you know, you’ll start building up little ridges, that… that wave coming in will get stuck. Now… that… that… it’s… it’s bad – people actually develop their ears hurting, and so forth – that’s… that’s just a stuck flow. If you could talk with your ears, you’d have a two-way flow and it’d shake itself up and shake itself loose automatically. But it doesn’t do that. In this flow comes, in… you talk with your mouth – that’s another one-way flow. Voice out, voice out, voice out; ears in, ears in, if you can draw the most… the… the… the very interesting… you could draw some very interesting uh… uh… patterns of this sort of thing.

And we start that same process between the thetan and the genital area and uh… keep laying them over on the bench. And just blow the equipment up over there when he’s got enough. He’ll find possibly once in a while this stuff’s heavy.

Here… here for instance, a fellow’s ear, and here… over here is his mouth; we get the incoming flow here, starts to do circles, and there’s actually ridges built up in the skulls, which are the ridges of energy of sound entrance. And you start to run these flows you will find out that there’s the most complex pattern of ridges there you ever wanted to see. Because the fellow talks and out goes the flows out here like that, and part of that flow comes back in and comes into his own ears, and there’s a circular flow here which doesn’t have anything that backs it up. Nothing shakes this flow, it just goes one-way all the time.

He… he’ll mock up this equipment and then he’ll find out it has tremendous weight to it and uh… that the lines are very heavy and uh… so on. Actually, they’re in apathy because the favorite trick of such a civilization of Earth is to say, „Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex,“ and then there isn’t any.

And what do you finally get? What do you finally get? Ha-ha! Boy this shouldn’t happen to a horse. Horrible. Here is uh… just very roughly… very roughly… your one-way flow pattern. Here’s a mouth, ear. Okay? Uh… this fellow’s talking like this in this direction. His flow… sound is coming in in this direction, sound comes in from the environment here continually into the ear, goes out here. His tactile sensations and so forth are inflows and uh… various other things. Now when he… when he actually is putting out energy toward other people then, he’s… just keeps putting out energy – which direction? Forward, forward. And he gets energy back in from a forward direction; that makes up a complexity we’ll cover later because it’s a very, very interesting complexity.

There… there are people around… there are people around who go three-quarters of their lives or all their lives without ever really experiencing the sensation. All… all they do is hope. So it must be pretty powerful and these lines must be pretty powerful if a person will work and slave and go through all sorts of things and stay in a body and hang around and fool around and… and listen to stuff and buy opera tickets and dress himself and go in and go out, around and about, an… an… and get social contact, and make sure his social standings get safe - for what?

And we get, however, a current. We… we get a static uh… pardon me, a no uh… an un… unchanging flow… we get an unchanging flow around this head. By the way, other one-way flows, the photons come into the eye and photons keep coming into the eye, and sight for homo sapiens is a one-way flow into the eye. That’s a heck of a note, isn’t it? In it comes, in it comes, in it comes, in it comes, and people wonder why their eyes go bad; they never look back out those eyes. They really are registering a photon flow in the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes, one-way flow, and it’ll stick.

Freud to some degree, you see, wasn’t too far behind on this sort of thing; however, it is a mechanism. It’s a mechanism which builds up relatively slowly and is not the primary mechanism. The primary mechanism of the trap of the thetan is the current flow which pins him and the snap-in. And, as I covered in the last hour, the snap-in, those… those are primary. Now we’re getting down to a tertiary pin down. This is kind of what keeps him around. This is pay.

Actually uh… the… one of the handy ways to repair glasses is simply to sort of shake up the flow of photons which has been going on down that optic nerve since time immemorial. Just shake it up a bit, just vibrate it one way or the other, and get a back-up going on that flow, and you’ll actually feel it go ka-ping, ka-ping, ka-ping, and ridges will start blasting away and everything starts happening. You can start a terrible commotion on any one of these one-way flows because the flow is going out in this direction consistently uh… and it’s stuck, and it’s really… just gets as solid as that black arrow there. It… it gets as solid as can be – you’ve got to break it up so it’ll back flow.

Well, you start this and I want you to make note of what I’m saying now when I start to talk about have and have not, because, boy, when those lines start coming in on this, they land on this ridge. That sensation have, have, want, want, want, and what is it? It’s a collapsing line.

We call this the… a limit of elasticity of flows. Furthermore, after a flow flows too long in one direction, if it really overflows, it goes on and on and on and on and on; it has no choice but to… if it can’t go on any more, it’ll start to back up any time it’s energized. It starts to automatically back up after a while. So we’ve got this flow. It’s gone on here for a long time, and after it’s gone this way for a long, long time, it starts to backlash on itself. And it reverses the secondary line. It… it… it starts to back up and nothing can be done about it at all, the fellow feels.

It’s a collapsing ridge and it’s a pin down. It says want want want want want. And every time it says want it says agree agree agree. And so you’ve got the fellow in a terrific current area, and if you run into a preclear that you can’t spring immediately, your drills then consist of solving a snap-in by just mocking up heads with sticks and strings and having him put on heads, and move away heads and throwing heads away and mocking up heads out there and letting them snap in at him. And then moving those heads back out again and moving… on any gradient scale until he could handle heads all over the place.

Now you just shake any one of these one-way flows areas, there are many of them in the body. I don’t have to point them out to you, just check ‘em over for yourself. How many one-way flows does this body have? Well, it’s got nothing but one-way flows.

When he can handle heads real well, he can turn them colors and so forth, and he can handle heads, and he can create heads and throw heads away and bring heads in - all that sort of thing - go right on then to flows. You may have to go to flows before you get to the head because he’ll start getting scared handling heads.

Now, what’s this got to do with a thetan? Why, it’s got a lot to do with a thetan, tremendous amount. Let’s take a… let’s… let’s take a… a… a clouds-eye view of homo sap here – give him some hair and give him a nose out here, and so forth, and give him some eyelashes, just so you can see where he’s looking from – what’s this got to do… here’s a one-way flow in operation. Voice out, into the ears, environment into the ears, so forth. And the energy level is outflowing this way all the time, so we get the energy starting out that way and then what do we get? Although the energy keeps on going that way, we have what I hate to call but rather have to, an electronic vacuum.

But you get flows, you’re getting Niagara Falls, uh… something on that sort. Get him mocking up somebody turning a fire hose on him from the back, or Niagara Falls thundering away. And he gets pictures of these flows and flows and flows and then have him turn Niagara Falls off. If he can’t do that, of course, you can hit a slower gradient scale.

Now if we kept a fire hose – well, as this energy goes out here you see, and even though it keeps on going we’re getting… a very interesting pattern is building up here. When you move any particles in this direction, when you move a particle in that direction and consistently move it in that direction, space, and energy behavior dictates that something has to take place back of the flow. Now if you were to take a… if you were to take a big fire hose and you were to lay it out in a bucket of water you would see that a hole developed back of the flow, as here goes this flow with this… heh! Illustrated as though this head here is a fire hose. Uh… here’s the flow going out, here’s a little photon flow coming in but a fellow is meeting that all the time with flows. All right, out goes this… this line here, one way or the other, and it’s moving forward particle flow, all the time particle flow. Now if that were a fire hose you would actually develop a vacuum or a hole in the water back of a hose flow. You take a hose out here and lay it down in the pond or something of the sort and let it flow horizontally, you would find that it was flowing very nicely and the faster it was flowing the deeper a hole appeared back of the nozzle. And it gets deeper and deeper hole.

You have a hose and have the hose dripping one drop of water at a time and… you have the hose stop dripping. And from there you build it on up to Niagara Falls.

In other words, it’s pushing stuff out so fast that it’s making a nothingness in the water, and something’s got to flow into that nothingness, so let’s look at this fire hose and let’s find out that it tracks around the back of the fire hose in such a way, it tracks around, and the fire hose flow itself will in some small part come back and try to fill in that hole in the water. You’ve got a circular flow, circular flow. That’s vacuums and flows. Very important for you to envision that.

Now after you’ve stopped Niagara Falls running, remember that we’re in a… an area here, we’re in an effort, you’ve gotta have a disagreement with the MEST universe. So you have Niagara Falls run backwards. And he probably can’t do that, but he can get one drop of water falling from the bottom of the dry falls back up over the lip.

Uh… now here… here this goes this way and the spot we marked uh… „V“ back here, we’re tending to get a vacuum on the body – action forward, attention forward, push forward, so forth. Where’s all that energy coming from? The particles, as they go forward, are leaving a hole in back of the guy, back here, see, where there’s a „V“ for vacuum. Yes, uh… we’re getting that hole.

And just have him move that drop of water back up over the lip often enough until he can get a trickle of water going up and moving over the lip and flowing on up the dry river bed.

But these waves, therefore, do not just continue to go on and no other disturbance happen on this side and this side of the body – no sir! The flow as it goes out the front part of the body, as we see here on this lower graph here, comes back here and keeps filling up „V,“ and comes back here and keeps filling up „V.“ So we get „V“ being filled up consistently and continually, by what? The fellow’s own particle flow. And we get a stuck flow pattern and it makes homo sapiens look like this. And you start looking at him, you want to know what these banana-things are you will be seeing, and so forth, he kicks himself in the back of the head every time he kicks anything in front of him. There, in essence really, is the overt act motivator phenomena. Anything you ever said or did has some confused pattern and shadow of it behind your head, to say it again to you.

And the first thing you know you move on up from there on a gradient scale and he’s got Niagara Falls roaring madly upside down. Not just turn the falls upside down, but make the water run up the fall and over the lip and upstream. And when you’ve got him doing that, you have him in a state where he’s not very worried about flows. You can have all sorts of flows, and that cures up flows.

Let’s say you scream „cat“ out this way very loudly. „Cat“ is going to go in the direction which you said, sure, and there’ll be a little energy flow will come back here, just as neat as you please, and come back here, and it will say „cat.“

Now, your next line of course is to mock up communication lines and deposits where you keep things very sacred in the head and very precious and things you want and… and that sort of thing. And you mock these up a little bit at a time. And you mock in these big communication lines to the genitalia and you mock it to the mouth area.

Now after you’ve been at this for a long time, let’s take it… let’s take it energy-wise. The fellow puts out to the front of him uh… resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment. Why, that’s a heck of a state of affairs. What happens to him after a while? He feels like there’s somebody standing in back of him resenting him, ‘cause resentment is… in a confused form has plastered all over his back. These are the back ridges, and this is the anatomy and source of the back ridge.

And you just mock up good big strong lines there. You get them tougher and tougher, and stronger and stronger. And keep throwing them away and throwing them away and throwing them away and you got your case pretty well wrapped up right about that time because you remove these various things.

Now he’s got „cat“ all over his back. Everything he did then is done to him, he knows it; it’s true because any time he wants to experience it, he can. He… he… he knows then that what he does to others will happen to him. He… he knows this. Sure he knows it. Now when… when you step out of your body, some time when you’re processing him, take… take a look at that back ridge. You’ll find it back there, feet thick.

If he’s still having trouble, it’s because of incipient ridges, he’s got a block of ridges of one sort or another. Now, there is a special case along this line so I’ll mention it again. That is the case of the individual who is a Fifth Invader or some such force as that.

So, this is quite important from a standpoint of uh… quite important from a standpoint of auditing, isn’t it? Well, what’s this got to do with homo sapiens coming into the body? Here we’ll have… here he is back here, position one, some type of tractor beam on the head, here he is here, position two, he’s a little closer now. Here he is, position three. And what happens in position three? Rrrrrr. Class response: He hits the vacuum. LRH: That’s right.

He cannot handle black and white, but you would have learned that very early and you would have taken care of that. He is so disgusted with himself. He is so disgusted with energy when you first start to work him perhaps, that you will find that a shuddering uh… feeling of degradation, the like of which homo sapiens is incapable of experiencing, will swamp him.

He hits the vacuum… there’s a vacuum in here that says, „You’re gonna come in, boy.“ Not only that, but just an instant before the vacuum there’s an actual flow which just machine-guns him right on into the head; he moves into an active flow area.

Some preclears will start to move out and they will look at their hands. That is always good to ask a preclear who’s having any trouble whatsoever about hands and have him mock up hands and do things about hands. Because when you get him out of his body and he starts to uh… put out a beam, he’ll conceive himself to have… he’s stuck in an old body, you see, and he’ll conceive himself to have hands. And these hands and himself will be so disgusting to him that he’ll move right straight back into the body again and you won’t be able to coax him. So work with that if you’re having trouble with somebody; remember then that he could worried for fear he has some sort of a form, quite in addition to all this.

Now, he gets… he gets in here and this fellow is facing this way, you’re going to get a flow going out like this, like this, like this. You can locate these flows. Here… here are these flows going out here, all because of flows of that character, and they’re not mild. They’re all around the body. They’re out here in all directions.

Now that comes under the problem which we’ve already mentioned - which is, stuck in an earlier body. And that is under the subject of a theta bop. You’ll get a theta bop on somebody who’s stuck in an earlier body.

This body is really booby-trapped. Human body is the best theta trap there is. And any time he moves up or down that back within a few inches of the back of the thing, if there’s any disturbance at all in the body, so there’s any current flowing in this body, it’s going to catch the thetan, push him into the vacuum and stick him, just like that, and there he will be.

And he may conceive this body to be so disgusting or himself to be so disgusting in some way or another that he dare not move out into the broad daylight. He’s got to stay in the head and hide. Well, this is pretty routine.

And he starts to move out of this and what happens? Well, I tell you – there’s an anatomy called uh… energy flows we will have to go into a little bit more, but as long as we’re on this subject, we will give you just what this is; we’ll give you this flow pattern, and that is that uh… fear is a flow – we’ll cover this much better later – but fear is a flow. Now what do you think happens to an identity across which a flow is flowing? That’s fear, there’s the emotion of fear, a fast uncontrolled flow. Now you… you got that? It’s a fast uncontrolled flow. Just take it as… as such, we will go into it later. We’ve got here… this thetan finally winds up here at 4 in a very dim state. Because fear – just take that – is a flow, and he actually… the GE’s center of beingness, more or less, is in the stomach. So this back ridge is discharging from the small of the back across this flow and very often this whole current will set up into motion at a moment of upset, very often flow into motion, and when it does, you get the emotion of fear setting in. You can start this up willy-nilly on a preclear; you can just start this up. You can come around and slap him hard on the back and say, „How are you, Joe“ and he’ll feel afraid. All you’ve done is dislodge part of this flow and let it flow across his centers of beingness and he feels afraid. You’ll find very often a preclear just hearing about this flow and so forth, will say, „You know, I kind of feel scared.“ Well sure, he… he… he’s just started this flow into action a little bit.

But these are mechanisms. Treat them as mechanisms and remember that the level of aberration which your individual is experiencing who has all these flows and these cables and so on is pretty high. He can really be dictated to by his own aberrations. Because these ridges will sit around the body here.

Now you could take any preclear and start to audit him and just make him run this flow, get this flow running. It’s… this… you don’t have to do this to audit, but uh… you start this flow running, and he’ll all of a sudden say, „Hmmraa. That scares me. I don’t wanna do that anymore.“ Or sometimes your preclear’s been perfectly all right; at the end of the session he comes back to you, and he says, „I’m scared stiff, I don’t know what’s happening, I’m terrified.“

Out here you’ve got ridges, you’ve got ridges here and you’ve got ridges here and you’ve got ridges here and you got them out here and they’re out yards and they’re out many, many yards, and they’re even out to miles for an individual. Ridges, ridges, ridges, and every one of these ridges has got pictures on it, facsimiles.

And therefore I’m giving you a very stiff punch-up on this point about these flows. This thing has happened; this is all that’s happened, is this back ridge, which is sometimes plastered here on the back of him feet thick, has suddenly started to discharge forward toward a front ridge. And the back ridge has started to discharge toward a front ridge and it’s going across the center of beingness of the individual. And he feels that flow and that flow says to him, „Be afraid,“ and that’s all that’s happening. It’s just as electronic as turning on and off a light switch.

All kinds of motion pictures and that sort of thing. And they’ve all got some command value. The only reason they’re around is because he hasn’t taken responsibility for them. That’s all. He hasn’t taken responsibility for that energy.

You come around and you say, „All right, now let’s just feel a little more flow, now let’s get some sensation into the middle of your back, now let’s get some in your stomach, or let’s mock up rivers running through you. Let’s mock up a river. Now that starts in way behind you and it comes forward and it hits you.“ He does that for a short time and this thing turns right off, and that is fear.

What energy can or can’t this man use? What energy can or can’t this woman use?… and you’ll find out that it will be that breed of energy which is parked on those ridges.

This fear is the worst there is – this is craven terror, it can get up to that stage. This is the fear that the criminal feels when he’s grabbed by the cops. You’ll see him some time in a… in a police station – something like that. They are just in such terror, they’re just cringing and begging not to be given ten days in jail. That’s terror, and that terror is so bad that a man would love… he… he’d just kill himself rather than go on experiencing it, anything not to have that terror. In a very mild state, this is called anxiety stomach. He has a quivery stomach, his stomach gets upset on him, and he gets scared in the stomach. That… that’s… but he’ll come around, he’ll tell you, „I get anxious – I get worried.“ He says, „I’ll get worried, now I get worried about something, I just don’t feel good. I get off my feet.“ And you say, „Do you have… do you have sensations in your stomach?“ „Yeah, uh… bad sensation in my stomach, now that you mention it – very bad.“ Well, uh… remember that in order to get a flow here, you’ve got have a difference of potential between the back ridge and the front ridge. And if you have a fellow who comes around to you every little while, and he says, „I’ve got that flow again, it’s just horrible, and it’s started in again,“ and so on, and you carefully take off, or take apart, or reduce part of the back ridge, and then he comes around to you again, he says, „I’ve got that again and I’m all upset, and every time I take off one of these back ridges a new back ridge seems to appear, and I’m just in terrible condition and…“ look for the front ridge – that’s the other terminal. You’ve got to get the front ridge off of him. The front ridge is a low potential which is actually snapping new back ridges onto his back; he’s picking them out of old past lives and everything else. He… he’s just snapping them onto his back and letting them flow, and snapping them onto his back and letting them flow. And he continues to get this anxiety stomach and so forth.

All right, then, we’ve got our problems laid out there pretty well. We find that the thetan… the thetan was at first somewhat willing prisoner, then an unwilling prisoner, and then an unknowing prisoner, in what we now call homo sapiens.

You want to cure this anxiety stomach, you want to cure this terror, you want to cure… cure fear in a… an individual, this is one of the basic mechanisms which takes care of it.

And that these items are separate, the thetan and the body. There are actually four categories. The thetan also has his own ridges. He doesn’t abandon those, just because he… he doesn’t abandon ridges just because he moves into a head; he still has his own ridges around the head. As a matter of fact, he uses them to think with.

Now your thetan finally winds up in the middle of the head there. And the poor guy has got all of this back ridge back of the head and the back of the neck ready to discharge across him, and he is an energy unit. So every time he starts to move, look at the sad state he’s in. Here he is in a big dark area and he’s… let’s say here or some place in there like that – he feels he is – and he’s got a great big ridge back here: he’s got a back ridge and it’s a heavy ridge, see, it’s good and heavy and uh… it’s… uh… in there like that. And then over here on the motor controls why you’ve got a lot more, the motor control ridge, uh… those… lot of energy deposits and then around here – around the ears, and inside the ears, there’s a lot more from sonic uh… deposits. And he’s up here on top of his head – part of this electronic ridge that has come out here is… kicks in back into the top of the head, so you quite often have the top of the head heavily cased with a big heavy ridge. And as he gets older and as he gets older and older and older, he’s fighting more and more not his own ridges at all, the ridges of the GE. The GE as it… he goes on in life and keeps wanting and requiring and requiring and requiring… builds these ridges up. Therefore, you can get a thetan easily out of a young body; you get him less easily out of an older body.

That’s not necessary, that is not necessary. Uh… he actually is able to ex… approximate and pervade. He can go into the substance of things. He can go through and around the substances of problems and achieve his level of knowingness in this direction so fast and so instantaneously that it takes less time for a high-level thetan to do this, to pervade things, than it does for him to get into the facsimile bank and sort it over and say, „Now, let me see, I think I will think about this. Oh, yes, there’s a record of having thought about this before.“

All right, he’s got this back ridge here, and he will also have around his eyes here, and around his jaws and cheeks here on the outside, he’ll have a front ridge. So here’s your… your thetan. You say, „Move one step back of your head,“ and you’ll see the E-Meter go c-r-e-a-k – nothing happens. What’s he done? He’s ploughed back here against this back ridge. But the horrible part of it is, he conceives himself to be an energy unit. If your thetan is an energy unit, good heavens, look what’s happening. Every time the thetan begins to approach, every time he begins to approach one of these ridges, he dislodges part of its energy. And as he dislodges part of that energy, he starts getting a flow right across himself just like that. And this flow says, „You are being dislodged and driven out the front of your face,“ and „I just can’t do that,“ he says, and so what does he do? He mocks up a whole lot of ridges for himself in here to hold on to. He’s got his own ridge set up in here, see, there are thetan’s ridges, „thetan’s ridges.“ Boy he… he’s got to hold on – because every time that flow starts in forward toward the front of the face he has only one answer to it and that’s „Hold on.“ So he feels himself start to dislodge and he holds on.

Lot of people think vocally, by the way. They say, „Oh, my God,“ grind it out - that’s really slow.

And you say, „All right. Step one foot back of your head, now.“ Mmm, he’s very happy, for the first second he really starts to move back and out, and he hits one of these ridges, he activates one of them with the energy, which he himself is putting out, that ridge goes into action and makes him frightened and so he has no choice but to hold on.

Anyway, he has these banks and these lines which I’ve drawn here on this sixth little picture, uh… really could represent something resembling the thetan’s memory banks. And that would be the analytical banks.

The… the… actually, the sanity of an individual is very closely gauged by this mechanism. Now, one of the mechanisms that has to do with this, is the period it takes him, how long he will permit himself to flow before he grabs. Now you’ll see some… some preclear, they go, they open a drawer. See, that dislodges a little tiny bit of energy, something like that. And then they say, „That damn drawer,“ bang bang bang crash crash crash, and then go into apathy. And it only takes them about… about maybe 15 seconds to go through the whole… the whole gamut.

But the analytical banks actually have so much unknown material to them there’s an… a reactive quality to any of these banks. But the reactive mind as such which we were first addressing in Dianetics consists of the ridges of the GE in the main, and they’re the body ridges. And they’re around here and there, here and there, here and there, here and there, there’s one-way flows here, halfway there, and rawr!

And the next fellow takes it much more methodically. Well, he’s just got a little more time, space, to hold on. Actually, it’s the same mechanism, the thetan is going down tone scale. Something repulses him in the universe, the next thing you know, he’s got a flow going past him; he can act as long as he doesn’t think he has to hold on hard, but when he holds on hard it makes him angry. When he gets angry, he’ll hold on hard to this ridge, he’ll disperse more energy, he’ll start to flow faster, he starts to go forward further. This makes him quite afraid, the flow itself is all that makes him afraid, and he loses and goes into apathy on it then. Now, the psychos that you run into have flowed right straight on through their skulls, they… way out here. They’re here, way out in front of the face, way out. They can no longer – they… they… they’ve even had to desert the head. They’re not only as bad off as being in the head, but they… they’re way out in front here, w… I mean. way out. And quite often a person uh… it’s very common that an auditor will start to audit somebody and find them going „ker-flip“ out in front of their face. The thing to do is just make them reach around and grad ahold of the back of the hair and pull themselves around to the back of the head, that’s all there is to that.

You never saw such a mess in your life as the amount… number of ridges that accumulate and park themselves around the body and the body itself actually is this reactive mind. It is a mind itself, it consists of energy, and there’s facsimiles, and behavior patterns engraved on the very cells of the body.

They have… people who have right and left direction reversals quite often will slide through in front of their faces.

So there’s the GE as an identity; he is an older identity than the body he now has and here is a degraded strata of his life which you can actually discover on an E-Meter and you could actually process if you wanted to.

Now there’s your anatomy of this – doesn’t look very complex; your thetan then, came in on this course here, and he came in on this course and he’s getting dislodged on this course. And these ridges set up these big flows around him and these back ridges have a tendency to disperse forward and past him, and that back ridge is all down the back of the body.

It is very possible the GE could be processed without destructing the body. I have paid no attention to the GE. But you as an auditor will find yourself faced time after time with the problem of having to placate some thetan who is trying to treat the GE.

Now you see what happens to him: he gets in there – this is what we had as step three – he gets in there and he gets caught up in this flow of a back ridge which he activates and then he slides on through into the middle of the head and he thinks he’s stuck there. He’s in apathy, he’s unconscious, really, at the moment he snaps in; he doesn’t know quite where he is or what he’s doing. And he orients himself after that and does something about it.

The level of propitiation of the thetan toward the body is such it’s terrific. I mean, it’s got to make amends to the body, it’s done all these things to the body, it’s ruined it this way and that. And it’s got to get in there and cure this body up and straighten it up and propitiation for the GE. The GE is a raving psychotic.

But then he conceives himself to be the body and goes right on down tone scale, thinks he is the body and he is so degraded and lost that that’s all there is to it.

If you s… ask him to reason in any other way than stimulus-response, he’s lost. He’s really down scale. And your thetan quite often will have as the basic reason why he isn’t going to leave or… or… or I mean he isn’t going to get outside or… or go any distance away, is because he’s got to take care of that GE. He’s got to take care… do something for the GE. He suddenly will recognize that there’s a personality present, quite in addition to his own, and that this personality badly craves his, uh… doesn’t crave it all but uh… you go down to the sanitarium, you can always find some psycho down there, this is pretty nutty. But I don’t think you’ll find any that are as nutty as the GE because the GE’s just fine operating on stimulus-response mechanisms.

Well, it… should it be of interest to you that uh… should it be of interest to you that that is a very key mechanism and that there are several other mechanisms and just to have this in one place, I’ll just comment on one very briefly here, and this is your mechanism whereby your thetan is out here in position one and he has a tractor beam on the head. All right, here he is with a tractor beam on the head, your tractor beam is in’… initially this length, first length. And what does a tractor beam do? A tractor beam contracts, it is a method of contracting, strictly Buck Rogers, but I’m afraid it actually exists in the thetan. The tractor beam contracts when energized – a pressor beam which is exerting pressure expands when it’s energized. But a tractor beam contracts when it’s energized – now get that very well. Here’s your be… your tractor beam – your thetan’s in control of the tractor beam, he’s feeling perfectly grand about everything, and life is going along just dandy; he’s got this body that’s walking around, and all of a sudden – he’s got a tractor beam on it. All of a sudden the body energizes his tractor beam. This body gets a surge of pain… pain and we get then, out of that pain, a surge of energy and the energy surge goes back up here in this direction, energizes the tractor beam and what does it do – it brings your thetan down this course and has him hit hard against the back of the head and then goes forward on this course into the head in a state of unconsciousness, having been pulled in by the head. Obviously the head did it to him.

He does a beautiful .job. He’s done a wonderful job coming up the line of patterning it all just right as the only solution which he had for the situation, lacked any other solution. But you ask the GE to suddenly go on the line of independent decision and thought and he is gone. He just goes Rrrawhhr.

And you’ll find more thetans, you’ll find more preclears – they… they… this is one of the commonest vistas you’ll find a preclear has; it’s a head sitting in front of him someplace. He’s still trying to stop that head on the same principle as we gave you the other day. All right, he… he’s still trying to stop that head from coming in, and he has a feeling like all heads will move in toward him and that everything will fall in on him, and he puts a tractor beam on it, therefore he doesn’t dare use any energy because he is punished for using energy.

And so, your job is to free the thetan. Now one of these days we’ll get back on the GE line again, not during this course or anything else. I’m talking about the line of investigation. I’ll get back on the GE line again and maybe figure how to bring a GE up so he’s real smart. And uh… do it easily, but it’s a secondary job.

So there you have your first position, your second position. Now your first length of your tractor beam was that long, and the second length of your tractor beam was maybe only that long. So your second length of your tractor beam is only from here to here. Your tractor beam goes collapse, and having gone collapse, in it yanks the thetan. So there’s two mechanisms which get the thetan into the head and why the thetan when he fools around with homo sapiens or pre-homo sapiens became homo sapiens. And they’re electronic reasons, no more no less than electronic reasons and they’re solvable as such. And any time you think there’s something more along this line, and so forth, look at the electronic aspects of it first. Look at the back ridge and the front ridge, and don’t look for the fact that the Great God Suva-suva Yavva-yavva is sitting up in the middle of Yappadoobit uh… ready to punish him in case he dare move forth from inside his head, because there’s all kinds of garbage of that character sitting on those ridges. And every time those… every time he tries to move out of his head, the ridges disperse, this data goes into restimulation and he’s absolutely sure now, although it happened 8 billion years ago, that the Great God Loppa-loppa Yup-yup is about to „yop-yap“ on him. So there you are as a… your mechanism of that thetan. Okay, let’s take a break.

I left the GE uh… track as pretty well investigated about March of 1952, and uh… the rundown which you find, is uh… that’s a fragmentary rundown of it in the book WHAT TO AUDIT, which is now coming out under THE HISTORY OF MAN, A HISTORY OF MAN.

And that is a fragmentary account of the GE line. And it’s a fascinating study, but that study wasn’t getting us anywhere. It’s a… it was… might be getting the GE somewhere and if we were in the terrific level of propitiation where we could only study the body and take care of the body and study the body and take care of the body and take care of the body and study the body and then just for variation, take care of the body…

That’s the cult of the society. The great priesthood of take care of the body. „Put on your rubbers, Junior. That’s right, now don’t wear your rubbers in the house, Junior . Now you mustn’t do that - you’ll catch cold, that’ll give you flat feet, or something. Put your rubbers on before you go outside, Junior. Now you know we must take care of the body. Now, ma… make sure you’re very warm and wrapped up and covered up,“ and the whole cant is the body is destructable. The body is destructable, the body is destructable, and, sure enough, it sure knows it is. It gets sick and everything else.

All right, let’s go into this just a little deeper, then, on the four parts with which we’re dealing. Now we find that we have an identity here which is an X uh… GE with many outposts in the body and we have an X thetan up here who is located more or less there and we have these various flows which are body currents which could be part of the body, and which are aided and abetted by the thetan. The body currents and the body itself consist of the reactive banks, stimulus-response reactive banks following a path of patterned cycle of action.

It’s created, it increases, it decreases and it dies. And then it takes that same… same reactive bank and with some of it lost and scraped off and goes on and makes another body. Creates, increases, decreases, dies. And th… that’s the cycle.

The thetan is on a much wider cycle; he’s on a cycle of spirals. And as long as he’s been in… in this universe he goes down a LONG spiral at first just like a life here and maybe the first spiral is a hundred million years old and your next spiral is a shorter spiral and a shorter spiral. And he treats each one as though he’s a separate identity in that spiral.

Then he gets on down to the present spiral, is about thirty-five thousand years, most people are into this present spiral. So he actually has a cycle too. And his standard banks or the standard banks or analytical banks you might say of the body has this really as one of its components, but it’s got a record of the current spiral as being this thing. But the thetan has sort of forgotten about it.

But it’s there and you can dig it up very easily. He’s this old, he’s trying to do this, uh… and so on. He’s on what you might call a thetan life cycle.

Once upon a time a GE was doing this too, but the GE’s kind of fallen to the wayside a little bit.

Now, uh… let’s pick out what part of this anatomy we’re going to treat. Well, we’d certainly better pick out the preclear. That’s a new and original thought. Nobody’s ever thought that before, I’m sure. Why, somebody would have done something about it.

Brand new thought, le… let’s treat the preclear, le… let’s treat the patient. Uh… let’s not put poultices upon his body and uh… let’s not give him electric shock to knock the body ridges out or the ridges in or knock him flatter, or something like that; let’s… let’s… let’s… let’s do something for the person we are confronting.

Well now, I know it’s very elementary, but perhaps it’s too elementary not to have been done before. Uh… let’s find out who the person we’re treating is. That’s a very elementary question and of course, of course, everybody has looked that up and they… that was the first thing they researched.

Why the first thing they found out was uh… is this thing we’re trying to treat which doesn’t respond to treatment, is it failing to respond to treatment because we haven’t found out if it was a composite. Or is it a unit or a composite? No, they said Man had a soul and Man was this and Man was that and so on. But nobody said, well, a man has a soul, that means that Man is a composite. Well… now which is the man? Is the man the soul or is a… no, nobody asked that question. A good question though, so let’s sort out of these four the preclear and let’s treat the preclear.

And there’s the preclear - no place else. He could be outside or a lot… a lot of preclears, a lot… a lot of patients are undergoing treatment uh… to show you how far this propitiation care of the body can go, there are actually people undergoing treatment throughout the civilized world because they can’t get into their bodies.

Psychiatrists knew about this for a long time, and they didn’t do anything about it.

But they’re undergoing treatment, and there’s a girl out in Santa Ana, California, who had something like 250 shocks, insulin, electric and so forth because they found she was out of her body.

An auditor has been working her for some time out there. Now that… that’s very interesting, isn’t it? And we find out that other people in the society knew very well they could get in and out of their bodies, but nobody ever bothered to write it down or tell anybody about it, did they? That was great help.

It was an unimportant datum, had nothing to do with the problem and uh… so on… uh. So, here’s the pc. Well, let’s treat this pc.

In order to treat the pc we have to know something about his anatomy as well as his misadventures. And his anatomy i… is the fact that he is a… uh… he is a thetan and a thetan can exist and can believe himself to exist in this universe. And he can believe himself to exist as a point of energy which emanates and handles energy on a lower scale, and he can believe himself to exist even on lower planes; he can believe that he’s a homo sapiens.

We ran a preclear one time at the Wichita Foundation uh… who ran a past life as a lion, and she’d eaten her keeper. The preclear was madder than a hatter, uh… quite psycho and uh… she ate her keeper uh… in this incident. And they ran this incident, and she got all right. Everybody stood around and went, „Huh?“ This is incomprehensible because a lion is not on Man’s genetic line.

Well, when I found that incident, by the way, I heard about that incident, I became quite interested and it triggered a little bit of thoughtful activity on my part as to what this homo sapiens consisted of. Evidently, up and down the track, the thetan can get careless with lions and things too.

There is such a thing as a transmigration, as well as a reincarnation principle. Although neither of these things, you understand, are transmigration as such or reincarnation as such. All it is is the continuous living in a being who continues to take different forms. And he’s never a different being but he has to tell himself he’s a different being and tell himself he’s no longer the being he was and that that’s gone and dead in order to be the being which he is at the time.

So, this can… this thetan can be a point of energy and using energy and so forth in this universe. This thetan can also be in this universe a point in space which is not using energy but which is existing by command only - that’s a higher level.

And this being can be something which can create space, and then create energy and matter in that space. So you see immediately that the thetan really is not a creature of space; he is a creature which can create space and his beingness is as great as he can create space.

Go into that considerably later.

Now, therefore, we’re treating, then, an individuality, an individuality which does not have a location in point in time but which can locate point in time, and that’s the pc.

This character has the very strange characteristic on a very low and easily demonstrable level, has this terrifically strange characteristic of being able to hold apart two electrodes, with no hands, and hold them apart so thoroughly that they explode on a condenser action which then will react violently upon an E-Meter or cathode ray machine.

So he has as far as we can see in the manufacture of energy, about the same capabilities as those which have been assigned to the Supreme Being in this universe. The proprietor of the MEST universe, I suppose, has got his characteristics and so forth, uh… uh… as good as some of the thetans I’ve processed. I hope so.

Uh… but just because we would have a proprietor of this universe uh… that could do this and that or a manufacturer of this universe could do this and that, that would be no reason whatsoever to assume that that proprietor were necessarily the highest level of proprietor there could be.

There are gods and makers of gods. And this is a minor universe. All right, it’s a big, sloppy one.

Uh… let’s uh… take a look then at these capabilities and find out that astonishingly he not only is able to take two mock-ups and smack them together to get a terrific splash of electrical jolt. He could actually come around and heat up your hand or make your eye contract rather painfully with a beam. He could probably fry your hair if he wanted to put out A.C. or D.C. Fascinating, isn’t it?

All you have to do to prove this up is to start using beams just a little bit. Preclear’s unwilling to use them because this is the motto of the MEST universe: Thou shalt have no energy unless thou takest my energy and sloutest people in the head with it, for I am a force universe and uh… I don’t have any tolerance for anything like aesthetics or them low-down stuff because we’re practical around here and you gotta work.

Now, here then… here then is your object of processing. And I want to make a couple of statements about that. You’re gonna have a preclear saying, „Oh, yes, I’m on the other side of the room. I’m on the other side of the room,“ he says. „Yes, I’m over there against that wall.“ You just go into act three, act four and preferably act five. Not act five, level five. „Yes, he’s over there on that wall,“ „I’m over there on that wall.“

That… that’s really weird, „Yeah, here I am on the wall,“ is what he more or less would… spontaneously would say, if he were out of his body. „Yeah, I’m on the wall. Oh, yeah sure. Uh… I’m here. I’m there. Yeah, my body is…“ he immediately differentiates, „My body’s, uh… I’m about ten feet behind it.“

That is about the way he talks, so you can catch somebody on this very quick. Make sure you don’t miss catching him. He isn’t… he isn’t over there on that wall, yes. „Yeah, I can see me over there now. Yeah, very plain, very plain, I’m the one with the horns.“ That’s - he’s looking at many things. He could be looking at some kind of a mock-up. He could be looking at an actual identity that’s uh… hanging around. Or he could be looking at lot’s of things; just to make certain you know what he’s looking at, why, have him hang a few identities up there.

You know, have him hang up something with a… have him hang a Coca-Cola girl up there and uh… then change her around to make sure that he knows he made her up. And uh… that sort of thing blows because a person who does that is in a tremendous uncertainty.

When a thetan moves out of the body he does not move out of himself. He is himself when he is out of the body. And he is. And he… he is a place, and he knows where he is and he can tell you where he is. So this should give you a pretty good idea of… of the identity he assigns to himself.

He says, „I am me.“ And when you ask a fellow, “Are you out of your body now?“

„Well, I don’t know, I… I… I don’t know… uh, a… eah,“ he isn’t out of his body. Don’t force him to believe it either. I’ll… I’ll… I’ll… I’ll… I’ll zap any auditor that does it to somebody.

„You know very well that you’re out of your body. Well, I saw all the signs present, so I know you’re out of your body now. You’ll just have to make up your mind that you are. Now, I’m through fooling with you. Now just step back there and uh… that’s right, now we’re going to process you.“ Don’t do that, because if anything can ruin a preclear… He says, „I don’t know.“

He’ll… he’ll sometimes ask you, „Do you think I’m out of my body?“

There are two shuns – invalidation and evaluation. Shun both of them.

You say, „Well, I don’t know. Are you?“

„Well, I can’t be sure.“

„Well, I tell you, let’s run this and let’s run that and so on,“’ and let’s go right straight through this process of undoing why he’s in, a body in the first place, because some portion of it is holding him and he’s just got a sort of a shadow idea. He could put a communication line out there and look from it, by the way.

He can put a communication line from himself over into the next block and look at the next block. But he knows he’s not in the next block. If he were in the next block… How… how’d he… how does it seem to you sitting in your chair looking at this room? You know you’re there, don’t you?

Well, that’s how it seems to a thetan when he’s out of the body. If you get anything less than that, he needs a lot of work before he gets there. Lot of work, might take you many hours. Mock-ups, so forth, you’ve got to raise his reality level because that’s all that’s really… it… it’s…

He isn’t sure of his space point, so on. He’s very upset. There are many reasons why this has taken place, because this comes under the heading, of spacation.

Now the easiest thetan to spring is the thetan who conceives himself to be a point in space. And a thetan conceives himself to be a point in space, he has not gone, he is only down at secondary dispersal.

The first level of a dispersal is, boy, he’s running. Now a secondary level of that, he is about to run, and the… the third and best level would be uh… run from what? And, uh… you say run to a thetan, run from what? That that’s… that kind of a thetan moves out of the body and he says, „All right, I’ll mumble, mumble, yes, I’m there.“

„How big are you?“

„I don’t know. I don’t know.“

„Ten feet?“

„I don’t know, I feel a little bit bigger than that. I seem to be about fifteen feet. No, looking over here I seem to be quite a little bit bigger than that - about a hundred feet. Yeah, I see the houses down there. Well, yeah, I can also look into the room from another portion of my beingness. What… what did you wanna know?“

You think he’s just going waaawh. Run from what is his motto. Well, the secondary level is, uh… he’s about to. If it just goes on any further, he will. Now these points. And then there’s the… the first level, way down in the basement, first floor of all of this, he’s running like hell.

And the zero level is he not only isn’t there and is running, but he’s already arrived at the… all the places to which he could go and he’s still on his way.

Now, this… we got a no location. This fellow is pretty easy to spring. Now when he’s in that state he finds it very easy to handle energy. He’s very sharp. He can handle energy and so forth. He’s apt to be a little bit rrr and a little bit „Ridge no, uh… yeah, yeah, I can handle that ridge.“ He’s apt to be a little bit on the side of… uh, „Well, we’re going to face up to this now, and uh… no explosions around here is there? Oh, well, all right, we’re going to face up to this now.“ There’s your characteristics.

So… That person, by the way, is pretty easy to process. Most kids are in about that state. When they get a little bit older they’ve started to run so uh… they have a feeling like, well, maybe they’re here but they’re here, they’re over here but so on.

You ask them how many times… What do you… what is the sensation you have when somebody says to you, „Get out?“

If I said, „Meouw.“ Oh, it’s horrible, the idea, yeah. He said, „I just remember there are times in my life when people have told me to get out that I had to leave, and I just… just - made me sick. Yeah,“ he says. That… that’s… Well, of course, he’s got no place to run to, but he at least knew he was there and somebody told him he had to leave there. Well, that’s what’s known as getting into negative space.

You’re not even… you’re not in your own space and you can’t even occupy a point of MEST universe space. Tha… that’s… that’s bad enough, but there isn’t even any MEST universe space you can get into anywhere although you’re trying in a number of places. Now when you get this added up you get your various levels of point. That is cured by the use of the principles and process of spacation, very simple process.

Now this fellow, actually oughta to expand up to about 210 feet, anyhow, on his concept of himself. It’s perfectly comfortable for him to be at such a level. Uh… he doesn’t have any actual mass - he just kinda feels like he’s covering that much territory. He’s got a definite idea that he’s sort of covering this much territory.

He could get out much bigger than that if he wanted to actually almost… it’s very amusing to ask a preclear that you’ve just gotten out of the body, „All right, now get propitiation for the body.“ And the first, one of the first most common things he will tell you, „Yeah, yeah.“ And you’ll say, „What’s the matter?“

„Well, I don’t know, the body’s just gone out, it’s about two thousand feet tall - it’s just enormous. Just enormous.“

„Well, all right. Uh… uh… get some feeling of contempt for the body, and so forth.“ And you can work this thing down again. He looks pretty good and he can… his emotional attitude toward the body varies the size of the body. And his own size varies also in this concept. Now you quite often notice that as a preclear begins to conceive a contempt for some kind of a mock-up, he’ll keep complaining to you, „It’s getting smaller. It’s just tiny.“

„Yeah, yeah, I can get that.“

And once in a while ask him, „And wha… what size is this head you’re getting?“

He says, „Well, it was about twelve feet, no, it’s gotten smaller.“

Uh… you… you ask him, „Now, uh… what size is this head that you’re getting?“

„Oh,“ he says, „about normal, about right.“ He’s probably just agreeing with the MEST universe somewhat.

But you ask him again, „What size is this?“ and this is as the process’ll continue.

He’ll say, „Well, I’m getting little heads now.“ He says,“ I roll them around like kids’ marbles.“ They’ve gotten very unimportant to him and he judges their importance by relative size.

So, this is one way of checking up on whether or not anything’s happening. If these heads are staying the same size, and the same size in every mock-up he gets, the same size, the same size, and he never varies the size, the heads never get any smaller, they never get any bigger, or anything of the sort, you’re stuck on something else. It isn’t the head drill you’re worried about.

So take a look at this as an anatomy, you see the beast that we’re working with. The beast we’re working with isn’t a beast. And that statement would be germane to everything in the MEST universe. You see, the way you win is to lose, the way to live is to die, the way to die is to live. That’s the MEST universe. It goes 180 degree vectors.

It was laid out by an idiot. There’s no real randomity to it. It. isn’t even a tough problem to resolve, but here’s… here’s your problem with this. Is your pc who is doing a bad dispersal, believes himself dispersed all the way through the body because he’s got communication lines of his own to all parts of the body. And if he’s got communication lines to all parts of the body everywhere, he of course believes e… he is the body because he feels the body everyplace.

And he keeps saying, „I can’t move out,“ and so forth. He’s just anchored in with similar lines to those which I’ve just shown you. Now get this point as one… one conclusion on here.

Process sensation when you’re trying to break those internal lines, desire for sensation, and remember to process desire for sensation when you’re… when you have your thetan snapping into heads. That’s desire and thirst for sensation - must have is what’s got him there - so he’s riding on that postulate, which is the only reason he’d snap into a head.

He never knew that before. He wants to get something out of this body so the second something goes wrong with energy, he’ll snap in. Before he can undo anything he’s doing and remember that the thetan who shifts around inside his head is trying to keep from having a sensation.

He gets flows go… start going past him, and the flows go past him. He’s trying to keep from being afraid. He’s trying to hold on. He’s gone to the point now, and oddly enough this person seldom gets any pleasant sensations in the body anymore.

He’s trying to hold on, he slips, he’s skidding around. And he hasn’t got any time to work those communication lines to areas of sensation. He’s just trying to stay there, that’s all. That’s idiotic as the devil because the one thing you want him to do is get someplace else. And really the one thing he basically wants to do is go someplace else, and yet every action he takes is an action to hold on to where he is.

Sometimes you start to bust this up, and it happens very fast, that thetan will do a bunk, to use a British colloquialism, he will do a bunk. You say, „All right,“ to this pleasant girl and she’s sitting there and everything’s fine. And, „Yeah, all right, now you be a foot back of your head, just be two feet back of your head.“

„Nuooong!“ and the body goes collapse.

You say, „Hey.“ No answer, the heart’s still beating, the lungs are still breathing ‘cause the GE runs those, but the thetan he’s done a bunk.

She is just passing Arcturus. You say, „Hey.“ One of them… one very good gag that went on and on and the auditor coaxing her - „Think of your family. Why don’t you come back?“ - Trying to get to reassume responsibility for the body, you see. „Think of your family, uh… think of this, think of that, think of something else,“ and so on.

And nothing happened and that body was just sitting there like a lump of clay, you see, completely flopped. No controls on it, nothing on it at all but sure there’s a communication line. There always is a communication line to the body because it’s tuned up on wave lengths.

Don’t look for an actual cable between the body and the thetan - he’s all tuned up to the wave length of the ridges of this body. Of course, he could talk through it if he were six universes away. That’s… that’s he’s just tuned up to that wave length. There’s no such thing as space. All right.

Now… uh… you’ve got… you’ve got a thetan there who is on her way. Finally this guy says, „Well, think of your poor auditor.“ And she came back. And so there… there is the preclear doing the bunk.

What happened there is it just had never occurred to this preclear before that you could do it all the way. This preclear had fooled around with astral walking and a lot of other things which are not similar to this. And you could do it all the way and there was all of you there and you were gone and on your way and it was so nice to get off of the surface of Earth and get on your way and she didn’t have any idea where she was going. It was just she was on her way. She was doing a bunk.

So if somebody does a bunk on you, coax them back. They seldom leave dead bodies on your hands.

Well, what happened is… is this preclear is suddenly shedding all his responsibilities. Once in a while you get that case. Don’t let it stop your own heart - they’re… they’re quite startling. Uh… sometimes they get out and they don’t know how to make the body handle anymore.

Well, get them to pick up a finger and drop the finger. Pick up a hand and drop the hand and move the hands around. And move the head around. They say, „Aw, I can run that thing, to hell with it.“

Okay, let’s take a break.