This is the first hour evening lecture, Wednesday, December 10th.

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

I have a uh… couple more things that we’ve got to cover consecutive to this afternoon’s talk, but there’s no reason why this material doesn’t cover independently as itself.

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

This material has to do with the other two items, namely Flows and Ridges, pardon me, Dispersal and Ridges, having covered Flows this afternoon.

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

Okay, those that didn’t get that this afternoon will of course get this material subsequently when they review the tapes.

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

Uh… the subject of Flows, Dispersals and Ridges is, of course, the subject of the characteristics of emotion. Characteristics of emotion.

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

Now an emotional state depends upon the wave characteristic and upon the volume of the wave. And then that combination of waves could ride with any combination of perceptic waves.

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

Very simple. Here we have a flow; if you want to draw in all possible dispersals on this it becomes very interesting.

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

We have a flow; here is a dispersal-flow, dispersal-ridge, dispersal – flow, dispersal-flow. In other words, you’ve got all possible combinations of this here.

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

Ridge.

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

And of course this dispersal looks like a little, tiny ridge going to hell in a balloon. And actually, any one of those ridges, those black lines there, any one of those ridges – here we’d be going right on down the tone scale if we did this – uh… any one of these ridges could be a source of dispersal.

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

I usually don’t draw all these things or bother too much by this for a good reason, is that it’s just more data than you happen to need. Some electronics engineer, though, can take this stuff and he can have an interesting time tracing a circuit.

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

You look through a circuit and you look through your radio receiver or your radio transmitter and you’ll find out that what you’re doing is… is making a flow do a dispersal, banking it up in a ridge, making it go this way and that. You’re… you’re reforming the forms of it. There you’re mixing the wave uh… characteristics and the wave characteristics are… uh… well, as I say, they’re mixed, they’re straightened out, they’re corrected, they’re mixed up again and so on.

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

Well mixing and straightening out and correcting up again, the characteristic of a wave uh… wouldn’t really change too much the quality of the thing. Uh… but it would take down, for instance, noise out of the wave, or it would take out random uh… things out of the wave that really weren’t a part of the wave. It’s trying to be – mostly the electronics equipment – quite selective with the waves that come in.

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

So what you do is just with, by using things that make flows and dispersal and ridges, you… you get the thing fooled around to a point where it’ll take the maximum of the desired wave and the minimum of the undesired waves and you’ve got it.

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

That doesn’t matter much what you’re applying this to; it works about the same way.

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

Now what do we mean by a wave characteristic?

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

See, these are characteristics of energy – flows, dispersals – this is about all the kinds of energy there are. But uh… when I say „wave characteristic“ this would be the characteristics of energy. Now we’re talking about a wave length. We’re talking about what part of the gradient scale of vibration rates we’re talking about. You know, you saw that one.

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

That’s… here… let’s lay the tone scale on the side, let’s put 40.0 here, 20 there and down here is 0.0. And let’s find that at any point of this sort of thing uh… we’ve got that. Oh, it doesn’t matter which way we draw this – we’re just graphing it. It doesn’t matter where we’re graphing it.

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

Now that’s this up here is the… this is energy characteristics over here and that… this consists of Flows, Dispersals, Ridges. And this up here is wave length, and that’s still wave length. See, it doesn’t matter if… it’s just graphed. You can have a 1.5 operating on an aesthetic. He goes into a beautiful rage. Did you ever see anybody that went into a rage artistically? He’s still at 1.5, he tears the hell out of things, but he’s still going into an artistic rage.

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

There are a lot of actors that cultivate this as a fine art. And actually it is something that is appalling because it just chews theta up just… just madly. You can’t chew theta up but I mean some guy thinks he has to protect himself and his very beingness in the face of an artistic wave, because it’s terribly interesting. It is aesthetic, it has mood, it has rhythm – it has various combinations of things that you associate with aesthetics.

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

All right, now you see now – this is energy characteristics but what do we mean by „wave characteristic“? This is just wave length. Wave length – that… that’s an easy one because this means what agreed upon distance is it from node to node on the wave length? I mean, how far apart are the wobbles?

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

Let’s take a rarefaction condensation wave – all of them by the way are rarefaction condensation waves. They… that… that thing going through that electric line is an… a „rarefaction condensation wave.

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

I used to sit in physics class and say „But what you’re talking about would need ether.“ There’s the wave which you do by making a rope flick. You can tie a rope over there, you see, and then you go zong! like this and you show somebody this wave. Well, it’s cute, but how the hell does electricity do that? I used to go around naive. I thought they knew. It used to puzzle me and puzzle me. They said „There’s a rarefaction condensation type wave. That has to do with particles.“ I’ll show you what that is.

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

Here are particles, particles all over the place, evenly distributed. See, this is Figure Three here. And uh… these particles, Figure Three, are just going – they’re all the same, see? I mean, there’s nothing happening to those particles yet.

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

Now we put a wave through those particles. And do we put a wave through the particles this way? We put a particle this way. See, they’re grouping. That’s Four. We’ve got embryonic ridges, the parts I’ve marked „R“ here. Embryonic ridges. What… that area, the ridge, is a condensation of particles, and this area where you have few dots left is a rarefaction of particles. How long is a complete wave from wave to wave, not a half node, but how long is a complete wave in that case.

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

A complete wave is from, in Figure Four, point A to point B – that’s a complete wave. That is to say, it runs through a full cycle between those two points, a very full cycle. It goes from being a ridge up through to the point where it’s almost a ridge again.

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

Now… now look. Don’t get ahead of me, don’t – just… let’s not look at Figure One here – let’s not look at Figure One and compare it with Figure Four. That’s not fair.

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

You realize – you’d better not do it, because you realize that you would be, at that moment, way ahead of physics. And you mustn’t get ahead of them because there would be a lot of boys in universities lose jobs and it’s important that they eat. It is.

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

If you examined, stroboscopically, the particle flow of a rarefaction condensation flow, you would get minute patterns which would demonstrate that there were, at any given instant, rarefactions and condensations taking place, and that some of the particles between the rarefactions and the condensations were expanding suddenly and some of the particles were crashing in, and the pattern of particle action would give you a pattern which you see more or less in Figure One.

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

Well, it doesn’t matter whether you figure this out, then, in standing wave.

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

Now supposing we got this rarefaction condensation wave going here good enough and heavy enough and then said whoa! We’re going to have it. And we just grind and stop it. And we – and that pattern if closely examined, I mean Four, would become the pattern, more less, of One. The ridges would stand.

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

Now, what’s the definition of that whole thing? I mean, we talked about what is… talk about Death is Stop. Deaths are very aberrative – quite aberrative, you know. Those sudden stops that you don’t want it to stop. And here’s all this inflow and outflow and flows and rarefactions and particles and all sort of things. Well brother, when a fellow all of a sudden starts to stop motion, when he just turns on the brakes and let’s say his… his… his horsepower, the horsepower rating of this thetan at the time he put on the brakes was a potential milli-G (that’s a new quantity I just developed) uh… a milli-G – if he had that as a horsepower, then these ridges would stand at one milli-G. That’s how much energy was radiating around this thetan.

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

So we look… go and look at Figure Five here. All right, this gets more and more interesting as we go, so don’t go to sleep.

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

Here’s a lot of loose particles. The fellow did… this milli-G thetan did a lot of loose living. and they’re all around here and… and here he is. You say „Well, where is he in this… this whole matter here in Figure… Figure Five?“ I can’t answer that question, because that’s him. You say „Where is he?“ Well, that’s him… that… that… that’s the boy; that’s our boy.

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

Now all of a sudden – it doesn’t matter how far across that is – doesn’t have to to have the dimensions. Now all of a sudden a one milli-G thetan, has already started to specialize slightly in energy, and something hits him or convinces him that at some instant he has to come to a stop, you see. But the thing that convinced him he had to come to a stop was a horrendous blast of something or other. A two milli-G thetan came to call and didn’t like the tea – something like that.

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

Well, the way you get rid of one of these… these dispersed characters and that sort of thing, it’s a very simple way of getting rid of him, is… is just to undisperse him. Just solidify him a little bit and give him a shock so that you get a… an upset of particles – now he’s got particles kicking around, he’s made hoo-ha and so on. So you’d possibly get our lightning bolt hitting somewhere in here. It’d be just on the order of a lightning bolt. What do you suppose would happen? Well, we have to go to Figure Six to find out what would happen.

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

And Figure Six is on the next page.

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

All right, Figure Six here shows us now something has happened. This center here tried to rush in and condense to drive it back and Figure… as I understand this, it… its tendency was to do this: trying to rush in, see? But it’s tried to rush in toward the center to block off Mr. Lightning Bolt, so we’re just going to stop that by putting a lot of particles there suddenly and letting it hit matter. That’s the good, sensible way to stop things.

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

Of course, the best way to stop them is, of course, cause a rarefaction right there and the lightning bolt goes on through and the two mill-G thetan looks sort of apathetic for a moment and says „Well, I guess the tea wasn’t so bad.“

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

But the other way of going about it and what’s wrong is to suddenly… suddenly have here uh… one of these… one of these uh… condensations right at the center.

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

So, let’s go to Figure Seven. A lightning bolt hit this condensation here at the center and a vector started to go out. The impulse here was out, see?

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

Now he condensed, it started to go out – and what are the laws of motion and emotion? It says, „We’ve got to run away from this because we’re scared.“ You see, you couldn’t stop it, so you had to depart from it.

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

Now that, in essence, is what happens in an injury. You can check this in an injury. A guy is hit and at the instant he’s hit, just before the blow strikes his skin, oddly enough, just before it hits him, there’s this odd one.

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

Fellows always get their hands hurt just before they hit the table. They… they come in and they start to hit the table and they know their hand is going to hit the table; an instant before it hits the table their hand hurts. In they come and they hit the corner of the table and it hits the hand and their attention units or particles rush to that point to defend, and blow off the injury, find out they can’t do it, penetration continues and those particles which rushed in now try to rush away from the injury.

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

You can test this out, if you want to. Go around and stab yourselves. I mean, you’ll find out just that it’s just exactly what… what happens there. And you get a rarefaction and condensation action. It rushes away, the particles try to come back again and stop it some more. Then they rush away and then they try to stop it again.

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

But this thing is making more and more ingress all the time. And it rushes away and tries to stop it again. And all of a sudden he goes into apathy and he’s just null.

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

But he’s… each time he’s trying to stop, stop, stop, stop – and you can practically hear the… you can practically hear the… the brakes squeal on an injury. And if you’re running by Effort Processing – you know Effort Processing – just start to work out one of these injuries and you’ll find out that it’s going this way. And you work a little further and all of a sudden why, the last efforts are run and it all weakens down and bong! There goes the injury.

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

You’ll find that’s a pattern of rarefaction and condensation of attention units which are rushing in periodically to PUSH the thing back out, finding out they can’t and rushing away. Then gathering a sort of force and coming back in to stop it again and then pushing it away. You get the same action as you get with flows, dispersals and ridges – that sort of thing. You see how that is?

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

I… I see you’re looking at me rather alertly. You… some of you that are looking at me that way haven’t listened to Technique 88, then. Or, it wasn’t stated in there uh… as clearly as it ought to be stated, because the truth of the matter is there’s nothing simpler than this.

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

You can actually, and should, right at this moment, if you have some curiosity in the matter, simply pinch the back of your hand. Hold it like this and you will feel the skin is tight – it starts to tighten up on you. Now pinch it like that and you’ll feel the attention units rush away from there – not just the pain. You can feel the attention units rush away from there. Now you un-pinch the thing and you’ll feel the attention units come back into it. You can feel the path of those units…

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

Now you know that if you hurt your hand a little bit like that, you probably only feel it for a couple of inches around and about the injury. But if you hurt your hand real bad and so forth, you could hurt it so that it would shock clear up here and hurt the elbow. There attention units are rushing down the whole length of the elbow and then they’re dispersing back up the whole length of the elbow and then they’re dispersing back up the whole length of the elbow and they’re… that’s an energy flow and it’s flow and it follows the pattern of flow.

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

So, what do we get here? We get right here in the center as the second stage – this was stage uh… two on this lightning bolt, and this was stage three on the lightning bolt, and we get this sort of an action.

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

But what happens to these when these little arrows here get out and hit these outer particles. The outer particles say, „Hey, we’re getting an injury!“ And they say, „To hell with that!“ So they brake. And they say, „No! No!“ And they start in like this – Whong! Whong! Whong! See these little arrows? All right, these little arrows come in here and they brake – or put the brakes on fast. See the particle directions?

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

So the little arrows… every time you hit that receding wave an injury actually goes – and explosion goes – if you took a picture of an explosion you’d find it was going whong – whong – whong! See. It’s getting bigger and braking itself at each moment. Like a bird would flap its wings, or something of the sort. It’s down-up, down-up, down-up. Out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in, all the time getting bigger. What’s it doing.

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

It finally winds up as in Figure Eight – you’re very lucky people to hear this lecture. I’d never intended to give it. I keep forgetting this one because the subjects is so big, as you will find out in a moment.

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

You’ll finally wind up with a kind of an empty spot here and with a… some scattered particles here and some scattered particles here and some scattered particles out here. And what are these things? Well, here’s the center hardness, and there’s a ridge, and there’s a ridge and there’s a ridge, resulting from that explosion, see? These particles out here at this gradient scale in Figure Seven are still scattered and still influenced.

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

Now this shows you here… gives you a pretty good idea of what goes on in an explosion. I wish I had some stroboscopic pictures of an explosion. That is, something that just split instant stops the wave motion or formation which takes place during an explosion, so that you can examine it.

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

For instance, you see a stroboscopic picture of a drop of water. It forms the doggondest pattern. It just drops into a bucket and you can watch that drop go down and then the pattern that it makes and so on as it finally drops. And you’ll say, „Good God! Could one drop of water cause that much commotion and that many patterns?“ It sure can.

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

Well, if you were to take a picture of the guts and anatomy of an explosion in action, you would find there’s rarefaction condensation areas in the middle of it. If anybody here has ever served with artillery, you’re quite well aware of this, because you can actually feel on the explosion of shells as they hit. Uh… they go ‘bah-ow-wah-ow-wah-ow-ong’. You’re hitting those ridges, see – sound ridges are going by.

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

There’s this ‘bo-ong’. You’d think… you’d think a shell would just go ‘boom!’ – it doesn’t. It goes ‘Bo-oo-oo-oo-oom!’. You could forget it.

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

For instance, if an artillery shell went off, if… if there’s just a sound, solid blast – why do you think windows cave in? Well, they… they would… could probably be braced. Your window would stand up to a pressure so the pressure would hit the window, you’d think, and if it were a solid blast, it would just sort of stretch the window pane in.

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

Waves will break out an anchor. You can lie in a hurricane of wind and the hurricane of wind won’t blow your ship away from its moorings – just won’t. That anchor will just dig in and dig in and dig in. But once you get waves going, they lift that bow and they drop that bow and they lift the anchor buoy and they drop that anchor buoy and it keeps yank on the anchor and yank on the anchor and yank on the anchor. And all of a sudden the anchor course moves and drifts.

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

Rhythm… rhythm does this. So as the sound of an artillery shell outside that window would hit the window: the first wave would hit it – bong! And then the window comes back toward the direction of the sound and then the second wave hits it – boonng! And it goes just a little bit further and then back toward the direction of sound. And then the third ridge in that ball of sound hits it and it goes boom-crash!

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

But it took ‘bong – bong – bong!’, you see, to break the window. If you just had a sound pressure – solid pressure – on it, it wouldn’t have broken the window at all, usually. You could tape your windows so they wouldn’t break. There is no taping a window so it won’t break in a good sound barrage.

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

All right, you see? It’s interesting here. Funny part of it is, that if you were to trace these ridges in any pattern of explosion, you’d find out they were really… of course, I’m drawing here… a flock of spheres.

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

Now, watch a pebble being dropped in a pool of water. Water… of course the physical universe runs on the laws of the physical universe and never varies – pooey!

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

Water freezes from the top down; it’s noncondensable – the most confounded things happen in water.

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

Now you can drop a drop of water in a pail, or a rock in a pond and you can watch these waves going out. And they’re linear waves. Why are they linear waves? They’re just linear waves because you cross-section them and they’re applying, really, only to the surface. You’re getting a particle yanked up and down. You’re moving a particle up and down. But that’s because… that’s because you have air above the wave and the wave cannot compress of itself; water’s noncompressible. So you get a strange and peculiar attitude on the part of the water. So it raises and lowers. And you get the particles raising and dropping.

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

And then they tell the physics student, „Well now you see, waves are just like this piece of rope. And if you want to prove it, go on out and look at a pond of water. And here we show this rope and we give it a whip and we’ll see the wave travel down and come back again. And isn’t that cute and it’s just…“

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

I wonder where the hell these professors ever did any observation. Why don’t they go out and jump in a lake and find out what happens? Because what you’re getting is an interplay of an incompressible with a compressible. And that is a very peculiar wave indeed. It’s a wave peculiar to a condition where two fluids are involved – fluid one is air and compressible, and fluid two is water and not compressible. You’ve got a commotion; there’s motion there someplace. So your first splash sets air waves in motion which react back against the pond and make these silly-looking pools and things like that – very, very interesting.

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

You take a stroboscopic picture – if you could – that would take one that showed actually the particles of air, you’d see that you had an interaction between two fluids. So this is a very, very peculiar wave.

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

Well, you get down under water and water has no compressibility, it says right in the physics textbook, so of course it’s impossible for sound to pass through water. What’s the matter? Some disagreement with this? I mean, you… somebody heard sound through water here?

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

The way… the way the scholastics used to teach uh… almost anything, is always worthy of… of comment and notice. They… in 1500 universities taught on the scholastic principle. They had a number of books and the. books were quite authoritarian and they said so-and-so and so-and-so, and then the student would read the book and listen to the lecture and then take the examination that said so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so. They had… didn’t have to make any comparison with the real universe. And uh… uh… having taken the examination, he would get his grade only on this basis. It was a very peculiar custom and uh… it uh… ceased, I’m sure, about 1500 or 1600. It’s – noways – been carried through into modern times.

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

Of course, modern classes, when they teach a student some principle or other in physics, they say, „Now, uh… we don’t care whether you believe this or not. Uh… why don’t you go out and look. And by the way, by the virtue of your looking, you might find out something you can tell us.“ No, they never said that… they… I mean… pardon me! I mean, they… they undoubtedly do that, because this is a modern age.

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

The scholastic came about through Aristotelian logic, and so forth. It was all black and white; therefore anything that was written was right. And things that weren’t written were wrong. Or I… I don’t know how they figured this out, but that’s more or less the way it was.

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

Natural History… Natural History and that sort of thing was taught by rote. We didn’t have to go observe it.

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

And that’s actually – physics as a science prides itself upon its observation. Oh, it just prides itself just straight through on its observation.

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

Your engineer gets out of class and he goes over and he. starts working on – and all of a sudden he plugs in the ruddy-rods on the wrong side of the whatchamagujits and he graduates up and he finds himself working at Los Alamo Pork Pie or someplace and he throws the cross-pile against the cross-pile and this doesn’t quite agree with the conservation of energy, but he kind of looks dogged about the whole thing. And he says, „Well, I guess it really doesn’t make the basic laws of elementary physics wrong – I hope – because I signed a pledge that I wouldn’t disobey those things. I wrote on the examination paper and said, „These are right and they will always be right and they will always hold true for the whole universe – signed and sworn to and subscribed before me this Umth Day of Umth. Charles Jones, C.E.“ Or something like that.

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

All right, here’s one that you could very easily miss: Rarefaction condensation.

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

The number of linear waves which you are going to find in the universe will be when two fluids come together or three fluids or six fluids, in some eight-dimensional torsional G space.

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

Uh… but uh… let’s not throw that rope around and say, uh… „Well, it’s all linear space and uh… uh… that’s why a radio wave travels in this fashion and that’s why a broadcast station works, is because you’ve got this long line. And actually what you do is you go out and attach this line to this television antenna of John Jones and when you’ve attached it to John Jones’s aerial, then you go back to the station and you keep flipping it from this station. This… this… this wave, then, jumps up and down and he only then receives television.

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

God! If that were the case! That’s really the way they explain it in elementary physics.

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

No, it looks just like this: Figure Eight might as well be television, might as well be television.

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

And what do you know? Let’s add something else in Figure Eight here. Just before you get there… there’s a little tiny dispersal, see? Out here in this third ring – third ring out. You get these little dispersals just before it forms in a ridge. And in here you have an indecision on „Which way did he go? Which way did he go?“

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

So you’ve got your complete rarefaction in here where I have marked Point uh… M – midway in between those two waves, see? And… and that… that point is… could stand for „Which way did he go?“

Rarefaction comes in, it goes ‘bo-oo-ong’, see? And you’ve got that point.

Now, there’s a dispersal, but just as it leaves that rarefaction – I mean, just as it leaves this ridge, first ridge out from there – just as it leaves that, there’s a little bit of a dispersal there.

Now let’s magnify that up and have on Figure Nine, then, the action there that happens in that ring. So here we’ve got a… a ridge and it’s travelling from right to left. We’ve got a little dispersal here as your particles… particles leave there, and this comes over here in this direction; and you’ve got your particles lining up for any given moment and you’ve got which way did they go, and there’s a dispersal sort of a thing at this midway point in here.

And then we’ve got – let’s see now. If we’ll get it at the same instant. Whong, yeah. The same instant here would be a little bit of a lag. We won’t bother with that. So let’s get it over here and this is actually coming in like this. And here’s your next ridge.

So let’s break this thing down and we get – and you’ve actually got ridge at ‘R-1’ here discharging toward Ridge 2 and it gives us, in Figure Nine a… it gives us a ridge, a tiny dispersal, a flow to a dispersal, to a flow, to a dispersal, to a ridge. You get that?

Now we look back at that first one that I drew, you will see we are dealing with the characteristics of energy. And energy then, it always bears some relationship to the characteristics of a floating sphere.

Rarefaction condensation waves as they go down a copper wire are really rarefying and condensing electrons. The electron does not flow down the wave like a drop of water; it rarefies and condenses.

In a whole day of electrical flow on DC, probably an electron doesn’t move a hundred feet. I don’t know – it… I don’t know how fast it moves. Might move a mile, but th… that stuff is supposed to be travelling at a hundred and eighty-fi… – six miles a second. They are trying to agree on it.

All right, so… so that’s very… very… very amusing there to find out that we are dealing with a rarefaction and a condensation in such a way that we’ve got the – what?

Let’s draw a picture here and let’s call it Figure 10 of Mr. Preclear at the moment he put on the brakes. He found out that this reaction was taking place and he said, „Stop!“ Here’s your reaction center, here’s your next ridge out, R-1; next ridge out is already beginning to go; the explosion has hit him; he’s in this form at… that’s R-2, And he gets out here and he says… at this instant he says „Stop!“

Now that’s a sphere you’re looking at; that is not a two-dimensional plane, that’s a three-dimensional sphere. What’s it give him? It gives him the shape of an electron. Of course this doesn’t bear any relationship to the shape of an electron. We’re not supposed to talk about that because we’re not licensed to. It requires a special license from the Atomic Energy Commission to talk about electrons. They’re sacred property now and they’re the only ones who can have any.

And uh… I… I regarded this with considerable sorrow because I probably will have to give up a couple of electrons that I kept around for old keepsakes.

What’s an electron? It’s one of those spheres. And if you can get one of those spheres to jump once, R-1 to jump out to R-2, it releases what? One quantum of energy. And this is the subject called Quantum Mechanics, because it takes a… a… a mechanic to be as jerry-rigged and jacklegged about explaining this as they are. It really takes a mechanic of the kind and variety that Rube Goldberg employed to repair his models.

There’s nothing much to this. The way you get atomic fission is this way. The artillery shells – you want to know? No, we’re not going to give you any real atomic fission. Uh., the shell… the shell doesn’t… the explosion from the shell doesn’t go ‘Boooooom!’, you see? It goes ‘Boo-oo-oom!’. Now the way… way you do, is you’ve got… you’ve got something which is floating around and it’s making this sound. What’s happened is sound, uh… what’s happened is you’ve taken… the artillery shell has exploded and it’s gone ‘Boooom!’, see. But what… what you did was go ‘Boo-’ – and it said „Stop,“ right there. And there it’s been for just ages and ages and ages and ages. And what do you do to make an atomic explosion? You just let the artillery shell explosion go ‘Booom!’. That’s all. You’ve cut the thing loose on its timetrack, what do you know?

That’s all you do, because you just let it go from R-1 to R-2, hit the next rarefaction out. And if you let… let the thing clip on its time track and go ‘Booom!’, see, and then you’ve… it’s stopped right there and it’s been stopped for some ages. It’s been sitting there on a rock. The fellow that made this energy let it go just that far, see? And then the next step on it, and the way you get chain reaction, is to start it suddenly off of its time track and let it finish out its ‘Boo-oom!’. And it will knock out Hiroshima, of course, or anything else.

Now theoretically you could do this to a preclear. You could get his ridges, his spheres out here, going in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, and they would go ‘Bow-oo-oom!’. They probably wouldn’t even hurt him. He’s indestructible.

That’s right, he is. I said that very seriously. Some guy’s going to try this and blow up half of this universe.

So it isn’t any kind of a specialized or silly condition – is it at all? We’re looking at a preclear when we’re looking at Figure 10, only we’re not looking at near as far or near as complex as the preclear is.

So this… to finish off Figure 10, this would really have to be all in spheres. We would have to put R-3, which is your next ridge of particles. You understand, there’s just countless billions and billions of particles in any one of these ridges, see?

Now we’re looking out here at R-4 – of course, in between these things in here at… at uh… these points I’ve marked ‘F’ and these parts I’ve marked ‘D’ – all through here there’s ‘D’, ‘D’, there’s dispersals, dispersals. And there’s flows above the dispersals, and flows and… and tiny dispersals – dispersals. We’re getting this pattern, see. And we’ve got these patterns on these ridges. And this is the pattern. And I’m drawing you a pretty picture – portrait of a preclear. This is what you’re working on. Of course, the second they find out that we’re working with atomic energy, they’ll stop us, but, uh…

Honest to Pete. There… there’s really nothing to this problem. This is one of those silly damn problems. If this problem were complicated and if anybody made this problem complicated for the last eight thousand years, he ought to be spanked, to tell you the truth, because it’s too simple a problem.

You see those dispersals and you see those flows? Now, it all… it’s all adding up into, again, this ridge, dispersal, dispersal – that’s a flow, little dispersal, uh… dispersal, flow, dispersal, ridge. That’s the pattern. Only you’ve got – good God! I mean, all this stuff is standing out here.

Now your preclear just shifts just a little bit in this flock of onion skins which he’s living in. Or, you all of a sudden stop him at a point where he’s been arrested and it sort of goes ‘Boo-oom!’ for a second, and he’ll shift a ring, or something of this sort.

I’ve had this happen to preclears, by the way. It’s not dangerous because you think atomic bombs are dangerous. They’re not. YOU’RE dangerous – not some bomb. Maybe you particularly.

Now I’ve had them shift, I’ve had them shift a ring. And I didn’t get a quantum of energy kicked back, all I got was maybe – I don’t know – maybe something like a thousand, well maybe a hundred thousand watts, something like that, exploding in the preclear’s face – a slight singe, just a tiny singe, maybe eyebrows and just… nothing. Nothing. The fellow said, „My God! It’s like the Fourth of July!“ And felt much better the next couple of minutes – kind of mystified as to where all this electricity came from suddenly.

Of course, I wasn’t doing it – I didn’t have anything to do with it at all. No responsibility for that energy. I was merely coaxing him to try to reach out and pull in that outside ring and let it go again suddenly in rhythm. ‘Song-bong-vroom! Pow!’. It hardly made any noise at all.

Now you understand that when your preclear’s in this terrible state of affairs, stuff hitting him bang! bang! bang! all the time… Stuff keeps hitting the preclear and hitting him – it gets terrific condensation to this point, through that rarefaction, that one, and the more ridges he’s got and the more heavily stacked these things get up… because he’s sitting there in a stopped motion. He’s stopped someplace on the time track, otherwise he wouldn’t have a single ridge. He’s stuck on the time track. He’s holding on to these particles in that formation. And he’s holding on at a high energy input incident – a few milli-G’s of impact, way the heck and gone, back on the track.

And of course he’ll use… running around with one… one uh… one grasshopper erg, or one one hundredth of one grasshopper erg being normal, and you all of a sudden say, „All right, now let’s reach out there and run that ridge.“ „Nooo,“ he says. Because he instinctively knows what’s really on those ridges. He… he knows really that they’re all ready to go ‘Boo-oom!’ and when your preclear won’t change, he… he knows what his penalty of changing is. So that’s your build-up and your energy pattern – that’s a picture of your preclear. That’s a portrait, Figure 10.

Now somebody who is really very good ought to really build one of these things out of sectionals half cut through plastic spheres just to show somebody. It’d be pretty hard to do, little sketch network of… of rarefaction and… and the pattern of particles and so forth, in one of these, so that you really get an idea. See, there’s particles all through the ridges, they’re hard now. There’s particles in between the ridges and there’s particles – you’re doing just very specific things.

Now I tell you, as you look at this galaxy and you look at the Milky Way, the number of engrams which you can run off the Milky Way aren’t anywhere as near as important as getting the fellow in command of the Milky Way. And when you look at the central hub of this galaxy and treat it in one fashion or another, you must remember that it’s awfully happy to have an arrested ‘Boom!’ – very happy to.

And this of course, bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the pattern of the MEST universe. Now just remember this when you take a look at it. And sometime when you’re out in the s… stars or around someplace or another, just take a look at some of the patterns which you see up there, and you get a very clear picture of a preclear. They’re sort of elliptical; they’re not spherical. They’re not even an oblate spheroid. I mean, they’re quite flat. They’re just sort of a wheel variety of the thing.

And when I say, „Build your own universe by restoring your capabilities to do so,“ you… this MEST universe has gone hog silly on particles. And don’t think that just because there’s those great big chunks of MEST and energy out there and they’re so great and big, remember they’re just great and big in comparison to you and nobody else.

So you’re looking at the pattern of a galaxy, you’re looking at the pattern of a preclear, and you’re looking at the pattern of an atom.

Now, is an atom sentient? Is the atom a building preclear? Is it something which will graduate up to the rank of a preclear? Just as a preclear will eventually graduate up to the rank of a galaxy? Is that a gradient scale – goes on? Lucretius said so. I don’t know how much he knew, I don’t know which navigator he was on what spaceship before he arrived here. I seriously doubt this gradient scale has any actuality whatsoever…

For this reason, is, I’ve put together one of these island particles. You get down real small, see, and you scatter a lot of little particles around, and you p… postulate that there are a whole bunch of particles and then you say… you say, „Booh, stop!“ And what do you know? You’ve got an atom – you can make an atom of any size.

Now if you did this several times and so forth, and you jammed all these things in proximity and you sort of set them in positive and negative, you could actually get these things to changing space – you know, they go ‘Pok! Pok!’ to give us a space to change in one way or the other. And then blow them up. That’s matter.

It’s a gradient scale of this kind of ridge. You’ve got to have space, you’ve got to have particles and so forth to build this way. But this is not… this isn’t necessarily a way of building, it’s not a pattern of building, it’s not a pattern you have to know about anything except auditing. It’s merely very amusing that it does happen to exactly approximate the pattern of a galaxy; it has the approximation of the pattern of an explosion; it has the approximation of the pattern of an atom.

It also, to some vague… vague fashion has the pattern of a solar system. You see the solar system out here? The sun is collecting particles on a ‘boom!’ basis, but it’s not a good example of it at all. That once upon a time it had rings all around and they were all solid rings and then the rings sort of uh… solidified, the ridges sort of drew together, you could postulate that this was the way planets come into being. Here’s your sun – here in Figure 11, and uh… your sun’s shining here in the center and uh… here’s Earth – oh, uh… pardon me. Venus – oh, pardon me. They’re… they’re… they’re much much further apart than this, honest… honestly. The Earth and the size of the sun, if you were to plot them out, oh, on a square mile piece of paper, why you… you… you’d have to use a very fine pointed pencil to put the planets into size.

It’s uh… people get an awfully exaggerated idea of how much matter there is wrapped up in one of these systems.

All right. And here’s the… here’s Mars, and so on. There’s a terrific amount of difference between these things. So you could – Jupiter, Saturn.

Now you could then postulate that once upon a time there were some… there were some rings around here and that these rings gradually caught up with themselves and tripped over themselves and finally got into a congealed mass and got there, but it would be in direct controversy to… to Professor Yumphgallah, and he’s a man I put lots of confidence in. He writes with so many commas that he’s very convincing. I remember one adverbial phrase he had there and I… it took an entire afternoon to find out whether it fitted in the sentence or not, and I finally found out that although it was in chapter one, it referred to the fifteenth sentence of the appendix. And uh… I… I respect a man who can do that. He wrote it in English too. It is completely incomprehensible.

So it would be in conflict with his basic theories and I wouldn’t want to advance this as a basic theory. So you’ll pardon me if I don’t mention the fact that maybe your preclear can just as easily walk around dragging some planets.

Well, regardless of all of that, it gets very amusing when you look at Mr. Preclear and uh… realize that you’re really looking at a standard pattern of an explosion, which is arrested. The explosion is arrested in midair, you might say… it’s just sudden – ‘Yeoeow – whoomf!’ – stop. Well now, what’s he using for energy?

You see, now I’ve been talking for a few minutes here about: „Oh boy! It looks like the galaxy and the preclear looks like an atom and the atom looks an…“ And true enough. These things are all related, because it’s a pattern of a method of making a universe – it’s just patterns.

Uh… guy was on… he had a one pattern mind, you might say. He probably worked for the Ford Motor Company back about 1915. All he could build was a Model T. And uh… one pattern mind.

And it just seems uh… that everywhere you go in the universe you find that one pattern mind; you find this rarefaction condensation thing.

Now when you’re looking at these… these pictures, you’re also looking just right straight at… you’re also looking at a radio wave, you’re looking at uh… so on. And it’s the distance from one ridge to another ridge, which is the wave length.

Now that wave length can be eight miles or the wave length can be uh… the wave length can be 15 centimeters or the wave length can be, oh, a couple of inches, or it can be a half an inch – that is from ridge to ridge. Or it can be uh…5 inches – that’s radar by the way. That’s about the shortest they got radar, I think. They may have a shorter one by now. If they have, they’re keeping it secret. They have to keep all these things secret because merchant ships and automobiles groping in the fog can’t use radar.

And uh… you get uh… down, you see you’re getting down from, oh, various types of waves, electrical waves. You’re getting down further, getting down to radar. Now radar is hot – radar is almost solid.

Radar is very amusing stuff. Uh… when you get down to, I think it was a half an inch, or maybe it was a half a centimeter – I’ve forgotten which it was – doesn’t matter much – if you’re rigging them up, you can change them from one to the other pretty fast.

And uh… uh… you can take one of the radar beams and – I’m afraid that there is an unserious streak in me, that I will have to do something about. But I had about a… at one time about 50 thousand dollars worth of radar – or maybe it was 200 thousand – and I put it up – it was all up on everything. And you weren’t supposed to be able to do anything with it, and they said its… its wave was somewhere down around a half an inch or a half a centimeter or something of this sort. And I said, „How… how short?“ And they said it was so and so and so. I said, „My golly! That’s awfully, awfully hot.“ „Yes,“ he said, „the reason we’re telling you is so that you won’t let your operator…“ I said, „Wait a minute! You’re talking about hard radiation. That… well, that’s almost into the hard radiation band.“ He said, „Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s why we don’t want your operator uh… reaching into this thing and crawling into it to change his pants or something of this sort, and because he’s liable to get a bad burn. And so let’s… let’s not do this and uh… they… by the way, these waves are secret, so don’t let anybody know I told you what this wave was.

Uh… they’re… they’re different from vessel to vessel and… and so forth and uh… they have a complete system worked out. And there’s IFF Systems and so forth. And it’s all very confidential, so don’t let it out. Uh… and uh… I’ll give you a diagram if you stay after class.“

Yeah, any spies present? The diagram is proximity shells. The Bell engineers… Bell engineers – I’m just taking off, by the way, on a Bell engineer. He’ll come in with the newest, latest piece of Navy equipment, see, and he’ll have it all sawed up and he’s… he’s refining it somehow; he’s decided that the production copy is not good enough. He’s got it in his grip and uh… he says, „I just brought it over to show you,“ and so forth. He says, „This is the latest device, and this explodes the torpedos in a submarine uh… if you fire it within ten or twelve feet of the submarine’s radar,“ or something of the sort, see? And… and so on, and, „Isn’t this cute? It’s built right into the shell here,“ and so on. And he talks about it because, of course, he’s making… he’s making robots. He’s making things that think and act without being told right away. They were told a little earlier by him. And he’s got a delayed action of doing what one is told – after a while. And that’s quite a trick. If they’d only make one that would do what it was told before it was told it, that would be good.

Well, anyhow, he’ll… he’ll bring this in and he’ll show it to you and it’ll be just beautiful and uh… he’ll get a… he’ll show you all the diagrams and so forth. And after he’s all through, he’ll say, „By the way,“ he said, „this is dead secret – this is top secret. I don’t want you to let anybody know about this.“ And you say, „Well, does your wife know?“ „Yeah, well sure. We’re under good heavy security on this though.“ And I said, „Well then the lady next door kind of knows about this too.“ „Yes, she was very interested.“

Well the three or four callers that you had, to which you had introduced him indifferently, of course, they’ve appreciated it too. But that’s all right. Bell Labs could make all that stuff obsolete tomorrow if they wanted to.

But uh… the government, if he were to leave a copy of the drawing open on his desk at the office and move away from his desk, he would probably come back and find himself on the Communist Party list. Everybody in the office is secure, see. They’re all nailed down. And if he left the drawing open, he’d get ruined. Fascinating business, security.

Well, anyhow, having no… not quite a serious streak about all this, we trained this radar beam on the front of the focsle head. We just went up and yanked out some pins and warped it around and took its antenna around, you know. They’ve got big cages. Those mattress-like things that look – mattress springs on masts and things like that… that – oh, that might be radar and it might be a new way to dry the captain’s cap covers, you never know these days.

And uh… so just turned it around, cocked it over on one side and turned it around to get how hot it was to tune it in, and so on, because I was actually working for something serious. I wanted to be able to pick up a landing craft or a torpedo closer than 700 feet to a ship. And I thought this would be a very good idea – this would be a very smart thing to do.

By the way, your landing craft could come in at that time – they were about 700 yards, I think, was the closest. Landing craft could all be in… in the fog and losing the ship all the time and passing by it in all directions, still too far away to hear very much and your radar couldn’t pick them up. You’d be sitting there looking all around on the water for the ships and you just couldn’t pick them up. They were too close to you. So, anyway, we put some weinies up on the bow and fried them. That was a good – good application. It was about all I ever did use that radar for, but it was uh…

Now you get how hot a wave like that is getting. It… it’s really getting hot. You’re getting shorter and shorter and shorter stuff. And if you could keep up volume with the shorter stuff, oh, that’d really be fascinating.

That radar gets hot – radar of longer beams than that – you go out and you shoot it against the wall and it would come back in practically a ball of fire. You’re making a directed part of this sun deal. You’re taking a little section, see, and you’re shooting – there’d be a bunch of beams out here and then you rarefy and condense them. And you’ve got them all rarefied and condensed and then it comes back rarefied and condensed and goes out rarefied and condensed and back; you just fill the hell out of the air with particles, see?

And it comes back in – slosh! And it reads and you turn it on and it says it was 762 yards and a half.

The British were very conservative, by the way. During the last war the poor old Hood and the Bismarck fired a simultaneous salvo practically. And I think the Hood got in her salvo first, and they… they – according to the reports, the Hood took optical range on the Bismarck because that radar was pretty new. And their shell hit at exactly the optical range. Optical range was very good and it hit very good. But the only trouble was, the optical range could be far wrong and the Bismarck was almost exactly the distance that the radar range said it was and the Bismarck fired, by radar, on the Hood and shot her right into the magazine „Ka-boom!“ – first salvo. „Bang“ – there went the Hood. Great big battle cruiser. They didn’t believe in these new gadgets.

The fact of the matter is that radar is very sharp, so you’re getting a… a highly directional wave when you’re getting up there – terrible directional.

Well, you go on up into the other waves, uh… terribly directional, very reliable, work with it very sharply and so on – better and better directed.

Now we go up there above a little bit and we go upstairs from that and we get a little higher and we get better and better directed waves. And they go up above that and we get higher and a little bet better directed waves. And when you get high enough and run out of waves, what do you know? One thinks. So, this proves that one should think. Let’s take a break.