This is the lecture of December 11th, first hour afternoon. And we have here a few little things, odds and ends that we should button up about this and that.

This is the first evening lecture of December the 11th.

Got a textbook, SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008. And the actual truth of the matter is that uh… your text is a highly precise rundown – highly precise from the standpoint of very little space devoted to anything. The data is there, but has about the same adroitness as a Browning machine gun. It uh… just says, „fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact, fact.“ And uh… it disposes of, on page 38, all past methods of processing, in the following paragraphs – 38, „Methods of running. There are many methods of running – facsimiles and handling ridges and flows. These have been covered in other publications. All of them have validity and can advance cases.

I’m going to cover rapidly now the Chart of Attitudes with all of its various facets. You’ve read this Chart of Attitudes, you’ve found it in the HANDBOOK OF PRECLEARS. And in the HANDBOOK OF PRECLEARS it talks about it as an ideal state of man.

„In the present publication there are only two processes which are stressed and these processes are superior to others published prior to December 1st, 1952.

I don’t think there’s any real contest with its being an ideal state for man, but if you took the whole top band, you’d find it was an awfully inactive state.

„A great many tests have established the fact that two processes, both of them simple, produce far better results than any of the others.

If you didn’t go on from the top of the MEST universe band into some sort of activity or something of the sort, you’d have no beingness. That activity is yours.

„The title SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 means the attainment of… of infinity by the reduction of the MEST universe as apparent infinity to zero, and the increase of the zero of one’s own universe to an infinity of one’s own universe.

Now the odd part of all this is that your activity is, in this universe… is enforced or inhibited. You’re given the supplies and then to a large degree not permitted to use them. And your own process, your own manufacture of mock-ups and so forth, is actually in contest with the MEST universe. The MEST universe says, „Look how big and strong and real I am, and how weak and puny you are.“

„This road is attained by postulate processing and creative processing. To run any incident or use any process, it is necessary for the auditor to have a very sound idea of what he is doing; and to this end it is recommended that he know and be able to use the following processes.

How does it says that? It says, „My actuality is brighter than any you can make.“ This doesn’t happen to be true. The reality of the MEST universe is poorer than a reality which a preclear can gain in his own universe. This would only be natural, because what is one’s own can be more real then that which one has given to him. One always appreciates that of which he is the author more than he appreciates something of which he is not the author.

„Processing. The code, the theta entity, the entities, running engrams, running secondaries, running locks, concepts and feelings, running ridges, circuits, running live flow, freeing the thetan by concept and feeling, freeing the thetan by present and future randomity, freeing by dichotomies, freeing by tone scale, freeing the thetan by orientation, freeing the thetan by positioning and exhaustion of flows.“

This is a rather inevitable sort of thing, and so really here, following out this old process of SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008, we find we are working with, really, a curve that goes two ways here. It starts down from here – 0.0 – and then goes up here – 40.0 – and comes over to here and comes down here again. And this could be the MEST universe, and this could be your own universe.

End of paragraph. The next one is, „Postulate Processing,“ which is one of the things.

One of the reasons universities get patronized is because they use the word UNIVERSITY. One of the reasons they get loyalty from their students is because they use the word UNIVERSITY and YOUR UNIVERSITY. There really is no other reason. That’s right, flatly; because let’s look at the s… facts of the case. The writer, would-be writer, goes to a university to write. If he’s ‘taught’, unquote, to write in a university, he’ll never write.

Now uh… it’s… it’s what you call… what you call the amount of space occupied here. There’s 38 – that’s about two-thirds of the page. Uh… the amount of data that really occupies that small two-thirds of a page there has been the subject of, let us say, oh, I should say offhand, a million and a half words, two million written words – something like that. And I don’t know how many words of lectures.

A painter goes there to learn how to paint, and he comes out – he never paints. Fascinating fact. That’s because he runs into authoritarianism. It does something to one’s will to be positioned for such long a period of time as from the age of five to the age of 22, 23 or 24. A person is young, he can stand it up to about the age of 15, 16, 17. And then he starts to suffer – badly – by being positioned. If he does not take on the responsibilities of his own existence shortly after puberty, he is going to have a hard time of it the rest of his life. And that is the flat end of it.

Now if you want to go over this and look it over step by step, it is pretty important that you have some conversance with this, because an auditor will start running some sort of a… he’ll just run postulates and all of a sudden, boom! Or he’ll all of a sudden start running mock-ups. Or he’ll suddenly start going through exercises of lifting and Boom! There’ll be phenomena lying there. And he’ll think he’s looking at something that is just – oh boy! I mean gosh!

It is no joke that university women do not have children. That’s a fact: They don’t. They don’t reproduce that particular line to any great degree. There are a lot of them that do, and the funny part of it is, these days they’re breaking out of that rut somewhat – somewhat. But the GI bill didn’t do anything for this.

„You mean when you start to lift uh… the lifting exercises and so on, with… with… with energy, you… you mean that… and… and the preclear’s got a log across his legs?“ And he’ll say, „That’s very funny. Log across his’ legs. Now let’s see. I know some about Freudian symbolism and uh… log across his legs, this is probably uh… ear envy. And uh… uh… let’s see now. That probably associates itself in some fashion or another as… it’s a… you said it’s a log?“

Look at Heidelberg. The European university is a very interesting one. Sometimes you even go to class. The GI bill was a whip over the heads of anybody who wished to study, the like of which nobody’s ever seen. You had to have a high average to keep up. This is one of the ways the government used to keep everybody from benefiting by it. You had to have a high whip… – average, big average – bang!

And the fellow said, „Yeah, yeah. It’s a log. The log’s. lying right here across my legs and that’s why I can’t lift one of my legs.“ „Let’s see now uh… oh, it’s a log! It’s got bark on it.“ „Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!“ „Oh, you don’t like dogs. Okay here we go.“

You had to get in there and know those facts. And instruction under those conditions was what? As many as 400 students to a class, with one instructor, and that instructor was just a lecturer. No instruction, really.

Now that can be the subject of a long dissertation about the fact… they always start in this way. The squirrels are wonderful. They spend two seconds observing, uh… five minutes contemplating the glories of having observed, and then many months talking about the phenomena.

Very interesting. I looked at universities when this was going on. There’s one thing that saved the bacon of the GI. He’d been out on his own somewhat, and he’d also found out how to duck and dodge in the service. It’s the only thing he had.

But uh… nowhere along this track do you find very much data. And… and I would be the subject of many letters uh… long letters describing this log across the preclear’s legs. That’s… that’s right – I mean, this has happened time after time. This falls into the band of facsimiles and it would fall into the category of probably a past-life facsimile.

But if I have to rehabilitate, or try to rehabilitate one more writer that a university has ruined, I’m gonna go over and really fix me up some short story professors. I’m gonna zap ‘em so they’ll know they’ve been zapped. ‘Cause I’m sick of it!

We were trying one exercise last night, Nibs and I, just fooling around, and so forth. We were knocking facsimiles into view faster than any auditor has ever been able to locate them in the past, by doing what? By trying to lift his ankle, that’s all. He was lying down, he was just trying to lift his ankle, he was fooling around with it rather arduously by snapping anchor points around – just interesting stuff. And first he found (you don’t mind my mentioning this) uh… first he found three corpsmen holding him down in a tonsillectomy and he blew them through the roof. And uh… then he found a log across his legs and uh… blew that out. And then he found eight times when that leg had been fractured, and uh… four times when the other leg had been fractured. And uh… that’s all back along the track somewhere.

They run the same old yap. The kid turns in a good idea, a piece of his own universe, and he gets it back: „The punctuation is off.“ Who the hell cares about the punctuation. That’s what you have editors for.

These… these facsimiles just kept flying off, flying off. Of course, he couldn’t lift his leg because of all these facsimiles.

What do they teach these kids? They teach ‘em how to edit.

Well now, uh… the way he handles facsimiles, of course, he says, „Look, another picture“ and uh… pitches it out the nearest window, or… or uh… makes it disappear down the time track or something.

Some of the most famous writers in America were congregated in one room. These writers were looking for someone who had a Ph.D. in literature, a doctorate in literature, or something in literature, that we didn’t even know what the degree was. And everybody kind of squirmed; one fellow says, „Well, fact of the matter is I… I took engineering, I didn’t take writing.“

But uh… preclears that you’re working uh… initially don’t have this skill. They… they… they say, „A log across the leg – okay. My agreement with the MEST universe says if I have a picture of a log across the leg, then I have a picture of a log across the leg, that isn’t a picture of a log across the leg, that’s actually a log. Therefore I pick up the weight factors in that log which is lying across the leg and I pick up all the other perceptics I had and let’s not forget the emotion on the thing. Ah, I’d better feel like I’m dying. Okay, here I go.“

And another one says, „Well, I… I only spent the first year in college and then they kicked me out.“

And you could sit there and snap your fingers over this preclear for some time uh… insisting that he get this log across his legs by uh… get it off or on and so forth, in order to handle the facsimile.

And another fellow said, „You did? Well I was there two years before they kicked me out!“

Well, of course, you’re handling the facsimile to get it into position so that it can be run. A person who cannot run a facsimile is simply unable to get the facsimile into the position where it can be run. That is, he could not move a picture before him, behind him, above him, below him and into last week. You get the idea? That’s why he can’t get the facsimile to run – it’s very simple. We’ll just short-circuit all that. You… you… you just get the person so that he can handle a facsimile, or handle a picture, handle mock-ups and pictures in this fashion – make them appear and disappear and increase and decrease and turn upside-down and the content changed. And uh… the next thing you know, why you’ve got yourself a nice smooth uh… facsimile there that uh… can be picked up and thrown out the window – it doesn’t have to be run. If… if you can orient it to this degree, well why run it? The guy’s handling it, isn’t he? And if his handling uh… is of this nature, why uh… let it go. Increase his ability to handle it.

And all of a sudden we looked through this whole crowd and we find out – my God! Everybody here has been kicked out of a university and probably didn’t spend very long there except maybe if they were taking engineering and then they were hanging around with the fringes. And then the only reason the university graduated them as engineers is they knew damn well they’d never practice engineering. And uh… well, it was about all we had.

Now just above that level, you’ll start picking up the agreements which are sub to a postulate but are sort of a postulate. It’s… it’s… a postulate is something the fellow himself makes, and an agreement would be his co-postulating or his agreement with somebody else’s postulate. That is, acceptance of somebody else’s illusion which would be, of course, delusion for him.

Except one little small proud voice piped up over in the corner, and he said, „I have a degree in literature.“

Now uh… therefore uh… an auditor who doesn’t know the basic manifestations and what can happen uh… can have these things sort of fly into his face and get in his road and upset him and all that sort of thing. They’re liable to think all sorts of things.

We thought, „For Christ’s sakes! Mice?“ And uh… it was what? It was a literary agent! I mean, oh no! Flesh brokers. They can’t write. Oh, how they’d love to! He was the only one there.

If they haven’t seen some of these things in operation, they don’t know they are there, and believe me, they’ll start to use an innocent little gimmickahoojit like… like mock-up processing. And all of a sudden Boom! Boom! Boom! There’ll be all sorts of phenomena. Now here’ll come… all of a sudden the preclear’s… you can practically see his hair standing straight back. And… and you say, „I wonder what’s happened? I wonder what’s happened? I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this. It must be some sort of an electrical disturbance in his vicinity someplace. And I just saw his hair standing up and – and uh… that’s very interesting because that lightning bolt that keeps flashing there uh… between his hands uh… certainly should…“

The aggregate income of that room, by the way, was in excess of 150 thousand dollars a month – except the literary agent. He did criticisms for a dollar a manuscript.

„Let’s write an article for the American Medical Association for this and… and say that electricity, when used on a preclear, is very bad because the electricity which goes through an E-Meter uh… seems to build up somehow and uh… gets up to the level of developing lightning bolts. And uh… this is what happens with E-meters and this is what E-meters do.“

Isn’t that fascinating? Something must be off the rails if a country does not turn itself out aesthetics. There were 280 thousand bachelors of art graduates in 1947 from the United States. 280 thousand! My God! Think what would have happened if you’d graduated into this country 280 thousand good – artists! The whole face of the United States would have changed.

You see, he could draw a completely different conclusion. He every once in a while will get ligh… get lightning bolts shooting around the place. Or he’ll just have some simple mock-up… have this girl – „Oh, you’ve got a headache? Well, have this beautiful girl stand behind your head.“ You see, you can use mock-up processing without theta clearing somebody and you can knock out chronic somatics boom! – boom!

Now there are things that can be taught, but not the arts. You can teach ‘em engineering, you can teach ‘em something that has any process or procedure; you can get ‘em together and teach them government. You can teach law. You can do a lot of these things, but you can’t teach the arts.

You say, „All right, mock up this beautiful girl and have her stand behind your head – you have a nice headache there – and then have her… have her patting your head. That’s fine, now have her come around to the front of you and sort of stroke your hair down on that side. That’s fine. Now have her move around to the side of you and put a green gown on her and have her pull off a small section of the skull, quietly and pleasantly, to find the headache. Oh, yes, yes. Now have her sew it up real good so that it won’t get away. And now have her turn your head back and forth.“

And there’s where I get the index: How much better could they work? Well, they could work better if they stayed true to their own pretense that they’re a university.

And the fellow will say, „Say, you know, there seems to be some kind of an electrical storm going on around here.“ What you’re doing is blowing a ridge like mad, see. I mean, you’re not… you’re not just talking about this beautiful girl.

If one went to his own university and if it treated him like that, he would have the right to think and he’d have the right to have an opinion. And he’d have the right to make up his own mind. And he would be there so that information could be made available to him, so he could figure it out.

The physical universe says, „Agree with me! Agree with me! Please! Please! Please! I’ll give you the seas, the stars, everything if you’ll just agree with me and… and uh… uh…“ That’s its latter stages. Its earlier stages, it says, „Oh, you’re disagreeing with me. Well, I’m going to ruin hell out of you.“ And it starts saying „Rowrr!“

And this problem right here would have been licked hundreds and hundreds of years ago, if it hadn’t been for the scholastics and if it hadn’t have been for the modern university. You owe ‘em a great debt – a debt of continued slavery – because they pretended they were responsible for this problem, and they never took responsibility for it.

Well, any one of these things can result in lightning bolts passing from the left hand to the right hand. Any one of these things can result in… in fabulous manifestations, which are fabulous if you don’t know what they are, and they’re really very simple.

So, you’ll get all sorts of kick-backs as you go outside of that propaganda. Understand, I’m not trying to destroy the American university as an institution. I think we’ve got to have football, and the more football we have the better.

So, when you start to do mock-up processing, don’t think you’re avoiding handling – you’re NOT avoiding handling. You’re not doing, mock-up processing in order to make these manifestations occur. You’re doing mock-up processing to make all such manifestations stop occurring for ever more until the end of time, such as ridges blowing, flows running, facsimiles jumping up and getting out of line, uh… locks being picked up, people getting upset because this and that happens to ‘em. You’re just ending this sort of thing.

Anyway, the whole idea here is to restore freedom of action, freedom of thought, freedom to believe, freedom to survive, freedom to know, freedom to be responsible, freedom to create motion, freedom to BE fate, not have to have it. Freedom to win… very interesting. THOSE are freedoms.

Y… and the sooner you can bring it to a full halt… I’ll have to stop… stop talking about smoking brakes. Every time we were running an incident last night with Nibs, he got brake smoke because he’d stopped himself from going in some direction or another. Room got practically loaded with it. Wasn’t good lining he was using either. He’s had some kind of a scarcity complex or other – cheap lining.

And funny thing: A man has to be free in order to be those things. And as soon as he starts being owned, he ceases to have them. And one of the first steps is to tell him how nice it is to be owned: „We’ll take full responsibility for you.“

Anyway, uh… the… the list of phenomena should be at an auditor’s fingertips and should be easily identified by him, so that he never turns a hair. And I’ve just given you here a… really, a list of phenomena which is covered EXHAUSTIVELY in past processes. It’s just covered. There’s just ways of running this… this – Oh, my God! The last time I got uh… a small count of the number of surefire, positive, handy jim-dandy little techniques for handling black and white flows, I had over 80 techniques.

You know, in the Roman Empire, that the consuls and so forth were often pro-consuls, and kids around town. The kids around town, the kind that you see maybe going to a boy scout troop or something like that in this society. How you defeat an abundance of labor. The kids around town, the richer families, the… so on. The more noteworthy children took on the duties of office at 12, 13 and 14. And most of the famous characters that you read about in Roman history, you’re reading about periods of their lives from 15 to 20. That is when the body is growing, it’s vital, it’s progressive and it doesn’t know the word STOP. It doesn’t learn that until it’s about 30. By that time it’s got it, good.

And somebody wrote in the other day and said, „You know, I have a technique for handling black and white flows.“ Boy, that’s just… that… that’s… that’s like… that’s like uh… uh… taking a cubic foot of smoke to Pittsburgh – just pointless.

Now when you look over all of this, the second that a man says, „I have to have some other force than mine own,“ he ceases to be free. An interchange of knowledge can occur, but an interchange in borrowing of force cannot. A state and a people have no business operating on a police basis. They should never… but this is a beautiful police universe. Police, police, police. Every direction you look. Regimentation and policing – very wicked.

Now I have no doubt that there exist somewhere in that – in man or in beingness – types of things which have not been cataloged adequately, since this was not a cataloging job at any time; it was an action research. And it wasn’t a research. It was the first look. And it was just action – there it is, how do we handle it? „Why does he act that way?“ „Oh, here’s 8 reasons why he acts this way.“ „How many ways can we get to solve these?“ „Oh, we’ve got 52 reasons for every one of the 8.“ „Okay.“

Because people are persuaded to turn over their individual force to something that they are given to understand is superior to their own ability to protect. And that can never be. That’s a snare; that can never be. Nobody’ll look after a man’s own but himself. And nobody’ll look after the property of a group but itself. But if you do that sort of thing, you are proposing anarchy, you’re proposing that you do not have a government by force. But you’re proposing that anybody be given licence in the field of forte main! Oh, no. That, unfortunately, isn’t workable either, unless one has achieved at the same time a level of ethic permissible to have such force in existence.

And that was about the kind of research it was. It wasn’t saying, „Now, let’s carefully make a big, big catalog here: specimen 872 – Engrams when they are on the left-hand port quarter of the starboard side of the ruddy-rods uh… have in them, when they contain sonic perceptics, 1.682 ohms of resistance when in the proximity of…“ I mean, no scientist did this job.

Fortunately, nobody ever had the adventure or the information to look at it before and find out: Did one’s ethic increase to the degree that he was free above a certain point. No; they looked at a rabble that had always been nailed down, chained down, hangdog, mauled, rolled under Have Not’s, that would suddenly spring free, crawl out of the gutters and sewers and by negative-positive reaction HIT a country, tear it to pieces, throw it back down the time track in havingness, a thousand, two thousand years: The French Revolution.

See, that’s very obvious. It’s very obvious because there’s no catalog goes along with it. But there are frames of thinking which include all this phenomena. And you’re getting here, actually, when we take a rundown on this, frameworks of existence of phenomena. Something is going to fall in… well, if you find something it’ll fall into one of these baskets.

And then they say, „Look what happens when you give them freedom. That’s a good reason now why we should use force.“

Now uh… it’ll fall into the baskets of pictures uh… in motion or in black and white or in color, which are still or motion pictures. And uh… they will fall into the catalog… that’s they contain all perceptics and there are over a hundred perceptics in each one of these pictures – it’s quite remarkable.

It was force and the suppression of force which caused that action. It wasn’t the other.

And that catalog or that frame expands out, then, to embrace what? Energy. Okay, I mean… and we’re right there on the common denominator. And when we start to handle energy we run into the framework of space. And so it falls into these categories.

A man’s freedom, then, cannot be a halfway thing. You cannot compromise or quibble with the freedom of a man. If there is a perfect form of government, that form of government would be anarchy. Everybody has agreed to this. An anarchy, however, would have to be built out of individuals who were capable, each one, of complete self-government, an impossible condition in the past. If each person were capable of complete self-government and capable of taking responsibility utterly for his own acts, you would have, for the first time, a basis of ethic.

Now the second we look at an object – „Arthritic knee“ – we know that we will find on it dammed up flows, energy not free somehow to run, we’ll find the preclear out of communication with it – we’ve got ARC – he’s out of communication with his own leg. And we could solve this in several ways. We can just hire a couple of… of gremlins uh… and uh… get the preclear to hire ‘em, and string some telegraph wire uh… down through to that knee. Or we could install pump mechanisms and uh… and all sorts of things in order to get circulation flowing through the knee again. That’s one of the most interesting mock-ups is to get somebody working on something like an arthritic knee.

And the other way around, you would only have a moral, and a moral code is no good. An ethical code can be depended upon, because if you have an ethical code, you only have it as long as it exists. And it exists only as long as a man has enough strength not to himself be afraid.

„All right, let’s mock up… now let’s mock up a… a pneumatic drill. Okay. We’ve got that pneumatic drill? Now let’s start busting up some pavement with it. Okay. Now let’s move the pavement around back of your back and start busting it up back there. All right.“

And any time he is susceptible to terror, you’re going to lose your ethic. And the only time a man gets afraid is when he loses his belief in himself and his trust in himself.

„Now let’s move it up above your head and start breaking it up there, and let’s change the pneumatic drill to one of these great big widow-makers, the kind they take cliffs down with, you know? And let’s start busting up pavement with that. All right. You’re gettin’ that. And you see it’s falling down on you. Well,’ take one of those pieces – now make it fall upwards.“ We’ve finally accomplished that. Put it down below his feet and that sort of thing, and then put the whole thing into yesterday. He can’t put it into yesterday so we go to some gradient scale and we take a toothpick and we put that into yesterday. We take all kinds of things that have no real value and we put those into yesterday. We make them disappear.

And every criminal you find in an institution went on the road to crime in one direction only and at one moment only: when he lost his own self-respect. You can go check that, and you’ll find out that that is uniformly the case. And if you want to rehabilitate the criminal, rehabilitate his self-respect. One day he suddenly found out he couldn’t trust himself any more and from that moment on he became a criminal because it did not matter now what he did.

Then we find out if he’s making them disappear by dropping black curtains over them or stopping looking at them. Uh… and we solve that by letting him put lots of black curtains over them, and so forth, and still pick it up and find out it’s still there. You’ll find out after a while it’s still there unless he makes it disappear.

And in a gradient scale, you have a modern society.

And uh… we… we then drill him, „How do you know you had breakfast in 1932?“

Now what then is your level that is an attainable level for freedom? It would have to be a level which is so high that every man could reason and be responsible in his own right, for his own acts. And also for the acts of others.

The fellow says, „Well, I’m still alive.“

Blame-regret, blame-regret is the course of a police state. And its spiral dwindles down and dwindles very rapidly. So there’s no halfway point on this scale. You can’t cut it off here and say we’ve done a good job and reformed the whole world. You can’t cut it off here at ‘A’; you can’t cut it off at ‘B’. You’ve just got to go ahead and put the guy into shape so he can handle himself and his force. You can patch up somebody and make him well. That’s what you were straining against in auditing. You see, you broke agreement with the first book, you broke agreement with the MEST universe to – this degree: to about 4.0. You said, „Look, it says I have to have engrams and I have to have things that force me to do various things. And look: I can run them out. As fast as they happen… bad things happen to me, I can run them out.“

And uh… in other words, we solve time right on the spot. The first moment that we find out there is something flukey about him making things disappear, we just go on a gradient scale of havingness. We… we get him drilled until he can have or not have a picture, or have or not have an object.

And you were disagreeing with the mandates of the physical universe to that extent. But that extent ceases at 4.0, and from there on up it requires another process.

Now the worst gradient scale of the whole thing is to actually give him a toothpick, a MEST universe toothpick, and say, „Okay, you got this MEST universe toothpick?“ And he’ll look at it and he’ll say, „Yes.“

That’s why, immediately, homo sapiens can go to 4.0 on DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH and the SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. But he can’t go anyplace above that without having his self-determinism restored to him. He becomes well, he becomes better able to reason, but I have not seen what I had hoped to see because unfortunately it can’t exist: an ethical, strong, homo sapiens. And if it can’t exist, let’s go up here.

And… and… and, „All right, now. Take it over and throw it out the window.“

Gee, you’re clear up to about a potential of 36, 38 before you can get a full level susceptible to good ethic. An ethic is that which is enforced by oneself, his belief in his own honor and good reason and optimum solution along the eight dynamics; that’s ethics.

Do you know how many preclears won’t do it? They’re really psycho when they won’t do that. They’ve got a toothpick and it might have some value, it might be connected to something or other, and so the best thing to do with this toothpick is sort of stick it in your pocket.

And morals is somebody who sticks a spear into your belly or a sepulchre over your head, hides a boogey man back of a chair, tells you nothing and says, „You’ve got to do it because the unseen Gods…“ There’s no difference between a taboo and a moral. This language is even beginning to go to pieces, because in the dictionaries of today, unlike the dictionaries of just a hundred years ago, a moral is defined as an ethic, and an ethic is defined as a moral in the modern dictionary. Ahhh, they’ve even lost the philosophic definition for an ethic.

Some of them, real, real bad ones, won’t even give it back to the auditor. That’s just a gradient scale of things disappearing, you see. Time is just a trick method of making something disappear.

You don’t think he’s bad off? He’s bad off. Homo sapiens at 4.0 is a lot better than homo sapiens has ever been. But homo sapiens at 4.0 compared to a level which you would… desirable ethical, it has to measure up to the potentialities of the being, and at 4.0 he is much, much, much less than a 100 thousandths of his proper horsepower, and it’s too fine and too small a strength to be able to stand up to the winds of the world, and the howling o… yells of all the fears of the universe. It’s too much, that strength out there, in here; it’s too cold for homo sapiens or it’s too hot, or it’s too scarce. He can be killed too easily. As a consequence, this big, blustering universe can look at him and say, „You don’t dare be ethical. You’re afraid.“

Time is havingness, and when time i… goes along the line you get changingness in havingness – I mean you get alteration in havingness, and… or you can make something disappear. Well, you get anything to alter enough, you can get it altered small enough until he can’t see it. And then you say, „Hey, it disappeared, didn’t it?“

And so he is; he’s afraid.

„Oh, no,“ he said, „I finally did it.“

Now, when you get into knowingness, then, and when you get into an allowable band, these here, Survive, Right, Full Responsible… do you know that a man really doesn’t dare be right? What would happen if you went out determined to be right for 24 hours? What would it mean that you’d have to be right every time that you said anything, did anything, mentioned anything? You couldn’t be polite; you’d have to say what you meant. Hah! You’d be shot in your tracks before you got out of here.

Uh… that just… just run him onto that basis and then the next thing you know uh… what… what do you… what do you do with this arthritic knee? Well, it hasn’t got any circulation in it or something of the sort. So we take a knee uh… uh… any kind of a knee, and we put it way out there – can’t get a knee. So take an elbow. Work with this elbow until we finally take this pneumatic drill which he already knows how to use and bust… and then case the elbow in concrete and then break the concrete off the elbow. And just go through gradient steps like this until we finally have… up the line we finally have, oh, probably, great big pumps and uh… all sorts of prevention mechanisms installed, mechanical devices of all kinds and descriptions, doctors standing around in attendance, mechanics standing around in attendance on the machinery, uh… hot and cold running waitresses standing around to serve tea to the mechanics uh… all of this stuff.

Typical behavior of homo sapiens: Two elevators in the hotel are both sticking this morning. Girl gets on, she fusses all the way down, she’s fussing, damning, oh, cursing around terribly because one of these elevators is sticking, and both of them are, really, and misses floors and all that sort of thing. She’s going to really give the management a piece of her mind. And she walks over to the desk and she picks up her morning mail, and she says to this little tiny meek clerk, she said uh… „I suppose you’re fixing the elevators?“

And we’ve got this, and the… and the person finally says, „You know, the hell with this knee.“ You know how fast that knee will go away? Just blink… just in a blink, if you do it right.

And the clerk said, „Yes,“ and she dropped it at that. Real brave, homo sapiens, real brave. He knows it doesn’t do any good.

Yeah, everybody knows it takes a long time for arthritis to go away. But if you’ve done a proper job on the thing, it’s gone, „blink“. And it might come back tomorrow, a little bit of it, you know? Just take him and renew all this machinery and make it much better and uh… fix it up much better and they say, „You know, I can’t get any sympathy for this knee. Of course, I’m not so sure that I need sympathy by now.“

Well, let’s ask the same question: What the hell is this girl doing needing an elevator?

But uh… on its recurrence, on a recurrence of a symptom, you always can expect a symptom to flash back on the preclear once in a while. Don’t worry about it (the preclear will) uh… why, get… get this knee and put it up in a… shop window on Main Street and have all kinds of people coming by and looking at it and feeling so sad because of the knee, you see? And then put it there as part of an underwear ad. And have them come by and feel so sorry for this knee. And then have all the members of the family come in very carefully. And then have the knee crowned with a crown and set on a throne so it can rule the whole world – I mean, any way you want to go this way, see.

So, this is a rough universe. You’d have to be able to handle the majority of forces in it before you could stand up to it and never be afraid. Or you would have to hold inside yourself a piece of courage that would be strained and tortured beyond all belief in an effort to be courageous enough to take this universe.

All of a sudden they’ll say, „The hell with this thing! Why did I ever bring this up?“ Well, that’s right. They brought it up Lord knows how long ago, as a mechanism.

I believe the people who are alive today are by far the more courageous ones because this universe really dishes the boys in who aren’t.

In other words, mock-ups directly apply to these things.

Now we’ve got here two tracks. And we might as well split them off into two tone scales. We’ll draw this line down here – Y-Z, and we’ll show the difference between these two things just by dividing it. And I don’t know what the scale over here would be. I haven’t got any idea, because that’s all up to you. This scale might start here at something like 40 where you made space, but you always had to have an object before you made a space, which might put 40 there. Or both of those might be 40 for you; or you might have 0.0 here. –

What are you doing to it? You’re really doing this to it: You’re taking a part of the body which is disowned and for which the person is not responsible. A person has decided that that part of the body is harmful to him and he has actually cut communications with it and will not let it communicate in any direction.

And as you went up to… say you got too much space in your universe, you might go into minus 8 as a penalty. And you might have a little square that… „When you move into this you go back eight steps.“ I don’t know what’s on this side. That… that’s… that’s your universe. I haven’t got any idea of what would be in that or how you’d figure things out.

This is very silly, because it stops its flows. It can’t flow. How the dickens can arthritis dissolve if the various glandular uh… secretions and so on in the blood stream that pick up calcium uh… if… if they don’t uh… go through the area? Or if the blood flow is slow through the area? So you get deposits, just as a river when it turns a corner leaves silt. Now uh… you’ve got a physiological condition. First, you… you just got concrete sitting in there. Well, just don’t try to solve it in terms of physical structure. True enough, a person can get sick. He can get sick from bacteria. Bacteria exist as far as he permits them to exist. If he’s down tone scale, he’ll permit bacteria to exist like mad. So he has bacteria and everybody has agreed ever since Pasteur that the… all these diseases were caused by it. Sure enough, they probably were. There were other factors involved, but there’s still bacteria.

I do know this, however, that it’d be very interesting. But over here on the MEST universe side, you bet your life, I know what’s over here: 0.0-20.0. It’s taken me 25 years to find out what’s over there. It wasn’t that it was a tough problem; it was too incredibly simple. And you always kept overshooting its complexity, always kept overshooting it.

The guy can still get chewed up by bubonic plague or yellow fever or cholera. Let him drink some water which has carefully had placed in it, as they do in China – I think they have little Chinese coolies around on all the streams to drop in uh… Asiatic cholera into the stream at so many… so many cholera cysts per cubic inch of water. I think it’s an awful lot of trouble, but I’m sure they do that, because I’ve never seen a sample of water in China that didn’t look like a menagerie, You look at it through a microscope.

The secret of the MEST universe was, there was no secret.

And by the way, the Asiatic cholera cyst is a fascinating thing. It won’t dissolve in chlorine. Oh, I mean you can drop it into a heavy chlorine solution and leave it for hours and hours and hours – a heavier chlorine solution than you’d dare drink – and just leave it there for hours and hours and hours. And take it out and it’s just as alive – fascinating. That thing has really had things fight it! And is it armor-plated and protected! The way you do it, you boil water for about 10 minutes. Don’t eat vegetables, though, because, my Lord! If you ate vegetables that had Asiatic cholera spore on them… why, you could spray them with potassium permanganate. That ruins the flavor of the vegetable but you feel you have to have green stuff. As a matter of fact, you can get so craving, the phys… GE can crave greenery to such a degree that he’ll even do that – he’ll s… dip things in things like potassium permanganate and hope that it’ll do something to the bacteria. It won’t – not the Asiatic cholera.

So, we get here and we come up the line. Well, theoretically a person would go from this point over here… this point uh… ‘N’ and he’d go up here where this parabola, or whatever it is, hits this ‘Y-Z’ line. This would be area… area ‘T’ for Transit. And uh… as a person’s tone rose, his freedom would rise and he’d go up to that area, according to graph… fortunately you don’t really go according to graphs, you see. You could theoretically go up and through that area and down this side again. That Isn’t possible.

And uh… the preclear can get sick from this cause, yes sir. The GE has agreed for a long time that he suddenly and inexplicably became sick. Well he went into apathy and didn’t observe bacteria any more. There’s no reason why he can’t look at bacteria. They can shoot a guy up with penicillin or something like that, or make him well from bacteria and fever.

But there is a way that… because, you see, it isn’t possible to transit at the top there, because it’s a… It’s a what? See, you wouldn’t be able to tell where this space started and ended that was your universe and the MEST universe, and you could get very, very mixed up about space up there at that point, ‘T’. And therefore, time would go screwy, and so on.

Of course, it is true that the bacteria can’t fasten upon him unless he’s weak in some fashion or another. But outside of that and the fact that you have to treat… treat a broken leg, and if a fellow has a tourni… is… if the fellow is bleeding to death, and pumping blood all over the place, this is no time to sit down and audit. Put a tourniquet on him. Uh… because uh… the thetan becomes inaccessable when his standard communication line, the body, goes out. Uh… he doesn’t if he’s up tone scale, but uh… this is not the preclear I’m talking about.

So what you’re doing is an entirely different operation. You’re actually postulating a 0.0 in your universe, and you’re doing… doing mock-ups in your universe at first, comparable to, or less than, the… the stability of mock-ups in this universe.

All right, this means then that as far as a permanent structural goal is concerned, the devil with it! Don’t… your… your fella… don’t let him get operated on to have his tonsils removed or something of the sort, or teeth pulled on the theory that this is going to alter his condition permanently. That won’t. You see, this is a chronic condition – it’s something that extends over a long period of time, and so on. If it extends over a period of time, his havingness on it is, of course, very great. Right? So it isn’t going to be solved by tinkering around with surgery or something of the sort.

So you’re doing a jump here from the right-hand side of this curve… to the left-hand side of the curve to the right-hand side of the curve, see? Own… the physical universe curve. You’re doing things over here on the Own – universe curve which are comparable. You’re doing the same comparability. You’re not building a universe. You’re just practicing over here on your Own universe curve.

If it’s an acute condition, just had an automobile accident, yes, you can solve the reason he has automobile accidents. If he’s just had one and his throat’s half cut – sew him up. Uh… emergency surgery or surgery which is directly addressed to an acute illness – he’s sick – is superior to auditing. The moment he’s had the surgery, however, run out the whole incident and the engram. He’ll get well. He’ll get well much faster if you do it that way. So here’s an acute state of disease, and here’s a long chronic state of disease. Well, it doesn’t do any good, really, broadly, to address surgery and drugs and monkey business and all sorts of cures and vitamins.

„What do you know?“ several people say, „It’s a funny thing it’s happening, but the MEST universe isn’t… doesn’t seem to be getting any more real… unreal; a lot of things I’ve run in it. But you know these things I mock up! Boy, are they getting real! They really look good“ and so forth. And, „I’d sure hate to get rid of that… I sure hated to get rid of that. That… that was… that was real nice“ – uh… that… that sort of thing. Picking up more and more and more and more and more and more.

The Japanese are wonderful. They’re one of the most unhealthy people uh… well. And, boy, do they take vitamins. They… Japanese Army, every time you took over a Japanese Army base you… you never found very much in the way of cameras or anything else. Some of the marine sergeants used to go around and kick the gold teeth out of the wounded and so on. But uh… uh… they… they used to consider that somewhat valuable because the Japanese love gold teeth. But uh… ooh! And uh… but the only stores you would find around… you might find a paucity of food, but you wouldn’t find any paucity of vitamins – great warehouses full of vitamins. Boy, did the Nipo believe in vitamins! I swear he fed his troops vitamins when he couldn’t feed ‘em anything else. They would… they would skip the rice ration if they had vitamins, and boy, were they unhealthy.

And of course, when one is able to do that, all the way over, he can actually flash back on to this side and if he’s gotten himself parked here – 20.0… 20.0. Supposing he’s 20.0 on this mock curve – this Own Universe curve. See, you’re not building your own universe. That’s just its curve, that’s just a practice curve. So if you’re opposite 20.0 on the MEST universe curve, and you’re 20.0 over on this side, what are you gonna get?

You can actually feed a… an unbalanced vitamin ration where the vitamins and minerals are all unbalanced – and do what? And knock a preclear’s teeth out, knock his sight out, give him ulcers, do anything you want to to him by simply removing from the system the minerals and other things which are vital to a certain area. You give him an overbalanced ration – uh… let’s say it takes an awful lot of calcium to make teeth. And let’s give him a ration of vitamins, let’s pump him all up on proteins and minerals and vitamins – and omit the calcium. Huhh! The rest of the body is going to say, „Look, we’re rich and therefore we must have lots of calcium. Therefore if there’s lots of calcium around here, we naturally can build up everything and we can use the…“ Oh, boy! It doesn’t have any calcium, so it runs around – let’s see. It takes it out of the bones, it takes it out of the teeth, and so on. The first thing you know, the guy hasn’t got any teeth or something of the sort.

Very fascinating, because you’d probably be able to rig up a blonde in an evening gown down in the street and men would come by and they’d say, „Gee! Ha!“ – tip their hats – that’s theoretically. That’s what would happen.

You could actually vitamize an unbalanced vitamin ration. I picked up quite a process by that, by the way. I figured out the mineral content of many parts of the body, simply by overdoses of proteins and minerals and vitamins, and omitted, carefully, each vitamin in turn and each mineral in turn. And would overdose the guy to such a degree that he was developing such a thing as scurvy. You can induce scurvy this way.

You’d get way up into forms of action, you’d be able to interchange images. But that’s just a practice curve. So what’s the curve of your own universe? Now that’d be another curve over here, and I don’t care how it would go – torsional G space for all I know.

You can take vitamin C, omit it from the ration, and then give him a TERRIFIC dosage of proteins and vitamins and minerals – with no vitamin C, no ascorbic acid, and in eight or ten hours of such dosage you can give him a case of scurvy, the like of which you’ve never observed. You can have his teeth just rattling in his gums. Gums all swelling up – oh, fascinating!

But when you’re all up the line, and so on, why you’re up there. Well before you get to that point, ‘T’… well before you get to ‘T’, you should be able to throw things up, which at least to you are superior, vastly superior in quality, depth, intricacy, design and interest, far superior to MEST universe. And in view of the fact that you’re doing this as a thetan, any… most any time you could part company with a body. I mean, you’ve got reality on that, a lot of you.

And uh… now – now do we know that that’s vitamin C causing it? Well, it’s the imbalance and the inability of the genetic entity to handle anything above MEST. Do you think he’s a superior illusion because he’s so solid? He’s a superior illusion because he’s used a solidity that uh… he took out of a more superior illusion, the MEST universe.

But at the end of three weeks, you certainly better have better than just a little reality on it. You’d better be out and clear. There isn’t any reason why you can’t be. There isn’t… I haven’t seen a hard case in this whole class.

And uh… he’s got this all stacked together. And you think he’s in wonderful… wonderful shape? Well, he can’t handle an imbalance like that. What do you do? How do you know it was vitamin C? How do you know it really went to the teeth? Why, sure. He’s got a bad… bad teeth now, hasn’t he? He temporarily… you haven’t ruined him. any, particularly. Now let’s just omit everything and let’s pump him full of vitamin C. Now the vitamin C is a sort of vacuum. And it goes instantaneously into the teeth and the gums and he will develop a toothache the like of which no dentist… dentists really ought to know about this. They’re pikers, I mean, with their drills and all of that sort of thing. They try, I know they try, and they’re good boys, and I know that some of those dentists that… that got down to the point of putting… putting spiked pads on their knees to put those on the patient’s chest. And these little refinements uh… that they’ve used – they’re still pikers. I’m sorry to have… they’d have to find this out eventually. But uh… you feed that guy, after he’s been overdosed in everything else – don’t feed him proteins or vitamins or minerals, just feed him vitamin C. And feed it to him fast, and feed it to him in great big doses like a thousand units, you know, a thousand milligrams at a crack.

All right, the uh… you’re doing a comparative level. Well, now these concepts which are here on the Chart of Attitudes don’t tell you anything about the quality of a mock-up, except in a highly generalized way. But they tell you… when you say, ‘Chart of Attitudes, MEST universe’, that gives you an ideal state of being, Or man, or something of the sort.

And he will develop a toothache that he would rather be SHOT than suffer. He can just feel those teeth as cracking and creaking and trying to go back together again too fast. Too much havingness, you see.

And over on your own universe, the mock-curve… practice mock-curve, what you’re trying to attain in a mock-up is the following:

And… and the scurvy will cure up. Of course, what you do after you’ve noticed this is just feed him some more proteins and vitamins and minerals, and they’ll take the vitamin C back out and they’ll tend to balance the ration.

You want to be able to survive; it should be right; it should take full responsibility for what it’s doing and you take full responsibility for it. You should be able to own all. You should be able to make anything that approximates anything. You should be able to make it continue on an ‘Always’ basis, or have ‘Always’ there; in other words, all kinds of time. You should have things which are motion sources in there. The level of truth of that universe ought to be good. You would BE faith in that universe; or your mock-ups, as far as faith is concerned, you would probably rely on a mock-up a heck of a lot quicker than you’d ever rely on a piece of MEST. I mean that seriously. You’d just rely on the mock-up.

You can balance him up and get him back to, quote, normal, unquote, again. But uh… now let’s take that… let’s take this whole formula with vitamin C in it this time – everything in it. And now let’s carefully remove B1. Oh, let’s remove B1. Yeah, that’s what we’ll do. This time we’ll give him an overdose of B1 afterwards. See, we’ll feed him up for about 10, 12 hours on all… a pluperfect ration of protein hydrolysate and all the fancy minerals in their most digestible form, no food, you see. I mean the protein is a food. Protein, and minerals and… and uh… vitamins. And we’ll just omit vitamin uh… vitamin B1 – thiamine chloride. Just overdose, overdose, overdose and this guy will all of a sudden be saying, „You know. There’s things crawling on the walls, there’s spiders, there’s…“ Oh, God! Has he got a wonderful case of DTs! You can fix him up quickly.

That’s not bad; if you can create a Cadillac which can outrun Cadillacs, I think you’d depend upon your Cadillac. Get the idea? But if you were really up at the top of the mock-up curve, you’ve made a Cadillac, you would drive your Cadillac much in preference to a Cadillac. You get the idea? It sounds strange, it sounds peculiar, but if you were doing that, and you really set out to make a Cadillac, yours would be a better Cadillac, for you.

Now… now cut him off all that other ration and right quick start shooting him full of B1. Well, he’ll snap back, but there are pyrotechnics to be observed there on a mental strata that you would be quite interested in. Because the way the pictures try to flash back into line – wonderful to behold. It tells you that B1 as a particle flow… as a particle is… somehow or other fits into the pictures of pictures, you understand? It says it has something to do with holding pictures in suspension. Or it ‘has something to do with goofballing up the thetan or the GE so that he thinks he has a big flow of something when he doesn’t have it. It’s upsetting. You could study it for a while, you’d probably understand what it was. The study has yet to be made. I just studied this other.

Actually, you think a MEST universe is good? Uh-uh. It takes gas; it’s scarce; it costs money.

All right, let’s take that full dosage again and let’s omit another vitamin and we’ll find out suddenly that the liver on this super overdosage with one thing missing, the liver just goes to pieces – ha-wham! Oh, does he get in terrible condition quick. Now take that one and overfeed him on it and the liver just goes into straight agony in reverse as it tries to right itself. And then of course, balance it out, and the guy gets all right again.

Now the level of knowingness. You would know what the beingness and other things were of this universe – your universe, your mock-up. There is a knowingness about your mock-up. You could make a mock-up that knows or you would know everything that was about the mock-up. And as far as knowledge was concerned, you would have the knowledge down pat that required. There would be a knowingness, a feeling of knowing, about these things. You would be cause, you wouldn’t be effect.

It’s fascinating that the GE is so fixated on having to have certain kinds of MEST. He has… he’s agreed so thoroughly with the MEST universe that he couldn’t substitute B1 for C. Oh, no! No, he knows he’s got to have that crystal form B1 or he knows he’s got to have that C. And he does this purely by association: „What’s there? What’s been there? Well, we… then we’ve got to have that. We can’t have any substitute on the line.“ He’s still differentiating but how’s he differentiating? He’s differentiating along about this level. Is it a chair or is it a table? And he is able to tell which is the chair in terms of crystals and virus structure in general.

Or you could make a mock-up that was cause for a lot of things. You would have reached ‘I am’ – full beingness – and you would be able to win. The easiest way to win is to be both sides. You’d be able to start things, terrific differentiation, a very good state of being. You had to be able to make all the space you wanted, so forth. –

He’s… he’s smart, see. He’s utterly dependent upon this stuff, but he couldn’t turn B1 to C. He couldn’t do that. And if you as a thetan are unable to do that after you’ve been in process for four or five months, you ought to go out and shoot yourself.

That… that’s just your goals of identity or identification or individuality of your mock-ups and their character and quality.

As far as matter and its basic structure is concerned, it is terribly alterable. But the GE can’t alter it. He’s not a superior illusion at all.

I know it sounds terribly upsetting to you when I say something like Cadillac. Actually, you would he… probably never mock up a Cadillac. Anybody who wants to go around and mock up a Cadillac and then drive it, of course, would finally find himself faced with the fact that he didn’t have license tags on the thing. He’d have to… he’d… it’s not a practical solution.

You can goofball up the GE and the body in the most fascinating ways. But it’s much easier just to convince him that he’s been goofballed. All you have to do is convince him he has been.

You… you’d have to put motor numbers on and serial numbers and persuade somebody in the Cadillac company that they built it. You get how the universe works a guy in? Well, heck! You wouldn’t want to do that then, unless you built a Cadillac which had the potentialities of a General Sherman tank and which, of course, had bullet-proof windows, had a turret gun in the top of the thing, and which would go down the road at 180 miles an hour. Then it would be perfectly safe to own that Cadillac, and so forth, with no license plates, no serial number. When you’re building in contests, you’ve got to build senior to, and that’s always a good process.

Uh… some time or other… some time or other get him into a very somnolent state and… and then drink some whitish powder and put some flour in it or something of the sort and don’t let him know anything about it… this, see – don’t let the preclear know. And he drinks this whitish powder, „Drink it down. That’s fine. You’ve just taken arsenic.“ If he’s in a very susceptible frame of mind he will lie down on the floor, writhe, and he will give you all the symptoms of dying by arsenic. It will be very puzzling to him why he doesn’t go all the way through with it, but by examining the structure of the thing at length, he will be able to take it and – „This is not arsenic.“

Now the funny part of this universe is that when you mock something up – way back on the track, see, you’ve had terrific experience with this. You… it’s just lost, because you kept putting ‘em into competition with the MEST universe and then agreeing with the MEST universe. Then you put this thing into competition and you’d mock up this girl. And you didn’t have much experience so you didn’t know what a girl should look like. And the MEST universe’d come along – you thought it was the MEST universe – some other thetan’d come along! Beautiful mock-up of a girl. Oh, lovely. Oh, gee! And you’d go – „Boy, that’s really something! And this… this thing of mine? Naw.“

Well, now that tells you then that your GE can be hit on two levels – we’re not too interested about the GE. But he can’t be hit on a structural level… he can’t be hit on a structural level if the functional level is shot. You can do anything you want to an alcoholic. You can take enzymes, benzenes, methylzenes, magazines, anything you want, and fool around with an alcoholic. You can feed him sugar uh… you can feed him spice uh… you can s… make him stand on his head, you can train him how to… how to… that he has to live for two seconds at a time and no longer – you can do all these wonderful things – and you’ll still have alcoholics.

And then there’s a certain sort of feeling about something you haven’t made yourself to it, that furnishes interest. You have to have something somebody else has.

The test of an alcoholic is can an alcoholic sit down and take a drink and just stop with that one drink and feel all right. Uh-uh. He can’t do it. The GE has a scarcity obsession on some type of crystalline structure. All you have to do is deny him this structure and deny him this structure and deny him this structure, and he’ll decide he can’t have it any more. And he will take a substitute for it. And then if you make THAT scarce, he will become psychotic on it. This is strictly your MEST universe at work.

A lot of idiocy in this because you wasn’t educated, fella! You was ignorant. In fact, you was stupid! You talk about the gullibility of an early track thetan. We’ve never mentioned this before because he’s in a state of capability of knowingness; he didn’t have any data. Oh, boy! Was he stupid! Somebody’d come around to him and say, „You just won a contest!“ And he says, „I did?!“

You could take a little kid – now get this – you could take a little kid and deny the little kid candy. And deny the little kid candy and deny him candy and not let him have candy and tell him how bad candy is for him – until at last you have created an utter apathy on the subject of carbohydrates.

Well, now fortunately, you don’t have to keep an education in terms of facsimiles. You can just park it as knowingness.

Having created this complete apathy upon this, you now make it possible for him to have the altered form of candy without digesting it – namely alcohol. And the second you do this, he of course knows that he cannot have, and therefore he can’t tolerate and therefore it is dangerous, candy. He KNOWS he can’t have candy – but he can have alcohol. And he’s so greedy for it that he’ll goofball. It starts in with a functional scarcity or a functional enforcement.

In SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL we had something about theta enturbulates with MEST, and then frees itself from MEST with a knowingness of what MEST is; that’s in SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. It impinges itself too heavily upon MEST and then withdraws. And then it’ll impinge itself and withdraw, and impinge itself and withdraw. And that cycle goes down until it knows all there is to know about MEST.

Now let’s… let’s just go the other way around. Let’s take the little kid and force him to have candy and we force him to have candy, and we force him to have candy. We make it possible for him to get alcohol. He’ll… he’ll eventually go into apathy on the subject of candy and you get practically the same manifestation. That’s because your… your vectors go both ways. It really doesn’t matter much whether you inhibit or enforce something. The end result is the same. Blank, and uh… apathy. It’s just an upset of self-determinism.

Well, we don’t know all there is to know about MEST, but you don’t have to know all there is about MEST.

All right? The guy has a good chance of becoming an alcoholic. Sure, it evidently is physiological. What do you have to do to… to fix that up? You just have to fix him up so that you… he doesn’t feel quite so degraded. Uh… you return his self-respect a little bit and tell him he can handle matter. If he can handle matter a little bit and so on, he’ll come up the line awfully fast. It’s a terribly artificial condition.

You pull out an awful lot of information right now. What a cagey character you would be – boy! If you… did you ever hear of this? This old guy, he’s standing outside the high school and he’s looking at all these beautiful young girls walking out. He’s standing there, wise and old, and old and very old. And he says, „Boy, if I was only 16 again and know what I know now.“

But in particular, let’s cover the subject of candy. You’d better not try to cover it by giving him a piece of candy, the first time you ever give him a piece, if you ever treat him… if you were to force him to have a piece of candy, you would just drive him nuts. You would make him quite ill. That’s right. You… he… he becomes sick. He doesn’t want anything to do with carbohydrate in that form.

Yes, yes. You’re in the same position as that old viper. You actually can look at these precious morsels, but you have a knowingness about it. Never discount it. You’d better pick up your full track knowingness. The only way you do this, by the way, is just run mock-ups about not knowing, and so forth – knowing and not knowing and so on.

All right, I’m not recommending that the cure of alcoholics be accomplished through the rehabilitation of the ability to eat candy, but that is a direction it can go.

How do you mock up knowing and not knowing? Well, I’ll have to tell you all about that in the second lecture tonight. Transposition of symbols to language… how do… language… what does it become and why.

It doesn’t lie basically, as basic causation, enzymes or snenzymes or benzymes, in other words it has… it’s not basic causation. And you could stuff him full of all the enzymes and benzymes and magazines you wanted to stuff him full of, and he would not recover from his alcoholism. They go to the Keely Institute and then they come out, and then they go back to the Keely Institute, and then they come out and they go back, just for variety. There’s some crackpot out in… out in Kansas, I don’t know, he sells a patent medicine or something of the sort. Uh… I think it’s Menninger’s Cough Syrup or something like that – oh, Menninger’s Psycho Syrup, that’s right! And it’s made of some… some jerkwater. There’s…

All right, knowingness, then, doesn’t really depend upon data, and there is a basic knowingness that is you that exists without wave length. It’s a funny thing to say, but it’s true. The capability of knowingness is all at the same level: The amount of data which can absorb, changes. A person can be very naive and way up tone scale, and then he becomes sadder and wiser. And for the first time in this universe, really, homo sapiens has been able to take the knowledge gained and back out. That’s very valuable. In other words, you don’t have to keep on digging in.

Have you ever been across the continent? Well, there’s one… one place there… there’s – oh, you wouldn’t remember this, but there’s a place there where the train whistles twice, and – uh… yeah. And… that… that… that’s different from all the other places – it whistles five times at all the other watering stations. And as it goes past this place there, you might look around and there’s a little adobe shack or something over there. Anyway, they get… they get alcoholics there. And they… they take ‘em in and then they take their money and they let ‘em out after a while. And then they take them back in again, if they find out the family’s got some more money, and they let them out after a while. And then they take them in again, just for variety’s sake, and then they let them out after a while. And when they haven’t got any more money, this character Menninger then ships ‘em across the river where they go to the State Institution permanently.

It may even be… it may even be your track is sort of going according to plan. I mean, this might be the exit depot. You don’t know; it might be. Maybe I don’t tell you everything. Maybe this is all science fiction I tell you, anyway.

You know, that’s not a libelous statement? You know that’s fact?

By the way, I… I hope it gets lots of publicity as such. Boy, it’ll make you guys free for a long time.

Student: Fact?

One day, one of you’ll get very ambitious and pick up five yellow cabs as they come down. You couldn’t get a yellow cab, you couldn’t get a yellow cab, and you finally say, „Damn these yellow cabs!“ And instead of mocking up a yellow cab, you suddenly pick up the first yellow cab, and you get the second yellow cab and the third yellow cab and you put them up on the top of one of the high buildings around – turn their motors off so they don’t skid and run off the top of the building, and leave them there. People say, „Who did this?“

That’s fact. Uh… they… uh… he used to be director of the state institution. He can put any of these patients that have run out of dough over there. He killed a fellow recently… he didn’t kill a fellow. A fellow by the name of Hacker. This guy Hacker used to jump around all over Los Angeles and say, „Dianetics – down with Dianetics! Down with Dianetics! We know all there is to know! And we’re sane. We’re sane! I’m sane! I’m sane!“ You know. Typical uh… quiet, calm, reserved, orderly fellow. And uh… and there was a motion picture actor by the name of Walker, you know? He played Private Hargroves and so forth?

Well, we’re going to issue a lot of little cards and have the little cards say, „You have abandoned your godliness.“ It’s a good motto: Abandoned your godliness. You don’t say what the godliness is, but everybody thinks they know what you’re talking about, and you know darn we’ll what you’re talking about.

Well, Menninger had him first. Menninger let him in and let him out and let him in and let him out, and let him in and let him out. And finally after about six months of this sort of thing, they sent him back to Hollywood and then Hacker, of course kept shootin’ him all the stuff and shootin’ him the stuff and shootin’ him the stuff – kept him under heavy drugs. Of course, a man kept under heavy sedation, everything that’s happened to him gets worse and worse and worse. And then one day he shoots him too full of drugs and kills him, murders him. And uh… and under any code of laws – if there was any law in California – it would be murder.

It’s true too.

And uh… everybody said, „Poor… poor Walker. Well, Hacker did the best for him. Hacker did the best he could.“ That’s right. Hacker did the best he could – kill people.

All right. And then, all of a sudden, why it will become something else than that. Actually, incredibility is the finest guise in the world for a secret. It’s too incredible; nobody believes it. How do you suppose this MEST universe got itself covered up? At every stage you’ve been in, any other stage was too incredible. You see, that’s that win… backflow. If you’ve got to believe, if it’s enforced belief, there’s also going to be inhibited belief. And when the guy really got down scale he couldn’t possibly get out because he had inhibited belief. He had to distrust. When he tried to believe he’d distrust. And you wonder why people down along that lower band of the scale can’t believe in any god. Why, no god’s safe in their hands. They can’t believe.

Now they’re making a basic, horrible basic error. They keep trying to treat structure without remedying function. Yeah. You’ll run into the damnedest books on the subject of this – oh, just wonderful – about how… how… how this kind of drug and that kind of something or other all effect this wonderful digitalic uh… uh… acafluence uh… upon people and so on. But don’t put it to use, or don’t test it out. It’s been run just like any other squirrel investigation. It’s been tried on two cases, failed on both of them; the notes were written up favorably and it was released.

So, get this action, then. Let’s get the quality of these things. You’ll find all of these things delineated in your textbook. You’ll find they do consist of a fairly good state of being. They also describe, to some degree, the quality of a mock-up. If you couldn’t make a mock-up… a year from now, if you’re not able to make a mock-up senior to you as you sit there, that can do more and act faster in your universe, I’ll disown you – (I think I’ll disown you anyway).

Now that’s… that’s historical fact.

Now, let’s then take a look at this Chart of Attitudes and let’s give you right quick, instead of all this persiflage, let’s give you right quick Rising Scale Processing. How many minutes have I got on that thing? Student: Umm, about a half an hour. LRH: Good. Just right. Time clock’s doing well.

Now what do… what do you do then on this? What do you have to do to clear it up? You have to clear up agreement with the MEST universe in terms of scarities and enforcements which comes down at last to a craving, a shortage, terrible shortage. And it solves on this. You have to have it, you can’t have it. If you just ran that on any injury or obsession or compulsion: „Now you have to have it. You have to avoid having it. All right, you have to have it. You have to avoid having it. You have to have it. You have to avoid having it.“ And you just go on like that – it’s a process all by itself.

Rising Scale Processing: This is the use to which you put the Chart of Attitudes, and is a method of changing postulates, not a method of running flows. This is, in essence, the essence of Postulate Processing. Postulate Processing is the process or any process which permits an individual to change his postulates – except old engrams. You run out some old engrams and… and of course you change the postulates in it.

Just sits there. If that’s all we knew, we could probably stand around and talk and have our… have our post in glory for a long time. If we just knew that one… one dichotomy. And an awful lot of this stuff like that. If you just had that one, you could work. If you just had… if you knew about what responsibility was and you just work responsibility and no responsibility as a dichotomy, why you could get to solve cases.

But uh… this doesn’t talk about that. This is willfully changing postulates. The first thing you’ve got to do is get the person up to a point where they’re flexible with their postulates and fast with them. You do this with mock-ups and so on. And one day – the guy can get almost perfect mock-ups – almost perfect – but… he starts… he says, „I keep running into this or that.“ Or, „I’ve got to change my mind about this.“ Or, „I’ve got to do something else about that.“

If you get terribly desperate with a preclear some time or another, and they’ve got some kind of a chronic somatic, just sit down and grind the damn thing out. If you can’t do anything else, just say, „Have to have it. Have to avoid having it. Have to have it. Have to avoid having it.“

Well, what you do… what he’s doing is changing postulates. He’ll find out that he starts to do something and he recognizes all of a sudden he can’t do it, and he will just suddenly go, „Rrrrrrr!“ and change this postulate and that postulate and so on. And wipe those postulates out and – make a new postulate. And all of a sudden he’ll say, „Aw, that’s all right. Yeah, I’ve got the lights back up again now. Now she’s doing the rumba.“ He had all these postulates about dancing, and he had this girl and she went around with him, and it was very embarrassing. Every time they went to a nightclub or something of this sort, this mock-up… – rumba would come along and he couldn’t dance with her; she couldn’t rumba, so he… you’d change that. How do you change that? You had to change his postulates that she couldn’t rumba. That dancing was evil; that dancing should be religious; uh… yap-yap-yap-yap. And he’ll. he’ll. just change postulates – Brrrrr!

Somebody was asking me the other day, „How do you solve being degraded?“ Well, you have lots of ways to solve being degraded. Mainly force – rehabilitation of force.

That is the process of the thetan. The thetan simply creates by making postulates. He uncreates by changing postulates and unmaking postulates. There is this drill about starting, increasing, decreasing and stopping thought chains… is beneficial in assisting one’s ability to make postulates and uncreate postulates. If you can’t handle your thought flow, if you’ve got a stream of consciousness running, you’re going to have a hard time with postulates.

So, how… how… how… how could you solve it? If we didn’t have any other process. Well look: If you ever get down a blind alley and you say, „Now let’s see. Now we’ve got a terrible case of ruddy-rodism. And no research has ever been done in Scientology on ruddy-rodism. And it’s a horrible, malignant phobia which causes traffic cops to arrest speeders“ or something of the sort. „It’s terrible, and I have this preclear and God knows, nobody knows anything about this. And I’m sure Hubbard never… never processed anything like this. And this is worse than anything I ever saw. The time the guy comes into the office, why he… he just sits there and I just mention ruddy-rodism and so forth, and he just sits there and he vomits and he vomits and he vomits. Now what am I supposed to do?

So what’s Rising Scale Processing? It is one of the phases of Postulate Processing which enables a preclear well before he is uptone – oh hell! – this will work on a VI, it’ll work on a V case – is to shift his postulates. And he does this by rising scale, not by running flows – that’s different. A flow is a flow in, a flow out, a flow in, a flow out. All right, let’s just change postulates.

And I say, „Mock up something,“ and he vomits. And I tell him to mock up vomiting and he vomits.“

Now what do we do about postulates? Let’s look at this list for the Chart of Attitudes. Now we have here Survive and Dead. Now what’s that mean? Well, it means that, just like this, we have… Survive is somewhere between 22 and 40. Of course, above 40 the idea of survival is just nonsense. How could anything immortal not survive?

Well, if you ever get in that kind of a pinch, or if your wits just congeal on you when confronted with some horrendous problem, there is a common denominator of all these things, since time is the single arbitrary of aberration. This was discovered empirically, this datum. And then it was found out how it fitted. And now, boy does it fit. And that is Having to have it, and Avoiding having it. Trying to escape from having it – anyway you want to phrase this. The… the point is, it’s having… trying to escape from having it; now trying to force yourself to have it; now trying to keep yourself from having it. Just go up and down the line of Desire, Enforce and Inhibit.

That’s one of the grimmest tricks in the world. You see, you happen to be immortal, and worried about surviving; it’s a typical reverse flow trick of this universe. You’re actually worried hour by hour and day by day about surviving and you’re immortal! All you object to is when you don’t survive, why you forget; something takes away from you hard enough for you not to remember. And as a result you get upset. And what you’re really upset is not about surviving at all, but about knowing. You hate to be in a state of unknowingness. You knew you were there, but you knew you were not supposed to know you were there. You know all about it. You take the Battle of Trafalgar, you know. You know how many men were aboard the ship and how many killed and wounded there were and how… how many dispatches were written up to send them up the river and… and all that sort of thing.

All right, wanting to have it, trying not to want to have it; wanting to have it, somebody else wanting you to have it. Any time you want to run brackets, you could get fancy on this, you see. You could run a complete bracket, that is, to… the preclear needing it, somebody else wanting the preclear to need it, the preclear wanting somebody else to need it, other people needing it, and other people wanting other people to need it, and everybody restraining everybody from doing all those things, and then everybody re… forcing everybody from doing… to do all those things.

And by the way, this is wonderful science fiction, just wonderful science fiction. God help science fiction writers! God help them! Boy, do they key in. I think of poor old Paget. (I’ll use his pen name – big gag). Poor old Paget. He’s a shaking wreck! He’s a ruin.

You could just play this organ in any one of those stops. That’s a bracket: to the preclear, to another, to others. Preclear doing it to somebody else, somebody else doing it to the preclear, others doing it to others. Another way of running a bracket: Overt act, Motivators, DEDEX – you get ‘em all. They’ll all come out in that fashion.

You guys know this fellow. You know his stories under a lot of other guises than Paget, and he’s a ruin. He sits there at the typewriter and he types and he thinks he’s disagreeing like mad with the MEST universe. He’s running away from the MEST universe; he’s d… writing escape literature.

But if… if that all deserted you and… and you found yourself creative processing, postulate processing uh… I… I don’t know where I’m going next. I… I seem to be in the Texas of a pilot house, and so on. And that’s all very well, but I thought we were on the Mississippi, and here we are in the North Arctic Ocean. And it turns out not to be the Texas uh… on a steamer at all but uh… hy golly! The thing looks like an electronics lab or… or something. And I’m getting awfully squirrelly too.“

I picked up one of his stories recently and started reading the history of a ship which is very well known – EXTREMELY well known. And he’s just varied its history. He hasn’t varied a line. He actually is sitting there writing escape literature and, of course, he’s digging in deeper and deeper and deeper, and he’s getting worse and worse. They have to take him in and doctors will sometimes take and give him a course of B1 shots. And they’ll give him 1 or 200 milligrams of B1 every couple of hours to keep him alive. And he’s that bad off.

Just look at the preclear desperately and you say, „Now you notice the obsession you’ve got there, you know. Now you got that now? Now get having to have it. Now, not having to have it. Now, having to have it. Now, trying to avoid having it. Now having to have it.“

And then he goes back and he works a little bit harder and he works a little bit harder and he works a little bit harder and all of a sudden Wham! B1, B1, rest, rest. Sit down by the seashore, be… take it quiet, take it easy, take it easy. And then he says, „Well, I think I’ll write some more of that escape literature“ and uh… zong! There he goes again. He’s coughing. He can’t stand the sight of a camera…

If you… that… that’s the only thing you could think of, it’d work. It’ll work. You can grind it right straight on out, because you’re working with time and you’re knocking the thing back down the time track, that’s all.

I don’t know how long that boy was on the track, or how many spirals, but boy, he’s sure writing ancient history. It’s all dated up in the future, too. He’ll date something up in the future and then he’ll get very careful he doesn’t date it. He actually uses actual dates. He’s playing the very… most wonderful game with himself of not to know.

Now if you get… if your… if you… your wits are just a little more fluid, why having to have it, having to avoid having it, or avoiding having it. Now trying to make somebody else have it, now trying to keep somebody else from having it, now others trying to keep others from having it. Okay, and back we come again to uh… trying to keep from having it, trying to have it.

If you were to put him on uh… if you were to put any of these boys, by the way, on a machine gun you would get something fascinating. You’d get… „Now all right. Now let’s talk about uh… space.“ Space opera, you see, is a very minor point in this universe. Don’t think that it is major at all, because it is not major. And for most people, it is not even part of the track. Space opera is not part of the track at all for most people. It’s only the degraded, the burns, the stiffs, the cliffs, the gyps, the McGees – and the floaters, the flotsam and jetsam, the guy who has rammed around and fallen flat on his face and so on. That… that’s space opera. God! These guys… I could tell you that story of that track… I… I j… I don’t think it would go into English. There are a lot of words in English that are missing. It’s just too wild. And it’s… it’s peculiar… it’s a peculiar story. A very highly specialized story.

It’s just a positive-negative, see. Any way you want to phrase it, as long as you run the positive and negative on the thing.

The other track comes right straight down on the subject of planets, and uh… in some preclears’ life it’s just fascinating. You find him leading this cozy little home life, and he’s been in this cottage and they were on that farm. And then he was in this city as a little minor tradesman. And in some other place, why, he drove a truck and… and so on. There’s cities and things – nothing shiny. Just pastoral and pretty – nothing to it.

So this… this kid’s got a club foot, terrible shape club foot. Okay. „Get having to have the club foot… trying to avoid having the club foot… having to have it…“ I don’t care how many hours you run it. He’ll start to develop pain very shortly in his foot.

Some girls… about the only time you get a… a girl… you get a lot of girls who have been on the space opera track, too. They’ve been boys on the space opera track – or girls, God help them! – Boy are they a mess! They’re really degenerate. They’re walking around here, trying to do a job of being normal. Of course, they’re much smarter, much wiser. And actually, for anybody to have survived that track and still be in a body, it must mean they’re awfully tough. That’s the truth. Like I suppose they put most of the guys who weren’t tough… are still sitting in cans someplace.

If you want to get real fancy, turn it white and then run this. Or turn it white and black and run this. Or any w… thing… th… anything you want to do to it, as long as you’ve got that basic fundamental – having to have it, not having it. And you could run that on a stomach ache. Oh, some preclear, you’ve done mock-ups and you know there’s everything this preclear can create and destroy and this preclear is terribly competent – well, of course preclear probably isn’t mocking up anything. Preclear probably sitting there, being very obliging, saying, „Yes, yes.“ All right.

But uh… anyway, this quiet, pastoral scene, the girl… and the only time she ever saw a spaceman or anything like that, she’d heard about it. They’ll show up on a meter.

And you run him on the E-Meter and you say, „Well, all right. Could you create a cat?“ E-Meter doesn’t register. „Could you destroy a cat?“ E-Meter doesn’t register. You say, „Well, he’s all right on the Fifth Dynamic, evidently.“

Well, now you take one of these space opera writers, if he’s really been on that track – he won’t write about it if he hasn’t been. He just won’t have the knack. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t… you couldn’t be ingenious enough to invent the whole thing from one end of the other. That just means they don’t. Also they don’t write science fiction if they haven’t been solidly on that track. They’ll write something else – fantasy, something.

And, „Destroy your parents?“ – E-Meter doesn’t register. You say, „Yes. Create your parents?“ – E-Meter doesn’t register.

All right, put them on a machine. You say, „All right, now let’s take this last story you wrote,“ and it’ll dive. And you’ll say, „What are you diving for? D… Didn’t it sell?“

It’s stuck. I mean, they’re stuck in something. They’re… they’re so monomanic, in one direction and one compartment and one department, they aren’t even in communication. And yet they’re apparently sitting there saying „Yes“ and „No“ – all sorts of thing. Boy, are they really out.

„Yes, it sold“ uh… needle falling away.

You’ll run into this case every once in a while. If a case is in terrible shape and looks awfully perplexing to you, you just haven’t… and you can’t find out what’s wrong with the case, just put it down to this: The case just isn’t registering. The case may look like a Three, or may look like a Two. They’re not. They’re a Seven. They’re just not registering. You can’t get them to do… you… they… they say, „Yes – they’re doing these various things,“ and they’re not doing them. And here they go, and they’re being very obedient. You’re working a Seven. Have him locate the room.

And you say, „Well now, take the hero of this thing“ – fall, fall. And uh… you say, „You know, that fellow’s being affected by writing. Now let’s take that detective story which you wrote“ – no motion of the needle at all. „Well, didn’t it sell?“

It’s liable to be with a great shock that the fellow will look at you and say, „I… God… gee I… but the iron bars do look kind of unfamiliar.“ They’ve never looked at this room. They’re trying to avoid having it. They’re trying to avoid having a body. They’re having to have a body, having not to have… not have a body and all sorts of this.

„No, it didn’t sell. Yeah, I got a reject on that.“ Yeah. That’s ve… very interesting.

So, if you ever get down… now every once in a while one of you come up and ask me, you say, „Well uh… how do you solve this?“ or, „How do you solve that?“ or, „What’s the specific solution?“ Now, if you couldn’t think of just running mock-ups, if you couldn’t think of what mock-up would fit into this thing, if… if… if that was too much of a strain on it, or appears too terrible to handle or something of the sort, remember that this other one always will handle it. Having to have it… hav… you don’t have to worry about flows. Just having to have it, not having to have it. maybe it’ll take you 24 hours or 60 hours to grind the thing out finally on brackets and various things on havingness, but it’ll grind out. It will grind out eventually.

So you say, „Well, this guy must be all keyed in and hallucinating. He just must have been driven mad by writing all these stories. So let’s examine all these stories carefully.“ And what do you know? They start blowing as locks.

And somebody is asking me up here, „How do you solve degradation?“ Well, if you can’t solve degradation any other way – degradation is being big and getting small – uh… if uh… you’re uh… and that is by big… getting big and being small, and not at your own uh… request.

Locks on what? Well, let’s put him back on the machine again. And let’s ask him, „All right now, have you ever been in a space ship?“ WHAM!

Another way, people get degraded on the subject of sex because it’s – like the alcoholics – there’s suddenly a great scarcity of sex – terrific scarcity. So sex gets more and more precious and more more precious and they feel more and more degraded by having to have it. And at last they’re practically out through the bottom – crash! Scarcity. It’s scarce and they can’t have it, but they have to have it. And if they have to have something, they can’t have, it demonstrates to them that their ability to create is terrible and this demonstrates to them that they must agree with the MEST universe if they have to have it.

„Oh, don’t ask me questions like that,“ he says. „You make me think I’m imagining things, or something.“

That’s why some guys spin in. You de… you just show them… show them a ring or a marriage licence, some guy or some girl or something like that and they just go, „Bzzzzzzzzrrrllmmmm!“

You say, „Well, have you ever been in a space ship?“

Did you see WINGS – uh… back… the old… the old production, World War 1 planes and everything else? They had some of the beautiful shot-downs there. I mean, the… the Fokker or the Spad or something or other would be shot down and they’d go down in beautiful falling leaves and trailing smoke and terrific sound effects and so forth. And finally, way below on the… on the grass, crash.

„Well, gee! I get nervous.“

Well, there are various buttons in people’s lives that are like a… a whole hatful of machine-gun bullets into the gas tank of a Spad, which wouldn’t fly anyway. The only reason they flew – nobody ev… really knew this – but you know that World War I’s planes didn’t fly. They just found fellows who were strong enough to lift ‘em up into the air and carry them.

„Well, how about hands? Uh… well, how about trying to get… how about blow-ups in space?“ I mean, anything like this, and so on. „Were you ever there? What was the year? What year were you a member of the Galactic Police Force Espionage Corps“ – something or other. WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Ever since… ever since… since that race sort of died out, why ever since they’ve been… they’ve been trying to get an airplane to fly.

And you say, „What story did you write about this?“

Well, when you ask about degradation or when you ask about, „What is this thing about money? Yeah, money, let’s see. Money-money.“ Well, of course, there’s a lot to know about money.

He’ll tell you, „Skylark“. I’m… I’m… that’s all… I don’t know anything about HIS past history, E. E. Smiths. Uh… he’ll say, „Well, it’s such-and-such a year. Yeah.“ You get a needle reaction.

Money… Howard Scott… there’ve been some guys beating their brain cells together in this cen… century. Howard Scott uh… had some very interesting theories on the subject of money. It’s the circulatory system of this society.

„Now,“ you say, „how about the stories you’ve written about that?“ Tiny little needle reaction – keying out.

Let’s uh… put it into our frame here and call it, „Money is the attention units of a society“. And they circulate one to another, and back and forth again. And that’s proven out by the fact they operate like attention units. Let’s say a dollar’s an attention unit. And actually where you find the greatest interest centered, you’ll find the greatest number of attention units.

„Now, let’s take the SKYLARK and let’s go over it a little bit further and a little bit more on this.“ Oh, boy! We’re starting to get the big action on the actuality and no action on the story. And then you just turn it up and… not by slanting the questions or anything, you just turn it up, just try and get some kind of a charge on the stories.

Now that person who can force the greatest interest, gets even more attention units because attention units are force units – dollars are force units. They’re enforced by bayonets, and they’re enforced by scarcity and they’re enforced by what they laughingly call the law of… of „Demand the supply“.

But you’ll get charge right straight across the boards on it was biographical or autobiographical. And all of a sudden this guy will start to reel and he’ll start to cough and he’ll say, „You know, I feel a helmet. I’m sure it must be a helmet. My ears are ringing like mad. I can’t understand it. My ears often ring when I’m writing. Come to think of it, they only ring when I’m writing about space stories, and I get that feeling right now. It’s like a goldfish bowl or something closing down over my… yeah, you keep your chin down in order to keep the earphones open. Oh, no!“ And you say, „Well, now let go of it.“ „Oh, I can’t!“

Uh… and uh… so you want to… you want to have a lot of dollars coming your way? Be interesting. That… that’s if you want to be… just be interesting. They’ll flow your way. Wear a… wear an eight-foot hat down the street. One way or another, dollars will come your way if you do that.

„What would happen if you let go of it? What would happen if you didn’t have it?“

Of course, there is interest with repugnance, and then that means attention, although it flicks in your direction, flick off. Dollars won’t flow in on that one. They just flick in, flick off.

“Oh, no… nothing.“ Needle – WHAM-WHAM!

Well, you can’t figure out how to solve money? Having to have money, not having to have money. Just run it.

Of course, he’s out in the middle of space. He’d spatter all over the landscape if he let go of it out there in a vacuum.

Now this fellow keeps telling you… keeps telling you, „But how do I solve this body? I haven’t got a body – I mean, I’ve got a body and I… I’m uh… not in it, but I am in it. And I… I know this and I… I’d like to be free and I don’t feel free and so on.“ And you’ve just tried everything. You’ve burned up his body, and you’ve thrown it out the window, you’ve made it appear and disappear and he still can’t get out of his body. And mock-ups don’t seem to work too well and they’re upsetting to him that… there could be a bug there, you see. There’s the way he’s handling them. And he isn’t handling them the way he says he is. And uh… you’re not feeding ‘em to him very fast the way it is. And there’s an upset there some place – bad upset.

„Well, all right now. Let’s… what would happen if you took it off?“

It would be an application upset – a technique? No. You just have failed to sight whether or not he was really doing what he was doing. Or failed to start in simply enough so that he’s just kind of swamped and he’s going along and not telling you what he really is doing. You’ll find those preclears, by the way, in abundance.

„I can’t take it off, see“ – needle falling. You finally coax him out of this idea, and so forth, you find he’s got a cracked helmet on or something. He’s… he’s practically dying. And you run him on all these incredible situations. He starts to perk up and he gets happier and he gets cheerfuller and he gets to feeling better and he gets to feeling better and better and better. And then he says, „I just thought of some good space opera. But,“ he says, „I think I’ll write a detective story.“ He loses interest in it.

Well, all right. If you’ve got a problem of that nature, it will always solve on this one – Having to have a body, needing to have a body, having to be able to control a body, having to be able to own a body, having to be able to protect a body, having to protect people. And NOT doing so, all the way down the line.

A lot of your bad science fiction is written by boys who… they were just bad the whole track, but they weren’t very bad. The guys who really write the good stuff, and so forth, boy were they horrible!

Just the sub-zero tone scale, positive-negative. Dichotomies will cover that more thoroughly. So you could run these dichotomies back and forth. But what’s it boil down to? Having to have a body, and trying to avoid having a body.

What are you laughing about?

And the guy running this dichotomy, having to have a body and trying to avoid having a body and so on – he’ll get unsquirrelled eventually on the subject of bodies. It’s a funny thing that that technique sits there kind of isolated. You won’t appreciate this unless you’ve really, really taken a look at it. But having this technique sitting there uh… isolated – having to have it, possession, or control.

Yeah-yeah. I never wrote any science fiction myself. People think I’ve written it. That’s right. It doesn’t classify as science fiction.

Control is slightly different as a technique. Being able to control a body, not being able to control a body. Wanting to control a body, not wanting to control a body, brings in Have and Control at the same time. To own is to operate. You’re going up scale a bit, you see, when you talk about control.

There’s ‘One Was Stubborn’. There’s a story which you would be vastly amused about in this class. It appeared in Astounding Stories, many years ago – probably 1940. ‘One Was Stubborn’. It is a civilization which was… it isn’t space opera, see? It’s usually about civilizations, things like that. It was a story about a civilization which was buckling under the terrific agreement on the subject of Christian Science. It was just caving in on it. But there was one guy who didn’t believe in Christian Science. And it’s his fate at the end of the story. It’s called ‘One Was Stubborn’ – a terrific application of what we’re doing right this minute. It’s fascinating.

But it’s a very funny thing, that Control is better than Have, really. But uh… you’ll find Have is so intimately Time, that here… here are just thousands of things that you could apparently run quite logically – being guilty and not being guilty, being guilty and not being guilty. You’d think that would produce a result. Obviously, it should produce a result of some sort. Uh… being worried – you being worried, you worrying others, others worrying you. Let’s run that back and forth a bit.

And uh… there was a story called ‘Final Blackout’. Actually it was a political commentary and a character study of an officer, that’s all it was. It’s laid right here on Earth, and a very short time into the future. A lot of these other things.

You think that produce terrific results? No, that won’t. It just won’t do it. It will produce some results, yes. More spectacular than a lot of other results. But having to have and not having to have hits it right on the button. And trying to control and not trying to control hits it on a little higher button.

Once in a great while I’d write something that had to do with that.

Those are two buttons. They’re standing out there very isolated and no other flows work like those.

You take the UMS stories, the Ole Doc Methulesah stories and so forth – straight off the record. No fiction to them really. They’re hopped up; that’s about all.

So, when you get all these techniques all boiled down there, there’s anything that’s worrying the guy and you have to run actual facsimiles – having to have, not having to have, if you’re so rattled you can’t think of anything else, well, go right across the boards on it.

Now here we’ve got… real death would be thetan death, and it would lie down below minus 8 here. And uh… you’d get homo sapiens would be somewhere in the neighbourhood… his death would be here, at 0.0.

And having to control, or trying to control and not being able to control is a little higher echelon than that. Okay? Let’s take a break.

So, let’s take a look here – dead… death, homo sapiens, and let’s find up here is alive. Now let’s do a rising scale processing on the scale of Survival-Dead.

„What do you think“ – you say this to this preclear – „What’s your idea of your chances of survival?“ Preclear thinks it over for a minute.

Well, answer this question yourself: What’s your idea of your own chance of survival? Just face it bluntly and get what your current opinion is of your chance of survival. Take in all possible fields. What’s your current – opinion?

All right, now take that opinion, whatever it was, and by the way, what was yours?

Huh? Inevitable?

(No, before Scientology it was an awful long time, and now it’s ‘Forever.’)

Oh, it is? Good.

What was yours?

(Same)

Okay. What’s yours?

(About the same.)

Is that what you got? Hell, you people aren’t… don’t need it… I mean… Well, did anybody… What was yours?

(Well, I answered the question ‘Very good.’ You asked the question…)

All right. Very good. Your chances of survival are very good. How long?

(I can’t answer that question.)

Ah! We’ve got a ‘don’t know’ survival. „Very good, but I don’t know.“ All right. Let’s take that: „Very good but I don’t know“ and let’s see if we can’t get a higher opinion on it. Just sort of shift it up to a higher, better opinion on it… Well, get that other opinion, kind of hold it for a moment. „Very good, but I really don’t know“ – to a little bit better opinion.

(Excellent here.)

All right, now let’s get it from ‘excellent’ up to a higher opinion.

(There’s two things I can’t get the concept uh… first the chance of survival uh… in relation to time…)

Hm-hm.

(…chance of survival in relation to uh… well, anything other than time.)

Beingness.

(Beingness.)

Umm-hmm. There’s a maybe on that somehow. Then there’d be two things: Your chance of survival as homo sapiens?

(Yeah.)

Well, what’s your opinion of your survival as homo sapiens?

(That’s the ‘very good’, I guess.)

Hmm? Not very good?

(I say, „That is the ‘very good’„.)

Oh, that’s the ‘very good’. How… what about the other one – you don’t know?

(That’s the ‘don’t know’.)

Oh, that’s the ‘don’t know’. We’ve got the ‘don’t know’. All right. Can you take that ‘don’t know’ and shift it any higher as a postulate?

(I don’t quite get the question. How do you…?)

Well, could you shift it up to ‘might be’ from just flatly ‘don’t know’. Could you say „Well, it might… might be able to survive. There might be something there to survive“?

(Well, I think ‘might be’ would be below ‘don’t know’. ‘Don’t know’, to me, is in the middle.)

Oh, that’s in the middle?

(Yeah.)

What’s above ‘don’t know’?

(Above ‘don’t know’ is uh… ‘good’.)

Good. (Below… below ‘don’t know’ is uh… possibly ‘barely probable’. In other words, ‘don’t know’ is in the middle and sort of uh…)

All right.

(…halfway in between.)

All right; well, can you get a better opinion on it?

(I can get the concept of a better opinion.) But can you GET a better opinion on it? Or does the opinion have to have data?

(That’s right.)

Uhh-huhh.

(I think that’s what’s lacking.) All right. So that’s hanging up, and uh… an opinion can hang up or c… condition can originate or generate for the lack of a datum.

In other words, you can get randomity caused by a missing datum. Or you can get a ‘maybe’ caused by a missing datum. So here’s a missing datum showing up preventing a postulate. You could go ahead and ask what he has to know, and so forth.

That’s very good. But when we ask for an upper shift of a postulate, let’s get an upper shift on this one: Right, and down here, Wrong. And uh… where are you on… on Rightness? How right do you think you are?

(Oh, I’m generally right.)

Generally right. Well, you can do better than that. Let’s get this postulate, this concept ‘generally right’ and let’s shift it up higher.

(Well, uh… it doesn’t make any difference uh…)

…If you are right?

(I mean, I’m right as far as I’m concerned and that’s the important thing.)

Uh-huh. Can you shift it higher than that?

(I get the concept that I’m just about always right naturally.)

Good, good, good. Let’s… can we get it any higher than that?

(It’s difficult. Yeah, why not?)

Yeah, okay.

Now actually, we could go through this Chart of Attitudes and just shift like that. You say, „All right. what’s your concept, how right you are?“ See, you’re looking for the right-wrong scale. The guy… whatever he gets, „Okay, let’s get a higher concept of it. Let’s get a better idea of it.“

When he says, „What’s a better idea?“ you kind of explain to him what’s a better idea in your level.

And uh… how responsible are you? Let’s get that. How… how responsible?

(Fully responsible.)

Hm?

(Fully responsible.)

Horribly?

(Fully!)

You’re fully responsible. Okay. How responsible are you?

(Fully.)

Fully responsible. Do you really feel responsible? How responsible are you for police?

(Quivering.)

Okay, let’s raise that concept about responsibility for police.

(We shouldn’t have to have them.)

Umm-hmm. Let’s raise that concept higher than that. (We won’t need to have them.)

Okay, let’s see if we can get any higher on it. Your responsibility for police.

(There isn’t any necessity for them.)

There isn’t any necessity for ‘em! Good. Let’s get it higher than that.

(Well, I won’t have any police in my universe.)

Okay. And so we go on up toward full responsibility on one subject, you see?

And uh… now we could take how… how much of an effect do you think you are? You… how much of an effect do you think of yourself as being?

(An occasional effect.)

An occasional effect. Let’s see if we can boost that up.

(Rarely an effect.)

Okay. Let’s get a higher idea of it.

(One over infinity effect.)

Does that me… really make you feel… does it change any idea in you?

(No.)

Well, come on. Let’s change your basic concept on the subject of being an effect.

(I may not be an effect – I’m not an effect.)

Aha! Now we’re getting a shift: ‘I’m not an effect’.

(I guess the next thing is ‘I am cause’.)

But you’re not reaching that, though, are you? How close are you coming to it?

(Infinity over one.)

Okay. Now that’s one way of doing Rising Scale Processing. You just explain to your preclear that you’ve got this scale and this scale goes „Survive, Dead; Right, Wrong… How right do you think you are? How responsible do you think you are – do you want to be? And how much do you own? And… and uh… how many people could you be if you had to be,“ and… and so on. You just go across the scale like that.

Now there’s an entirely different way of doing this, and uh… this is also Rising Scale, but you’d call that first Rising Scale as a very gradient scale. That’s very gradient Rising Scale, small step Rising Scale.