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

The third hour this afternoon of December the third, third hour this afternoon, December the third, we talk now uh… about the anatomy of what we’re doing, of what we’re operating with and uh… we had better start right in without any more to – do about this.

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

In uh… discussing some of the specific parts we have been mentioning, now that again is self-determinism. Well, that ability to determine space, time, energy, matter. That would be self-determinism, and it’s odd that self-determinism would crop up in there, because self-determinism is very very important – extremely important.

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

The self can go out so far as to include many friends, but when it starts out beyond a group size of certain dimensions, too much randomity ensues. You can go out there, and any… any battle if you’ve noticed in… in history that is fought between two champions is a battle which goes resounding down the corridors of that Mississippi of lies called history.

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

Now, the… that metaphor then misses corridors and so forth, well, rivers can run into corridors and so forth. Let’s see now, now words are objects and uh…

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

All right, here is the uh… single ship actions, for instance. Here you have the identity of one vessel versus the identity of another vessel. You get the Serapis and the Bonhonme Richard, as a famous single ship action. Now that’s fine. You get uh… Sir Lancelot and sh… some uh… knight or other, and they joust back and forth, and smash each other to bits, and we’ve got single actions there.

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

And that’s very good in this universe, and it’s very, very meaningful really on the broad scale of thetans, because a thetan’s capabilities are so great that in order to engage by its – you… you start engaging by tens of thousands, you’re still in a fairly safe margin, but you start engaging in tens of millions, and boy, the individual is lost. Ask any soldier who is engaged in any modern battle how big he felt and how big his identity was in that battle – and it’s not very big.

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

So you set up in an universe above a certain level with a thetan and uh… he loses by it. And he is most satisfied then at a level where he wins most by it. Now that’s really not a universe, although we say so, it… it’s really not a universe of just one. It’s not really real fun playing chess with yourself.

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

You rush around the white side of the board and you say, “Now I’m white”. And you move the pieces and so forth and you go around to the black side of the board and you move the pieces. And then you go around blah blah blah; oh heck, you know what you’re doing. And you know who you’re favoring, you’ve got to favor somebody or other. The second you start to favor somebody or other, you… you select the other out as randomity and the next thing you know, a thetan would put an actual chess player there and endow that chess player with enough skill to make it interesting.

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

And he’d introduce randomity of this character. Several thetans could get together then and make a universe and a very very interesting universe.

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

Thousands of thetans could get together, and make a very interesting universe. Now let’s get it up into millions. Now let’s take it into billions. Now let’s take it into trillions. And now, let’s take it into a number that was written in microscopically small numbers – line after line would cover the front wall of this room and still keep going.

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

And you get that many thetans together and you get that much universe together and two of the fundamental rights are violated in particular. There are actually three rights which a thetan in this universe is not permitted to have.

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

Three rights: you got liberty, eternity, and equality going pretty good here on Earth, but it has a tendency to get into a MEST sort of a liberty, eternity, equality sort of a thing. „Let’s all… let’s all be beautifully sad because we’re all dying anyway“ sort of a… of a liberty, eternity, equality. Not „Let’s get the show on the road“ – that’d be an entirely different level.

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

And so we have uh… we have then some freedoms that are missing. And one of them is a man’s right to his own… a thetan’s right to his own sanity. And the other main right is, you see, because he hasn’t any life to lose (that’s a grim thing, by the way) uh… his right to his own sanity and his right to leave the game.

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

He doesn’t have those two rights in this universe. For homo sapiens there are two rights, really, and one of them is the right to his own sanity, and the other one is a right to his own life. That is an extension of the rights of man, and the rights of man are a complete mockery without these two additional rights.

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

All you have to do is pronounce somebody insane, you see, or something of that sort, or drive him insane or something and he immediately has no rights; he becomes property.

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

So watch any hole in a bill of rights which leads to a slavery. A right to his own life, because men cannot be compelled into the acceptance of the moral codes of others; men will commit actions out and beyond the framework and good of the society and exceed the optimum solution – the greatest good along the greatest number of dynamics. They’ll exceed that and, therefore, they uh… are then turned around because they’d been driven out to exceed that. Then… then they are turned around and punished because they’ve exceeded it and the punishment which can consist there is the deprivation of the property of a body.

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

And it’s fairly safe to have a body in this society unless one has sufficient capabilities not to have a body, and there are… those capabilities are quite large.

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

But, uh… for a thetan there are two very essential rights: One is the right to his own sanity, and the other is the right to leave a game. And if he has those two rights, you don’t get some kind of a big universe slopping all over the edges of everything under the sun. You don’t get a theta trap of this magnitude setting up.

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

So, what do we have here then? We have your thetan going forward to an assumption, willy-nilly, of those two rights, come hell or high water. You got an assumption of the right to one’s own sanity.

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

You know Scientology… in a universe which knows Scientology, the chances of anyone’s taking away anyone’s sanity become so remote as to be ridiculous, because there’s always the raw red rebel who will say, „Those implants might be interesting, but are they useful really?“

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

Yes, yes, you have everybody convinced they don’t know who they are, and that they’re somebody else, but uh… and that’s interesting. But is it right? And uh… you… you could have… you could have – because a dichotomy of combat can exist – you could have a great and powerful and doubtlessly awesome and fearful forces facing us with all of these threats if we dared make anybody sane.

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

Yes, you could always have those forces, and they’d never be able to make it stick. That’s very interesting; they would not be able to make it stick, because they are on a track which in this universe is a self-ending track, not a self-perpetuating track. People recognize that, and although you will see a tremendous tendency on the part of the slave to assume his chains and wear them, and wear more chains if possible, you always have a greater number who in the end will turn on the master.

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

The masters of the slaves die. They have always died in this universe and they always will, and so may too a universe die.

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

But the point we are making is simply that force was never any weapon with which to combat reason. And every time force has been applied to reason in this universe force has come the cropper, not reason.

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

Sooner or later the reason would go around and through because there’s on… force, you see, can’t go through sixteen-foot bastions and barricades. You have this enormous citadel sitting on the high crown of an untouchable mount. And it is garrisoned and provisoned and watered to withstand the siege of centuries. And its garrison is well-trained and well- armed. Not a single shaft or a bolt or a lightning flash could go through that citadel. But by the water carrier or some other means an idea can go through the wall of any citadel. When you ask, „What is the strength of this garrison?“ you always have to ask, „What is the loyalty of this garrison?“ That is the other factor, and force was never able to win against it. It could win temporarily, oh, yes, but never completely. Now in a reaction against force, people quite often will assume a no responsibility for the whole universe. That’s going down scale from force. Want to point out to you that there’s an up scale from force. A high one, and that goes up toward the reasonable thing to do, and people, very often, who are trying to go up scale toward the reasonable thing to do will find themselves caught with specious reasoning and will find themselves dropping down toward the weak thing to do.

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

Reason which is afraid of force, and reason which exists to keep force from hurting one is not reason. That, too, is a form of slavery. But reason which exists to go up from the level of force must first be able to confront force. Only then can such reason take responsibility for those things which reason alone can produce.

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

And so you find a society, just before it goes out, taking its last effort to escape force by being reasonable, but that reasonability consists normally of an assumption of slavery of one form or another – not an assumption of freedom. They will lay upon themselves various restrictions and – out of fear.

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

Now that man who is able to take responsibility for force, yet who does not employ force, is much more terrible than man who can apply force alone. And the man who applies force alone is, of course, much more terrible to a lower scale on the chart than those who can only cluster together in terror and hope that the mass of their numbers will restrain the hand of force.

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

You want to remember then you’re looking at harmonics, when you’re looking at this on a tone scale. You’ll find groups which cohese solely because they are terrified of force which may be applied to thee. And in that cohesion they simply seek protection of the individual by the group.

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

That group almost never advances. Now that group which can be free in each and every individual matter is yet the only group that can act and reason and with cause. For a group to be cause it must consist of Individuals who themselves are cause.

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

Therefore, that group where the individual has banded himself together to keep from being cause, is a group which is easily handled really by force. So you find the governments of a society and almost any line finds it handiest to use force, not reason.

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

And they get a people together and band them together and hold them and control them by the threat of force. And keep the group together by the threat of force. And the individuals of the group, by fear of starvation, by fear of pain, or other things stands in with other individuals in such a way a man can be made into a slave.

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

He is made into a slave by the threat of scarcity. And this threat of scarcity is held over him as a whip and it is enforced, again, by force. So those societies where scarcity exists cannot be a free society and scarcity itself is the greatest threat to Man’s freedom.

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

This universe is a very interesting universe in that it has a potential of tremendous plenty, and at the same time makes that plenty quite scarce. Now all of these things perhaps are reasons and thoughts, uh… a little bit beyond the single matter of processing.

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

But what are you trying to do when you are processing? You’re… what are you trying to do? What’s the ultimate goal on this? The goal of Scientology 8-8008 can be stated as follows: the freedom and rehabilitation of the preclear – who is a thetan. The freedom and rehabilitation of a thetan is your goal, and the goal for the body is only as much goal as the freedom and rehabilitation of the thetan might suddenly be able to impose by good graces or force itself upon the body.

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

So the goal for the body as a body and just for the sake of a body is none. That’s not a direct goal; it’s a very very short-circuited goal to treat the body and not to do anything for the man – that would be a very short-circuited thing. Bodies have most successfully been treated by raising the self-respect and ability of the individual.

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

The overall treatment of bodies… let’s take one organization which is a very interesting organization in terms of homo sapiens, and that’s the U.S. Public Health Service. It doesn’t do very much in terms of force, but its overall reason as far as the enemies of homo sapiens are concerned has raised the educational level of homo sapiens to a point where punitive action against disease gets less and less each year.

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

Now just look at that as treating the thetan who then, of course, can better and better handle the body. Many, many of the ills of the body are caused simply because the thetan is maltreating the body. He has a tractor wave on the front of the body of such magnitude that if he tightened it up any more it would actually crash bones, and then he pretends he doesn’t even have it on the body.

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

You will see these people around. You will see any thetan of any horsepower at all… any thetan of any horsepower at all has made some dent on the body one way or the other. He… he will handle it impatiently or he will handle it swiftly or he will handle it too strongly, and you will see the imprint on the body itself.

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

It’s very interesting. You can take a preclear and make him tighten the tractor wave that he has around his head, and if he is a very strong thetan, he can actually flatten his nose out. You ever see anybody able to flatten his nose like that? Well, you can do it simply by teaching a man to tighten his tractor wave around the head and release it.

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

And what do you think that does to the body? That’s handling the body with force. What is the level of security? What’s the level of the security of a thetan who has to handle his body with a whip? He doesn’t have any level of security. He’s scared. No matter how strong he is, he’s scared.

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

As a consequence the body suffers, so there is an indirect action in this formula. Don’t think the body is Just being forgotten, but for the purposes of processing there is no real sense in processing the body. That is something that will work out by processing a much higher level of action.

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

So, goal for the thetan: education and rehabilitation, restoration of his capabilities and an increase thereof. The addition this time of the know-how to stay that way. And for the body, on a direct level of processing, none, no goal.

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

It’s a funny thing that you can tell how well-off a thetan is, though, you can tell how well-off he is by the number of things wrong with the body actively. It’s very possible that a thetan simply by thinking it, a body could restore its beauty – very possible. I’ve not seen it happen particularly, thetans get a little uninterested in it. But, uh… it’s a possibility.

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

Restore the equilibrium of the body, rehabilitate its balances, something like that, simply by having himself sufficient balance. You’ll find out that the characteristics of your preclear are quite markedly those of the thetan. The thetan was in command all the time and he had deserted the responsibility to the degree that he pretends he isn’t even there.

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

That’s really a desertion of post, isn’t it? Yet he has the potential of being able, probably at will in this universe, to build a body. He certainly has the potential of doing it over a period of time. How fast can he do it?

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

When we look then at these capabilities and potentials, we find out that our whole goals, overall goals, are best answered then by remedying along all dynamics the thetan. And when you’ve done this, why he has had restored to him two rights: the right to his own sanity, and his right to leave the game.

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

All universes are to some degree games, and no universe would exist if there was not the spirit of play in the thetan. On Earth and amongst other political confederations, the spirit of play is almost forgotten. It’s found in little children and even there it is found in a hectic state.

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

There is little ecstasy in play for anyone who has grown to any age at all. And yet there’s hardly one of us that can’t for a fleeting instant remember the heady and high ecstasy of action and engagement in activities. There’s… they’re dim most of them, because homo sapiens is supposed to work, and work is carefully defined as not play. Probably the hardest thing a man has to take is when he has to enslave himself to something which is not of his own choice and permits himself to be placed in time and space not of his own choice.

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

So let’s boil all this down from a… an oration down to something which is a little more sensible on this level. This is all applicable. I fooled you now, because you thought I was digressing.

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

What’s wrong with the MEST universe? Self-determinism is the placement or location in space and time. Here the thetan has been located forcefully, convincingly by an exterior, forceful thing in space and time not of that being’s creation. That’s all that’s wrong with him.

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

Now the only thing that you would find wrong in the character of anybody you knew was the insistence of that person or the unreasonable or reasonableness – speciously reasonableness – with which that person might persuade you to become placed in space and time continually against what you realized was not your own best interest.

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

Placement in space and time, continuous, continual placement. If you wanted to make a slave out of any man, all you would have to do is by a very very gradual gradient scale start him in placing things in space and time for you. And as you magnified that, that person would go into a complete slavery, if you magnified it all the way. It’s… it would… starts out with something like many of the social gestures and courtesies. You make it a custom to always hand him your hat to hang up. You make it a custom always to let her pour the teacup full, and then pass it to you. And always be just a little bit further away to be passed to.

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

And the next thing you know, that’s it. One of the reasons why men have trouble in orienting themselves with women is because by necessity a homo sapiens has to be located continually in space and time by his mother. He’s put on feeding schedules, he… this and that’s done for him, to him, and most horribly, his desire for sensation, which is to say his appetites of hunger, are themselves gratified by his mother.

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

And so we have mother as quite… as quite an object in the life of the preclear. And women multiply from that as an object to their own detriment, because when this fellow starts growing up he starts breaking his mother’s heart. How does he start doing it? By breaking into that gradient scale and bursting free from these fetters of being placed in space and time. And that’s all he really is doing; he’s going to get married and live some- place else.

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

Or even much younger than that, he wants to go to a different school, or something like that, and he feels that he has to fight such a wall and such a barrier in order to accomplish this that he goes into a… a frenzy. He goes into a frenzy and he has to conjure up all sorts of terrible and awesome emotions against his mother, and against his family and against everything else in order to tell himself that he has his own right to place himself in space and time. He has his own right to do that.

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

If you were to take a little child and let them go on an automatic feeding schedule, that is to say, the little kid gets hungry, feed him, he’ll put himself on a schedule fairly rapidly – odd but true. And as he grows up that little boy gets himself possessions. Let him have his own possessions. And if they’re his possessions, they’re his possessions, because as we will cover later, time is that insidious thing called the object possession.

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

And it’s what happens to a possession that determines time.

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

All right, so, you… all… all he has to do is be permitted to own what he has. Tha… tha… that’s so simple. And to have the space that he has, and to have a space. You take away from a child his absolute dictatorship over his intimate possessions, and take away from him the thought that he has any space, and uh… he’s finished. He’ll have a bad time all that life. That’s all you have to do to him. Just fool around with his possessions, upset his possessions, which is upsetting to his time, and shove him around in space, move lots.

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

Oh, move and live in lots of houses. Uh… move and live in lots of houses and then change his room around, and then let him sleep with his sister and then give him different bureaus. And then uh… after you’ve given him a bureau drawer or something like that, decide one day to clean ft out because it’s only full of old rats’ nests, so I’m going to throw those all away.

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

Rrrrr beuy, as far as the happy life is concerned you might as well take this Individual out and machine gun him down, because he’s not going to have one. By the time he’s experienced this for years and years and years and years and years, he has the current life cycle patterned to be, „I have no space and I have no possessions, and scarcity reigns everywhere.’

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

He’ll, also, tell you immediately, of course, that he has no time, he can’t do anything, he can’t concentrate (concentration requires space) and this wise is what happens to him.

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

What’s wrong with this universe? Very simple thing wrong with it. It just locates one willy-nilly in space and time and it doesn’t let him have a single possession that’s his own. One cannot have in this universe what is one’s own, because the only thing which is one’s own is that which he himself created or helped to create. That’s all that one can own.

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

Created or helped to create. And when I say created and helped to create you only get a shadow of that in this universe by taking MEST universe materials and building them into a form no matter how clumsily these materials handle, building them into some sort of a form which is the individual’s own. In order to have something completely one’s own one would also have to create the materials with which it’s made, wouldn’t he?

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

So, if you’re not permitted to create the material, that is to say to furnish the energy with which to construct something as well as the aesthetic form, how can one have anything of one’s own?

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

This universe is too afraid of competition; it must be an awfully weak universe. It gives you the space and it tells you where to be in the space, and then it tells you that you can’t have anything of your own.

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

Well, you know what’s wrong with a thetan? That’s all. It’s just continuous continuous placement in space not of his own creation or agreement.

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

He didn’t agree on this space to the degree that you’d think he should agree. It wasn’t a self-determined selection on his part, because to be a self-determined selection on his part he would’ve had to have helped create it, and it was already here.

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

Yes, he agreed on a totally different level. The level I was talking to you about of the… the hypnotist level.

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

All right then, we have to treat these items for what they are. You have space. He agreed there was space there. He also has consistently agreed it was not his. And then he’s agreed not to have energy of his own, but to use the energy provided in order to create anything there.

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

And you wonder why he goes down scale, and why he gets worse and worse, and why he gets worse and worse, and why… why he has a large upset on this point.

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

All right. Therapy, then, consists of the restoration of two rights and two abilities: Creation of space and energy, because space and energy makes space, energy, objects, and time, and the right to continue in possession of space and energy.

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

Now you’ve got to restore those rights to the individual, and that’s why Scientology 8-8008 produces the result it produces. You see it isn’t a circuitous approach, it isn’t a covert process, it is a straight line. It says immediately: This fellow has been located in space which he was – if he was agreed, he… – tricked into agreeing with.

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

Of course, it’s that standard of agreement, that gradient scale of agreement which got him into finally agreeing that there was space. He didn’t really help create this space. It wasn’t there according to any plan he had and he’s not free to move out of that space or handle that space, or be in parts of that space at his own decision.

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

The whole universe is all rigged up to shove somebody someplace else. Always gotta be someplace else – move someplace else, here, there.

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

You get a time track, most people think time tracks are linear, that’s because they’ve been moved so often.

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

And as far as objects are concerned, you’ve got to restore his right to create the energy with which to make objects. You do those two throngs… you do those two things… why the universe will blow up. I mean – I didn’t mean to mention it.

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

Naw. You do those two things, why you have restored the capabilities of the thetan so this is a – this is a very direct… this is a very direct approach. Now, I’ve explained this at some length to demonstrate to you that liberty, eternity, and fo… equality might in one age and time have been a sort of a stopgap against force, but that we’re talking about another higher level of freedom, and it is a level of freedom which is obtainable.

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

Other freedoms haven’t been quite so obtainable. We had some freedoms listed in the United States, not too long ago; that was freedom from want, freedom from… what are all those freedoms – freedom from want, freedom from eating, uh… freedom from… yeah, yeah, yeah, wonderful. There were many freedoms, and isn’t it strange, „We will protect you,“ they all said.

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

„We’re going to give you something more. We’re going to give you some more possession which you didn’t make and which will place you again in space which you didn’t create, and which will, thereby, establish time outside your own decision to do so.“

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

The dole is remarkable for the reduction of the self-respect of people. If you’ve ever studied in that field, if you have ever investigated people who have been on social handout, you will be stunned because these people couldn’t possibly… couldn’t possibly feel that way.

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

They border between rage and seizure and down into the lowest depths of degradation. They… they have all sorts of specious reasons why if they’re going to accept the material, why they have to accept it. That’s all. It’s… fantastic, and that’s why you – going out to give charity and to help people – there’s only one way to help anybody, and that’s take some MEST away from him. That’s right… that’s right. That happens to be terrible true if you’re really going to help somebody along this low liberty, eternity, equality level of a MEST society, I mean of a homo sapiens society.

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

It’s just all… it’s impossible to operate in… in charity, because the individual’s self-determinism is already at such an ebb that he can’t support a little bit less self-respect, and he gets a little bit less self-respect when somebody has to help him. That’s the last ditch.

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

And that’s why you get… don’t believe then or suppose that there is no love in the universe, simply because it doesn’t work in this society. It’s very true. It’s only too true that along here in this low level of beautiful sadness of… of giving our all, and that sort of thing – that’s MEST talking. That’s its perversion of a finer emotion.

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

And when you start to engage upon charity, you’d better take some guns and bayonets along with you, because before you get through you’ll need them. You start in this society to help people, you get the very definite answer right straight back, „You’re trying to tell me that I have to be helped.“

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

Because in trying to help people, you place them in time and have something to do with possession. And so they flashback on it.

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

There’s only one safe way I know of to help anybody. I finally… finally know a safe way to help people, uh… in this society. I did not know this before, and it’s been a very interesting contest, but that’s this: Theta clear ‘em in a hell of a hurry.

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

And they go up above the level where they think they’re weakened by accepting help. You can only help a strong man, really. It’s very dangerous to help a weak one.

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

So, when you get these preclears and so on, get them right up there into a strong man department, right away, quick. Otherwise they’ll kick back at you and you’ll wonder why… why this preclear that you started to process, and you tried to process this preclear, went around and told everybody that really what happened in the… when she went to your home, and so forth, she wouldn’t want to talk about this but, well, ahem…

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

And one of the favorite tricks that a preclear who is at that level will do so horribly; they… they go around and they tell one auditor that another auditor did horrible things to them in processing, and this second auditor agrees with him, and remedies some of these things that are supposedly present, and then this auditor will go back to the first auditor, invariably, and tell the first auditor that the second auditor had said he was such a dirty bum and so on, and that this case was really now all messed up because of the second auditor. So the first auditor has to tie in and do something about this.

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

And a preclear at a certain level will do that – just shuttle around until a whole group of auditors is just lacerated and shot to pieces. This is an effort to destroy a group. But it’s also a completely mechanistic thing on the part of this preclear.

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

They’re trying to say, „Really, I don’t want help, because everybody who tries to help me, and so forth, is really… really I don’t need help from them.“ And ‘then when she realizes, this preclear, or he realizes that somebody has helped him, he has to say this other person is a dog to deny the fact that he’s been helped.

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

The answer to this is… the answer to this is rocket up, high scaled bust ‘em through, Theta Clear, and do it as rapidly as possible because you’ve got a fellow who is so capable of producing himself some space, lie’s so capable of placing himself in space, he’s so capable of handling objects that the idea of… of uh… it being a criticism, because somebody else gave him an object or showed him some space or something – it would never enter his mind.

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

They’d say, „Well, uh… what do you know? Yeah? Yeah, that’s a pretty good illusion.“ Fellow way down tone scale would say at a certain level not too far down, „Oh, I can do a better illusion than that.“ And the fellow down the tone scale way below this thing would say, „Don’t you think that there’s something just a little bit nasty about illusions? Now I’ve noticed your illusions in particular. I think they, I… I think, well, I hate to say anything, but they’ve been talking you know, about your illusions, and they… they…“

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

And way down below that they don’t even look, they’re MEST. All right, now, when we have… when we have a… a preclear, and we want to free this preclear’s ability to control himself or handle himself in the midst of the group, what do we do?

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

We orient him in space and with possessions to a point where he can handle his environment, and where he doesn’t mind if the environment occasionally handles him. And to orient our preclear with regard to a broader sphere of society, where you get him so he is able to handle and locate things in space – handle possessions.

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

In another broader sphere, let’s say the solar system, we’re getting him to a point where he can handle space and possessions.

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

Now a little bit broader point, which is this end of this galaxy, we get him to a broader point where he can handle space and possessions.

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

Now, what do we do to get a preclear free? We get him so he can handle space and possessions.

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

Now, that applies to this galaxy, and that applies to this island of galaxies, and that applies to the next island of galaxies, and that applies to all these islands of galaxies, and that applies out to the outermost boundary, since there is no boundary, ‘cause space isn’t that way, of the MEST universe.

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

And I’ve been saying this in many ways, but I’ve been saying it this way, so I hope you don’t forget it. And that is: A process which orients itself around handling space and possessions will work. And a process which does not orient itself around space and possessions will eventually make slaves. Now it’s awfully arbitrary, isn’t it?

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

Now, outside this galaxy there could be processes which didn’t have to do with this but those are other games. As far as we’re concerned it sure does.

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

It might be there are many ways out there of handling space and possessions and other things and so on, so that we don’t get slavery just because some process wasn’t oriented in that direction. But it’s a safe direction to orient it, isn’t it? So whether it has to do with an old facsimile, a secondary, a ridge, a flow, a concept, a feeling, affinity, reality, communication, emotion, thought, effort, counter-emotion, counter-thought, counter-effort, how do we handle these things.

Go into that considerably later.

Space and possessions, possession could be energy and, it could be creation of. Now, but those are the keys. Those are the keys to the kingdom called freedom. Now, when you are able to handle these things, there isn’t such a thing as a locked door, and it does not matter what you’re handling by them, but the best thing to handle with them is, of course, that thing which reestablishes two very essential rights to the preclear.

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

Two very essential rights, and that is: the right to his own sanity, and the right to leave a game, which boils down to the right to have an exertion of self-determinism, and the right to locate himself in some other universe if he suddenly chooses to.

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

It’s all right for people to have a right, but if they don’t have the capability, the right is meaningless. So the right depends to some extent, in any case, upon an education about the right. Well, therefore, you restore these things – you get freedom, and that’s what we’re trying to do. And you should ask yourself, once in a while, when you’re processing preclears, are you sending them in that direction?

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

If you’re sending them in that direction, you’re being very successful. If you’re sending 50% of them in that direction you’re being extremely successful, and if you only send a few out of many, you’re still being successful. But if there’s nobody going in that direction, you go in, you find yourself a mirror, and you see whether or not you got a white robe on or horns.

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

It so happens that a case level V reacts actually against his own choice and will – so thick are his ridges and stimulus-response mechanisms – reacts quite often to pin a thetan down in the head. Actually do that – to pin the thetan down, work hard to, all the while carrying on a tremendous amount of action that should be directed toward getting the thetan out.

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

Little things happen, it’s… it’s… it’s not… not quite understandable that they… it’s coincidental, of course, but just as the blind man’s sight was about to turn on, the preclear kicked the bed. And uh… the reason he did this, uh… the reason he did this was because the auditor, uh… taking that, dropped an ashtray.

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

He had a preclear standing up and he was processing him just beautifully, and the auditor dropped an ashtray quite incidentally just at the crucial moment there. And the preclear bumped into an object which he had been seeing as being someplace else, and it invalidated his sight again, and so then the next auditor through really had to work. Yeah, just quite coincidentally, just terribly coincidental that at the… well, just, just at the moment when… when this… this preclear uh… well, he really had to stop the session because, after all, they obviously weren’t getting anyplace. „Well, I… I know you thought you were getting someplace, and possibly it might have been and so forth, but there’s not much use of continuing this.“ Ah, ohhh…

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

Another thing is, „Oh, um, you saw the room around you there. You looked at the room. What room were you looking at? Oh?“ Oh, this… this Y level will be very polite. „Oh, I’m so sorry, I mean, I… I… I didn’t mean to infer but you see, you had looked at everything all wrong. I mean – I didn’t mean to tell you that, but it was obvious. You would have found it out anyway.“ Uh… and so on. And… it’s just… „Well, I guess you just don’t see well. Well, there isn’t much you can do about that, but we’ll work hard on it tomorrow. Now – cheer up because it isn’t all lost.“ Uh-huh, uh-huh, well, just a little bit of that sort of thing thrown along the line nails the preclear down in his head just as nice as you please. Now that should tell you, should tell you something about what the case of the auditor should be. The auditor’s case oughta be in pretty good shape. One of the reasons it oughta be in pretty good shape is, an auditor takes a dreadful beating in terms of energy.

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

Oh, a preclear sits down, he’s dispersing all over the place. There’s energy flying all over the walls and the ceiling and the floor an…and ridges blow up and boom, and… and the glee of insanity is flying…

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

You want to… sometime when you’re real good and clear go on down to an insane asylum someplace and just fly through the place, and just… just go through the place. Down a corridor and out the other side. Go kinda fast – I would say about four or five times the speed of light. And when you get on the other side of it… when you get on the other side of it, pick up a small amount of the energy deposit that you’ve accumulated there just before you get rid of it, and look at it and feel its emotion.

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

It’s the most fantastic thing. It’s… it’s glee of insanity. Well, looking back over this… looking back over this, then, the restoration of freedom lies unfortunately across a band which should have been very obvious to you – extremely obvious to you.

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

The second you look at these ridges, if you know anything about Technique 88 and flows, it should tell you that your preclear is ordinarily on the average a little bit below the level of solid ridges.

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

He’s got some ridges right there in his vicinity. And what do these ridges say in terms of emotion? They say hate and anger.

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

You want to know why homo sapiens indulges in wars, and why he is so prone to experiencing hate, and why a homo sapiens fairly low on the line has such a good time hating his auditors and hating his friends? It’s a matter of ridges, totally mechanical.

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

And this ridge of sensation here is a solid ridge of sensation, which very often expresses itself as a hatred of sensation. Hmmm. This gets interesting, doesn’t it? In other words, when you’re curing him… bad word that… but when you’re freeing him, you’re curing him of hate – because there’s hate.

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

The horriblest hate there is, of course, is really a harmonic below what we consider apathy, and that’s the hatred of MEST. MEST is have not and have. There’s have not MEST, and there’s have MEST. That makes positive and negative flows. Positive and negative elements and all sorts of things.

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

„Have me,“ some of it says. And, „Don’t have me,“ the others say. And between the two you get a line. So what you’ve got here is your thetan any time he’s gone down the level on these, you’re going to find out that he has a lot of hatred he can express. And if you go ahead and let him express it in terms of this life, and if you keep on running it consistently and continually addressed only to people and to specific things, you’re not going to get him out of his head.

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

You’re just getting a light emotional feeder off of the ridge which is there. What is this hate? This hate’s a very interesting thing. It’s the hate along the line of sensation. That’s the only thing that really pins him down.

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

Hate in sensation; it’s a funny emotion. It really isn’t an emotion which has been adequately described, but you will very often find it by running up with some preclear mock-ups that have to do with the butchery of the opposite sex.

„Well, I can’t be sure.“

And with what glee they will go ahead and butcher the opposite sex. Oh, but grim, really grim, really gruesome, and they feel wonderful afterwards. And when they have this hatred, it… it is actually a desire for sensation, which is held so tight and so close that it’s closed all the space gaps.

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

It’s closed the space gaps. This gap will be way close, clear up to here, and if you were to ask this fellow where to plot the lower part of his body, he would plot it immediately below the thetan. And if you asked him where to plot his mouth, he’d plot it back here in the back of his head.

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

Those gaps are closed gaps of space. The space has been contracted. And as long as space is contracted, as long as it’s pulled together, particularly if it isn’t even the fellow’s space himself, you’ve got yourself a fine fancy ridge there to handle.

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

It’s a wonderful ridge to handle, because it has to do even to the point of body displacement. All right, when we look this over, then, we find out… we find out that a relocation of space or a creation of space in which to locate something, a creation of energy to make materials in that space, and so on – all this is tremendously essential on doing this problem. And when we start to run anything like this, we’re going to start picking up the emotional band.

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

One, the emotional section won’t come apart easily. I mean, he… he isn’t very free in his emotions because of this sensation which is pulled so tight together here. And he isn’t free to move in space easily. And all space is, to some degree, contracted to him. He wants objects, and so it boils down to a very very astonishing point.

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

It means, then, freedom depends upon your ability to uncontract the spaces which he has contracted, and it means just what it says, „Man wants freedom.“ There couldn’t be a more direct definition possible…And what freedom is, and whether it’s freedom for a person, a group, a society, a galaxy, or anything else, it has to do with, he has to be able to uncontract his space. And if he can uncontract his space, the best way to do it is to find out he can create space. If he does that, he’ll let go.

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

And he’s got everything smashed down tight here against himself, and, of course, he cannot be free. Let’s call it a day.

„How big are you?“

„I don’t know. I don’t know.“

„Ten feet?“

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

„Yeah, yeah, I can get that.“

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

„Nuooong!“ and the body goes collapse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, let’s take a break.