This is January the 20th, 1954. This morning I want to show you this E-Meter, tell you a little bit about E-Meters. Although a man very often becomes an expert on airplanes without ever taking a lesson, he sometimes flies with his left wing slightly low. And it’s true of E-Meters.

Okay. And this is the afternoon lecture of January the 19th.

Very often an individual starts working with an E-Meter and works with it quite rigorously and so forth and some essential part of the problem hasn’t been called to his attention or he’s reading something a little bit off.

And then I wanted to tell you about this chap (a very interesting case) who said, “Auditing would be all right if it weren’t for people and thetans.” [laughter] Well, it’s very interesting that people really don’t have to worry about people, but people don’t know this, so people worry about people. It’s quite remarkable that the individual is his own communication index in terms of hate and resentment and fear and so forth.

I know nearly all of you know a great deal about E-Meters, but this particular meter is a model which Volney and I put our heads together on, as is true of most of his work. The equivalent to this meter is the E-400. That’s the newest meter he has.

How well do you think a ridge flows? Doesn’t flow very good. It’ll flow to another ridge- I mean, you’ve got a terminal in operation, you see that?

Now actually, the more complex one of these meters is, the more it will tell the auditor. But the more complex it is, the more it is liable to baffle an auditor. The ideal E-Meter has nothing but one electrode and one switch. And you turn it on and a little red light says “falling” and a little green light says “rising.” And that would be the end of the meter. It would have no needles, it would have nothing else. It’d just have two lights and a switch and it would adjust itself and so forth. And it would need one other device, which would be a little light which went on opposite a Tone Scale. There should be no adjustments, there should be nothing else with the meter than just that-it’d tell you the tone, whether it was rising or falling.

So we get, in interpersonal relations, practically no danger in anybody below 3.0, the truth be told, unless you pay attention to them and agree that they’re very dangerous. And if you start fighting this kind of danger, which is what they want you to do, you wind up with a tendency toward their level of the Tone Scale.

Now, in the absence of such simplicity, it’s up there to a point where a fellow has to be practically an electrical engineer to get all there is to know out of one of these E-Meters. But the funny part of it is, if you do know the sets and know what this E-Meter is all about, it will tell you a fabulous amount of things today.

Now, the mission of duplication is to duplicate and make everybody else duplicate and duplicate and duplicate and duplicate-let’s all go nuts. To duplicate or not to duplicate, that is the hang-up on the time track.

Now, nobody has really gone into it, at any length, and put out comprehensive material on all the things this E-Meter will say.

So we get a ridge flowing to a ridge and we’ve got a little bit of current. But what do you know, the current is going between those two ridges and in terms of electronics, you even need a wire to get it away from those two ridges and you need a wire to get it between those two, really, if they’re very far apart.

Volney, in his last textbook on the subject, An Electropsychometry Manual, uses Dianetics and Scientology a great deal in it. That manual is designed for doctors. He hopes that the medical market and so forth, that it will be quite alert to that. Dianetics and Scientology, by the way, are not mentioned in it. And this was before Volney got a lot of validation here at the last Congress and so on. He refers to me in it as a “controversial lecturer” and no further, which is amusing.

So we find hate not going very far. You talk about this horrible poison called hate and how you don’t want anybody to hate you. Go ahead and let them hate. You’ll just hang them up on a ridge. And a ridge can’t communicate unless you mock yourself up as a ridge. It can communicate to that.

Anyway, you cannot, by the way, ever curry favor with an organization, like the doctors or something of this sort, merely by omitting controversial material. The actual method of stirring up interest is to be as blunt and take as firm a stand as possible. And it’s a little tough that way, but you will find, gradually, that the professions which fight you will have to close terminals with you.

Throughout the history of Man, the fighting of low-tonedness has inevitably, invariably, wound up with low-tonedness.

This is true of a great many things. This is true of religion. The Catholic Church is now closing terminals with psychoanalysis. Of course, it’s taken them sixty years to do that. But they’re closing terminals in this wise: “You mustn’t go too far with your psychoanalysis.” The Pope has issued several bulls. Always been amusing to me why they call them “bulls.” Anyway... Short form of the word, I guess. [laughter]

Now, there’s a couple of ants out here, live on McDowell Street. And these ants live just back of the curb. And they hate every automobile that goes by. Boy, do they hate them! And, you know, there hasn’t been a single flat tire because of that. That’s because it doesn’t occur to any motorist to fight the hate of ants. Just doesn’t occur to them. Of course, now if you went down and told every motorist, just before he went by the place, that there were two ants up the line there and they hated them, you’d probably get a line charge.

We have here the first thing-although this is the E-AR-400, that merely means it’s audio, it’s an audio 400. It has considerable additional skills on it and I’ll go into those, but basically, nearly everything I tell you here applies to the E-400, which is this meter without an audio. This not only has audio, it has inverted audio.

This is why you can’t get an Operating Thetan to take anything serious that is an international problem. And he can’t believe that the hate of ants is going to ruin him. And honest, that sounds awfully superior and snobbish and all that sort of thing, but it would be if it were in any of those categories. But, you see, it’s not in any of those categories, because it just isn’t an assigned problem. They can’t get into the frame of reference that it’s a desperate thing that they ought to do something or other. They’ll do something because it’s dramatic, not because it’s necessary.

Now, this particular meter here, as you can see, has two dials. And one of these dials is in tone. And the other dial is a surge meter. The one there on the right is a surge meter. And there is a way of zeroing this meter. You can zero this Tone Scale. And there’s a little additional gimmick here and what you do is have the individual take hold of the electrode, with this additional gimmick plugged in, and zero the meter.

The number of necessities which come about in Man are few, as long as he’s here on Earth remotely doing some kind of a job, floundering around-he’ll get there, one way or the other. Mostly he’ll go on down and around and wars will come and wars will go. The only thing that’s really objectionable about Man: that he’s bored. There’s not much drama connected with Man. Nearly all of his drama is in his storybooks or on the television screen. There’s not much drama there. The only real trouble with a war is hurrying up to wait. That’s the only real trouble with a war.

We won’t go into zeroing the meter. These meters are, most of them, zeroed already. And they don’t vary enough to bother with. But you can, of course, zero the preclear. What you do is you just put a standard set of sets on there and get him up there until he reads 2.2 and then flip it off and you’ve got him zeroed On the meter.

And when we talk about counter-emotion, it’s a very, very happy thing that the counter-emotions which are the most dangerous are the type that can’t emanate. Because, by definition, there is less emanation in them.

But that’s almost beside the point. There’s no reason for you to go into electronics as to how you zero a meter. What’s more important to you is the relative tone.

Let’s take Fear, Now, if you get everybody more or less at a tone level which approaches Fear and they’re being suppressed this way and that way and they have to be afraid of an awful lot of things, they have to go on resisting an awful lot of things, they go floundering around with a lot of things, well, what do we have there? We have a mass agreement which is ready to trigger into a tone level which it is very near. And so, we get mass hysteria and stories of mass hysteria, or mass fear, in such places as the cotton mills of the South.

But the funny part of it is, is that Tone Scale is accurate. That is the tone of the individual now in the E-AR-400. It makes former meters sort of horse-and-buggy. But that is the tone of the individual, particularly if it’s properly zeroed. But even if it isn’t zeroed, why, it comes so close to being the tone of the individual that it’s quite remarkable.

A girl is frightened by a mouse or something, lets out a piercing scream and all the girls in the factory promptly start screaming. Now, here you have this manifestation of mass hysteria. You’ll find this recounted and very, very badly reported, in tremendous numbers of psychological textbooks. Mass hysteria. It must be important, one way or the other, or it wouldn’t be duplicated so often, according to MEST universe logic.

And this Tone Scale here, then, isn’t interpreted the same way the first E-Meter Tone Scales were interpreted. That was merely just a relative idea about more or less where the preclear sat. The funny part of it is, is this tone registered here goes exactly against the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation. And you’ll get the same manifestations out of the preclear as you read right here.

Well, if it is that important, why, we ought to know something about it. If we have a number of individuals on the verge of something, then it is easy to trigger them into the something, isn’t it? But if they’re along distance from the something, they don’t trigger into it.

Now, you notice there’s А, В, C, D. Well, the reason for these А, В, C, D scales is you’ll find a preclear registering-he just merely picks up the electrode and sits there. And as you swing this А, В, C, D scale back and forth, you’ll find out that he will be on one of these scales, А, В, C, D, that’s all there is to it.

Now, it’s very hard to fall in a well when you’re five miles from the well. That’s communication distance. But, in tone, it would be very hard to fall into Fear if you were in Serenity. Same kind of drop-five miles away-only it isn’t in distance, it’s in difference of state of mind. But it’s very easy to fall into Anger if you’re in Resentment. It’s very easy to fall into Fear if you’re in Anger.

And you will notice over here that we have these scales marked А, В, C, D. All right. You merely read, then-let’s say he was on the D scale, which is the lowest tone of the scale, and it’s way down here at the bottom-the D is over here to the right and we read on this and we find out that he’s going on the scale here at .6.

Now, this meter will register on .6 and that is not true of earlier meters. They don’t register that low. A preclear is off the bottom of those other meters. Well, a preclear can be on here and be given an active needle.

It’s quite amazing that Hitler was so afraid of spirits. Yeah, he was all messed up with the Seventh Dynamic. And he would go into spasms of terror which approximated the magnitude of his anger. It was inevitable, just on a basis of electronics, that anybody who is in that much of a ridge, when he disperses that much, will of course go to the next lower dispersal.

People down around .6, 1-something on that order-actually, it’ll go below this, it’ll register on a dead man, really, if the fellow is not quite dead.

See, the mechanical aspect of this: fellow is riding a ridge, he starts to communicate, he can communicate just so long and he finds himself, of course, in Terror. You should understand this because you’ll see preclears doing it on the way up and occasionally, when you drop them in tone, on the way down. They hit a ridge and then they hit a dispersal and then they hit a ridge and they hit a dispersal and so forth.

But the point here is you get down very low on earlier meters and over here on the surge meter you merely get a stuck needle. You have to take a magnifying glass to notice its flick. Interesting. With the sensitivity control all the way up and everything else, you have to have a magnifying glass to see that he has moved.

Well, every time you hit a ridge, you get somebody solid and not communicating. So you’ll mark hitting these ridges by hitting the comm lags. And the ordinary course up the Tone Scale of a preclear is not by jumps, it’s just marching right on up the Tone Scale.

The one particularly notable character who is today running all over the country administering-or here-administering CO2 to everybody is a terrific case. You wouldn’t think of it because he isn’t balky or anything, I mean, he doesn’t look any other way. But do you know that that man, who is the most violent foe of the E-Meter there is, won’t register on an earlier meter. He’s off the bottom of earlier meters. And he won’t register very sensitively on this one.

And if he’s not going on up the Tone Scale, you’re not doing a good job of auditing. You’re just not paying attention to certainty and to fundamentals, as we covered this morning. It’s almost impossible to keep him from going up the Tone Scale on the material which you have. It’s real hard to do. You have to be awful careful the way you use the stuff, because if you use it in any vague sort of a routine job on the thing, the fellow will eventually go up the Tone Scale. You pay attention to certainty, he’ll go up the Tone Scale.

But on the earlier meters it would take a magnifying glass to show a supercharge if you hit it on his case. And on this meter, you would actually see it recorded rather well over here on the surge meter. You see, you could see-you could detect the motion of the needle.

All right. What do we do, then, about these communication changes? What’s this 7 communication change all about? Well, outflow, outflow, inflow, inflow and of course you get this sort of a problem. At each point of this scale, one way or the other, flows are imbalanced. And ridges are of different densities.

Now, people fight this meter, by the way, in those brackets, naturally. Those people are afraid of energy and have fought energy and are massed energy and have themselves associated with energy to a point which has caused them to close terminals and become a mass. Now, it’s people of this character, by the way, who use such things as electric shock and so on.

Now, you’re not trying to run out a flock of flows or a bunch of ridges. You’re trying to get the individual up to a security where this particular type of ridge does not trouble him. Therefore, Straightwire is a better technique than any plow-horse technique. Because all you’re trying to do with a thetan is change his mind-wherever you will see him, wherever yOu’ll find him, outside or inside, all you’re trying to do is change his mind.

If you were to turn this meter loose on most psychiatrists, you would find that the bracket I’ve just been talking about is applicable. I’m not kidding you about this. I mean, I’m not trying to make a point here and say psychiatry is all bad and so on. I’m just giving you a little word of warning. You have to turn that sensitivity knob up here, this red one, all the way up. And turn that scale over there to the D scale and you’re off. But on this meter you’ll be able to read them.

Interiorized, he’s got himself connected with the body to a point where he tries to change the body’s mind as well as his own mind at the same time. This sympathy with the (quote) “body’s mind” (unquote) and his own mind, results in the fact that he thinks he has to change the body’s mind before he can change his own mind.

And on the Keeley lie detectors, they don’t read. This meter, now, is senior to the Keeley lie detector. It makes the Keeley lie detector look like something that’s being pulled around by a dinosaur, just because of that.

Well, this is very difficult to do in view of the fact that the command-post center that the body uses from the motor controls isn’t a mind. So it’s quite hard to change the mind of something that doesn’t have a mind. But the thetan has put a very complex mind sitting there in the body-he’s got this all rigged up and there are beautiful circuit machines and so forth. So when you try to audit somebody who is inside the body, you spend most of your time auditing him so he will audit the thing which he has set up which represents the body’s mind, which he is also in sympathy with.

Now, when you consider that criminals don’t register on the Keeley lie detector to a certain percentage-it’s something on the order of about, let’s see, 17 percent incorrect responses and 10 percent no registry. By the way, Keeley has never wrapped this up, as many, many years as they’ve been in business up there near Chicago making these lie detectors at enormous cost. A lie detector is the most fabulously expensive thing that you ever tried to put up to the city council. At enormous cost, their coordinated data-because they lack the material of Dianetics-failed to disclose any of the reasons why, or the coordinated material, as to why this 10 percent didn’t register at all and this 17 percent registered incorrectly.

So we get this very circuitous type of auditing. You’re auditing somebody who is auditing something. You’re not auditing a preclear. You see, you’re auditing an auditor of a preclear. Well, a preclear is normally a flock of circuits or something. He’ll sit there and audit demon circuits like mad and all that sort of thing. Well, how do you get away from this? Well, nobody ever audited out a demon circuit and went anyplace but down in tone. You reduced his havingness, in other words.

Now, the reason behind that, of course, is simply this matter of low tone. When you’re running an instrument consistently and continually on criminals, you are, of course, taking the lowest-toned strata of the society and, as such, you can expect that there would be a tremendous number of them that don’t register.

Well, the more effort and seriousness there is about his handling this problem, of course, the harder it is for him to handle the problem because you’ve suppressed him toward the effort band. And when you set in to do a tremendously serious job of auditing and it has a great deal of concern in it, your preclear is trying to duplicate you to some degree, and goes on being very, very concerned. You see that? Whereas, you could boost him up to a point where he’d be less concerned.

Now, personally, I believe this to be true because I’ve done some work with police lie-detector operators, I believe the percentage is much, much higher than that. I don’t even think they’ve done a good index with their percentage.

Well, if a preclear has a serious problem, you can just bet your boots that it’s got some heavy flows connected with it. Well, the way for you to handle this is to put him into a condition where he can handle flows, ridges and energy and so forth and the spaces that are interwoven with them. So it’s of the essence-because these things have spaces, too-it’s of the essence that your preclear be able to handle space, energy, time-those three things. If he can’t handle those three things, why, he won’t be able to handle a reactive bank, because it’s composed of nothing else.

Well anyway, you can get this fellow down here on this little dial and you can get a registry. That’s important to us because many a psychotic is apparently in good condition, excellent condition. You can put him on one of these meters and, my gosh, he’s down there ticking 1. You just say to yourself “Oh-oh!” Because the meter happens to be telling the truth now.

It’s taken Volney-this is quite a trauma, but it’s taken Vblney quite a little while to coordinate that Tone Scale up there. And it’s interesting that he took the Tone Scale, which was done by symbolic logic, as his monitor on the thing and that it continues to hold true through all experimentation. Tone Scale is holding true and then this meter is registering against the Tone Scale.

Nothing wrong with lying, except when it’s the truth. And the GE runs backwards and everything is so true that the more lies he gets in place, the truer it gets and then you tell somebody to face reality. And he faces a flock of data based on what the GE is doing.

Now, that’s important for you to know because one of these days you’ll pick up somebody who says, “I’m Clear,” see? And he’s “clear,” all right. And he’ll be registering around 1.5 or something. Oh no, he’s not. Because an able tolerance for the body, operatively, is between 2.5 and 3.5 and a body just doesn’t operate well below that level.

The more a person agrees with the past, of course (theoretically, the more he thinks the past is there and necessary and he has to agree with it at all times), the more enforced agreement you’re liable to have on the case. And you get this problem of psychotherapy always processing the past.

And a thetan exteriorized would-he actually wouldn’t be able to get adequate responses out of a body which was registering below 2.5. So he would certainly patch it up, whether he was having anything to do with it or not. If he was going to manage it rather consistently, why, he would patch it up to the point where it would register above that level.

Now, the only reason I’m trying to talk to you about this at all is trying to get you out 10 of the idea of thinking the past is important. It is more important to teach your preclear to tell good, big, believable, unbelievable, baldfaced lies than it is to teach him how to tell the inescapable truth of what “everybody knows happened.”

Now, that’s quite low (2.5 to 3.5) and it’s, however, an admissible low-reading level for a Theta Clear. It’s admissibly low. You’ll find out that Theta Clears register ordinarily much higher than this, the main reason being that they’re in pretty darn good shape physically.

Now, that sounds like it’s immoral or unethical. No. It is very, very immoral and unethical to make a man agree with the actual incidents which have taken place. Very immoral. Because it’ll kill him. And that’s the only reason he dies. He dies out of these things called “truth of actual occurrence.”

Now, let’s take another look at this and find out if there’s anything else that would tell us anything about our preclear immediately that might be interesting to know. Yes. This meter, above all things, will run a basal metabolism on a preclear. And it will run a BMR more accurately than BMR machines. This is interesting. It requires its coordination scale and that has not yet been released.

These are data truths, see? Actual occurrence. These are agreed-upon truths and these aren’t truths at all. A number of people could get out front and agree perfectly that this was not a house here, that it was a black cat.

But the point is that this machine actually will run a basal metabolism on an individual and rather rapidly.

And the next guy that comes up, they could say to him, “Now look at that black cat.”

Now, as you know or maybe you don’t know, very often they will take somebody into a hospital and keep them there overnight and wheel them out very carefully on a wagon and put the cone over their face-not let them move or exercise or get up in the morning or anything and then take this terrifically careful reading and then finally let them go.

And the fellow looks at them and he says, “What’s the matter with you people? That’s a house. That isn’t a black cat!”

And that is their basal metabolism, which is to say, the burning rate-let’s just call it the burning rate of oxygen in the body and carbon. They get it by measuring the breath of the individual. And after they’ve done all this, it’s quite silly that somebody can simply walk into your office and you can get his BMR the moment he puts his hand on the meter.

And they say, “Yes, it is a black cat.” Pow!

Volney wasn’t even going to put this together, because it’s kind of shameful toward these big BMR machines because there are just thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of stuff, you see, and tremendously complicated. And it takes years to run one of these things and he wasn’t even going to get the front scale together on this.

And after they’d beaten him up enough and given him enough energy and impacts and certainties and various categories and arguments, in other words, he, too, will tell you, “It’s a black cat.” Furthermore, he’ll be able to feel the fur on that cat and hear it purr.

But it’s very, very important to an auditor. We don’t care what the artificial numbers are on the basal metabolism scale. We don’t care what those are. But we sure care that if we’re going to process this preclear-if he is in such sad and sorry condition in terms of burning rate-that he is in chronic or acute fatigue. Because if we process somebody who is in chronic or acute fatigue with any kind of a heavy process, if we just process him without making him rest, we’ll have somebody who is worse off after the processing than before the processing simply because he can’t burn enough energy physically to be processed. The energy isn’t there.

Now, I don’t recommend that you should make this experiment daily. But it’s how you got that way.

Now, how do you run this mysterious BMR test? Well, you have the preclear take hold of the electrode, you put him on the tone meter over here (that is to say, you’ve just adjusted these on the А, В, C or D scale). You adjust that and you tell him to take a breath and exhale. And if he’s in good shape, our surge meter over here will fly, with good action, down to the bottom of the pin.

“Well, you see that over there? That’s a mouse.”

If he’s in real good shape, it’ll hit the bottom of the pin and sort of go ping, ping, ping, you know? It would have fallen three more dials. If he’s in real good shape, it’ll do that. But certainly it’ll swing the entire width of the dial.

“No, it isn’t a mouse. A mouse is only an inch high. I know what a mouse is. Where we come from, the thing we call a mouse is only an inch high. That’s what a mouse is.”

Now, you know that after you put him on the dial, you touch this little center button here and that brings our surge meter over here to the extreme left of the dial. And as he’d take the breath, you would see the needle go over here to the right side of the dial. If he’s in the kind of shape which would tolerate processing, that needle will go all the way across and hit the pin and come back.

“Oh, no. That isn’t what a mouse is. That mile-high thing over there is a mouse.” “No, it’s not a mouse! It isn’t even an animal. It isn’t even a . . .”

But if he is not in good shape-this is really all you need to know, you don’t need to know the relative scales-but if he’s not in good shape, it will go slowly across the dial. He’ll go [inhale, exhale] and you’ll see that needle go slowly across the dial over to the right and slowly return. That man can be processed with care.

“It’s a mouse.”

But it’s also telling you right over here on your tone meter what kind of shape he’s in, because he’s probably reading about 1.5, ordinarily. Unless, of course, he’s a runner or something that, has just been ten times around the track and you could find his burning rate and his fatigue was way down, you see? This would be the other deciding factor.

“Well, now look, I have my own rights to my . ..” Pow!

That fellow, too, shouldn’t be processed. You should let him sit there and rest up and get his breath back. In other words, if you got a bad reading here on this breathing test, you just wouldn’t process the fellow.

“It’s a mouse. Well, I guess around here they believe that mice are a mile high. Well, I have to agree with it in order to live with them. Every time I say mouse, I mean something an inch high and every time they say mouse, it means a mile high. Well, I guess we just better talk about a mouse that’s a mile high. I’ll kind of remember that mice are one inch high.”

Now, what is a really bad reading on the test? The fellow heaves a sigh and the needle slightly vibrates. Doesn’t go anyplace. That man would be practically dead. As a matter of fact, it’d be doubtful if that individual could have walked himself into your office. Now that’s how bad the reading could be.

A few years later, he doesn’t remember that mice are an inch high and he goes back home again.

And the critical reading and the no-process reading is when it won’t go over and hit the pin. It won’t go over to the right side of the meter. He takes a breath and it doesn’t go over to the right side of the meter, doesn’t reach that pin over there, you let him sit there and rest for a little while. Don’t even talk to him. You just tell him to take it easy.

Somebody runs out of the house and says, “There’s a mouse in the house.”

Now, the funny part of it is he might look like he’s in a state of agitation. You know, I mean he’s animated and so forth and yet the needle doesn’t go over and hit the pin. This guy is riding one of these burn-them-all-up manics. So it does a very good job of detection on this guy.

He says, “That’s impossible.” [laughter]

Now, if it goes over about halfway and slowly comes back, this fellow will just have to rest up. Otherwise you’ll get yourself in trouble as an auditor. You’ll process him there for an hour and he’ll be worse. And you process him for another hour and he’ll be much worse.

“No, it’s not impossible. There is a mouse in the house.”

The reason for this is, in its early stages, the individual is dependent upon the residual energy in the body to be processed. And that’s why you take Bj and so forth. This body is a carbon-oxygen machine. The thetan is not a carbon-oxygen machine, he’s joined up with one.

“Well, look, that house is only fifty feet high. It can’t possibly be, because a mouse is a mile high.”

And exteriorized, however, the thetan still can pull energy out of the body. And you start to run an engram on this individual, you reduce his havingness (which is to say, you reduce the number of terminals which he has) and you’re throwing away a certain amount of his energy. And as a consequence, if you process him a little bit more, you’ll blow a few more locks and you’ll just make him a little more tired, because he is not at this point.

“Oh, you think a mouse is a mile high, huh?” Pow!

There is a make-break point on a case. And that is the point where the individual can process locks without marked loss of energy and where a preclear, when he processes locks, experiences a marked loss of energy.

So he gets convinced the other way.

Now, the difference between these two preclears-one that can run locks without any marked loss of energy and the other one who, when he runs some locks, experiences a marked loss of energy-is, in the first case, an individual not depending upon terminals. He’s simply creating energy. And the other fellow is so terribly dependent upon the dichotomy, the modus operand! of the MEST universe, that only residual or stored energy is used by him to run the machine. He isn’t furnishing any energy to the machine at all.

Now, he only gets convinced to the degree that he can be mobbed up on or manhandled.

Now, the make-break point on that happens to be about 2.0 on the Tone Scale. People below 2.0 on the Tone Scale are using terminals. They’re getting the interchange between two masses in order to get their energy. They have to eat to live.

Now we’re not talking, now, about any legal trickery or anything of the sort, we’re just talking about being manhandled: hit with energy, having his space condensed, having things pulled away from him, have him being mauled, mobbed, kicked around, booed at and so forth. That’s all we’re talking about. I mean violence.

Now, at above 2.0-and increasingly, as it goes on up-the individual can create sufficient energy to replace the energy which has been exhausted. You find these individuals will go on various sprints of activity sometimes and they forget to eat and it just doesn’t bother them particularly. And some other fellow goes on a sprint and forgets to eat and it practically kills him! Well, the difference are those two things: On SOP 8, the individual who needs to eat, exclusively, exclusively dependent upon eating for energy, is IV down. SOP 8-that’s a Step IV, V, VI, VII. And Steps I, II and III create a certain amount of energy.

It takes violence to really make these things stick. So God help the individual the first moment he ceased to be dangerous to the environment and the first moment the environment started really being dangerous to him. These are two (quote) “frames of mind” (unquote). Am I dangerous to my environment or is my environment dangerous to me?

Now, once in a while, one of these fellows who is still creating his energy as a thetan and putting it out gets into an interesting condition. He gets tired of creating energy for the damn thing. He just gets tired of it. And he’ll quit! And at that moment he steps into the category of IV, V, VI and VII. See, it’s just the difference between whether the thetan is creating energy or not creating energy and that shows up on your dial over here as telling you he’s either below 2.0 or above 2.0 and that shows up over here again in basal metabolism if the individual is tired.

If you’re dangerous to the environment, then your engram bank is in danger from you, without you thinking any more about it. But, if your environment is simply dangerous to you, then your engram bank, being part of your environment, is dangerous to you, too.

If the individual is tired or hasn’t been eating well, who is a IV, V, VI or VII, you’ll find that the needle won’t go over and hit the pin. And when it comes back, it’ll come back rather slowly.

Now, we say engram bank, we have a misnomer. So let’s shift it over and call it a reactive mind. And let’s find out that that’s made up of automatic machinery and it wasn’t lying there in neat, quiet piles of pictures. Let’s get a different sort of a thing. Let’s get an idea of it being boiler rooms and machinery and perpetually producing stuff and with tax collectors that take your energy away from you to make itself run. That’s more what a reactive mind looks like.

Well, you tell that fellow to rest up for a little while or get himself a bite to eat and you come back and tell him to take a long breath as he grabs on to the meter and you’ve set it again over here on your Tone Scale and zeroed it by pressing this middle button and you say, “All right. Now take a long breath.” He does. It goes over and hits the pin and comes back again.

As far as the analytical mind is concerned, that’s slightly a misnomer because it isn’t analytical-it knows. And you don’t know, because you’re analytical. But by analytical, we’ve departed a little bit in words and we meant “conscious”-you know, more conscious.

Now, an individual in the I, II, III category, you tell him to take a long breath and let it out, just like this: uuh-hhhh or uuuhhh-huhhhhhbhhhh (you don’t care exactly what the moment of breathing is), and it goes over and hits the pin and goes ting ting ting ting ting!

Well, this is the self-determined mind of the individual, versus the stimulus-response determined mind of the individual. What are these two minds? One is the guy and the other is the machinery.

You know, if you’re really riding this center button here-your reset button right in the middle of it there-and you were catching it every time it was hitting the pin, it’d keep on going across the dial and hitting the pin. In other words, he’d fall maybe three dials, four dials, five dials. You know, that means when he takes in some oxygen, boy, does it take off in terms of energy. See?

Well, now let’s take up the winning valence. Every once in a while, you process a preclear and he all of a sudden has a stuck visio of a bathroom or a stuck visio of a bedroom. You haven’t any idea why he’s got this stuck visio of the bedroom. You inquire into it on the standpoint of valences, however, and make him look around a little bit, he’s liable to find his body there. He isn’t in his body, he’s looking at the room from the standpoint of the bedpost. Why is he looking at it from the standpoint of the bedpost? Because the bedpost just won. He barked his shins against it and it hurt him like hell and he couldn’t punish it, so it won. For an instant he was the bedpost.

Well now, if Volney will get busy on this coordination and index against the BMR coordination and index, the remaining data would be set up down here: Where do these things have to be, you see, in order to get a read? And he’d get all of the lower basal metabolism readings, because with this machine just set at average, the behavior of the needle is not numerically exact. And when people are getting their basal metabolisms read-that is, their burning rate read-why, you’re interested mainly in low-toned characters because they’re sick. And doctors would like to have that reading on the very lower one. I don’t know what they’d do with it, but they’d probably put it down in a report so they can sit and look at it.

It’s very shockingly true that an individual has a tendency to shift into the identities of those things which win and this is his effort to become dangerous to his environment. He becomes dangerous to his environment to the degree that (he believes) he takes on identities of things which are dangerous to their environments.

But the machine should have that because it’s a better machine for basal metabolism than basal metabolism machines. Okay. So much for that.

We get the subject of butterflies again and we’ll have the most ferocious looking patterns on the wings of butterflies. And these patterns all demonstrate to the world that the butterfly would be awfully hard to attack. The butterfly is operating on a winning valence proposition. Nothing dangerous about this butterfly at all, but he takes on a pattern of some dangerous thing. See that? That’s simply winning valence.

Just to go over these steps again: as your preclear sat down, he would take hold of this electrode-just hold it loosely, limply. You’d set him on the Tone Scale and you’d zero the meter and you’d say, “Take a breath and let it out.”

Well, there’s hardly a preclear alive who, as he came down the track, didn’t skid into one of his automatic machines and be it, leaving himself to go to hell. Because his automatic machinery, one after the other, are apt to become winning valences.

He would. It goes down, it hits the pin, comes back rather readily.

And so it is that many a preclear who goes into auditing gets pushed over into the “automatic doctoring machine.” See that? “Automatic doctoring machine,” the “automatic healing machine” or the “automatic memory machine.” Each one of these things has beingness and so he can be them. They have beingness, he granted them beingness-you can make any number of individuals that you want to. You can make as many chess players as you want to make chess boards. No finite number. And so you could make a tremendous amount of machinery that itself has identity. And then, if you lose your own identity one way or the other, you can always be a machine.

You say, “Fine.”

Memory, let’s take memory. Memory is that thing which is supposed to give back former incidents to you. In other words, it’s an automatic pound-in mechanism. Well, that’s all right as a mechanism. “This is supposed to give me back incidents when I think of them. This is supposed to give me the incidents which have happened and so that they will then reoccur to me, so that I can have the incidents which I have lost in the past.” This is one way of beating the past, is memory.

Okay.

So one sets up a machine to do this and then what do you know? He’s in a universe that pounds him from 360 degrees, so this inflow is aided and abetted by MEST universe inflow. So here he is being pounded from all sides by inflow and he’s also got a machine which inflows the past at him.

Now, there’s two things you can do here which are of interest. If you really want to do E-Metering for blood, you will take over the automatic machine which is making that hand flinch that is holding that electrode. And thereafter you get steady readings.

An auditor quite often becomes an automatic memory machine. His own identity was pretty shaky and so he just decides to be an automatic memory machine for the preclear.

People get very tricky on that electrode. They’ll hold it loosely, they’ll hold it tightly. They will try to lessen their grasp on it up to the ratio that the needle will fall so that the needle won’t read when they speak of a certain subject and so on.

How does this machine operate? Well, some of these machines are quite complex. They present pictures to the thetan. The thetan remembers something and then the automatic memory machine presents him with a picture. This is only one method of an automatic memory machine. They also present him with a thought. So you get associative logic. I don’t know what’s so logical about it, but it’s sure associative.

Honest, a fellow who can fool a good E-Meter operator just hasn’t been born. But they will try to do this and it interferes with your readings. So you simply take over the automatic machine which makes them clinch and so on, on that electrode.

Then you get individuals who don’t want to be reminded of things. They don’t like things because they remind them of other things. Don’t want to be reminded. Don’t want to be reminded. And they’ve got an automatic memory machine that is set up to do just this: remind them.

Well, if your individual is reading too low, I would not advise you to take over that automatic machine, because any automatic machine you try to take over will simply flip his valence and you’ll get him doing nothing. He’s too low to have you reach for and grab a machine, so you want to remember that.

It’s set up on the basis, when the fellow was cocky and feeling brassy and he set it up, “It’ll remind me of everything I think of and of what happened in the past so I will know about it in the future.”

But once in a while an individual who is nervous or something of the sort is giving you an unstable grip. You know, he’s giving it a grip. Well, right at that point, just as a matter of routine, you could put into it, “All right. Squeeze the electrode now and let go. Squeeze the electrode and let go. Squeeze the electrode and let go.” Do it about fifteen times and after that you’ll get a steady needle. You have run out his impulse to vary the reading one way or the other, by squeezing the electrode.

So an auditor can become an automatic memory machine. I see at this moment that a lot of auditors immediately have assigned this and diagnosed themselves as having lost their own identity and have become these automatic memory machines. Well, you’re also the automatic memory machine. That doesn’t mean you’ve lost your own identity.

Now naturally, you wouldn’t have to set the machine any further to run this exercise.

When an individual skids down the track, he obliterates his old identities because he believes that they were not dangerous to the environment and he assumes new identities which he believes are more dangerous to the environment. The odd part of it is that no identity was ever dangerous to the environment. The only thing that is really dangerous to the environment is “nothing.” You take a “nothingness” that can put out energy beams, that’s about the most dangerous thing you could run into in the environment, as far as that’s concerned.

And the thing you would do after that is find how lively a needle you have. There is nothing more horrible than trying to sit and read a needle which is all over the dial and which is reading with every breath of the preclear.

So he is perfectly willing to assume-if you process him for a while and get over the ideas of how horrible it is to be nothing-he’ll all of a sudden realize that being nothing isn’t so bad at all, because it’s quite dangerous to the environment.

Now, it shows you there that the needle does read with every breath of the preclear. You see that clearly. All right. If it is, why, naturally it’ll vary your readings. So when you get a deep surge, did the preclear just sigh?

All right. What’s the goal in auditing any automatic machinery? Well, it’s to rehabilitate the fullest possible individuality and beingness to the preclear-his own. Where you got to go for it? It’s liable to be geographically placed. He lost his identity in 1832 in Hoboken. He just wasn’t proud anymore and then he became a doctor.

The funny part of it is that the Keeley lie detector depends to a large degree-it depends on a tape and it has a blood-pressure indicator and a respirator and that is to say, it measures the input and output of the lungs and-what else does that thing have?

Well, why did he get unproud? Well, some doctor fixed him up, really fixed him up. He was having an affair with the doctor’s wife and the doctor operated on him or something-something weird like this will happen. Well after that he became a doctor. Winning valence.

I always state the thing it should have (to myself) because it’s too close to a truth that the machine ought to be built that way and it isn’t built that way. It’d be the galvanic reading of the individual. Machine isn’t built for that, though. So we’ll just skip what the third one is on a Keeley. For some reason or other, every time I look at a Keeley, I say, “It ought to be rebuilt.” So I guess, finally, now I’ve rebuilt it.

But the guy could become a doctor, really, only if he had an automatic machine which would lay in the basic foundations of being a doctor. Then having been a doctor, he finds out that he hates doctors, so he doesn’t like himself. So he looks around for something else to lick him so he can be it. You might say it’s a perpetual search to be beaten, on some low-toned cases, as they drift along.

And it works this way: You see these three needles and you track one against the other. Well, you’ve got all these three actions occurring here on this one needle, so you haven’t broken them down. Well, you don’t care whether the individual is sighing or whether he is suddenly a little bit tenser or whether an engram has moved in, actually, you have put this individual under stress.

Well, when they start getting very thoroughly below 3.0, thoroughly below it, why, they go around looking for things to beat them up. They start to lose. Why do they want to lose? So they can win, of course.

The moment you said “Mother,” the individual went under stress and it reflected in the needle. That’s all you wanted to know. There isn’t any reason to say that “Well, it reflected against the breath” and so on.

Method of survival. That’s another method of survival: being something which has a survival potential. If something wins, it of course survives better. So we got the contest with the environment. Then we get the break point of the preclear at 2.0 where the environment becomes rather thoroughly dangerous to him and he is no longer dangerous to the environment. And above that, why, he’s a little bit dangerous to the environment, the environment is pretty dangerous to him. And you go on up to a point of where the environment isn’t even vaguely dangerous to him, he’s only dangerous to it. And then we get up into reasonable levels where we find the preclear not being interested in whether the environment is dangerous or not, it’s merely amusing.

Well, it’s important for you to know that because there’s-several funny little readings. Two important ones are the “sigh” reading-you know, the individual says, Uhhh-huhhh! Yes, Mother!” And of course, it goes down eighteen dials. Why? Because it was Uhhh-huhhh!” See? And you’ve got this basal metabolism reading all over again-a brief measure of his air. All right. They do that too.

And the environment is as dangerous as there is low tone in it, to which a person could get into the winning valence of.

And the other fellow is the fellow who is rather line-he’s not quite line charging, but he, you might say, is giggling. Or he says, “Well, I guess I’m not over there. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Well, um-no, I-I’ve never been married before. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” And you’d think there was something funny if you didn’t know you were still reading the BMR rating. See, you’re reading his breathing.

An individual who is in a shaky frame of mind about his own winningness will only then find danger in the hate, the fear, the mass hysterias of his environment with people. Because the truth of the matter is, is people below 2.0 communicate so badly-so badly, that a person has to go out of his way to get a communication to and from them and actually has to them to communicate with them to some degree. You see that?

And the difference here is the difference of a lag.

And an individual will get along as badly with them as he has to fight them. You know, resist. And in he goes, bang. Favorite trick of the universe. But this only occurs in the lower-tone bands.

You’ll say “Mother.”

It is, of course, quite dangerous for society where everybody is walking around trying to find a “winning-er” environment and trying to find a “winning-er” valence to be into and therefore trying to get beaten by it. It’s quite dangerous for very low-toned people to be loose. But who is it dangerous to? It’s dangerous to low-toned people. That’s who it’s dangerous to.

And then he’ll go “Huhhhh, well no, she’s dead now. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

Now, it isn’t true that a thetan just automatically will snap inside of any body that he swats. You had a good time swatting bodies for a long time before you got to enough overt acts, enough overt-motivator sequences, enough collapsed terminals, to where you slid into one. And you probably had already forgotten that you’d ever had anything to do with bodies when one day you slapped one and in you went. So it appeared very mysterious to you. You never considered it important before and then you couldn’t get out of one.

I don’t know. Not necessarily that silly. You’ll find some fellows who are perfectly reasonable who will have a tendency to laugh and discount everything they’ve said, with a laugh, after they’ve said it. It’s sort of an apology for having said something.

The body being something and being very convincing-it’s convincing, not true-a body. A big difference, you know, between proof convincing and truth. Convincingness will make anything true. Proof will make anything true. There’s no more dangerous maniac than a scientist with a test tube. That bird can prove anything is true and down through the ages past, they have repeatedly.

So your needle will sit there for a moment, inactive. Well, that means the question was inactive. You know, right as you asked the question the needle was inactive.

But the earliest crews that were proving something true to somebody else, of course, were just thetans. They were doing such things as playing a game. “Now, go into that hole there and find something. There’s a something in the hole.” (Of course, there’s nothing in the hole.) But, “Go into that hole and find something there.”

You said “Mother” and you got no action.

“All right, I will.”

But then he said “Well, she’s dead now. Ha-ha-ha-ha!” And then your needle went zoom!

So they go into the hole and the fellow says-he mocks-up a clock or something and he throws that out and he says, “Well, was this it?”

Now, what are you reading on that second zoom? You’re just reading the amount of air that went in and out of his lungs. So the reading itself is not important. So you read the meter against the preclear. You see that? Many an auditor, by the way, has been a little bit baffled by this-why he gets these late sinks.

And they say, “No, that wasn’t it.” And so on and so on and so on.

Now this thing, this E-400, reads when-and so do all E-Meters that have an alert needle-they read the instant the question is asked. There’s no lag. The electronic impulse reads the instant the question is asked. And then other manifestations walk in on it such as a sigh, a laugh, a sudden relaxation or a sudden spasm through the body.

Of course, the fact of the matter was, the hole is empty. But it’s just one of these little mild games. Well, a fellow could get sold on the game and if he got himself into a situation where he was trying to protect something he was trying to prove . . . You have to see how locked up this has to get to get loused up. He has to protect something he’s trying to prove and then he gets very convincing about it, he’ll skid. And that’s the only way he’ll really skid.

You asked the question and it produced a spasm in the body. Well, the first reading is the one you want: the electronic surge which was produced in the body which preceded the mechanical convulsion or sigh or giggle in the body. And you want that electrical impulse and that’s the first thing it reads.

Because below 2.0, people aren’t dangerous. The people who get furiously angry at no provocation are not dangerous to a thetan. They can be dangerous to a body, because they’re liable to start shooting or something. But they’re not dangerous to a thetan.

And you say “Mother” and the needle goes zing.

They’re not even dangerous to a thetan in a body, beyond giving him some losingness. Now, they can storm and rant all they please, but the truth of the matter is there’s darn little emanation. That’s a ridge talking. And if it talks long enough, it’ll go into Fear.

And then he says, “She’s dead. Ha-ha-ha-ha” and then the needle goes zong. Who cares about it going zong afterwards? We want that first moment it went flick, see? And we got a bad jar on the needle right there at the first moment. Well, that’s how you’d get around that fellow. By the way, it just reads rather uniformly, on most people it doesn’t do this. But people who sigh-you know that every time you look at a preclear who is sighing, you’re looking straight at a grief charge that’s sitting right on the surface. There is a grief charge there.

Now, the emanation, the words-MEST words-flying around are about the only counter-emotion there is in the low tones. A person has to approximate Fear in order to feel Fear.

As I said, the first thing that you would do about the thing would be to run out his impulse to squeeze that can. Just say to him, “All right. Now, squeeze it and let it go and squeeze it and let it go and squeeze it and let it go.”

Only the higher parts of the band emanate easily. They’re the only ones that have any power because they’re the only ones where the individual can flow or not flow, as the case may be. Well, those things which are stimulus-response mechanisms, which flow and don’t flow, are, of course, not even vaguely dangerous.

And the next thing you would do would be to set your needle to get the relative action you wanted on the case.

All right. Let’s take somebody-let’s take one of you. You set up a Clinic and you’ve been treating a bunch of school kids or something of the sort and you’ve been running a group. Now, all of a sudden, somebody comes in with “Hectoronomy” or something and they move in across the street. Well now, you could conceive there was vast danger in this-people across the street-because the first thing they do is demonstrate how much they hate you. They’re using, or trying to use, materials which you yourself are using. And they’re calling it something else and they’re fouling people up and they’re saying how you don’t know your business and how you just ruin everybody.

Now, there’s two ways to go about this and the first way is not the most optimum, 9 because it involves a touch of the preclear. But if you want to get a rather big reaction on the machine, you just touch him on the back of the neck and say, “Has a girl ever kissed you there?” Or touch her on the back of the neck and say, “Has a guy ever kissed you there?” And you get a reaction on the machine every time. That gives you a reaction. Gives you a big reaction.

And they go on and they’re doing, according to what you hear, an awful lot of talking. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap. Unfortunately for them, your business will decline and your traffic and your Clinic will decline only to the ratio that you conceive their existence to be dangerous and permit them to communicate. Because they can only use your comm line-they haven’t got one. They’re not dangerous. You can err only to the degree of permitting them to communicate. I speak from experience on that. The only way you permit them to communicate or stop their communication, one way or the other, is simply-you’ve got to hang up a communication line for them to communicate on.

Well now, if you want that reaction and you would ordinarily in processing people-auditors like different kinds of needles, but if you’d had that only drop five units on this surge scale, you would be reading a very tight meter. I mean, it’d be very small action. If you set it to read 10, you would be reading an E-Meter about the way I read it. A test like that, resulting in a drop of ten units.

You don’t even hang up the subject or the symbol or anything like that. That isn’t even good enough. You actually have to get in there and practically mail their letters for them.

Many an auditor tries to read this meter where that test would drop two dials because this machine can be set so it’d drop five dials. You see that? You could set this machine a lot of different ways.

Now, they will set up shop and fail. They will. There is no doubt about it. Might take them a long time to fail.

Well, how do you do that? Well, let’s look down here and over to the extreme right and we find two knobs. And the one at the top is called the “energy input” and the one at the bottom is called a “surge needle damping.” Now, this red button is really the same old needle-this doesn’t change its reads, this just changes its action on this machine. They changed the read on the earlier machine, but this changes the action on this machine-at least it’s supposed to. All right.

Preclear or two of yours who are pretty low-toned might fall into the rattrap and that might swamp them one way or the other. And, of course, if you get mad enough about it and tell enough other preclears about it and make communication for this outfit, why, it can hurt you.

This is the same as your sensitivity needle-this red needle. And it works the same way. Of course, it turns the machine on and off over here just like your old red sensitivity needle did on the early E-Meters.

But if you’ve set yourself up to protect every single person in the entire community, you have set yourself up to change the life of every person in that community. Therefore, you have set yourself up to control every person in the community and monitor his actions and therefore you’ve set yourself up to protect each individual person in the community.

Well, you bring that up here to about-a person who’s all over the dial-if you tried to bring that off of its reading at 2, which is down there at about 8 o’clock on this dial, gee, you wouldn’t get much of a read at all. It’d be a real poor read. So if you touched him on the back of the neck and said, “Has a girl ever kissed you here?” you’d probably get a drop of about one unit on the surge meter. That’s just no good.

Boy, that’s a real hard job.

So let’s see what the extremity of it would be. And that is, we turn it clear over here to about 5:30 or 11 or 12 on the marked dial and we find out that a touch on the back of

You know, you could own a whole community without protecting a single part of it. But that’s a different level of ownership than most people can understand.

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For instance, talked to a couple of officers on a bridge one day about the Pribilofs (we were cruising in along the Pribilofs) and I said, “Well, I got some islands over that way, over there.”

And these little tests I’m giving you here are with the upper needle just set at 12 o’clock, just set in the middle-set on its unit reading of 6. I’m giving you bomber positions for these needles. I find them very superior to just arbitrary figures-you know, a clock face, because everybody knows a clock face. All right.

And they said, “You’ve got some islands over that way?”

Now, this upper dial reads just backwards to the other one. With the upper dial-you see, this is input and this upper dial over here-energy input-if you were to set the lower dial here at 6 and you were to set the upper dial all the way on, oh, clear over to 11 or 12, you’d get your minimum surge-needle response. And you get your maximum surge-needle response on this upper dial over here with it set at 1 or 2. In other words, if maximum on the machine would be the upper-the “energy input”-set over here at 6:30 or 7 o’clock, see, over here at 1 or 2 (in other words, not on at all, hardly) and your sensitivity needle, your output needle, set clear over here at 11 or 12 o’clock.

And I said, “Sure.”

In other words, those two dials set in reverse there would give the maximum wildness to this surge-meiter reading. That would give you terrific action.

Communication by Emotion: Flows, Ridges mThey said, “ Why, gee whiz, nobody owns them.”

And you as an auditor would sit there and you’d ask the fellow, “Did you ever have a dog?” and you get a dial drop. “Have you ever run an automobile?” and you get a dial drop, see? And this would leave you in this kind of a position: You’d have to keep reaching up here and punching that surge discharger every time you turned around, to get the needle back to zero. And you’d spend so much time doing that, you wouldn’t get the reads on the meter. So that’s-be too much.

And I said, “Oh, you’re wrong. I do.” And we were talking this way and that about V the Pribilofs and they became more and more and more upset. This was not occasion for a joke. You see, this started out as a joke and they became more and more upset. Well, their level of ownership was so tenuous that they secretly owned the Pribilofs. And I overtly owned them. And they, of course, became very concerned-it was not a joke, фYou start to talk much about the ownership of things and stuff around in the community and so forth and you’ll find people-they don’t like you to talk that way. Because, they " couldn’t own it themselves, but by you overtly owning it, you disenfranchise their covertion. Well, similarly, if you start talking about owning the whole community, why, people get upset with you. Or if you own a monopoly on anything or say you do, people get very upset with you. But the people who get upset with you are the people who are having trouble with ownership, who are the people who will fail. And the reason they will fail is because they don’t communicate well, because they’re usually ridges or low dispersals.

Too much on this, then, would be the upper dial set at 1 or not on, really. And the other, the lower dial, set at all the way on-the red dial set at all the way on-that gives you maximum response. All right.

A dispersal doesn’t communicate-it’s something communicating for the individual. A Fear dispersal, for instance, communicates automatically, Fear.

So where can we read these things just for an elementary sort of a set? Well, let’s just put them both at 12 o’clock. Now, preclear to preclear, that’s too much or too little. Doesn’t matter. But let’s just take it from there.

Well, all right. Let’s move over into something a little more practical and we find out, however, that an individual can be suppressed into being one of his own automaticities.

And now we find we’ve got too much action. Well, let’s just leave that top one alone and take that red one and cut it down to 11 o’clock. See? Cut it down to where it reads there-3 or 5, somewhere in there-3, 4, 5, whatever it reads, which is 11 o’clock on a clock face-9, 10, 11 o’clock.

And this is the more peculiar case. Here is the case with five personalities. You can locate geographically where the individual is located, by the way, in relationship to his body, You needn’t be too concerned about this. This isn’t important material I’m giving you, it’s just bric-a-brac. But don't get puzzled over it. If I had never mentioned this, why, you might run into it and say, “My God, my God, what has happened here? This fellow is obsessed by a lot of demons. Yeah, he’s got at least seven, eight, nine, ten demons that — we can count” and so forth.

In other words, let’s follow a good engineering rule-is vary as few things as possible. Then if you say to somebody, so-and-so and so-and-so, and he’s very active, well, your word “active” means something if one of these is held as a constant.

There was another fellow back on the time track who was fooled by this manifestation. We won’t mention any names, we don’t want to be sacrilegious. But the demons which are attacking the individual are almost uniformly his own automaticities.

You say, “This fellow is very active on the meter and I had to carry him on his sensitivity down to practically nothing in order to keep the needle on the dial.” Well, that makes sense.

Because if he only knew it or would admit it, he has enough beef (strength, power) that he’s practically puncture-proof. A body is quite explosive. The chances of this individual having his body taken away from him-quite slight. A body which is very low-toned could be monitored very, very easily by a Theta Clear. And it could be monitored with great ease by an Operating Thetan. But boy, that body would have to be in lousy shape; otherwise there’s going to be electrical circuits and so forth that’ll short.

Now, this will read with any reading that an earlier meter would read and the only thing that really confuses auditors about these later meters is they try to read them too live. They try to read them much too live.

It’s a very hard thing for an individual who’s pretty well up the line to manage a body in the first place without blowing up pieces of it. Because he’ll overreach himself all the time. He gets tired of being so careful and he’s liable to blow ridges on it. You’ll very often find a preclear’s-blow a whole series of ridges in his head and just give him a terrible flock of pains that go shooting through the head. He blows up a whole lot of little tiny control ridges, one way or the other. Oh, it’s very upsetting.

On a big control case, you’d probably take all the damp off of it.

Well, a strange thetan coming around and trying to interiorize, as such, in a body which you already have energized, just doesn’t have much chance of doing so. You’ll run into this as you work along. You’ll see more people get electronically jolted out of some body. You tell a preclear to move in and he moves in very smoothly and he can control this particular body. And then the next time we turn around, why, we get this kind of a manifestation, entirely different manifestation. He starts in and he comes out faster than he moves in, mostly because he himself is a certain mass. He has to use some energy in order to control a body. He has to go on the wavelength of the body. There’s already some energy in the body because there’s already somebody in the body.

Yeah, you just take all the damp off of it and you’d read it over here, down here on a clock face, at about 7 o’clock and on this meter you’d read it at 1. And this would give you your maximum control case-I mean, the fellow who is reading down here at 1 and one-half or something like that, to get a good read down here. That’s too much needle, by the way, to give it-you’d have to cut him down. I don’t think a case could be so bad that you would read this inverse. That is to say, you’d read it where your sensitivity is all the way on and your damping all the way off.

You’ll find preclears all the time worried about getting their body stolen. They aren’t going to get their body stolen. They could even be miles and miles away from it, without it being stolen and animated by anybody else, simply because they have tremendous control lines on it and tremendous energy deposits in it and around it. See that? It’s not very important, but yet, they worry about it.

Now, if you find your needle is still too active, you just turn on this damper. And you can just damp the needle and damp it and damp it and damp it. The more this upper button is on, why, the more your needle is damped. All that does, by the way, is just damp the needle. It just slows it down. And you’ll finally get a very stiff, stodgy needle that doesn’t tell you any of its inner reactions at all. And you’ll find these are not significant.

Now, you might not quite see how this is and so forth. How you need to record on it is that there’s not much danger in this particular line. There’s not anywhere near as much danger in it as there would be in the preclear shifting around and hitting one of his own automaticities or attacking one of his own automaticities.

But if you’ll carry that upper one at 6 and your lower one down here at 6, which is 12 o’clock, clock face-just carry them, each one of them, straight up-why, you’ll get a read. And if you kind of start in that way, why, you can vary it from there and you’ll be happier in the long run for having a constancy.

Now, these automatic machines have beingness in them. That’s the only way they can operate. They have to have a beingness in them or they can’t operate at all. To that degree, they’re alive. To that degree, they’re you. Because they are you, because you made them.

Now, it’s important for you to have a meter constant and to get used to a meter-get used to your own meter and get a constant on it. That is to say, this preclear, then, is more active than another preclear. You know, you’d say, “Boy, is this guy wild!” Well, you wouldn’t ever be able to judge one preclear against the other preclear unless you had a constant read, you know? You had to set these buttons down here rather constantly, preclear to preclear, in order to get a relative reading in preclears. So just take it, each one, at 12 o’clock and you got it. All right. Too many dials here.

We don’t have any problem here. I mean, this-you could say, you could see it on a MEST level: an E-Meter builds a small E-Meter. Well, it has to put into the small E-Meter at least something of itself. You see that?

Now of course, we have up here “surge needle set.” On the old machines, we had a lower dial, you know, that did this sort of thing, but this upper one, you notice as I swing it back and forth here, even with just the can lying there with no more contact than it would get on a piece of wood, I can get the needle to read, see, with this set.

All right. Our problem of strange and peculiar manifestations really narrows down, in terms of ghosts, spirits, haunts and that sort of thing, into a person’s being slugged by his own automaticities. And the strange problems of valence that we run into is generally a person shifting around from one automatic machine to the other automatic machine, having deserted the central command post which is the position he should be in.

Well, what’s that do? All that does is just bring your needle back. See? That’s just a way of partly bringing your needle back. You know, you just turn that center knob here, exact middle of the upper face of the machine, and you just turn that back just a little bit and it’ll bring your needle back from 10 to 5 for instance, see? You’ll get that, see? You can turn that back here. So here’s your needle riding there at 5 and the preclear has gone over here at 10. Well, you want to get him back in this black area here. Well, you just readjust that delicately and you’ll get him back in the black area, which, actually, you can take the charge that’s running through the preclear off. And you hit that on the discharge machine and it brings this baby clear back to zero. See that? Now, I’ll show you how that is.

But if he’s in one of these automatic machines, he puts an awful lot of beingness in the machine. There isn’t such a thing as his ceasing to be and then becoming the machine. There’s such a thing as his being able to pretend utterly that he’s the machine and being able to pretend that he isn’t.

Now, we’ve got that needle all the way over there. And we bring that back to zero by simply discharging it. And here it goes again. See? Now, we want to know how many dials that fellow is dropping, we keep dropping that discharge needle. And we’ll see him going on down.

You can look around-go have him look around and you can find the geographical location he ought to be in. That area is not alive-hot until he goes into it. But a lot of control lines and things like that go out from that area, which he’d be very pleased to have.

But you notice that it’s operating here without any variation on the table itself. It tells you that this needle and the meter is simply set up to read just as it’s set up to read this moment and it’s just going to go on reading that way regardless of how many times I touch this discharge button. So don’t keep fooling yourself with the discharge button. You see that?

Now, once in a while, you get this weird manifestation of a preclear: he runs something and all of a sudden the preclear feels terrific and stays that way for about two or three days and then feels awful. What we know as a manic.

It’s better E-Metering to take that center pin and bring him back with it, instead of touching this discharge button all the time. Well, you see why this is. The thing is sitting on the table now. The table isn’t varying in potential. There’s a slight trickle going through the electrode because it’s sitting on a piece of wood and every time we touch that button, it comes back here and then it falls again. Well, the table isn’t getting different charges.

Well, manics are not very important, but he could hit a high-charged machine and exhaust a lot of residual lines and so forth to the machine and be in a high state of motion or he could simply have begun to occupy, once more, his own control center as a thetan. You know, he’s just in the place he ought to be in as a thetan and so it makes him feel terrific. Only he can’t stay there, because it’s too difficult to stay there, because it’s too dangerous to stay there and so on. You just keep up with your common ordinary drills and you’ll get him out of this.

So the only argument I would have with this meter is the relative lack of value of that discharge button. I would meter it and would continue to handle it.

But how do you work an automaticity? You have the person be the machine and be himself and be the machine and be himself. What happens? How do you work a preclear who is being his own automaticity? Have him be a man being worked by himself and then have him be himself working himself and back and forth, back and forth. Get some beingness and some doingness mixed up in it and shift it back and forth and all of a sudden the automaticity breaks down.

The other night, when I was running Volney on this meter-this is a brand-new production, this is the first one of the series. And I kept avoiding this discharge button because I’ve had some experience with the earlier machines that had them, I just didn’t do anything about it. And he’d keep reaching over indicating I should touch the discharge button, you know, thinking I wasn’t accustomed to this new invention. I’d keep readjusting him up here on this button. I wasn’t interested in having it come back to the pin, I was interested in getting how far he was going to drop now. You see that?

If you were to break down all of a preclear’s automaticities, you’d probably break a body completely to pieces. We had one case of a fellow who had automatic machinery taken away from him for about two solid hours-and he was doing it rather well-and so his auditor just sat there and took this machinery away from him for a couple of hours. And all of a sudden, at the end of the time, he collapsed. Suddenly, the body collapsed, began to pant, was in a dreadful state of commotion and he’d dropped straight into some space opera. And he had just that moment been shot. And if there was any carefully compartmented engram of anything, it was the engram of his having been shot that time, mostly because there was so much energy in it. I suppose he was keeping it around to make a new machine out of it someday. But he dropped square into it and he panted and so on.

So if you keep handling this center-of-the-face button up here, way up, just below this big “M,” why, you keep handling that, you know, and bringing it back. Well, you bring that to the black and the guy still falls. So you have to bring it back some further, you know? He still falls, and bring it back again. This tells you, “Boy, is this guy falling!”

All the auditor did was restore some of his havingness, give him back a few automaticities, square him around and let him catch his breath and he was in beautiful condition. So you see, there’s not much liability to it.

If you just keep sitting there hitting the discharge needle, you’re simply getting the same charge on the preclear every time and you’re seeing lots of needle action that tells you the preclear is falling and he isn’t falling!

All right. As we go over this picture of the preclear, we find he is as complex as he cares to be. But he is complex upon these centralized points, as we go down the line of Knowingness, Duplication, Control, Beingness, Doingness, Havingness, Space, Energy, Time, Communication, Cause, Effect. The scale from Know down to Sex; the curve of nothing, Create-Survive-Destroy, nothing. The dichotomy of Nothing-Something; the eight dynamics; ARC; the Tone Scale-including, of course, Ownership, Protection, Hiding.

Well, the machine would be better off if it didn’t have that discharge button on it. So if you leave that alone-it’s fun and looks very effective and efficient and it’s quite a gesture and so forth-just leave that alone and set the meter here with this upper dial button, you’ll get an accurate read from your preclear and you won’t get told any lies. Because that doesn’t tell you-this button here—that he’s going on dropping, dropping, dropping.

He’s mixed up-he’s a different kind of cake. He’s always a different kind of cake, but he’s always baked with the same ingredients-or half-baked.

I’ll show you again, that’s not the case. You understand that that button is—that that is now reading constant, isn’t it? That must be reading constant because it’s sitting there with a tiny trickle going through the wood of the table. All right.

Now, recognizing the anatomy of the beast, it’s very easy to take the beast apart. But don’t be surprised to find some of these beasts suddenly becoming washbasins.

Here he is over here. All right. Now we’re going to discharge it. You see your needle? Your needle is going right on over there to read 30 again. And if you kept on punching the pin time after time after time, you’d think your preclear was falling dial after dial after dial. He’s not. The table isn’t falling dial after dial here. See? And yet doesn’t that look impressive?

Momentarily, the fellow says, “I have a funny feeling around my collar and ...” “What is that?”

All it does is, while you’ve got the button down, it interrupts the charge going through the machine and then the machine reads again, just as it read before. It doesn’t reset the needle. All right.

“I don’t know,” he says. “I... I don’t know what it is. It’s a funny feeling, though.” Well, you don’t even have to pay too much attention to it. Have him look through it and it will generally go away. But you’ve hit a time when a washbasin won. That’s all. It’s no more inexplicable than that. A washbasin won.

But look at this. We twist that little dial there and it comes back over and stays there.

Now, do you know that you will run into preclears who quite uniformly shift in and out of the human body line? So don’t be upset about that, either. You see that?

That meter is set real interestingly. You know what it’s reading?

I mean, the guy runs a horse this life. He decides he’ll be a horse. He’s a perfectly good horse and then he decides he’ll be a human being.

Female voice: Me.

The Egyptians used to talk about transmigration of the soul as though this is something that happened and it migrated with immigration papers or something. But a fellow who has been very mean to horses is liable to make it up by being a horse. He can be a very savvy horse.

Hm?

Well, every once in a while, you run into a real wise horse, real smart horse. You can’t get him to do anything-work his way out of anything. Well, that’s some thetan running “the glorious irresponsibility of being a horse.”

Female voice: It's reading on me now.

Once in a while, you’ll run into a dog-I ran into one yesterday, tipped my hat and said, “Hello.” He was a real smart, wise old dog. He was a very fine dog. He was a crossbreed of this and that and he was real tough and he was with a couple of young boys that he looked after. You could look in his eyes and see that there was more there than a dog-very, very easy. So I said, “Hello” to him and asked him if he was having a good time and he barked once, [laughter]

See that? It’s not, it’s reading my beam on it. I’ve been talking about the electrode down here and it more or less had hold of it. Interesting.

Now, a thetan can play the game of “let’s pretend” to such a tremendous degree that he can convince himself utterly. Now, that is one of the weirdest talents he has. To be able to play the game of “let’s pretend” so thoroughly that he won’t have any memory beyond a certain point, that he won’t remember certain things, that he won’t recall his own anatomy or know how he got there or know where he’s going or anything else. He’s playing the game of “let’s pretend.” So he can “let’s pretend” I’m a washbasin or “let’s pretend” I’m a lion. One day at one of the old Foundations, we ran a preclear through the lifetime of a lion who had bitten her keeper. You remember that one? And she recovered from her psychosis. That was all that was done to her. We just ran out the overt act of biting the keeper.

Well anyway, besides that, if we want to go on about the E-AR-400, we get into some very interesting material in terms of probes and so on. Now, the audio part of this machine is tremendously impressive to a preclear and is one of the reasons why it is extremely useful to a doctor or chiropractor. Impresses hell out of him. It tells him where he hurts.

Everybody says, “My God, what will these preclears think of next?” You know, and they were all upset about this. She’d been a lion, there’s no doubt about that.

Well, right now I could give you a very nice dissertation on the subject of pain. You know many of your preclears are in pain because there isn’t enough pain. If you want to work this over and you want to understand this very thoroughly, you’d certainly better waste pain in a bracket on some preclear or get the pain wasted in a bracket on you. Don’t avoid pain to the point of not running pain on somebody. It’s quite important to do that.

Well, “Be surprised at nothing” is a tremendously good motto. And even though there are many beautiful surprises (it’d be a dull universe if there weren’t), don’t, just because you run into surprises, start taking your fingers off these very specific essentials such as knowingness, control, duplication, beingness, doingness, havingness, space, energy, time, communication, cause and effect, the scale from Know down to Sex, the Nothingness-Create-Survive-Destroy-Nothingness cycle-of-action, the Nothingness-Something dichotomy, the eight dynamics, ARC, the Tone Scale, clear on down through Ownership and Hiding,

[to student] The machine still reading?

The most common tone to cases that don’t exteriorize or work well is Fear. So you 27 start running “Give me three things you’re not afraid of,” with great certainty, he’s liable to wind up by getting three “nothingnesses of something” that he’s not afraid of. And of course, when you get nothingnesses being Wonderful, you’re running a case which is looking for relief not looking for release. Two different things.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

Of course, relief comes at the end of an operation or the end of ardure. You’re running a case who requires an enormous enforcement of present time to be in present time. You’re running a case which goes up to present time for emergency periods only, who is otherwise waiting for something to force him to present time before he’s in present time.

Yeah, it’s running.

You run cases of that character, these cases are normally-they’re not in Fear, they’re not at 1.0 on the Tone Scale, but the one band they can’t cross or fool around with very much is Fear. They can’t touch the wall: they get hold of the wall, they can’t let go of the wall, things like this. They are having trouble. They’re afraid of things and they’re doing an automatic let go. They expect you, by some necromancy, to make them let go of their own heads. They’re waiting for an effect, of course.

It’s quite important to run pain in terms of wasting it in brackets to understand it. The stuff is valuable! And your preclear is much sicker-your preclear is much sicker for having it taken away from him instead of having more made for him.

Such a case is unmistakable, since it runs rather uniformly. Any case even vaguely resembling that-and almost any case that will not exteriorize, except the very, very low-toned ones where they’re in catatonic schizophrenia (you know, just blabb)-almost any case is doing this. They put out an idea to get a recoiled action against their own body. If you ask them to run a concept, they put out the concept so that they can get a somatic. That’s a common denominator of cases that don’t exteriorize well.

Here’s your pain problem. Fellow comes in to you, he’s got a toothache. His tooth hurts like the devil. His tooth is hurting like the devil on some high level of protest against pain, so you’re going to take the pain out of the tooth. So you work for three or four minutes and the pain is getting more intense in the tooth. And you take more pain out of the tooth, you start running it out and you spend another fifteen, twenty minutes on it and it’s getting more intense and it’s not going away. And the fellow is getting sadder.

And the other common line that we’ve been working forward toward and up to here during these first couple of weeks, we’ve tried to go over theory and get you well grounded in that so that you’d understand some more of the exteriorization and its mechanics. The one band that they free on is Fear. And the Fear, of course, when freed, will leave the auditor with a certain amount of Hate to resolve. There is Hate kicking around here.

Well, if you were to mock-up-have him mock-up the sensation of pain in his tooth and mock it up in the teeth next to his tooth and to mock it up above the tooth and below the tooth and push it in on the tooth, you would find with this added sensation the tooth would stop hurting.

Oh, “Give me three things you don’t hate.” “Give me three things you’re not afraid of.” You get them with certainty and run a lot of that. And don’t forget, in all auditing-in all auditing, to have people put emotions into things and feel them back, thinkingness into things and feel them back, sensations into things and feel them back. That’s background music to auditing.

Here we have Acceptance Level Processing. A person is denied something continuously. Your family, all the people around you, have told you all your life you mustn’t have pain. Therefore, they have made a scarcity of pain. That which is scarce, the thetan desires.

You’re probably not doing even vaguely, even vaguely enough of that. Put blackness on the outside of the wall. Something wrong with the case, have him put it on the outside of the wall and get it back. You’d be surprised at some of the effort on some of these cases. Every time the guy starts to think of something angry, he closes his eyes, he puts out a certain amount of energy and he’ll get the visio of the wall being knocked out. And as he lets it go, he’ll get a visio of the whole town being knocked flat. That’s how mad he is.

The hardest thing for an auditor to swallow is the value of agony, until he himself has had some pain wasted on him.

And so you start putting Anger into things and running the preclear, one way or the other, why, you can expect destruction and chaos to be envisioned by him in all directions. Of course, because it happens in mock-up-not actually-it only demonstrates this: this is what he’d like to do and can’t. So therefore, he can do it to a mock-up and say he’s doing it, but he won’t do it on the actuality, simply because he hasn’t got enough Fear.

When he’s had some pain wasted on him, he begins to understand it. “You know, that stuff is valuable.”

You get an Operating Thetan up along the line, if he became too slighted by a town, I imagine he would knock it flat. That’s tough. But gee, you’d have to work to get him sore. You’d just have to work like mad. And it’d probably take an Operating Thetan to get him sore, get him real mad. It’d have to be some awful dirty trick. I can’t imagine, offhand, exactly how you would go about getting an Operating Thetan mad enough to flatten a town. I know, because a few times, puckishly, I have sat around and tried to persuade some of them to knock Moscow flat.

Now, as a thetan, he goes down to soothe this poor body which is writhing in agony and, boy, is that a lot of pain, see? Slurp! Slurp! Pain. Slurp! He makes this big protest of how awful it is.

And though I considered this was very serious and this was something that should be done and so forth and-I’ve even gone to the point of getting one to volunteer to do it and go on his way. And then have him get interested in a peasant fishing in the river or something else.

Now, a lot of people, when you tell them something like that, they say, “Why, this Can’t be true. Pain is something you can’t have.” Well, they’ve bought the social package that pain is something you can’t have and that it is not valuable and so on.

A thetan, by the way, is tremendously non sequitur. This non sequiturness is a symptom of very high tone, it’s tremendous differentiation.

Well, boy, it is really high-level sensation. You realize a thetan can only survive. He can’t do anything else but survive. Pain can’t do anything to him, he doesn’t have any anatomy. But he can enjoy the sensation of pain. Or he can block pain when it is hurting something he’s trying to protect. But the very scarcity of it creates a starvation for it.

It’d be perfectly connected logic for him, for instance, to say, “This room-the library-doesn’t have any chrysanthemums.” And that would be even a little more logical than he would consider logical. As a person begins to differentiate, meanings become wider and wider apart and a consecutive flow of conversation then becomes wider and wider apart. Did you ever know anybody who double-talked with great ease? You know, he talks about the chrysanthemums in the beer and why the submarines and there were no spokes because of the air [laughter] and would go on a long monologic conversation on this subject. Well, don’t look at that person, look at the persons around listening to him.

So this fellow walks into the doctor’s office to brag. And he says, “I have the awfullest pain in my chest.” And now the doctor gives him something to take the pain away. Well, that’s perfectly okay with the individual. He knows that he shouldn’t have a pain in his chest. The funny part of it is that the more the pain is taken away, the more chronic it is liable to become.

If the auditor in this case were to mock-up large masses in agony and push them together and push them into the preclear-I mean, just the auditor do this-he would see that the preclear experienced release. I don’t mean have the preclear do this. I’m just talking about things that you really shouldn’t do. You just mock-up, oh, real good, hot agony, see, and shove it in the preclear’s chest. And the next thing you know, why, you’d say, “Well, by double terminals and other necromancy, it has happened.” No, it hasn’t. It just happened on the mass of pain. The person has gotten up past the pain band, finally-got a satiation for it at the moment. It’s like hunger. You do it that way and these chronic pains cease to be chronic.

So this machine is fixed to detect pain. This means it’ll set up in a doctor’s office or something of this sort. And you take this probe meter here-you take this probe meter and you tell the patient to hold it in his hand.

[whistle] Boy, is that hot. Don’t do that, by the way, to a preclear-he’ll hate you forever-that is to say, turn that probe needle on when you’ve got the rest of the machine on.

Now, we want this thing on “audio” and off of “meter.” Now, it says down here in the middle bottom dial-big, middle bottom dial-“surge meter,” see? Then over here on this side it says “audio.” And then way over here it says “inverted audio” on this machine. All right.

Now, let’s bring it down here to “audio” and we take it off of “surge meter” and actually at that moment your surge meters are dead. They are not now operating. But the audio is operating.

Now, here’s “audio volume,” is over here. It says “audio sensitivity” and so forth-is the big dial to the right. It’s the one which is immediately adjacent to the words “surge meter.” All right, it says at the top of this dial “audio sensitivity.”

All right. We have to bring this over here. Now we’ve got “low” and “high,” which gives us two levels of volume to go on. And then we’ve got “audio volume,” which tells us how loud this thing is going to scream and here we have also-well, this is an “oscillator cut-off.” That’s beside the point on this instrument. Okay.

Let’s go over here on “audio.” It’s pointed straight down now because this needle is hot. This probe needle is hot. That is to say, it’s got an electrical current and I have it against my face, it’s still hot. Now Volney, what have you done to us? Ha-ha! It’s grounded against its own case. Well, that’s fine. Okay. Now, you touch the case and touch the probe and-that’s right, that’s true of this meter.

Now, what we’re interested in doing here ... Come here, Jeanette.

Sit over here on the seat because I can’t handle the meter and handle the probes too. Now, just sit down and hold that very nicely. Now, we’re going to show you some of the fallacies of this machine with regard to pain, but we’re also going to show you its terrific power to do some very interesting things.

[to student] Is that hot?

Female voice: No.

All right. Just hold on to that. All right. Now we’re going to find... Usually somebody is hot around here someplace.

Now, let’s see. Did it bite?

Female voice: Um, sort of.

Did it bite? By golly, it did bite!

Female voice: Didn’t hurt.

All right. Audio high-low and gain oscillator control. This thing has a bit of a bite in it. He told me it had. But he was trying to work it out.

Now, your audio sensitivity over here ought to holler like mad, right about now. Here, put it against your face, somewhere around here. Just tap, tap, tap around your upper lip. Hm. Come around with your face to this machine. [high-pitched electronic tone]

Now we got it. Thatagirl. Now, touch it against your upper lip.

[fluctuating electronic tone] Now just touch it and hold it there.

Now take it off. Now put it back. [fluctuating electronic tone]

Female voice: It's howling and I didn’t even touch it.

Thank you. I’m resetting the thing.

Now touch it against your upper lip. Are you touching it?

Female voice: Mm-hm. [high-pitched electronic tone]

Okay. Now untouch it. Now touch it again. There we go. Hope I can take this howl out of here. [electronic howling sound] Different, huh?

Female voice: How come?

Yeah, how come? Okay. You know, that’s probably picking up that howl from this television station that’s right behind us.

Okay. Now, we’ve set this needle here, so we got your audio volume on. And got this pointed down to audio and got your audio volume control set properly. And then your oscilloscope-pardon me, your oscillator dial set up here about zero someplace. But the most important thing about it is, is we have this one knob-big knob furthest to the right at the bottom-this big knob is turned just on.