Third night's lecture here on the — what we will call the first-line Professional Course.

We have here in this second hour, third night's lecture, something more about technique.

Tonight we're going to cover the elements again but this time we're going to combine them to demonstrate, possibly, what would be sanity and what would be aberration and to give particular stress to exactly how you run Matched Terminals and how you run Matched Terminals. That will be in these next two hours here.

Now, we've been going into theory, theory, theory, theory pretty heavily. What do you do with this theory?

We can see rather clearly, as we look over the workability of techniques, that there were certain integrative factors which made a psychotherapy possible. Also, there were integrative factors which made life possible and it was possible to discover what is basically referred to as "the riddle of existence."

What you do, you got a preclear sitting there, haven't you, and the preclear is sitting there and you're sitting and — why, I can always tell you something to do, by the way. You can always pick up a copy of Self Analysis and just turn it open at random at the back and tell him to mock up some-thing.

Well now, we have solved this riddle up to the point of this universe. Now, we know solving it outside this universe would be a very, very difficult thing since we don't have any data. And now, all due respect to the field of psychology, we don't want to follow in the tracks of former investigators and keep on drawing up theories without any data. So we'll leave that portion of life aside. If we don't have any data about it we probably wouldn't find out any more about it than psychology has ever found about this universe.

And if you do that long enough, he'll get well of whatever is wrong with him. I mean we're operating from that beautiful surety. Now, why? Let me ask you candidly, just why does he get well from that surety? Well, it isn't because you have a good professional manner or anything of the sort — just because you're finding present time for him.

Because this universe had to be studied from the basis of what? It had to be studied from the basis of MEST. What's MEST? And how does it get mixed up with life? Now it, in other words, had to be hit from the level of everything we knew in the physical sciences. And until we had a good, solid subject called physics, until the boys in the laboratories had scared up an enormous amount of data concerning the identity of MEST, what it was basically — matter, energy, space — we couldn't solve that experience known as time or what life was doing in this universe.

So, as I said in an earlier lecture, you're sitting there and the preclear is sitting there and you're supposed to say something. Well, if the silences get too wide, you can always say, "Come up to present time." It's always a good shot. You can always say this.

So it took first things first. All due respect to Sigmund Freud, he had no more chance of solving the problem of life than he had of jumping off the top of the Empire State Building and landing unscathed. No chance whatsoever.

If he suddenly starts to froth and scream and so forth and you entirely, completely lose your head, never lose it to the point where you can't say, "Hey, take your hand and feel the wall," in other words, "Come up to present time."

Neither could Plato nor Aristotle have done more than have built upon the foundation of what was known at that time about the MEST universe. Therefore, it's not any too great a compliment — it's rather indicative of some-thing or other — it's not even too great a compliment to me that this problem is solved.

Don't tell him, by the way, "Come up to present time." You're liable to bring the incident up to present time. Incidents don't care whether they obey or the preclear obeys.

As a matter of fact, I was one of the first nuclear physicists in the United

But that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get this fellow in present time. So let's not disabuse ourselves of this fact.

States. Now, people in the United States today, they refer to me as a science fiction writer and all that sort of thing. They said about nuclear physicists twenty years ago in the same tone, they said, "Huh. One of the Buck Rogers boys. Talking about atomic fission. Imagine! Talking about atom bombs! These guys are crazy!"

It's all right if we work like old-time navigators out in the public, you understand. It's perfectly all right to tell them that it's very, very, very, very, very, very, very complicated. It's perfectly all right. That's legitimate.

No, the world didn't have any room in it for nuclear physicists and so there wasn't anything to do in nuclear physics because nobody had written a three-billion-dollar check yet. And it took a lot of equipment to monkey around with nuclear physics but it didn't take any equipment to monkey around with the human mind, so having all that background in the MEST universe I went ahead and solved the human mind. Hasn't been much of a problem, really.

A navigator used to sit up in the bridge and he'd fool around with his sextant and he'd go look at his chronometer and he'd scratch his head and he'd run thing — something up on the slide rule and he'd open up logbooks and he'd write in them and open up a Dreisonstok and Ageton and 214 and 218 and go out and look at the sun again and scratch his head and go back in and look very perplexed and somebody comes up and touches one of his lead pencils and he goes into the most tremendous, dramatic rage.

Because what did it consist of? The only thing you had to add to mathematics to solve it was the definition of a static. You had to define a static. Never been defined before. Today, people coming into the Professional Course who have a background in the physical sciences may very well say, "A static? Of course, we've always had a static." And then they go ahead and give the basic physics definition of a static which is "Something in a state of rest. Equilibrium of forces creates a static."

Any actress would be proud to have — be able to act as mad as a navigator can who is confronted with the fact that somebody wants to touch a pencil or look at a sextant or inquire even vaguely into the field of navigation. Because it — that's a big mystery and he wants hands off. That makes him a big man, so he's a big man. Actually, truth be told, he did his navigation two hours before he went through all of these motions. All right.

I almost said a dirty word there. There's no such thing. That is not a static. And that is the basic error that the boys have been making since way before Aristotle. Anything that was in a state of equilibrium was a static. That was a static force. No, no. You had to define zero and in mathematics they hadn't yet defined zero. Nowhere in the old mathematics texts will you find an accurate definition of zero.

Any body of knowledge tends to become a mystery. It tends to become a mystery in direct ratio, though, to there being nothing there. The less there is there, the more of a mystery people have to make out of it. And we don't have too much here that's a mystery so the chances of our trying to make this a mystery to people are quite slight.

They say, "Zero! Aw, it's nothing." Then they go on to something more important. And then if you look in quantum mechanics you'll find they keep dividing by zero and multiplying by zero and wondering why they don't have a mathematics.

But at the same time, for professional reasons you might wish to indulge in some hocus-pocus and make the preclear think that it was pretty arduous and that you thought pretty hard about the whole thing.

One of the most interesting things they were working with in quantum mechanics was zero and they never knew it. So, we've done a double complementation; that is to say, we've come over here into the field of the mind and beingness and experience and all of a sudden found there were a couple of missing definitions: What's the definition of a static? That's one of them. And the other definition was: What's life trying to do in this universe? It's just as simple as that.

Well, if you ever do that, don't get so you believe your own act!

Nobody ever asked the question. There's a fellow at MIT they call "99 Percent Johnson." He's always standing up on his platform saying, "Well, if you'll ask the right question, it's 99 percent solved."

Always remember what you're trying to do! You're trying to bring the preclear to present time. When you've got him to present time then anything can happen with him. You can do anything with him now that you want to do if you have him in present time. And if you don't have him in present time, you won't be able to do very much with him.

That's right. Any time you can ask of the preclear the right question his case is 99 percent solved at that instant. So that's 99 Percent Johnson and here we are again, we ask the right question: "What's life doing here?" And you look and you look and you try to figure and you try to figure and you integrate all these factors and you finally say, "Well, it must be surviving. It's enduring through span of time. That's survival. It's maintaining an existence; it's maintaining a state of beingness over a period of time. That's survival. Well, that's good."

Now, let's think in terms of Theta Clearing. Now, what is really the first necessity to get somebody out of his head and two feet back of his body? The thetan has to be in present time. That's really all there is to it. The thetan has to be in present time. That's all.

Now, we start looking at it and we find out this characteristic doesn't hold in common with many other things because it's trying to do something else. It's trying to organize MEST.

The body have to be in present time? No! If the body were in present time it wouldn't be there. It is a facsimile composed of many facsimiles that are stuck at various stages on the track, and you could audit facsimiles for-ever out of a body. The way to handle a body is really to handle the thetan.

Well, that's interesting. What's — why is it trying to organize MEST? Is it doing anything else besides these two things? I'm afraid it isn't. I can answer that with some confidence. I spent five years trying to find out some other answer than "survive." Because it was a terribly unsatisfactory answer. It was the sort of answer you blow your brains out over.

Now, you don't, have to go in for Theta Clearing, you know, to make a body well. You don't have to ever tell your preclear that he is a thetan or to be two feet back of his head or make some space or go up and sit in the middle of the sun. You don't have to tell him any of these things.

Just "Why are we here?"

He will recover from whatever he is bogged down in if you get him as a thetan in present time. Why do you get him as a thetan in present time? The highest capability of a thetan is to manufacture space, forms, energy, art-work in terms of mock-ups.

"Well, we're surviving. Well, we're organizing MEST."

So if you just made mock-ups out here . . . Of course, you know, he'll make mock-ups down the track too. You can catch a fellow doing that. He just keeps saying, "And I just keep making these mock-ups and making these mock-ups and I just keep making these mock-ups and just nothing ever happens." If that occurs to you, all you do is have to ask him, "Well, now, where are you putting the mock-ups?"

"Why? What reason?"

Three questions here. You might as well put these down:

"Well, we're just organizing MEST, that's all."

"Where are you putting the mock-ups?"

"I know. But what goal?"

Now, the next one: "Are you certain there is a mock-up there?" And "Are you certain it's yours?"

"No goal."

Where is it? Is it? And, is it yours? Those three things apply there.

Hideous, isn't it? So I — that's the sort of thing that a guy blows his brains about. He just gets awfully discouraged after a while when he finds out he's been doing all this work to no goal.

Now, he'll work and work and work and he'll say, "Nothing is happening; nothing is happening." And you just keep him putting the mock-up on the mantel or keep putting the mock-up on the table.

Well, that was a terrible teaser. Well, how on earth and why and et cetera did we get out of this horrible circular logic?

Use MEST space — that's a good place to find present time. It's right here with you all the time. Just use some space here. And tell him to put the mock-up on the table and put the mock-up on the table and put the mock-up on the table.

"What's life trying to do?"

And then he's getting it! "Well, I got a mock-up on the table."

"It's organizing MEST and it's surviving so that it can organize MEST, evidently, and so it organizes MEST and . . ." No goal.

You say, "All right, now what do you have to do to it to make it yours?" He's certain it's there because he said, "I have the mock-up on the table," you see?

"Well, organized MEST. That's a goal."

And you would say, "Well, what do you do to make it yours?"

Didn't sound very good. We had to know some more about it. So I kept on working and finally got the definition of a static. What is a static?

"Oh, that's different. I never thought of it before but it is not my mock-up, no. Don't know what it is but ..."

It was very astonishing, by the way, to get the definition of a static and all of a sudden just sit there looking at what a static is and how a static is defined and find out that the boys in the physical sciences have been playing around with these statics continually, you see. Just playing around with them continually and never opening their face on what a definition was. Fantastic!

Well, the way it becomes his — the test "Is it his?" is can he change it. And if he can change it, it's his. He'll agree with that. "If I can change it, it's mine." Okay, so we have a mock-up and you have him put a green hat on it. And then have him put a purple tie on it or something of the sort and then turn it all orange or something. And he'll say, "Yeah, it's mine. It is on the table." That's the same — that's the first two questions answered in the same sentence. "It's on the table and it's mine." And if you can bring him to that point he will suddenly say, 'Ahhh-hhh" — big feeling of relief no matter what this mock-up is about.

They kept dealing, then, evidently they dealt at all times with motion and only with motion. At all times. They must have been dealing with motion even when they were dealing with what they considered a static. So nobody had ever dealt with zero before.

Why? What's this feeling of relief? Is it some necromancy? Is it because the berylliums of Argosis have suddenly dehydrated or something? No, it's because he came to present time. That's that sudden feeling. Pong! He's here. Get the idea?

Well, that was quite an adventure dealing with zero. And we find out the one thing, as I could tell you tonight, that life mustn't be is life. It's one of these crazy riddles that goes that way. How do you get to want things? Well, you don't want them and you'll get them. I mean, that sort of thing.

That's a funny feeling, by the way, coming into present time. Some of you might feel it someday. Preclears will do the darnedest things on this sometimes, you know, by the way. They'll slide from way down the track some-place up.

They're all kinds of backward answers — 180-degree-reverse-vector universe. All is exactly as it seems as long as you throw a 180-degree vector on it. Then everything is really as it seems.

You tell somebody who is way off down the track, by the way. His communication lag is almost the direct index to how far he is down the track, too. And you say to this preclear — you say, "All right, now, come up to present time." You've had him off down the track someplace for some reason or other best known to you and he's got his eyes shut and he .. .

The light seems to come down from the sun. Well, you can just take that datum and know that the light isn't coming down from the sun. That's kind of obvious. Because everything else is backwards, that one would be back-wards too. Therefore, do you need light with which to see? And the answer to that is no. No, you make your own light with which to see.

Now, always say, "Hello" when he opens his eyes. He expects to be greeted. He's been someplace and he expects to be greeted. And you know, he'll be kind of upset if you don't say, "Hello." And after you've audited a preclear for a dozen sessions and have never said, "Hello" or something of the sort when you told him to come up to present time, he sometimes will complain to you. He feels sort of strange about it and kind of lonesome about it like he really isn't appreciated in the session or something of the sort. He runs 50 percent of the stuff he runs just to get attention from you as an auditor anyway.

But the light comes from the sun. Now, that's — you think so. Well, who's you? Well, that is your body. Your body's completely convinced.

So here he is. There is a lag time, then, and it's almost the same as his communication lag time. It's how long and how far he is away from present time.

Now, the way you get anything started out of nothing in order to make something is you convince nothing that something can exist and that it mustn't be nothing. And you're all set.

You say — you're walking down the street and you meet a fellow down the street and you say, "Hello." And he says, "Oh, hello." He's that far out of present time.

If you want to have a preclear go practically flat spin on you, just say, "All right. Now, let's sit there and let's put an area of absolutely nothing in front of you. Now, let's look at it for a while. And don't let it become anything. Just be absolutely nothing. Just sit there and hold that. Absolutely nothing."

It's very interesting, if you were to have a preclear on the couch and if you were to take this thirty seconds or fifteen-second lag or something of the sort and you were to time most preclears on the couch — preclears who were usually in present time, you see — and if you were to find out how far back they had to be to take them fifteen seconds to get up to present time, you would know then how far this fellow was on the street out of present time. And it's a very interesting index; that's communication lag index. All right.

All of a sudden he — hmmmm — he doesn't like that.

Now, when you're sitting there, then, and he's sitting there, you can always say, "Come up to present time." Or you can always open up Self Analysis, read something out of Self Analysis. Or do anything else that will bring your preclear as a thetan into present time. That's all there is to it.

"Well," you say, "you don't like that? You don't like that? Now, you mean, engrams keep flying through and people's faces keep popping in and all that sort of thing?"

That's a test of a valid technique — does it tend to bring the preclear into present time? If it doesn't tend to bring the preclear into present time, then it's no damn good, to be colloquial.

"No, no, no, no, no."

I'll give you some of these "how to bring preclear into present time". It sounds idiotic to you, some of this stuff.

"All right. I tell you what. I tell you what. Be nothing."

You'd say, "Reach out and touch the wall with your hand. Hit it."

Nyyoww! He can't be nothing because nothing is a hidden influence. Oh, it'd be terrible to be nothing. There might be something in the nothing. And you can run this experiment, by the way, on a preclear. And you'll get more or less those actions and those reactions. The thing he mustn't be is nothing. And the thing he can never become is a thing. So it's one of those crazy riddles that all starts in from nothing and it goes to nothing, and we — all we have left in the middle of all this thing is your confidence and belief, that's all. And that's so easy to say we should be able merely to say that and every-body would be Clear and happy, and all that sort of thing.

It sounds silly, you know, but very often a fellow will hit it and you'll see him do this, he'll hit the wall and then — then he'll hit it two or three times. That was his lag, his signal from way back where he was and then he comes up, "Well, what do you know. Ha. Ha."

Well, they could, except the nothing is now meshed down in a something called energy and the energy runs 180 degrees different than it should run. Energy obviously runs one way but it runs the other way.

What have you done there? You've changed his communication status. His condition of communication and his presence in present time are two data which can be compared one to the other.

Now, we'll go into that just a little bit more — the reverse angle. Philadelphia tapes have quite a bit on that. But let's be very interested right now in why one is incapable of suddenly reestablishing his belief in beingness.

What is the condition of his communication? Communication being sight, sound, taste, touch, organic sensation and fifty-five other perceptions. What then — you don't have to know these, the dickens with them. We figured them out once, put them up on the bulletin board and they stayed up there two weeks and everybody is interested and nobody knew them three weeks later.

And the first place is data. He is data happy. Nearly everybody has gotten data happy. Well, what is data? Very simple. It's the something that's in the nothing. And everybody knows you got to have data.

Now, there is his condition of communication. It's established by the length of time it takes him to perceive after he should have perceived, and that is how far he is out of present time.

Well, if a fellow has to have this much data, why, he is going to be in dreadful circumstances in a very short while.

Therefore, being in present time and the communication condition are comparable. And communication only apparently applies to the body. It always applies to the thetan. It only apparently applies to the body; it always applies to the thetan.

Why? Because that's all the something consists of is a flock of data. And if you accumulate enough data and you make a pile of data that's big enough and tall enough and high enough, you're going to be lost from here on, because all the data there is to know about really is MEST.

Where do we get the last two-millimeter jump? We have this tremendous, fancy hearing system. Oh man, it goes in there and comes out there and goes round and round and little hammers go this way and that and it travels down neurons and spirons and dives around a couple of holes and aspids and out someplace else. And what's important about that whole channel? There is the last two millimeters when it leaves the last neuron and touches the thetan's area of perception. That's all that's important about it.

So we get an agreement. We get an agreement that there is data and the fellow agrees there is data. Then he agrees this and he agrees that.

The body is deaf as a gate post unless it reaches the thetan — really, that's a fact. As far as the thetan is concerned and as far as the reasoning processes are concerned this is true.

In order to keep from being nothing he has to agree with — that some-thing exists so that he can be something. Now, in order to be something one merely has to approximate the movements, motions, postures and forms of this something and one is something. But one, of course, never really becomes that something. One is only agreeing that he is that something and is approximating it.

So your — when you say communication you mean thetan! You don't mean the body and you don't mean the ears and you don't mean the eyes or any-thing else, you mean the thetan. And that's all the communication you're trying to rehabilitate is the thetan's communication level.

In other words, there is no reason why you couldn't be this bottle here. Be no reason under the sun why you couldn't be this bottle and this chlorophyll.

And it's as good as he is in present time and it's as bad as he is far from present time. You're trying to change the condition of his communication, then, and trying to change the condition of the communication abilities of the thetan. And you're doing that by bringing the thetan into present time.

All right, just be there. Take a look at the room and so forth and be a bottle of chlorophyll. You wouldn't like that. But there's just as much sense in that and there's just as much knowingness as a bottle of chlorophyll as sitting there in your body. With this difference: your body can communicate and this chlorophyll can only absorb smells. You see? It's not a good communications medium.

Now, you could further it by taking him out of his body and making him communicate openly from a distance from the body and you'll find his communication setup is better. Isn't that odd? He communicates much worse.

So you tend to go to the best communications medium because you know that to be something you have to communicate and keep convinced that you are something.

I'll throw one in here about the V while I'm thinking about it. He's counting on the body to stop things, by the way. Amongst other things, he's trying to get — the body acts as something that'll stop things for him. He's found out he can't stop things so he uses the body to stop things and he doesn't want to get out there in that naked cold space all by himself with things — nothing in front of him to stop them. Of course, there's nothing for them to hit if he's there, but he hasn't figured that out. That's one thing he doesn't dare be is nothing. All right, that is just an aside remark.

Now, you get this preclear to run this — well, just have him run two completely empty holes. Just have him put a hole here and a hole here. All sorts of things will start to go through those holes.

Let's get right back on the main line of this then. You can do anything with the thetan if he's in present time.

You tell him, "No, no, no. Don't let that go through. Just hold those two things there."

Now, it's not unusual to find the thetan in a couple of thousand different times simultaneously. He can be that scrambled. He can get that scrambled because he's fighting so hard to be orderly that he gets scrambled. He presses so hard against chaos that he walks himself into the middle of chaos.

And if you make this experiment yourself you will find something quite remarkable. You will find that you would rather be anything than nothing. And by anything I mean dead or in pain or in agony or in a state of amnesia. You'll have preclears who will want engrams run just so they can experience some pain. It's very convincing stuff, pain. It says, "I'm alive!"

In other words, he uses chaos as something he's fighting, and because he's fighting it, he closes terminals with it and he becomes the chaos terminal himself. So he can be all over the track.

When a fellow starts going down Tone Scale he gets down to the point where he's almost as insentient as MEST, he'll specialize in hurting himself just to say, "I'm alive. I'm alive. I'm alive."

It's nothing for a thetan to move out of the body with a visio. He thinks this ceiling is the ceiling of a hospital room. He's actually sort of looking at the hospital room, you see? He's all over space; his space is all mixed up and that's all that is mixed up about him. He looks at the windows and the windows are the windows of his boyhood home, the ceiling is his hospital room, the door over there is the door to an ammunition carrier. And it's really fouled up.

Pain is much preferable to nothing. Why does a person who is in slavery, wearing chains under the lash of an overseer, continue to live? Why does he continue to live? It's the most onerous, horrible existence — he's being starved, he's diseased, he has no hope of the future, nothing. That's preferable to being nothing.

What do you do about this? You do the same thing with the thetan that you would do with the preclear's body. Bang! "Locate present time." That's all. Get him to clip it, get him to fumble around until he'd get a hold on it. And then have him mock something up, maybe, push that over or something. Make him locate something. Do you get the idea?

So you see how desperate a person is about being nothing. If you want to get something very interesting out of a preclear, just run back to all the people who were — used to use just that phrase: "You're nothing. You're nobody. You're not anybody. You won't ever be anybody."

And any method that you would use for the fellow in the body to get him into present time, you would use to get the thetan into present time!

Well, that's horrible because it's the truth. So a fellow says, "No, no, no, no, no, no. That one truth we don't want anything to do with! We'll take any pretense, any lie, anything. We will take up the practice of hypnotism, we will become Bali dancers, we will do anything. We will go and high-dive off 175-foot towers into an ink pot rather than be nothing."

And it may not have occurred to you before that the thetan could be out of present time if he were out of the body. Oh, yeah, your thetan could be out of the body and out of present time too. That takes some real doing.

So, a fellow by the name of Mark Antony once said something to the effect that Caesar was ambitious. This was bad, huh? Well, compulsive ambition would be, really, your first level on the track of aberration, if you wanted to consider it an aberration. But if you did, then you'd have to consider all life an aberration. Because has — a person has an ambition to be something. And he tries to finish the cycle continually by saying, "I have now attained my goal and I am something."

But that thetan hasn't properly been in the body. He has never really closed terminals with that body. And you say very easily to him, "Well, you be two feet back of your head." Heck, he's been six all along and didn't know it. So he moves up to two feet back of your [his] head and you think at this moment that you moved him out of his head. No, you didn't. He didn't know where he was. He couldn't tell you what you did. But he really wasn't in his body. He's strictly fruitcake! He's just — at that point he's just madder than a hatter, very often. Because you've called his attention to that fact that he is someplace and being someplace is dangerous.

Well, of course, he might as well cut his throat when he does that because the second he does that he is nothing. Because his total substance of beingness is trying to be.

Beingness is danger. And you just said you are something.

Well, as long as he realizes that he can go on very happily trying to be — and trying to be itself is a happy state of affairs and real being isn't. If you ever want to see anybody miserable, see a successful man. He is now. He can sit at his desk and sign letters for the next forty years.

You'll notice back down the track anytime that anybody in the family said, "What do you want to become in life?" he went nyeooow! Anytime any-body said to him, "Are you the doorman here?" or something of the sort, he'd throw a fit. Anybody that tried to assign any assignment of beingness to him could count on a ruckus. How simple that is. You see, he couldn't be because he didn't have any space because he didn't have any space because all space is dangerous. He can't be in space but he is there.

All you'd have to do is go in and talk to him about how long he'd sit at that desk and sign those letters, and after you left he'd reach in and pick out the .45 and blow his brains out.

Now, how you — he is able to justify this is really a beautiful piece of logic, you see? He's got to be something and something is space but he isn't in any space, but he is something. Now, this fellow is just going round and round.

The thought, then, of being a static enters in again because a static, the absolute static would have a shadow of something just going through the same motion — ptock!

Now, what level, then, are you interested in? Really, basically, primarily; what's your first level of auditing that you're interested in? The first level of auditing is always communication. I don't care what else you're interested in. You get interested in communication, first and foremost.

Now, a person can't tell if there's any motion taking place or not. You can actually move back and forth with the same set of motions. If you went through day by day exactly the same routine and took the same steps and so forth, in a very short space of time you couldn't tell which day it was. You've been doing that every day for so long that all the days would suddenly run together. That is a static. In other words, there can be a monotony of motion which becomes a static. All right.

You better be interested in communication because that's your first step. You say "Hello" to your preclear, don't you? Well, you're auditing right there, and that's communication.

Being something, then, which is a routine thing — being something means a no-change. And when you get a no-change you get a new static. So the person goes from being nothing to being nothing. And when you said he went from being to being, you might as well say he went from being nothing to being nothing. Because all the being there is is nothing.

So, from there on throughout the remainder of the case you remain very interested in communication. And you're only interested in one thing: changing the state of communication for the better in the knowledge of the preclear.

And the only time he ever had any fun was when he was trying to be something. He knew he wasn't yet but he was going to be.

I add that last rather snidely, because many an auditor has done a wonderful job of auditing and everybody knows it except the preclear. This is maddening. The only way the preclear knows it is, has his communication level changed — if his communication level hasn't changed. Now, you can change his communication level simply by bringing him to present time.

Happiness is the overcoming of obstacles toward a known goal.

Don't forget that, by the way. This is so idiotically simple that you're liable to just let it slide. That's a fact — it's liable to be completely overlooked. Because the wildest changes you will get in some preclears and the most change you will get in some preclears is simply by locating present time accurately for them. And you get a big change in your preclear.

All right. Every successful man discovers this, by the way. He discovers it with horror — that the day he becomes something he knows that those years of struggle which he cursed were themselves the adventure. The struggle was the adventure. The becoming something was not the adventure.

And what do I do when I say change? Well, of course, you're looking for a change of beingness. And if you want a change of beingness you're going to have to do something about changing space, but he's only going to know if you've changed space if he is aware of a communication change.

Most of the preclears who come to you will arrive in the state of mind that they've become something. And they don't want to be in that state of affairs. What they want is change.

And by communication I mean perception, I don't mean talk. I mean sight, sound, tactile. If he's changed those, good.

There is such a thing as desirable change and undesirable change. An undesirable change is that which nullifies and drives one toward nothing and a desirable change is that which increases motion. That's a desirable change.

Now, there's another type of communication level nobody has really been cognizant with, nobody has studied, nobody knew it was there and that's a perception known as space. That's amusing because you can go along and overlook that for ages.

So, what your preclear desires is change. Now, if you've got any pen there that writes fire you might write these words down in fire because they're very important: You are trying to effect a change in the communication level of your preclear. You're trying to effect a change in the communication level of your preclear. Because that's the only way he ever finds out he's being something — is with communication.

Space. They call it depth perception and mean something else. So don't think that it's an old one; it's not, it's a new one. Depth perception is finding out if something is as deep into space as another something into space and that isn't what I'm talking about.

So, then basically — not very runnable, except in one technique — you're trying to change beingness. And when you say "auditing," you can run right in with it "change beingness."

I'm talking about the ability to perceive space. And that is as valid a perception as sight or sound or hearing because on that depends what? What do you guess, big joke on everybody — that's the only communication there is.

Now, how do you change beingness? The only way you can really change beingness is to change the level of communication of the individual. Because his beingness — awareness, his awareness of being or his awareness of trying to be depends utterly upon his ability to communicate.

Now, there's an exercise that you can pull with your preclear and you'll very often find present time for him and point up a lot of things and change his communication index simpler than you ever thought was possible even with a solid Case V or VI. You get him to put his anchor points out and bring them in again and see what he gets.

And unless he can change his communication level, he does not think any change has occurred. You want to know why a preclear who has — you've fixed up his leg, and you've got him so that his hair doesn't part athwart-ships, and you've got a lot of other things all patched up about this fellow, and he'll claim that he has not been improved.

And he says, "My what?"

Then one thing that you didn't do was change his level of communication. You left his levels of communication just as they were. Which tells him, then, that his level of beingness is not changed. His basic goal and desire is to change his level of beingness. The only way he can tell is by changing his communication potential.

"Well, just sort of get the idea of putting your beingness out there and ... And well, there's some birds out there. Now, put your beingness out toward the birds and then pull back in and tell me what you get."

What are you trying to do when you're auditing? Change beingness. That's it. I really shouldn't have to say any more.

"I get a black square."

And I wouldn't have to say any more except for this thing: Your preclear is in the MEST universe. And so we have to know something about the MEST universe so as to know what is the category of beingnesses.

"Well all right. Push the black square out, pull it in again, push it out, pull it in again, push it out, pull it in again, take a look at it."

Now, we know what we're trying to do. We're trying to change beingness. We know that we're trying to do that — change beingness. And we know we're going to change beingness by changing the communication level of the individual. And we know that technique is valid which best changes the communication level of the individual. That's a test of a technique, by the way: Does the technique change the communication level of the individual?

"Well, what do you know? It's my grandpa's parrot. And I remember I left this parrot out of the cage one time and he went all around the kitchen ..."

Therefore, admiring the imperfections of mock-ups is a whale of a technique. Why? It changes his perception of them.

Well, do you listen to this story about the parrot? No, sir. You tell him to put out his beingness again and pull it in again and put it out again.

All right. The next thing you have to know, then, is potentialities of beingness for this universe.

He's — he'll kind of say, "You know, this is a funny thing. I have a feeling like I could have done this all the time and it just never occurred to me. And this, all this black stuff that's all over my face, it's a picture. What do you know? It's a picture. And just by putting it away from me," he's telling you now, you see, "just by pushing it away from me and pulling it in and pushing it away and pulling it in a few times and pushing it away and pulling it in, I find it's a picture — what do you know — of my father who is dead."

You know the most you can know about auditing with just those few sentences which I've just told you. And the only other thing that you could know about those sentences are that they are the sentences. Do you see? I mean, that would be the difference. You could guess that they might be or you could experience around and think it over a lot and all of a sudden know that those are the levels.

Where was this guy on the track? This guy was stuck at Papa's death. He couldn't see, could he? Therefore, he's suffering from loss, isn't he? "Can't perceive" is marked by loss.

Now, if you know that, you'll never afterwards get confused about what you're trying to do to a preclear yourself or what man's trying to do out here across the face of this earth. He's trying to be something. He'd rather be a monkey in a tree than nothing. He'll be anything rather than nothing.

I'm not saying now "can't perceive" may be marked by loss. I'm not saying: "Although many other authorities may differ and Professor Wumphgalla has very often written to the contrary, in some of the books which you read, if you go far enough out of present time like we are, you will discover that it has been said, although again the Freudian school does not believe this, that occlusion as a black area over the face is caused by loss."

What's he trying to be? Well, he's trying to tell you how much he is by telling you, "Oh, how I have suffered." Of course, it's convincing. He must have been something if he suffered.

Now, we could just knock off all the prelude and just make a horrible — one of these terrible things that an authority just hates — I mean they just get down and you can hear their teeth grind as they pound their head against the floor, after you've said something like this: Occlusion is caused by loss. See, good solid statement.

What's this gradient scale of beingness? Well, you're just looking at the Tone Scale. He'll tell you first, "Boy, I was the happiest cannibal, or the happiest something, and ..." — hasn't made any impression on you.

Your V can't see and your VI can't see and your VII isn't there to see anything. So, where is your V stuck? Where is your VI stuck? He's stuck at the place where there was suddenly nobody to look at him. Somebody, son of a gun, up and died on him.

So he says — he didn't get any attention, you see; no two terminals, you see — happiest something . . . "Well, I was a very conservative fellow once. I uh . . ." No impression on you.

It was a sudden loss of attention which had been formerly productive of an interchange of affinity. That's where he's stuck, right there. He's stuck in, just what I was telling you before, a sudden no-attention — a sudden no-attention.

"Yeah, I used to be real antagonistic." No impression.

And that's why he's got all of Grandpa's somatics. That's why he's doing a life continuum on Grandpa. And where are these things? Where is the package? Where is this package of somatics and so forth?

You can be all those things, too. You're not interested. That's no new experience. There aren't any new experiences upward, he thinks. He starts going downwards because the universe starts dwindling down.

Believe me, it's a package. It's just like some Rice Krispies, or something of this sort. (I'm going to send a bill to somebody for that radio plug.) Anyway .. .

So the next one he tells you is, "Well, I used to get so mad," and maybe you'll listen to him for a few minutes and then you get bored with that.

It's just as much a package as that. A facsimile is a thing. Listen, a good thetan out of his body in good shape, can take these darn facsimiles that everybody's so scared of, you know? And he can throw them around like the guy with a hat act on the stage. That's a fact. They can go out and they will make puffs out in the yard. They will explode and they'll do all sorts of things. If you just want to take piles of these things, see, and give them a heave up against a wall or something of this sort, things will actually happen with these things. Of course, people don't like to get that careless with these facsimiles.

And he said, "Well, I was scared once." And then he tells you about losing his father. This is really tough. You can't get that low so he's got you.

One time we dumped a whole package of these facsimiles on a cat and the cat said, "Meow!" It wasn't his imagination, either.

So why do you hear all of this? Why do you hear all of this "It's so bad over thisaway and thataway," and so forth?

By the way, the other night there was a poor old Siamese cat, he was a very self-respecting cat and a very proud cat, and he was walking across the yard. And I happened to be outside. And this cat was walking very sedately and I came out and the cat was about to jump over the wall so I said, "Hey, cat," at a distance of about maybe 25 — 30 feet, see? I just reached out and touched the far shoulder of the cat. Of course, it stung him like nothing, and it just froze him. And he looked at that shoulder and he stopped and he looked back at me and he says, "My God, we're in for it again. I can see this coming. We had this probably once before, someplace else." You could just see wheels turning in this cat's head. And every time he'd start to jump over the wall, I'd pull him off the wall and set him back down to the pavement again — dirty trick!

Convincing, that's why. People don't listen to good things. You see, if people listened to good things you'd get something like a newspaper. I think the magazine Scientology, published now in Philadelphia, is probably the only newspaper in the world that has an editorial policy of good news. That almost guarantees its eventual failure.

A cat's hair is so conductive that he gets quite a jolt out of a beam that a thetan puts out. Cat's hair is very conductive. It'll stand up; you put a beam over the top of a cat's hair and you'll see his hair lift. Also the cat won't like it.

Now, you — you just look at these newspapers and if you'll read the head-line and then read the story you will see how bad they're trying to make it over that way. The story almost never is as tough as the headline. And if they're short on news that day, oh brother, those headlines, are they beautiful, but the stories just don't match them. There's some slight ingredient in the story that matches up to the fact that a thirteen-year-old girl was slugged, raped and thrown in the river. You'll read that sort of in the head-line. You'll sort of read that out of the headline and then you'll find out that she was on her way to school and she lost her ruler.

All right, that's communication at a distance with beams.

You know, it's so bad over thataway, you see. That's what that's got to say. Because that attracts attention. So that anything that attracts attention will do that.

Now, when we've gone over the subject of "stuck on the track," we find that there is a sudden contraction of space at every place the person is stuck on the track. There's less space there than there was immediately before there and the more quickly it happens, the less space and the more stuck he is.

Now, if you gave somebody the modus operandi for attracting attention and he really could attract attention without going into bad news he would very happily leave the bad news alone from there on out. See? Only it's got to be spectacular enough to get attention.

And when you get a fellow in complete self-confidence with a communication between himself and another terminal, and he's getting an interchange with that other terminal, all of a sudden the other terminal disappears, you get a protection of self. Anchor points — he yanks in his anchor points. Because he's — why does he yank in his anchor points?

Well, when you're dealing with MEST, MEST is very hard to work and is very scarce. Therefore, it's hard to go upscale because you can't get that glittery. But you can get that bad. People would dress more brightly and talk more brightly, and so on, if it weren't so scarce to do so.

Well, you could take this person he's lost, and mock up this person and you'll find two conditions exist. You would use Matching Terminals, you see, I mean, you'd have him put up Papa twice. Now, it's going to take him maybe fifteen minutes or twenty minutes or a half an hour to get Papa up there twice, but he's going to have to feed in the second terminal. And the first times he starts to feed it in, the first one goes too. And he has to put the first one back and feed in this second one again.

You go down, for instance the — oh, I think enough silk to put in a tie here in Great Britain costs about (I mean, real silk, and so forth, about enough to put in a tie) costs four or five pounds. Something fabulous like that. That's nonsense. Nobody paid those worms that much.

And he keeps putting the second one in there and it — he may be putting the second one in there for minutes and minutes and minutes and just go on putting that second one in there. And it's disappearing faster than he can perceive that he's put it there. So he'll get the idea after a while he can't put up any mock-ups, and he can't put up any terminals, and he'll throw in the sponge.

All right. Here we have, then, a decline downscale toward a desire for attention. A person has beingness in order to get attention. That's right. You can't be nothing, and so on. Now there's a rule that goes in there. That thing . . . This is a silly rule, but you'll find yourself applying this rule. This rule is so idiotic it would, of course, have been overlooked: That thing which can't be observed doesn't get attention. I mean, isn't that a silly rule? You know that's an awfully important natural law? Terribly important? That thing which can't be observed doesn't get attention.

That's because the terminals are being soaked up in the occluded area faster than he can furnish energy to that area, but he'll eventually furnish enough energy to that area that he goes fast enough, he gets awwwwrr — all of a sudden they'll be right there.

It's like saying the way you spell cat: c-a-t. Naturally. But let's look down the category. You'll find anytime the individual can't look up from what he's doing to find out if he's getting attention or not, then what he is doing in that state becomes aberrative. In other words, work which requires attention on the point of a drill press is very bad work to have because you never know whether anybody is looking at you or not.

Well now, it doesn't matter how fast he does this, because there's just so much energy absorption going to take place. So he can do it over the space of five hours or he'll do it over the space of five minutes. Just because somebody hasn't got a mock-up out there is no reason he can't put a mock-up out there. It's just the fact that you as an auditor have got to keep kicking him along so that he keeps putting the mock-up there — and just knowing he's putting a mock-up there, even though he can't see it. And he keeps putting the mock-up there and he puts the mock-up there and he puts the mock-up there and he puts the mock-up there and he puts the mock-up there. And all of a sudden he says, "You know, for a minute there I had a top of an ear."

And the auditor in running this will have to run a drill press out of his preclear. Very solid things, drill presses, too.

Well, if he keeps this up he will eventually get one mock-up certainly, very good. Now start to put the second one up there and you get into sudden trouble. Because the second one makes the first one disappear, so we got to put up two new mock-ups and they just keep putting up mock-ups and putting up mock-ups, and all of a sudden we'll eventually get — he'll tell you with a great sigh of relief, "You know! I have not only got two mock-ups sitting there, but they're sitting there quietly, facing each other." And this is a great achievement. And it is. He solved also the problems that he had with that terminal.

All right. Now, that condition where a person can't notice the attention he's getting then becomes an aberrative condition. Material, then, accomplished at that level never runs out because there's no admiration on it, so it tends to persist.

Well, you're going to find out this moment of loss — we take preclear A. Preclear A is a Case Level V. He is so occluded that the realest thing you could possibly give him to see would be a very, very dark man in a dark suit in a dark cellar at midnight.

Well, naturally, a person who is hiding never gets any attention. Now, maybe if the fellow spent one one-thousandth of one percent of his time hiding — well, when he was hiding he never got any attention, so it persists so eventually he hides. Isn't that an insidious simplicity? What's aberrative to the preclear? It's those things which really got no attention. Now, that sounds odd to you. You'd think it was those things that got attention was aberrative.

Now, it's a very strange thing that all you'd have to do — tell this preclear is, "Put your communication points out. Now bring them in again. Now put them out. Now put them in again. Now put them out ..."

But I told you that something was better than nothing, no matter what the something was. So Papa damning, swearing, scolding, beating one with a baseball club — very preferable to being around the corner all by yourself with nobody looking at you.

"I du — I — well, I just — there's a picture over my face here."

That's right. And you start running your preclear and you'll find out — if you E-Meter him — you'll find out that there's something very aberrative. Oh, it's terrible. He gets awfully upset every time he sees a small black hole or something of the sort. He gets upset. Why? Well, he was in one once for quite a while. And we start finding back — let's clear him on one lifetime, you see. And we go back and we find out one time he had a job shoveling coal and he was in a coal pit and he shoveled coal and he never saw anybody all day long. And nobody ever saw him. And he had this job for two months and he's been crazy ever since. Of course, this gives him kind of a fixation on the thing. He's shoveling coal in a coal pit. He's still there, shoveling that coal. Never had a chance to run it out. It persists.

You say, "What's it a picture of?"

Sounds kind of weird, doesn't it? Well, that's man all by himself up against the MEST universe. And when you get man all by himself up against the MEST universe without any way to get a cross flow with other beings you get trouble. Because the MEST universe doesn't give you a bit of attention.

"Well," he says, "I put it out, and pull it in, and put it out, and pull it in, got a picture of my mother."

If you think that fireplace is paying you any attention, now, you're pretty bad off. Your Negro gets around this; he does a mock-up. He's fabulous, I mean, the Negro people are very, very interesting. And does mock-ups in terms of MEST. Every piece of MEST around him has a complete personality and it mentions things to him and it looks at him and so on. That's a way around it. You could stay awful sane if you got that. He is. He's pretty sane.

He's not an occluded case anymore. This shouldn't happen to you. But you know what that occluded case will do if you let him? He'll run logic. He'll be very logical about his condition. He will figure everything under the sun is wrong with his case. He will be figuring when he should be auditing. He'll figure and figure and figure and he will dodge and dodge and dodge and dodge. And he'll figure he's got to get rid of the blackness and pour it from here to there, and he's got to do this and got to do that. He's what? What's he dramatizing? "Fight the terminal." Why? Because there's a hidden influence there.

He talks about things. And so the gradient scale, the saner people will personify things — happier people, rather, will personify things.

And the hidden influence says, "I've got to find it out. There must be a riddle, there must be an answer here someplace, and I've got to find the riddle, and the riddle is always in the blackness, so I've got to keep racking through this blackness, and because it's a hidden area and it is dangerous, I don't dare then put out communica — " the one thing that'll solve it, see — "I don't dare put out my communication points, but I have to keep those pulled in, because if I put them out" (now get this about a V) "if I put them out they won't come back."

Next level up, people not so happy, they talk all the time about people. And the people up above that level, that've — boy, have they been alone. Have they been alone! They talk about abstracts.

Now, write that down as part of his case. Because you've got to work with him here, you may find that his case cleans up a little faster if you mock up matched terminals facing each other and he's afraid they won't come back. And you'll find out that this is loss. And that's why loss is occlusion, because he can't put out anchor points anymore and pull them in, because if he put them out they might not come back. And why? Because he had an anchor point out there, and its name was Papa, and it went away and didn't come back. So therefore he can't put out any more points and bring them back, because the anchor point he had out there, which was his anchor point, and he made it, he knows this .. .

You start cutting back on the track and mapping this thing out and you'll find out that your preclear roughly falls somewhere on that gradient scale. He's a pretty happy guy if he goes around and he says, "You know, my car, it's got the meanest disposition of any car you ever saw." His car is a mock-up. He knows it's a mock-up. He doesn't believe the car has a disposition. Then he says, "You know, I don't dare say a single flattering word about the car within its hearing because it immediately breaks down." That's right. You — in other words, personification of things is a way of mocking up MEST so that you can live with it.

That's his mistake, you see, he's identified the MEST universe anchor points and depended on the MEST universe for anchor points way above his own anchor points, and the only way he's going to perceive worth two whoops and a collar button is for himself to put out his own anchor points and perceive with his own anchor points. That's the best way to perceive.

"That old mountain over there, he just sits there all the time." It's a mountain. It gives people attention. Woodsmen, very often — your better woodsmen will walk through the woods, and so on, and it's not "Woodsman spare that tree" or something of the sort. But you take a woodsman who's really interested in the woods and who's quite alert, and so forth, why, he'll tell you the moods and attitudes of various kinds of trees. And what they think about, and so forth. They give him attention. In other words, he can extract attention out of anything. He can sort of mock it up so that he gets attention from it.

But he's scared to do that because if he puts them out they won't come back. And if he puts them out and they won't come back then of course he isn't going to perceive anything, but there's going to be a hidden influence and therefore he can't put them out because there's a hidden influence out there that takes things away. And that means he couldn't predict what hap-pens and that means he's wrong. That means he didn't understand what was going to happen, and the one thing of course the MEST universe is not going to let you do is predict what happens because it's random and it's chaotic. So he can't predict what's going to happen, so therefore he doesn't dare put out an anchor point, so therefore he has an occlusion and the blackness tells him that he's under the duress of a hidden influence, so he has to be logical about it.

But unless he could do very good mock-ups, the individual doesn't live that could be out in the middle of space, far removed from stars or anything of the sort, all by himself, and even vaguely feel anything was giving him attention.

All right, let's go right from there into logic. Logic is a very simple matter of rationalization necessary to keep a terminal facing you. That's logic. That's the rationalization necessary to keep a terminal facing you. It's what you say to the terminal to keep the terminal interested so the terminal will keep facing you and you keep getting attention. That's logic.

And sure enough, if you really want to map your track you look over a little space opera and you'll find out a fellow has a horror of being out in space all by himself. That's horrible. No attention there, you see?

All right. Now, let's get the deterioration of logic. Logic is based on the fact that the — one of the best ways of getting a terminal to face you, as I was telling you earlier, is to tell the other terminal that there's a hidden influence somewhere around the other terminal or make a demonstration there's a hidden influence. Of course there is nothing that can hurt this other terminal, really, until somebody invents a hidden influence. The only thing anybody's afraid of is the hidden influence.

Therefore, when attention is not recorded or unnoticed or absent we get an aberrative period. And if the person happens to be doing any heavy effort during that period the heavy effort locks up in that area. And that's real bad.

All right. So logic is the search for the hidden influence. That's the goal of logic. And the hidden influence means "What am I going to alter in the future?" The first moment the person entered in "How am I going to alter the future, so the future — and predict it so the future can't alter me?"

And you'll find, then, that one of your fastest methods of bailing out a workman or bailing out a man who works hard in any way whatsoever is by occupational therapy.

Now, the first moment, then, of survival, was the first moment we had a human mind. And this human mind has been a very earlier mind than the mind you're using as a human mind right now — has been a mind for an awful long time and has been thinking out an awful lot of things and it doesn't work any different than anything else. The reason you can't remember past periods when you were a mind, the reason why these periods are closed out, it's very interesting, is you have to keep them apart. You have to keep terminals apart. And if you keep the terminals apart, believe me, you're not going to remember anything about the terminals. A lot of force exerted toward keeping terminals apart makes a lot of force exerted toward forgetting. If you exert enough force toward forgetting, believe me, you really remember. Why? It makes the terminal collapse and come in. Did you follow that?

Now, how do you do this occupational therapy? We've got a brand-new occupational therapy. You just take his tools, mock them up as matched terminals and skip it. Isn't that interesting? Simple. Simple therapy.

All right. Your past lives pile up on you then. In other words, as you go living along, this human mind which we have working here is not a human mind. It's a thetan mind. It's been in existence for an awful long time. If you want to study the human mind you go get yourself a scalpel, and you get yourself a bottle of formaldehyde and you get yourself some brains down at the butcher shop and you start cutting them up, and you'll have the stimulus-response system on which the body operates and which it keeps time with. It's a very interesting mechanism and it's on a — not a brain to be lightly disregarded as a very good machine. But it has its limitations and it doesn't do very much in the way of what we think an analytical mind does. It's a reactive mind.

He'll tell you all of a sudden, "You know, I have the funniest feeling — the whole front of my face feels like steel."

If you want to know a description of the modus operandi of the body's mind, then study in Book One anything it says there about reactive mind, and that's the way the body's mind works. That's the body — works with neurons and synapses and all that sort of thing. But you'll never learn anything about the analytical mind or the behavior of the person himself, really as a personality, unless you study the broad full track level — the mind he's been with. He doesn't inherit this mind from the body, in other words, he's had it for an awful long time.

And you say, "That's very interesting. Go on. Mock them up there," and so on.

It works on this fashion: It is there to pose, observe, pose and resolve problems relating to survival. Which means it is there to pose and resolve problems relating to beingness. It's how to keep on being. That's what it's trying to solve.

He said, "There's a sort of a drill running in my throat. You know, I do have a bad cough. Ahem-hem."

How does he first become convinced that he can't keep on being? He becomes convinced that he can't because all of a sudden he had a terminal disappear on him. And that was a great shock. And he didn't have any warning that the terminal would disappear. So he figures out there must be something there and he didn't know quite what was there, so he has the idea that there must have been a hidden influence. And if somebody encourages him along a little bit and says, "Yeah, it was a hidden influence. There's really a thing out there known as bananas. And they have peels, and that terminal slipped on this peel and that's why you lost the terminal." Or you could tell him, "Well, now, really, those clouds over there are all sulphuric acid" — it's in the vicinity of London — "and those clouds devoured the terminal, and that's what happened to them, because those clouds are very voracious and that's a hidden influence over there." Or you could say it was Yahweh or you could say it was almost anything.

Sure. He's been looking at a type of machinery or he's been working with a machine without any further attention along any line. His attention riveted on the machine and he's gotten into a one-way flow and he's got a no-terminal proposition. You see, he doesn't even consider himself a terminal on the thing and he isn't thinking in terms of attention, so all this terminal stuff goes on beneath his notice. And he is — he's getting a tremendous effort down toward a machine or something like that or he's getting a big effort up above his head or back toward him again.

All right. Now, from that hidden influence he tries to figure out some system by which he can predict what's going to happen to him. He's found out that he didn't know what's going to happen to him just automatically. So now he's got to figure out some method of predicting what's going to happen to him. And now you can plot the cycle of the mind through the whole course of mysticism, logic, crystal gazing, predestination, everything you can think of.

As a consequence, you get occupational therapy for people and you'll find out that that's highly beneficial. Well, how do you work a preclear, then? Well, you just look for these areas of no attention. You'll find promptly where he's bogged because he will be bogged there. But he'll be bogged lots of other places, too. I'm just telling you what's the worst about it.

And these run into some of the most remarkable systems — telling for-tunes by cards, consulting the gypsies. And what do you know, people will set up circuits that will give them hunches when something wrong is going to occur. Kind of reliable circuits too, interesting. And they're based on logic. They're subbrains, they figure out, and they figure out things and so on.

Now let's look at the rest of it. What is this condition, then? Something better than nothing. But a person doesn't dare be everything. Whoa. Why not? Why can't he be things selectively? Well, you see, it's all scarce.

And some people see the future as black when they're going to be bad but they see it white when things are going to be good. And they will really use this to solve all their problems. They'll set up the problem and say, "Should I go to the show tonight?" They see white, they say, "Sure, let's go to the show." They say, "Should I go to the show tonight?" They see black. They say, "All right, I won't go to the show." Well, it's just as good a mind as any other kind of mind. As a matter of fact it's a two-valued stimulus-response mind that he's got set up there, and it's really got some logic circuits in it. And if you took the percentages on it, you would find out the thing was right 60 — 70 percent of the time. It's as good as anything else.

It's like this. The whole universe is scarce. You see, there's only 8 billion 685 thousand tons per mile of earth and if a few boys got about it you could only turn one car off an assembly line every second. All you'd have to do is just make the assembly lines — you'd have to make fifteen more assembly lines than exist at the Ford plant at Dearborn to make one come off a minute. There's that many workmen out of work in the vicinity of the plant. I — we got to keep it scarce, for some cockeyed reason.

There's another method that's much simpler than that though. Why don't you just flip a coin. Just flip a coin and you'll know something about the future. You'll be 50 percent right.

The steel pits and everything else — there isn't any scarcity of anything but we all know it's scarce. Space is scarce, too. I hate to have to tell you that but it's really scarce. It's only two light-years from here to the next star or something like that. It's awfully scarce stuff, space. So you want to be awfully careful about space; you want to utilize it carefully because there's only .. . It's pure idiocy, see?

All right. So all of this concatenation works out to — you get an organization of data. Now, you say, "Now, all the data of present time and all the data of the past, and so forth, and you go into the data of the past and that gives you all the data of present time. And let's see now, the present time condition is so-and-so and so in the past — arrr-nnn-dnn and then srrorr and learned in school that there are two thousand and — let's see now, algebra. Yeah, that has something to do with that. Now we work that out very carefully and we find out next Tuesday we'll have beans."

This is the MEST universe. It's scarce. And if you started to get the number of cubic miles of space that sit between here and ,the nearest satellite, the Moon, and if you just took the orbit of the Moon around the Earth and got that sphere of space, you would find more space than can be utilized practically by anybody in this solar system, any God's quantity of people. Except it hasn't got any air in it.

"No," you say, "that can't be right. I'd better go down to the gypsy and ask her." Because the Devil himself who invented it — that's why you must remember the eighth dynamic includes the Devil because the devil invented logic. By the way, he did, traditionally. And when you're running Matching Terminals, you can take almost any preclear and if you have him match the Devil facing the Devil the first thing you know he's going to tell you, "You know, this fellow's reasonable?" That makes me look kind of bad, doesn't it? Anyway .. .

Well, that's all right. It's still space. And it isn't space with air in it that's scarce; it's space that's scarce. Boy, how anybody can figure space is scarce in this universe is just pure — this is just pure genius the way they've worked this out. I mean, you'd have to just sit — get down and pound your skull hour on end with a hammer to finally come up with an idea as brilliant as that: space is scarce. But that is typically the MEST universe.

Anyway, here we have, then, the genus of logic. And logic is the gradient scale and comparisons of data which work out a smooth network of terminals and communication lines which deliver data in a prediction of future form or state of beingness. And if it's all matched up very nicely and so forth, you can do wonderful things with this thing called logic, but any time you're doing anything with logic, remember .. .

They make space scarce by telling you how bad space is. But the only way that you can bail out of anything and be anything is to get some space. That's a heck of a note, isn't it? That is really remarkable, isn't it?

I'll tell you a little story, right now, I won't take very long. Survive was a word that sort of dived in inductively, way back, 1937. Sort of out of the blue, you get the idea? Inductive. It looked kind of reasonable, so I started working with it. An awful lot of logic has gone into this. An awful lot of mathematics have gone into it. Done an awful lot of good in this whole subject.

The only way you can be anything else than what you are — the only way you can be what you are or try to be what you are is to assume it has some space. So if there isn't any space you can't be anything so the whole universe has a tendency, then, to force you back to nothing if space is scarce.

And for the last sixty days, I have been integrating empirically only. Ha! That's a heck of a note, isn't it? Done five thousand test combinations of material to get the plot. Five thousand factors combined together will make an awful lot of possible solutions. And I'll tell you how this came into beingness.

But you know how scarce space is. Go and try to rent a room around here someplace. From Cape Horn right up here to London there is enough empty space to feed and house man over and over and over and over but it's all scarce. Pure idiocy. That's that 180-degree vector.

I got what I'm going to tell you about a little later. Three levels. How to run Admiration Processing very easily. Therefore I had a sort of a test rack on which you could set up anything. I knew Admiration Processing and sympathy were right. So I set up a test rack, and just started testing, testing with preclears. Just testing it, testing it.

The fact that — the fact that something looks like it's going one way in this universe is the best guarantee that it must be going the other way. It's just that crossed. You learn this in physics and you get used to it, so you allow for it.

Now, one of the first things that showed up was this: wasn't terminals. Terminals didn't have very much to do with it. It had to do with lines. Every time you did anything with terminals, all of a sudden there'd be a ghosty something would show up. See, you could make strange factors suddenly blow into being, because we already knew by admiring the imperfections of a mock-up it would clarify and become a better mock-up.

Then somebody comes along on observational — purely observational and they think that something else exists. But if you've already agreed with it that it all runs in reverse in physics then you'll start running your life in reverse and oh, boy!

So it was the line that was important, not the terminals. If something happens to the line, something happens to perception. Something can happen to the terminal without something happening to the line. What do you know? So it was lines that was important, and then, just after test after test after test after test after test, all of a sudden — logic.

MEST and life don't mix worth a nickel. Not worth a nickel. Witness the dwindling spiral. Witness that a cycle of action is always down. You say, "Well, a cycle of action should always go up. The fellow's born, he doesn't have any money and at the age of forty he has a lot of money." Is that up? Mm-mm. Not so.

Now that's silly. It'd just be silly that the word logic would set up on a wide experimental test base. Why should you set up logic at all for testing? But boy, you admire that logic, and the preclear goes nnnzzzrrrmm! He gets more somatics in less time than anything you want to count.

All right. Now, we'll take this reverse vector and the fact that there's all kinds of space is the best guarantee that a fellow would wind up feeling there was no space. That there's lots of energy would make him wind up eventually feeling there wasn't much energy. Why?

Logic. Oh, no, what's the matter with this? Let's get another preclear. Let's make another test on this. This person's logical. Oh no! We find out that the — what was wrong with people is they were logical here and logical there, and there was something awfully wrong with logic. And all of a sudden we get the interchanges of terminals, and the rest of the problem starts to work out.

Because he's trying to be something, he's trying to make something valuable. And if he keeps on trying hard enough to make something valuable he will eventually wind up making it scarce.

And then it hits a couple of more bugs. And we find that it should be communications about logic. No, it isn't. It's people who change your MEST levels of communication who have been upsetting to you. And of course MEST itself does that better than the people. What happens is people come in, you see, and they've been licked by the MEST universe, just licked. They're cold.

He's trying to get attention, so therefore, he can only get attention for that which is valuable. If he can only get attention for that which is valuable he has to demonstrate that they can't look other places and get that attention — get that same commodity. They've got to give attention to this space. This is the trick every one of us plays.

They might as well be on ice and shipped off to Frisco for burial on the subject of the MEST universe. They've lost. Then they start in on you. They're going to change a being now, because that's easier than changing the universe. They couldn't change the MEST universe one hair, see? So now, they're going to stop your communication lines and give you a good hard shove in the head and push you down to the bottom of the level. They're mad.

All right. Now, let's see how that would work out. We'd have to make, then, valuable items scarce in order to get attention for them. And so, all life seems to be in a conspiracy against life to take itself down the Tone Scale.

You start looking this over, you'll find out none of these people have tried to improve your communication level or given you any method of doing so. You take literary criticism, you take any kind of criticism, you take correction, and what do you know: These people start correcting your communications, correct your communications, correct your communications. Everybody corrected your communications. We sort out the preclear's life, and this is one for you to put down in your notebook, sort out the preclear's life for that person who attempted to change their methods of communication, and run those people as matched terminals. And you will achieve a communication change on the part of your preclear. Simple, huh?

Any thinker in any age, any one of the great teachers has recognized this very clearly: That man's only smallest chance of bailing himself out of the — what he was in — the only chance he had of bailing himself out had to do with man respecting man and letting people get up off their knees. And the six great teachers have each — has each one of them tried to make this point clear to man.

You'll find out that there are only four or five people in his life who are really death on this, and these were the people who said to him, "Don't talk that way, Johnny." "Oh, you meant 'and' not 'the'." "Uh, well, what did you say?" In other words, anything the little boy said, anything the little kid said, so forth, it was like somebody slapping a hand over his mouth and saying, "Shut up, shut up. Change it. Get worse. Be quiet. Be still." And the one thing that the kid couldn't be was still.

Then a bunch of mad hatters rush in and they get down — you see, there can be one level at 40.0 where you really do get the universal solvent: admiration, affinity. And for every point on the upper scale there is an "echo" mockery point on the lower scale.

All right, to finish off this other story: Here's all this enormous mass of material, and at the top of this strata it isn't integrating logically, it's integrating with differentiation. And every one of the data that I'm giving you — aside from "survive" and the six dynamics — is derived from pure empirical testing on accumulated masses of data which had already been evaluated. Logic, topology and symbolic logic observed here. But boy, they only went up the Tone Scale to a certain distance, and after that, brother, you're on your own!

For instance, true friendship could only exist from about, oh, maybe 2.8 up. And yet your friends at that level never say, "I am your friend." That's left for the fellows around 1.1.

Now, the rest of the data in the last sixty days has just been spent in doing nothing but sorting this stuff out and finding out what got a reaction on the preclear. I've told you two things that got a violent reaction on the preclear. I'll tell you a third that gets a uniformly violent action on Homo sapiens. And that is trying to change the motion of the opposite sex. And you'll find right there, you'll find yourself sitting in the middle of what's wrong with marriages and female and male relationships. That's what good old Papa Freud was looking for. What is it, and what's a technique to run it?

You know, I always jump and kind of quiver when somebody walks up to me and says to me, "I am your friend, Ron."

Well, don't turn that one on your preclear lightly, sort of, you know, snap your fingers over it over the supper table or something of the sort. Because his skull's — practically will fly out of the room. Stopping the motion of the opposite sex, or trying to change the motion of the opposite sex, or trying to start the opposite sex into motion. What do you know! If you go into sympathy with something, you are imitating its form, its motions and its speed. How do you go into sympathy with something? By imitating its form, motions and speed. That's how you go into sympathy with something.

I say, "Well, ahem, we won't get our throats cut today, at least!"

And there is some guy living with the opposite sex. The only way he's possibly got that he won't become a woman is to stop that goddamn female motion. And the only way she can possibly keep on being a woman and not suddenly become a man is, "These men!" Stop them cold. Change them, do something with them.

Now, that's a fact. People who are my friends just don't ever happen to mention it. So that's very interesting.

It's just this fact. The woman can't imitate the man without becoming a man. The man can't imitate the woman completely without becoming a woman. Because the tenure of beingness in a body . . . You think it's tough in trying to make a Theta Clear. That's only because every time you tell some-body to step out of their body, if you tell them (a V) often enough to step out of his body, he just glues himself in tighter and tighter and tighter. Reverse vector, see? All right, because he's fighting the body.

Now that's funny, then. People come along and they say, "love." What are they talking about? There is a wonderful word that's been a football for thou-sands of years. What is this stuff called love?

The one place he wouldn't be is the body, so that's where he's winding up every time. His terminals keep collapsing. So you tell a fellow often enough and he becomes a body. Well, the same way, this woman has the terrible problem on her mind that she is really so lightly in a body, she is really so little a body, really so little a woman, that there's just nothing to just kind of sliding across and becoming Henry. This is too easy. You start doing Matching Terminals, and you just match two terminals of the people she normally faces up facing each other, and the more doggone stuff will start running off of these terminals. She won't even know what's running off of them; they'll just be a vibration one way or the other.

Everybody knows it's valuable. Everybody knows that men and women are in love with each other. Oh, yeah? I know they have a compulsive drive toward each other that's very emotionally upsetting but I wonder if they have any acquaintance with love? Well, maybe every once in a while they do. And when they do, do you see a tremendous, successful marriage, and do you see this other compulsive things. You don't see anything successful at all, you just see ruin.

But what will be running off of them, mainly is "no men's motions, please. No men's motions. No men's motions. Mustn't move like a man, mustn't think like a man, mustn't do like a man." They start in little kids that old, and they teach little girls and the only way you can keep little girls being little girls is to say, "Now listen, little boys might do that, but you, Prunella, had certainly better not. Because you're a nice little girl and you're supposed to do otherwise." And they say to the little boy, "Now look, don't do that, that's sissy." See, they gang up.

And you as an auditor are going to be confronted with this time after time after time after time because you're going to say, "Well, that's odd. This fellow was in love with this girl, and then this happened, and . . ." Get that first word that he used: "I was in love." Right at that moment take your choice. It's down here below 2.0 on the Tone Scale or it was way up. And if it was way up he wouldn't be sitting there talking to you. You get that? With what clarity you should get that.

And what do you know? It puts a block on 50 percent of the beingness available in Homo sapiens. He can't be 50 percent of it because he's compulsively being. If he were just being, you see, it wouldn't matter. If he were being by self-determinism, he could be a man, he could be a woman. It wouldn't matter. He'd flip back and forth, in and out, bang, nothing to it.

He wouldn't be there if it was up, so what did he — what's he talking to you about? He's talking to you about something which exists below 2.0 on the Tone Scale. Just take it from there. Because there's always something below 2.0 on the Tone Scale which is a mockery and a mimicry and a pretended agreement with something actual, high on the Tone Scale.

But compulsively, he's under compulsion and under duress and he's under this terrific force. "I'm not supposed to communicate with this body." So he's right there in it, you see. Smash. Tight. Now he finds himself that 50 percent of the race he has to keep his fixed attention on and say, "Don't move. Because if you move I'll have to imitate you, and I don't dare be you, and therefore let's get married." Very logical, isn't it?

For instance, there — fear is a sort of a reversed enthusiasm. You can watch somebody exhibiting enthusiasm and he's coming out thataway, you see? Well, a person with — doing fear is really doing some sort of a level like that and you can very easily get a person who is continually in fear mixed up with a person who is enthusiastic. You are dealing with somebody who's about 1.0 on the Tone Scale and you think you're dealing with a person who has a tremendous amount of enthusiasm.

See, you just sit the preclear down and just tell him to get mock-ups of men and women facing each other or tell him to get the general idea of stop-ping the motion of women if he's a man. Some of your preclears — nothing much is going to happen. Some of them, you'd better watch out. You'd better stand by with the Epsom salts because you're not taking him up toward present time. Oh, brother! You're just taking him back practically half the length of the track, just swoosh! And with — everything goes into violent motion.

Only all this person's trying to do that has all this enthusiasm, he's just trying to hold everything off of him. With what? By being afraid of it, see? Push out that outflow, push out that outflow, and that will hold them all off. And you'll — this person very often will mistake this for enthusiasm.

Preclears don't like it when women start flying out of mock-ups in this direction and flying out the other direction and smashing him in the face here, all out of control. That's the one thing you're not supposed to do. You're supposed to control things; everybody tells him that.

And it's merely this: It's if he can put it out fast enough and hard enough and acceptably enough he drives them off hard enough. So sometimes he's more scared than others. Okay.

That's the other thing that a preclear's been trying consistently and continually to do. He's been trying to control things, not be them. You see, you could control a body very easily, all you'd have to do is walk up and you'd say to yourself, "All right, I'm a body." You don't have to hypnotize yourself or anything of the sort. I mean, no nonsense, you just say, "Well, I'm a body now, and I'll be a body now, and let's see, the body is walking like this, so I'll just get behind the body and I'll walk like this, and I'll just walk forward into the body. And now I'll make the body stop." And the body stops.

Now what's, then — what then is this thing called love? Well, it'd be very interesting if I would just answer this for you sweepingly, generally and settle the problem for all time and nobody would ever have to worry about it again, and so forth, so I will.

Honest, it's that simple. It's just that simple. There's nothing to it. It's so simple that you couldn't believe it. Now he says he doesn't want to be the body anymore, "My, it was wonderful being this body," and just back out. That's all. Yeah, that's all. The way you do it, of course, though, is say, "I never want to be a body, I've got to be a body, I've got to get these terminals apart, I've got to get these terminals together, I've got to do this, I've got to do that, I've got to keep everything under control, I've got to organize, I've got to organize, I've got to organize."

Love is a compound emotion. It isn't a single emotion, which is the first thing that renders it wide-open to misinterpretation. You can make this test, if you will. If you want the preclear to turn on the emotion called love, get him to turn on sympathy and admiration in sequence. Get him to turn on sympathy for something, then admiration for something, then sympathy for something, then admiration for something. And if he gets that going, all of a sudden the sympathy and admiration will merge as an emotion and you'll get what's known as love.

You get some preclears that are — really got this bad, see. "I've got to organize it, I've got to organize it." Their whole life is lying behind them in chaos, but "I've got to organize it, I've got to organize it, I've got to organize it." Oh, brother.

And he will feel that and he'll say, "My God, I haven't felt that since I was fifteen." That's real love.

They're given this: terminals here, flows there, everything's got to go this way, everything's got to go that way, "I've got to force this into place there yeuhhh . . ." Smash into the body, smash into the body, smash into the body — uh — tight. You come along as the auditor, you say, "Be two feet back of your head."

All right. It's just a compound of these two things. It's an interesting test you could make on that, by the way. Of course, most people are so scared of this commodity that you probably wouldn't be able to get them to admit it if they did feel it. If you get somebody, when you got him up Tone Scale a little bit, and try that test.

"Huh? Who? Me? Oh, I'm a body, I know that. I've not only known that for a long time, but you're not going to get me out of being a body because I am the body because I've got it all organized as the body, and it's all my own organization and I'm very logical about the whole thing why I'm in the body. And I can explain to you at any moment why I'm in the body and I wouldn't be able to get along without a body, because, you see, it's very logical why I wouldn't be able to get along without a body, because of concatenated gradient scales of logic. I am a body, and therefore I am a body, and there — and anything about this, and if I got out of my body the psychiatrists would give me an electric shock and make me get back in my body. I know. I'm very logical about the whole universe." It's just this nonsensical.

And what people misinterpret as love below 2.0 on the Tone Scale is a very low-toned agreement with. It's actually a sort of a pity, feel sorry for, sympathize with. In other words, it's just sympathy. It is the sympathy element of love. And so you get it way down at the bottom of the scale.

But that's actually a very fast summary of about the way the mind's working on this subject. Although I'm ridiculing it, it's really the straight way that it's working. He's saying, "I don't dare be that terminal, let's see, leave a good close eye on it so I won't be it. Whoops! I am it. It's bad over there, it's bad over there, it's bad over there."

And you feel that all by itself; it's quite powerful. It doesn't have the other ingredient in it: admiration. And as a net result the thing is going to go haywire because anybody is going to get tired of being below 2.0 on the Tone Scale just so that he can feel sympathy. So this thing's going to blow up. Why? It just didn't have any of the upper end.

All right, I want to tell you the three basic things that a being is when he first comes into the universe and maybe you'll understand a little bit more about this. There are three things that he can be. One, two, three. A black cloud, a white cloud and a vacuum. One, two, three. A black cloud, white cloud and a vacuum. You can have an awful lot of fun with your preclear if you just suddenly say to your preclear, "All right, mock yourself up as a white cloud. Mock yourself up as a black cloud. Now, mock yourself up as a vacuum."

So what is this thing called affinity? We talk about ARC and we're always talking about affinity. What's affinity? Affinity is co-beingness — co-beingness. And co-beingness is only possible in the presence of admiration and sympathy. Admiration and sympathy. Where they exist in unbounded quantities you can have co-beingness. And when you've done that you have described the force of life or the pool of nirvana, or anything else you want to call it, for this universe. It would be co-beingness.

He says, "I can't be a vacuum, that's silly." You know, what I told you earlier tonight, this idea of trying to be nothing? Oh, brother, that's the one thing he can't be, you know? "Oh, I can't be this vacuum."

Now it has to fall away from perfect co-beingness in order to pick up individual characteristics. The universal solvent is this affinity. It's wrong, technically, to call it love because love, even in the dictionary, means a lot of things. But affinity is the — a word used by ancient magicians. It's an old word and it isn't much in this society. So it's perfectly all right to use it and give it this definition and say affinity is co-beingness and it is composed emotionally, its factors are admiration and sympathy. And when these things are combined, you, of course, have co-beingness.

"Well, be a white cloud again."

And where's it lie? Well, it could lie all over the Tone Scale, actually, in a gradient scale. But the lower you go on the Tone Scale, the more identified it is as an individual lump of something, the more isolated it is. Why? The less "co-" it is. The lower it is on the scale, the less co-beingness is possible.

"That's a funny thing, I often get the idea I'm floating around in white clouds."

So how do you get a preclear out of his body and able to be a lorry and able to be a soapbox and able to be anything he wants to be? Well, boy, he'd better have affinity in unbounded quantities. That also tells you that space — there is a clue to what space is right there in what affinity is. It's beingness.

"Well, just be a white cloud. Okay, be a white cloud. All right, now be a black cloud."

A man cannot be alive without affinity. People way low on the scale are dead before they're dead when they start running out of affinity. When they have no love or affection for themselves or anything else on the dynamics they're dead. That isn't as bad off as being nothing, but it's dead.

"Say, you know, this is the realest thing I've ever been — a black cloud. What do you know."

All right. Let's look at that, then, and find out that affinity has much in common with space. And that an enormous amount of separate space would be necessary to shift around in if you wanted to get away from everything and have affinity with nothing.

"Well, why don't you be a white cloud facing a white cloud."

But if affinity was co-beingness you wouldn't need much space. You really wouldn't if you had affinity. You wouldn't have to be able to make very much space. It wouldn't be very important.

"Well, I am, but they come together."

So we've got these two things in contradistinction. We don't have affinity creating a boundless quantity of space, but we have no-affinity with a tremendous insistence on lots of space.

"Well, that's all right."

And when a person says, "I don't like," he means, "I want to put space between me and it." And he isn't going to belong to any clubs, either. He isn't going to belong to any groups, he isn't going to get along in life and you'll find out after he's been inhabiting a body for a little while his left ear is not on speaking terms with his right molar. Just isn't on speaking terms anymore. Now, he can't be those two things simultaneously.

"No, it isn't. Because you can't tell them apart when they come together. Two white clouds, and they come together. Gee, this is bad."

Well, this tells you something else then. This tells you we're right into communications. What's communications? Communication will be the ability to translate sympathy or some component of sympathy from one terminal to another terminal. That would be communication. And the most perfect communication would be communication. That would be the most perfect communication, you see. You'd be in the same space as the other person thinking the same thought and that's as perfect as communication can get.

"Well, why don't you be a black cloud again."

And the most perfect affinity you could possibly be with anybody was to be the body. Be them. That would be perfect affinity, you see? But you'd really have to have perfect affinity in order to have perfect communication, and the .. .

"Well, this is all right, because you can tell them apart."

All right. And then we've got reality. What's perfect reality? We'd have perfect reality as agreement just like we've said all along, because the most perfect agreement would be to be in the same space with, thinking the same thought as, and feeling the same emotion as somebody else. And then you and somebody else would be actually, basically, the same person.

"How can you tell them apart?" you say mysteriously, mystified. "Oh, you just can."

But is there a position on the Tone Scale where you and somebody else could be the same person and then simply on determinism be different people? You know, be the same person, then be other people? And then be the same person and then be two people? In other words, sliding in and out of this space and that space and so forth? Could you do this?

Nuts! Now, you see, white clouds get opposite white clouds, and black clouds get opposite black clouds, and white clouds get opposite white cl--black clouds get opposite white clouds and vacuums get near vacuums and this fills that and you get inequalities, and you get motion. Those are the three basic things a person can be. And what's this vacuum? It's the hidden influence. It says nothing. That's how hidden it can be — nothing. Nothing there, either. And what happens when you get one of these hidden influences from it? Why does a guy think there's a hidden influence? Well, he's sailing along as a white cloud and he's perfectly all right, and all of a sudden he's in half. He's in two pieces. How'd he get that way? Well, he never explains this.

Yup. Way up. Way up on the scale. That's the way you do it. That's why your old witch saying, "Heh-heh," over the soup pot with her hexing doll never hexed anybody. She'd never be anybody. So how can she affect them?

Well, the way he got that way was either running into a black cloud or a slice of a black cloud or hitting an area of vacuum. That's very easy. Or he was the hidden influence. And he saw a white cloud sailing along very nicely, he says, "You know, I'm going to play a joke on this guy." And so he just sails up as a hidden influence and makes the fellow think he's sliced in half. Example of a good joke. Except later on down the track this fellow's certain that there's a hidden influence someplace. Is it a dangerous influence? No. But because the MEST universe is so damaging if you overlook some of its data, and you as a body can be put to so much trouble.

Well, there's the thing called the hidden influence. If she's ugly and horrible and mean enough and has a terrible enough reputation in the neighborhood and she goes around and tells somebody that will tell somebody else that she has hexed somebody, they may oblige her by getting sick. But it certainly isn't by a very hidden communication line.

If you don't believe this, sometime turn over the loading of ammunition aboard a naval vessel to a gang of monkeys. And have them just throw the shells any old way down a magazine hatch. And I think you would find out that there is a wrong way you could do something in the MEST universe if you're trying to hold on to some organized MEST. Now of course, MEST does not organize well. It organizes very poorly. And the big gag is, is there isn't any reason why you have to organize MEST. What's wrong with chaos?

It's, "Aggie, I hexed Joe the other day. Will you tell Joe?"

You say well, immediately, "Well, no! Chaos, that's no . . ." Look, if you can't tolerate a chaos, you're never going to get off the merry-go-round — if you cannot at will tolerate a chaos. Because you won't be able to accept 100 percent across the boards existing state of being — and that is present time.

"Joe, Aggie hexed you." Hidden line.

What is the existing state of being? It's present time. And what is it? Is it organized? Well, boy, it's organized from the standpoint that all beingness in this universe is engaged in keeping terminals apart. If you don't believe that, look at the sun, look at Earth, look at people, look at houses, look at businesses. Everything's being kind of held apart, held apart, meaning, you know, you have to have energy. If you hold two terminals apart you get energy and you have to have energy. Everybody knows that, except you don't have to have.

And yet, she depends upon Joe's fear of a hidden communication to be affected by it. So the most thing hidden about a hidden communication is that it's not hidden. So way up on the Tone Scale there is no such thing as a hidden communication or a hidden influence. You have co-beingness, co-communication, co-agreement, winding up in a reality with a tremendous flexibility of beingness and determinism, tremendous loose flexibility. A person is as happy as he can be his entire environment! You know that.

All right. Now you look at this universe and you find out then that the existing state of being consists of a rather disorderly but perhaps rather well-ordered, who cares — depends on how you look at it — universe. And in order to find present time, a preclear's got to accept the existing state of being.

The second he starts drawing back from pieces of the environment saying, "I'm not going to be that, I'm not going to be that," you've got the stimulus-response mechanism which, to know more about, you should study Book One.

But does — there are two ways of doing that. Could he be at present time, anything around, at will, and then un-be it? Well, he's really faced reality, and he's in command of the situation, and by golly that fellow can do any-thing. He's in wonderful condition.

What is the restimulator in the vicinity? He's getting these hidden influences all around his environment so he is not being this and he's not being that and first thing you know he's sitting back over in the corner and he's not even being himself, he's being a body. So what is he? He's a lost dog. What's he backing away from? What's he making space because of?

And the other one is: "Well, I have to face reality. I'll just have to make the best of things. I'll have to tolerate what's going on. We'll have to be patient and tolerant." Oh, boy, that's way downscale. That fellow couldn't un-be what he's being, you see? He can't un-be. And he's closing terminals, and he's holding things apart, and he's in terrible condition, but he can't relax about present time.

Well, he's making space because there's such a thing as a hidden influence.

You ought to be able to relax or tighten up about present time at will. This peace that you're looking for — relaxation, happiness or contentment, something like that, that feeling of peace that you're looking for is actually an ability not to accept, as a slave, present time but just to be present time.

So what causes ARC to fall apart into its component parts as you come down Tone Scale so that you have to have as you get way down Tone Scale, logic, MEST communication lines, symbolism in terms of words and all this sort of thing? What causes this to fall apart?

It is the belief entered into the top of the Tone Scale that a hidden influence can exist which nobody can define or explain. And the most hidden thing there is about it is the fact that it isn't hidden.

And again, we get the fear to be zero, because that would mean one wouldn't be anything anymore and he is part of something already. He is part of a sort of a divine allness. And he might be only four guys in one pool of allness, you understand, there might be four guys in another pool of allness, but it's — still he has an ability to be.

So that ability to be dwindles, falls away and he begins to set more and more space between himself and others because he knows there's such things as hidden influences. Eventually he gets to a point where he won't even string a communication line; he'll send a letter. And he gets down to that level. No communication, cut off, and so forth.

What's his aberration when he gets to that level? It's the aberration you're going to run out of every V you're going to run into. You're going to run it out with Matched Terminals and that aberration is "keep them apart." Easily stated, isn't it?

That's what you run. He just runs two terminals and depending on keeping them apart. And you'll find every V, VI and VII has dramatized this. What happens? The harder he crowds in against something to fight it and drive it off, the closer it is to him, because there isn't any space there.

And the harder he fights something the more it is and the harder he tries to hold things apart, the tighter they get! So he moves into areas which he cannot hold apart from other areas. And he will dramatize, then, from certainty to fighting the hidden influence to being the hidden influence to being very honest and logical and truthful, but boy, is he lost. And he's still got to hold them apart, hold them apart, hold them apart.

And you'll find out the major calamities of his existence have occurred and his entire worry will be centered around holding them apart. And yet at the same time, logically, he is apparently on an analytical level trying to get together organization.

I'll give you a definition of organization right here just in passing: An organization is the attempt to establish terminals and flows so as to bring about an orderly flow of energy or matter. it!