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

This is December the 10th, the first hour of lecture. Today we have quite a bit of material to cover here, and I believe I should cover for you – in some detail such things as flows and brackets and so on. I… I think that would be helpful to you.

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

The… the uh… flow action is what I mean by covering some more about flows. How many actions are there in a flow? And in interpersonal relationships, how many interactions take place amongst flows?

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

Well, now, I’m going to work that out here. I haven’t counted them for some time, but there’re quite a few. But you should know this pattern of interaction. If you don’t know this pattern of interaction, you can slip your preclear into a boil-off. Why? Very simple. Because any flow run too long in one direction will result in a boil-off. Any flow.

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

What is a boil-off? It is a state of unconsciousness produced by a confusion of effort impinging upon one area. It is a slow-motion unconsciousness. The fellow doesn’t go out because of a direct blow; he simply slides out gradually and rather painlessly, because of a small application.

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

If you were to take somebody on an operating table and simply press them with… or press upon them a heavy pressure and keep that pressure getting a little heavier and a little heavier and a little heavier, they’d pass out. It’s the aggregate pressure of one sort or another that causes this boil-off.

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

How do you stop a boil-off? You simply reverse the flow line. If you notice your preclear starting to boil off, get something in the mock-up or whatever you’re doing – see, this applies to mock-ups – get it to go around and flow the opposite direction.

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

Now, sometimes you’ll be rather mystified in a mock-up. Your fellow’s running mock-ups and he starts to pass out. And he passes out again and he passes out again, and you say, „Put it behind you; put it in front of you; put it over to the side,“ and he keeps passing out. Well, just keep feeding him mock-ups. That is the remedy for that. If he gets excited while you’re feeding him mock-ups, feed him more mock-ups.

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

But don’t, under any circumstances, suddenly plunge in and reverse – the formula Scientology 8-8008 and suddenly go into that great stuff, that wonderful stuff called ‘reality’, because you’ll knock him flat if you do that, and you could really foul him up like a fire drill. If you suddenly start running mock-ups and then suddenly insist on… It becomes much worse than if you were just running facsimiles and locks and so forth; he’d get better if you were doing that. But you’ve started him on one course and now you’ve suddenly reversed direction on him and you’re putting him back into this universe and you’re giving him less freedom than he had before.

Ridge.

All right. The fellow will start to slide out. You give him mock-ups, he starts to slide out on a boil-off and slide out on a boil-off, and you put mock-ups behind him and above him and below him. You can just make up your mind that some kind of a flow has started to run out of an actual facsimile and it keeps slugging him and he can’t do anything about it, and evidently you can’t do anything about it.

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

What ‘is the answer to that? It’s just give him more mock-ups. Don’t worry about it. But normally, if your preclear is groggy, you’ve just got the thing running the wrong way. If you have him doing something to somebody and he keeps boiling off, why, the probability is that he has overrun the DED or the DEDEX.

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

Now, a DED is something that somebody did without provocation to somebody else; that is a DED. Uh… it’s a… they say, „He deserved it.“ They had no other reason to do it; they say, „He deserved it,“ so we call that a DED. Fellow, he’s never been… Joe Blink has never hurt him; Joe Blink has never done anything to him, and yet he suddenly, just out of hand one day, blows Joe Blink’s head off. Then somebody comes along… he didn’t have any reason at all. Somebody comes along and says, „Hey, uh… what… what’d you do? What… what was the idea?“

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

„Well, he deserved it.“

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

„Well, why did he deserve it?“

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

„Well, uh… he had dirty fingernails,“ or „I… I… fellow like that!“ He’ll build up a long, involved rationalization, justification as to why he did this to Joe Blink, and there is no reason.

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

So he will do many of these things perhaps and then one day you come along the line and uh… somebody comes along and doesn’t blow his head off, but somebody taps him lightly on the temple. Well, he knew darn well he didn’t have a good reason – this universe requires reason; this universe, above all other things, must be logical. And of course it is logical, too; you saw that yesterday, with… with haves and so forth. And above all else it must be logical and non-contradictory.

Now what do we mean by a wave characteristic?

And so uh… he tries to put this DEDEX ahead of Joe Blink, the DED. He tries to scramble the track and put it in a… in a logical order. Something happened to his head, therefore he did something to Joe Blink. That doesn’t work that way, so you call it DEDEX, and this could be interpreted as several things. Uh… ‘deserved action explained’ would be one interpretation of DEDEX, a DEDEX. Uh… ‘the deserved action’. This is why the action was deserved. This is why he blow… blew Joe Blink’s head off, because 20 years later a fellow by the name of Cuffbah tapped him on the temple. Well, it just doesn’t add up.

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

And yet he’ll try to make it add up. He’ll go around and he’ll say, „Now, look. Look, this… this… oh, my head! I mean, I’m just having terrible pains in my head and so on, and that’s… that’s a very horrible injury,“ and if you really probed him on it, he’d say, „Well, when Joe Blink did that to me…“ You see, Joe Blink never did it to him and that’s what’s wrong with a DEDEX. It’s completely fallacious.

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

And its fallacity, fallaciousness is represented by the overemphasis the individual puts upon the action that happened to him. Whenever an individual’s going around saying, „Look what’s wrong with me,“ really, what he’s really showing up is a DEDEX. He’s saying, „Look, it really happened to me and… and so forth. Therefore, I’m not guilty.“ Universes, this universe is terribly interested in justice. So he’s saying, „I’m not guilty; I’m not guilty,“ and uh… „because here, 20 years after I blew Joe Blink’s head off, somebody came along and tapped me in the temple, and that made it all right for me to blow Joe Blink’s head off,“ which it didn’t at all. So that’s your DEDEX. DEDEX.

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

Well, how do you use this in mock-ups? Nah-hah, very interesting how you use that in mock-ups. You have… you… let’s mock up George and let’s mock up Bill; now, your preclear’s George. And uh… we’ve got George and Bill out there in front in two mock-ups. And we have George picking up Bill and throwing him out the window and George picking up Bill and dumping him down the chimney and George picking up Bill and busting his face in. And George has been mighty worried about this guy, Bill, but now you have this mock-up and you give him a real workout.

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

See, one of the reasons mock-ups are beneficial is because a mock-up is not an imagined action. In the past, an individual sometimes worked this out in imagination. He would think of what he would have done to Bill and he’d… and so on. And then he keeps halting from it and says, „Oh, well, I couldn’t of uh… t mean, people would’ve interfered with that, but there… I’d sure get some satisfaction out of wringing the guy’s neck. I’d just love to wring the guy’s… but I… I just couldn’t do that.“

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

He’s really in agreement with the MEST universe. He’s imagining it, which is entirely different than mock-ups. Imagination’s one thing; mock-up is something else. He really is putting a picture out in front of him in space which has dimension with which he is doing something. That’s a mock-up. And an imagined thing is just vague and I guess.

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

Now, they… so therefore the two actions are not the same. We… we don’t have… we actually have action taking place in time and space, and if it’s really done well, it’s all pegged down with anchor points. And you’ve got actual images which are taking their action out there, and they’re going through this action. And you have a flow interchange in the mock-ups, but you don’t have to have a heavy flow action.

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

As you interchange this flow in the mock-ups, do you know that the basic energy pattern of your preclear shifts? You can put… you can put a detecting meter – not an E-Meter, but a… a meter which detects flows and ridges around your preclear – and put several points out here and tune them in selectively as he runs mock-ups, and what do you find? You’ll find out that every time you reduce the size of the mock-up and bring it down to a very solid, small object, that the ridges move in on him. You can see the ridges move in. And when you put… give him larger area, reverse-scale mock-ups which are going up tone scale and you’re working up tone scale and so on, the fellow’s ridges start to move out for him. In other words, your preclear is getting better off. You want those ridges out, you don’t want them in.

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

All right. So there is an actual flow takes place with this mock-up situation. You’re really not just using up energy and all that sort of thing. What you’re doing is shifting postulates contained in the middle of effort by demonstrating that the effort is ineffectual. There’s a lot of explanations for this; there’re a lot of reasons why mock-ups work, and they’re all good, solid reasons. They’re electronic reasons and they’re postulate reasons and there’s causation reasons and everything else. And a mock-up done right will relieve any kind of a situation.

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

But we have, he’s… George has been mad at Bill for a long time and here he… you’ve got him bashing Bill’s head in and all of a sudden he goes ‘nyahr’. Boil-off. Well, you try to do it just a little bit more, mmm… boom. ‘What’s wrong? Well, you’ve… you’ve beat up Bill beyond the point that uh… Bill deserved it, really. Ah… what you’ve got to do now is have Bill turn around and knock the hell out of that body out there you’re calling George, and have the preclear thrown out the window and bashed in the head and dropped down chimneys and… and increased in size and decreased in size and smashed down to a small, little statue and have pins stuck in it by… by Bill.

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

Now, this might be very indigestible to George, your preclear; he might not like this, but after a while he doesn’t give a damn what George does to that body. And uh… if you kept that up too long – if this was really a tough situation, a real tough situation, extended over many years – you would find that your preclear, if you started beating up George, the preclear, out there in front, what do you know? The preclear would eventually boil off. He’s eventually start going ‘nyahr… bong; swoop, thud’. And you’d pick him up again. Now what’s happened? Now, Bill has beaten up George too long.

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

Now, of course you, as the auditor, in auditing can go ahead very neatly and to that extent agree with the laws of flows. You… you could just override the laws of flows and maybe it would be better, maybe, if you did. There is no compulsion on your part, just because your preclear starts to boil, to go ahead and do something about it. Maybe your preclear, if you kept on having George beat up Bill ad infinitum, it’d… might… might work right on out, and eventually he says, „Well, to hell with it. I don’t even need to boil off over this! So the guy’s a skunk. I don’t care. And… we… he’s dead and gone. I don’t care what happens to him.“

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

Or, „Ha, ha, ha. I hit him in the head again.“ Uh… you… you… you’re not… remember, you’re not trying to agree with the physical universe; you’re trying to disagree with it. But in… within these limits, a preclear who is having a little bit of a rough time, something like that, you just shift the personnel around and you will find out that you’re working the situation out. You see, there’s just so many reasons why George should beat up Bill and all of a sudden you’ve flipped those things out as postulates. Now George doesn’t have any further reason to beat up Bill, but Bill is left there with all kinds of reasons why he should knock the hell out of George.

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

Now, if you just quit the session at this point and you just left it at that, why, uh… what do you know? It’ll sh… it doesn’t necessarily, ‘cause you could carry this situation along to a point where the preclear just abandoned the whole species of computation. I mean, you could just beat this thing to death, „Wrong Way To Corrigan“, fly it backwards and run up against the gods and kick ‘em in the teeth and blam ‘em over the head. That doesn’t matter if you do that. I’m just giving you the mechanics of what happens. It’s not mandatory to go ahead and obey this DED-DEDEX proposition at all. But you want to know what’s happening to your preclear, I’m telling you.

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

Very simple. You just… you get the flows going… the flow goes overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward Bill, overt act toward… snore – boil-off. You get up… get him up and you boot him around and shake him up and say, „Come on, come on, let’s get some coffee down you and get going here.“ And uh… more overt act toward Bill, more boil-off.

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

Well, you don’t have to explain to your preclear what’s happening. You just turn around and you just have Bill… change the bodies around. You don’t want to use actual bodies any more than you have to. Use something else. It’s… it’s always preferable.

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

The insouciance, really, of setting up this magnificent creature, Father, and then giving him a donkey’s ears and then changing ‘em off to a rapwoof’s ears. What’s a rapwoof’s ears? That’s up to the preclear. And then having father… then having father pregnant and uh… just change around the real universe, and so on, and you’ll find out that to the degree that you do that, as strange as it may seem to you, the more successful it is.

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

It’s more successful to beat up Papa, who has uh… uh… a rupwuf’s ears and uh… is wearing uh… a St. Patrick’s Day hat and uh… snow shoes and has the body of a goatwuffer (that being a special kind of goat which grows in the 81st Universe) – it’s more successful to wham the dickens out of that mock-up than it is to take Papa’s body and mock it up, because, you see, Papa probably should’ve looked like, to the preclear, like he looks. The preclear was forced to look at Papa the way the MEST universe said he looked at Papa.

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

All right. Uh… there isn’t any reason why he should look at Papa that way. He says, „That’s Papa; that’s good enough.“ Well, you know, sometimes your preclear can be very original and once in a while you’ll find a preclear doing this.

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

„All right. I’ve got a mock-up. It’s completely empty space; that’s Papa.“

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

No, don’t say, „Get a mock-up,“ and get him all… Let him work with a completely empty space. That’s… that’s really… see? Nothing there. You’ve got other things there; there’s other props around, other mock-ups around and so forth, but he just insists on an empty space for Papa. Well, that’s all right. Have him turn the space blue or put some blue light in it once in a while and move it around.

And Figure Six is on the next page.

You’ll find out that’s quite a trick, by the way, handling empty space and knowing it’s there and then knowing it’s not there. Nothing to tell you. That’s really good; that really takes a good preclear.

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

All right. Then your DED-DEDEX action results in boil-offs. And if you want to solve these boil-offs, you reverse it and run the thing the other way to. He’s beat up Bill too long, have Bill beat up George. Have this sort of thing taking place and it’ll work out. But, with an additional proviso, there is no reason under the sun why you’ve got to play it off on a DED-DEDEX.

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

Now, your overt act motivator situation is quite different than a DED-DEDEX situation in that there’s very little blame or upset, really, in an motivator-overt act. So he got his own head knocked off, so he went down the street and he took this dear old lady and knocked her head off. Well, he had a perfectly good right.

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

And you say, „Don’t you feel sorry about that?“

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

And he says, „No,“ he says, „I don’t feel sorry about that.“ „Why don’t you feel sorry about that?“

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

„Well, I got my own head knocked off once.“

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

That’s justice in this universe. It’s logical, you see. Cause-effect, cause-effect. Don’t try to run it effect-cause, effect-cause. Uh-uh. That… that’s all wrong way to. Uh… and what you’re trying to do with DED-DEDEX, you see, is run it effect to a cause, and that’s just all wrong. So, your… your overt act-motivator situation, the act is… happens to the preclear and then he does it to somebody else. He really doesn’t worry about that, not very much.

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

So uh… overt act-motivator situation. However, the same thing will happen on this boil-off. If you run more of an overt act than you run motivators you will get again a condition of grogginess resulting, so… because incident for incident, you’re really handling flows. And there is what you would call the whole flow of a DED, as opposed by the whole flow of a DEDEX; and the whole flow of a motivator opposing the whole flow of an overt act. You see, that’s… that’s… that’s whole flows, by incident. Your whole incident is one… one flow; you… you could say that, you see? It isn’t. That incident is composed of many, many flows, but you could break it down into these gross packages of, „This is an incident that is outgoing: it’s overt.“ And „This is an incident that is incoming: it is a motivator.“ And „This is an incident that’s outgoing: it’s a DED.“ And „This is an incident that is a… it’s incoming: therefore it’s a… a DEDEX.“ You see?

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

So, your motivator and DEDEX are incoming incidents and your… your overt act and your DEDs are outgoing incidents. Your overt act is an allowable, in the law of justice (which everybody has agreed upon); under the laws of justice, it is allowable to do an overt act. Under the laws of justice, it is not allowable to do a DED. No provocation, no motivation for an act. And the facsimiles will sit that way.

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

So, the overt act is a whole motion out and the DED is a whole motion out. Just the intention of the action is outward, even though it has a lot of internal flows. You get how this would be. Now, your DED and… any of the rest of ‘em, overt act, DED, uh… overt, all contain a complexity of flows, and all that monitors this is what is the average of flow in the incident.

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

Well, the average flow in the motivator, it has more inflow than it does outflow. You know, here’s a fellow, he’s standing there and somebody hits him in the head with a stone ax, and there’s a lot of inflow there. So it makes the whole incident an inflow incident. It’s predo… it’s dominated, the incident is dominated by inflow or it’s dominated by outflow. And then you can treat the whole incident as one.

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

This is… you understand that there’s a number of flows involved in every single action. The swing of that stone ax hitting his head, the swing of the ax itself, is a complexity of flows, and I’ll show you how many here in a moment. There’s an exact number of flows. Now, any flow is an exact number.

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

All right. So, what does this add up to? This adds up to the fact that… that a guy’s whole track can be too many motivators and not enough overts. What kind of a guy do you find this fellow? He’s overt as hell. He’s got all this inflow and he’s trying to get rid of it. And he goes around and he, just for no reason at all, he’s mean and he kicks little babies in the crib and… and… and he’s just ornery and… and so on.

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

And somebody says to him, somebody says to him, „Well, I think… I think your grandma is a good… good old lady, nice old lady. She’s always nice.“

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

„Yeah. I’d like to strangle the old bat!“ You know?

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

He’s running… he’s, actually, he’s a fairly safe guy to have around, if the truth be told. He’s really… he’s really safer than the other one. Why? He’s quite outspoken about it. He… he’s… he’s got an enormous reserve of motivators. He’s got all this big reserve of motivators and he’s all… got ‘em cocked there like… like crossbows. And uh… they’ll fly out in the fellow’s face, but there’s really… he can be at a lower band on the thing and have too many uh… he’d be real down in the band and still have too many motivators, only the balance has shifted again and… and… be only covert in getting rid of his motivators. He’s… he’s not safe; he’s… he’s kind of dangerous.

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

Uh… but uh… there’s… see, there’s a harmonic action here. You… we have… we have a guy way up scale and he’s got all these motivators, and they came around and they burned his castle and they did this to him and he became a bandit; and now that he’s a bandit, God help anybody. Boy, has he got a lot of motivators.

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

And they say about Jesse James, the railroad drove him out and busted up the old folks and that sort of thing. It’s probably true, because the guy essentially wasn’t a badman. He just was mad at railroads and he was mad at bankers, and he sure did take it out on ‘em. And it says something, that his entire area and the whole country, actually, was all on the side of Jesse James. Everybody was on his side. And it took a banker and… and a guy who was glory-hungry to shoot him in the back.

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

Uh… but the point is that uh… everybody goes all out for that kind of a bandit. Why? They realize that he’s… he’s just operating on too many motivators, that’s all. And he’s got all these overt acts and they did it to him, and so it’s a sense of justi… justice, this time, is running away from the police! I mean, it’s going the opposite direction. And people say, „Yup, that was just. Sure. Robin Hood and all that sort of thing.“ And people recognize it.

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

They say, „Well, the reason why uh… so-and-so was a bad man and so on was because…“ And now they give a long list of personal injuries which he himself suffered. For instance, Billy the Kid, who had had lots of good friends, and he had this kind of a reputation. He’d had a lot of bad things happen to him when he was a little kid. And uh… truth told, Billy the Kid couldn’t do anything wrong, really, in the public eye.

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

And yet this fellow… this fellow was… he… he… was so overt act happy that he came up to a ditch one day where there was a couple of Mexicans digging the ditch – you see, he never counted Mexicans. No… no… no… no telling how many Mexicans Billy the Kid killed. He killed 21 white men, but Lord knows how many Mexicans, ‘cause he… this incident like this. He comes up to the ditch and there’s a couple of Mexicans there digging the ditch, and he just simply draws and shoots ‘em dead. His pal wanted to know „What’s… what’s the matter with you? What’s… what you doing that for?“

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

„Oh, I don’t know. If they didn’t do anything, they would have done it.“

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

So, as irrational as this may seem, justice shifts over very easily into the lap of the outlaw, and what he does then is… is justice, just because he’s… he’s… he’s motivator-rich, which means he’ll… he’ll indulge now in overt acts.

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

Now he goes down tone scale and he does a lot of these and he does more, really – just in terms of sheer quantity, arithmetical quantity – he does more overt acts now than he has motivators to account for it, so naturally some of them become DEDs. Now, instead of doing overt acts he’s doing DEDs. He’s used up the bank; he has done more… more things TO other people than have been done to him, so now he’s in a situation where whatever he does is a DED, not a deserved action. He’s used up his credit.

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

Something like some fellows in Scientology: they had… lots of ‘em had lots of justification for doing lots of the things, because I’m a pretty mean, ornery guy. But they’ve used up their credit.

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

And uh… well, now, let’s look at it the other way around now. What happens when he gets too many DEDs? Well, he’ll really rig it in such a way that he’ll sooner or later get a DEDEX. And one day he’s out and this little Mexican boy hits… hits Billy the Kid with a beanshooter – too many DEDs by this time – and he says, „Ow, ow, ow, what a terrible bruise. How I am injured. Uh… oh, my. Look what’s happened to me. Look how terrible this thing is.“ What he’s saying is, „Yes, I know I’ve done too many DEDs. Don’t punish me any more, because look, this beanshooter did all the punishment that I deserve. Heh, heh.“ Nobody else looks at it that way.

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

So there he is; all of a sudden he’s sitting way down tone scale from where he was before. Now, you get neurasthenia, uh… hypochondria, uh… all sorts of weird manifestations, uh… you… for instance, you ever look at a preclear and ever have… the preclear obviously is not in bad shape at all. Obviously, they don’t even have a bad headache uh… or anything of the sort, and they keep saying, „Oh, my head. My headache bothers me so and this bothers me so and this… my,“ says, „my big toe. I have cuticura or something,“ and uh… uh… so on.

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

And you start healing up this thing and healing up that thing, and they… they go out and they bark their shins and they… they’re just very, very DEDEX hungry. They have a thirst for DEDEXes. They’ve got to have things happen to ‘em because they’ve used up their credit.

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

This simply, if you understood banking uh… elementary banking or elementary bookkeeping, you would have a complete command of this type of exchange and interaction. It’s just a matter of credits and debits. He… he’s done too many things, therefore he’s in debt, and he has to be paid. So they pay him.

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

Well, he’ll go out and pay himself if nobody else’ll pay him. There will be guys… these guys are dangerous. They’ll all of a sudden show up in the middle of the road asking to be run down. They will find it so impossible to get paid adequately that they have to practically kill themselves and take you with them. And they’ll come around and they’ll… they’ll stand right straight in front of you and say, „Yap, yap, yap,“ and you look at ‘em a moment and you get very puzzled.

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

You say, „Aren’t you aware of the fact that if you continue to stand there and continue to say the things you’re saying, you’re gonna get your silly head knocked off.“

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

And the guy says, uh… „Well, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap…“ Pow!

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

And what do you know? He gets up and he says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap“ some more. This is a weird one. This is… this is… this is really beyond belief. So you take the guy and… and he says, „Yap, yap, yap“ some more, so you take a club. You fracture his skull. He goes to the hospital, he’s non compos mentis for a while, he comes back. The next time he sees you he goes, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ Boy, he has found a source of payment. He’s not going to leave you alone. And the bigger and more important you are, the better your reputation is and so forth, the better that payment is. Isn’t that interesting?

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

So he’s gonna come around… so your poor old gunman back in the early days, good God, they always had some damn fool standing up in the bar and saying, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap.“ And the fellow said, „If you say that once more, you’d better start grabbing leather.“

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

And the fellow says, „Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap,“ and pulls out his gun and hi.“… the gunman watches him pull the gun out of the holster, cock the thing, level it, and then the gunman shoots him between the eyes. I mean, paw! He draws and fires.

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

He’ll say, „Can’t understand it. The guy wasn’t a fast draw; I didn’t do anything to him… I’ve only been in town an hour; I haven’t stepped on any toes; I don’t know a friend he has…“ And yet there he lies dead. It’s completely baffling. And the gunman feels a little bit silly about it. He… he feels upset. He’s been made to use one of his credits.

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

So, now, this fellow who comes home from the hospital with a fractured skull, he’ll fracture his skull again, and he’ll still „yap, yap, yap.“ So there’s just no curing him of this till all of a sudden one day, you’ll just ruin him. ‘Course, he’s ruined you, too. But you’ve just ruined him utterly and he appears to be very happy.

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

You say, „For Christ’s sakes. Now he’s not even going to take out any revenge. Now he’s happy. The hell with him!“

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

What… what… what is this? This is the mechanism of life continuum; it’s another method of survival; it’s another method of borrowing identity. It adds up to this: If a person can make one do enough to him, then the person who does it to him has to do a life continuum for him, which is another method of making identity survive.

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

Now, let’s go over that again very slowly, because it’s quite important and it will explain a very strange thing about human behavior to you. It will render a lot of behavior comprehensible. And that is simply this: we have here a situation where your… your fellow’s life, let’s say, is going from point X over here across the line. And he gets along all right to there and then he starts taking a dive and he knows he’s not surviving. He has done too many DEDs; his credit is all worked out.

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

So he’s… he’s not gonna survive as his identity. He knows that he goes off and he gets knocked off between the between-lives area, these mannerisms his body has are cute, all these various things are sweet and nice and he doesn’t want to give these things up and he wants somebody to carry the ball. Now does he get somebody to carry the ball? He encourages somebody to do against him some DEDs, completely undeserved actions. There’s no… no deserved action at all.

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

If you were to look at a graph as in A, here, on the life continuum… I mean – pardon me – this is your cycle of action and it starts in at… at uh… this X over here and goes over here to X1; this is uh… start, that’s stop. This fellow might be… might be a wide-open case, he… he might apparently even be young, he might be in all manner of… of uh… you wouldn’t think he’d do this. But he, on his wide spiral, is right over here toward stop, he’s way over on the are. He’s over here at point B.

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

And there he sits at point B and he knows he’s passing in his chips. Don’t be fooled because a body looks vital. The thetan and so forth may be on his last legs of the spiral, and you’ll get these strange, strange manifestations. And they become very unstrange the second you understand this particular line.

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

So here he is up here in uh… figure 1, and he’s coming along here. This character in figure 1 is at point B on this spiral in figure 2, and he’s… too many, right here at this point, here, this point G; that would be called ‘too many DEDs’. He’s done too many DEDs. He’s also on his way out in other ways, mostly because he’s done too many DEDs. He’s used up all his credit.

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

Now, he’s got to accumulate a DEDEX, and he’s got to have somebody do a life continuum on him. Another method of survival; survival as self, survival as an identity. How does he get that identity to survive? He gets somebody to commit overt acts against him and DEDs against him because then they’ll have to do a life continuum for him.

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

So, here you come over here, Y, and you come along this line and you’re just as happy as can be, and you’re… and so on. And your life cycle’s about here and you’ll get at this same span in time, and all of a sudden, this character shows up. And he stands there and he lets you knock his block off. And he falls down and you knock his block off again. And you say, „Look. For Christ’s sakes, be reasonable. If you keep that up, I am going to take your guts out and string ‘em 32 feet away and torture the other end.“

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

And he says, „I dare you to. You’re just looking for an excuse. You’re just being mean because… Uh… the trouble with you is, and people like you, that…“ Pow!

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

So you take him down to the torture chamber and you put him on the rack, and he’s even passing out, he’s still insulting you. But what happens to you, Mr. Y? What happens to you? From this point in time G, you go downhill, too, but you’re strong (which he knew anyhow) and you’re Mr. XY, or Mr. YX, from there on. See here? From point small ‘a’ to point G, why, you were Mr. Y, and from point G on over here to the end of time, you are Mr. YX. Your behavior and activities is modified by having to do a life continuum for this fellow. You’re expiating for his crimes, actually. And he makes you do crimes against him so that you’ll do a life continuum for him.

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

Isn’t that neat? It’s… I mean, it’s just… there’re several methods of survival and one could be called, in figure 3 here, one could be uh… self plotted against time, and that’s many identities; and here could be uh… your other dynamics, your culture – and your culture’ll go also through many periods. And, then, in addition to that, you have uh… your uh… personal one-life self; that goes on through its cycle of action. And then you have your personal objects one-life; that goes on. And then, what do you know? You’ve got your life continuums on others. Life continuums, actually, for self by others.

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

Now, a fellow’s always… always, these guys are always leaving wills, as though MEST objects had some importance. Oh, everybody’s always worrying, „Who’s going to inherit what and who’s going…“ He… all he’s saying is, „Who’s going to take care of these objects for me? Yeah, I’ve got to continue in survival through these objects.“ He’s saying here, uh… his personal one-life self is „Who cared for this body“ and „I cared for this body“ and now we’ve laid the body to rest; now we’ve got another one.

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

And then we’ve got a life continuum by others and we’ve got personal objects, one-life. And one of those personal objects is one’s name. Oh, you can… you can always get a rich man to in… to fix up some Mountains of the Moon or something of that sort on the strange feeling he has that you’re going to name a peak after him, and this makes his name survive. So that’s a survival of identity. His direction of survival: the great thirst for personal identity. The man… the man recognizes that he has an identity and he wants this thing passed along.

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

Identities have two uses: one of them is to group and label something and another one is to do a vicarious survival for somebody. The… the first one is working; the second one, of course, is just idiotic. I mean, a man’s name; that… that’s very a… very amusing, when you come to think about it, this name.

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

You look back, past the past and you see this… you’re very impressed; you read the word Lucretius. Well, he’s probably named Johnny Jones today and uh… or he’s maybe a very smart guy down at Bell Labs, or something like that. He’s going along the line. And uh… yet, the only reason you’re really using the word Lucretius is not for any other reason than it’s an identification of a piece of work which keeps it identified as that piece of work; and as long as it is so identified it cannot be corrupted or confused with the work of uh… I don’t know, Pope Pius, or something. You see? So it’s a differentiative mechanism; it’s a label.

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

You uh… find that in making products all the time. You go down here and you get the… the Gee Whizzer Electric Company’s refrigerator. The truth of the matter is, it might be some good, but most of the time is, it’s NO good. There’s no real reason why the Gee Whizzer Refrigerator Company isn’t well-known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and that’s mainly because their refrigerators are lousy. And you go down here and you get a refrigerator which is a GE and you know their refrigerator’s going to sit there and go pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa; it’s gonna refrigerate.

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

So, GE, that’s… that’s an identity of a great sprawling organization, and uh… it’s just a… it’s just there. Uh… it’s a label, however, which can extend over and identify and serve to differentiate for people, objects. It becomes a symbol for many things.

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

The word Lucretius becomes a symbol for these many things. So it identifies a piece of work. And as long as that piece of work is grouped under the word Lucretius, it’s like saying any other combinations of words. You could say it was an ‘anaten’ or a… an ‘alertopad’ or anything of the sort. But people have got this spooky notion about personal survival with regard to a name. That’s very weird.

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

For instance, there’s been considerable insistence, continuous really insistence on my part that techniques developed and grouped under the heading of Dianetics and Scientology and so forth, well, they have my name on them. That’s very… very interesting. But you notice how this is… has uh… slowed down the squirrels. A piece of work was a piece of work. And look at the techniques which have existed in the field: those didn’t have my name on them. No time was spent on their research or they weren’t a body of data; some of ‘em were good, some of ‘em passable, and so forth.

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

Well, we were sitting here with a body of data. I knew what I was doing: I was trying to get together a body of data. I wasn’t trying to make 8 million, 655 thousand bucks. Uh… I… I wasn’t trying to do a lot of other things. And then, of course, the joke of it is… is that… that although this body’s name is Hubbard, my name is not Hubbard. And probably nobody will ever know my name. And uh… it’s very amusing, when you come to think about it. It’s a jest.

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

But uh… once a person realizes that, he realizes some of this life continuum mechanism by others is so much… so much bazwaz. It’s… it’s just… it’s just an identified object. The guy… the guy goes over in the level… he’s pretty low tone scale when he does this. He gets way down tone scale and he goes around insisting that people do mean things to him. And then he’ll come around to you as an auditor and he’ll tell you all these mean things people do to him.

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

He… I know several… several rather risqué stories which I have heard at various places in space and on Earth, something about… „Are you bragging or confessing?“ Now, that’s… that’s very much to the point here. You want to look at this preclear when he comes in and tells you all the things wrong about him and how sad he is about these things; you want to look at him very, very closely and you want to say, „Are you bragging or confessing, Mister?“ He’s not confessing; he’s bragging.

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

He’s saying, „Look at all this. I’m… I’m fully… I’ve… I’m… I’m… I’ve got all these credits here and I’ve had all these dreadful DEDEXes done to me,“ and the only reason he’s talking about it is he knows he’s lying in his teeth. He really basically knows he’s telling you a big lie when he tells you how bad off he is and that he’s been adequately repaid for all of his sins. ‘Cause if he’d been adequately repaid, he would feel no compulsion to brag about it; he would simply go back on the new cycle of raising hell with a whole flock of DEDs and overts.

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

So when he comes in, what do you run on this guy? He’s got a headache, he’s got a footache, he’s got an earache, he’s got… he’s… he’s got lumbagosis of the medulla oblongata and he’s got a distortional uh… he’s got tortional G space uh… all through his arithmetical ability. And there he is, and you’re expected to straighten him out. And what he’s really saying is, „Look how bad off I am. I have to go see a practitioner. Yeah, I’m really bad off. Yeah, look what they drove me to. Shows that I paid, I paid and I paid. And I’m all paid up and look at all these credits I’ve got. Here I am sitting here being given Scientology.“

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

Isn’t that cute? „And…and that demonstrates and that proves to everybody that I have therefore a superfluity of DEDEXes. I’ve got all of these motivators, all these things have been done to me, and I’ve got too many of them.“ And you take one away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another… another motivator away and he gets a little bit worse, and you take another motivator away and all of a sudden he gets divorced. And his life starts going out of balance like mad, and you say, „What on Earth’s happening here?“

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

Well, boy, what’s happening is but easy to trace: You made an incorrect evaluation of his credit-debit ledger. You said, „This guy has too many things done to him.“ You bought his evaluation. His evaluation was made in the MEST universe and therefore it is in reverse. Just therefore, it’s in reverse.

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

So if he came in to tell you how all these things have been done to him and that’s why he’s in horrible shape, oh-oh. You just run him doing things to people and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get nicer and he’ll get pleasanter and calmer. And he’ll keep telling you every once in a while, „You know, we… we really haven’t done anything about my gluteus maximus which my father used to kick all the time,“ and he’ll mention this less and less and less, and he’ll get cheerfuller and cheerfuller and brighter and brighter.

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

And you’d think it was because he’s just realizing that he actually can stand up to life; you might rationalize it that way and say, „Well, by mock-ups we have convinced him that he could stand up to life.“ Oh, no. By mock-ups we’ve straightened out all of that superfluity of DEDs that he did. We’ve straightened that up very nicely and now he’s got a bank which has more motivators than he has overts and less DEDs than he has DEDEXes and so he’s become a cheerful, comfortable, calm guy.

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

He knows that if somebody sits in front of him and says, „You’re a bum,“ that he has enough credit on the ledger in order to reach over and quietly and cheerfully and calmly garrote them. And he has now that right so therefore…

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

For instance, we got a… a… a… a preclear here, who… who is… who is actually… demonstrates that whole… that whole principle. This… this preclear has really had to slow himself down to a walk. But what you ought to run is this preclear doing things to people. This preclear is really in pretty good shape.

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

But they will feel degraded; degradation, loss of self-respect and that sort of thing, comes out of this credit-debit ledger. Degradation is having asked somebody for a rank – that’s degradation enough – or having asked somebody for a category and then having had it taken away. In other words, force was so small that one had to apply to somebody else for force.

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

And then having applied to somebody else by force, even then he had it removed from him. He no longer had that force. That is degradation, loss of force on that scale.

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

First he was of course his own authority: The guy goes out and by his own warrant tangles with the universe. Somebody comes along to him and says, „Where’s your commission?“

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

And he says, „My what?“

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

„Where’s your commission? Where’s your license to survive?“

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

This guy’s liable to lean on them rather heavily and they go down to a small splash and say, uh… „Do people around here need a license to survive?“ He feels mighty tall: „All right. I’ll give you one.“ He’s his own authority and operates by his own warrant. He executes in complexity; he does not feel that he needs anybody’s permission.

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

And then, being in this universe, this debit-credit justice-injustice something comes in. The reason it comes in is purely because of flashback, you understand. When he hits Joe, he gets the reimpact of Joe’s pain. And this gets mixed up in every impulse to hit Joe. And his own feeling of… great feeling of competence and everything will disintegrate because he feels very competent and all of a sudden he feels pain. He feels very competent; he cuts Joe’s throat, zzzt, and he feels pain.

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

The reward, then, for cutting Joe’s throat is pain. So he gets this double-flow action and it convinces him at last that there is a debit-credit system at work in the MEST universe. And so therefore he has to have justification in order to do what he does. But that’s silly, too, because the flows still keep catching right on up with him. It doesn’t matter how much – quote – ‘justice’ there is behind one of these flows, really. It’s just a little bit better if it’s motivator-overt, and so on. A flashback is a flashback. When you fire a gun, it kicks. A guy accumulates too many kicks and after that he gets his credit system all upset.

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

So, let’s look at this, then, life continuum. Realize that there’re a lot of people around asking for things to be done to them and a lot more people around asking to do things for somebody else. Those two things alike have to do with this credit-debit balance of flows.

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

And wherever we look on this cycle of action we’ll find out that a person doesn’t start asking for a license to survive until he’s gone past center on the overall MEST universe cycle. He’s… he’s got to be past center before he starts worrying about this.

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

If a person worries about flows, or if flows have entered in, and he’s at a point of the tone scale where flows badly influence him, he can then count more and more upon being responsive to flows. And of course the flows are all backwards and he eventually winds up in a heck of a mess.

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

Now, when you’re doing mock-ups then you have to pay attention to this, with preclears who are low on the scale. It’s actually much… really more important, the way I view it, uh… to pay attention to space rather than to flows. It’s more important to stake out space. If you’ve got a preclear who’s kind of bad off sometime, just have him practice with anchor points and maybe just have him put out… put out eight anchor points; you know, eight corners, make himself a cube.

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

Just make him practice that, and hold ‘em, no matter where he is, and just snake him hold ‘em for a little while. You’ll get the strangest manifestation takes place: the guy starts to get calm. He recognizes instinctively, really, the only space there is for him is the space he makes. The anchor points that are made for him are not anchor points for him.

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

So, when you get your preclear mixed up with flows, why, you can expect all these silly things to take place: life continuums and DED-DEDEXes and he comes around and he’s got a headache and he’s got a headache because he kicked somebody in the head when he was much younger, and it’s all backwards. He complains to you that he needs treatment, so you run out of him all the mean things he’s done, and he gets well.

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

Now, if you want to repair a marriage… you can wreck marriages, as an auditor, with great ease. Just process one of the marital partners without processing the other one. The thing’ll fly out of balance like mad! And you’ve got to put it back in balance again somehow or other; you just keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t go too bad before you pick it up.

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

All right. Now, let’s get this uh… you… overt act-motivator. So we process out of somebody a whole lot of… we process out of him a whole bunch of DEDs. Oh, God. We… we get… we get him doing acts out here with mock-ups and boy, we get him bashing people’s brains in and bashing people’s brains in. You’d think automatically that this would bring him way down scale to a point where something or other was going be bad, or something. Oh, no. He gets brighter and brighter and more alert and more alert.

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

You see, what you’re doing is really running out all the debits. You’re putting him, as far as this universe is concerned, so he can go out and raise hell. And he does. And he goes home and he… frying pan, customarily, as he usually gets inside the door, frying pan usually greets him, hits the wall alongside of him. And he gets inside the door this time, he usually says, „Thank you dear,“ and creeps over to the chair and sits down and says, „Is supper ready, dear?“

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

And he… frying pan hits alongside of the door this time and very cheerfully he picks the frying pan up and he goes out on the front walk and he sharpens up one side of it… And he goes to work. And of course this is a great surprise to the… to the girl in the case, and she decides all is lost because she sees her control mechanisms unbalanced and she has a stranger in her midst. She gets really upset.

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

And she doesn’t take into account – because the GE is a family man; the GE is lost without a family. Uh… it’s very strange, but homo sap is a family unit. The GE is built on that basis. It’s fascinating, fascinating. If you wanted to study the GE, you… you’d really get yourself some data about what could happen in this universe. It’s not important for you to know it, but a lot of your urges toward families and so forth are not thetan urges at all; they’re the GE. The GE can’t survive at all without a family unit. He’s just as dead as a mackerel if he isn’t a family unit, whereas your thetan is just as dead as a mackerel if he gets too mixed up in family units.

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

So you get this terrific starvation, family starvation, and so forth, for the GE. Your GE runs… you see, he’s lost… he’s lost his independence of action and so on, and for uh… passing along this line and uh… so on, this terrific dedication that he has, fabulous piece of dedication; he feels this terrific responsibility for getting this… this life continuum going. He’s got to continue himself.

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

That’s… you find that in cells. When a cell divides, what do you know? it duplicates its memory bank and hands it over to its progeny. Well, Man thinks he’s doing this; when he duplicates himself, the GE duplicates itself, it thinks it’s handing its memory bank over, and maybe it is. Who knows? You can’t talk to GE’s; they’re kind of psycho. They’re really monomaniac. Boy, are they conservative, too. Whee! They’re really stuck.

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

They’re very able, though, terribly able. This thing can come along and it builds a heart and it’s a good heart. Gosh! If somebody was a master craftsman down here working in a machine shop that could build as uniformly, pistons, as the GE can build hearts, that guy would really be at the top of his class for all time.

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

So, you see, the GE has his capabilities; they just don’t happen to be necessarily the finest capabilities there is. And by the way, you can fall into this dreadful trap with a GE; you see, he uses the MEST universe with which to build. He’s gotten very s… very bad off and he… he has to use MEST universe materials all the time, and the protoplasms and so forth which have been developed back across this… this protoplasm line back there, he has to use that, and he has to use all of these various things in order to construct and construct and construct.

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

He jumps around on lines, by the way, but he’ll… he’ll give the initiative to the protoplasms and some of the blueprints which he finds on the protoplasm line. So you get similarities of appearance in families but complete changes of character, as far as the body is concerned. And then you add a thetan in on it and, boy, do you get some wild ones. Another identity.

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

So, you… you get this… you get this uh… situation here with uh… the GE, and your GE is busy, uh… build, build, build, build, build, and of course he’s got to have a family to build with. And your GE has lost out completely as far as the First Dynamic is concerned. He isn’t worth hell room on the First Dynamic. He just isn’t. He will lie down and perish rather than work alone, for himself.

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

Guy goes out here and he sits down in a little… little apartment someplace, and he reads, reads, reads, and he writes down this poetry, and he reads, reads, reads, and writes down the poetry, and he goes back and he works someplace or another in order to get enough money to go back and read, read, read, you know. Not your GE, no sir.

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

A thetan’ll do that, and the guy could be driven to do that. But if he’s in close association with the body, he just finds it impossible to do that. He feels he has no motive. That’s because the body has no motive. That’s because he doesn’t have a family unit. That’s what gives him his goals. He’s… he’s got a goal then, a MEST goal, a lineage goal, and all that sort of thing. You get this terrific family thirst. And you get your GE surviving best and being loused up the most because of interfamily relationships.

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

That doesn’t necessarily mean that your thetan is even vaguely aberrated on this line. Your thetan is much more interested in a higher level debit and credit system of what he himself has done to himself, by himself, and for himself. And your thetan, by the way, can much more easily go into a group. Families are not good groups; they’re bad groups.

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

So, all this stuff applies more to homo sapiens, because of the GE, than it applies to a thetan. You’ll see this whole picture change in an individual after you have theta cleared him and brought him up toward cleared theta clear.

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

Until you’ve done that, remember this debit and credit proposition and the gross nature of flows. if the fellow has been flowed in upon too much, he’s gonna outflow. If he hasn’t been flowed in on enough, he’s gonna inflow. That’s all there is to that.

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

Okay. Let’s take a break.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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