But this is uh… December the 13th, first hour of the evening lecture.

Second hour, Saturday night lecture, December 13.

Now on this matter of new little gimmicks and so forth, you could expect them to occur every once in a while. And sometimes they occur early and sometimes they occur late. I mean, you had the preclear a week ago that could have used it and he’s… he’s dead now.

Mention again here, something I mentioned much earlier, right on this point of auditing. The goal of 8-8008, and the goal of Standard Operating Procedure includes all we can do for the thetan, and goal for the. body is none. Must remember to remark on that every once in a while, so I’m remarking on it right here. Goal, then, is the rehabilitation of the thetan, and goal for the body – no goal. None.

But uh… you can expect from here on, undoubtedly a little bit of refinement here and a little bit of codification there. Basic theory of the information on which you are working, however, is of one group of data and it’s not likely to do much varying.

Now that’s laid down as an arbitrary to prevent your going down a rabbit warren that will lead you nowhere. Every once in a while I’ll audit somebody on a reverse one. Goal for the body, everything. Goal for the thetan, nothing. Even spring him, and so forth, and they go right on operating with that body, and body… care of the body, care of the body, and I slug along for hours, and nothing much happens.

It is highly likely that you will get codifications of mock-ups, however. You will get something that says „This mock-up is better than that mock-up,“ or „This system of mock-ups apply to that,“ or something of this sort. That’s totally very possible.

The reason for this is, if your thetan is up with his horsepower, or a thetan-power, he will control the body so adequately that his presence and permeation, you might say, pervasion of the body area, has a tendency to straighten the body right on out.

I don’t want you to get upset and say, „All this information now is invalid,“ simply because you see something that a codification of assessment is now done this way or „Although it was stated that this was the limit of Q it is now found that this following modification can take place.“

The body only really goes to pieces because of its knock-down drag- out existence in a very hectic and quite inactive world. Uh… nobody uses his body; he just sort of parks it around, drapes it on things, and so forth. It’s as if he uses it as an anchor point. It’s a rather expensive anchor point, it makes him work, he has to work it so that it can eat, and all that sort of thing. So, it’s not so good.

Because a live science is not a static science. A live science grows.

So when you’re using Standard Operating Procedure you’re trying to rehabilitate a thetan. You’re not trying to rehabilitate anybody’s body. You spring this person out of the body, and they might have a hunched back the moment you spring ‘em out of the body.

In 1894 an old guy that was doing a lot of work on this, a fellow by the name of – not on this; he was just doing work – Freud uh… announced his libido theory. The electronic data which has now led to all kinds of electronic equipment, the formulas that have led to modern electronics, the A-bomb – whether or not these are an advantage, they do demonstrate an advance – were in existence in 1894.

Sometimes you’ll tell them something like this, „Is there anything you’d like to do to fix this body up?“ That’s just so they’ll get an anchor point straightened out.

Coincidentally in 1894 then, was the science of electronics and its basic theory. And, in the field of mind, the libido theory.

They… they’ll find out, „What do you know, I got an anchor point.“

And in 1952 in that field, just taking that as a field of development, we have the atom bomb and we have the libido theory. No advance. That is not healthy.

And then you straighten out something in it, and they say, „What do you know! This anchor point, that is my body.“ It just helps him orient, that’s all. It’s not because you want the body straightened out.

Now you’ve watched… you have watched the sudden fusion of Western – mathematical thinking, organization, logic and electronics, suddenly fuse with – not Sigmund Freud, or the Greek philosopher – fuse with the data which was left in India about 8200 years ago, and which lay dormant and which was figured out this way and confused that way and was relatively unanalyzed. It was from that body of data that Christianity came; it was from that body of data that many other things occurred. But it was a tremendously valuable mass of material.

Every once in a while you’ll spring somebody outside. They… as I say, got a hunchback, or… or something’s wrong with them, and you come around, and they… you move ‘em back in at the end of the session, or they stay outside, or whatever condition you finally wound them up in, and they walk away, and they don’t have that infirmity. But they’re much less likely to come up with that infirmity missing, if you address the thetan only, than if you address the body. You just spring this guy and work the thetan. Don’t do anything for the body. If anything happens to the body, okay. If it doesn’t happen to the body, okay. So what?

All right, it lay there unevaluated and, of course, was a field of tremendous richness from the standpoint, not of investigation of ‘it’ – more men have gone mad per square inch trying to investigate ‘it’ than any other thing I know.

Of course, I… with uh… with all these people going around wearing glasses all the time, they have… that’s… that’s rather strange, this… this idea of wearing glasses. Glasses are dangerous! Didn’t it ever come to you? They’re really very dangerous. And… and… I… I watch… watch people, and… and they don’t seem to realize this. It’s one of those things. Do you know what would happen to you if a bullet hit you in the glasses? Well, anyhow, enough of those serious considerations, on to lighter ones.

I was sitting there tonight trying to pretend that this had been a very brave voyage of adventure because it had been so dangerous and there’s so many men fall on their faces doing this. As a matter of fact it has not been a very dangerous voyage. But uh… the point is that an awful lot of men have fallen on their faces in the last century trying to hit this track. Uh… amongst them were Nietzsche, and with him the German nation. Amongst them were Schopenhauer; uh… amongst them were Allistair Crowley. They were all trying to hit this track and they were overshooting, undershooting, round and round; because they were looking at it as ‘It’ and trying to analyse ‘It’ as itself. And trying to apply to ‘It’ its own peculiarities of logic and formulation. And it had no such evaluation.

We will now take up Case Step One. Now we took an assessment on this case. The reason we took an assessment on this case was a very good reason. We wanted to know what he couldn’t do. We wanted to know where his inabilities were, and why did we do an assessment before we did Standard Operating Procedure? Well, that’s to get some kind of an idea what goes on, before we spring the thetan. Because it might be the last time you’ll ever look at the thetan’s ridges. Not because he’s going to do a bunk, as we say colloquially. Means on his way, over the hills and far away; he’s just now passing galaxy eighteen. And there lies the body. Uh… it’s not because we need him for identification; it’s because it may be the last time we look at the combined effect of the thetan’s ridges and the GE’s ridges. And we can get some kind of an estimation on where we’re going when we do some later assessments or other.

Needs a dichotomy to work something out. Two things must come together to work something out.

Uh… you know after a thetan has disconnected, and all lines are off, between himself and the body, you’re reading the body. You can… thetan can be in a heck of an emotional state. The body’s got its hands on the E-Meter, the thetan is over on the mantle. You’re… you’re not going to get any reading off the preclear. He’s on the mantle! So, don’t make a mistake on this. But a fellow who still has a few lines on the body, still has his ridges commingled with the body’s ridges to a large degree, will read like mad on the E-Meter for a long time.

So there was that big body of data and all of a sudden we ran into it with electronic material and Western logic, plus the Western belief that it could be done and it wasn’t complicated.

But we don’t want to pull this one. We don’t want to have a fellow, Theta Clear, he steps outside, and he’s not connected to the body in any way. And after that, why, we stabilize him and get him up the line, and here’s an awful lot of things wrong with him. Now we haven’t got any way to E-Meter him. Unless we move him in and E-Meter him. And then he’s liable to stir up a lot of ridges, and… and get caved in on a few things like that, so you wouldn’t want to do that to him. You’ve got him outside, and you made him a Theta Clear, and you did that in two hours. Now, after that you say, „Let’s see, what can’t this fellow do?“ I don’t know! I haven’t got any idea if he’s got any quirks and foibles or not. And there’s no assessment possible.“

I ran in ahead of the data this business that all things are basically simple, and had this background of other material. And then I completely neglected that other background of material except where it would cross accidentally once in a while.

So let’s take the assessment before we do Standard Operating Procedure. That’s all. And then remember, that if we’ve got a stable Theta Clear, you use your E-Meter on the next preclear. Not that one. And if we rehabilitate this thetan’s ability to handle power, to handle energy and so on, he’ll take care of this body one way or the other, it’s up to him. They… they stop fooling around with the body, and they just make the body work after that, and the body’s very healthy.

And I knew these two fields I… I don’t know anybody else in this century or the end of the last one who had these two backgrounds; background in mysticism and uh… occultism – metaphysics, theology, hokus-pokus, voodoo, mumbo-jumbo, magic, spiritualism uh…and so on, who took a rigorous course of Western orientation. You study civil engineering and it is about the roughest discipline there is, clinically because it says it’s there and it’s there and that you will only solve it if you recognize that it’s there and so on.

By the way, did you ever… did you ever see a… a working dog? You ever have any experience with working dogs? Uh… you know a lot of pet dogs, though, and they’re neurotic. They’re really neurotic. I had a dog one time, named Tinker, a psychotic. That dog was crazy, because every time this dog had jumped up on her master in her first few months, he had hauled off, and he would kick her, or beat her, for jumping up and showing any affection. So Tinker was convinced that nobody liked her. She’d come around and jump up on everybody and she was so rattled and so psycho by this time that you couldn’t do anything with Tinker. I mean, you… you could… You know, jump on you with muddy feet and so on.

And that put one on the track of agreement and a lot of other things. So these two things crossed: This tremendous body of information in the Eastern oriental sphere and this tremendous body of collected information in the occidental, the Western world. And those two bodies of information had never been studied one to the other. I don’t know why nobody from that area about which I have any knowledge whatsoever, in India or the studies thereof, ever thought it worth his while to step out of that field and try to study something else. And I don’t know anybody in engineering who would do anything but get down and swear and spit and get very thoroughly upset at the slightest mention of the word ‘mysticism’.

So you grabbed the dog’s feet, and you’d put them back down on the ground, and give them a squeeze or something like that. Nothing was happening with Tinker. It was… no matter how nice you were to her, or anything else. Now she was a very smart dog, obviously, she was a Belgian Police, a pretty nice-looking dog, maybe about a year old. And uh… was basically a work dog.

You go into Bell Labs now and the toughest, terriblest curse that they can lay on anything is „That has something to do with the spirit or ‘mysticism’.“ It sounds mystical to them and so forth. That is their ultimate for imprecision.

So I took Tinker and started to teach her tricks. And I had her do all sorts of tricks, that looked like hard work to her, but she took a great deal of joy in them. Oh, you know, jump through hoops, and over sticks, and do roll-overs, and grab things, and selected articles, and all kinds of odds and ends. The dog started to get sane! She was working. She had some use. She was being put to use. And I used to work her quite a bit.

Now, all of a sudden these two bodies of knowledge went together with a dull crash; monitored by something above that then, it was possible to codify in terms of MEST the capabilities of theta. And that is the trick here: How do you codify in terms of MEST a capability which really is only a small part MEST? And that’s been quite a trick putting it together and codifying it.

And when I went away, and she stopped being worked, she started to spin in again. But during the period when she was being hard worked, and under good, heavy control, she wasn’t looping. She was sane. Very sane.

And that codification continues. It continues very definitely. So we’re going forward at this moment from… with a… with a very workable process. This process works; it works fast. If you were to suppose that you were in a static with regard to it, completely, you’d be making an error, and would be demonstrating an ignorance of a live science. A live science is one which can still change. It has not reached the end of the cycle of action.

Now the thetan is about as sane as… as uh… a spinning mouse, when you first get him out. He… he doesn’t know which end he’s standing on or which side’s up, ordinarily. ‘Cause you’re sitting there, and he may have some confidence in you, he’ll just sort of wait and find out what the cue is.

Now one might say that one has gone on the line in curves; that there was a 40 t… 0 to 0, and a 40.0 to 0 in this fashion.

And quite ordinarily, when he moves out, gee! He… he knows he’s there, and he shouldn’t be there, and he hasn’t got a good orientation at all. So you have to start in working.

(Why don’t you guys that are coughing mock up some explosions?)

Let’s take the GE. Let’s compare the GE to the dog. Good level of comparison. The GE is definitely an animal. And the GE has been pampered, and petted; this thing couldn’t get along and have chocolate ice cream sodas and rides on street cars and Rolls Royces, and fur coats on its back, and not have to grow any fur, and uh… so forth, unless it had a smart thetan in there pitching. And it’s goofy. It’s really goofy. And… and… and you… you just get waves of insanity coming off of the thing when you first start to fool around with it at all, if you start to look it over. It’s just nuts. And uh… the thetan feels very propitiative because he stole it. That’s the open and shut of it, he stole it! Of course there isn’t any such thing as STEALING anything in the MEST universe. Anything that’s made out of MEST that you didn’t make isn’t yours – anything, including your body. There isn’t anything anybody can own in the MEST universe that isn’t… except what he himself makes, what he himself builds, out of his own space and energy. It’s all stolen goods.

You could say this 40…

But a guy gets this sort of a proposition, it’s not stolen goods, the guy’s really had it foisted off on him in a BIG way. So he’ll feel this guiltiness toward the GE, and the second you spring this guy out, the most remarkable things will happen. He’ll suddenly start to feel terrific propitiation for the GE. Oh! The poor body! Oh my! Propitiation, propitiation, propitiation. And your main trouble in Step One is to back him – out and bring about some sort of an orderly relationship here, ‘cause the truth told, if he suddenly said to this body, „Act, jump, work, be,“ body’d all of a sudden start to purr, get very happy, and very sane, and go to work. It’s just as simple as that.

Did somebody cough in your face?… When did they cough in your face last?… Come on.

There isn’t any vast process has to be done on the body with this processing. But if he says, „Poor body, poor body, I’ve got to feed it, and I’ve got to pet it, and I’ve got to pamper it, and I’ve got to do something for it, and I’ve got to cure all these dispersals, and I have to smooth it all out, and all that sort…“ Oh boy! The body just disperses here, and the ridges pop up there, and the entities are flaming in some other department, and it talks back to him, and it balks and it won’t move, and it’s… he’s having a terr… tough time with it one way or the other.

Student: (I haven’t any idea) Well, mock up a doll out there coughing.

There’s only one way to treat it. And that’s on the… the Be, Do and Have and Don’t Have level. Just direct command, with no explanation. And only in that way does a body work well. And I’ve told you before, earlier in lectures, if you simply – no theta clearing or anything else – if we just do this – we’re willing to take this body out, and suddenly start driving it in the direct direction that we knew would be its ruin, and then drive it three times, four times, or ten times as hard as anybody had ever driven one in that direction, boy, you’d just suddenly start to shine as smooth as silk! Oh yes! ‘Cause the big control mechanism is: „Don’t work it too hard. Take care of it. Make it a valuable article,“ and all that sort of thing, and it doesn’t respond.

Student: (Okay) Go on. Mock him up.

All right, the GE that takes that attitude toward the body immediately will stop the dis… I mean the… the thetan that takes that attitude toward the body immediately stops the GE’s dispersing. And he stops this entity reaction. And so on. Not by stopping them, but just by refusing to acknowledge they exist. And by assuming his right of command and control of this organism.

Student: (Yup)

I explain that to you because I don’t want you at any time except on a, quote, just for the devil of it, unquote, reason, to use as a general approach, getting the thetan out of the pc so you can do something for the body.

All right, mock him coughing real worse than that. Oh, very much worse than that.

Now it’s much more popular out with the crowd. Out amongst the homo sapiens, to do something for the body. And if you’re going to say something or other about it, why bother with that philosophy that I’ve just given you? – This is your philosophy as an auditor. And this produces the results you want it to produce. But uh… don’t pull this one. Don’t just move the thetan out so you can do something for the GE. Because you’re dramatizing, if you do that. You’re propitiating your own GE, and GEs in general, if your sole concern is to get that guy out of the body just so he can do something for the body. See how nonsensical that is? And you would be terribly concerned about your GE.

Student: (Uh-huh)

Well, in view of the fact that everybody in this society has agreed wholeheartedly to this care of the body, care of the body, care of the body, just for variation, care of the body, care of the body, care of the body. If you were to take a little kid, and let him eat when he wanted to eat, and sleep when he wanted to sleep, and let him stuff all the candy he wanted to stuff down his gullet, and go and come and act and not sleep, and come in with wet feet and go out with wet feet and roll in the snow, boy! He’d probably be as healthy as they come. That isn’t what makes them unhealthy. It’s „Now Johnny, take care of yourself. You will catch cold.“ Continual running fire of „You’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak. You can get sick, you’re surrounded by danger, don’t have any self-confidence, don’t have any self-confidence, don’t have any self-conf… you can’t control that body, I have to control it“ here.

All right, get him going into… into spasms of coughing. Now put him behind your back. Have you got him behind your back?

Maybe to some that doesn’t sound too familiar as the modus operandi. But uh… Johnny is a lot safer being permitted to walk the high-tension power line in his bare feet, than he is being coddled about wearing his rubbers and carrying his umbrella to school. If he carries an umbrella to school he’ll probably get half-killed by the kids down the block!

Student: (Yeah)

All right. So, in Step One, you’ve got the uttermost, outermost simplicity you possibly c… it’s just: „BE three feet back of your head.“ It says in the book ‘move’ or ‘step back’. It’s not right. It’s ‘BE’. They’ll get out there better, if you just say ‘be’. Not… not ‘move’, but ‘BE’ three feet back of the head. Three feet’s a better distance than two feet.

All right. Now have a… have him do a… a… a epileptiform seizure – just heels crashing down on the floor, back arching as he coughs and wheezes. Got it?

Now in order to accomplish this – you could make it complicated if you had the back of your preclear a foot from a wall. So you move the preclear out more than three feet from the wall. You want him to have at least five or six feet of leeway between himself and the wall, and between himself and the two side walls. And you do not want him lying on a couch. You want him sitting in a chair. And you want the back of his head above the level of the chair. Why? Guy doesn’t want to move into all that MEST; he’s got an idea about it.

Student: (Yeah) Now take a big can of pepper…

Matter of fact, you can feel through a bed. You can put a beam down through a featherbed and feel around. It doesn’t feel good. And then you ask the guy to move out, if he’s sure he couldn’t go through a wall how could he be three feet back of his head? Most of them all of a sudden will start going through the wall, and then not notice it’s there, then say, „Oh, gee, there was a wall there. Huh! I got to agree with that.“

Student: (Yeah) and sprinkle it on him so he coughs harder… Now put him over to the right… Now bring him over the left.

Now the whole… the whole thing on Step One is just, „Be a couple of feet back of your head.“ We’re gonna assume the guy did and break down this processing step by step, each time assuming that the preclear landed there. Now what do you do next? Do you say, „Look around the room now… oh, you’re not seeing it all. Oh? Um… well, uh… are you sure you have all the objects in place? Now carefully locate all the objects in the room. Now move back in your head, and see where they really are.“ Do you say that? No. We’ll have you up before the Grand High Thetan!

Student: (Okay)

And unless… unless you could prove adequately and utterly that you had done it for randomity, you’d probably be convicted of mopery and dopery. Because this is one you should know. So that if you do it, you at least know you’re doing the wrong process. We’re not laying an injunction on you and saying, „Under no circumstances, or at any time, louse up a thetan.“ This is not an injunction which is being laid down. I know a flock of them that could be… stand lousing up from here to the end of eternity! No. I’m not laying down injunctions as to an ethic that you should follow. But you’d better know the right process. That’s a crime, not knowing the right process, see? The doing isn’t. The knowing – the lack of knowing – would be the crime. So let’s… let’s… let’s know that that’s the wrong thing to do, and the right thing to do would be any one of many things, which would enhance his ability to handle space and energy.

Now take all this huge amount of sneeze powder and put it on him. And just make him go into just fits. Now change him into a dog doing the same thing.

If he can handle space and energy adequately, he’ll be able to perceive perfectly. Oh, boy, you talk about perfectly! You could talk about selective sight! Fellow could look at the top of this manuscript and then read through page by page without turning anything over. Selective depth of sight. He could see a molecule deep into this wall, two molecules deep, six molecules deep, clear through to the other side of this plastic, look in and see this side, back side of the plastic. Look in a little bit… plaster… look in a little bit deeper and… and see the… the rafter uh… the lathe uh… look to the other side, and see the… the uh… lathe, and uh… plaster sticking in there, in the brick. All of that stuff. He c… he could see the whole works. Selectively.

Student: (Okay)

Or he could look at this wall, and through to the next building, and the next wall, and through to the next building and the next wall. But he isn’t going to do any of that if he has to agree with the MEST universe so hard that he doesn’t dare have any force of his own. So that’s what the MEST universe is telling him, „If thou art, I shall not be,“ says the MEST universe. So, you better not be, fella. If the thetan becomes, the MEST universe un-becomes. And so the more he’s agreed with it, the less force he has, and the less force he has reduces his perception. And the reason it reduces his perception is because perception is done in terms of recognition of energy forms.

Now change him into a cow and stop the coughing, and start the cow chewing cud. (Yeah) Now put the cow behind your back. (Uh-huh) Now have the cow moo gently in appreciation. (Yeah…) Now put her in your time span of last year.

One has to be able to command energy in order to perceive. Anybody wearing glasses, by the way, is afraid of light beams passing in and out of the optic nerves. And if you just scan him up and down the optic nerve a couple of times, and around… have him look at the optic nerve even while they’re in their head, they’ll find areas dispersing, or they’ll feel lumps of energy in there, that are all gowed up. So there… they don’t… they can’t handle that much force that are on these optic nerves. And uh… uh… they… they just aren’t handling the energy, the photon flow that comes in their eyes. So simple.

(Okay) All right.

Lack of perception equals lack of force. Force’s simply composed of energy and objects. To rehabilitate perception, rehabilitate the preclear’s ability to handle force. What kind of force? Electronic force. You know, all roads lead to Rome on that one. Somebody comes along and says, „What’s the matter… what’s the matter with this preclear, not getting along so-and-so and so on and his ridges keep caving in, and his bank keeps falling in, and… and I hate to have to dig him out of his head all the time, and he can’t lift a finger, and he can’t do… what uh… what’s the answer to it? He hasn’t got enough energy. So his energy needs rehabilitating. Any process then, that rehabilitates his concept of his own energy is a valid process to cure that. And there are dozens of these processes in creative processing. You mock up two figures, and… and have them on a… put them on a… just a… mock up a little wire, and stretch a little energy from the fingers to the wire, and back and forth, and have little beams going out in various directions, and sparks. And put the sparks together, and take them apart. And have ribbons of sparks… anything that has to do with energy.

Now here on the line… here on the line we have actually, what could appear to be 40.0 to 0.0 – 40.0 to 0 – 40.0 to 0.0 as we come down the line.

Now where’s responsibility fit in this? Responsibility is the experience manifestation of the taking on command of energy. That’s all. Responsibility is force. Willingness to be, use and have, utilize and own energy and objects sitting in space – that’s responsibility. What is responsibility? It’s the willingness to handle force. If you get a person who’s not even vaguely willing to handle force, you’ve also got a person who is not capable of responsibility.

The reason I put these things up here is you could say that these are the echelons of something. And what you could do, then, is put up here uh… 40.0, 20.0, underscored at 0.0 as a Grand Cycle; or this cycle or this cycle or this cycle.

If you get a manager who’s afraid to hurt somebody, in other words use force on somebody, you’ve got a lousy manager. And that’s the end of it. A fighting ship might have an awful lot of men on it who just hated the hell out of its captain. Might hate his guts from the word go. And follow him to their deaths. Why? He used force. A person using force isn’t trying to be liked. He goes way upscale to get liked. Not way downscale into MEST to be liked. Entirely different thing.

Here was homo sapiens – only we call that 4.0 to 0.0; and here we had thetan plus body – 40.0, thetan is separate from body. And we have the separateness being the top of the scale: The thetan has suddenly gained a lot of space, you see. And at the bottom of it you’ve got a thetan plus body that’s in pretty good shape. And that’s Theta Clear. So we can call this here ‘Theta Clear’ at this 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And we have here this black ‘40.0’ – we have ‘Homo sap’ as a 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And up here at this highest ‘40.0’ – I mean this now – existing black ‘40.0’ here with a whole series of crosses under it, we would have an ‘Operating Thetan’. And up here at the top of the Grand Cycle, God knows how far up, how many 40.0-0.0 stages up above that one with the x’s under the 40.0, we’ve got what? We have got Cleared Theta Clear: Theoretical absolute… a theoretical absolute sitting up there.

Responsibility and force are the same thing. Perception and force are the same thing: Energy. Inability to handle energy would mean an inability to perceive. Inability to perceive would mean inability to handle energy. He gets outside and he looks around the room, and he sees nothing. He’s got some vague idea that there might be a body sitting there. It’s kind of dark. Everything’s sort of dismal. But he knows he’s out of his head. He knows he’s back of his head. He’s got some vague look at a couple of hairs. They’re clear. But nothing else is. This condition can occur.

Now here were your bodies of knowledge as they move forward. Dianetics, BOOK ONE, homo sapiens. Boy does he agree with that! But if you use very much of Book… if you used BOOK ONE, you can pretty much maintain homo sapiens. You are well within the field of a therapy for homo sapiens.

What do you do? Well, let’s try to rehabilitate a little space, by asking him, „What are you afraid might be there?“ Not sarcastically, but so he’ll… can mock up something there.

You start up the line, however, from BOOK ONE and we get into the never-never land of the early days of Scientology. Well, you’ve got overt acts and motivators, and the second you start to run these things out, something else start to happen. And the GE line suddenly opens up and you start to run that a little bit more and the theta line opens up. And… and you’re just on a whole bunch of tracks and don’t quite know where you’re going and where you’re going to wind up.

„Oh, I don’t know. My mother’s the first thing that occurs to me.“

Until all of a sudden we get to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue One. It’s now Issue Three. And what’s that produce? That produces a Theta Clear.

„Okay. Put your mother where your own body’s head is. Now move her way out in front of your body, now let’s put another body of hers, now let’s just start filling the room full of Mama’s bodies. Let’s really fill this room full of Mama. Let’s fill every nook, corner, and cranny, full of Mama.“

Now if you were just studying this midground, just to Theta Clear right now, if that’s all you were studying, this could be a very short course, because we can make Theta Clears in an awful hurry. But you’re not studying that. You’re studying at least 40.0 of the Upper Scale – or Operating Thetan.

The guy’ll have a tendency to kind of draw into his head. This is why it’s a good thing to have an assessment before you do that. Because right there, Johnny on the spot, you already know he’s scared stiff of Mama. So if he said, „I’d hate to see Mama there,“ you know he’s pitching. Because you got that on an E-Meter on the assessment already.

So your goals have advanced. Thus when I give you this material I am demonstrating to you that the button-up is complete up to that middle 40.0, Theta Clear. Every time you get a higher echelon, though, these lower things become more easily done. But when you do them from a higher echelon, you get a higher goal. Here is cause and effect, cause and effect. You cannot make a better homo sapiens, actually, with any other process than DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH and SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. You use anything above that level and we start operating on homo sapiens with techniques above that level, we no longer get a homo sapiens. We go into ADVANCED PROCEDURE AND AXIOMS and the fellow starts to fly apart. And he does. We get something… something different. He isn’t acting the same way any more. He isn’t going on the same motivations, he isn’t the same bag of tricks.

He doesn’t want to find in that space those things which he’s afraid of. Those things he’s afraid of really are those things he got a drop on when you did the assessment. So he moves out of his head and he can’t perceive very well. Do you have him start looking at the head, you have him start doing this, doing that, monkeying around? He can’t perceive well. That’s number one.

Now uh… whether… now when we get up here, Theta Clear – we take Theta Clearing techniques and we apply them anyplace to homo sapiens and you are going straight on toward Theta Clear. Now you could take these – and techniques down here at 40.0: DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, homo sapiens, and you could re-evaluate those techniques… oh, just re-evaluate them and fix them all up and then use them, and if you expected still to get homo sapiens you’d be very much surprised. You’d not get homo sapiens any more. You’d keep getting a Theta Clear.

Now you can, of course, unmock things, and mock them up again, and so on, but there’s certain things that are standing right in his road. Now a preclear works best out of his head. He works best not in the body. Because as long as he’s in the body he kicks up ridges. He kicks up flows. Ridges’ll cave in on him. He’s got poor orientation. He could be worked for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in the body, without bringing him up to the state he really would… should attain, in a relatively few hours outside the body. That’s why these processes suddenly have done this shift over. The test data, resulting from these consistent experiments of how much better people got out… working outside the body, compared to how much better they got working inside the body, establishes without much question that a person working outside the body is mainly shifting postulates, it is not much influenced by energies, objects, ridges and that sort of thing.

Here’s Cause and Effect at work: You postulate what kind of an effect you want to achieve, you have to take it from the level of Cause that will produce that Effect.

So, even if you’re having some preclear that you know can get out of his head, mock up, just for the heck of it, move him out first. It’s a good precaution to observe. If you’re going to do some work on yourself, move out, and do it, if you’re just sporadically in and out of the head. So what do you have this fellow do? He can’t perceive, rehabilitate energy by rehabilitating fear of what he might find in space in terms of objects. Objects are much less dangerous than actual liquid flowing molten energy. An object is fairly safe.

It should tell you something, then, about processing where you’re not making a Theta Clear. You start using mock-ups and that sort of thing to any very vast degree, you’re going to head toward making a Theta Clear. But you can use them without theta clearing somebody. You get somebody who has a bad shoulder, or something of this sort, and you go on and give them a… give them a push forward.

So he’s willing to see an object. An object is a condensed piece of energy. As long as it’s a condensed piece of energy, you’ve got to be able to handle energy to really handle objects. But the object is the easier thing to handle. That’s why people want things from solid objects instead of fluid objects.

But if you were to run a low level of this middle 40.0 to 0.0 theta clear goal, somewhere in that area you’d get something like brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility. And the second you start to run brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility, if you start very long… you keep at it very long – Ka Boon! The guy’s going to be out of his head looking at himself. That’s… I am sorry, but it just… just… just happens.

All right, so we get him outside his head, and he looks around, and he can’t see well, or the space is all knocked to the devil, and you don’t know what on earth he’s looking at. He said, „I’m just back of the chandelier.“ And there’s no chandelier in the room. Now don’t think he’s kidding you. And don’t think he’s kidding himself. He knows he’s out and he is out. But a thetan depends on the body to orient him in space and time because the body furnishes a present time set of anchor points. And he gets outside and he loses his present time anchor points, and he doesn’t know where the devil he is.

Now you say we want this effect. We work toward this effect and we have the ritual necessary to produce this effect. And the funny part of our ritual is – never make a mistake about this, by the way. There are guys running around the bush in loin cloths uh… in Colorado Springs and places like that, who think they know something about this business. And all they ever studied is how you give somebody a super-control operation. And they’ll tell you any time you postulate that a fact exists, why a certain number of people will believe it and somebody or other’ll get well.

Furthermore, space is caved in on him again, so he’s got the room out of his nursery when he was a baby uh… and the bed he sees there is the bed he saw in his barracks during the war, and the girl who is standing in the corner and keeps lookin’ at him is one of his nurses. Lord, God! He… he’s… he’s all fouled up, and he knows it. You let him worry about this? Not for a second.

The guys read this in a Christian Science Handbook or Medical Association, or someplace. He… he didn’t get this anyplace else. Because it doesn’t happen to be even vaguely true, when applied on this level. You get the ritual which works spontaneously without education in it, you’ve got natural law. That is really the definition of ‘natural law’. An engineer and a train do not have to be educated in gravity to start running like hell down a ten-percent grade on a railroad track. You put any engine and any engineer on that ten-percent grade on a railroad track and they will start running like the devil down the track. That’s natural law; that’s the natural law of gravity.

You say, „Okay, you see a nurse over in the corner, that’s fine. Turn her dress pink. Turn it blue, turn her upside down, put her in another corner of the room.“

All right, you get any preclear out here, you get anybody off the street – the guy that runs that… that fiend that runs that streetcar up and down – you get him in here and you start working with what? You just start working with mock-ups, just plain mock-ups this way and that way and the other way and so forth. And all of a sudden it goes ‘zzzzzz-wham!’ and you work on it too long and he’ll be standing there looking at himself.

He says, „Well, for heaven sakes, there she goes! Ha ha ha ha ha! Well! I guess I wasn’t seeing spooks after all!“

You run Responsibility and Irresponsibility and he’ll be standing there looking at himself. I don’t care if he’s a streetcar conductor. It’ll work.

And you say, „All right, now take that chandelier…“

All right. That’s natural law. Probably in the framework of engineering itself, there exists much better discovered laws than have so far been discovered.

He told you he was behind the chandelier, so you don’t say there is no chandelier, you say… he’s… he says, „Behind the chandelier.“

What I like about the guy is he runs down the track, see. And he gets down the track and then he picks that streetcar up and he runs back up the street and runs it down the track again.

You say, „All right, take the chandelier, and exchange it for a statue standing upside down. Now put the statue right side up, wrong side up, make it float horizontally, put it over on the south wall, put it on the north wall.“

Well, anyhow… there are probably better natural laws. And maybe we have some… some of them in this bulk of knowledge right here. So far as physics is concerned. They probably will get readier agreement with the universe, or with MEST, than we have so far found out through the science of physics. That doesn’t matter: You take fulcrums and balances and horsepower and so forth in the framework of physics and you’ll find out that it’s any hill… any hill on Earth obeys the laws of physics. Any ditch, any drop of water.

Now don’t get him shifting things around in relationship to his body, because he’s not in his body. And don’t get his shifting and relating things before and behind him, because he probably doesn’t quite know which is ahead and behind him, and you get a thetan looking both ways simultaneously, he’s capable of seeing at three hundred and sixty degrees. And he’ll put the right-hand wall and the left-hand wall on a superimposition sometimes. And sometimes he’ll see a chair standing over there on the right-hand wall, over on the left-hand wall. Or he’ll see its back on the left-hand wall and its seat on the right-hand wall. Why? Because he’s looking with three hundred and sixty degrees sphere… spherical vision. So of course he mixes up his dimensions and crosses them. Until he’s got space under control he may continue to do this.

And any preclear works on these bases.

So don’t worry too much about this. You just give him general directions about walls. And if he’s spooky about walls have him put some walls in. And now say… now say, „Put a north wall in.“ He says, „Which way is north?“ „Make up your own north.“ „Okay, that’s north.“

All right. Some day or other, somebody can take a look at physics for this and fool around with it. We’ve made a few gimmick-ahoojits in physics that are quite interesting. Uh… I mean they’re pretty upsetting things. They’re… they’re very upsetting. They’re… they’re… they seems to be disobeying natural laws. You might say they’re disobeying a grosser manifestation of a law. They are not disobeying a finer law. There’s a law that undoes the bigger law every time.

He’s way out back of his head, someplace, probably, holding on to a couple of molecules against the wall for dear life. And you say, „All right, that’s north. Now right there, take that statue you just mocked up, and uh… turn it right side up, and put it against the south wall…“ and so forth.

All right. Let’s look this over then and recognize that if you’re going to insist on homo sapiens being homo sapiens, you’d better not use any of the techniques about which I’ve been talking. I mean, that’s sad. But if you use the techniques about which I’ve been talking here, as such, know that they lead to that, not because you postulate it, but just because it happens that way. That’s to help you postulate results which you want… to know that.

In other words, take the items of this room that he perceives and turn them into something else. Then shift them around. And if you’ve got E-Meter assessment data, have him fill the room up, and start handling from where he is, the things which he can’t handle. ‘Cause he’s actually afraid those things exist in the space where he is existing. He’s stuck on the time track, in other words, and the way you get him unstuck on the time track is to put into the time he thinks he’s finding, mock-ups of the position on the track, until he can handle them and until he says, „Well the heck with this time, I’ll move to some other time.“

Now know this, too: That if you make a theta clear, it’s cruelty not to permit this individual to go up here to an Operating Thetan.

Now there’s another system you can use to bring him up to present time, which is nowhere near as good. That is to say, you can say, „Pick up this room when it was constructed and move it on forward to present time, then move it right on forward into the future.“ He’s liable to hit that on any of five tracks, and it doesn’t lead to a certainty. What’s the test of a good technique? The test of a good technique and the gradient scale of the goodness of techniques would be the gradient scale of certainties.

What’s an Operating Thetan? An Operating Thetan’s a guy who can handle MEST without beams and travel without energy. And uh… that’s not too hard to achieve. We have those techniques. We’ve talked about this sort of thing.

So a technique which leads to a certainty is superior to a technique which leads to a partial certainty. So scanning the room through he might hit any one of about five tracks. So that’s not as certain as the other. But you can still do it, and it’s still a good technique, and once in a while in desperation, do it! And once in a while, just for the hell of it, do it! Find out what happens.

So, right here, right now oh the discussion of Standard Operating Procedure, we have to make a designation, a definition of Standard Operating Procedure to do what? This Standard Operating Procedure makes a Theta Clear… to this – Theta Clear… 40.0. You see those cycles within a cycle?

All right, you get two preclears, and you scan them up through this track, by the way, and they both arrive in present time again, and they’ll have a heck of a fight. One went on the imaginary track, and the other one went on his own facsimile track; they didn’t go on the same track when you scanned them up through the history of the room. One says the room is going to burn up in two days, and the other one says it’ll be here in the year 2006, at which time it’ll be destroyed by an atom bomb. That’s future havingness. That’s going to be established by somebody.

Now a Theta clear is stable outside of his body, even though the body is hurt. Or he does not snap into a body just because that body is injured, no matter the suddenness of the injury. That is a Theta Clear. In other words, you have made a thetan trap-proof. You have not made him an Operating Thetan yet. He’s just trap-proof, that’s all. He can’t be trapped by a body; and he can still operate in conjunction with or in control of bodies.

People are changing havingness all the time, within the agreements of change. So the will-have is not certain. But the has, present time, has – present time, of course, can still exist from the past. That’s a static. I mean, that’s a lump. That’s just a… it’s… ‘cause you see, it’s easy, ‘cause that’s just a mass of illusions, and they’ve agreed they do have, and then agreed they don’t have.

Now an Operating Thetan and the techniques leading to an Operating Thetan have also been covered in this course. And that, you might say, is just more of… more of the same type of processing above the level of stability.

All right, so we get him up the track. How do we do it, then? We’re trying to find present time. That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to put the thetan in present time with some space in present time. We’ve moved him out of his head, and he couldn’t see well. Boy, that is the most average case you’ll get. He moved out and he couldn’t see. Or what he did see was all haywire. So just have him take all the objects he sees and change them into something else, doesn’t matter how ridiculous, turn ‘em upside down, plaster them around the neighborhood, move them, change them in position and time, and con… color, age, and size and throw ‘em away.

Your problem then, and focus your range on this, is not to make a Five into a Theta Clear as the toughest problem there is. But your problem is making relatively, sometimes very unable and almost falteringly weak thetans, strong enough and tough enough so that they can operate as a thetan and not as a body at all.

Ask him once, „Well, what do you see now?“ „Now.“ or „Now how does it look to you?“ Very, very strange, because he will not take this usually as a check-up on his perception and really what you want to know, when you say, „How does it look to you,“ you only want to know this: What else have we got to mock up around here?

Now what’s a thetan have to do? He has to be able to comnunicate. He has to be able to travel, and he has to be able to handle MEST. He’s got to be able to communicate with other thetans, and he has to be able to communicate with bodies in order to be an operating thetan.

You’re not looking around, by the way, to find out what there is in the room he has to change. Uh-uh. You’re looking at what he’s looking at. You don’t care what’s in that room. The second he lost his body he lost his orientation point, because there went his havingness. So his time went shot on him. If he hasn’t got his havingness, of course he’s all fouled up on time instantly. And he has an insecurity on his havingness now because he suddenly realized he’s not that body. That body owns things, he doesn’t. He knows all sorts of things.

I don’t know how close you’ll hit that line. I know that as you look at that, I think very few of you just intend to be a Theta Clear. I think very few of you would say, „Well, I’m just going as far as that Theta Clear. That’s good enough for me.“ I have never heard one say this yet. So you are going up to Operating Thetan to work…

So the second his havingness is upset, that is to say he no longer has a body, he’s all out of gear. But as a thetan he was kind of out of gear, too. He was sitting inside this dark hole looking at a flock of facsimiles that came in, and… and he wasn’t quite sure where he was, but the ridge said 1952, Philadelphia. Well, he’d buy this, better than anything else. He knows that when it all… when a doorknob appears on that ridge he can work a certain set of bars and things like that, in a kind of a hopeless little prisoner way, and the door knob will turn and open; he doesn’t run into something. He’s… he doesn’t know he’s there, and he doesn’t want to be there.

Remember, however, that it’s just an application of ‘more of’.

So, you can just count on it that he’s not in present time, that he’s not perceiving well. And if you suddenly find him perceiving perfectly, boy, stand by to be stunned! Because that almost never happens. A thetan that’s… would have enough power… would have enough power to see perfectly, it’d be kind of doubtful if he was in a body. ‘Cause if he had that much power, he could use power like mad in all directions.

But this process, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, is specially designed to make a Theta Clear. And you have attained that goal when you have reached up to the point where the person knows he is outside, and does not return into the body if the body is injured. Or would not snap into a body if the body became hurt. He’s outside; he knows he’s a thetan, not a body; and he doesn’t suddenly snap in, inexplicably.

So, you drill mock-ups. And then get him to drill mock-ups of beams. And get him to mock up beams before you make him use beams, for the good reason that once in a while you’ll move out an invader force, and he will get sick as a… sick as can be. At the thought – he’ll start to use energy, and then all of a sudden a feeling of terror and degradation will come over him, of such magnitude that it will cause you a lot of trouble. He’ll start to use it and all of a sudden he’ll say, „Oh, my God, I’m…“ and he’ll recognize and he will remember what he is and kind of know where he comes from and so forth, he’ll dive right back into the head – splash! And he won’t come out again.

Now that’s just a little bit further and just a little bit more than you think. Because as your process w… w… to make a thetan exterior is fast. That… about 50 percent of the people you might as well say 10 minutes, Theta Clear. Only it’s not a Theta Clear. It’s ten minutes to thetan exterior.

So don’t ask him to use energy, really, unless you run down to the lower steps. Then… so you make him feel degraded. You can handle that.

Now just as we’ve had a tone scale, a tone scale for homo sapiens, so do you have in the lower reaches of this thing, so do you have a tone scale for the thetan. Now I’m very sorry that these tone scales had just homo sapiens injected in here, but that’s kind of the way it is. So we’ll take over here Position ‘A’, down to Position ‘B’. And down here at Position ‘B’ we have minus 8.0. And here at Position ‘A’ we have… doesn’t matter. Probably 20.0. And this range which I will describe here with a zig-zag track down to, is the range of thetan tone range necessary. The thetan tone range necessary to stabilize.

All right, you move him out, do mock-ups on handling energy, do mock-ups on being hit by balls of energy, do mock-ups of things appearing in the space which he has, put out spacation, that sort of thing, until you’ve moved his perception up the line a little bit. Now you have him knock apart… he… you s… every time he’s talked to you he hasn’t seen the body. He’s… the lot… he’s lost. It’s there someplace. Or every time he starts to look at it, it’s black. It’s just a black lump.

Your thetan has to be jumped from the extreme low of minus 8.0 which is necessity to own and protect… he isn’t himself; in order to be at all he has to have a body be for him, so he’s below tone scale. And this 0-0-0, as we notice here, is ‘being a body’. And below this level he is… anywhere on this level he’s less than a body – anywhere. From 0.0 down to minus 8.0 he’s less than a body. Not only does he not know he’s there, he thinks all that’s there is a body and he has to own it and control it and protect it. And of all things, he goes on this horrible computation „The body needs me.“ This is something on the order of „That table needs me“ – about as important as that.

Well, you have to start mocking up the body, and knocking it off. And mocking it up and knocking it off. And then you mock up the selective parts of the body. The arms, the legs, the hands. Everything you can, and you just start.

You just spring a lot of preclears and they will say, „Oh, yes“ – propitiate, propitiate, propitiate – uh… „The body needs me,“ and „Poor body. What would it ever do without me?“ Believe me, what would that tin can ever do without its spinach?… any difference? And then the guy moves out one day and he says, „You know,“ he says, „this thing really doesn’t have any real decent life in it at all, except for me.“

Now you can still read this preclear on an E-Meter, you understand, if he didn’t have good perception, because he’s hooked to the body by communication lines, and he’ll register and reactivate the ridges with what he’s thinking. So he’s still sitting there with this E-Meter on him, you just run each one of these mock-ups until he is stable on it. You’ve got an assessment there, you see, anyhow. You just run that assessment. If you haven’t got an assessment there, just start filling the room up, and tearing up things, and changing things, and so on, and using energy.

That’s right: The GE is so low-order and so weak and so on as to practically not be there at all, and as a consequence when the fellow moves out, the body ceases to have enough umph to do any functioning on its own. It too has become… has a dependency. It has become so dependent upon a thetan that uh… it can’t really function at all without one.

Now, when he gets up to a point where he actually has some perception, he can see the body, you mock up the body and knock it off, until at last he realizes the body isn’t the powerful brute he thought it was, and he’s willing to look at it, it doesn’t emanate all this energy at him, and so forth. You just go right straight in, to lifting exercises.

GE is that bad off.

By ‘lifting exercises’ we mean you get him to a point where he can move around without snapping back in, and stand above the hand. If he can’t do that yet adequately, we mock him up some more on handling energy, handling forms, move… positioning things in time and space, putting out anchor points, and occasionally unmocking things. In other words we just go through this drill, and we’re working up to get his perception on. We’re getting this perception on by handling energy. And when we get his perception on, then we just get him… perception on to a point not where he can count every slightest thing, but where he can lift one finger. And he will get the strangest sensation, he’ll start to lift this finger and it’ll slide sideways or something like that.

So, get this, get this set-up here: From down here at ‘B’ this double zig-zag line here is the range that you are going to have to put your preclear up – somewhere in that bracket. And your very ability on theta clear will be from 20.0 up to about 40.0 to stabilize him. But he won’t begin to be stable at all… see, there are varying degrees of being stable on; he won’t be stable at all below 20.0 on this overall range. He just won’t be stable at all. He’ll snap in and he’ll snap out. And you’ll process him and he’ll be fine, and, „Oh, yeah! Can you stay out there now?“

And up to that time it’s halfway imaginary to him, maybe, that… that… that he’s outside. It’s kind of imaginary and it flicks on real and real, he kind of knows he is, he’s willing to say he is, and so forth, and – he’s perceiving all right, but not too good, and you get him around here and he’s working a hand, but it’s possibly a mock-up too, that he can’t quite control. He’s got that little uncertain feeling on the thing, and then he’ll all of sudden, he… he feels this finger pull out like that without any energy.

„Oh, yeah. I’m just doing fine. I’m out here. I’m on the balcony,“ or „I’m on the roof and everything’s going fine.“

Now you know how that feels, if you were to… it’s just… you… you can get the feeling yourself, if you’ll just reach over, just put your hand down, and just suddenly move the finger over with your other finger. You can tell very immediately, you see, that you aren’t moving the finger internally. Now make the finger move like that, without shifting it from outside. You’ve got an entirely different sensation there.

You say, „All right, now let’s have another session tomorrow afternoon.“ And he will come around and he will have this… „Where are you?“ „I am in my head.“ „Whatcha doing?“ „Well, I don’t know. I am just in my head.“ „Well, let’s move out.“ „I can’t.“ And you will say, „Oh, for God’s sakes! What’s gone wrong here?“

All of sudden he’ll recognize this sensation, „My God, yes, I am.“ „What do you know! Oh, gee!“

Well, what’s gone wrong here is several things; the guy fooled around; the guy jumped out while he was in the middle of a restaurant. The guy went across and all of a sudden took… he decided to take a trip to the other side of the galaxy or some such thing and he’s gotten caught in an explosion. Uh… he’s uh… he’s made up his mind that he won’t get out until… until his wife gets out and uh… so on. Or he has a heck of a lot of postulates he has to hold on to, and for some reason or other he’s not going to get rid of any of these postulates. On and on and on and on and on. So you work. And what do you know? It doesn’t take quite so fast to spring him… it doesn’t take quite so long to spring him this time, and you balance him up and get him a little bit more able to handle force.

He’s liable to fly immediately inside, at which time you coax him out and rehabilitate him again. You rehabilitate him by being… getting him cuffed with hands, or anything else. Get him outside again. Bring him around – – here to get him working on that finger again. Or you can work on that finger by stretching up a couple of anchor points.

And you understand the only thing that’s snapping him back in is lack of force, and fear of things which are forceful. And the guy might be just doing fine until he suddenly sees two automobiles hit in the pavement in front of him, or something of that sort, and he looks at all that force. And he says to himself, „Oh, no-no-no – it’s a force universe, here I go in my head and I’m not going to come out. Not me!“ and uh… his concept of force is what’s doing it to him. There isn’t a single facsimile anyplace in his bank; there’s not anything in his bank, really, that will answer up to force, other than just go by the hoards. I mean, force – if he’s got enough force, there’s nothing in his bank can disturb him. Nothing can talk back to force because what that bank is, is composed of things he’s mocked up out of energy. So if nothing there… is there… there except energy things, his ability to control energy, of course, controls all that.

„Hang two anchor points on the ceiling. Got two anchor points there? Okay. Now look at those in relationship to the finger. Now pass a line from one end, around the finger and up to the other one. Well you got that? Okay. Now, push the anchor points apart.“ Finger comes up. You got that?

You says this preclear is in dispersals and he keeps getting blown out of his head and blown into his head again. Yes, you can work dispersals, you can get him to mock up on dispersals, you can do all sorts of things until you are black in the face; but if any more direct principle of the utilization and use of force, rehabilitating his belief in his ability to create and handle force came forward, you would use that. That would be an improved technique. So don’t say you aren’t warned if you get something that creates or raises a person’s force faster. There are things that do that.

Or, you have him build a tripod over the finger. That’s not nearly as good, it makes him feel like a grasshopper. Which he’s not. And uh… there are a lot of angles you can use – that one with the two anchor points Nibs was chewing around with – and it’s very very interesting.

So your task is to get a thetan from minus 8,0, e… or 4, minus 4.0, up to this middle range, 20.0 – not to a homo sapiens’, and so on. You already saw this homo sapiens’ scale. I just call these cycles of action at different scales. This 40.0 I’ve got marked here is 4.0 to 2.0 to 0.0; you see that, don’t you? But I’m telling… trying to emphasize that you’re looking at 40 to 0.0. I’m trying to emphasize it’s a whole body of knowledge. I’m trying to emphasize right now that this is a whole body of knowledge up here between this second Theta Clear 40.0 and 0.0. It’s a whole body of knowledge. How do you get a thetan out of the head of a homo sapiens and keep him there? – keep him out? That’s… that’s quite… quite important, see. That’s a whole body of knowledge, right there.

Of course, if you take two anchor points up here, above his head, and pass ‘em down to the finger, and postulate that they’re holding on to the finger, and postulate that they’re okay up there and now that the line won’t stretch, you move the anchor points apart, further, and naturally the finger’s going to lift up. Matter of fact, when you start to pick up a whole arm or something like that, you can just slap those anchor points apart, simultaneously, and it’ll lift that arm up in the air like it’s in an express elevator.

We’ve got another, which you already have and which we know a lot about right now, with Q-1. See, we had 40.0 Theta Clear before we had Q-l. Now that you’ve got Q-1 you can get an Operating Thetan down to this p… this upper 40.0 here to the 0.0, Operating Thetan range. You’re operating… doing different things. So, 40.0 Theta Clear, Standard Operating Procedure. You’ve got to get him up there to where his force is good.

Okay. You’re working up toward that, no matter how slow, or by what gradient scales you work toward that. You do lifting exercises until he can at least adequately lift a couple of fingers and drop them again. And you don’t leave the lifting of fingers until he can lift and drop with fair rapidity. You let him fool around with fingers until he’s really confident. And he drops them, picks them up, cuts them loose, picks them up, cuts them loose, picks them up, cuts them loose.

I’ve been doing a little testing on this – minor, but it pointed up something I already knew: If he can handle his body with force, he never afterwards does anything but handle his body. Let’s make a special condition out of this: He’s trying to handle a body, isn’t he? And his idea of himself has gotten very weak because the body has to pick up things and put them down for him, isn’t that right?

Generally, somewhere along the line, he’ll say, „You know, I think I can lift two or three.“

All right, let’s make him be able to pick up what picks up things and puts them down for him. So we get Standard Operating Procedure to Theta Clear; it is… it says… Theta Clearing – let’s supplement the whole thing all the way down the line, just as you find it there, let’s supplement it with a drill. No… n… we can standardize the devil out of this. You won’t see this thing change. I… I’ve been doing this now for months, by the way, with people. Uh… it’s the routine I told you about which we will call ‘Body Lifting’ – a good, simple term. We do Standard Operating Procedure and then as soon as possible we merge right over into Body Lifting. You do Body Lifting very simply: You have him pick up a finger with energy. And have him move it aside and put it down again, and pick it up again. And then have him mock up a hand – no matter how big or how small. You do a mock-up of that exact activity and make it a much more powerful action that he can do. Then you pick up another limb – then you pick up another finger; you pick up his whole hand now. He picks it up from outside, standing over the hand – not from inside the body. He’s outside the body; the hand is sitting flat on a desk or some such thing as that; and he comes over the top of the hand and by putting out anchor points and lines or by putting out a tripod of energy and lengthening its steps with a tractor beam on a finger, he lifts the finger. He does it with energy beams.

You say, „Try two.“

And then you… you then have him mock up doing it. Or you have it mocked up first, if he can’t conceive it. Have him do a mock-up. Have him build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it. Build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it a few times. Vary the mock-up; shift the mock-up around a little bit. Have him come back and pick up a little more hand.

And he’ll pick those up and drop them, pick those up and drop them, and it’ll be very interesting to him. You keep up that exercise, and get him moving around with the hand, the arm, the other hand, the arm, and the next thing you know, you’re going to have a guy’s concept of his own power upstairs very quick. And I’m sure, much, much faster, much faster, than by any other method I know at this time.

Then have him do a mock-up of lifting whole hands, and then have him lift his actual hand. And then have him do mock-ups of lifting whole arms, and move those around, position them here and there in space. You see, you’re keeping him from agreeing too badly about… with the MEST universe by these mock-ups. That’s why the mock-ups are in there.

But you understand, clearly, that these lifting exercises, you address the quote, actual, unquote, which means the preclear’s mock-up, and then address the quote, unquote REAL, which means the MEST universe, hand that he owns. You’re beginning your lifting exercise. You know he can see his hand, he finally tells you that, well that’s time to begin him. Have him mock up another hand, and handle this mock-up, and monkey around with the mock-up, and position it in time and space for a while. And then mock up the finger, and then make it bigger and bigger as a mock-up until it becomes utterly incredible.

Then you have pick up his whole arm and throw it up in the air. And then you have him go over to his other hand and pick it up a finger at a time, and then mock up picking up a finger at a time. And then pick up the actual hand. And then mock up picking up arms, and then pick up his left arm. Then pick up his right and left arm up simultaneously and throw them into the air. Then have him pick up… have him mock up picking up ankles or feet, and then have him mock up picking up uh… have him pick up both feet or have him pick up a foot – whichever you can get him to do. Then mock up picking up bigger legs and all that sort of thing. Then have him pick up his actual legs.

„Now let’s have a hand the size of Philadelphia, and now let’s get a finger that weighs eight billion six hundred and seventy-five thousand tons, and now let’s just say, „Up finger!“ and have it lift… Okay, you got that? Drop it back again.“

And you will finally get him so he is throwing that body around the room like a sofa pillow. There is no…

He’ll say, „It smashed the Penn Station.“

You worry once in a while. You’ll think there’s a deception involved here. You think there’s real big deception: „He’s kidding himself. He’s actually working it from inside and so forth.“ Oh no, he isn’t. You can’t work a body that fast from inside. There aren’t muscles made that can work bodies as fast as you can from the outside.

You say, “Okay, – okay, now put all that in last week.“ And now we’ll address the… his hand.

Now what you do with all this is practice. And this is the essence of it. Never let him get away with a ‘can’t’. Always make him lift it. And don’t assign such big jumps that he will have difficulty lifting it.

And he’ll feel very powerful the first moment he does it, he’ll say, „Well that’s all right, I can do that I guess.“

Furthermore, the drill is intended to let him pick it up and lay it down suddenly. When he lays hold of the body with a beam, have him then cast it loose suddenly – up and down with a beam. How fast can he turn that beam off? If he isn’t turning it off fast enough, have him get out and throw something… a loop of energy over his cigarette package or something, and then put it on there, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off. You get the idea? Until he’s really got speed in turning that thing on, turning it off, particularly on turning it off. Much faster to be able to turn them off… much better to turn them off fast than turn them on fast, because he can be swept into a body or into something or other because he can’t shut a beam fast off… fast enough… off the beam.

And now all of a sudden nothing happens. And nothing happens. And he’ll fool around with this, and you’ll say, „Come on, put a tractor beam on it, and pull it on up. Now, that’s right, wrap it around there.“ He can’t do it yet, have him mock up a hand again. Do it to the hand. Keep his confidence up by getting him to operate the mock-up properly, until he can lift his body’s hand. Then from there go on to all the fingers, the hand itself, the forearm, the arm, the other fingers of the other hand… you just go back to lifting one finger again, when you shift over to the other arm. Then the hand of that arm, then the forearm, each time practicing particularly on a fast disconnect.

All right, so we have him pick up… pick up the body piece by piece and turn… turn off the beams and drop it. Pick it up, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it.

And get a fast lift on both arms before you go for the feet. And when you get down to the feet, make the toe of one foot shift. And then finally make the ankle turn one way or the other, and then finally start picking up the leg. You’ll have this guy flying through the air in no time s… And you finally pick the body up. And it’s a great shock to them when they do that.

All of a sudden he’ll say, „Why that’s easy! Nothing to that!“ Well, you go right on through until he’s throwing that body around like you’d throw around a volleyball. You think a MEST body can move? Piffle! Phooey! You’ll never know how fast a MEST body can move till you’ve been outside the thing and snapped it around. And it snaps quick! How fast could… how fast could you throw your arm up in the air? How fast could you move a finger up in the air? That fast from inside? Well, you’d have to jar your hand all over the place in order to get any real fast action out of a limb.

Well all the time, this guy’s concept of his own energy is best stabilized by the realization that he is handling something which he has been having trouble handling. And the dispersals in the body get very quiet, and the entities shut up, and everything calms down. You’re rehabilitating energy. And of course his perception turns up when you do this. He gets to be very tough. He’ll get to be nine thousand six hundred and forty-two feet tall in this process.

From the outside you can snag a tractor on to the thing and have that hand up over your head faster than an eye can see it move. Of course, it practically tears the arm off, but who cares ?

Now, after you’ve handled the body in this fashion, after you’ve handled the body very excellently and adequately in this fashion, you make some tests of the body. Have him stay outside, and you’ll find out while he was handling the body he had a tendency to snap in whenever he hurt himself by lifting too hard on a finger or something of the sort. He had a tendency to snap back into his head. So you just skip that, and uh… uh… I mean, just so, you just have him do it again. So he’d snap back in, just move him out again, and start in again.

Now you make him hurt himself doing this… you make him hurt himself every once in a while. If he hurts himself, don’t say, „Well, you poor fellow. You’re getting tired now. Oh, yes! Well, probably using up a lot of energy.“ Because he will keep telling you all the way through this thing „I’m so tired. It’s tiring me out!“ How the hell can anything that runs on postulates get tired out? It’s just because he supposes because fingers get tired that he gets tired – simple? So he doesn’t get tired out. So don’t let him beg off on that. Just keep him at it, little bit at a time, little bit at a time. Make him win every time in lifting it and he’ll be able to throw his – body around like mad.

You make sure that even though the body’s hurt, that is to say clip it on some of its nerve centers. Uh… there’s these… did you ever have the doctor pound on your knee with a little mallet? Well, pound on his knee with a mallet. Get some nerve reactions. Uh… so forth. Don’t mangle him particularly, but see if he has a tendency to move in. And that’s what you mark. The tendency. It isn’t hurting him badly and having him move in. If you snap him just a little bit, or he’s nervous about your snapping him, and he gets a little bit closer to the head if we’d… if when you start to snap… nuh-uh. He’s not a Theta Clear. You have him out there so he just leans up against the wall and says, „Well, okay, bash its head in.“

Now you’ll be surprised how big this makes him feel. He says, „Bodies?“ Before that he thought he was way outside of a body and he was pretty big anyway, but after… after this he’s been in through and he’s out and he looks at his body and „Bodies?“ He’s liable to reach over and say, „How are you, Joe?“ Spat! Spatter! Now, that’s concept of size, and that gets a person up to Theta Clear. He can handle that body around, he’s not going to snap into bodies. He’ll use bodies and he’ll continue to use bodies, but he won’t snap into them.

Now if he continues to be nervous about the head, of snapping back into the head every time you start to tap him, or something like that, or pinch him a little bit, there is another drill. And I don’t know how far to advise you on this other drill. Uh… and I’m just going to say it in passing, and leave it up on a test basis. Because I would not go so far as to advise you to get anybody to handle somebody else’s body. It should be adequate for you to just have him throw his own body around some more. Until he can really throw that body around. That’s from outside. He’s picking up the body from outside. And that is, you would go up along the level of taking ahold of somebody’s ear down the street and making them turn their head. Make attention, or get the attention from the outside of another body. Legitimate test. Though I haven’t tested it out too much.

He can turn beams off and turn them on and he can handle bodies and he’s good and forceful, and so on.

I would go from there to monkeying around with other MEST objects, that were intimately his, and so on. And fool with them, develop some more energy. When he finds out that he can lift something else besides his body, he will feel then that he can attract somebody’s attention; you’ve solved a problem: How does he stay in communication.

So as soon as you get him out and even vaguely stable so that he can perceive that he has such a thing as a hand, you start this exercise. When do you start this exercise? When you have him out and he knows it and he is able to perceive a hand. That’s the very precise moment that you start this exercise. And then you just go right on with that. There’s no use you doing much else with him. Because that’s what he’s been trying to do all this time.

But I seriously doubt that this individual will be very upset about coming back in, if he’s handled his body by lifting exercises. As I say, if he is, why there’s two ways to go about it, and that’s rehabilitating a little bit further up toward an operating thetan. Which we will cover, at some length. Or make him fee… handle objects so that he can more closely rehabilitate himself. Make it so he’s fairly sure he can communicate when he gets outside, or he could attract somebody else’s attention.

Now you do other things with him, but then we’re going on up from 40.0 to operating… 40.0 Theta Clear to 40.0 Operating Thetan. How do you get him up there? Well, I hate to tell you this. And as a matter of fact I’ve talked to you too much and you’re probably not too interested in a lot of this data, so I think we’d just better close over that. And I’ll just go on with this other… (Nooooo!) What’s the matter? Can’t I even pull a scarcity racket on you here?

Now one of the things that’ll set back a „One“ is the fact that he goes around and long before he’s got much horsepower he’s ready to do anything, he’ll start helping somebody else or pulling their ridges off, or – doing some darned thing. He’s liable to have a ridge blow up in his face. He’s liable to get sick, body’s liable to get sick. He hasn’t increased his horsepower any… to amount to anything. He starts fooling around, and he’ll start going here, and going there, and doing this and doing that, before he is stable outside of his body. And he’s just causing the auditor more trouble. So the time of auditing that goes in on this ought to be fairly rapid. If you get a guy „One“, or you get a guy outside of his head, and he knows he’s outside of his head, any time you’ve got that condition, move right on through with the alternate mock-up and lifting exercises, until you’ve got the guy stable outside. If you leave him too long, or just let it drift too long or something like that, he’s gonna go out and get himself in trouble.

Now, actually, what you do is… what do you think? He’s used to handling bodies, isn’t he? But you’ve got Theta Clear and you know what its goal is, and there’s the technique I finally decided gets you there.

Now what do you do with somebody who has a persistent and continual perceptic shut-off on some particular selective thing? That means that he has an unwillingness to handle force on that one thing. If it’s sound, he’s generally worried about explosions. Because out in space and places where a thetan has been, the only time he heard sound was in the middle of disaster. And that was when energy hit him, and the energy acted as a conductive unit of sound instead of air, air being a specialized kind of energy. This is raw energy. Something blew up, went Kapow! See? And the only way he could have heard the kapow in the airlessness of space, was when it was conducted by the electricity of the kapow. So a sound, or a sudden sound, is to him a blow. And this blow is an invalidation. He becomes convinced that he can be hurt by sound, which is a no good conviction at all, because he can’t be hurt by sound, unless it’s a specially rigged supersonic.

I’ll tell you what authority that technique rests on: Me. I’m not an authority, so you want to be very careful in using it, and do it very precisely and so forth.

How do you do this? Have him mock up wet firecrackers and things exploding.

How do you get up from there? Why, sure… he’s not going to duck in and out of heads . He’ll… you’ll cure him of ducking in and out of his head which is the worst trouble you will have with a preclear. As far as I’m concerned, after that, the amount of ducking in and out that he will do, he’ll consider this as absolutely nonsensical, ducking into this head.

Now anywhere along here creative processing can im… apply. But you’ll find out that you’ve got some specialized cases, and you should have gotten in the assessment; if you’ll just go through these parts of the body, and the dynamics, and relatives, on your assessment, if it’s as thorough as that, you’ve got his disabilities. And if you’ve got a lot of these ‘can’ts’, you’ve got a lot of material to work on. And you can work these can’ts up to the time when you’re able to enter in and begin the lifting exercises. And he’ll come up to the point where he can lift, or get up to the point of lifting exercise, if you work out his can’ts with mock-ups.

What possible protection could it be? Your technique that goes up from there specializes in unmocking and mocking. He goes out and selectively unmocks MEST objects, particularly bodies. And it can carry along from there – unmocking and unmocking. And how do you unmock? You create a big space with anchor points with plenty of MEST objects in it, and find absolutely nothing in it and pass through it in all directions, and find nothing in it whatsoever. That’s unmocking. And then into that space you put up your own mock-ups. Just as you tear down a tenement before you build a palace, unmock the objects that are there.

See, you’ve moved him out, he’s out, now what do you do? Now you don’t let him immediately try to solve all the problems of the world. These are a terrible shock to him. You take your list of can’ts, you take his condition of perception, you start filling up space with… the space around him with objects he doesn’t want there, or if the space consists on being full of objects he doesn’t want there, you fill it fuller for him, by just telling him to put more in, and more in, and more in, and more in, until he says finally, „The devil with it,“ and starts kicking them out.

Now you carry forward this unmocking, and it goes hand in glove with mock-ups of handling bodies by postulates and so on. Just more Creative Processing and more Postulate Processing. More Creative Processing.

You answer up to his feeling of scarcity about bodies by having him mock up and handle the various bodies of people that he’s been upset about in his past, and particularly his own body. Mocking it up and cutting it to pieces.

There is another level of Postulate Processing above that level, and that level consists of using the dichotomies as rising scales. You’ll find out in here that there’s an awful lot of dichotomies listed, and you’ve probably wondered what these… why we should worry about dichotomies if we’re not going to run flows. Well, I put it in there because it is pretty important to have dichotomies listed. And if it’s important to have them listed, there should be a reason for them. So I finally figured one out: Uh… now actually this is Rising Scale and you’ll find it on page 35 of your textbook. And it says „The dichotomies are…“

Well, there’s your level of operation. And all the time his perception is getting better and better and more and more certain. You’ll find the disabilities. Remember that… that uh… he will have these, and these are important to you, because by these you rehabilitate his ability to handle energy in space, and his can’ts or things that he would hate to find in space. If he’s not willing to create and he’s not willing to destroy something he’d also hate to find it in space. He might like pussycats, and think they’re just wonderful. But if you process him long enough on the things, there’ll be only one thing he can think of. And that is destroy the dickens out of ‘em. Because it’s a big overt act he’s probably most of the time dramatizing. If it’s elephants that he’s afraid of, he’s probably done an overt act against elephants, and so forth.

And if you’ll merely consider these… the top figure, the top of the tone scale, and the bottom figure, the bottom of the tone scale… You see, an infinity of tone scale would be the whole emotions, all the emotions. Survive, Succumb, Communicate, Not Communicate, Agree, Disagree.

All kinds of things that you can find, then, in can’ts are used, and if used will improve perceptics. And every time you’re running these can’ts, slip in some energy. Some raw energy. Ribbons, flows of water, raw energy manifestations. And when you… when the guy… when the… when the preclear has a body out there and you have this body dissolve, every once in a while have it dissolve down to a pool of raw, crackling energy. Just having it swell out and the… then roll up into big balls of blue lightning, which you turn red, and turn blue, and then roll them out the window and have them explode outside or something of this sort. Just rig in there someplace, every once in a while, as much as he can take it, some raw energy. And then, as I say, he’s heard these explosions and that sort of thing, so every once in a while, why, mock up something like a wet firecracker blowing up or something on this order. Make it big and rough at first. They’re really charry of these explosions. The dispersal parts of the band are tough for the guy you give them to.

Of course, these are not set as dichotomies, and naturally, Agree is the bottom of the scale and Disagree is the top of the scale. It’s toward the top of the scale for Number Three… Four. Stop is at the bottom of the scale, and so on.

Go into the lifting exercises, you generally will have a Theta Clear who’s quite stable outside of his body. If he isn’t, bring him upscale a little bit higher. And there, we handle ‘One’. Really nothing to ‘One’. That’ll be fifty percent of your cases. I’ve given you a formula for handling him. That formula will work for you, providing you do one thing: Listen to what the preclear’s telling you. It’ll work particularly well if you have a goad E-Meter assessment. Very well, if you have a good E-Meter assessment.

But you can use these dichotomies to make sure. That contin… continues, by the way – your Chart of Attitudes are in this thing, see. But it’s got more of them.

Now there’s one kind of ‘One’ that you must know about. And that is the ‘One’ who does a bunk. You say, „Be two feet back of your head,“ and WHAM! Gone! The body sags, it’s just a rag doll and there you sit. You say, „Hey! Hey, whoa! Where are you?“ They’re just passing by galaxy thirteen. On their way out. They think there is an out in that direction. They don’t want anything more to do with it, they generally will be running the glee of insanity. They’re feeling their responsibility is such that they just… bang. You just sit there, and you persuade them… oh, that’s a horrible feeling by the way, you… might happen to you quite suddenly, it’s always completely… so fast, you quite… don’t quite know… have any warning about it.

You ask, „What’s… what’s your general… what’s your general postulate about propitiation? The difference between propitiation. I mean, what’s your g… general postulate about it?“ „Well, so-and-so should propitiate so-and-so.“ „Well, raise that to as high as uh… you want to go… a little bit higher idea, a little bit better idea what you should propitiate, or what you shouldn’t propitiate or should you or shouldn’t you.“ And the guy will kick it up just a little bit more, until he gets up above to Sympathy. Sympathy’s above Propitiation.

So you make ‘em… make the right hand move, make the left hand move… They might be, actually, unable to make the body operate from this distance, or they might be blown out, or something of this sort. This person’s… my experience, has always got the glee of insanity very heavily. So you get them to get their postulates about how beautiful… how beautiful responsibility is. And they’ll say, „It’s not. Don’t want anything more to do with it.“ You get into an argument on… with them on that when you finally get them back in.

Well, you can use that, then, as Rising Scale Processing. You probably will never need it, but it goes from minus 8.0. Now that’s over here on minus scales. (Your minus scale’s over here someplace in this book somewhere.) Uh… minus scales are uh… minus 8.0 is Hiding. Minus 4.0 is Needing. Minus 3.5 is Approval from Bodies; minus 3.0 is Owning Bodies; minus 2.2 is Protecting Bodies; minus 1.5 is Controlling Bodies; minus 1.3 is Responsibility as Blame – Blaming Bodies; minus 1.0 – Punishing Bodies; Minus .2 – Being Other Bodies.

Yeah… you can sit there for quite a while. You just persuade them to finally wiggle their fingers.

You see, after… after a guy is being his own body, then he doesn’t quite know what body he is, so he goes around and he ‘be’s’ other people’s bodies too. And he develops their mannerisms and characteristics.

You don’t have to give them a big sales talk, but sometimes, sometimes, „Think of your poor auditor“ is the last ditch. „Think of the family,“ think of these various things, „Think of your poor auditor.“ The toughest one I know of came home on that. And uh… that’s a problem; don’t let it rattle you, don’t let it worry you, because this preclear will come back. Preclear won’t if you get hysterical and walk off, or run away.

So, you take that whole range and just find out what a guy is sitting on. Actually you should know this more than use it, because generally the fellow will shift his own postulates.

Uh… so, what do you do? You just get ‘em to work their right hand, and their left hand and get them to work their head a little bit this way, and a11 of a sudden uh… well, they’re okay, and they’ll animate again. But boy, that’s the deadest looking body you ever saw, when somebody does a bunk.

Now it’s quite interesting that this thing I was talking to you about this afternoon, this uh… conviction comes in there. Being convinced that this stuff agrees, disagrees with him, upsets him and doesn’t upset him.

Now there’s another slightly different case, that does something peculiar, that is not really much different than that. But then they have the same thing wrong with them – glee of insanity. Make ‘em mock up people going mad, and… and make ‘em mock up people being very sane, and very staid, and very responsible, and people going mad. And have people sane and responsible and with terrible weights, and people walking around with the world on their back, and then turn the world upside down, and put it in front of them, and put ‘em behind them. And then have the people who are very staid and do all this all of a sudden start to laugh with an insane laughter and so on. Do kinds of mock-ups like that, that demonstrates turning seriousness into complete insanity. And insanity into seriousness, and so on. You’ll get quite a kick out if this, by the way, it’s very amusing.

Now we have a formula which you better put down, because it isn’t down anyplace, on the, subject of Rehabilitating a Thetan as a thetan. And the formula is: Take the behavior of space, energy and objects. You know what I mean? The general behavior in the MEST universe of space, energy and objects as they interrelate to one another, and run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. You run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. In other words, you have planets which repel with their gravity; you have space… space that the more you put in it, the smaller it gets; you have uh… uh… water uh… which dries things. Just look at all the MEST manifestations. Light, that when it shines out, turns everything dark, and when it shines in, lights up everything – everything haywire about this.

But uh… this other person does a bunk, unwillingly, and is still in communication, and does it by accident, they get BLOWN out of their heads. You say, „He two feet back of the head.“ It unsettles them for a moment, and they go kapoom! And uh… they’ll land in plaster up against the ceiling or something. And then they’ll be up there against the ceiling looking down at the room, running kind of glee of insanity with a… with some kind of an old body, or something of this sort, and they… they… they’re right there, in the room, and they can see you, and they’ll just jeer at you. And the body’ll… although rather expressionless, will just say, „Yeah, you’re no good, you’re not going to get me back in, what do you think you’re trying to do?“ and so forth. It’s just talking like that, there’s no motion to it.

And off of this will come postulates on the conviction of the observable behavior. You will actually, by doing this, all of a sudden locate the postulate the guy made. „Well, what do you know? These planets do hold you down!“ „What do you know? Particles do stick together! Now I’m convinced!“ That’s the only way a fellow could ever perceive matter, you see. „Particles DO stick together! I’m convinced now. Yeah, that… that’s right.“

They’re up on the ceiling somewhere. You can practically feel this insanity emanate off them. You do the same thing. You can just run… run a flow if you have to. If you can’t think of anything else, with a case like this, get the glories of being responsible, the glories of being not responsible, and so on. If you get so rattled that you can’t think of anything else, remember responsibility solves it. The best thing to do is to make them start mocking up sane people who suddenly go nuts, and move those around in the room and turn ‘em upside down, and nutty people who suddenly turn sane, and people carrying the world on their back and people carrying the MEST universe on their back, and dumping it off onto other peoples’ backs. Anything that would have to do with picking up objects and being responsible for them, or acts. Any kind of such creative processing.

All right. And you take mock-ups on this: You mock up in brackets. Now you know what a bracket is? That’s what happening to the preclear and what the preclear’s doing to somebody else, and what others are doing to others. You mock up brackets on all the things a person should and shouldn’t do, perceive and be. There’s one more in there: Have. All the things a person should have, should do, should perceive and should be. And mock up brackets on the things a person shouldn’t have, shouldn’t do, shouldn’t perceive and should not be.

Now that’s both the same kind of case, really, they both do a bunk. But one of ‘em does a bunk and looks dead, and the other one just does a bunk and lands on the ceiling, and can’t get back into the body. Actually can’t get back into the body. They both are expressing glee of insanity. Both of them. Fruitcakes, strictly! The thetan comes out raving mad. It’s very easy to put the thetan back into a good state of operation, however, because a thetan is not so raving mad as homo sapiens high up the tone scale. But the thetan’s raving mad.

You know, this… your mother was always doing to… this to you. „That little girl that lived down the block: Now she’s a nice girl. Why, if you could just act like her my hair wouldn’t get near as grey.“ Or, „That little boy“ – that you couldn’t detest – „he… he“ – you just… I mean, you might think this… this guy… this – horrors! He gives you horrors every time. „He’s a nice little gentleman. Why can’t you be more like him?“ Now there, he’s a model for behavior.

Well, now there’s several other things, that it mentions here in Step One, that you could or couldn’t do – all that sort of thing. You can have them repair items in the body, as it says there. You can do various things, if you want to. And the only reason you really do that is just to orient him on the body. And I don’t want to give you the idea that that’s important – what he does for the body. It’s not. You want to get him up to a state that the body stops breathing or something of the sort, so he simply will go pick up another body. Bodies are very cheap, very cheap. They have ninety-seven cents’ worth of chemicals in them.

What is behavior? What should it be like? You should be polite. Take a pattern of what behavior should be. If one should be polite, one should be wrong, one should be propitiative, uh… one should ask for things, one should accept things, one should give things that he doesn’t want to give, uh… and so on. What are all these behaviors? Well, you look it up and you find out that in ev… everybody’s code there’s a bad one… oh, a bad behavior manifestation of some kind or another. Like… like he… he has a terrible compulsion to take his hat off in an elevator. E… actually a compulsion. He couldn’t stand there with his hat on if a lady stepped into the elevator.

And Step One is a very easy step. Do a bunk is its only liability. Fifty percent of your preclears will fall in this category. Don’t muff it, I’ve given you a very interestingly simple, very simple process by which to solve it. And if you don’t depart from that, you’ll get a case Step One, every time, bang! Okay? Thank you very much and good night.

A lot of Naval officers got broken of this during the war because an order was issued that insisted that a Naval officer should not remove his hat in an elevator because of the presence of a lady. This is one of the more important orders that came out of Washington. That’s why you couldn’t get your telegrams through, is there are so many of those orders are on the wires all the time.

Like, I was awakened one night… I was dragged out of the Copeley Plaza Hotel one day… one night… been out forever and had come back to the ship and, it was the first liberty I’d had for ages and I had to come back to the ship to… because the Officer of the Deck had received a secret message… ‘secret’, they didn’t have ‘top secret’ yet, and they didn’t even have ‘top secret super frantic hysterical’ – one of the later classifications. And so the boy met me there. Boy, this looked awful important. Looked like we’d be sailing any second, see? And we find out that it’s in such a secret code that it was only in my safe and… and, so on, and he didn’t have the keys to the inner side of the safe. He had most of the code, and we broke that thing out and we set up the board. And we worked and we worked – it takes a long time to set up one of those boards and get it all set up – and we got the message all broken down. And what do you know? Instead of orders, instead of the fact that „the Germans have just landed in Maine,“ which was about its level of rush and all that sort of thing, it says, „No dogs will be landed in Australia.“ It was too late to go back on liberty! Yeah.

Well anyway, mock up an admiral sending out something like that. And then shoot him.

Now wherever you can get in a mock-up, wherever you can substitute MEST meeting MEST with an electronic punch, use the electronic punch. That’s more important than your mocking up little boys beating up little boys. Have little boys sock each other a few times just to show that this can happen and move them around doing so and so forth. And then have them get off well away from each other and just zap the hell out of each other. Because that’s what the preclear was trying to do at the time he was being beaten up. He knew there was something else he could do and he couldn’t think of it. All he had to do was back up and go „Zzzzzzapp!“, see, and the other guy’d say, „Mmmmzzzzrrrmmm“ – melt. And it’s much more efficient. Instead of that, you stand in there and get all bruised up.

Anyway, get the polite thing to do.

Now there are many things that one does not do, and people very often have nightmares about doing these things – such as rushing down Main Street without any clothes on. In other words, you’re looking for these inhibitions, upsets and many things he ‘doesn’t do’. And uh… you just start knocking them out and you’ll break loose from a lot of things. But much more important is what he should or shouldn’t do with objects.

Now you don’t think… you don’t think that… that I’m being… y… y… you’re just… when I’m talking about behavior I’m giving you the… the ‘polite’ level of behavior… what he shouldn’t do and… manners and so on. What I’m stressing here is more important than that. When I say, „shouldn’t do, shouldn’t have, shouldn’t perceive, shouldn’t be…“ – he shouldn’t have a sun in his pocket. He shouldn’t have a planet in a sandwich. You get the idea? He shouldn’t pick up the bottom of this chair simply by having his arm lengthen and pick up the bottom of the chair. He should pick it up from the top.

Furthermore, he should pick it up to have it move. Next, this chair should sit on MEST, not sit two inches below MEST, very nicely poised there. When a coke bottle is turned upside-down, the coke should pour out of it; it should not pour out of it when the coke bottle is sitting right side up. A fellow who puts his hand in a fire and so forth shouldn’t get it frozen. Icicles which you carefully test as being icicles shouldn’t get he… more heavily frozen from flames. You should not be able to fry a steak in a refrigerator.

And the second you start to do these things this guy’s carefully assembled and built up postulates… and some people are just holding on to these as though they’re the most precious things in the world. They couldn’t possibly create an idea that’s better than that, and they’re just holding on to these things. They’re going out through the bottom. They’re about to become MEST, and they think the only way they can save themselves is by agreeing some more. ‘Cause they’re just on their way out.

And so there the guy is, agreeing some more and agreeing some more and getting lower and lower on the tone scale, and lower and lower on the tone scale and you ask him to come along and say „Hey. Will you… why… why… why are you agreeing with the fact that uh… and so on… you have to feel this way?“ Well Lord! Agreeing that he has to feel this way is the least part of it. He agrees that when he stands on a platform he is supported at the height of the platform. Guys can get just sick when they first start to mock this up and realize there’s not anything under them. There really isn’t a damn thing under you; you’re just sitting in space. But boy, you’ve sure got a nice comfortable idea about it.

Every once in a while a pilot… every once in a while a pilot inadvertently will look sort of theta-wise down through his body and through the seat and through the fuselage of the plane at the ground below him and suddenly realize there’s nothing down there. Once in a blue moon a pilot does that and it gives him quite a turn. He doesn’t quite know why he got that idea. Or if he’s suddenly going to run into something and he wishes to avoid it, he’ll just unmock his plane and unmock everything. And of course he’s sitting for an instant in space. Then that’s no good so he’ll put his plane back and hit it. You can find instance when pilots have done just this.

So your upper level on the thing is you get him to disagree up to a point where he can operate in the MEST universe with complete freedom. And it’s much easier than you think.

But he has to be able to operate wholly without energy.

Let’s take a break.