Now continuing the third lecture, December the 13th, continuing assessment and the use of Standard Operating Procedure, you’ll notice that an assessment, just at the beginning of the case, will not show up as much as an assessment taken a little bit later in the case. Run the case a few hours, and take another assessment.

Second hour, Saturday night lecture, December 13.

The reason for this is, is you’ve shifted the values of the preclear and as we saw once before, you take off an effort band of some sort or another, and an emotional band will show up and so forth.

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.

Now, you are assessing against a cycle of action. As you well know, a cycle of action is from 40 to 0.0 on the tone scale, but is… any area of it can be a small cycle with the same names. Whether you’ve got the broad cycle, the grand scale… Well, you’re really just assessing against the grand scale, so you don’t have to worry anything more about that.

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.

In your textbook you’ll find the cycle of actions… the cycles of action are listed. There’s Start, Change, Stop. Creation, Alteration, Destruction. Be, Do, Have. Space, Energy, Time.

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.

These are some of them. And you could really carry forward an assessment using each point of each cycle of action, if you wanted to. You could take all the cycles of action and then take every noun of which you had any possible knowledge. You could feed these things through and it would… you see, you could expand this assessment out. It isn’t a finitely small or a finitely large thing.

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.

Really, what you’re trying to do is… you could take this very simple assessment, such as I gave the preclear the first day here – you take this relatively simple assessment, you just keep going over that assessment.

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.

Or you can take a great big assessment, that’d be every point of our cycle of action, and every cycle of action, against every noun that you could collect anyplace. Be interesting, wouldn’t it?

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.

That… that… oh, boy! You could probably take up – if you gave these things fast, you could plot this all out, you would have quite an assessment on your hands.

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

Now it’s probable that I will get down and build you a chart for assessment. Build you a big chart for assessment, so that your… your chart could be worked rather automatically and it’d give you the obvious mock-ups which you had to care for. But you could build that chart yourself without any trouble by simply taking cycles of action played against all available objects and nouns.

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 to go any further than this walks one into abstraction. You really needn’t go much further than this to get a good assessment of your preclear. Once you’ve gotten the assessment, find out what he can do.

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?

For instance, we didn’t have an assessment on a preclear here and so a preclear’s hands started to disappear on an E-Meter.

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.

What should you do? The preclear’s sitting there and he’s changing postulates or something of the sort, and all of a sudden he says, „My hands are starting to go cold.“ Well, you find out what postulates he just got through changing. Just go back over this and find out what postulates he’s changing.

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.

Uh… if you hit one, why, let’s find out if we can’t do some mock-ups that make this. He hit a postulate, „I don’t have to die,“ and his hands started to turn cold on him. Oh, boy! What do you do? You just run the living daylights out of dying. You have him dying and his relatives dying and so forth.

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.

Well, if you were doing an assessment at the time, or if you just had him on an E-Meter, you could just mention – let’s see, „Mother dying; Father dying; Grandfather dying; Grandmother dying; women dying; men dying; children dying.“ All of sudden, you hit ‘children dying’ and maybe the machine goes Booooooom’. Well, you’d save yourself a few minutes of time there by just selecting out and having children die. Do you see how that would work?

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.“

By working with assessments – whether they’re done formally, or you stop in the middle of a session, sort of, and just ask him a few odds and ends of this and that – why, you find lots of material.

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.

Well, this preclear’s hands went cold on him. Nothing was done about them, because no check was made on the… no check was made on what postulate he had just been working with. And if that hadn’t been immediately discovered… Of course, the obvious thing is just start him handling ‘hands’.

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.

Now anywhere in any mock-up that you can possibly slide it in, slide in electricity, ribbons of energy, sparks and beams. Any place you can slide these in, on a mock-up.

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’re working ‘hands’, well, let’s put sparks on the toes. You’re working ‘bodies in coffins’, let’s put some blue light and some red sparks and things like that, top and bottom of the coffin. Let’s go ahead with this, in other words, and uh… and uh… work it out – IN TERMS OF FORCE. And that, to a thetan, is force, flow, electronics, and so on.

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 if you’ve run into very heavy flows of course, you can run hoses or firehoses or something. Or you can simply go on working with objects. You’ll be surprised. You see, I’m having… it’s a little bit difficult communicating… communicating a simplicity to you. I get questions which tell me that you want a… you want a highly regimented uh… ‘I don’t have to think’ variety of thing. And to tell you the truth, you can’t process somebody without thinking. Uh… of course, you can just be an E-Meter and just sit there and be an E-Meter. But I’ve never seen an E-Meter make anybody well yet, unless there’s somebody reading the meter. It’s a very necessary piece of equipment to an auditor, but uh… unless he’s willing to look at the needle and find out what it’s doing and why it’s doing 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.

All right, now some preclear – as I said, we… we suddenly start to get drops on everything across the boards. Well, the best can be said for this preclear is this preclear drops on everything. And some other preclear, we get nothing but indecision, indecision, indecision. Well, for heaven’s sakes! Know something about the anatomy of ‘maybe’. Of course your preclear is going to be very indecisive about creation and destruction and everything else if this preclear’s sitting in a lot of big ‘maybes’.

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.

So let’s get an object here and then an object there. And let’s work until we can tell if an object is one place or if it’s another place.

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.

The first thing about a ‘maybe’ is that it’s confusion of location. It’s a confusion of beingness, a confusion of doingness, a confusion of havingness. And it’s too badly balanced to resolve itself. In other words, it’s all balancing everything, balancing everything else, and the fellow just can’t make up his mind about it.

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.

Well, the way to do that is to differentiate. And the way you differentiate is to put things… one thing in one location and then a thing in another location and then another thing in some other location. Simple, simple – nothing to it.

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.

Take the first Q, Q-l. If one can do that, one can differentiate. If he can do that, he can start and stop at will. See, all those cycles of action proceed out of Q-1 – very intimate. And it’s much more important in processing to make something change in location or to unmock some real universe thing than it is to indulge in a lot of speculation about it.

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.

This is action processing if there ever was one. Keep things moving, if you possibly can.

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.

And in an assessment, you don’t have to be very particular, because the points necessary to be gotten on the case will show up with exclamation points with great ease. You won’t have any trouble locating something on this case. You’re going to get a drop. And if you just ran over all eight dynamics on „Are you willing to create?“ And the fellow says, „Under what circumstances?“ Or „When would I create it?“ Or „What am I going to do about it?“ He’s nervous about creating it, that you can bet your bottom dollar. He doesn’t want to take the responsibility for creating, so he’ll create it for somebody else. Get the idea?

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.

So, we’ve got an upset about creation. And what’ll solve that upset about creating things? Just creating mock-ups, that’s all. Just let him go ahead and create ‘em. Then take another assessment and find out what specific things are standing in the road.

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.

This person says, „Destroy. Well, why would I destroy it? Why shouldn’t I destroy it? I don’t know whether I want to destroy it.“ He’s nervous about destroying it, isn’t he? He doesn’t want to take the responsibility for destroying it. Therefore he can’t handle the force of destruction concerning it, and it becomes a very, very simple thing, then, to process him or to assess him. You just get him to a point where he can at least make something disappear. You’ll find out that he’s most willing to destroy a worthless object. Get some object he’s utterly certain is completely worthless to everybody and everything, including himself, and then he’ll get a clean destruction on it, Let’s take a chewing gum wrapper, or let’s take some chewing gum, let’s go find some chewing gum under a theater seat somewhere. And then let’s very carefully take this chewing gum and make it get smaller or bigger. Or drop it someplace else, so that it will never be in the ken of man again. Well, that is next door to destruction, see? And by this gradient scale work it on up.

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.

So, as I say, you could do the Grand Scale assessment, or you could do just a little assessment. But you certainly better ask him about these things: the lists of relatives and associates as contained in the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS and the list of body parts contained in the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS. I’ll get around to writing all these things up for you.

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.

You should ask him about these things. You should ask him about the dynamics, his body and peoples, that are at the trouble, more or less, with everybody. And you’ll run slam bang into the computation of this case immediately. „Would you create Grandma?“ Wham! „Oh, you mean you wouldn’t create Grandma?“

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!

„I felt bad ever since Grandma…“

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.

What it’s dropping on is just ‘Grandma’, see? „I felt bad ever since Grandma departed this life.“

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.

What do you do? You didn’t have to go any further than that. We’ve got him stuck right away in an assessment on Grandma. You can go the rest of the way, if you want to assess the rest of the case, but you discovered a HECK of a DROP! That’s all you’re looking for is a WHALE OF A DROP! And all you see is little, tiny drops.’ And you want that thing going off the pin!

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.“

And by the way, I’ll… I’ll give an assessment just as long as the machine is still in working order. But when it starts to be threatened as to its working capabilities, why I’ll drop the thing and start processing. That’s a good rule to follow. Just don’t… don’t be… don’t think you have to snoop in with a magnifying glass into the preclear’s life. What you’re looking for is probably as obvious as this MEST universe.

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!

Now how do you fix Grandma? Gradient scale of Grandma. We finally get to a point where we got the… a sidewalk that Grandma once walked on. He doesn’t know she walked on this sidewalk, but he supposes she might have. And what do we do to it? We mark it all up or we do something to it or other. And then we get something else that Grandma might have had something to do with, and we vaguely walk in until we’ve finally got an old, very used, third-rate shoelace that is all worn out. And Grandma’s thrown away, and we’ve got something to do that to. And uh… we can start it and stop it and change it.

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.

And what do you do with these items? You put them in front of the preclear, behind the preclear, above the preclear, to the sides of the preclear and below the preclear and put them at a distance and put them up close. That’s what you do with ‘em. And you change them in color. And you change them in size. And of course you change the object from one object to another object. You change the sidewalk to a cow path. And you change the cow path to a boulevard. And you change the boulevard to an eight pass, super- duper highway which you change back to a cow path which you change back to a sidewalk. Just keep altering this, changing it around, shifting it around. This is really too easy to worry about it.

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.

But you’re going to say, „Well now, look: In postulates there are various abstract computations.“ And actually, everything above the level of action would be in terms of… everything above the level of action would be in terms of abstracts. And so your abstracts are very, very much to the point. And objects, to shift around, aren’t abstracts. You shift balls and horses and cows and chewing gum and so on. But what about things this preclear says he can’t remember, he can’t forget, he can’t do this, he can’t do that? And this is all abstract.

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.

The only thing wrong with this preclear is the MEST universe; let’s not forget that. You find him here and he’s agreeing with it.

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.

Your first level of abstraction immediately above… this isn’t the highest level of abstraction. This is the one that’s a merger between objects and thoughts. That’s the first level of abstraction. Up to this moment you’ve got cows and horses and chewing gum and ice cream sodas. Well, what is the first thing you move into, into the field of language, is an abstraction? It’s ‘forget’ and ‘remember’.

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.

If you were a deaf-mute trying to teach a child, how would you teach the child the meaning of the word FORGET and the meaning of the word REMEMBER? All language is based on objects. Language is symbolized object or condition or state of being. That’s… that’s all language is. Of course, its condition could be an action condition or a static condition.

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.

There’s quite a dissertation on this in SELF ANALYSIS. It’s in one of the later acts; it talks about uh… the… the fish in Lake Tanganyika. It’s almost the middle of the book. It’s not in the test itself; it’s in descriptive, I think, of Act 11 – not Act 11, but list 11 – something like that or List 9. It’s quite late in there, but it talks about language and what language is and what the first level of abstraction would be. We had this nailed down for a long time.

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.

‘Forget’ and ‘remember’. How do you make somebody forget? How would a deaf mute make a little kid remember. He doesn’t know the word REMEMBER. Every time the kid tries to throw something away, the deaf-mute would give it back to him. Every time the kid leaves something behind, the deaf-mute would give it to him again. And finally, the kid would go into apathy about it and have the object.

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.

And every time the kid wanted something or had something and was trying to hold on to it you would teach him to forget, simply by taking it away from him and not letting him have it.

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.

So ‘forget’ is ‘not let have’ and ‘remember’ is ‘must have’. Now these reverse on each other low on the tone scale and cause a very bad mental confusion. The guy has been given something, he’s got to remember it and he’s got to remember it and he’s got to remember it. In other words, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it. Until, at length, he just goes into apathy about having anything. He really won’t have it and he won’t take care of it, and he really doesn’t remember either. He’s just fading out into MEST. Same way with ‘forget’. He can have things ‘forget, forget, forget’ drilled into him until he gets daffy.

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

Now here’s something very funny. If you just demonstrate this to a preclear, very often a large sphere of his thinking will suddenly open up and become very clear to him for the first time, because he’s been taught on the level of abstraction, and never on the level of action.

„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 you must forget that.“

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.

He didn’t know what ‘forget’ meant. And he says, „What’s ‘forget’ mean, Mama?“

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.

And she says, „Not remember, of course.“ And she goes on washing the dishes. Smart, she is. He doesn’t know what ‘remember’ is either, see.

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.

So he digests this and he thinks this over and he’s got this figured. And he worries about it – probably for days. All of a sudden he comes up with a clarification: „Ha! This is worrying me because I don’t know what ‘remember’ is! I wonder what that funny other word is.“ He says, „What’d you say ‘forget’ was, Mama?“ „Well, it’s ‘not remembering’ of course.“ „What’s ‘remember’, Mama?“

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.

„Well, Willy! How stupid you are. Why that’s… that’s ‘not forgetting’, of course!“

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.

Nyeeowwww! And he stays in that spin from there on.

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.

The essence of handling memory is ‘forget’. and ‘remember’ at will. That’s the essence of thinking processes, is have or not-have, and that’s why thinking processes seem to get plotted up against time. And why the great – author George Q. Swishbottom uh… takes 180 years to write this book, and therefore it’s a great book. But when you read it, you won’t be able to find anything in it. That’s because he’s so lashed down on the time track on ‘forget’ and ‘remember’ that he thinks words are objects. And the reason he thinks they’re objects is because he’s so fixed and so squirreled on the subject of forgetting and remembering.

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.

Boy, he’s really had to remember and he’s really had to forget. This boy has been subjected to more force per cubic inch than anybody else you want to hear of. So it takes a long time, therefore it was a valuable thought. There’s no relationship. A thought is of a wave length and above a wave length. And it can be as instantaneous as the dickens. You get some of these people start thinking when they’re outside and all of a sudden, and they think themselves four or five years worth. Back out the back of their heads and think for the next two three years and then move back in again. They’ve been gone that long and worked out very complicated problems. All right.

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.“

Now then, forget and remember is your lowest level of abstraction. If that’s the lowest level of abstraction, what is the highest level of abstraction? You could straighten that out with a preclear. It’s just on the basis of having him handed things and having him had things taken away from him. That’s your first mock-up sequence.

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

Just mock up two bodies out there and have one give one something, and have that one that’s been given something, give it back. And if the guy can’t mock up, of course you go into black and white processing. If he wants to straighten out language, straighten out that first level.

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

Now there’s an upper level of abstraction. Your top level of abstraction is Interest. Now when I say ‘top level of abstraction’, I’m talking about thought impinging on the MEST universe. And your first border of impingement is Interest-Desire… You can write that down, if you want to, but I told you all about this yesterday. Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. So it’s way up there – Desire. Gotta have.

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.“

Well, what are we studying then? We’re studying forget is inhibited having, remember is enforced having, and your highest level of abstraction is a created desire to obtain.

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.“

And of course, no thetan who even got vaguely – go ahead and write it down, it’s all right – uh… no… no thetan ever needed, for his interest or anything else, anything in this universe.

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.

So the top level of abstraction carries with it some other factors of abstraction – the dynamic level is Desire and the other levels of abstraction, in the order of their importance in processing, are Conviction. And conviction, and conviction. Because the modifying and qualifying word for each item is, for any desire, the fellow WANTS, he has to be convinced of an EXISTENCE. In order to want a thing, he has to first be convinced there is a thing. So your conviction is right there next door to desire, all the way around. That’s uh…

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.“

You know, if I were going to give a lecture, somebody said, „Uh… what is the entire anatomy of thought in this universe?“ I would say, „Conviction – thinking processes.“

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.

You know, one of the neater techniques… one of the neater techniques, by the way, is uh… trying to convince people is the same as trying to move them around. Trying to convince them they’re solid or not solid, is making things solid and not making things solid, or making them unsolid. And conviction is a demonstration of existence and a person who is convinced, has been convinced, of course, in this universe, of a trickery. Because the universe doesn’t have any existence except the capability of a thetan.

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.“

And the capability of the individual thetan to perceive, to do, to create space and to handle energy and objects in that space. And uh… he probably wants to convince others that the space exists. But that’s the big trick – it doesn’t.

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.

So you go fishing around all you want to for creating an actual space, you can do all you want in that line, you won’t find any ‘actual space’.

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.

There’s an agreement on the actuality of space, and that agreement took place out of desire to be convinced. So a very neat process comes out of that. Well, it’s moving people around. That’s your level of… highest level of abstraction is Q-l.

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.

Of course, the joke is that nothing exists to move them around in, and they don’t exist to be moved around, except as you mock up something to move them around in and to move them around. That’s why the process works.

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.

Lowest level of abstraction then, is Inhibit and Enforce. And then up at the top we get Desire, and of course we get people convinced they desire. Well, how do you handle that? Well, you handle that by moving objects around.

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.

One of the neatest mock-ups you can run on a preclear – this really will stagger him – is make him make a piece of space and then make it solid.

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?

„Get a sheet of space – now make it solid. Now get a cube of space. Now pack it down into a solid object. Now you got a solid object? Make it into a cube of space.“ Neat. Why? Because that’s conviction.

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.

And he… if you were to run this in. flows, which you’re not going to run it in, you’d just run ‘trying to convince people’ and ‘people trying to convince him’, and ‘others trying to convince others’. Now that is… is a terrific process. And the reason why it’s a terrific process is very obvious. It’s because it has such tremendous abstraction in its content. It takes in Q, but if you didn’t understand what Q-1 was, you’d get upset about it.

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.

But uh… the guy exists, he’s got to convince people he exists. Existence is, if nothing… if not force, force making objects, so if he does not have force, people are not convinced he exists. And if he does have force, people are convinced he exists. So when he tries to convince people that he exists, one of his later answers is to smash hell out of him. They find out he exists.

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.

Now when he can’t use force, that answer is denied to him, so his inability to use force is a demonstration he doesn’t exist.

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.

All right, we get invalidation of him is done by force. Convincing somebody is done first by a thought and then by force. Invalidation is: „You don’t exist,“ and convincing somebody is saying, „I do exist,“ or „You do exist,“ or „They do exist.“ And it’s best done by force.

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.

I swear to Pete, if you were to go out here on the sidewalk and you were to take the first guy that came along and simply back him up against the wall and batter him until he finally admitted he saw a green toad – (I… the green toad doesn’t bear any resemblance to Purcell, I mean – that was not a dirty crack) – uh… a green toad, the guy would eventually, even if he were practically dying, probably come through and tell you, „Yes, I see a green toad.“ He’s convinced!

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.

And what do they… what do they finally pull – this language is wonderful stuff – what do they finally do to someone who thinks he is outside law? They convict him, don’t they. And when he goes to jail, he gets a ‘conviction’, and he is a ‘convict’. He’s been convinced. That’s their method of conviction, is to contract time and space. They’re trying to make an object. And object is all that is convincing.

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.

Now when you walk up to this wall and hit your hea… hand against it like this, you see? You’re convinced it’s there because you can feel the solidity of it. And if you didn’t feel the solidity of it you wouldn’t be convinced it’s there. So when you start doing unmocking, hold your hat, because mock-ups of one’s own universe and unmocking the real universe, laughingly called, produce some singular results.

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.

An auditor telling me last night, he… he’d had a guy unmock… unmock a part of a pinhole in the back of his head, and move this pinhole back and forth – a hole back there. And make it a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger and the guy was finally sitting there looking at the chair back. I heard this story a little earlier. The fellow said uh… „I seemed to be in this forest, and then the forest turned out to be the green back of the chair.“ He was looking out through the back of his head at the back of the chair.

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.

That’s unmocking the back of a head. Well, the second you start to unmock, ALL of a preclear’s experience on the track tells him, „No, no, no! It exists! It exists! Look – be convinced! Please be convinced! We’ll do anything if you’ll just be convinced!“ And he really gets scared that if he unmocks, thoroughly unmocks a table or unmocks a chair – you don’t have to educate him as to what to think about this. He’ll… he’ll say, „Maybe I better not do it.“ And you say, „Why not?“ „Well, I don’t know, I just got a feeling maybe I’d better not do it.“

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.

And the next thing you know, don’t be surprised if hard, solid objects and all sorts of things seem to sort of hail in on him. That’s all the times when somebody backed him up against the wall and said, „There’s a green toad there, isn’t there?“ He finally became convinced.

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.

Now his immediate and foremost desire, of course, centered on the home universe. And the home universe might have merged over into this one. So his active desire was directed toward the home universe, and then became crossed over into this universe. And many people have never discovered that there was any transition. They still think this is their universe.

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.

They… every once in a while they’ll gun around and they’ll talk about everybody being their puppets and everybody looks like… they haven’t discovered yet that it’s a group action. They… they think they made everybody here. And that’s just uh… an inability to differentiate between universes. Their own universe and somebody else’s. Well, they can start to unmock this universe and rebuild their own; they get cured of this very fast.

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

But uh… they will start breaking convictions they have had in the past. And when they start breaking these convictions, one after the other, why these convictions are mostly driven in and upheld by force and they themselves have tried to drive in and make… make other people convinced by using 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.

Oh, this gets to be gorgeous after a while. A preclear… a preclear is a… you start to unmock and mock things up after a while – umocking particularly – he’ll run head-on sooner or later into a feeling like he’d better not do it. It’s… it’s uh… „What if it all – umm-umm,“ because it’s on the thinnest of gradient scales of agreement.

„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?

One of the things you do is to make him go through the action of convincing somebody that something’s solid. Make him pick up some empty space and convince somebody that something is solid about it. And he’ll get the weirdest sensations. See, the joke is, he’s done just that. He gets the essence of making a… a gimmickahoojit. You… you… you’re going to have a game and you… you have to agree with somebody and so on. After a while, if you’ve got a lot of solid objects on which somebody’s agreed, you can pick up one of them and hit him over the head with it.

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 behind every conviction lies a little pool of treachery. And don’t be surprised then if you, as you unmock and mock things up in your preclear, or if you look on the assessment, you will find that there’s a big charge on treachery, trickery – being stabbed in the back, and so forth. This table is treachery, trickery and being stabbed in the back in some… in some category. And is desire in another category. And it’s all at once, desire, trickery, treachery. Because there’s nothing there to be desired. But he wants something there so that he can desire it. And it’s trickery and treachery. And boy, has he got an educated perception level! And you start to break through that educated perception level and he just does wonderful things.

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.

Then you’ll run… run this for a little while and you’ll start getting charges on the E-Meter on ‘It wasn’t there’. He’ll start going down… don’t worry about this, just keep up the process. He’s walked downstairs and he started to walk out through the front door. And got his hand through the door… before he remembered he’d better take the doorknob. That’s upsetting! That’s upsetting, for instance, to come over here and pick up this coke bottle, and really have to make a little postulate about it. „Well, it’s going to be solid and I can pick it up.“ Otherwise your fingers close on each other. Fascinating.

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.

Well, don’t let your preclear get into that state. ‘Cause we want this universe in good shape, because you’re going to run slam-bang into these manifestations.

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

Now what’s… what’s wrong with your preclear is as a little kid he tried to convince people of this and that. In school everybody tried to convince him of this and that. And he’s been trying to convince other people of this, and they’ve been trying to convince him of this. If you were just to run ‘conviction’ and just tear it off…

You say, „Try two.“

Now if you start running around trying to convince people Scientology works, you’re walking into the biggest trap of all. Of course, Scientology works. It doesn’t have to convince them. The… the reason it works…

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.

Oh, by the way. I didn’t make a gag very clear last night. I said I’d pop anybody if he kept talking about my ideas on this subject. Because what we’re talking about is the anatomy of the physical universe. And I’m damned if this physical universe was my idea.

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.

So if you were a little bit shocked or missed the point on that, I hope I made that very clear. What you’re doing is accusing me, you see, of being the author of all this universe, and that’s no good.

„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.“

Now… you can do a better job any day in the week. I mean this… this… this… look at that reverse flow as a trap, „I agree, therefore I’ve got to have. But if I agree – I mean – If I agree to have, then I run into ‘can’t have’.“ „That on which I work hardest, I will have.“ Energy devoted to, becomes havingness.

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

So Lord help somebody who insists on working only on the insane. Obviously he’d go nuts! It’s inevitable. What he devotes energy to, he will have. That’s one of the most fundamental rules there is. In order to have, you have to devote energy to something too. This universe has got that all nailed down.

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

That, by the way, doesn’t happen to be entirely true. You can just upset the agreement level and do that.

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.“

Now to tell you the truth, before I did very much about this convincing and conviction and all that sort of thing, I was very careful about it. I was, I was quite careful about it, because I… actually you start working with this and you just feel these walls kind of go ‘creak’. You say, „Now, wait a minute.“ And it wasn’t until very recently that I was thoroughly enough convinced that it would take more than two or three people working hard in this direction to cave it all in suddenly.

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.

But the whole thing of the process of Spacation – good old spacation – done: You put out anchor points, see? Now let’s put out anchor points while you’re lying on the couch and let’s unmock the couch. In other words, put out anchor points and put something of your own creation below the couch – but inside your own space. Put out anchor points out here – you’re lying on the couch and put a… a mock-up of your own down there. And then unmock everything else but the beingness of you, the anchor points and that mock-up.

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.

In other words, unmock the real universe.

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.

What’s the… what’s the cure if your preclear suddenly… all of a sudden decides his head is going to be blown off, or… This is liable to happen if you do that, you see.

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.

Oh, you just unmock some more things. Just unmock some more.

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.“

You see, the essence of unmocking is that if he’s really practiced at unmocking things, even if he’s still in his head, one day he unmocks his body. And for him… you see, his unmocking is done carefully within his own frame of reference. He doesn’t unmock for other people. He’s kind of careful about that at first, and then he gets a little less careful. And uh… so, of course, unmocking leads to a fellow just sitting there and no body. He doesn’t feel any body. Naturally then he can move around, and he actually will move around on that unmocking. He’s quite unwilling to do this.

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.

But what’s he run into? He runs into having to be convinced there is a body there. And he thinks of all the hard times that he’s had trying to convince himself of the existence of something or other. He’s been up to – woof! – way back some time… havingness. He’s tried to convince himself something doesn’t exist, and something does exist. And he’s tried to convince himself and get himself SOLD on the idea that there IS a universe there. And he thinks of the times when his WANT has been stirred up, his INTEREST has been commanded to this degree that he wants the object which has been described. And then he sits there and his desire makes him want the solidity and he gets space to come in together and he thinks of all the trouble he’s been through to go to all this sort of thing and to convince himself. And the thankfulness he felt when somebody walked up to him and handed him a real object. Handed him a piece of the MEST universe. He didn’t know the rules by which you made something, but yet this other was real because he could be convinced by it. And how could he be convinced? Because it could hurt him. And because it could give him interest and pleasure and because it had color in it and all that sort of thing.

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 your preclear starts on this track, he’s liable to put on the brakes. But that is very aberrated, because, you see, at any moment you can re-mock up it.

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.

The essence of mock-ups is the essence of perceiving illusions. And when he perceives mock-ups better, he perceives this universe better. So all that becomes very simple.

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.

So there… there is a level of abstraction which is at the upper spectrum of all abstractions. You… when the mathematician says, „A equals alpha“ or something, he does it with a conviction. He has decided that there is a convincing actuality in that relationship. And the reason he can say that is preceded by, not mathematics, but a conviction or a convincing of the existence of a beingness.

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.

And before beingness there must be a convinced… convincedness about beingness. And your lowest level of abstraction, of course, is easily solved because that’s ‘forget’ and ‘remember’. Now, don’t forget those two because the preclear’s memory is as good as he can receive and retain objects; and it is as useful as and as workable as he can give away and let go of objects. And between these two things, then, you get the whole range of what is laughingly called ‘the abstract’.

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

Now, objects, then, positioned in space, increased, decreased, made to disappear, made to appear again and so on, are handling from a level of Q-1 the entire span of abstraction as it applies to this universe. And let no one kid you otherwise.

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.

Mathematics are symbolical manifestations of number, quantity and quality, and… applied to this universe.

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.

You go outside the universe and make up a mathematics ‘1 equals 8’ and then don’t ever worry about proving it. Because that’s the next thing that people ask you to knock you down scale and make you buy things, or make you give up things – you’ve got to prove it. And of course you can’t prove something that isn’t there. So a man goes into the doggonedest, most long-winded dissertations and most idiotically, logical, wholly absurd – well, just get this: Now do you see, the reason why you work is so that you can eat. Nothing more logical than that, is there? That’s real hard-rock stuff.

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.

Now just a minute. If you didn’t… weren’t so convinced it was work, you would probably eat better. All right, we’ve knocked that out just a little bit. Now let’s go up the line. Whatcha eating for? Well, you’re eating for the sensation. Well, if you could mock up flavors which were better than you could buy, you certainly wouldn’t bother with what was called ‘real’ stuff, would you? So therefore you wouldn’t be eating for the sensation.

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.

Let’s go over into some better reason for this. Now let’s see. A fellow’s in a body so he can be identified. Oh, you mean you can’t make an identification of yourself show up so that people can see this? It’s coming down to an inability of some sort, here.

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.

Come on, let’s… let’s prove why you have to work. Well, I have to work, I have to – well…

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.

And that is the way with any proof there is for anything – proof or ‘pruff’ – in this universe. It just goes around in a squirrel cage. It’s just… it’s just nonsense.

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.

That’s true of space, energy and time, you see? I mean, they had space, energy and time – each one evaluated in the terms of the other two, and nobody outside this rat race. So if we could never get outside of this rat race, we could never find anything that would solve time. We move over here to Be, Do and Have and we move back there to look at… „Well,“ we say, „to heck with that. We’re out of that rat race.“ Well, we’ve just consistently moved up the line and moved the product of Be, Have and Do is space, energy and time. All right, Be, Have and Do are conditions which can be set up by postulates which then, if everyone is convinced thoroughly enough, exist as space, energy and time. And you work from this upper abstraction of Be, Do and Have, and you get space, energy and time.

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.

But you get something else, too. You don’t just get space, energy and time. You find out that postulates can be made about almost anything.

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

Now the first time these postulates begin to get very set and matter begins to be unmovable and people become to be very unhappy and the game stops being a game and becomes very, very hard work, is when everybody has to prove it all the time. They’re proving something that isn’t true, no matter what they’re trying to prove.

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.

Now we’ve taken apart an anatomy here, an anatomy of many levels of conviction which have resulted in many levels of desires and enforcements and inhibitions, resulted in many levels of conviction, many levels then of affinity and agreement and communications. And what we’ve done is, in the – language of this, backtracked right on up the line until we had reconstructed this. And we followed the track back and all of a sudden we test it and now go up track or down that track again or get off that track and go over on some other track and do something about that.

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.

And uh… it’s up to you to establish a reality along this level. It is awfully tight as a level of application. I mean, you’re not very far off any grooves. You… you’ve got postulates… you’ve got Q-1 and then you’ve got postulates. And then you’ve got Be, Do and Have and that gives you Start, Change and Stop, Space, Energy, Time. Therefore it can give you any kind of an abstraction, so-called. It can give any kind of an object or any kind of a condition.

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.

And you’ve just got all of that, just nearly fitted together in sort of a little telescope. And you can pull it out and look at it lengthily and drag it out endlessly or simply snap it together real close and start asking about the highest level of abstractions you can. You do an assessment on this E-Meter here and look that over and you find out what he can’t do. Well, the essential things that he can’t do is can’t unconvince himself once he’s convinced. And you might say that would be one of the rougher aberrations. He can’t convince himself that he can be unconvinced, because he thinks he has to convince himself to be unconvinced. And, of course, every time he convinces himself that he has to be unconvinced, he becomes more convinced and lower on the scale, because of your reverse vectors and other things.

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.

So I want to see… I want to see assessments done, but certainly not… not with… You know that before you start work on the preclear, fill up, oh, maybe ten notebooks, exhausting all this out carefully.

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.

Now if you continue to run a preclear on the machine while you do this, you will see whenever he’s run up against one of these blocked convictions, he’s uh… hit a point where he feels he has to be convinced. And you run up against one of those, and it’ll give you quite a shock on the preclear. That is to say, he’s… he’s run up against where… a point where he feels – oh boy! You just run dials down on that – where if he gives this one up, the whole universe will go ‘poom!’ and he’ll get quite upset about it.

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.

But uh… I’ll read you a couple of little laws about conviction, by the way. „Trying to convince is the same as trying to move people around – people or objects around; that they are solid or not solid; that they have space; that they don’t have space; that they act; that they don’t act; that they are perceived; that they are not perceived; that they can perceive; that they can’t perceive.“

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.

That’s all. Total level of line-ups. And one of the rougher things is that empty space is solid. Try… try to convince somebody that empty space is solid. You get the big relief of somebody… let’s say you’re dropping somebody out of a sixteen story window or something like that. Think of the big relief he would feel if he had a solid thing put immediately under him – I mean, right under him so that he would just drop a couple of feet and touch this solid thing. Boy, he’d feel so relieved. Well, that’s… that’s pay for being convinced that a solid thing can keep you from falling. It doesn’t happen to mean that a solid object can keep you from falling or it doesn’t happen to mean that gravity can necessarily act on you.

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.

This gets very, very interesting after a while. Uh… you could throw, quote ‘solid objects’ around at quite a… quite a rate if you wanted to. It’s up to you to recover that. It’s not up to you to be shown. And also when you’ve recovered it, it isn’t up to you to show anybody that. It isn’t, it isn’t up to anybody to… you don’t have to demonstrate anything to anybody. As a matter of fact, I make a very set rule against it. To hell with it.

Somebody comes up to me and says, „Can you prove that so-and-so and so-and-so?“ It’s just… that’s been going on in this track for 74 trillion years: „Would you please prove to me that so-and-so and so-and-so? Would you prove it to me? Well, I can’t see the reason in it.“ Both of those things are just as haywire as hell. There is no reason in it. And as far as proving it is concerned, they want to be convinced and the fastest way to convince anybody would be to shoot them or something. And that’s real conviction.

Yeah. What’s also amusing is trying to convince people that particles have various qualities and that they are visible or invisible. It becomes very fascinating, trying to demonstrate to somebody, really prove it to him, that a particle exists.

You can imagine yourself early on the track, going into heated discussions about this thing, until the guy finally would groggily say, „Okay, that’s a particle. I’m convinced.“

After a while we’d get all these particles together and we’d say,

„You see that table? That’s something solid. Now look, I’m going to prove to you that that table’s solid. Now take your fist…“

He says, „I haven’t got a fist.“

„You haven’t got a fist?! Well, now look. Let’s take a particle there – now hold on to the particle. You’ve got the particle? Now hit it against this table, see?“

And the guy goes… „Yeah! There’s something there – not… not really too solid yet though.“

And you say, „Well, just a minute, just a minute. Whap! Bam! It’s solid. Okay, now you hit it with that.“

„Yeah-yeah. Nice and solid now.“

I mean, it’s just as idiotic as that. The guy isn’t convinced so you convince him. He’s already been convinced there’s such a thing as energy so he can be bapped, zapped. He’s convinced of that and uh… now that he’s convinced that there can be energy you can convince – there’s such a thing as a particle, and the energy’s got to have space to be in, isn’t there? Of course, energy’s got to have space to be in – naturally. How could there be any energy if there wasn’t any space for it to be in? So that’s space, isn’t it? Okay. Guess that’s proved.

All right. Now, if there’s space and there’s energy in it, you don’t want that space and that energy in motion all the time. That’s silly to postulate that it keeps changing position in space. You haven’t proved to him yet that it is changing position in space, see?

„Now you just move it over there in the corner. Now, when it gets over there in the corner it gets solid, doesn’t it? It’s not moving.“

The fellow says, „What do you know! It’s not moving.“

„Well, when it’s not moving, it gets solid. There it is: Solid – solid object. That will be a dollar.“

Somebody’s already worked the magic on you that a dollar or a pound – are worth having, that you can buy things with it that you can’t manufacture.

The only thing valuable about the whole thing was a piece of knowledge. If you know a modus operandi and can put it into effect without excessive labor or cost, you sure don’t need the object from somebody else, do you?

So it was knowledge, actually, in essence, that was above all the levels.

Now you will find that knowledge is something that most of your preclears will just shudder about destroying. They don’t want to, unless it’s knowledge about themselves. So, you give them… have them mock up police dossiers that tell about all their affairs and everything else, and you get that blown up and so on. Because they’ve got to take the terrible value level that they have off knowledge. Because if they had translated the word ‘knowledge’ as meaning ‘a fact’, then they have to hold on to their facsimiles. So they feel they can’t destroy their facsimiles because their facsimiles are knowledge and this is not true. Their facsimiles as records are of no great value. Present time action is of greater value.

The knowledge of how to get it accomplished or how to accomplish present time action is valuable, not the file in which the knowledge is contained. The invaluableness of a file does not consist of the quality of its file cards. And if the file could exist without file cards, throw it away. Keep the knowledge, get rid of the file cards.

Knowledge can exist if we have a very easy, good method of reworking it at any time. You don’t need it. And you’ll see that happening the moment that you suddenly realize that you are sitting with the… a formula which produces knowledge at will. And the guy will say, „Well, I know. The hell with these facsimiles.“

He’s convinced, too, that facsimiles are used in lieu of force. This is a horrible trap. He thinks that knowledge will always serve in lieu of force. Well, it will if you can get there with enough of it quick enough. But don’t try levels of esoteric communication when there’s a soldier on the battle field and he’s got the rifle trained square on you and the finger is closing on the trigger. That is exactly the wrong moment to try to inform him that you know more about rifles than he does, so therefore you should be able to… Oh, no. No. You’re going to lose your havingness right there.

Another thing is… is overevaluation of havingness. A person who overevaluates havingness consistently and continually, then he will begin to protect things that .he’s better off without. He will have things he doesn’t need because he feels he can’t ever replace them. And you get your ‘packrat’ nature of Man.

And he goes below that level, he feels that other people want to damage him solely because he has things; therefore he’ll start to abandon, abandon, abandon, abandon. He has no proper evaluation of the importance of havingness.

Which means automatically then he’d have no proper evaluation of time. And so he doesn’t have.

But it all starts out with a desire and a conviction and goes on down the line. And after a person’s been convicted and sentenced to 74 years… 74 trillion years in the MEST universe, that much havingness of the MEST universe, it’s time some of you bail him out. I’ll talk to you later this evening.