Okay. And this is December the 14th, the first afternoon lecture, first lecture of the day of this date.

And this is the second lecture of December the 14th 1953, lecture taking place in the evening.

And today we're going to take up a higher principle of existence than we had with survive. And we're going to take up a higher principle of existence because we've — about time we explained survive, huh?

The subject of tonight's lecture is the assignment of cause. Cause and effect is something we've talked about quite a bit. I really don't know whether you have assimilated everything there is to be assimilated on cause and effect or not. There's an awful lot to it.

And it's very interesting that SOP 8 has not had — I have not put on any of the SOPs, the eighth step. But today I am describing Step VIII of SOP 8.

The first place, there's communication. Communication is built out of cause and effect. That's all it's built out of — it's not built out of anything else but cause and effect.

Now — because we have to take up perception, we have to take up postulates, we have to take up the failure of perception, the failure of postulates, and we have to take up why agreement with the mest universe is so difficult — pardon, not so difficult, but it's so deteriorating on a preclear.

One end of a line says, "A," and the other end of the line receives it. And cause and effect, in essence, to be operative even vaguely, depends upon duplication. And the modus operandi of cause and effect is duplication. Cause at one end of a communication line puts forward a certain pattern, and at the other end of the communication line, the receipt-point, that pattern should be received.

Now, the principle of survive is the most prominent of the principles which are listed in the early Vedic hymns. This principle survive comes out of the Vedic hymns, and is a word used to describe the middle of the band. Life is trying to survive, and that was Dianetics.

If this is the case, then you have good communication. If you don't get good duplication, you get very bad communication.

Now, in the early Vedic hymns, we find the curve of life, which is birth, growth, degenerate and decay. They do not specifically remark upon survive, but it is understood, you might say, in that curve. And that is the earliest philosophic writing of which we have any record here on Earth — and is, incidentally, throughout, the truest — the Vedic hymns.

May sound very non sequitur to you, but a person who is very aberrated sexually communicates poorly. Why? They're very short on duplication. Their duplication is aberrated, so they don't communicate well.

There are successive writings of the East which more or less evolve out of the Vedic hymns, but which are not themselves in a sufficient state of purity to cause us much interest. But when we have the earliest of the Vedic hymns, we have something which came down a great many years to the first writing. They were in existence probably thousands of years before they were written down.

Now, if you look up on that chart on the wall, the Chart of Human Evaluation and Dianetic Processing, you will discover that it is plotted immediately against the aberration of cause and effect. How much is the duplication of cause altered at the receipt-point because of an inability to receive? And this in itself is ARC, and that is communication, and that is the dwindling spiral of that chart, and that is how that chart is constructed.

I have heard them described as very simple. I have heard the remark said that the simple, pure and childlike glory of the Vedic peoples had long since perished. I have heard that said. And also that life, by the time men had begun to write things down, had degenerated into a very serious affair.

A perfect communication line is one which receives at its receipt-point that which was sent forward at its cause-point. But a perfectly guarded communication line is one which receives nothing at its receipt-point regardless of what is sent at the cause-point. That's a completely guarded line.

Well, it's interesting that people call simple things unimportant things. If something is simple, it's supposed to be unimportant. That is the first trick that one runs into.

There are various ways to aberrate a communication line. I give you an example of this in somebody who jams a communication line. It's very possible to do this.

It is only the simple thing which is important. The complex thing is never important. Just that — it's just never important. And the fact that people think the complex thing is terribly important permits them then to become involved in a chain reaction of worry which winds into a dwindling spiral and goes on down the line.

You with many preclears may consider that you have a preclear who is in communication, and yet you just don't seem to be able to give the preclear a command. Why? Because you have to wait until the preclear is finished talking.

Now, we want to investigate what the single factor of — above all other factors which we can locate at this time, what the single factor is that causes the dwindling spiral in this universe. And by isolating it, demonstrate that it can be remedied by a simple, single technique on a preclear.

You'll find quite routinely that you will have preclears who require a great deal of care in handling. You won't realize this first off because they are apparently in a good communication state, and yet they're guarding a communication line so thoroughly that nothing is received. They put forth a barrage of words which is intended solely and completely to keep you from being cause. And so as you try to process them, you find yourself fighting through a forest of words. Those things which they are saying are not necessarily sequitur to the problem at all. But they apparently are. And a person who is very good at this leads an auditor on and on and on. And the auditor is only getting in one auditing command every half an hour. That's really bad. It isn't quite as bad — of one auditing command every ten minutes because of this barrage.

The goal which we have of a simple technique on a preclear is a very worthwhile one for this reason: The auditor tends to run — this is just one of the reasons, a minor one — the auditor tends to run upon the preclear that which should be run upon himself.

But when you've processed such cases, you will readily understand what is meant by a guarded communication, because you get no image at your receipt-point. You are being a cause, and the receipt-point does not take the image. You'll get a discussion, not the image.

Theoretically, then, that technique which was the most common difficulty to all people would be one which would be readily accepted by auditors and which would be used consistently and continually. We have such a technique in Step VIII of SOP 8-C. And the name of that step is "Duplication."

If the case is very bad off, you may get a completely non sequitur discussion, and this is a psychotic. Now it's not necessarily an indictment of people who merely guard a receipt-point with communication barrages, because quite often they don't understand. And you as an auditor can then be dealing in terminology or with a language which is, in itself, unreceivable.

Duplication is, itself, the first and foremost necessity of a thetan. He is compulsively dedicated to duplication. And this universe obsessively prevents him from duplicating.

You see how that would be? Supposing you used nothing but technical terminology. You could say, "Now what is your postulate? What postulate did you make?"

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And the preclear says, "Huh? What are you talking about?"

The thetan has to duplicate, he thinks. He is not content — the thetan is not content at any time — to remain a unit. It's not interesting to him to be a unit, because there's no motion, no action, no time, nothing. It would just be a continuous eternity of "I am a thetan."

And you say, "Well, what postulate occurred to you at the time your mother soaked your head in vinegar?"

His first moment of duplication comes about with what I have spoken of many times here — the chess player. He goes on both sides of the board to play a game of chess. Well, he has to duplicate in order to be on the other side of the chess board.

And he says, "I don't know. She sure did, though — but what do you mean a postulate? Nothing — no postulate occurred to me, nothing happened. She soaked my head in vinegar there — it wasn't in a postulate besides."

Well, so we get our first entrance into automaticity and randomity. And that first entrance is with a duplication.

And you will find that from that point on, he will get more and more verbose. The more bad terminology which you use — that is, the more incomprehensible terminology which you employ in auditing him — the more verbal your preclear is going to get. Because they put up more and more of a defense barrage around the receipt-point in an effort to keep you from communicating.

He duplicates himself in order to be on the other side of the chess board and to have a player. Now as he continues to do this, he has more and more opposing players. And he can have also more and more of himself to oppose the more and more players.

Now, this gets so bad off that a person eventually starts to hold up — in a case as it deteriorates — that it can't duplicate and it can't duplicate and it doesn't dare duplicate and so forth, because horrible things might happen to it if it fell into the same image as that cause it met. It might get to a point where the case is holding up the mest universe walls and holding up all the barriers of space and the anchor points and so forth, with a communication barrage. You see they're no longer receiving, they are guarding.

Now, this universe, with its fixation on all dynamics on "thou must not duplicate," opposes this principle of "must have another chess player," so that an individual becomes more and more and more and more and more covert concerning the second chess player. And this very covertness eventually evolves into a very complex, aberrated system. It evolves, amongst other things, into complex communications systems which do not readily unravel, because behind every communications system we have duplication.

And as a consequence, of course all the walls and all space caves in on them. Because let me assure you that a number of symbols will not hold up a mest wall. They just don't do it very well. Yeah, the symbols are — well, you just take anchor points — anchor points will stay out there or come in, regardless of how many symbols are hung on them or edged toward them.

Duplication is the soul of a postulate. Why is it? Because a postulate is laid in so that something else will happen. Therefore something else must duplicate the postulate. Any order given by the captain of a company is expected to be duplicated by the sergeants. You see that?

Now, this is to some degree confusing to anybody who confuses a symbol and a postulate. A postulate is of course that thing which is a directed desire or order or inhibition or enforcement on the part of the individual in the form of an idea, and a symbol is an idea which is cloaked in energy. That's different.

Anytime a carpenter sets out to make a bookcase, he is demanding that the mest universe duplicate his postulate in energy. He has to have a communications system to do this, in order merely to say, "There will now be a bookcase." He has to have some space in which to do this. He says, "All right, there will now be a bookcase." Bing, poof! There's a bookcase.

Now, when people are communicating with symbols, such as words, and laying them out into space continually, they have an idea that the space is made rigid by their symbols. You can find this in many, many cases. They think they're holding up the universe with symbols. Symbols won't hold up the universe — nothing holds it up except its own laws. And the idea of a fixed postulate is as good as a person has not had damaged his own idea that he can fix things.

Well, that's all very well, but one immediately becomes rather unvalued — that is to say, items and objects become rather valueless. Why would he say, "There will now be a bookcase," except to create beauty? But he wants attention because he has an interchange — if he's going to duplicate himself to be another self, then he wants attention from the other self. And we get the attention interwoven with the duplication, so that the basic background of attention is duplication.

Now, how can you damage that? You can just show him he's wrong often enough so that he after a while will believe that if he puts a postulate in one place, it will actually appear in another place, and so he starts to take precautions about fixing it. And the way he takes precautions about fixing it is throw some energy at it, or connect it or associate it with some postulate which is already stable. So we take a stable postulate and then connect to it a lot of other postulates, and we get immediately not just a system of symbols, we get a system of logic. This in essence is mathematics.

A postulate duplicated in mest forms would be to make pieces of wood or metal form in such a way, and stay in such a way, as to continue to form a bookcase. So in that communications system we have a more complex communications system only because of one thing: The basic postulate that goes behind these walls is, of course, "resist effect."

Mathematics has long tied itself with great security to the symbol of zero. Now we begin to inspect zero and we find out that mathematics has been using an unqualified zero. So their logic, mathematically, does not tie down well. And you'll find mathematics uniformly failing when applied to complex problems such as aerodynamics.

But there is a higher postulate in every piece of space made. Every piece of space, every space and area, has a higher postulate in it, and that is, "I mustn't duplicate." In order to resist effects, in order to stay as it is, it of course must not duplicate.

It's very interesting that in aerodynamics they have to cut the propeller blade and then send it down to the laboratory to have some mathematician measure it sufficiently to make a formula to fit it. Now he sends that formula to some other factory so that they can build an airplane propeller blade just like that. And the mathematician over at the other factory writes it out very nicely, and draws and replots the curve and does a lot of things with it and sends it down to the shop. And the fellow in the shop there, he has a friend that worked in the first factory, so he just sends over and gets the other blade and makes a cast of it, and makes his blade that way. That's the way they build airplanes. Vrroom!

Any time you say, "This must stay as it is," you must, of course, understoodly say, "This mustn't duplicate now," unless you are throwing out large quantities of raw material which are expected to duplicate something. Now, that would be something else, wouldn't it? But then you would say exactly what they were expected to duplicate.

Mathematics is of very limited usefulness and is, as a matter of fact, not very trustworthy; simply because it is not anchored to anything which is an absolute. If there were an absolute in mathematics, it would be very safe to use mathematics. But until such time as they determine what absolutes they are going to hang what logics to, it is going to continue to be an aberrated subject.

But the earliest cast-about of raw material in this universe took place in space, which already had the postulate in it, "mustn't be duplicated."

The most trying task of any auditor is to wade through the symbol system of an individual to get the individual to mechanically comply with the auditor's order.

A god of this universe — an anthropomorphic god . . . And I hope that you understand me very clearly when I use this word god loosely and even blasphemously, for the good reason that this thing g-o-d is something which man has set up in his image; and it is merely an ambition on the part of a thetan, it's an effort — a co-effort on the part of thetans to have a playing field and so on.

Where a preclear has not had results from SOP 8-C — regardless of what step you're using — within a few minutes, you should immediately assume that your symbol system or his symbol-receipt system is in fault in some fashion or another. He is not doing what you are asking him to do.

And there is, actually, beings above the beingness of this universe. There are beings, but they are not this anthropomorphic thing who is the jealous god, who has hate and vengeance and so forth — that happens to be above that level.

He may be very obliging. It isn't how calm a preclear is, it isn't how happy he looks, it's is he doing what you asked him to do?

And the jealous god — the most jealous god there would be, would be a god who would insist at all times that he must not be duplicated, even to the point of not using his name in vain. He mustn't be duplicated. No graven images. His space — it's all his space and so forth. And we go on this way.

You'd be surprised how happy some preclear can be when you have told him to hold the two back anchor points of the room — how happy he is to sit there and mock up lilies of the valley and throw them over his right shoulder. They'll do this. Your faith in humanity is never complete until you realize that humanity very seldom guides and is easily directed in the direction which you're trying to direct it.

Interesting, isn't it? We have a "no duplicate," in other words, in the space. You mustn't duplicate this space. You mustn't compete with this space. This space is here, there's only one space.

As an auditor, you have a human being, and you've decided to direct him into a certain technique. Now, the chances of his going easily and continuously into that technique without jumping around, and the chances of his replying to you that he is not doing it perfectly, are quite great. Matter of fact, they're so great that they should be expected by you.

We find a scholar of the level of Count Alfred Korzybski, for instance, writing an entire text and an entire subject — general semantics — on the premise that two mest universe spaces cannot concur, and they cannot be in the same space. It's interesting to the degree to which this can go. This is not even vaguely true. It's just space. I mean, you can do anything with space — unless you were convinced that space will not duplicate you, and that you mustn't duplicate space. If you're convinced of that, then you mustn't duplicate. That's your first level: You'd better not duplicate space — not this mest universe space.

I dare say cases which are holding up here, those that aren't progressing as fast as they should, are hung up on a communication barrier of some sort or another. They might get hung up this way: They hear me — the same case that you're auditing later hears me describe a technique, and he gets a fixed idea as to how it should be run.

In the first place, any one of you are capable of making this much space. But if you mustn't duplicate this space, if you must back up from such a duplication, then you will have this playing field in common — the mest universe — with others, if you don't duplicate it.

And then you, having received another type of an idea on how it should be run, apply it to the case, and the case then realizes that you don't know what you're doing.

But all sorts of weird things evolve immediately that you start to duplicate space which others can use. You've set yourself up, for one thing, as God. We mustn't do that! There's all sorts of provisions against this.

Whatever he realizes, all he thinks of is that you don't know what you're doing, merely because he heard it one way, and you're not doing it that way. Never occurs to him he might have heard it wrong. Never occurs to him that you might, in applying the science very widely to what you're doing, and knowing that he was a student in a class which heard this technique, are trying to close in on him sideways as covertly as he would try to avoid it. That might never occur to him either, you see. So this little duel in which you're engaging amounts to a duel, not processing — all because of a communication barrier. And he becomes very distrusting of you as an auditor simply because you didn't audit by the book, some fashion or another.

Now, anybody who is afraid of space has discovered long since that the space will not duplicate him. And that he, perforce, must at length duplicate the space. And so the thetan becomes nothing. Because he has to duplicate the space in terms of "be this space." So he's driven to the point of either "I can't be" and "I won't be" this space, at which moment he becomes nothing, at the same time not making any space of his own. If he refuses to duplicate the space continually, why then, of course, he stops duplicating space. Because space is just space, it isn't anything very, very strange.

It's all right not to audit by the book, you know. As many — matter of fact, many times you have to audit sideways from the book, many times you have to, mainly with those people who know the book.

This mest universe space just happens to occur here. Well, other spaces can occur here, too. And — but if you drive it under cover that other spaces can occur here and convince everybody that no other space can occur here, then you have only one space here.

Now I can sit down and audit an auditor and he'd think — he'd think, for the love of Pete, that I was undoubtedly using Sanskrit on him or something. He wouldn't even vaguely recognize what I was doing with him. I would just be running SOP 8-C, but he wouldn't have any recognition of any step that was being run.

Now, this space won't duplicate you. Therefore it won't carry your orders. It will do all sorts of things, but it won't duplicate you. Not directly, on a postulate basis.

How would this be? I would be asking him to put up emotions — emotions in such a way as that he was actually making space with them. And he'd go on putting up these emotions and he'd say he was running that technique and he would actually be making space, and I'd be running a Spacation on him.

In other words, you say, "All right. This space — this space will now be twice as big," and it's right there, the same size. But that's only because you've agreed to it. You've agreed on a no-duplication with this space, as I remark again, even dramatized to the extent of Alfred Korzybski's general semantics. All through that book you mustn't duplicate space. You mustn't put space within space and mustn't do all sorts of things.

That's as covert as the preclear. An auditor should never overlook an opportunity to be as covert as the preclear. (audience laughter)

That's a very ironbound system. Now, we needn't go into this too far because, by the way, this will show up with you, on the process of it. All this material will.

You get a coincidence now between cause and effect and communication and duplication? You should get this coincidence because it's right there — I mean it's right there to be observed.

But let's just take it by dynamics: "mustn't duplicate." All right. First dynamic: You mustn't duplicate yourself. If there are two of you, you're kind of outside the law, right away. As a matter of fact, you've immediately exceeded every police record there is.

If you want a graphic representation of it — and nothing, by the way, I used to think, is true unless it can be graphed in two-dimensional space. Oddly enough, I laid that limiting barrier on my own mathematics very early in the evolution of Dianetics — as a matter of fact, long before it was called Dianetics. And I used to know that something was wrong if I couldn't two-dimensionally graph it, even though I had to demonstrate a third dimension in the graphing. If it couldn't stand on a two-dimensional plane, it was not true. There was something too complicated about it.

You could go out and kill somebody and then the police could take one of you and execute it, and the other one would go out and kill somebody else. And about the time they were executing it, there'd be another one of you walking out the front door, tipping your hat.

This is — I'm going to show you this right now. You have your problem of space. Now, a problem of space can be laid out to demonstrate a third dimension on a two-dimensional plane. You can demonstrate any such problem of space. All right.

Fingerprints would be of no use, so identification and identity itself would be of no use. And you would have immediately escaped every consequence of this universe, the second that you can duplicate yourself.

Now let's take a look at cause and effect, and see that cause and effect is graphable on a two-dimensional plane. We draw a diagonal line on a piece of paper, and we make — mark one end of this line C and the other end of the line E. And we draw a vertical — small vertical line at C, and then draw a number of dotted lines matching it all the way down, perpendicular to the first line. And we get these little dotted lines which are images of this first vertical line we drew in front of C, and we then draw another solid line down there at E.

And yet, to have any power in this universe, actually there must be two of each of you. Has to be two anchor points. The most basic kind of terminal imaginable is two terminals. You see that?

And we mark this little vertical line which stood up there at C — we mark this little vertical line, P-1. And then we mark down at E, P-2. Position 1, position 2. There we have a picture of a communication system. We also have a picture of where your preclear is going to be found. He is somewhere on this slant line between C and E. He is at one of these little dotted-line positions. He is as far from cause or as far from effect as he cannot cause or as he cannot be affected.

You've got to have two terminals. If you don't have two terminals, you don't have any exchange of energy. Did you ever see an electric motor with one terminal in it in this universe? It doesn't function. So, if you knock out one terminal, that leaves somebody playing the "only one." And the way you do that is by convincing him he mustn't duplicate.

The least optimum position to occupy is exactly in the center between C and E — where a person cannot be cause but isn't effect, where he isn't effect but cannot be cause. And he sits there in the center. And that's immobility, and that's "cannot duplicate." He must prevent cause and prevent effect, he must prevent everything. He is, in essence, not a preclear, but a communication particle. He would be very happy if you put a stamp on him and glued his sweater over his head and dropped him in a mailbox. He actually thinks of himself as a communication particle.

But you give him a system by which he can duplicate, and so we get the second dynamic. Now, as we start on out the second dynamic, we find out that he can duplicate himself by use of certain symbols and activities, and that he's even paid for it in terms of sensation for doing it this way.

Now, if you notice that little graph, that's a very easy graph to understand. And that's as easy as Scientology is to understand today.

And we get the act of duplication, the sexual act, and we get the result of this sexual act, which is children. Well, somebody not thinking very far and without the keys to this problem in their — terms of basics, would stop right there and say, "Well, look, there's something wrong with this system," and spend his entire life trying to tear the system down somehow or another in somebody's mind. But if he didn't have the key to this system, he would never tear it down.

What are we trying to do? We're trying to take the preclear and move his position on this slant line between C and E, up toward C, and make it possible for him to be at E without concern. We're going to move his chronic position, his stable position, up toward C from wherever it is.

Yet Sigmund Freud made a very bold effort to do so. And everything he said about it's — happens to be true, but it just — too complex and doesn't go far enough.

Now, those little vertical dotted lines that you have there, these little dotted lines are, each one — if you marked in nine of them, you would get about the same number of inversions as there are on a case.

Sex is terribly aberrative, but it is not even vaguely the most aberrative thing on the dynamics. Just let's take number one — you. Let's take something more aberrative than that. Let's take you, all the time putting out postulates, orders, commands to things that won't duplicate you. You don't believe it? Just tell this wall up here to be some other way. Because the basic postulate in that wall is "I won't duplicate you." You have to go through all sorts of weird commu­nications systems in order to get it to fashion. But that's clear on up to six.

Male voice: Nine?

Now, let's take the third dynamic. The third dynamic means a group consisting of separate individuals. Well, what would happen to the third dynamic if you were able to say, and everybody had to accept at that moment, "There is now — there are now eight hundred thousand of me."

That's inversion, just about nine. You mark nine little lines, that gives you ten gradients.

You're a third dynamic right there — boom. This'd be very, very destructive in terms of armies. The enemy has to keep recruiting, recruiting, recruiting, recruiting and bleeding the nations of everybody who is playing the "only one." And you would appear on the field of battle, you would say, "There are now eight hundred thousand of me, and there's only five hundred thousand of him," you'd hardly even need weapons. You'd just walk at him — he'd be swamped.

A human being can invert about ten times. And we get the DEI cycle, the cycle of action, the input-output and so forth, back and forth, before a person really starts down markedly — well, you get to number 1. Position number 1 ordinarily happens when he's quite young — very young, infant. Position number 2 happens in childhood. Position number 3 happens before puberty. Position 4 happens about at puberty. Then there's position 5, and you've got the teenage position. And then we go up to the young adult at about 6. This person is getting closer and closer and closer to effect. When this person is about thirty-one, thirty-two, we get him at about position 7. About forty-two to forty-five, we get another inversion which is about at position 8, and we get then another inversion at about sixty, and that's position 9, and then he's dead. And that's about the number of times a person inverts. That is to say, their pattern of thinkingness changes with regard to their own regard of their own power or their own ability to accomplish something. Their thinkingness changes at these points.

And then after that eight hundred thousand was dead, all but one, or something like that, you could say, "Well, now there's two million of me."

Now, this is merely graphic, but it demonstrates the ages of people in terms of cause and effect. An infant, of course, is very far from effect. He's so drifty-around about life in general and so on, that most everything just misses him completely. And he certainly is intent upon being very causative.

Only you could even go this far — you could say, "There are now two million in his rear." So you see, you'd play chaos with the game immediately that the third dynamic permitted a duplication. So any group in this universe dramatizes "this group must not be duplicated."

Now, we get somebody, a young adult, he has already learned enough manners to realize that he can't always be cause, and he's had enough accidents happen to him so that he realizes he'd better not be effect all the time, either. And so he's starting to fall into the middle ground. This is then not a very inactive middle ground, but it is a middle ground which is relatively ineffective.

Actually, the universe lays down the law that it mustn't — a group mustn't be duplicated. People try, however, to get groups to duplicate. And there again, underlying each one, is this big effort on the part of the thetan to duplicate covertly.

Now, as he goes down the line, if you were just to follow the cycle of life, you would mark at C, "create," and in the middle, "persist," and at the end of it, "dead," or "destroy." And you would have the cycle of action of the mest universe graphed against a cause-effect and a communication line and so forth.

In the Constitution of the United States it is clearly stated that competition is the heart of all trade. Very clearly stated. In other words, let's duplicate every company so that it can have a competitor. It says let's play a game; let's duplicate. And you have monopolies continually coming forward trying to break that law down, each monopoly trying to be the "only one."

Now, a communication relay system simply is composed of a number of these lines, and these lines interlocked together, should give you a communication system.

So we have groups. We have the group the United States, trying to make it legal to duplicate. And we have the thing that's being duplicated trying to make it illegal to duplicate and be a monopoly. The cartel system, and other evils which have arisen in recent decades and so on, are based upon the insistence of a few that they be not duplicated.

Let's take a Western Union telegraph system. And we find that a message is put in at one end, is received at the other end of a wire and is relayed over into another system, and goes along that wire and is changed at the end of that wire into another system, is relayed along that wire — in other words, this is booster systems it goes through.

Now, we go on up to the fourth dynamic, and we find that man would be very upset — is very upset, or is made to laugh, by monkeys trying to duplicate him. It's another species. He's very intrigued with this, or he's insulted by it. And if Martians were to come down here and say they were men, and let's say that Martians were the cartoons of Martians — which they aren't — if Martians were these cartoons, then man would be, again, very upset.

Now, these booster systems, one after the other, do not change materially the message, and so that comes to be a very reliable system. And for this reason, engineers observing this say, very comfortably, that mest is something very good to work with, and they become very fond of mest because it will receive an effect, and it can be made, under the monitoring of their ideas, to carry something like an idea which they are causing. And so it appears to be a very good system.

These things are not men. The only sentient species, of course, must be man — the fourth dynamic. We mustn't have another sentient species suddenly appearing on the scene with similar capabilities, claiming unto the same rights man would have. A Martian trying to get rights under the Supreme Court of the United States would not get them.

There's only one thing wrong with it: It ceases to be a system the moment it ceases to have ideas fed to it. It is a dependency system.

Now we get to the fifth dynamic and we find that all life is in a wonderful contest, and it's running madly in one direction on the second dynamic to duplicate tremendous numbers. Or, on the first dynamic, to remain and survive as long as possible as one animal. We find the whole animal kingdom's doing this.

If the man were standing there with no body and yet he was using all of these relay systems, you would have something very unaberrative. You'd just have a direct address to mest.

Let's take the method the herring uses. The herring survives solely by duplication. He wants to duplicate enough and far enough and so many that not all the herring can be killed, and one herring or two herring or three herring or something like this will always be left after every attack. And so he builds, as a fish, tremendous capabilities in each herring to produce enormous numbers of herring. And so it is with all fish. They have taken this system of duplication as a rote procedure.

But where the individual is working through a body and into an electronic system, you get some interesting situations. Because the electronic system may have no breaks in it, but the amount of break between the thetan and the body, and the body and the first entrance into the system is very great, because there you're getting very imperfect cause and effect.

Now, when man himself begins to starve as an individual, instead of simply duplicating the food or duplicating himself, he starts down the sexual track which runs along coordinated against time, and we get in India — we get personal survival of very little moment. This is true in China too. And yet, duplication in terms of sex as the big answer. He must go down the track, then, in terms of that.

There's an old technique known as Ridge Running. It's in one of the early SOPs. You might run it on somebody sometime, it's a process of watching a little white line grow, and then go black. And then you turn it around — turn the question around and turn the flow around, and it runs white again and then goes black. And by this, you actually pattern out the communication system which a thetan uses in order to enter the body. And to a thetan, any communication system is better than no communication system, and so we get with this problem of "must have a communication system," we get the most remarkable misrelays which you've ever seen.

But because they've already surrendered to such a communications system, we don't find mest duplicating the postulates of the men very well. They don't make things into things — it more or less runs along and decays.

It is a fantastic thing. The thetan feeds in at some point — probably right in the middle of the system — feeds in a command, which then works itself through the most complicated network of ridges, which go out sometimes as far as four or five miles outside the body, and then return back into the body, and cross-plot and check and turn and change and vary in various ways, until they strike the proper activating ridges and anchor points in the body so as to cause the body motion.

But right with that, they are sold so thoroughly on the seventh and eighth dynamics, which we'll get to in a moment, that they have a wonderful time. They just have this fabulous time with the seventh and eighth dynamics; because they feel they can't duplicate, so therefore something else is duplicating.

You can watch this system with Ridge Running — it's a very good experimental technique. You can watch this and observe what one of these communication systems is.

And you get a Hindu slavishly following orders. He is doing the one thing he can do, which is to duplicate the orders of another, which is other-determinism. And that, in essence, is the definition of other-determinism, is to duplicate something else rather than to duplicate yourself.

Ridge Running is too hard for an auditor to run, that's all that's wrong with Ridge Running. It'll exteriorize somebody. It's too hard for an auditor to run because an auditor gets into the thing and finds himself sitting with three causative points. The thetan is obviously in three places if there are three causative points present. Well, this is very confusing to him — to the auditor and to the preclear. And if the auditor doesn't go on and handle it from there, and finally reduce all these causative points to one causative point, he leaves a very confused preclear. But a preclear will get out of his body this way and suddenly realize he can control his body from the outside.

Well, we get up to the sixth dynamic, and we find out that the entire background of the sixth dynamic is "we mustn't duplicate you." Space, energy, matter, time — none of these things will duplicate you, it says. And that's the prime postulate in them.

But, as I say, it's a long technique, it's arduous and it uses energy. It has many things against it, but it's an experimental and investigatory technique, and the main thing it investigates is the communication relay system which the thetan employs in handling the body. And this system is so complex that it's almost impossible for a thetan to say to the body, "Walk," with any expectation of the body walking. It'll — liable to do almost anything. And he eventually goes into apathy and decides he can't handle the body and that the body had best be left to handle itself.

Now, we get the seventh dynamic, and because of the mobility and the postulate ability of a thetan who is mobile, of a spirit, of a saint, of something else — we get this — a body duplicating the spirit. The body duplicates the spirit because the body is immobile, it's tied down into a communications system, and it is on a communication line which is the genetic line, and so forth. So it will obey a spirit. But it won't fully duplicate the spirit. It only partially duplicates what the spirit says.

And the better part of the preclears who are having trouble getting out of their heads, the better part of these preclears (that's not the better part of preclears, that — because they — about 50 percent of them just move out, that's all; they are not hard to exteriorize), but the better part of those who are having difficulty, are having difficulty just because when they say to the body "boo" the body is liable to say "baa." And they have no reliance on this and so they begin to tighten up these lines, tighten up the control lines, and without looking at the control lines or destroying any old communication systems — they're afraid to do this — they start just trying to drive communication systems through, and so they start using effort in handling the body, and eventually their own relay problems are so great that they can't move themselves. In other words, they can't be elsewhere than in the middle of this communication system. They're afraid to leave it, it's too complex. Why? Because what they put in at cause, comes out as almost anything at effect, if it comes out at all. They've learned this.

And now we get up to God, and we've already said something about God — God is the one thing in this universe which mustn't be duplicated and which is playing the game, the "only one." And it — fortunately for this universe, as far as this universe and intimate interest in it is concerned — it doesn't exist as a god. There is a god above this universe, but this is not a god intimately connected with this universe.

Drills, by the way, by which an individual realizes that he is handling the body — no matter if he's still in the body — will result in clearing; they will result. It's a very long technique, you understand that — it's a very, very long technique.

This universe is normally — could be routinely considered from one moment to the next, as simply a playing field which is co-created by those thetans which are within it.

What you do instead of getting somebody to train the body, is to go through monotonous and repetitious motions on the part of the body till he realizes that the body is duplicating directly a command. He doesn't realize that up to that point, he just sits there in apathy. He makes commands at the body and so forth, but his — basically self-trust is simply this, is "Will it do what I have just said it should do?"

Now, where we have no duplication and the impulse to duplicate, we get a failure. You see that? That should be very clear. We have this tremendous obsession — everyone knows that the answer to every problem is duplicate. No matter — let's take the game called traps — "caught in the trap." That's this universe patly — it plays the game "caught in a trap." Nearly every child's game has something to do with this — caught one way or the other.

Now, have you ever gone into this kind of a situation — is, you've determined that your answer to some kind of a question is going to be no, and that you're going to be very, very firm about something, and that's the way you're going to handle it. And as soon as so-and-so shows up, you're just going to tell him no, and you're not going to do any more about it, and that's going to be that. And then so-and-so shows up, and you look at him and you say, "Well, it's this way, and I guess I won't do it, but — oh well, all right, I will but I don't want to," and so forth. And you walk away from there and say, "Why the hell didn't I say no? Now look what I've got myself into."

And we take an individual who's caught in a trap. All he has to do is duplicate himself and he'd be outside the trap.

Well, that is a failure of a communication relay system which a thetan interprets as his own cowardice. He says he can't stand up to something like this. No. The point is, is he's got his systems of communication interlocked with somebody else's system of communication, and the number of points is too great for him to control. See, he's got somebody else to talk to. Well, just because he has somebody else to talk to, he has another communication point. He's got another E.

And to get into this — not E-therapy. I often kick myself for ever having written "Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science," that's where E-therapy came from. As a matter of fact, the boy that was kicking E-therapy around was very, very excited and started shaking "Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science" under my nose and so forth, and pointing to the exact line which is the line of E-therapy. It's the setup of the great god Throgmagog, which is the setup of the total consciousness of the body exterior to the individual himself, and the individual will obey it. And it's in there, just in that — almost in those words. Only trouble is, it's not in there as a therapy, it's in there as an investigatory technique and has never served any other purpose than that. But it produces some lovely phenomena.

But as the cell goes down through the cycle of one lifetime in a body, it starts getting smaller and smaller and smaller. It's losing something all the way through. Well, the main thing it's losing, of course, is its self-determinism — its tremendous dependency upon the energy furnished it in terms of food. So it starts duplicating, is the factor. And it starts duplicating the energy activity of combustion, and so it loses its own self-determinism. Combustion enters in.

And anyway, that's completely aside the point. That's another line of communication. That's just said in there, and there is an insufficient qualification as to what it's all about.

Now, most of the people who can't get out of their heads are relying very heavily upon energy produced by the body, and they're duplicating this energy action of the body rather than furnishing energy. And they get away from the body and they're very weak. That's because they're not making any energy — they're depending on the body to make it.

So, let's look at this idea then. He's got another terminal standing in front of him, and this other terminal is exciting these communication relay points which he himself is trying to excite. See, he's got a problem now of some other terminal standing there and this terminal — he intended to be E, and this terminal insists on communicating, and as soon as the terminal communicates to him, why, it puts his thought patterns into an operation which backs up against these relay points which he was going to use to say no. And he can't get a current going down these lines, and as a result, he doesn't know what to do and he becomes confused, and therefore he acquiesces to some proposition that he didn't care to agree with. And there's a communication system of that character. It's fatal to have a communication system in which you cannot predict the behavior of C and E on the line I've just given you.

In other words, they've gone to a point of — this is the cycle they've run: They've given orders and postulates to the body, and orders and postulates to the body, and they've insisted, "Duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate," you see. Every time they say, "Walk," then the body is supposed to duplicate this action. And now they throw up a mock-up in the body which is walking, and the body walks. And the body walks, that's all. You see? I mean, it's so simple.

And let's take now a line of soldiers. We take this line of soldiers and we whisper to the first one a message. And we have that one whisper it to the next one, and without any further intervention on anybody's part, he whispers it to the next one, to the next one, to the next one. Each one whispers it to the next one all down the line and we listen to the final message. Well, I don't care what message is put in at the beginning of this line of soldiers. It can be "General Grant is attacking at midnight." And you go to the other end of the line, and you'll hear "Popcorn is for sale at Pugburg." Won't have any relationship to it. The message will have C'd and E'd wrongly enough here and there through those relay points, so that any engineer is to some degree justified by saying, "Give me good old electronics, give me good old mest. That's reliable stuff. I mean, that's good."

But they've kept on doing this. Now, there have been many times when they told the body to walk and the body didn't walk; in other words, didn't duplicate. So at length, you get the thetan duplicating the body, not the body duplicating the thetan.

And he errs simply to this degree, is he is looking at lines. He doesn't need any lines to get his stuff through. The thetan up against the body has made the same error. He thinks he needs a body to make noise. He thinks he needs a body to protest against his being hurt. He thinks he needs a body to communicate for him. In other words, he thinks he needs a body as a system of barriers by which he himself can be protected — that's because he's afraid he'll be hit. He thinks he needs a body to furnish him energy. He begins to believe that he is an energy system which is not a generative energy system at all, but which is an energy system which depends upon a body for its energy.

So the thetan begins to take orders from the body, and orders from the body would be merely a sort of a flotsam and jetsam carried along in society — really stimulus-response — because the body doesn't give anybody any orders.

He's bought the engineer's idea of a power plant. He thinks there has to be an engine in the motorcycle. He thinks there has to be dynamos sitting down there and providing power; that the coal has to be shoveled in from somewhere; that the sun has to put out photons which have to get into chlorophyll, which has to then be compressed, and which has to decay and be compressed for a few million years, and then has to be dug up at vast union trouble and shipped down and shoveled into this and that. He believes in a complex communication system, in other words, which furnishes energy. And any communication system, to some degree, furnishes energy.

So you would get then the society ridges or the ridges of the body, earlier installed by the thetan, giving the orders back to the thetan. So the thetan is in — actually in terms of time, giving himself orders over a big breadth of time. And as he gets worse off and worse off and worse off, he gives himself orders on a shorter and shorter span. He's giving himself orders all the time.

Basically you'll find that the thetan furnishes — instead of postulates, way up the scale, he actually, when he communicates, furnishes the energy with which to communicate. He doesn't just simply furnish a zero — I mean a zero postulate.

You ask some preclear who's having a hard time of it to throw a ball out in front of him, it'll snap right back at him. Well, that is giving a postulate and then the postulate coming back.

It's all very well to work out into thought, which in itself does not have any power behind it, but you'll find out that nobody's very happy doing this. The first statement is usually a lightning bolt. Interesting, isn't it? That's why people are afraid to think. That's why they're afraid to talk, why they're afraid of their own postulates, because they get up to that band and it's something like this. It's articulated by a lightning bolt, you might say. Of course that could only be a little sixteen-microamp bolt, you know, a little tiny bolt, and which it normally is, but when they start throwing out thoughts, they'll set up a communication system for the thoughts to run on. Not spontaneously because they're built that way, they'll just throw it out because they want to see something go someplace.

He has to duplicate his own postulates. This is in terms of a failure. Now this is way high on the track, too, you see. He wants everything to duplicate his postulates. And very low on the track, he's found out that nothing will duplicate them, so he has to. Low on the track, then, he's duplicating his own postulates because of the failure of other things to duplicate his postulates.

And he can furnish a much better communication system than a bunch of copper wire strung all over the floor and through the baseboards and tangled up around the shoes and plugged into the wrong holes and soldered the wrong way, and then crossed someplace on the line so there's a slight short that you can't quite detect until after you get a meter all over it. There's no reason for all that.

He's told walls to be red, and they kept right on being green and so forth, and he's done this often enough so that he eventually becomes red. Something is going to give way, see? Something somewhere is going to give way, and what gives way is himself. You see that?

Now, when you look at cause and effect in communication, you must realize something else is occurring. Because every time you have a communication system, you have embryonic space. You don't have full space, you see, you just have a line — you have a line; so that you have two points held apart, and these are two terminals. Well to exist, the theoretical line, you see, is something of infinite length and no duration — I mean, no dimension. Infinite length and no dimension. That would be the theoretical line. It's like a point. A point is a position without dimension in nothing. That's a point. And a line is something which is — has no thickness and has no breadth and has no finite length except as is assigned to it. A line of a certain length has no mass. A point has no mass. A point is merely a position. These are mathematical definitions.

Now, when it comes to duplication as a system for use in processing, we can see immediately that almost any preclear — this is on the shortest test imaginable, just a test that'd only require five minutes — will go more or less the same curve.

But when we look over this problem in terms of mass and points and lines, we find that we are holding two terminals apart, no matter how thin and massless the line is. We're holding apart the points C and E.

You ask him to duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, it's all right. But don't ask him to duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. Now, don't even do this to him: "Now get that spot..." I say don't — the fact of the matter is, it's the technique. But if you want him to remain calm, don't do this to him. If you want him to get well, you do this to him.

Now, if we convert this in such a way as to have space around it, then cause would be what was putting the space up, and it would be running to E, which would be that which had the space put around it by cause. And so you would get the idea of fixing two terminals apart in any communication system.

You just tell him, "Pick out three places. All right. Now get the fact that there is no duplicate in each one of the three in rotation. Now get the fact that there's no duplicate in each one of the three in rotation. Now no duplicate in each one of the three in rotation. Now no duplicate in each one of the three in rotation." And just to vary the technique, now get him to get no duplicate in each one of the three in rotation.

Well now, an individual who's having trouble with his communications conceives the communication line to be as long, and as far from him, as he is fixed on it. Now, that is not necessarily comprehensible until you think in terms of collapsed terminals. Here's the "no space" individual. He has a communication line collapse. Now, that isn't because all of his communication lines are collapsed: He knows that the only thing — way he can have a communication line is to be straight up against C to E, see? He can't have any distance between C and E because he can't impose space between C and E.

And you keep that up for about fifteen or twenty minutes — on some preclears, they'll tolerate it that long, but not much longer. And the bulk of your preclears will probably blow up very early.

And as we go along down the line, there is another way to represent this line. The line is as long as that period of life I've given you for the individual.

Now, they can't do that. They just start getting bored. They'll get too tense. They just get rrrum! No, they don't want to do that! "Well, what's the matter with you?"

The line is as long as — isn't probably too comprehensible, but a person's line gets shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter, you see. Instead of him being on different parts of the line, you could represent it differently and say the line is that much shorter for each different period of life, and you would have the normal activity of Homo sapiens.

You've run them straight into the central obsession-compulsion that is the mest universe underlying basic. You've run them straight at it. And the strain gets a little bit too much for them after a while. They get sick at their stomach and they get tense and they get upset, and after they go over the peak on it they say, "That's all right."

Well now, you also have this with that gradient scale: You have an individual having short lines at the wrong periods of his life. Let's take a twelve-year-old boy who has — an extreme case — twelve-year-old boy who has the communications setup of a sixty-year-old boy. See, I mean, he's — no terminals. His C to E has to be awfully close for him to communicate at all. He likes people to come around and yell in his ear and so on. He's got to come up close. You hear him talking long distance, he shouts. He's having trouble. And this twelve-year-old boy is having this communication trouble.

And what do you know, they'll do something after you've done this which they could never do before — they will go to a movie they have seen before. Just that. They'd just as soon go to a movie they've seen before. They would just go — as soon go to it about ten times (it's film going through a camera), because you've spoiled their anxiety which makes them think that movies are entertaining, which is "can't predict."

Well, there is obviously a remediable aberration there, usually remediable. It's this unpositional — I mean, this dispositional situation which the auditor sees most markedly. He expects somebody sixty, seventy, eighty years of age — he expects somebody in that age gradient to be having a little communication trouble. He's rather surprised when he finds they're hearing good even if their sight isn't good. He's apt to be a bit placative toward them when they keep complaining that they can't see, although their hearing is very good. You see, this person's almost eighty, and they keep telling you they can't see.

Now when something won't duplicate, they can't predict it. Do you see that?

Well, what you head at is not their eyes — well, what you head at is the rehabilitation of them as a thetan. Of course, you do this in any event, and you will gradually pick up their communication level.

Let's just get something else. The fellow says, "It must never happen again." You know, see, he's had some terrible experience that practically wiped him out. "It must never happen again," he says. That means it must never be duplicated.

Well, what they want to have happen is their mest eyesight turned on. Well, this is an unthinkably difficult goal because they're asking an auditor to reverse and run back the GE. Well, this GE would rather start over again, even though he has to take his chances with sperm and ovum and birth control being what it is today, he'd still rather take his chances than keep pushing around something which is not very mobile.

Oh-oh. The second he says it must never be duplicated, he sticks himself on the track. Because obsessively, he must duplicate. And the only way out of the incident is to duplicate it.

And so you're up against this very definite problem on such a person. GE doesn't want to turn back, and you're expected to turn this back.

If he were to duplicate it four times and just hold it there, it would discharge. If he'd duplicate it just twice and hold it there, it would also discharge. Matched terminals. If he'd just hold it there long enough, it'd discharge.

Well now, you can still do quite a bit about it, but the more you address the problems of the thetan, the happier you're going to be as an auditor, and the happier that preclear's going to be.

So the only salvation he has in the face of a very, very heavy incident or experience is to duplicate it. And yet, his postulate, just as it's happening is, "It must not happen." Mustn't happen, then must have it again, and so he doesn't duplicate it, so he's got it. And you've got your dwindling spiral.

If you start in by trying to remedy the body, the body has its set commu­nication positions more or less per life. Now, you can turn back the body years and years and years at a time. I'll say more on that — more about that in a minute. But what you're trying to remedy is the thetan's communication lines.

When he says, "It must not happen," he means it mustn't duplicate. There must be no reoccurrence of this.

You can remedy a thetan's communication lines with great ease. I mean, if you get somebody exteriorized, you can keep changing — his perception changes fairly rapidly. But it's his perception that changes. Now, his perception will change as rapidly as he does not have to prevent being an effect, and compulsively have to be cause. Now, up along early part of the line, you see, the person is compul­sively cause, and toward the later part of the line, why, they're compulsively resisting being an effect.

Now, the overt act-motivator sequence gets into restimulation because it's an imperfect duplicate. This fellow is shot in the chest with an arrow, so he turns around and shoots somebody in the chest with an arrow, but he misses and the arrow goes into the shoulder. That's an imperfect duplicate.

And those are the concentrations. And you'll find them flip-flopping all the way down. Each little gradient there is a reversal. They start in by being pure cause, you see, and then they turn into almost pure effect at that point, you see, and then they swap around completely and they're cause at that point, and then they turn around and are effect at that point — and each point, we have a different type of cause and a different type of effect.

Matched terminals. Two different places on the time track. He'll try to get those two incidents parallel with each other on the time track, and they just don't parallel and they don't discharge because they're not the same incident. But this is a covert effort to duplicate. An overt act-motivator, a ded-dedex incident or sequence is a covert act to duplicate.

We take an infant — an infant is mainly concerned with being cause, cause, cause, right up to the moment when it sees a bottle, at which moment it doesn't want to be cause at all. It'll be effect. It'll feed — if you have to hold — if you held it by one foot in the air, it'd still eat. It just will be total effect — very, very swift, the change.

Now, his going out and shooting somebody in the shoulder, trying to shoot somebody in the chest, is a covert effort to duplicate. He knows he mustn't duplicate, see. But he can now have a good reason why he has to do this, you see — some other reason and so on. And a reason — a reason is simply this: It is an effort to escape the consequences of duplication because one feels one mustn't duplicate.

Well now, it starts to hang up about the middle of this C-E line to a person who is on a big, impartial maybe. They don't know whether they want to be cause, and they don't know whether they want to be effect, and this person at the middle portion of the line is the despair of youth and old age alike. They're indecisional about almost anything. "Well, it's . . ." — conservative about the whole thing.

Because if one duplicated, he's always up against this: If one duplicated continuously and forever, and duplicated himself on and on and on, there would be no game as far as he's concerned. The game would be gone. This universe would be gone, and that's that. You turn a key in the door and you open the door, and after that there's nothing but emptiness there.

You understand they're not just agreeing with MEST on the basis of being as conservative as mest, they really don't know whether it's best to be cause or best to be effect about the matter. They don't know whether they ought to want this effect — they've got to consider that. They don't know whether they want to be cause at this point or not, and they have to think it all over very carefully. Well, it's very interesting, because they never end up with an answer. The individual worries in vain around such people, waiting for a definiteness, and that definiteness never arrives.

But this is predicated on this fact: that there couldn't be another universe. This would only be sad if there couldn't be another universe. But if you've opened the door on duplication, of course there can always be another universe, because you can always duplicate it. So, one locked the door on something where the door needn't have been locked.

If you were to run End of Cycle Processing on the preclear receiving a definite answer from all kinds of people, you would all of a sudden hit the one in the bank that most played this on him. It will be a person who was more or less in middle life at the time the preclear was young. And this person has had a lot of undesirable experience — that was doing this — and so is not quite sure.

Time, essentially, has as its effort, "duplicate the last instant as closely as possible." And the only reason you get time in walls is because they change very, very tiny gradient. Very tiny. I mean one molecule wanders from one corner of the wall to the other corner of the wall, and it's just those new spaces that are making new times.

If the GE were left to its own resources without being aided or abetted by a thetan, believe me — if that were possible — believe me, the GE would follow the exact plot which I have given you earlier in this lecture. He'd just follow that plot on cause and effect. You could always predict it, and so on.

But this gradient is so tiny and the progress of those changing anchor points is so slight and so on, that you get an endurance on the part of the wall which is very long, that you wouldn't get in terms of a gas. Because a gas set up in that fashion has very swiftly moving anchor points. But again, swiftly moving only in relationship to something else which is moving.

At that period of life which is the climacteric of the menopause, of course, you have no further duplication according to the thetan's plan, but now — I mean, pardon me, the GE's plan — that's the blueprint. But now you've got a thetan, and some thetans are ambitious, and some thetans are not ambitious. And you get this — the problem of the thetan backing around and battering one way or the other, and he's trying to make old bodies young and young bodies old, and he's trying to mess up this blueprint.

And if you have established some arbitrary sequence, like the beating of a heart, as time, then you can measure time as it occurs around you, and things can measure time against the beating of that heart.

Now, he can do it as long as he knows about anchor points and how to handle anchor points. He can do a lot about the life span of the GE. How much he can do is something else — but he can do a lot. He can't do the utterly impossible unless he himself is in such good condition that he can practically rebuild a body.

Life, in the essence, is the thing which can duplicate.

Now, if you can get a thetan in good enough condition so he could say, "Well, there's a body," and it was there, of course he could not just rebuild the GE, he could replace it. And this would be complete rejuvenation. But that wouldn't be a rejuvenation at all, you see — it'd just be a replacement.

Now, I said one time that the chief observable difference, and I stress that — the chief observable difference — between life and mest is that life had ideas. Now anybody can see that very quickly without any further philosophic wanderings. I mean, mest does not get ideas and live things do get ideas. Even a cherry tree will get ideas. It'll sit there and change its direction of growth and so on. You tie a couple of branches down so they've got to grow in a certain way, it'll grow some other way. It'll figure something out.

Well, what are the limits — what are the limits of this factor of age and the GE (just getting off to something else there for a moment)? Well, you'll find that the GE is interdependent upon all brands of life. He has lots of basic agreements. He wouldn't exist and he wouldn't be visible unless he had all sorts of agreement with life.

Life can get ideas. And mest which is not being utilized in growth and not being utilized by life, is very, very chaotic. Completely unorganized. It just isn't, really.

What kind of agreements does he have? He has the agreement that he has to eat, and the agreement that he has to feed, and the agreement he has to procreate in certain lines. And he has the agreement that he has to breathe air, and his heart beats. And he also has the agreement that he, himself is composed of an enormous number of cells, each one of which has a separate function. And everything is compartmentalized and specialized, something like modern medicine is; and everything take care of its own department and let some other department go to the devil. And the body either runs smoothly with each one of these departments cooperating with every other department or all these departments try to slop over into every other department and run their business. In that moment, the body goes to pieces.

So we get the chief observable difference is that life gets ideas and mest doesn't. But now let's see the difference between the chief observable difference and the technical difference between these two things.

Well, if this happy condition of everybody paying attention to himself and doing his own job in terms of cells and so on, were carried on evenly and quietly, the age of the body would not be very marked. The body would live a long time.

There's one thing that mest doesn't do: It doesn't duplicate. And the technical difference between life and mest is that life can duplicate and mest can't duplicate.

Man as an animal, by the way, does not live out his natural span according to other mammals here on Earth. Whether this is because he walks upright or whether he sleeps in rooms without fresh air or whether he smokes cigarettes is completely, really, beside the point. The point is that other animals live six times the length of time it takes them to reach their growth, and man doesn't.

If you've ever seen a wall grow eight other walls, you know what I mean — I mean, you've seen something there that nobody else evidently has ever seen, as far as just the mest sitting there and without any influence on the part of any life organism, you — it starts growing new walls.

But man is very interdependent. Yes, man ought to live to be, I think, a hundred and twenty-six — not seventy. And yet, he uniformly dies at seventy.

Now, some chemist will come along and show you a crystal — virus. He'll show virus growing. Yawn at him when he does that. Yawn very widely. Because he's demonstrating that crystals, behaving under his ideas, will change from one part of a glass of water into another part of a glass of water as long as he wanted them to. And they will.

You take chaps who are — oh, great health specialists of the past — health faddists. It's interesting to trace back and look what's happened to these people.

But he will say, "Well, this goes on happening in the bottom of the sea with­out anybody looking at it at all."

There was a fellow by the name of Fletcher who had me going round and round when I was a young boy in this life. You had to "Fletcherize," you had to chew your food I think thirty-two times — chew every mouthful thirty-two times. And I wanted something to eat — I didn't want — I wasn't there to chew food, I was there to eat it. And they used to sit around the table, my aunts and so forth did, and insist that I fletcherized. And so I did, as long as they were watching, and then I'd go gulp, gulp, wash it down with water and go out and play. But they told me that this would deter me from living a long time — abusing myself to this degree and swallowing this food — because actually the saliva in the mouth was vital as an aid to the digestive fluids in the stomach.

You say, "How do you know it goes on happening, then?"

I don't suppose they'd ever slit open a stomach and looked at it, but they'd find out that you could practically drop a paint can into the stomach and if you had anything left on the paint can afterwards, why, the fellow was having indigestion that day, not the reverse — because the stomach will digest almost anything.

And he'll say, "Oh, see here, come off, don't get on to any of these philosophic conundrums."

Reminds me for some reason or other that goats, by the way, are — they claim that goats don't eat, really, the tin cans, they eat the paper labels off the tin cans. This would be all right, except I butchered a goat one time and found four tin cans in his stomach — but science is a great thing. Anyway . . .

You say, "Well, don't pull any of this scientific balderdash on me, that everything keeps up in all directions and at all places at all times whether observed or not. You can't prove that, and I can't prove what I said," you say. "You can't prove that it keeps on happening, I can't prove that it doesn't keep on happening."

We have this problem with the GE. He just runs pretty well according to his established blueprint. And this fellow Fletcher had a remarkably long life span, and he lived happily, and he died with his teeth worn to stumps, almost to the moment at the age of seventy. (audience laughter)

He'll say, "Well, see here, now, we'll set up a motion-picture camera, we'll set up a sound-recording apparatus, and we will show that the virus does do this anyhow."

Now, there was another fellow — another fellow earlier than that, the mad Russian, who — the fellow who, by the way, got the only thing which prevents syphilis. Forgotten his name offhand — Metchnikoff, yes. This boy discovered that there was certain bacteria in sour milk, and if man ate — drank sour milk and so forth, he'd live to a great old age. He — by the way, he did give us a lot in science, but it's rather funny his going off into this tailspin late in his life, because he had this cellar full of sour milk and he and his friends were all sitting around drinking sour milk. And everybody was going to live to be a hundred and ten, and he died almost to the minute at seventy. (audience laughter)

You say, "Sure. You want to demonstrate that it does, it probably will." You can be very maddening, anyway. (audience laughter)

And so man's effort by mechanical means to alter his life span have not been very good. But his efforts to alter it otherwise show a little bit of promise. However, there's almost everything militating against man's long longevity.

This is a terrible thing to do to anybody, but the point is, it's about time somebody did it to science. They're so cocksure that all these phenomena go on when not observed and that nobody is pushing it around.

Let's take bacteria. And I'm going to say this — I always say this to any group of auditors I train, and I hope for Pete's sake they'll remember it. There's such a thing, as far as a body is concerned, as bacteria. There is such a thing as bacteria. And you've got about the — if you think you're going to remedy bacteria in the body, swiftly and completely and with a swoosh with auditing, you've got what you're doing mixed up with Christian Science. Because bacteria is hungry, and it thinks it has just as much right to survive — it runs on the same rules and the same laws — just as much right to survive as the body has. And when it starts chomping, if the body is not immune to it, if the body has no natural defenses against it, it just eats up whatever it starts to eat up, and unless stopped by some means or another, or if the body isn't given every chance in combating it, why, it can be quite successful.

Truth of the matter is, if a virus does form into a cell, and if the virus does come out of mud, there has to be a thetan impulse to start that gradient going.

Of course a successful bug is one which does not destroy its host, but just kind of makes him sick and wobbly for a long time. That's a real successful bug.

You could see immediately that, however, any crystal put in a glass and permitted to form into something like the "subvirus life form," which is what they call it, will only grow so far and will then become motionless till life comes along or until something else comes along and drops something in its road to make it grow or change it again.

Now, the body, down through the years has actually progressed in terms of joiners. Did you ever see these fellows who had to be parts of the Knights Confiscators and parts of the City Unit Club, and parts of this and parts of that, and they always had to be joining — joining everything?

Now, this universe starts to chaotize around and drop on its own head and fall on its own feet and slop around one way or the other, life comes along and starts organizing it. All right.

That's actually a bacterial characteristic. Bacteria has joined the body to such a degree that the body could be said to be composed of earlier joinings. That series of cells which now compose your liver once had the full intention of eating up the rest of the body. And so it is with every part of the body. It's alien. Every portion and class of cells in the body at one time was alien, and at one time was bacteria.

Well, don't for a moment overlook one fact about Scientology, is nobody is trying to tell you, bluntly, and for you never to think about again — trying to tell you that we have utterly and completely solved, to the end of all time, the origin of the mest universe.

And now you're going to come along as an auditor, and you're going to interrupt this method of body construction and this joining. No, you're not.

In the first place, anytime somebody says "origin," he is presupposing that time is senior to him. We don't know that this is true — a lot of things that we don't know is true about the mest universe.

In the first place, the thetan himself is the only therapeutic agent in the body. The thetan is the only therapeutic agent. Now a thetan, if you addressed a thetan alone, could theoretically get powerful enough so that he could exterminate bacteria.

All we're trying to tell you is that this is wide-open, and that you can demonstrate by various means that an individual need have no — he need have no registry of walls in the mest universe. He needn't register at all.

Well, that's all well if it's caught soon enough and is stopped soon enough, if the bacteria isn't sufficiently virulent to cause the body too much discomfort — but after it goes beyond a certain point, you hit a point where the thetan doing anything about it, if he's going to exterminate it, if he's going to turn a death ray on it, you might say, he'll also take half the liver with him. You see that?

'Tisn't whether it keeps going on or not — what's important about the mest universe is your effect upon it and its effect upon you. And when we have walked away from that point — honest, there isn't any use in studying the problem any further unless somebody likes to play games with problems. And a lot of guys get stuck on this. They just want to play games on problems.

Did you ever pour iodine on an open wound? Our forefathers were very sold on iodine. There was a fellow by the name of Lister — Lord Lister, who used the principles of Pasteur in medicine. It was not Pasteur who put these principles into medicine, it was a fellow by the name of Lister, in England. And his antiseptic surgery, by the way, was used — these principles of antiseptic surgery were used, by Lister — until a relatively short time ago when they changed it to aseptic surgery, which means no antiseptic used. They merely have everything completely clean and free of bacteria.

And then the mest universe is serving another thing — it's furnishing them ammunition so that they can have a game called problems.

Now, aseptic surgery has its drawbacks, too, because an operating room has to be dehydrated in such a way that you get no bugs and germs and so forth, traveling in the air — the air has to be filtered and so on — and it makes the climate of the operating theater actually almost totally dehydrated. If they realized what this did to an unconscious man's lungs they, by the way, wouldn't do it. They'd use Lord Lister's early preparations and skip it.

But where we go on studying the mest universe beyond the point of your effect upon it and its effect upon you, we are just walking off the edge of the cliff. I mean, when we go beyond that point, why, we're just noplace. And I guess that's where a scientific mind intends us to be — just noplace.

But the thing has another drawback, is ether has to be a very small proportion in such an atmosphere in order to explode. And there's another very, very interesting point about it — electrical instruments which are too dry will cause static sparks, which will explode the air.

What — we're studying the mest universe not in the relationship to matter to matter to space, as space affects matter, as matter affects space, as space affects — yammer, yammer, yammer. That's physics. That's physics, and you can go study that all you want to and you can get acceleration of gravities, and go on and study these things as problems on and on and on and on and on.

This is far more grim — far, far more grim — than Winchell's little tale about cancer of the lungs because of cigarettes, last night.

But that's physics, and we're not studying physics. We're studying Scientology, and that is the science of knowledge. And knowledge begins and ends with you and those about you; it won't sit for a moment in a piece of mest. A mest won't even hold a fixed idea and give it back again, unless it is mechanically tailored so that it will do it, and unless somebody understands the symbol that is put into it and brought back again. That's very important. Most people overlook this.

They blow up more patients in operating rooms. They do — they just expend them madly. There's lots of them — they died on the operating table. They don't say "by static electrical explosion and ether-laden dehydrated atmosphere."

Now, you can get an answer out of mest as long as you know the symbol system first. Well, physics is a symbol system to some degree. We're not interested in mest for the sake of mest. We're just interested in its effect upon you and your effect upon it, and you needn't bother yourself with it any further for our purposes — to make men well, to make societies and civilizations. You needn't go onto it, it's a fruitless chase. It has proven itself so, because we have been chasing it now for twenty-five hundred years, and they have finally evolved bodies which are not as good-looking as before, down the time track, and they've evolved a type of civilization which denies the human soul and sticks the thetan in a head. That's — that's real great. I mean this is progress.

What blows up? Not the surgeons, it's the patient's lungs which are filled with ether — ether and oxygen. Oh, that's nice and gruesome, isn't it?

And yet, they say, 'Why, sure we have progress. Look at those automobiles."

But there's several gases, by the way, which have been abandoned in their use merely because they're too explosive in the lungs. They've blown lungs out of too many people.

And you say, "Well, you go ahead, look at the automobiles. You realize this whole highway out here could be parked full of automobiles from one end to the other, and if there wasn't one living being to enjoy one, it would strictly be, 'So what!' And yet there could be the dirtiest cow track out there with one kid's scooter on it and a kid to enjoy it, and that would be more important than a whole road full of automobiles and nobody to drive them or enjoy them."

Well, if a thetan is going to put lungs back into people, if he can mock up a pair of lungs, why, he could prevent such an accident. Isn't that true? And if a thetan could mock up a new leg, he could very quickly set a leg. Is that true?

And the fellow might possibly get the point. But he won't if he's an engineer who is very snarled up and plowed in.

Well, if the thetan isn't up to the point where he can kill off a body and put a new one in its place — unmock a body, really, and put a new one in its place right away, right away quick, you see — I'm afraid you're going to have to realize that the GE is interdependent upon the rest of all life, and is an integral portion of this interdependency. And that it is run by bacteria, and that bacteria and broken legs and things like that happen.

Because this stuff, mest, plows people in exactly in this fashion — now we'll talk about the dwindling spiral: It won't duplicate you. It won't duplicate you. You can't say to it, "Now be me," and it will be you. You can't say — and that's basically what's wrong with space. Now, I'd better mention that specifically, because you as an auditor are liable to overlook this before you've had it run on yourself, and you're liable to miss this.

And you can prevent, to a large degree, the effect of these things by knocking the thetan into some kind of shape so that he doesn't let them happen so often. But when it comes to bacteria, there's bacteria which a white man is not immune to. And there also — there's later strains of respiratory ills, later strains of colonic ills, which have been imported into the society by its broad-spread wars which the body isn't even vaguely immune to.

You can't say to this empty space out here, "Be me," and have that actual space which you're regarding be you, you see, if you believe it is a thing which is there forever. But you can have that space be you if you haven't accepted its basic definition of conservation of space. You get the difference between these two things? All right.

The first time influenza hit the United States, for instance, was I think, in 1918. And the false armistice which, when called off, precipitated the thing, actually caused more deaths in the United States than were caused on the battlefield by the war itself.

Remember to include space in these processes. It's more important than walls. People who are having trouble with havingness will always point to the walls, and if they've long passed beingness at all, they'll never touch the space, you know? They won't have the preclear look at these three spaces and have these spaces duplicate them. Well, that's the basic failure.

And this was a type of bug that was imported from some place or another, and I've heard many people later on being very wise, and some people say it was bubonic plague and so on. Well, I was there, and people were just wearing white masks, and it was a sort of a cold.

And so what's an inversion? An inversion is, a person has tried and tried and tried and tried to get others and to get mest — and particularly mest — to duplicate what his ideas are. He's tried and tried and tried, and failed and failed and failed and failed. And after a while, it gets on an inversion. Just like the thetan gives orders to the body, orders to the body and then begins to take orders from the body.

It's actually the same flu, more or less, that's running around now. But at that time it just hit the whole race — boom! And believe me, strong men and big thetans and little thetans, they all — their GEs all went by the boards. It just didn't mean anything at all what anybody was doing or what prayer he was saying or how fast he was reaching out with what beam, those bugs hit him and he — hit.

So, in such a way, an individual starts taking orders from mest because of its continuous refusal to take orders from him. Now, it has obeyed him to some degree. This success is the hope which leads him on. It does obey him to some degree. And he always has the hope that it'll obey him a little better.

Now, there is such a thing as the individual can be in good shape and doesn't get ill. This is possible.

Well, that's madness itself because he — his idea of this is "Now look, we made this into a wall — bricks, and we made it into a wall. Now we might be able to calcine the bricks a little bit better and get them a lot smoother and polish them a little bit better and hang them in thin air and do this and that with them," and you've got Arsclycus, where everybody was a slave. The one thing Arsclycus could do that nobody else could do was make good bricks. Civilization plowed in, not very many people were happy in it.

The only reason I'm talking to you about this is two things: I'm trying to tell you that as an auditor you should not immediately assume that running an engram or kicking somebody out of his head is the first thing to do in all cases. This is not true. It very often would work a lot better for you and for the preclear, in special cases, where you would simply pick up the phone and call for the local ambulance.

But what about this — this inversion? The fellow says, "Space be me. Space be. Space be me." You know, "Duplicate me. Duplicate me." It didn't, it didn't, it didn't. And after a while, he starts duplicating space. And that's why your thetan's not visible. He's duplicating space. And there's your first inversion.

If you find a preclear lying alongside of the road with a broken leg, don't try to run it out. You can have him well fast enough. Let's get the leg set, hm? And let's put a tourniquet on. There isn't any kind of — anything the thetan can do to put enough blood into the system to account for the amount of blood pouring out of that artery. And so we get a situation where you'd better put a tourniquet on the fellow.

Now he says — now he says, "Energy, energy. Lightning bolts, lightning bolts."

Let's not be one-sided, then, about what we're doing. Let's know when to send for an ambulance, and when somebody gets sick and otherwise.

He's perfectly willing to be space — after a while he's resigned to that, that's his first apathy. He's made space — tried to make space duplicate him and sometimes it did, and sometimes it didn't and sometimes he gets — you, every once in a while you'll run a preclear, he gets an enormous white cloud or something like that and it's got a beautiful image sitting in the middle of it. He's actually put an image up in space, you see, and he's kind of made all the space duplicate his image and back and forth, and he's had a good time with it. But he became the space. So he's nothing now in terms of space, so what's our next point?

Now, there are tremendous things that you can do for an individual — tremendous gains can be made. We have — we don't even vaguely know how young a GE can be made if you concentrate on it. It's a very funny thing, but there are many people in Scientology who are — at this time, ought to be dead.

Next point is, being nothing, he could — still a static, you see. He keeps throwing lightning bolts around. Energy, energy, energy, energy, beams, bolts, beams, bolts. And he keeps on with this endlessly, and finally he gets into a point where he says, "Energy, duplicate me. Energy, duplicate me. Energy duplicate . . ." It doesn't, so he becomes energy.

Now, you say, "What does this thing do for rejuvenation and making people younger? What's it do for longevity?" We can't answer the question "What's it do for longevity?" But I know several people that don't even vaguely look their years, and they gradually and consistently get younger under this.

Now he says this — now he's at energy, he becomes energy and now after a while as energy, he starts telling "Matter, duplicate me. Objects, duplicate me. Objects, walls, duplicate me." And they don't, and he becomes an object and becomes stationary.

Well, if our goal was to do something for the body, if it was rejuvenation and so on, we would have some hope here. We do have hope here, but we don't have the hope of wiping out every enemy of the body. We don't have that hope. We have the hope, however, of possibly making it so much easier to make bodies that there'd be a lot less enemies, you see.

And there's the dwindling spiral exactly there. And that's just how it happens. All right.

We have other hopes, but don't try to make a panacea out of what we're doing, because it won't work that way.

SOP 8-C has as Step VIII, first, that the prime principle for the resolution of a case is the rehabilitation of all abilities to duplicate. And it includes as technique any and all methods applicable to rehabilitate the ability to duplicate on the part of an individual. Now, that's its broadest statement.

Yes, you can remedy any kind of a psychic or physical condition of the actual being that man is — the thetan. You can remedy any condition thereof. Possibly someday you can build a thetan up to a point where he can very easily move mountains. Possibly you can do an awful lot of things. But what you can do right now transcends man's earliest imaginings as to what a man might be capable of. You can already do this.

Now, let's be very specific. You take a preclear and you start him in with walls, usually, because he's having trouble with havingness. This has nothing to do with the level of the case, by the way, it's just that step.

So, as an auditor, somebody starts running a temperature madly — yes, it might be an engram in restimulation, that might be all, and he also might have a kidney infection.

And you say, "Walls . . ."All right, now we just have the walls say anything. You just get the emotion in them "can't duplicate." That's the simplest one, see. Have walls and walls and objects and objects, "Can't duplicate, can't duplicate, can't duplicate, can't duplicate."

People are apt to be very critical of somebody in Scientology who becomes ill, merely because they think that "Well, he advocates health and he's an auditor, and therefore he ought to be well all the time." This is also an unreasonable proposition.

Now, how do you do the technique? You do it in the most duplicative fashion you possibly can. And that is the little hooker. Because you could do this without having the walls say, "Can't duplicate," but you would just get the same emotion in the wall time after time after time after time, in the same positions, in the same walls. Let's pick out three walls and have each one feel apathy.

Take my own case. For instance, I ought to be dead. I should have been dead about three times in this life. I really ought to be dead. You talk about Scientology having anybody to represent — you talk about validation of what Scientology or Dianetics can do for somebody and so on — to this day I'm supposed to be 50 percent disabled from the last war.

Now, the essence of the technique would be to say to the preclear, "All right, now pick out three walls." He does. And you say, "All right. In the first one — put some apathy in the first one. Now put some in the second one. Now put some in the third one."

Three years before the last war started I was pronounced dead. Very interesting isn't it? The amount of — for instance, the entire hormone system in this particular GE ceased firing twice, and got started again.

"Okay," he says, expecting you to go on to something else.

In other words, I keep picking this GE up by the scruff of the neck and sitting it back on its line.

And you say, "Into the first wall, put some apathy. Second wall, some apathy. Third wall, some apathy."

I follow a schedule ordinarily of work and so forth, and have for a number of years, that would probably kill the ordinary mortal. And we'd have a good time — have a good time in between.

He does that and he's a little bit suspicious of you by this time, and so forth.

But what is the limit of this? Well, the limit is that the body's doing pretty good when it can lift about a hundred and ten pounds. It's doing real good when it can go on four or five hours or three hours sleep a night for quite a while, and still get along and work — it's really doing marvelous when it can do that sort of thing. It can walk miles and so forth — what, twenty miles, twenty-two miles, twenty-three miles — it does real good if it walks that far. It is a limited object, a body — a limited doll. It is a lot of fun to have around. It takes a lot of patching up, takes a lot of care.

Now you say, "Into the first wall, second wall, third wall, each one in turn." All right. Put apathy in the three in turn. Put apathy in the three in . . ."

You as an auditor can do an enormous amount for one of these dolls — one — an enormous amount.

About this time he says, "Yep, I did it."

Well, look at this one. I could show you health records and service records which would make — just this GE here — which would make doctors gasp. This body starts to feel seedy and kind of run-down periodically — oh, about every four, five, six months or something like that, I'll have worked it too hard and I'll all of a sudden take a look at it and say, "Gee-whiz, did I do all that to it?" And then if I don't take time off right away and kind of patch it up again and so forth, starts to look old. The age can go on and off of this body in terms of ten or fifteen years at a crack.

And you say, "Put it in the three in turn."

(Recording ends abruptly)

"Yep, I did it."

You sort of have the reaction like, "The heck you did, fellow." You say, "Come on. First wall, second wall, third wall."

"Yeah, but if I do that I — I'd — drive me nuts to keep on going over this stuff," and so on.

Keep at it.

You know that he'll occasionally get so frantic that he'll jump out of his chair, try to leave the session. He'll get frantic. Well, that is the emotion — that franticness, that feeling of strain and that terrible feeling of onerous boredom that comes over the individual because of repetition — is the implanted emotion to prevent duplication. So you just make sure you run it off. See that? And that's where it's going. Because your individual will run on any technique until he comes up against that one, and you as an auditor are liable to run any technique until you come up against that one in the preclear, and then sheer off.

"It's — just so bored! It's — it's just rrrmmm! huhhh! Won't do it anymore."

Well, that's too bad.

Now, do you have to put any meaning into this? No. Actually it runs better without meaning. But the funny part of it is that putting the words in "can't duplicate" all the way around, speeds up the technique. "Can't duplicate you" is the — one of the fastest ways to work it.

But if you were to just sit down and have him pick out three spots in the mest universe and have him spot the first one and spot the second one and spot the third one, and then spot the first one and the second one and the third one, then spot the first one and the second one and the third one, and go on with this for fifteen or twenty minutes — oh! You would break the back of this case on perception.

Now, there's where you get the wildest perception changes. We were steered into this technique because I observed continually — I'd already had duplication a long time ago. One of the early notes taken on the subject of PABs and so forth, very, very early this year, 1953 — duplication. But it was — took a long time to actually get steered in and examine the fact, as far as I was concerned, that we were way above the curve of action of the mest universe. That we were into the prime principle and preventer of action and beingness, and that was it: it was duplication. It was just too simple, you see, and so on.

And if you're going to get any — I've checked this carefully now for many, many months and I've found out that any perception increase and any case level increase is attended by one or another form of duplication. Perception increases.

Now, why do people have to have new entertainment all the time? It isn't necessary for them to be entertained at all. It's the truth of the matter. They don't have to be entertained. They can think of enough things to entertain themselves.

But if you were to destroy in people the ability to entertain themselves, why, you sure could control them, couldn't you? You'd do that by giving them an impulse and a compulsion to be entertained by something new.

And how would you do this? You would keep them from being in the same spots, one after the other, down a long track, and you would eventually get people who always had to be entertained by something new.

You wouldn't let somebody occupy the same spot and area. Do you see that? You'd drive people out continually, in other words. Drive them out, drive them out, drive them out. And they, therefore, would never have the past history of the spot they were standing on, and this would get them lost so they wouldn't know. You see how you could get somebody lost that way? You just — he moves into a new area, and he doesn't know it's a past.

A child, for instance, that is raised in a little town — knows everybody in the town and knows all the streets — you know it really never occurs to him to be bored until he's driven out. The only person who gets bored is the fellow who gets kind of non persona grata around town. Then the town bores him.

But there's people who can stay there and live perfectly happy, fruitful lives, and be sane as can be and go on and on being happy about it all, and doing more or less the same monotonous things. Why, right now as I talk to you, you could see that as a ghastly fate, maybe. But it isn't a ghastly fate. It's probably happiness itself.

And the people keep telling you that happiness lies in your own backyard, and you keep looking at them blankly. Probably it doesn't occur to you to say, "Look I haven't got a backyard. If you just tell me where my backyard is, I'll go look in it. I don't have one."

Almost anybody who's upset emotionally has been shifted geographically early in his life more frequently than his tolerance. In other words, he can't pick up the past of the area he's in fast enough, and he just gets dull after a while. He always enters a place — he's always the strange dog in the front yard, you see? All right.

Because he is not permitted to stay in a place, gives him an enormous impulse away from and gives him the key-in of nonduplication. See that? He can't stay in the same place, so therefore he mustn't duplicate.

If he's thrown out of a spot of space, and kept out of a spot of space, he thereafter mustn't duplicate. See, he mustn't duplicate that spot of space. In other words, he mustn't look at it. So he can't duplicate, and that cuts his ability to duplicate down just that much.

So "won't look" and "can't duplicate" are practically the same thing. He can't be in the same space, is "can't duplicate." So if you can't be in a space, then you can't duplicate.

SOP 8-C is very easily used. It is not particularly designed to tire your preclear out and wear you out as an auditor. It's designed to make it so that your preclear at length senses no danger in returning to or looking at a place where he has been. And the moment when he can do this, he will have his whole track lying out in front of him and any value that memory recall has is a reassurance that an individual can go back into these places.

Reassurance itself could be defined as "ability to be again." In other words, to duplicate. Reassurance and duplication are synonymous.

If you tell somebody he can duplicate, you have reassured him. The only way that you can reassure somebody is to tell them they can't duplicate or can duplicate. In other words, "This incident isn't going to happen to you again. You're all right, fellow. Pick it up." See? I mean you've reassured him. You've said "can't duplicate." The incident can't duplicate. Now you reassure him, "Oh, look, there's other times, there's other places. You can win someplace else."

See, but it's got to be a someplace else. Now that's reassurance. And that you will find as one of the hottest buttons on a case, merely because it's so close to "duplicate" and "can't duplicate."

So the thetan is caught between the horrible spots that he must, must, must duplicate in order to survive, but he must not duplicate and the whole universe around him is telling him that he — nothing will duplicate him, nothing will take his orders, nothing will duplicate him, his postulates are no good. And so he, in this universe, goes down on a dwindling spiral accordingly.

The way to reverse the spiral is to make it possible for him to duplicate. And any method used in doing that is going to be successful.