The third hour this afternoon of December the third, third hour this afternoon, December the third, we talk now uh… about the anatomy of what we’re doing, of what we’re operating with and uh… we had better start right in without any more to – do about this.

This is the first hour of the afternoon of December the 3rd and this afternoon, we are going to start right in; we’ve been dilly dallying long enough. We’ve been hanging around and doing nothing about this, and sort of marking our tracks and getting accustomed to things, getting accustomed to our seats. Now let’s get to work.

In uh… discussing some of the specific parts we have been mentioning, now that again is self-determinism. Well, that ability to determine space, time, energy, matter. That would be self-determinism, and it’s odd that self-determinism would crop up in there, because self-determinism is very very important – extremely important.

Uh… let’s start covering this with some rapidity, and uh… go over the component parts with which we’re working. I already announced in Q-1 that we have certain words. These words are thetan, self-determinism, theta, space, time, energy, objects and location, which means orientation of some sort. So in order to understand that, we’ll just sail right on through here and we’ll just take those up one by one.

The self can go out so far as to include many friends, but when it starts out beyond a group size of certain dimensions, too much randomity ensues. You can go out there, and any… any battle if you’ve noticed in… in history that is fought between two champions is a battle which goes resounding down the corridors of that Mississippi of lies called history.

What do we mean by a thetan? You’ll find a thetan in a strange… very, very, strange situation. Exceedingly strange. About the strangest condition into which a thetan could get is in the head of a homo sapiens. This is not just being caught with two out and runners on first, second, and third and being caught out. Uh… it’s not that bad, it’s much worse than that – much much worse. He is… doesn’t belong in homo sapiens. Homo sapiens uh… a little bit earlier on the track is homo something else. He’s homo something else, and that difference would be… he would be this something else minus a thetan. Because evidently, a thetan is not necessary even vaguely to his anatomy. Actually, the thetan doesn’t need him and he doesn’t need the thetan. The GE has life all beautifully compartmented. The GE’s got it all figured out and uh… so on, GE’s been coming down the track a long time. You look back early on the GE track, you find out he had other bodies in other universes, oddly enough, conservation of thetanism, I guess. And the GE starts on the track with an incident which is the hole in space. Uh… you can find that on your preclears, in the GE, and it starts in the hole in space, and it comes right on the evolutionary track right on down through; he’s taking the counter-efforts and he’s building a body with them. And after a while he gets the darndest most complex thing you ever saw.

Now, the… that metaphor then misses corridors and so forth, well, rivers can run into corridors and so forth. Let’s see now, now words are objects and uh…

If you start looking at a GE; it’s all right for you to think of a GE, by the way, as being uh… just a spot or an energy point, or something like that the way a thetan might be, but that isn’t really the case. The GE has… has himself something built up which looks like an RCA worldwide communications network system or something of the sort. He’s… he’s really got the outposts and the inposts and the onpost uh… set up here and there and it regulates this and that, and that shorts across through this thing, and so on, and you start monkeying up with this system, and it’s almost impossible to touch it.

All right, here is the uh… single ship actions, for instance. Here you have the identity of one vessel versus the identity of another vessel. You get the Serapis and the Bonhonme Richard, as a famous single ship action. Now that’s fine. You get uh… Sir Lancelot and sh… some uh… knight or other, and they joust back and forth, and smash each other to bits, and we’ve got single actions there.

This system has been subjected to millions and millions of years of very super hard usage. It’s never been subjected uh… to auditing, but uh… it’s been subjected to some very horrible things.

And that’s very good in this universe, and it’s very, very meaningful really on the broad scale of thetans, because a thetan’s capabilities are so great that in order to engage by its – you… you start engaging by tens of thousands, you’re still in a fairly safe margin, but you start engaging in tens of millions, and boy, the individual is lost. Ask any soldier who is engaged in any modern battle how big he felt and how big his identity was in that battle – and it’s not very big.

Now, as we look back down the track at the GE, we find out that he was getting along just fine. He was keeping the heart beating, he was keeping the lungs going, he had a carbon-oxygen engine, and he figured he was an engineer at the controls of a train or something of the sort. It was an engine. It’s an engine built out of ridges – the ridges are of his creation. It’s a composite of facsimiles which have solidified into what we call cells and the human anatomy.

So you set up in an universe above a certain level with a thetan and uh… he loses by it. And he is most satisfied then at a level where he wins most by it. Now that’s really not a universe, although we say so, it… it’s really not a universe of just one. It’s not really real fun playing chess with yourself.

This works on little cells, and the little cells run on photons and minerals and uh – very very fine system – he’s got an awful lot of things, and stuff, and acids and alkaloids that are mixed up together. But each and every one of these things is nothing but matter. It’s matter composed of something or other.

You rush around the white side of the board and you say, “Now I’m white”. And you move the pieces and so forth and you go around to the black side of the board and you move the pieces. And then you go around blah blah blah; oh heck, you know what you’re doing. And you know who you’re favoring, you’ve got to favor somebody or other. The second you start to favor somebody or other, you… you select the other out as randomity and the next thing you know, a thetan would put an actual chess player there and endow that chess player with enough skill to make it interesting.

But it’s matter which is animated and given a purpose by the GE.

And he’d introduce randomity of this character. Several thetans could get together then and make a universe and a very very interesting universe.

The GE is actually of the same order of being as a thetan. If you took a body and started to pry this GE loose and straighten him around, you would find out that he is capable of being quite sentient. Actually, he’s completely monomanic. An association with him, association with the GE, drives the thetan a bit in that direction. But the GE is excessively uh… monomanic on one subject – build the ridges, build the body, move the body, roll the body, survive, survive – on this MEST level.

Thousands of thetans could get together, and make a very interesting universe. Now let’s get it up into millions. Now let’s take it into billions. Now let’s take it into trillions. And now, let’s take it into a number that was written in microscopically small numbers – line after line would cover the front wall of this room and still keep going.

Now you just go down here and find some capitalista. Uh… some fella – he owns uh… I don’t know – owns a grocery store chain or something of this sort. You… you expect to find a man of leisure, nothing much to do, something like that. You find this poor guy – this is too, too true. I… I… I only put this in as another caution to you, and that is a caution to you as an auditor. When you start in on one of these cases, watch out, because boy, you’ll be in there with your foot planted against that fellow’s chest pulling those ridges off before he’ll really start to let go of anything. He’s holding onto the MEST universe, and he’s holding onto it so madly, he’s pulling it in so tight on him; he’s got a grasp on it so hard, that you can’t dig him out.

And you get that many thetans together and you get that much universe together and two of the fundamental rights are violated in particular. There are actually three rights which a thetan in this universe is not permitted to have.

If there was such a thing as the Pearly Gates and the Angel Gabriel – by the way, I saw a mock-up of ‘em one day and it was very pretty uh… the uh… if there was such a thing, you would find that the… this… this fellow, on the day of judgment, would be unable to leave because the tombstone which was built to him was far too heavy for his grave to be opened. So there he would be. Be a grim joke, but uh… the joke would certainly be on his head. The GE actually has done this.

Three rights: you got liberty, eternity, and equality going pretty good here on Earth, but it has a tendency to get into a MEST sort of a liberty, eternity, equality sort of a thing. „Let’s all… let’s all be beautifully sad because we’re all dying anyway“ sort of a… of a liberty, eternity, equality. Not „Let’s get the show on the road“ – that’d be an entirely different level.

Now you want a little index to the character of the GE; there it is. The GE has done this. He’s said, „MEST universe, schlurp, oh boy. Ah, give us more MEST, more MEST, more MEST,“ and he’d pull it in on himself. And he takes these ridges, and he carries ‘em through, and he’s got this big blueprint and he builds and he rebuilds and… and so on. But he’s holding on like mad.

And so we have uh… we have then some freedoms that are missing. And one of them is a man’s right to his own… a thetan’s right to his own sanity. And the other main right is, you see, because he hasn’t any life to lose (that’s a grim thing, by the way) uh… his right to his own sanity and his right to leave the game.

Now, if you were to free a GE, it’s very possible that you would actually have to break down, and take to pieces all these ridges known as the human body. You remember a comment in effort processing. In effort processing, it was stated that if you reduced all the counter-efforts of the body, the preclear would go poof. Well, that’s theoretically true, and that is… would merely be another way of saying the GE, if cleared of a body, would… would have to be subjected to a process which would actually reduce a body.

He doesn’t have those two rights in this universe. For homo sapiens there are two rights, really, and one of them is the right to his own sanity, and the other one is a right to his own life. That is an extension of the rights of man, and the rights of man are a complete mockery without these two additional rights.

Well, how you going to do it? This body is going pokada pokada pokada pokada, you interrupt any of these circuits and schedules to amount to anything – there’s no danger of your doing it in auditing. Been subjected to very exhaustive tests.

All you have to do is pronounce somebody insane, you see, or something of that sort, or drive him insane or something and he immediately has no rights; he becomes property.

But the body’s going along there and you started to reduce this – what would you reduce first, his leg or his arm? Well, the GE is… is so thoroughly plastered into, and is animating this body and controlling it, that he’d just have to be pried loose with a jack or… or an icepick.

So watch any hole in a bill of rights which leads to a slavery. A right to his own life, because men cannot be compelled into the acceptance of the moral codes of others; men will commit actions out and beyond the framework and good of the society and exceed the optimum solution – the greatest good along the greatest number of dynamics. They’ll exceed that and, therefore, they uh… are then turned around because they’d been driven out to exceed that. Then… then they are turned around and punished because they’ve exceeded it and the punishment which can consist there is the deprivation of the property of a body.

Now in addition to that, there’s an additional life in the body that is independent of the GE – an additional life is there. Uh… but for the sake of clarity and clarification, you have this phrase GE, so just let it cover, just let it cover that sphere of what animates the life. Actually the GE himself has come up the track, and he has picked up other GEs and so on and it’s come on, and this composite is what you’d have.

And it’s fairly safe to have a body in this society unless one has sufficient capabilities not to have a body, and there are… those capabilities are quite large.

The cells themselves have a life, and uh… uh… you want to know why this body is capable of holding a thetan – well, it didn’t want one. It didn’t need one, and uh… it’s… the thetan unfortunately found out somewhere on the track that you could get a tremendous amount of sensation from the body. He could put a tractor wave out there, communication line into a body, and get a tremendous sensation – there was a big emotional bang.

But, uh… for a thetan there are two very essential rights: One is the right to his own sanity, and the other is the right to leave a game. And if he has those two rights, you don’t get some kind of a big universe slopping all over the edges of everything under the sun. You don’t get a theta trap of this magnitude setting up.

And this was something for which he wasn’t responsible, so therefore he could enjoy it. Uh… it’s said that – by preclears who run this first contact with a body – you get uniformly rather the same story, that right before the contact with the body, the thetan is 200 feet tall or something like that, he feels that big, he’s very expansive, and right after he contacts this body, he goes down in size, he feels very small. All right.

So, what do we have here then? We have your thetan going forward to an assumption, willy-nilly, of those two rights, come hell or high water. You got an assumption of the right to one’s own sanity.

Uh… what brought him down there? Tha… that’s uh… a valuable energy known as sensation. In back of all the wantingness, back of all of the various efforts and emotions and reasons and so forth, you find the underlying and hold-onto energy is the energy of sensation. And if you want to know what to run in a preclear, if you have to make up your mind that you’re going to run some kind of energy in the preclear, for golly sakes run the energy of sensation, the energy which comprises sensation, and you will find some sensational material. Because, in trying to pick up this energy, he overreaches and he holds on to all sorts of other energy.

You know Scientology… in a universe which knows Scientology, the chances of anyone’s taking away anyone’s sanity become so remote as to be ridiculous, because there’s always the raw red rebel who will say, „Those implants might be interesting, but are they useful really?“

Now when we have said the AESTHETIC band, we’ve also said some of this. Your thetan has to be interested. Your aesthetic band goes very rapidly down into sensation. You recognize this – an individual who has no capacity for an emotional experience is unable to appreciate art. You go around aghast sometimes at the emotional uh… outbursts which you see on the part of some people who had merely beheld a piece of art work. They uh… uh… on a very MESTy level it is nothing, it is nothing during a… a concert or something like that for people to experience pleasure very far above that of sexual intercourse – now that’s a… there’s sensation.

Yes, yes, you have everybody convinced they don’t know who they are, and that they’re somebody else, but uh… and that’s interesting. But is it right? And uh… you… you could have… you could have – because a dichotomy of combat can exist – you could have a great and powerful and doubtlessly awesome and fearful forces facing us with all of these threats if we dared make anybody sane.

Now, when he first spotted the fact that people could get off the rails a little bit, uh… the late Dr. Freud uh… said, uh… „Now, we’ll grab on to this point because this is common to the human race and we’ll try to make a go out of this across the boards.“ And he tried to work it out on the basis that they felt guilty because of the sensation. Well, that would really be putting it down, down, scale. Just run the sensation – that’s all. It’s very simple – it is an elementary problem. You ran the sensation and you get the most fantastic, magnetic quality to the energy contained in that. It… it is… it starts acting like a bigger and better magnet than any they’ve got in steel mills. The fellow WANTS sensation, and that wantingness can be found on the preclear, to such a degree, that the communication lines through which he pulls that sensation will just sing like a hawser in rip tide. They’re just – they… they… they get this tremendous power. You’ll find sheets of this stuff in the preclear. And all of a sudden he’ll touch this stuff, and he can just feel his whole space, energy… uh… area just pull right in on him and collapse.

Yes, you could always have those forces, and they’d never be able to make it stick. That’s very interesting; they would not be able to make it stick, because they are on a track which in this universe is a self-ending track, not a self-perpetuating track. People recognize that, and although you will see a tremendous tendency on the part of the slave to assume his chains and wear them, and wear more chains if possible, you always have a greater number who in the end will turn on the master.

Now, remember what I’ve told you, above other things, because that’s what holds the thetan in the body. He came there for sensation, and he got it. And after a while, he couldn’t go away any more. And body by body by body, because of the postulates he’s made, then body by body, he is consistently and continually running. First, he is unable to obtain much sensation from this body except maybe the sensation of action. And then later on – why is it that the age of 12, 13, right after a child becomes aware of sexual sensations and so forth, we get such a marked change in a being? You go on this E-Meter, you find when people’s lives went mad.

The masters of the slaves die. They have always died in this universe and they always will, and so may too a universe die.

– 

But the point we are making is simply that force was never any weapon with which to combat reason. And every time force has been applied to reason in this universe force has come the cropper, not reason.

Well, the postulates keyed in; he started to pick up sensation and the second he did that, he started to pull in ridges on himself, and he started down the same cycle, the thetan started down the same cycle as the GE. He started going right down… down the line, not intelligently building a body any more really than the GE did. The thetan just simply starts in, starts picking up MEST.

Sooner or later the reason would go around and through because there’s on… force, you see, can’t go through sixteen-foot bastions and barricades. You have this enormous citadel sitting on the high crown of an untouchable mount. And it is garrisoned and provisoned and watered to withstand the siege of centuries. And its garrison is well-trained and well- armed. Not a single shaft or a bolt or a lightning flash could go through that citadel. But by the water carrier or some other means an idea can go through the wall of any citadel. When you ask, „What is the strength of this garrison?“ you always have to ask, „What is the loyalty of this garrison?“ That is the other factor, and force was never able to win against it. It could win temporarily, oh, yes, but never completely. Now in a reaction against force, people quite often will assume a no responsibility for the whole universe. That’s going down scale from force. Want to point out to you that there’s an up scale from force. A high one, and that goes up toward the reasonable thing to do, and people, very often, who are trying to go up scale toward the reasonable thing to do will find themselves caught with specious reasoning and will find themselves dropping down toward the weak thing to do.

Well, he’s got hold of this piece of MEST known as a human body – he might as well have hold of a piece of MEST known as a Ford car, he might as well have uh… hold of anything in the MEST universe. A body just happens to have the ability, because of the work and thirst of the GE and the… I suppose this’d be very praiseworthy here on Earth… the industry of the GE, uh… here is… here is an organism which is capable of producing sensation independent to the thetan, and so we have the thetan appended to the GE. Actually, he’s… he’s right in there tight.

Reason which is afraid of force, and reason which exists to keep force from hurting one is not reason. That, too, is a form of slavery. But reason which exists to go up from the level of force must first be able to confront force. Only then can such reason take responsibility for those things which reason alone can produce.

Now, when we look this over, all of those things are true which can be easily demonstrated. And so let’s take a… a look here and see what substantiates this, what substantiates this. There’s several erogenic zones. Don’t begin to classify sensation as sex. You see, sensation can be so much – better than sex, there isn’t any… any… any comparison on the line. Sex is a very low-grade sensation, but it is a common sensation, it’s easy to pick up.

And so you find a society, just before it goes out, taking its last effort to escape force by being reasonable, but that reasonability consists normally of an assumption of slavery of one form or another – not an assumption of freedom. They will lay upon themselves various restrictions and – out of fear.

Now, it is said of… it is said of one of the groups of uh… one of the invader groups: their paymaster is sensation, and that’s the only – that’s actually practically their motto. If there isn’t any sensation in it, don’t do it, that’s their motto. That’s really degraded, oh uh… that’s horrible, the… these characters have no beingness at all.

Now that man who is able to take responsibility for force, yet who does not employ force, is much more terrible than man who can apply force alone. And the man who applies force alone is, of course, much more terrible to a lower scale on the chart than those who can only cluster together in terror and hope that the mass of their numbers will restrain the hand of force.

Why? They’re asking for their interest in life to be delivered to them by somebody else exterior to them. When they ask for their interest in life to be delivered to them as an irresponsible thing, that they cannot be responsible for the sensations and pleasures of life, they’re asking to be an effect of the most desirable thing. They want to be an effect, therefore they elect the whole environment a cause. The second they elect the whole environment a cause, they go completely to pieces as individualities and merely become identities. You see how that would be.

You want to remember then you’re looking at harmonics, when you’re looking at this on a tone scale. You’ll find groups which cohese solely because they are terrified of force which may be applied to thee. And in that cohesion they simply seek protection of the individual by the group.

Now a fellow is… we’ll cover responsibility very heavily, but when… when a fellow won’t take responsibility for an energy, he becomes an effect of it. And when an individual, when an individual desires sensation to be delivered to him in neatly marked and tied boxes, he of course is electing something else exterior to his environment his cause. And when you would go so far as to say his paymaster is sensation, his paymaster for everything he does in life is sensation, then the motivation for everything he does in life would of course be found to be exterior to the being. Even his reason for being is exterior to him. He works for sensation. And sensation is originated not by himself but by somebody else. It’s a very debased degraded situation, and actually the individual is not even vaguely happy in that, situation. He… he’s… he’s… he’s a sort of a slave. If you want to see this in actual operation, go look over uh… go look over… uh… people down in… in the Salvation Army back room. Now you get down along that level, and find out what happened. And you say – well, this fellow may spin you a fancy yarn, and he may tell you the truth. But normally there was some sensation in existence and he desired that sensation; the sensation mastered him, and he went by the boards. Really that kind of a grim cycle.

That group almost never advances. Now that group which can be free in each and every individual matter is yet the only group that can act and reason and with cause. For a group to be cause it must consist of Individuals who themselves are cause.

He knew this girl, he loved her very much, and she was untrue to him and that broke his heart. Another way of saying the same thing, you see. He elected this girl sensation and his cause and reason for being, and therefore she became the cause of everything, so that when she disappeared out of the environment he couldn’t control her, so therefore he couldn’t control anything and he was dead. There is in essence degradation. Degradation is a scale, a gradient scale of having elected something else cause, and then having failed to control it, naturally, because it’s been elected cause, and asking it for a license to survive to such a marked degree, that when it fails to grant a license to survive one is demoted.

Therefore, that group where the individual has banded himself together to keep from being cause, is a group which is easily handled really by force. So you find the governments of a society and almost any line finds it handiest to use force, not reason.

You get that tricky little mechanism as it goes along there. All right, let’s look at this GE then, he’s really quite a boy; I mean, look how… look how hard he’s been working along this line. But perhaps any sanity or activity the GE might have would be attributable to the fact that he’s to a large degree making the sensation himself. He’d be saner than the thetan, wouldn’t he? This’d make a thetan who has come down this line parasitic. And so he is. The thetan is parasitic to homo sapiens. Fortunately, fortunately, he’s a very high powered… he’s a very high powered potential, and he can very easily move out of this category because he’s not happy in it.

And they get a people together and band them together and hold them and control them by the threat of force. And keep the group together by the threat of force. And the individuals of the group, by fear of starvation, by fear of pain, or other things stands in with other individuals in such a way a man can be made into a slave.

Now, homo something else uh… back on the track someplace, started to get in and be taken over by thetans, relatively degraded in some… they’d failed elsewhere, or in some cases they were just so harassed elsewhere that they just would have gone anyplace, or done anything, and they’d hear about this place and they come down here. All right.

He is made into a slave by the threat of scarcity. And this threat of scarcity is held over him as a whip and it is enforced, again, by force. So those societies where scarcity exists cannot be a free society and scarcity itself is the greatest threat to Man’s freedom.

They get ahold of a body, and they’d start running this body. Now, here’s the first stage. Here’s a body here. Your thetan comes along the line. We’ll make a very graceful aesthetic body. And uh… your… your thetan comes along the line, and he says, „Ah!“ he says, „A body!“ Now he gets off at some distance from this, and he thinks this and that, and his horsepower’s great enough at this time, you see, so he can stand way off from a body, and he’d say, „Do this, and do that“ and the body’s affected by it. Hmm!

This universe is a very interesting universe in that it has a potential of tremendous plenty, and at the same time makes that plenty quite scarce. Now all of these things perhaps are reasons and thoughts, uh… a little bit beyond the single matter of processing.

Trouble with the bodies here on earth, they’re quite pretty. Bodies were prettier once, than they are now, by the way. And uh… the… this was fine. But that body was capable of sensation. Very often the thetan had… the furthest thing from his mind was… was anything like picking up a secondary second-rate second-hand sensation someplace or other. So uh… he… he… he wouldn’t be thinking about this, maybe he was uh… very happy… uh… I heard one last night that is quite… quite usual on the better run of thetans… they were guardians of a wood, or something. Yeah – they’re… they’re guardian of wood, and they took care of this area and they were just fine, and they safeguarded animals in this area.

But what are you trying to do when you are processing? You’re… what are you trying to do? What’s the ultimate goal on this? The goal of Scientology 8-8008 can be stated as follows: the freedom and rehabilitation of the preclear – who is a thetan. The freedom and rehabilitation of a thetan is your goal, and the goal for the body is only as much goal as the freedom and rehabilitation of the thetan might suddenly be able to impose by good graces or force itself upon the body.

Shows you that the GE is pretty special, pretty high-powered when… uh… thetans uh… thetans don’t pay too much attention to animal sensations, not until they’ve had something to do with a GE uh… monitored by it. All right.

So the goal for the body as a body and just for the sake of a body is none. That’s not a direct goal; it’s a very very short-circuited goal to treat the body and not to do anything for the man – that would be a very short-circuited thing. Bodies have most successfully been treated by raising the self-respect and ability of the individual.

The thetan perhaps got in trouble with this character, maybe this thetan… maybe this thetan was a sort of a guardian of the wood, and he was minding his own business, and… and watching the animals around and so on, and everything’s fine. And one day maybe… maybe one of these homo something or others, pre-homo sapienses uh… dug a pit and caught one of the deer. Mmm-Yerr! The sense of justice of a thetan would be such as to punish. How would he punish this fellow? Well, he’d probably punish this fellow by throwing a good heavy electronic beam at him, ka-bap! And by the way, your preclears very often will experience a very minor electronic shock, enough to practically knock their heads off, but a minor shock, uh… when running something, a ridge or something like that’ll explode or give way. It’s very fascinating. It’s an electrical impact, just as thoroughly electrical impact as though you… you had blown up an… a big static machine or something in front of you.

The overall treatment of bodies… let’s take one organization which is a very interesting organization in terms of homo sapiens, and that’s the U.S. Public Health Service. It doesn’t do very much in terms of force, but its overall reason as far as the enemies of homo sapiens are concerned has raised the educational level of homo sapiens to a point where punitive action against disease gets less and less each year.

Well anyway, a thetan can put out a pretty good electrical impact, and his commonest activity when he’s going to punish something like that is to nip it. He slaps it on either side of its motor control panels and the thing goes into contortions and epileptic form seizures and a few other things, and it’s very uncomfortable. But of course when a thetan does that, he gets the back… backlash of the energy. If he’s careless in this, he gets the backlash of the energy. All right.

Now just look at that as treating the thetan who then, of course, can better and better handle the body. Many, many of the ills of the body are caused simply because the thetan is maltreating the body. He has a tractor wave on the front of the body of such magnitude that if he tightened it up any more it would actually crash bones, and then he pretends he doesn’t even have it on the body.

It isn’t too long, if he punishes one or two or three or four of these pre-homo sapiens – the next thing you know he’s… he’s sort of uh… saying to himself uh… „Let’s see, what are we going to – I mean, we’ve gotta do something about these fellows.“ And uh… he thinks that he hasn’t got a good… good connection or something with them. He… he thinks he isn’t that powerful any more, he’s degenerated a ‘little bit, so he actually will put a tractor wave out and he’ll put this tractor wave over on any homo sapiens that comes near him and will give it the thought, „Go away from here.“

You will see these people around. You will see any thetan of any horsepower at all… any thetan of any horsepower at all has made some dent on the body one way or the other. He… he will handle it impatiently or he will handle it swiftly or he will handle it too strongly, and you will see the imprint on the body itself.

That’s fine – but now he’s in energy contact and on that line the next thing you know he puts his tractor on a homo sapiens, usually in like this somehow… somehow or other, couple of beams. Uh… sitting back, way back ‘3 here somewhere. And uh… he… he throws a… a beam in there and the homo sapiens stumbles or gets hurt or maybe gets excited by something or other, sexually, or something.

It’s very interesting. You can take a preclear and make him tighten the tractor wave that he has around his head, and if he is a very strong thetan, he can actually flatten his nose out. You ever see anybody able to flatten his nose like that? Well, you can do it simply by teaching a man to tighten his tractor wave around the head and release it.

But the thetan finds out at that moment that there’s a terrific and surprising amount of power contained in that body. So he’ll fool around with bodies, he will go around for a while then more or less on this connection. There are many patterns of energy which pass for pressor-tractor beams and so forth. It doesn’t matter much what pattern he used, but he… he… he’s running a body the next thing you know. If you were this thetan’s friend, uh… you would see him, the next time you’d see him you’d say, „Hello Bill.“ He wouldn’t look at you. And you’d say, „What on earth’s the matter with Bill?“ There’d be Bill going down the road monitoring this body and pulling levers and so forth and making it walk and so forth, and just all engrossed, and you say, „Bill, what’s the matter with you? You gone nuts?“ And uh… Bill goes right on down the road running this body. You say, „Gee whiz, what the heck is he doing that for? Let’s see, where is one of these bodies?“

And what do you think that does to the body? That’s handling the body with force. What is the level of security? What’s the level of the security of a thetan who has to handle his body with a whip? He doesn’t have any level of security. He’s scared. No matter how strong he is, he’s scared.

Well, for a while he can run it back here, so forth, and then… what could be position one… and after a while, he has a tendency to come in a little bit closer – why? He’s putting a high-level wave out, he’s putting a high-level wave into the body to monitor it in that direction, and he’s getting back consistently a low wave, very MESTy. High wave goes in, input – good grade energy. Backlash, MEST: very MESTy. His interchange then is only uh… is really two one-way flows on different qualities, because this body is much coarser than the thetan, actually coarser in its line of thinking. The thetan has a very high ethic level, he has a very high… many things that the body doesn’t have, but the body has a very low, earthy idea of… of life, and uh… uh… sensation and uh… effort and so on. A thetan doesn’t operate in that band at all.

As a consequence the body suffers, so there is an indirect action in this formula. Don’t think the body is Just being forgotten, but for the purposes of processing there is no real sense in processing the body. That is something that will work out by processing a much higher level of action.

So he’s really got two-way flows.

So, goal for the thetan: education and rehabilitation, restoration of his capabilities and an increase thereof. The addition this time of the know-how to stay that way. And for the body, on a direct level of processing, none, no goal.

Now, it’s a funny thing that any time a flow flows too long in one direction, it sticks. This is the elasticity of flows, the limit of elasticity of flows. Any time a flow flows too long in one direction, it will stick. You don’t believe that, just take a look around you and every place you find a one-way flow unless something is done about it by auditing, you’ll find stuck flows. I’ll give you an example of that: there’s a one-way flow – I stand here talking to you. You heard those tapes. You’ll hear those tapes again. You’ll hear these words again, you’re… you’ve got a one-way flow going in your ears, it’s a one-way flow of sound. And the first thing you know, you’ll start building up little ridges, that… that wave coming in will get stuck. Now… that… that… it’s… it’s bad – people actually develop their ears hurting, and so forth – that’s… that’s just a stuck flow. If you could talk with your ears, you’d have a two-way flow and it’d shake itself up and shake itself loose automatically. But it doesn’t do that. In this flow comes, in… you talk with your mouth – that’s another one-way flow. Voice out, voice out, voice out; ears in, ears in, if you can draw the most… the… the… the very interesting… you could draw some very interesting uh… uh… patterns of this sort of thing.

It’s a funny thing that you can tell how well-off a thetan is, though, you can tell how well-off he is by the number of things wrong with the body actively. It’s very possible that a thetan simply by thinking it, a body could restore its beauty – very possible. I’ve not seen it happen particularly, thetans get a little uninterested in it. But, uh… it’s a possibility.

Here… here for instance, a fellow’s ear, and here… over here is his mouth; we get the incoming flow here, starts to do circles, and there’s actually ridges built up in the skulls, which are the ridges of energy of sound entrance. And you start to run these flows you will find out that there’s the most complex pattern of ridges there you ever wanted to see. Because the fellow talks and out goes the flows out here like that, and part of that flow comes back in and comes into his own ears, and there’s a circular flow here which doesn’t have anything that backs it up. Nothing shakes this flow, it just goes one-way all the time.

Restore the equilibrium of the body, rehabilitate its balances, something like that, simply by having himself sufficient balance. You’ll find out that the characteristics of your preclear are quite markedly those of the thetan. The thetan was in command all the time and he had deserted the responsibility to the degree that he pretends he isn’t even there.

And what do you finally get? What do you finally get? Ha-ha! Boy this shouldn’t happen to a horse. Horrible. Here is uh… just very roughly… very roughly… your one-way flow pattern. Here’s a mouth, ear. Okay? Uh… this fellow’s talking like this in this direction. His flow… sound is coming in in this direction, sound comes in from the environment here continually into the ear, goes out here. His tactile sensations and so forth are inflows and uh… various other things. Now when he… when he actually is putting out energy toward other people then, he’s… just keeps putting out energy – which direction? Forward, forward. And he gets energy back in from a forward direction; that makes up a complexity we’ll cover later because it’s a very, very interesting complexity.

That’s really a desertion of post, isn’t it? Yet he has the potential of being able, probably at will in this universe, to build a body. He certainly has the potential of doing it over a period of time. How fast can he do it?

And we get, however, a current. We… we get a static uh… pardon me, a no uh… an un… unchanging flow… we get an unchanging flow around this head. By the way, other one-way flows, the photons come into the eye and photons keep coming into the eye, and sight for homo sapiens is a one-way flow into the eye. That’s a heck of a note, isn’t it? In it comes, in it comes, in it comes, in it comes, and people wonder why their eyes go bad; they never look back out those eyes. They really are registering a photon flow in the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes, one-way flow, and it’ll stick.

When we look then at these capabilities and potentials, we find out that our whole goals, overall goals, are best answered then by remedying along all dynamics the thetan. And when you’ve done this, why he has had restored to him two rights: the right to his own sanity, and his right to leave the game.

Actually uh… the… one of the handy ways to repair glasses is simply to sort of shake up the flow of photons which has been going on down that optic nerve since time immemorial. Just shake it up a bit, just vibrate it one way or the other, and get a back-up going on that flow, and you’ll actually feel it go ka-ping, ka-ping, ka-ping, and ridges will start blasting away and everything starts happening. You can start a terrible commotion on any one of these one-way flows because the flow is going out in this direction consistently uh… and it’s stuck, and it’s really… just gets as solid as that black arrow there. It… it gets as solid as can be – you’ve got to break it up so it’ll back flow.

All universes are to some degree games, and no universe would exist if there was not the spirit of play in the thetan. On Earth and amongst other political confederations, the spirit of play is almost forgotten. It’s found in little children and even there it is found in a hectic state.

We call this the… a limit of elasticity of flows. Furthermore, after a flow flows too long in one direction, if it really overflows, it goes on and on and on and on and on; it has no choice but to… if it can’t go on any more, it’ll start to back up any time it’s energized. It starts to automatically back up after a while. So we’ve got this flow. It’s gone on here for a long time, and after it’s gone this way for a long, long time, it starts to backlash on itself. And it reverses the secondary line. It… it… it starts to back up and nothing can be done about it at all, the fellow feels.

There is little ecstasy in play for anyone who has grown to any age at all. And yet there’s hardly one of us that can’t for a fleeting instant remember the heady and high ecstasy of action and engagement in activities. There’s… they’re dim most of them, because homo sapiens is supposed to work, and work is carefully defined as not play. Probably the hardest thing a man has to take is when he has to enslave himself to something which is not of his own choice and permits himself to be placed in time and space not of his own choice.

Now you just shake any one of these one-way flows areas, there are many of them in the body. I don’t have to point them out to you, just check ‘em over for yourself. How many one-way flows does this body have? Well, it’s got nothing but one-way flows.

So let’s boil all this down from a… an oration down to something which is a little more sensible on this level. This is all applicable. I fooled you now, because you thought I was digressing.

Now, what’s this got to do with a thetan? Why, it’s got a lot to do with a thetan, tremendous amount. Let’s take a… let’s… let’s take a… a… a clouds-eye view of homo sap here – give him some hair and give him a nose out here, and so forth, and give him some eyelashes, just so you can see where he’s looking from – what’s this got to do… here’s a one-way flow in operation. Voice out, into the ears, environment into the ears, so forth. And the energy level is outflowing this way all the time, so we get the energy starting out that way and then what do we get? Although the energy keeps on going that way, we have what I hate to call but rather have to, an electronic vacuum.

What’s wrong with the MEST universe? Self-determinism is the placement or location in space and time. Here the thetan has been located forcefully, convincingly by an exterior, forceful thing in space and time not of that being’s creation. That’s all that’s wrong with him.

Now if we kept a fire hose – well, as this energy goes out here you see, and even though it keeps on going we’re getting… a very interesting pattern is building up here. When you move any particles in this direction, when you move a particle in that direction and consistently move it in that direction, space, and energy behavior dictates that something has to take place back of the flow. Now if you were to take a… if you were to take a big fire hose and you were to lay it out in a bucket of water you would see that a hole developed back of the flow, as here goes this flow with this… heh! Illustrated as though this head here is a fire hose. Uh… here’s the flow going out, here’s a little photon flow coming in but a fellow is meeting that all the time with flows. All right, out goes this… this line here, one way or the other, and it’s moving forward particle flow, all the time particle flow. Now if that were a fire hose you would actually develop a vacuum or a hole in the water back of a hose flow. You take a hose out here and lay it down in the pond or something of the sort and let it flow horizontally, you would find that it was flowing very nicely and the faster it was flowing the deeper a hole appeared back of the nozzle. And it gets deeper and deeper hole.

Now the only thing that you would find wrong in the character of anybody you knew was the insistence of that person or the unreasonable or reasonableness – speciously reasonableness – with which that person might persuade you to become placed in space and time continually against what you realized was not your own best interest.

In other words, it’s pushing stuff out so fast that it’s making a nothingness in the water, and something’s got to flow into that nothingness, so let’s look at this fire hose and let’s find out that it tracks around the back of the fire hose in such a way, it tracks around, and the fire hose flow itself will in some small part come back and try to fill in that hole in the water. You’ve got a circular flow, circular flow. That’s vacuums and flows. Very important for you to envision that.

Placement in space and time, continuous, continual placement. If you wanted to make a slave out of any man, all you would have to do is by a very very gradual gradient scale start him in placing things in space and time for you. And as you magnified that, that person would go into a complete slavery, if you magnified it all the way. It’s… it would… starts out with something like many of the social gestures and courtesies. You make it a custom to always hand him your hat to hang up. You make it a custom always to let her pour the teacup full, and then pass it to you. And always be just a little bit further away to be passed to.

Uh… now here… here this goes this way and the spot we marked uh… „V“ back here, we’re tending to get a vacuum on the body – action forward, attention forward, push forward, so forth. Where’s all that energy coming from? The particles, as they go forward, are leaving a hole in back of the guy, back here, see, where there’s a „V“ for vacuum. Yes, uh… we’re getting that hole.

And the next thing you know, that’s it. One of the reasons why men have trouble in orienting themselves with women is because by necessity a homo sapiens has to be located continually in space and time by his mother. He’s put on feeding schedules, he… this and that’s done for him, to him, and most horribly, his desire for sensation, which is to say his appetites of hunger, are themselves gratified by his mother.

But these waves, therefore, do not just continue to go on and no other disturbance happen on this side and this side of the body – no sir! The flow as it goes out the front part of the body, as we see here on this lower graph here, comes back here and keeps filling up „V,“ and comes back here and keeps filling up „V.“ So we get „V“ being filled up consistently and continually, by what? The fellow’s own particle flow. And we get a stuck flow pattern and it makes homo sapiens look like this. And you start looking at him, you want to know what these banana-things are you will be seeing, and so forth, he kicks himself in the back of the head every time he kicks anything in front of him. There, in essence really, is the overt act motivator phenomena. Anything you ever said or did has some confused pattern and shadow of it behind your head, to say it again to you.

And so we have mother as quite… as quite an object in the life of the preclear. And women multiply from that as an object to their own detriment, because when this fellow starts growing up he starts breaking his mother’s heart. How does he start doing it? By breaking into that gradient scale and bursting free from these fetters of being placed in space and time. And that’s all he really is doing; he’s going to get married and live some- place else.

Let’s say you scream „cat“ out this way very loudly. „Cat“ is going to go in the direction which you said, sure, and there’ll be a little energy flow will come back here, just as neat as you please, and come back here, and it will say „cat.“

Or even much younger than that, he wants to go to a different school, or something like that, and he feels that he has to fight such a wall and such a barrier in order to accomplish this that he goes into a… a frenzy. He goes into a frenzy and he has to conjure up all sorts of terrible and awesome emotions against his mother, and against his family and against everything else in order to tell himself that he has his own right to place himself in space and time. He has his own right to do that.

Now after you’ve been at this for a long time, let’s take it… let’s take it energy-wise. The fellow puts out to the front of him uh… resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment. Why, that’s a heck of a state of affairs. What happens to him after a while? He feels like there’s somebody standing in back of him resenting him, ‘cause resentment is… in a confused form has plastered all over his back. These are the back ridges, and this is the anatomy and source of the back ridge.

If you were to take a little child and let them go on an automatic feeding schedule, that is to say, the little kid gets hungry, feed him, he’ll put himself on a schedule fairly rapidly – odd but true. And as he grows up that little boy gets himself possessions. Let him have his own possessions. And if they’re his possessions, they’re his possessions, because as we will cover later, time is that insidious thing called the object possession.

Now he’s got „cat“ all over his back. Everything he did then is done to him, he knows it; it’s true because any time he wants to experience it, he can. He… he… he knows then that what he does to others will happen to him. He… he knows this. Sure he knows it. Now when… when you step out of your body, some time when you’re processing him, take… take a look at that back ridge. You’ll find it back there, feet thick.

And it’s what happens to a possession that determines time.

So, this is quite important from a standpoint of uh… quite important from a standpoint of auditing, isn’t it? Well, what’s this got to do with homo sapiens coming into the body? Here we’ll have… here he is back here, position one, some type of tractor beam on the head, here he is here, position two, he’s a little closer now. Here he is, position three. And what happens in position three? Rrrrrr. Class response: He hits the vacuum. LRH: That’s right.

All right, so, you… all… all he has to do is be permitted to own what he has. Tha… tha… that’s so simple. And to have the space that he has, and to have a space. You take away from a child his absolute dictatorship over his intimate possessions, and take away from him the thought that he has any space, and uh… he’s finished. He’ll have a bad time all that life. That’s all you have to do to him. Just fool around with his possessions, upset his possessions, which is upsetting to his time, and shove him around in space, move lots.

He hits the vacuum… there’s a vacuum in here that says, „You’re gonna come in, boy.“ Not only that, but just an instant before the vacuum there’s an actual flow which just machine-guns him right on into the head; he moves into an active flow area.

Oh, move and live in lots of houses. Uh… move and live in lots of houses and then change his room around, and then let him sleep with his sister and then give him different bureaus. And then uh… after you’ve given him a bureau drawer or something like that, decide one day to clean ft out because it’s only full of old rats’ nests, so I’m going to throw those all away.

Now, he gets… he gets in here and this fellow is facing this way, you’re going to get a flow going out like this, like this, like this. You can locate these flows. Here… here are these flows going out here, all because of flows of that character, and they’re not mild. They’re all around the body. They’re out here in all directions.

Rrrrr beuy, as far as the happy life is concerned you might as well take this Individual out and machine gun him down, because he’s not going to have one. By the time he’s experienced this for years and years and years and years and years, he has the current life cycle patterned to be, „I have no space and I have no possessions, and scarcity reigns everywhere.’

This body is really booby-trapped. Human body is the best theta trap there is. And any time he moves up or down that back within a few inches of the back of the thing, if there’s any disturbance at all in the body, so there’s any current flowing in this body, it’s going to catch the thetan, push him into the vacuum and stick him, just like that, and there he will be.

He’ll, also, tell you immediately, of course, that he has no time, he can’t do anything, he can’t concentrate (concentration requires space) and this wise is what happens to him.

And he starts to move out of this and what happens? Well, I tell you – there’s an anatomy called uh… energy flows we will have to go into a little bit more, but as long as we’re on this subject, we will give you just what this is; we’ll give you this flow pattern, and that is that uh… fear is a flow – we’ll cover this much better later – but fear is a flow. Now what do you think happens to an identity across which a flow is flowing? That’s fear, there’s the emotion of fear, a fast uncontrolled flow. Now you… you got that? It’s a fast uncontrolled flow. Just take it as… as such, we will go into it later. We’ve got here… this thetan finally winds up here at 4 in a very dim state. Because fear – just take that – is a flow, and he actually… the GE’s center of beingness, more or less, is in the stomach. So this back ridge is discharging from the small of the back across this flow and very often this whole current will set up into motion at a moment of upset, very often flow into motion, and when it does, you get the emotion of fear setting in. You can start this up willy-nilly on a preclear; you can just start this up. You can come around and slap him hard on the back and say, „How are you, Joe“ and he’ll feel afraid. All you’ve done is dislodge part of this flow and let it flow across his centers of beingness and he feels afraid. You’ll find very often a preclear just hearing about this flow and so forth, will say, „You know, I kind of feel scared.“ Well sure, he… he… he’s just started this flow into action a little bit.

What’s wrong with this universe? Very simple thing wrong with it. It just locates one willy-nilly in space and time and it doesn’t let him have a single possession that’s his own. One cannot have in this universe what is one’s own, because the only thing which is one’s own is that which he himself created or helped to create. That’s all that one can own.

Now you could take any preclear and start to audit him and just make him run this flow, get this flow running. It’s… this… you don’t have to do this to audit, but uh… you start this flow running, and he’ll all of a sudden say, „Hmmraa. That scares me. I don’t wanna do that anymore.“ Or sometimes your preclear’s been perfectly all right; at the end of the session he comes back to you, and he says, „I’m scared stiff, I don’t know what’s happening, I’m terrified.“

Created or helped to create. And when I say created and helped to create you only get a shadow of that in this universe by taking MEST universe materials and building them into a form no matter how clumsily these materials handle, building them into some sort of a form which is the individual’s own. In order to have something completely one’s own one would also have to create the materials with which it’s made, wouldn’t he?

And therefore I’m giving you a very stiff punch-up on this point about these flows. This thing has happened; this is all that’s happened, is this back ridge, which is sometimes plastered here on the back of him feet thick, has suddenly started to discharge forward toward a front ridge. And the back ridge has started to discharge toward a front ridge and it’s going across the center of beingness of the individual. And he feels that flow and that flow says to him, „Be afraid,“ and that’s all that’s happening. It’s just as electronic as turning on and off a light switch.

So, if you’re not permitted to create the material, that is to say to furnish the energy with which to construct something as well as the aesthetic form, how can one have anything of one’s own?

You come around and you say, „All right, now let’s just feel a little more flow, now let’s get some sensation into the middle of your back, now let’s get some in your stomach, or let’s mock up rivers running through you. Let’s mock up a river. Now that starts in way behind you and it comes forward and it hits you.“ He does that for a short time and this thing turns right off, and that is fear.

This universe is too afraid of competition; it must be an awfully weak universe. It gives you the space and it tells you where to be in the space, and then it tells you that you can’t have anything of your own.

This fear is the worst there is – this is craven terror, it can get up to that stage. This is the fear that the criminal feels when he’s grabbed by the cops. You’ll see him some time in a… in a police station – something like that. They are just in such terror, they’re just cringing and begging not to be given ten days in jail. That’s terror, and that terror is so bad that a man would love… he… he’d just kill himself rather than go on experiencing it, anything not to have that terror. In a very mild state, this is called anxiety stomach. He has a quivery stomach, his stomach gets upset on him, and he gets scared in the stomach. That… that’s… but he’ll come around, he’ll tell you, „I get anxious – I get worried.“ He says, „I’ll get worried, now I get worried about something, I just don’t feel good. I get off my feet.“ And you say, „Do you have… do you have sensations in your stomach?“ „Yeah, uh… bad sensation in my stomach, now that you mention it – very bad.“ Well, uh… remember that in order to get a flow here, you’ve got have a difference of potential between the back ridge and the front ridge. And if you have a fellow who comes around to you every little while, and he says, „I’ve got that flow again, it’s just horrible, and it’s started in again,“ and so on, and you carefully take off, or take apart, or reduce part of the back ridge, and then he comes around to you again, he says, „I’ve got that again and I’m all upset, and every time I take off one of these back ridges a new back ridge seems to appear, and I’m just in terrible condition and…“ look for the front ridge – that’s the other terminal. You’ve got to get the front ridge off of him. The front ridge is a low potential which is actually snapping new back ridges onto his back; he’s picking them out of old past lives and everything else. He… he’s just snapping them onto his back and letting them flow, and snapping them onto his back and letting them flow. And he continues to get this anxiety stomach and so forth.

Well, you know what’s wrong with a thetan? That’s all. It’s just continuous continuous placement in space not of his own creation or agreement.

You want to cure this anxiety stomach, you want to cure this terror, you want to cure… cure fear in a… an individual, this is one of the basic mechanisms which takes care of it.

He didn’t agree on this space to the degree that you’d think he should agree. It wasn’t a self-determined selection on his part, because to be a self-determined selection on his part he would’ve had to have helped create it, and it was already here.

Now your thetan finally winds up in the middle of the head there. And the poor guy has got all of this back ridge back of the head and the back of the neck ready to discharge across him, and he is an energy unit. So every time he starts to move, look at the sad state he’s in. Here he is in a big dark area and he’s… let’s say here or some place in there like that – he feels he is – and he’s got a great big ridge back here: he’s got a back ridge and it’s a heavy ridge, see, it’s good and heavy and uh… it’s… uh… in there like that. And then over here on the motor controls why you’ve got a lot more, the motor control ridge, uh… those… lot of energy deposits and then around here – around the ears, and inside the ears, there’s a lot more from sonic uh… deposits. And he’s up here on top of his head – part of this electronic ridge that has come out here is… kicks in back into the top of the head, so you quite often have the top of the head heavily cased with a big heavy ridge. And as he gets older and as he gets older and older and older, he’s fighting more and more not his own ridges at all, the ridges of the GE. The GE as it… he goes on in life and keeps wanting and requiring and requiring and requiring… builds these ridges up. Therefore, you can get a thetan easily out of a young body; you get him less easily out of an older body.

Yes, he agreed on a totally different level. The level I was talking to you about of the… the hypnotist level.

All right, he’s got this back ridge here, and he will also have around his eyes here, and around his jaws and cheeks here on the outside, he’ll have a front ridge. So here’s your… your thetan. You say, „Move one step back of your head,“ and you’ll see the E-Meter go c-r-e-a-k – nothing happens. What’s he done? He’s ploughed back here against this back ridge. But the horrible part of it is, he conceives himself to be an energy unit. If your thetan is an energy unit, good heavens, look what’s happening. Every time the thetan begins to approach, every time he begins to approach one of these ridges, he dislodges part of its energy. And as he dislodges part of that energy, he starts getting a flow right across himself just like that. And this flow says, „You are being dislodged and driven out the front of your face,“ and „I just can’t do that,“ he says, and so what does he do? He mocks up a whole lot of ridges for himself in here to hold on to. He’s got his own ridge set up in here, see, there are thetan’s ridges, „thetan’s ridges.“ Boy he… he’s got to hold on – because every time that flow starts in forward toward the front of the face he has only one answer to it and that’s „Hold on.“ So he feels himself start to dislodge and he holds on.

All right then, we have to treat these items for what they are. You have space. He agreed there was space there. He also has consistently agreed it was not his. And then he’s agreed not to have energy of his own, but to use the energy provided in order to create anything there.

And you say, „All right. Step one foot back of your head, now.“ Mmm, he’s very happy, for the first second he really starts to move back and out, and he hits one of these ridges, he activates one of them with the energy, which he himself is putting out, that ridge goes into action and makes him frightened and so he has no choice but to hold on.

And you wonder why he goes down scale, and why he gets worse and worse, and why he gets worse and worse, and why… why he has a large upset on this point.

The… the… actually, the sanity of an individual is very closely gauged by this mechanism. Now, one of the mechanisms that has to do with this, is the period it takes him, how long he will permit himself to flow before he grabs. Now you’ll see some… some preclear, they go, they open a drawer. See, that dislodges a little tiny bit of energy, something like that. And then they say, „That damn drawer,“ bang bang bang crash crash crash, and then go into apathy. And it only takes them about… about maybe 15 seconds to go through the whole… the whole gamut.

All right. Therapy, then, consists of the restoration of two rights and two abilities: Creation of space and energy, because space and energy makes space, energy, objects, and time, and the right to continue in possession of space and energy.

And the next fellow takes it much more methodically. Well, he’s just got a little more time, space, to hold on. Actually, it’s the same mechanism, the thetan is going down tone scale. Something repulses him in the universe, the next thing you know, he’s got a flow going past him; he can act as long as he doesn’t think he has to hold on hard, but when he holds on hard it makes him angry. When he gets angry, he’ll hold on hard to this ridge, he’ll disperse more energy, he’ll start to flow faster, he starts to go forward further. This makes him quite afraid, the flow itself is all that makes him afraid, and he loses and goes into apathy on it then. Now, the psychos that you run into have flowed right straight on through their skulls, they… way out here. They’re here, way out in front of the face, way out. They can no longer – they… they… they’ve even had to desert the head. They’re not only as bad off as being in the head, but they… they’re way out in front here, w… I mean. way out. And quite often a person uh… it’s very common that an auditor will start to audit somebody and find them going „ker-flip“ out in front of their face. The thing to do is just make them reach around and grad ahold of the back of the hair and pull themselves around to the back of the head, that’s all there is to that.

Now you’ve got to restore those rights to the individual, and that’s why Scientology 8-8008 produces the result it produces. You see it isn’t a circuitous approach, it isn’t a covert process, it is a straight line. It says immediately: This fellow has been located in space which he was – if he was agreed, he… – tricked into agreeing with.

They have… people who have right and left direction reversals quite often will slide through in front of their faces.

Of course, it’s that standard of agreement, that gradient scale of agreement which got him into finally agreeing that there was space. He didn’t really help create this space. It wasn’t there according to any plan he had and he’s not free to move out of that space or handle that space, or be in parts of that space at his own decision.

Now there’s your anatomy of this – doesn’t look very complex; your thetan then, came in on this course here, and he came in on this course and he’s getting dislodged on this course. And these ridges set up these big flows around him and these back ridges have a tendency to disperse forward and past him, and that back ridge is all down the back of the body.

The whole universe is all rigged up to shove somebody someplace else. Always gotta be someplace else – move someplace else, here, there.

Now you see what happens to him: he gets in there – this is what we had as step three – he gets in there and he gets caught up in this flow of a back ridge which he activates and then he slides on through into the middle of the head and he thinks he’s stuck there. He’s in apathy, he’s unconscious, really, at the moment he snaps in; he doesn’t know quite where he is or what he’s doing. And he orients himself after that and does something about it.

You get a time track, most people think time tracks are linear, that’s because they’ve been moved so often.

But then he conceives himself to be the body and goes right on down tone scale, thinks he is the body and he is so degraded and lost that that’s all there is to it.

And as far as objects are concerned, you’ve got to restore his right to create the energy with which to make objects. You do those two throngs… you do those two things… why the universe will blow up. I mean – I didn’t mean to mention it.

Well, it… should it be of interest to you that uh… should it be of interest to you that that is a very key mechanism and that there are several other mechanisms and just to have this in one place, I’ll just comment on one very briefly here, and this is your mechanism whereby your thetan is out here in position one and he has a tractor beam on the head. All right, here he is with a tractor beam on the head, your tractor beam is in’… initially this length, first length. And what does a tractor beam do? A tractor beam contracts, it is a method of contracting, strictly Buck Rogers, but I’m afraid it actually exists in the thetan. The tractor beam contracts when energized – a pressor beam which is exerting pressure expands when it’s energized. But a tractor beam contracts when it’s energized – now get that very well. Here’s your be… your tractor beam – your thetan’s in control of the tractor beam, he’s feeling perfectly grand about everything, and life is going along just dandy; he’s got this body that’s walking around, and all of a sudden – he’s got a tractor beam on it. All of a sudden the body energizes his tractor beam. This body gets a surge of pain… pain and we get then, out of that pain, a surge of energy and the energy surge goes back up here in this direction, energizes the tractor beam and what does it do – it brings your thetan down this course and has him hit hard against the back of the head and then goes forward on this course into the head in a state of unconsciousness, having been pulled in by the head. Obviously the head did it to him.

Naw. You do those two things, why you have restored the capabilities of the thetan so this is a – this is a very direct… this is a very direct approach. Now, I’ve explained this at some length to demonstrate to you that liberty, eternity, and fo… equality might in one age and time have been a sort of a stopgap against force, but that we’re talking about another higher level of freedom, and it is a level of freedom which is obtainable.

And you’ll find more thetans, you’ll find more preclears – they… they… this is one of the commonest vistas you’ll find a preclear has; it’s a head sitting in front of him someplace. He’s still trying to stop that head on the same principle as we gave you the other day. All right, he… he’s still trying to stop that head from coming in, and he has a feeling like all heads will move in toward him and that everything will fall in on him, and he puts a tractor beam on it, therefore he doesn’t dare use any energy because he is punished for using energy.

Other freedoms haven’t been quite so obtainable. We had some freedoms listed in the United States, not too long ago; that was freedom from want, freedom from… what are all those freedoms – freedom from want, freedom from eating, uh… freedom from… yeah, yeah, yeah, wonderful. There were many freedoms, and isn’t it strange, „We will protect you,“ they all said.

So there you have your first position, your second position. Now your first length of your tractor beam was that long, and the second length of your tractor beam was maybe only that long. So your second length of your tractor beam is only from here to here. Your tractor beam goes collapse, and having gone collapse, in it yanks the thetan. So there’s two mechanisms which get the thetan into the head and why the thetan when he fools around with homo sapiens or pre-homo sapiens became homo sapiens. And they’re electronic reasons, no more no less than electronic reasons and they’re solvable as such. And any time you think there’s something more along this line, and so forth, look at the electronic aspects of it first. Look at the back ridge and the front ridge, and don’t look for the fact that the Great God Suva-suva Yavva-yavva is sitting up in the middle of Yappadoobit uh… ready to punish him in case he dare move forth from inside his head, because there’s all kinds of garbage of that character sitting on those ridges. And every time those… every time he tries to move out of his head, the ridges disperse, this data goes into restimulation and he’s absolutely sure now, although it happened 8 billion years ago, that the Great God Loppa-loppa Yup-yup is about to „yop-yap“ on him. So there you are as a… your mechanism of that thetan. Okay, let’s take a break.

„We’re going to give you something more. We’re going to give you some more possession which you didn’t make and which will place you again in space which you didn’t create, and which will, thereby, establish time outside your own decision to do so.“

The dole is remarkable for the reduction of the self-respect of people. If you’ve ever studied in that field, if you have ever investigated people who have been on social handout, you will be stunned because these people couldn’t possibly… couldn’t possibly feel that way.

They border between rage and seizure and down into the lowest depths of degradation. They… they have all sorts of specious reasons why if they’re going to accept the material, why they have to accept it. That’s all. It’s… fantastic, and that’s why you – going out to give charity and to help people – there’s only one way to help anybody, and that’s take some MEST away from him. That’s right… that’s right. That happens to be terrible true if you’re really going to help somebody along this low liberty, eternity, equality level of a MEST society, I mean of a homo sapiens society.

It’s just all… it’s impossible to operate in… in charity, because the individual’s self-determinism is already at such an ebb that he can’t support a little bit less self-respect, and he gets a little bit less self-respect when somebody has to help him. That’s the last ditch.

And that’s why you get… don’t believe then or suppose that there is no love in the universe, simply because it doesn’t work in this society. It’s very true. It’s only too true that along here in this low level of beautiful sadness of… of giving our all, and that sort of thing – that’s MEST talking. That’s its perversion of a finer emotion.

And when you start to engage upon charity, you’d better take some guns and bayonets along with you, because before you get through you’ll need them. You start in this society to help people, you get the very definite answer right straight back, „You’re trying to tell me that I have to be helped.“

Because in trying to help people, you place them in time and have something to do with possession. And so they flashback on it.

There’s only one safe way I know of to help anybody. I finally… finally know a safe way to help people, uh… in this society. I did not know this before, and it’s been a very interesting contest, but that’s this: Theta clear ‘em in a hell of a hurry.

And they go up above the level where they think they’re weakened by accepting help. You can only help a strong man, really. It’s very dangerous to help a weak one.

So, when you get these preclears and so on, get them right up there into a strong man department, right away, quick. Otherwise they’ll kick back at you and you’ll wonder why… why this preclear that you started to process, and you tried to process this preclear, went around and told everybody that really what happened in the… when she went to your home, and so forth, she wouldn’t want to talk about this but, well, ahem…

And one of the favorite tricks that a preclear who is at that level will do so horribly; they… they go around and they tell one auditor that another auditor did horrible things to them in processing, and this second auditor agrees with him, and remedies some of these things that are supposedly present, and then this auditor will go back to the first auditor, invariably, and tell the first auditor that the second auditor had said he was such a dirty bum and so on, and that this case was really now all messed up because of the second auditor. So the first auditor has to tie in and do something about this.

And a preclear at a certain level will do that – just shuttle around until a whole group of auditors is just lacerated and shot to pieces. This is an effort to destroy a group. But it’s also a completely mechanistic thing on the part of this preclear.

They’re trying to say, „Really, I don’t want help, because everybody who tries to help me, and so forth, is really… really I don’t need help from them.“ And ‘then when she realizes, this preclear, or he realizes that somebody has helped him, he has to say this other person is a dog to deny the fact that he’s been helped.

The answer to this is… the answer to this is rocket up, high scaled bust ‘em through, Theta Clear, and do it as rapidly as possible because you’ve got a fellow who is so capable of producing himself some space, lie’s so capable of placing himself in space, he’s so capable of handling objects that the idea of… of uh… it being a criticism, because somebody else gave him an object or showed him some space or something – it would never enter his mind.

They’d say, „Well, uh… what do you know? Yeah? Yeah, that’s a pretty good illusion.“ Fellow way down tone scale would say at a certain level not too far down, „Oh, I can do a better illusion than that.“ And the fellow down the tone scale way below this thing would say, „Don’t you think that there’s something just a little bit nasty about illusions? Now I’ve noticed your illusions in particular. I think they, I… I think, well, I hate to say anything, but they’ve been talking you know, about your illusions, and they… they…“

And way down below that they don’t even look, they’re MEST. All right, now, when we have… when we have a… a preclear, and we want to free this preclear’s ability to control himself or handle himself in the midst of the group, what do we do?

We orient him in space and with possessions to a point where he can handle his environment, and where he doesn’t mind if the environment occasionally handles him. And to orient our preclear with regard to a broader sphere of society, where you get him so he is able to handle and locate things in space – handle possessions.

In another broader sphere, let’s say the solar system, we’re getting him to a point where he can handle space and possessions.

Now a little bit broader point, which is this end of this galaxy, we get him to a broader point where he can handle space and possessions.

Now, what do we do to get a preclear free? We get him so he can handle space and possessions.

Now, that applies to this galaxy, and that applies to this island of galaxies, and that applies to the next island of galaxies, and that applies to all these islands of galaxies, and that applies out to the outermost boundary, since there is no boundary, ‘cause space isn’t that way, of the MEST universe.

And I’ve been saying this in many ways, but I’ve been saying it this way, so I hope you don’t forget it. And that is: A process which orients itself around handling space and possessions will work. And a process which does not orient itself around space and possessions will eventually make slaves. Now it’s awfully arbitrary, isn’t it?

Now, outside this galaxy there could be processes which didn’t have to do with this but those are other games. As far as we’re concerned it sure does.

It might be there are many ways out there of handling space and possessions and other things and so on, so that we don’t get slavery just because some process wasn’t oriented in that direction. But it’s a safe direction to orient it, isn’t it? So whether it has to do with an old facsimile, a secondary, a ridge, a flow, a concept, a feeling, affinity, reality, communication, emotion, thought, effort, counter-emotion, counter-thought, counter-effort, how do we handle these things.

Space and possessions, possession could be energy and, it could be creation of. Now, but those are the keys. Those are the keys to the kingdom called freedom. Now, when you are able to handle these things, there isn’t such a thing as a locked door, and it does not matter what you’re handling by them, but the best thing to handle with them is, of course, that thing which reestablishes two very essential rights to the preclear.

Two very essential rights, and that is: the right to his own sanity, and the right to leave a game, which boils down to the right to have an exertion of self-determinism, and the right to locate himself in some other universe if he suddenly chooses to.

It’s all right for people to have a right, but if they don’t have the capability, the right is meaningless. So the right depends to some extent, in any case, upon an education about the right. Well, therefore, you restore these things – you get freedom, and that’s what we’re trying to do. And you should ask yourself, once in a while, when you’re processing preclears, are you sending them in that direction?

If you’re sending them in that direction, you’re being very successful. If you’re sending 50% of them in that direction you’re being extremely successful, and if you only send a few out of many, you’re still being successful. But if there’s nobody going in that direction, you go in, you find yourself a mirror, and you see whether or not you got a white robe on or horns.

It so happens that a case level V reacts actually against his own choice and will – so thick are his ridges and stimulus-response mechanisms – reacts quite often to pin a thetan down in the head. Actually do that – to pin the thetan down, work hard to, all the while carrying on a tremendous amount of action that should be directed toward getting the thetan out.

Little things happen, it’s… it’s… it’s not… not quite understandable that they… it’s coincidental, of course, but just as the blind man’s sight was about to turn on, the preclear kicked the bed. And uh… the reason he did this, uh… the reason he did this was because the auditor, uh… taking that, dropped an ashtray.

He had a preclear standing up and he was processing him just beautifully, and the auditor dropped an ashtray quite incidentally just at the crucial moment there. And the preclear bumped into an object which he had been seeing as being someplace else, and it invalidated his sight again, and so then the next auditor through really had to work. Yeah, just quite coincidentally, just terribly coincidental that at the… well, just, just at the moment when… when this… this preclear uh… well, he really had to stop the session because, after all, they obviously weren’t getting anyplace. „Well, I… I know you thought you were getting someplace, and possibly it might have been and so forth, but there’s not much use of continuing this.“ Ah, ohhh…

Another thing is, „Oh, um, you saw the room around you there. You looked at the room. What room were you looking at? Oh?“ Oh, this… this Y level will be very polite. „Oh, I’m so sorry, I mean, I… I… I didn’t mean to infer but you see, you had looked at everything all wrong. I mean – I didn’t mean to tell you that, but it was obvious. You would have found it out anyway.“ Uh… and so on. And… it’s just… „Well, I guess you just don’t see well. Well, there isn’t much you can do about that, but we’ll work hard on it tomorrow. Now – cheer up because it isn’t all lost.“ Uh-huh, uh-huh, well, just a little bit of that sort of thing thrown along the line nails the preclear down in his head just as nice as you please. Now that should tell you, should tell you something about what the case of the auditor should be. The auditor’s case oughta be in pretty good shape. One of the reasons it oughta be in pretty good shape is, an auditor takes a dreadful beating in terms of energy.

Oh, a preclear sits down, he’s dispersing all over the place. There’s energy flying all over the walls and the ceiling and the floor an…and ridges blow up and boom, and… and the glee of insanity is flying…

You want to… sometime when you’re real good and clear go on down to an insane asylum someplace and just fly through the place, and just… just go through the place. Down a corridor and out the other side. Go kinda fast – I would say about four or five times the speed of light. And when you get on the other side of it… when you get on the other side of it, pick up a small amount of the energy deposit that you’ve accumulated there just before you get rid of it, and look at it and feel its emotion.

It’s the most fantastic thing. It’s… it’s glee of insanity. Well, looking back over this… looking back over this, then, the restoration of freedom lies unfortunately across a band which should have been very obvious to you – extremely obvious to you.

The second you look at these ridges, if you know anything about Technique 88 and flows, it should tell you that your preclear is ordinarily on the average a little bit below the level of solid ridges.

He’s got some ridges right there in his vicinity. And what do these ridges say in terms of emotion? They say hate and anger.

You want to know why homo sapiens indulges in wars, and why he is so prone to experiencing hate, and why a homo sapiens fairly low on the line has such a good time hating his auditors and hating his friends? It’s a matter of ridges, totally mechanical.

And this ridge of sensation here is a solid ridge of sensation, which very often expresses itself as a hatred of sensation. Hmmm. This gets interesting, doesn’t it? In other words, when you’re curing him… bad word that… but when you’re freeing him, you’re curing him of hate – because there’s hate.

The horriblest hate there is, of course, is really a harmonic below what we consider apathy, and that’s the hatred of MEST. MEST is have not and have. There’s have not MEST, and there’s have MEST. That makes positive and negative flows. Positive and negative elements and all sorts of things.

„Have me,“ some of it says. And, „Don’t have me,“ the others say. And between the two you get a line. So what you’ve got here is your thetan any time he’s gone down the level on these, you’re going to find out that he has a lot of hatred he can express. And if you go ahead and let him express it in terms of this life, and if you keep on running it consistently and continually addressed only to people and to specific things, you’re not going to get him out of his head.

You’re just getting a light emotional feeder off of the ridge which is there. What is this hate? This hate’s a very interesting thing. It’s the hate along the line of sensation. That’s the only thing that really pins him down.

Hate in sensation; it’s a funny emotion. It really isn’t an emotion which has been adequately described, but you will very often find it by running up with some preclear mock-ups that have to do with the butchery of the opposite sex.

And with what glee they will go ahead and butcher the opposite sex. Oh, but grim, really grim, really gruesome, and they feel wonderful afterwards. And when they have this hatred, it… it is actually a desire for sensation, which is held so tight and so close that it’s closed all the space gaps.

It’s closed the space gaps. This gap will be way close, clear up to here, and if you were to ask this fellow where to plot the lower part of his body, he would plot it immediately below the thetan. And if you asked him where to plot his mouth, he’d plot it back here in the back of his head.

Those gaps are closed gaps of space. The space has been contracted. And as long as space is contracted, as long as it’s pulled together, particularly if it isn’t even the fellow’s space himself, you’ve got yourself a fine fancy ridge there to handle.

It’s a wonderful ridge to handle, because it has to do even to the point of body displacement. All right, when we look this over, then, we find out… we find out that a relocation of space or a creation of space in which to locate something, a creation of energy to make materials in that space, and so on – all this is tremendously essential on doing this problem. And when we start to run anything like this, we’re going to start picking up the emotional band.

One, the emotional section won’t come apart easily. I mean, he… he isn’t very free in his emotions because of this sensation which is pulled so tight together here. And he isn’t free to move in space easily. And all space is, to some degree, contracted to him. He wants objects, and so it boils down to a very very astonishing point.

It means, then, freedom depends upon your ability to uncontract the spaces which he has contracted, and it means just what it says, „Man wants freedom.“ There couldn’t be a more direct definition possible…And what freedom is, and whether it’s freedom for a person, a group, a society, a galaxy, or anything else, it has to do with, he has to be able to uncontract his space. And if he can uncontract his space, the best way to do it is to find out he can create space. If he does that, he’ll let go.

And he’s got everything smashed down tight here against himself, and, of course, he cannot be free. Let’s call it a day.